Chen Zhao'an, a modern young man preparing for the civil service exam, dies suddenly and transmigrates to a cultivation world where government positions have been frozen for three thousand years. While others join sects as disciples, he gets saddled with the blame for burning precious spiritual materials and is registered by the System as an “unofficial operations temp”: His work earns merit-based performance pay, lets him inspect archives at every level, and even grants him authority to act on behalf of other positions.
Starting with the first denunciation letter from the Servants' Court, he turns modern official documents, auditing, and procedural loopholes into deadly weapons. He brings down corrupt stewards, strikes back against the forces trying to purge him, and gets caught up in a struggle involving debt ledgers, sects, government offices, and shadowy factions, inching closer to the truth behind the rupture three thousand years ago.
Spiritual energy isn't a gift, but a loan. And the Heavenly Way isn't heaven: it's a creditor demanding repayment.
