In the cultivation world, the seven great sects hold all the spirit veins, pills, and cultivation techniques in their hands. If ordinary people want to cultivate, they first have to pass the sect examinations and get a job there. Zhou Mu, a corporate manager who worked himself to death at his desk, opened his eyes to find himself in the body of a poor scholar in Liuhe Town who shared his name. The scholar had spent five years trying to pass the sect civil-service exam. At long last, he made the list, only to laugh himself to death on the spot.
Newly hired, he was assigned to a worthless mine where three overseers had already failed to last. The miners were owed three months' wages, and he had to deliver a thousand spirit stones within ninety days. After reading the paperwork, Zhou Mu laughed. "Unpaid wages? You can't even make empty promises properly. And you call this ruthless?"
He decided to be even more ruthless than the sect. What he didn't expect was that the more ruthless he became, the more moved his employees were...