I Faked My Way into Being a Great Scholar, Then Conquered All with One Performance of Bring in the Wine

In the human star-sea era following the Great Cataclysm, technology has stagnated. Only by excavating ancient Chinese poetry and texts can one wield the power of heaven and earth, a path known as “literary cultivation.” He Changzhou, an illiterate thug from the bottom of a star sector, buys a fake identity claiming he is the sole inheritor of an ancient Chinese Confucian master, hoping to escape his enemies. This lets him sneak into the supreme academy of humankind, the Tai Xuan Star Pivot Academy. Surrounded by prodigies fluent in tonal patterns and able to recite fragmentary poems backward, He Changzhou, who can barely recognize a character, is so panicked he wants to flee to an alien planet to work in the mines. Then he is forced to touch a broken sword stele and activates the [System of the Eternal Chinese Poetic Soul]. From then on, though he knows nothing of poetic rules, he need only pick up a brush to write, “The waters of the Yellow River come surging down from heaven”; with a flourish, he conjures, “The hall is filled with three thousand guests, all drunk on flowers.” When the alien gods think humanity’s cultural heritage has crumbled and is no threat, He Changzhou grips his battered brush and brings the splendor of the High Tang to life. Scholars across the universe go mad: “He doesn’t even know pinyin, so how can he summon the Poet Immortal’s spirit?!”