In 2051, the wave known as "spiritual energy" has swept across the globe for twenty-six years, completely overturning the old order. Personal power has become the only passport to this new era.
Zhou Xing, a seemingly carefree high school graduate, earned a place at the nation's top institution, National Spirit University, with the ninth-highest score in the country. He yearns for freedom, but his mercilessly sharp tongue and a hidden past have made his peers see him as an aloof outsider.
In the principal's office, a symbol of honor and new beginnings, he finds neither flowers nor applause, but a special test that cuts straight to the heart. Asked, "Why do you cultivate?" the other gifted students give grand, noble answers. His response alone leaves the principal lost in thought.
Here, Zhou Xing will meet a girl as cold as ice, a genius who commands space, and an unruly master of lightning arts. They are both companions and rivals. Beyond the university's towering walls, the social rifts caused by the unchecked growth of power, the conflict between superpowered people and ordinary citizens, and the truth behind the resurgence concealed in the mists of history are weaving together into a vast web.
Amid this unstoppable torrent of change, will Zhou Xing go with the flow, or... fight against the current?
