Chen Qingyan was mocked by his entire class as a “country bumpkin” because of his rustic appearance.
No one knew that he wore a pair of ancestral jade pendants close to his body and had awakened the “Eye of the Earth” as a child. It could see the flow of earth veins, discern the purity of qi, and detect hidden damage underground.
Everyone was certain he would come last in the monthly exam. He picked up his pen and filled in the test, scoring full marks in geography and taking first place in the grade. In Chinese, he beat the second-place student by ten points, delivering a humiliating face-slapping to everyone who had mocked him.
No one could make sense of the obscure, yellowed geology texts, but he saw at a glance how their logic aligned with the ancient art of reading earth veins. Even the reclusive expert hidden in the library took notice in secret.
His beautiful deskmate went from curious to smitten, offering him her notes and inviting him on outings, making boys across the school green with envy. The rich second-generation school bully kept giving him a hard time, only to get beaten down every time.
From the mountains to the lonely city, from the classroom to the land itself, he wielded his inheritance, diagnosing the wounds of the earth and restoring life to its veins.
Only later did everyone understand: how could he be a country bumpkin? He was a young geomancer who commanded the flow of qi through mountains and rivers!
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