Lu Yan, a PhD in economics, transmigrates to the world of cultivation. But because of his good-for-nothing aptitude, deemed incapable of ever forming a Golden Core, he is sent to a talisman workshop on the verge of bankruptcy to await his death.
At the brink of despair, the [Rat Race System] forcefully activates!
KPI assessments, ruthless corporate culture, performance-based spirit stones... He turns the modern business world's so-called "blessings" into the cultivation world's greatest productive force.
A 996 talisman production line, cross-industry marketing bundles, spirit-stone subsidy wars: he uses brutal price cuts to crush the long-established talisman hall next door.
But just as he builds his own business empire with the weapon of the rat race and begins to uncover the truth of the world, he discovers that...
The so-called depletion of spiritual energy and the Age of Dharma Decline are actually part of a shocking scam that has lasted for a thousand years!
The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the cultivation world's central bank, has joined forces with the top sects to monopolize spiritual energy, short the future, and trap all living beings in a cage of internal strife.
Facing an old order built on lies, Lu Yan boldly raises the banner of rebellion.
He issues the "Qingyun Coin" to challenge the spirit-stone system, and develops "artificial spirit veins" to shatter the myth of scarcity.
The defenders of the old order roar, "Without scarcity, how can there be order?"
Lu Yan replies calmly, "Then I will define a new order."
This is economics delivering a dimensional blow to cultivation, and a wild poem of KPIs and monopoly laws that overturns the Three Realms.
