The Entrance Exam Is Learning to Draw Qi Into the Body, So I Pet Cats Every Day to Grind

Mei Yang is an ordinary high school student who transmigrates.

The first time, she lands in a modern world of immortal cultivation. Spiritual energy is scarce here, and cultivators are locked in a cutthroat race to get ahead. Fortunately, she is a top student, so even rote memorization is enough to keep her somewhere in the middle of the pack.

The second time, she transmigrates again. This time, she finds herself in an ancient world of immortal cultivation, rich in spiritual energy. To be precise, she is in a remote town in the cultivation world, and it is a matriarchal society.

In this world, cultivation is women's business. The Bureau of Immortals holds the examinations, and those who pass get a secure government job, with the state allocating their cultivation resources. Men are expected to be beautiful and graceful, support their wives, and raise their children. Their greatest career ambition is to marry a good cultivator.

Mei Yang thinks she only needs to apply the same determination she used to grind through practice questions to her cultivation textbooks. But when she goes to the bookstore, she discovers there is only one book in the entire town, and it is full of errors and omissions. Its contents don't even measure up to elementary-school knowledge of cultivation in the modern world.

Worse still, in this ancient cultivation world, Mei Yang has no legal identity. She has no household registration. So she works the wok at a restaurant while cultivating and preparing for the exam. By day, she flips the wok and practices levitation. At night, she pets cats and cultivates Heavenly Shaman arts. Her life feels like the final sprint of senior year.

But she has forgotten one thing.

This is a matriarchal society.

A gentle young gentleman who has returned from a sect brings her tea and holds an umbrella for her every day. The neighbors tease him as "the second Shopkeeper Zhou." Shopkeeper Zhou's Dao companion is a Golden Core cultivator, the pinnacle of the career ladder for men in the whole town.

The pampered young master from the county magistrate's household says, "I'm not interested in you," but secretly hides her bottles of pills under his pillow.

Mei Yang: ...I'm really only here to earn enough to eat. Three thousand a month, and I don't want a harem.