Shen Feng transmigrates to the Jiajing era and becomes an unlucky Daoist priest who narrowly escapes being buried alive with the emperor.
Faced with an emperor obsessed with alchemy and immortality, sinister palace intrigues, and the real “filthy thing” beneath a well in the Western Garden,
he uses acoustic principles to make calming bells, redox reactions to break evil formations, and hydraulic engineering to divert the baleful energies in the earth’s veins...
The court officials think he is cultivating immortality, but in truth, he is doing science.
As his merit grows, Shen Feng discovers that the world’s “cultivation” and the “science” he understands seem to be converging in an utterly absurd way...
A demonic priest wreaks havoc in the palace? Southeast sea merchants plot rebellion? A mastermind manipulates the earth’s veins?
