I Rely Entirely on Experiments to Cultivate Immortality

On the day of the spiritual root test, Lin Zhou was found to possess a once-in-a-century good-for-nothing spiritual root in the cultivation world: a five-element mixed root, containing all five elements but proficient in none. The sect steward shook his head, while his fellow laborers jeered: if he failed the assessment in three months, he would be kicked out of Qingyun Sect. Nobody knew that this newly transmigrated materials science PhD now had a laboratory in his mind. Others meditated and relied on insight, but he used instruments to measure spiritual energy. The so-called Qi-Attracting Art was only sixty percent efficient? He corrected the method and drew qi into his body overnight. Alchemy relied entirely on feel? He ran controlled experiments and built data models, pushing his pill success rate to 99.9 percent. Even geniuses with heavenly spiritual roots couldn't beat him, because they practiced by gambling on luck, while he trained by studying variance. From then on, the cultivation world's conventional wisdom was overturned piece by piece: the stones used to test spiritual roots gave inconsistent readings, no one had ascended in ten thousand years, and heavenly tribulations always struck down those who "shouldn't have lived" with pinpoint accuracy... As Lin Zhou used experiments to inch closer to the truth, he discovered that this world might be nothing more than an experimental dish on some being's table. And so-called ascension was merely data retrieval. "You want to use me as a test subject?" Lin Zhou rolled up his sleeves and revealed his laboratory. "Sorry, I'm the one running the experiments."