Physics Turns Out to Be Cultivation

Chen Shang, a physics PhD student, suddenly died in his office at three in the morning.

Cause of death: Overwork.

Trigger: A negative entropy term that should not have existed.

Last words: “That’s not scientific...”

When he opened his eyes again, he was lying in a dried-up riverbed, with four hundred years’ worth of mud in his mouth. His body had changed, and a glowing “seed” had appeared in his chest.

An old man named “Zero” crouched beside him. One eye was golden and the other pitch-black, and he spoke as if reading a eulogy:

“You are the forty-ninth generation Chaos Seed. The previous forty-eight all died.”

Chen Shang: “...”

Zero: “Is there anything you want to ask?”

Chen Shang: “Can I go back, publish my paper, and then die?”

Zero was silent for three seconds. “No.”