I want to be an Immortal Mage

What is a new lifes value?
If you lost everything, what would you do?
Start over? Give up?

Jason Smith was a one in a billion genius of cultivation and a decent mechanic from a world colonized by earth of 6820 where cultiviation has been found to be real for the last 30,000 years. Technology was far more advanced.
He came from poor origins and overcame them to be one of the top experts of his world. Then because of a betrayal he died and reincarnetd into a world without ki but instead had 2 more violent energies used by the locals: vital qi and mana.