[Male-led power fantasy + satisfying read + fantastical + System + anti-involution] Zhong Yin, the bottom-ranked student at Shanfú Middle School, is the “Unawakened” everyone knows: his System has yet to activate, his understanding is poor, and he lives in the shadow of a school packed with geniuses. When the bullies’ fists come down, an ancient mark deep within his soul awakens.
When other people awaken their Systems, they gain power.
But the [Guizang] Zhong Yin awakens lets him see the “source code” of all things.
From then on, involution becomes his superpower:
Skills his classmates spend all night practicing? One glance lets him optimize them into three advanced versions.
The original battle techniques top students pride themselves on? He casually points out seventeen ways to improve them.
When Sakura Country’s “shikigami digitization” and Eagle Country’s “genetic totems” cross borders, trying to force Chinese civilization into their systems of rules, everyone searches for a savior.
Zhong Yin merely pushes up his glasses and unfurls a copy of the Classic of Mountains and Seas across the virtual battlefield.
“I hear you like suppressing your opponents with your domains?”
“Funny, we call that a ‘barrier,’ and ours comes with 365 formation variations, with the Four Symbols sacred beasts taking turns on guard.”
“Can’t be helped,” he says with a faint smile at the coalition forces from the various nations. “Our civilization has been competing like this for five thousand years.”
“Now it’s your turn.”
From the school’s worst student to the guardian of civilization, he breaks every rule on his path to invincibility.
