After failing his tribulation, Dao Ancestor Su Ming is reborn in a wasteland dump after a nuclear war.
In this world, where spiritual energy is dead and technology reigns supreme, he discovers that anything can be used to pursue the Dao: deadly radiation is simply more violent spiritual energy, and human genes are supreme Daoist bodies waiting to be unlocked!
From then on, the wasteland takes a startling turn. He refines pills in a pressure cooker and draws talismans on circuit boards; he uses power grids to temper his body through lightning tribulations and makes nuclear bombs his golden core path to the Dao!
From the gangs in the dump to the AI gods of the floating cities, Su Ming will use the overwhelming advantage of cultivation civilization to tell this cold, mechanical Heavenly Dao:
The Heavenly Dao is dead. With this wasteland, I shall establish a new path to heaven!