When an Engineering Student Wanders into the World of Cultivation

Li Ying was a second-year master’s student in civil engineering at a top-two university, working diligently and exhausting herself every day.

Then she closed her eyes and opened them again to find that she and her three roommates had somehow transmigrated into a cultivation world, where they had become disciples of a declining sect in the east.

And, as luck would have it, before long, the sect would be slaughtered to the last disciple by a demonic villain. Only then would the original novel’s male lead arrive, vanquish evil, and make a name for himself in one battle.

Li Ying: What kind of ridiculous plot armor is this? Better to save ourselves than wait for a man to rescue us!

So

Her roommate, a world-weary-looking surveying student, pulled out a map. “Look at this spiritual energy map. The contour lines are packed together here, which means there’s plenty of spiritual energy. There could be a leyline underground.”

Li Ying: “Great, great, let’s go dig!”

Her cute, doll-like roommate, who loved mechanical design, took out a blueprint that her advisor had rejected at a glance. By combining it with a formation array, she built an enormous, imposing mechanical beast and bragged, “Yingying, look! My baby is real!”

Li Ying: “So cool, so cool! Let’s mass-produce them right away!”

Her cool, aloof roommate, a materials science student, said expressionlessly, “I’ve found that once any object is broken down into its smallest units, it’s made up of one or more spiritual elements. So, in theory, as long as we have a stable source of spiritual elements, we can synthesize as much of the material you need as we like.”

Li Ying: “Brilliant, brilliant! Let’s start with a hundred second-grade spirit herbs!”

And what about her? She was a civil engineer!

*

Later, in the east of the world, magnificent skyscrapers rose from the barren wasteland, forming the largest and most spectacular city of mortals in history.

Great rivers encircled it, giant beasts guarded it, and eagles circled high above on patrol. The Heavenly Dao gave it a wide berth, while gods and demons went around it.

It was prosperous, bustling, and full of life.

It was home to the world’s largest spiritual materials production base, the most famous design and manufacturing center for mechanical spirit beasts, and the only surveying research institute.

It was the holy land of the cultivation world, the Eastern Chang’an City everyone dreamed of visiting.

Later still, the demonic villain took one look and turned to run. “There’s no way we can destroy it!”

Theme: Master math, science, and technology, and you can go anywhere in the world.