Mi Galen's Transmigration

Setting: An alternate version of Cao Wei, not historical canon, incorporating a cultivation system. The realm is divided among three major powers: Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. Cultivators include sects, prominent clans, and unaffiliated cultivators. The cultivation levels are Qi Guidance, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Mahayana, and Tribulation Transcendence. Each major level has four minor stages: early, middle, late, and peak.

- The relationship between cultivation and the secular world: All the major powers need cultivators to strengthen their forces. The governor, Xiao Jingyuan, whom the protagonist assists, rules Yunzhou on the Cao Wei border. With no powerful cultivators to support him, he has long been held in check by hostile forces, namely Eastern Wu’s Shuiyun Sect and Shu Han’s Fentian Valley, and is also pushed aside by the prominent clans at court. He urgently needs a way to turn things around.

- How the protagonist’s skills apply: The protagonist Mi Gailun’s skills as a “barber and clerk,” including hairstyling, client communication, ledger management, tool maintenance, and attention to detail, translate into abilities useful for cultivation and the secular world:

- Hairstyling: By studying the “direction of the hair’s texture,” he grasps the “flow of spiritual energy” and creates his own “Hair-Thread Qi-Guiding Art.”

- Client communication: Skilled at picking up on other people’s emotions and needs, he can quickly read people and find the right way to gain an advantage in diplomacy and talent recruitment.