The Age of True Qi

This is a world where qi engines have replaced steam engines. The state provides eight years of compulsory internal energy education, and everyone has inner power. Qi permeates every field, from travel and work to entertainment... Nothing can be done without it as an energy source. As a result, population has become a strategic resource. The state arranges marriages, and unmarried people who reach the age limit are sentenced. In the Eastern Sea Continent, the Hundred Schools of Thought have founded nations based on their respective ideologies. A soul from Earth is born into the body of an orphan in the Mohist State of Su.