Lin Mohan, a PhD in geology, transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a good-for-nothing young master about to be dumped by his fiancee. What the heck? Others cultivate with spiritual roots, but I rely entirely on the System: a strange entity called the Civilization Archaeology System. While everyone else is fighting over ancient manuals, Lin Mohan is already using a geological hammer to crack open spirit-stone veins, analyzing pill ingredients with a mass spectrometer, and using rune programming to build the Immortal Realm’s first "spiritual-energy computer."
"Fellow cultivator, does your sword-riding flight comply with the laws of aerodynamics?"
"Alchemy? Why not try my standardized reactor? It boosts the success rate by 300%."
"The mountain-protecting formation? I redesigned the energy nodes. Its defenses are five times stronger, and it uses 60% less energy."
Then one day, the System suddenly displays a new mission:
[Analyze the spiritual-energy decay cycle of the Immortal Realm: this world will collapse from spiritual-energy depletion in 300 years.]
Lin Mohan stares at the screen full of data and falls silent.
So the truth about the cultivation world is actually...
[This blurb doesn’t do it justice. Read the story for yourself.]