Transmigrator Diary

Azure Cloud Sect, Sunlit Cloud Peak, inside a cave mansion.

Bright moonlight spilled down softly, reflecting off the brilliant spirit lamp beside the window.

Inside the window stood a red sandalwood desk, upon which lay a book whose page edges had yellowed slightly.

At this moment, a pair of fair hands opened the book, revealing densely packed Chinese writing:

"First year after transmigration, January 3rd. The good news was that I had transmigrated, and into a Cultivation World at that.

The bad news was that I had died suddenly from working 007. My browser history hadn't been deleted, and the study materials in my encrypted file vault were still there..."

"Ah!!! Why hadn't I been hit by a truck? At least then I could have used my last breath to factory-reset my phone. What the hell was I supposed to do now!!!"

"...Forget it, forget it. No use thinking about that. This world cultivated immortality, which meant it wasn't even in the same universe anymore. What was there to fear?"

"Speaking of which, other people transmigrated with a blink of their eyes, so why had I endured endless darkness while being reborn into this world? I had nearly lost myself. Luckily, I finally pulled through..."

"Still, since I was here, I might as well settle down and think carefully about what to do next. Coincidentally, in both my previous life and this life, I had the same name: Lin Chen..."

"First year after transmigration, January 7th. System sir? Ancestor by my side? Spiritual treasure, immortal artifact? Proficiency panel?... It could be anything at all—I'd even accept becoming some demoness's little lackey!

But what was going on now? I'd waited for days, yet there wasn't the slightest response. Where the hell was my Golden Finger?!

What did the Transmigrator Association even do for a living? They'd sent the person over, but the Golden Finger hadn't arrived in my account yet?! Could it be there were too many transmigrators, and they'd forgotten the delivery?!

...Stay calm, stay calm. What had my high school teacher said? The more urgent the situation, the more one had to learn to calm one's heart. Perhaps my Golden Finger was protagonist's luck?"

"First year after transmigration, January 30th... I'd visited so many markets, but there was absolutely nothing to pick up. No peerless divine arts, no Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and certainly no appreciation from some expert. All that so-called great fortune was fake!

On the contrary, I'd become an orphan. Was there anything more outrageous than that?!"

"First year after transmigration, February 12th... There really was. Fellow clan members actually coveted the spirit fields and family property left behind by the original owner's parents?

Fuck, the original owner's parents had died fighting for this Lineage, and yet their inheritance was being seized?! How could such a Lineage even exist?! Luckily, I was clever. While the Azure Cloud Sect was recruiting, I sold off the spirit fields and entered the Lower Court of the Azure Cloud Sect to cultivate..."

"I had to admit, the sect's atmosphere was quite good. Although unfairness still existed, things were relatively just on the surface.

At the very least, there were no arrogant disciples in the novels collecting protection fees, nor were there people bullying others by relying on powerful backers. Thus, the spirit stones I received from selling the spirit fields were not in danger of being snatched away..."

"However, these spirit stones were limited in the end. I would soon be sitting idle and eating away my savings, so I had to find a way to increase my income. But I was merely an ordinary disciple, with neither talent nor background. What could I do..."

"First year after transmigration, February 13th. After thinking for an entire day and night, I finally understood. If I wanted to surpass others and step onto that Immortal Path to Longevity, I had to possess a unique advantage that I had and others did not..."

"And compared to other cultivators, what was my greatest advantage?

That is, I was a transmigrator—a transmigrator from modern civilization."

"More than a decade of scientific education in my previous life had also given me Scientific Thinking that sought knowledge through investigating things. This was the unique advantage that set me apart from other cultivators on the path of cultivation!"

"After all, the Cultivation World's inheritance of an Unknown Number Of tens of thousands of years had caused many cultivators to form habitual patterns of thought.

Coupled With their preoccupation with competing for resources, the fact that they could cultivate to higher realms simply by following established steps, and their fundamentally different ways of thinking, few people could systematically and methodically summarize the foundations of cultivation through Scientific Thinking, thereby planning their future paths better!"

"Possessing what others did not, even developing it into an exclusive advantage—this was what I, Lin Chen, would rely on to catch up to, and even overtake, those prodigy cultivators blessed with abundant cultivation resources, heaven-defying ultimate techniques, and terrifying luck!"

"So Scientific Thinking was the greatest Golden Finger of us transmigrators!"

"Alright, I've decided. I, Lin Chen, a transmigrator, would begin Science Cultivation!"

"First year after transmigration, February 15th. I remembered reading in a novel that after transmigrating to another world, one could first conduct an experiment on gravitational acceleration to determine the nature of the world one was in."

"I found a sealed container, removed the gas inside, then placed a feather and a stone into it at the same time to measure their gravitational acceleration."

"But what I hadn't expected was that the feather's falling time was completely different from the stone's! Some margin of error would have been understandable, but the difference in time exceeded threefold. It was simply unbelievable!"

"At first, I thought the gas inside the container had not been completely removed, but after repeated experiments, I ruled out that possibility..."

