The fictional "Western Chu Dynasty" is not the historical Western Chu, but an imaginary era in which the system of cultivating immortals existed. The dynasty was divided into nine states, the central imperial power declined, and local vassals and envoys were divided. Immortal cultivators were divided into five realms: "qi training, foundation building, golden elixir, Yuanying, and god transformation." Monks and mortal governments were interdependent and checked each other. Ordinary people could pass the "spiritual root test" to enter the sect to cultivate immortality, while those without spiritual roots could only survive in mortal society.
2. Protagonist setting:
- Name: Shan Galen
- Modern identity: Department director of a top market research company. He is good at data modeling, user portrait analysis, competitive product research, and strategy formulation. He has strong logical thinking and a keen sense of "demand mining" and "resource integration." He was electrocuted while working overtime to rush for a research report, and his soul traveled to the body of a spiritually rooted scholar from the Western Chu Dynasty with the same name (the original person committed suicide because he failed in the imperial examination and his family was poor).
3. Core conflict:
- Personal line: Those without spiritual roots, use modern market research skills to "crack" the rules of cultivating immortals (such as analyzing monks' behavioral data