Chen Buxiu transmigrates to a cultivation world where resources have run dry and cutthroat competition has pushed people to their deaths.
His wish is simple: protect his small plot of spirit farmland, lie flat, and live without striving or fighting. To that end, he hides away in the most remote cave dwelling in the sect and becomes a complete nobody.
Then one day, a crack opens deep inside his cave. On the other side is a Chinese construction site in 2026.
From then on, his lazy life takes an unexpected turn.
The "millennium iron essence" revered as a priceless treasure in the cultivation world is merely a specialty steel made at an Earthly steelworks. The "Rejuvenation Talisman" that cultivators clamor for is less effective than a construction site's safety-monitoring sensors. Meanwhile, cement, rebar, and excavators become incredible tools for creating defensive formations and siege puppets when catalyzed by spiritual energy.
Chen Buxiu initially plans to quietly make a fortune: use solar panels for lighting, pave the ground with concrete, and replace hauling water with a purifier. But when the sect tournament and an invasion by the demonic cult come one after another, his "modernized" cave dwelling becomes the hottest prize in everyone's eyes.
The socially anxious slacker is forced into action and becomes the biggest contractor between the two worlds.
On one side, the sect elders go from scoffing at him to relying on him. On the other, Old Zhang, an Earthly construction foreman, firmly believes that "science and technology are the primary productive forces." Chen Buxiu just wants the project to get on track so he can go back to lying flat.
What he doesn't know is that his attitude of "not fighting or competing, just protecting his corner of the world" happens to align with the ancient, lost "Great Dao of Nature." The Heavenly Dao isn't won through strife; it's found in what you protect.
As outsiders slaughter one another over resources, he sips cola and sunbathes in his cave, quietly breaking through to the pinnacle of this world.
