This is a twisted world where immortal cultivation means endless rat-racing, and a rigid class system is treated as destiny.
Sect conglomerates regard low-level cultivators as disposable. Unscrupulous mentors use "It's for your own good" to disguise the poison of exploitation. The entire cultivation world is steeped in toxic PUA drivel that says "grinding yourself to death is glorious, while lying flat is shameful."
Lin Yan transmigrated into this world and ran straight into the collapse of a "cultivation loan" from the start. Saddled with 700,000 yuan in debt, he was driven to the brink of losing his home by a debt collection agency. Then, during an interview at a cultivation high school, the interviewer used PUA tactics on him, claiming that "refusing sterilization means your Dao heart is weak."
Facing this hellish start, Lin Yan awakened the ultimate wisdom of an exploited wage slave: resist the rat race!
"Sleep so you can cultivate more efficiently. Desire is what drives you to grow stronger. You're raising tools, not cultivating immortals!"
While everyone else relied on body-tempering needles and sleepless nights of grinding, he used his golden finger, the Feather Book, which let him cultivate passively and crush others in efficiency. His cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds in the spare moments he had while riding the bus or working odd jobs.
He took on unscrupulous mentors, tore up his labor contracts, and overturned the privileged games of the "rich kids"!
He founded an anti-rat-race alliance, brought people together for support, and shared resources so the underclass would stop fighting among themselves!
Lin Yan would use intelligence and solidarity to tear apart every lie told by the "people above," and loudly proclaim to this sick cultivation world:
"We cultivators will not be tools or rat-race our way into the ruling class. We fight only to live with dignity!"
