I Just Built a Nuclear Weapon, and You’re Telling Me This Is Magic?

In 1983, Yan Zhongjun, a chief engineer in heavy industry, transmigrates into the past and takes over the Hongxing Machinery Factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.

At the time, Xia was industrially weak and being strangled by the West at every turn.

But Yan Zhongjun discovers that the “technological barriers” the West prides itself on are actually a secret form of magic!

The head of a multinational corporation is an earth mage who uses alchemy to purify chips. The core of the West’s most advanced engines turns out to be a wind-element magic formation!

They call themselves gods and seek to bleed Xia dry by selling it overpriced, shoddy industrial goods.

Yan Zhongjun laughs. “So you’re playing the monopoly game? Do you even know what modern industry is?”

Before long, everything takes a dramatic turn.

The magical machine tools the West prides itself on are utterly crushed by Yan Zhongjun’s five-axis CNC machining center;

The West’s inviolable dragon knights tremble like leaves when locked onto by an array of air-defense missiles;

The Western Magic Council tries to unleash a forbidden spell to destroy Xia’s factories, but when they look up, they see a sky-spanning aerospace carrier and a countdown to a nuclear blast with a yield of tens of millions of tons...

The foreigners go completely crazy. “He doesn’t even have magic power, so how can he mass-produce divine artifacts?!”

Yan Zhongjun blows out a smoke ring. “The limits of magic are determined by talent, but the reach of industry is the truth!”