How Can You Cultivate Immortality Without Going Mad? I Installed a Nuclear Reactor

Lin Zhao, a PhD in high-energy physics, transmigrates into the body of an outer-sect disciple with a mixed spiritual root.

Others advise him to cultivate diligently for sixty years and try to reach Foundation Establishment. But he has his eye on the unwanted spiritual stones everyone calls junk. They're still giving off energy, so how can they be waste?

Three months later, the outer-sect competition begins.

A scion of a cultivation clan presents a top-grade flying sword. "It can cut through rivers and split the waters."

Lin Zhao raises a rusty sword. "This poor Daoist's sword is nuclear-powered."

The judges are just about to inspect it when the blast shield sounds the alarm. When the "Tsar Bomba" finally strikes, a mushroom cloud rises over the isolated arena.

After watching it, the grand elder asks, "Can it boil water?"

Lin Zhao had only wanted to make a cheap spirit lamp and trade it for a dry workshop. But when he investigates the scrap, he uncovers twenty-nine trapped miners, as well as an ancient furnace that is still devouring spiritual energy.

Worse still, that furnace is connected to the Ascension Array that is due to open tomorrow.