Establishing My Word, Defying Heaven

This is a story set in a “capitalist cultivation world.”

From the lowest garbage dump in the Ninefold Abyss to the pinnacle of the Ninefold Heavens, where capital reigns supreme: the genius youth Chu Tiankuo inherits the legacy of the ancient era’s most fearsome beast and steps into a modern cultivation civilization powered by “divine essence,” where “clans” operate like monopolistic corporations and “credit points” determine a person’s worth. Here, cultivation techniques require paid subscriptions, divine roots are venture capital, and Heaven stamps your talent with the cruel label “deprived of emotion” before you can even get started.

No connections, no resources, no common sense? No problem. He has his fists, and a roommate, “Wolong,” whose head is full of brilliant business schemes.

While others are still begging the clans for sponsorship, he’s already launched a sparring business where customers pay to beat him up, turning his cultivation-technique analysis reports into hit products. When the tide of capital tries to swallow him whole, he chooses to shatter the rules with one punch and tell the entire world:

“This genius doesn’t work for anyone.”