A Metaphysics Novice Becomes a Professor of Agricultural Science

Originally titled The Little Cultivator's Career Rise. Also known as Can I Convert to the Three Pure Ones Just to Put Food on the Table? and My Career Path Is a Little Strange. Clouds gather at the Yunlai Palace above; seekers pursue the Way below. Liu Xingze came from a wealthy family and graduated from a prestigious university. Growing up, he always believed he was destined for immortality and was sure to become a peerless genius the Daoist world had never seen. If he didn't cultivate, it would be an eternal tragedy for the Daoist world! Now, as he feels the muddy ground outside Yunlai Palace beneath his fingers and eats delicious fruits and vegetables he grew himself, then sees the once quiet and serene retreat of the Daoist world packed with devout believers who have come to seek the Way (and get a free meal), Liu Xingze remains confident. His methods may have gone a little awry, but look how many followers he's inspired to take refuge in the Three Pure Ones! When their youngest son left home to become a cultivator, the Liu family thought his career path would go like this: Yunlai Palace abbot - local Daoist Association chair - provincial Daoist Association chair - national Daoist Association chair But in reality, his career path went like this: PhD in agriculture - visiting professor at the Agricultural University - visiting and honorary professor at several prestigious universities in China - member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Son, if we'd known this was your career path, we wouldn't have objected to you leaving home to become a cultivator! Serious, versatile senior-disciple seme / cultivation-obsessed, farming-proficient rich second-generation junior-disciple uke P.S. This story is set in a fictional modern world. Its world began to develop differently from ours in the Republican era, so science and many other aspects differ from the real world. No real people will appear. All supernatural content in this novel is fictional and draws on myths and legends. Please distinguish fiction from fact. Believe in science and reject feudal superstition! Upcoming novel: I Submitted My Science Outreach Livestream System to the State. Please add it to your favorites! One-line pitch: A researcher born into a family of researchers gets a science outreach livestream System, earns science outreach points to exchange for high-tech products, and helps build the country. Zhou Heju is a well-known second-generation academic. His parents are both big names in academia, and he's smart, but a little unfocused and prone to acting on a whim. He's switched majors countless times. After finally managing to graduate, Zhou Heju came up with a new idea: he wanted to do science outreach, and he wanted to make it different. Other people doing science outreach: Find sources, read papers, and work hard to explain things in accessible language. Zhou Heju doing science outreach: Livestream visits to real-world locations for his viewers. Perhaps he worked so hard at science outreach that a science livestream System facing the Myriad Worlds bound itself to him: Earn science outreach points to exchange for high-tech products from the store, dear user! Although he was unreliable, Zhou Heju was a patriotic young man, so he promptly handed the System over to the state. From then on, high-end lithography machines, high-precision CNC machine tools, and other products that Western countries refused to sell were all exchanged for, reverse-engineered, and independently developed! What's more, futuristic products from advanced civilizations in the universe brought a new way of life to the people of Xia Country, who set their sights on the stars and beyond. As for Zhou Heju, he's just an ordinary science streamer whom countless worlds call the forefather of science! Theme: In any field, work hard and improve yourself step by step. Even farming can benefit society when you study scientific cultivation techniques.