"In other words, I really might have transmigrated to another universe, to the point that even gravity was gone? Then why could I stand upon this ground? Could It Be this world... truly had Round Heaven, Square Earth?"

"No, if there were no gravity, objects leaping through the air could not possibly fall back to the ground. Yet it was undeniable that the fundamental physical constants had changed to some extent. In other words, I was already in a different universe..."

"So I truly had left home that far behind me. Perhaps I could never return..."

"First year after transmigration, March 25th. Gunpowder experiment failed.

The classic gunpowder formula based on Blue Star's experience, as well as various modified formulas developed from it, were all ineffective!

Not a single finished product could produce rapid combustion, explosions, or anything similar. The finished product from the classic formula was not even flammable..."

"The product from modified Formula One could burn quietly in the air, but its flame was dim and weak, inferior even to burning wood. The product from Formula Two produced white smoke with a pungent odor..."

"If I continued testing, I might discover a usable cultivation-world version of gunpowder. But I had already vaguely realized that this path was probably not the best choice.

Because it was drifting farther and farther from this world's path of [spiritual energy], and its power was not promising either. It was not even as useful as a Fireball Talisman. Forget it—I should abandon this line of research..."

"First year after transmigration, April 4th. I confirmed that electromagnetic induction was ineffective—at least the process of 'magnetism generating electricity' was ineffective. No electric current was generated in the coil.

Although the coil was crude, it met the requirements, and there was no issue with the lodestone's properties. Therefore, the problem could only lie with electromagnetic induction itself.

Did electromagnetic effects not exist, or were they being interfered with by some factor?

I still could not verify whether the process of 'electricity generating magnetism' had also failed, but I vaguely felt that all this seemed related to [spiritual energy]...

"Fortunately, my experimental equipment had been completed. I could use the [Double-Slit Experiment] to observe what [spiritual energy] actually was?"

"First year after transmigration, April 7th. What the hell?! Why had my experiment produced a result I couldn't understand?!

Could It Be spiritual energy really was a kind of [gas], rather than some particle or wave? Or had the method of observation deviated because the world was different, leading to this strange result?!"

"...Good heavens, not only that, I discovered that mercury was actually solid at room temperature, while pure gold did not conduct electricity... This wasn't scientific at all!"

"I had originally wanted to create an entire periodic table of elements... or at least sort out the properties of all common substances. But now it seemed that was nothing more than dreaming in broad daylight."

"Forget it, forget it. Since I couldn't observe and make use of the Microscopic World, then I could simply study phenomena in the macroscopic world, couldn't I?"

"First year after transmigration, May 2nd. I had originally attempted to make a steam engine, but the experimental results were enough to make one's head explode."

"The process of boiling water in this world looked the same as on Earth, but the force generated by steam was pitifully small. Perhaps water's expansion coefficient when transforming into vapor was far lower than on Earth.

I suspected that the 'water' here was not water at all. It was also possible that the ever-present [water spiritual energy] of this world was causing trouble. This unreasonable thing had altered water's specific behavior during its transitions between three states...

"...Although I drank water every day, washed my body with it, and used it to cultivate spirit plants, that proved nothing..."

"My body had already been composed of this world's spiritual energy, and my senses operated according to this world's rules. Other than the consciousness from Blue Star in my head, no part of me could step outside this world's 'Worldview' to observe it from afar... Were the stars and bright moon I saw truly the celestial bodies I understood?

"...No matter what, I finally realized one thing: two different worlds differed in their fundamental laws.

If I kept imposing the knowledge of my previous life onto this life, using the knowledge of a technological Material World to explain everything in a cultivation idealist world, was that a kind of arrogance—an arrogance Belonging Solely To transmigrators?"

"What was science? Science was the study and exploration of the essence of the world and the laws of nature. It was an organized system of knowledge built upon testable explanations and predictions concerning the forms, organization, and other aspects of objective things. It was knowledge that had been systematized and formalized.

Therefore, whatever a world's natural laws were like, its science would be like that..."

"Science should be a Worldview for understanding the world, not something that referred only to atoms and machines."

"First year after transmigration, May 5th. I thought for a long time and finally understood. Existence was reasonable. The many manifestations of this world that seemed unscientific to me must possess their own internal logic. I had merely been researching in the wrong direction..."

"I could not use the knowledge of my previous life to judge the phenomena of this life..."

"Then the problem is, why did worlds that appeared similar in the macroscopic world differ so vastly on the microscopic level? Combining the discoveries of my previous experiments, I believed the crucial point lay in this thing called [spiritual energy]..."

"Although my current methods could not observe its essence, that did not prevent me from observing its phenomena and summarizing its laws..."

"However, every theory and experiment needed a fundamental standard, a law, before a complete system could be established upon it.

In this regard, perhaps I could imitate Dr. Newton, the man struck by an apple, and research and summarize a theory about spiritual energy myself..."

"I'll call it Lin's Law, or perhaps..."

[Spiritual Energy Law]?