When he woke up, Cheng Xi felt exhausted.
The moment he opened his eyes, his pillow spoke up, saying he'd slept poorly the night before. It thoughtfully asked whether he'd like a cup of his favorite Rain Before the Grain Yunlong tea to clear his mind and wake him up, fresh from this year's harvest!
When he patted the daybed, it shifted with a series of clicks and rose into the air, offering to take him for a ride with eighty-one transformation modes to choose from!
When he touched the mirror on the table, lights and shadows shifted at once, letting him view everything within a radius of ten thousand li through a 360-degree panoramic camera, with no blind spots, from people to fish, birds, and beasts!
And what was that flying in the sky? Besides flying swords, why were there mechs too?
Even he himself seemed to have changed.
He opened the Mohist school to the Way and embraced the hundred schools of thought, gathering countless disciples.
With a wave of his hand, a million fully automated, target-seeking swords flew out in formation, striking fear into petty troublemakers.
And then there was the Great Wall, clearly a mythic version of the real thing, the Nine Provinces Grand Array, floating aircraft carriers, the internet, intelligent mechanical constructs, and the hundred schools of thought...
Not to mention the books, each millions of words long: The Artificer's Canon, The Study of Things, The Creation, The Nine Calculations, The Science of Form, The Theory of Measurement, The Evolution of Heaven, Questions to Heaven, The Art of Feng Shui...
But hadn't he been following a farming-life script with no spiritual roots, after transmigrating into a traditional cultivation world?
P.S. Teacher-student romance, younger gong, and the gong has a past life.
1. Strong leads. The shou is a sage with sound values who benefits the world. The gong was an emperor in his past life, and the two strive together. The ending is tragic.
2. The current timeline is sweet, sweet, sweet! The shou dotes on the gong, and the gong loves the shou. Happy ending.
Theme: Technology changes the world. May everyone under heaven become a dragon!
