With Truth in Hand, Have the Immortal Emperor Sign for the East Wind Express

The protagonist, Shen Huaian, is a disheveled, hardcore, staunch materialist, a mad scientist and director of the Infrastructure Bureau. He leads mortal civilization in using industrial logic, physical constants, and forced demolition to conquer a higher-dimensional experimental chamber from the inside out:

Seizing resources: Turning the Thunder God into a generator, weaving the laws of causality into industrial fibers, and transforming the void into office towers.

Bringing logic down to earth: Using “wage-slave logic” and “cost accounting” to shatter the lofty philosophies of the gods, making higher-dimensional entities work for housing funds and performance reviews.

Seizing power at last: Mortals collectively outfit themselves with industrially enhanced bodies, smash the Mother System’s firewall with black-gold sledgehammers, storm the central server room, force their way into the Creator’s business, and reinstall the universe’s operating system.