What do you mean cultivation is pay-to-win!?

May's life was supposed to be perfect. She finally graduated with a prestigious degree in biotechnology from the best university in the world. Her dream of becoming a scientist was about to come true when she got her dream job... However, she died and was reincarnated in a Chinese-like world ruled by cultivators with a capitalist system! Power rules this xianxia world, and even the smaller regions of this world are larger than Earth. However, science is objective and exists independently of everything else! Science is the key to the power of cultivation! "Wait, what!? What do you mean I have to pay to cultivate? And how is it so expensive?" — Description from novelcodex.org