With Spiritual Energy Depleted, I Prove the Buddhist Path Through Technology

[Immortal Cultivation vs. Technology] [Underdog Comeback] [General Selection Platform] [Power Progression] [Mecha] [Apocalypse] Xiao Che, Prince of Zhenbei in the ancient Great Yin Dynasty, had spent his life riding down enemy camps and scattering armies before him. After dying in the final palace coup, his soul did not vanish. It plunged into a blood-red void. When he opened his eyes again, he had become a boy named Huiming in a wasteland world. He had no spiritual roots, no mecha pilot license, and couldn't even pass the most basic physical fitness test. Now two pig demons were carrying him like a slab of cured meat, on their way to trade him for a few pounds of irradiated rations at a ruined city's black market.

This was an Apocalypse where spiritual energy had run dry and monsters roamed unchecked. Although humans could awaken spiritual roots, the world's meager spiritual energy was nowhere near enough to sustain dreams of immortal cultivation. Instead, it became nourishment for the monsters. Humanity clung to survival with technological creations such as energy cannons, mecha warriors, and floating fortresses, building isolated outposts and mobile city-states across the wasteland. Cultivation clans lorded it over everyone, the military controlled the resources, and slave-hunting gangs roamed the ruins, while the lives of the poor were worth less than grass.