In 2150, fifty years after a meteorite struck Earth, alien energy blankets the planet and monstrous beasts run rampant. Only a few million people remain, clinging to life in three bases: Huaxia, Brahmin, and the United States. This alien energy fuels the beasts’ evolution, but it is deadly poison to humanity, and the crisis grows more urgent by the day.
Lin Yan, a life sciences researcher at the Huaxia Base, has devoted his life to studying the alien energy, but has hit one dead end after another. After watching friends and family perish in the jaws of monsters, he finds himself at the end of his rope. While sorting through ancient books one day, he unexpectedly discovers the Dao De Jing. A sudden insight strikes him: this alien energy is actually a mutated form of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!
Using a scientist’s logical deductions and data analysis, Lin Yan draws on Daoist techniques to break through humanity’s limits for tolerating alien energy. He successfully converts it into the spiritual energy of cultivation and embarks on an immortal path in a desperate world. By refining cultivation methods and combining them with technology, he advances at a pace that leaves ordinary people in the dust. From a minor Qi Refining cultivator, he rises against all odds, face-slapping the technologists, crushing provocations from the United States, and taming high-ranking monsters.
From protecting the Huaxia Base to uniting the Human Federation, and finally to the decisive battle against the Oceanic Demon Saint, Lin Yan proves the Dao through science and breaks through crises with immortal power, ultimately surviving his tribulation and ascending to become an ancestor.
