Spiritual qi revival: everyone awakens.
Su Bai awakens the "Reputation Ledger," letting him see the comments expressing people's thoughts above their heads. Both good and bad reviews can be converted into cultivation: praise earns him good karma, while insults earn him resentment.
When local thugs cause a scene, he gets them so worked up with three sentences that they lose it: "One-star review, resentment +88!"
A man in a black trench coat comes calling. Su Bai plays dumb, but the other man grows more and more alarmed as he watches him: this young man is unfathomable.
All Su Bai wants is to look after his general store, protect his mind-reading little sister, and quietly rake in a few good and bad reviews.
But as he keeps raking them in, he starts to wonder:
They're all one-star reviews, so why am I getting stronger and stronger?
Wait, don't tell me you really think I'm some kind of guardian deity!
