The Secular Cultivation of a Technical Secondary School Student Born in the 1970S

The work is a unique novel that integrates the changes of the times and personal practice. The story begins in a mountain village in Guizhou at the end of the 20th century. The young man Qiao Shengjun accidentally obtained the ancient cultivation inheritance "The Question of the Four Realms". Since then, his life has unfolded between two trajectories: one is the ordinary social path - studying in a technical secondary school, starting a game room, the ups and downs of the health industry, setbacks in the stock market, getting married and raising children; the other is the secret inner practice - practicing alone in the gaps of life in a modern city with exhausted spiritual power, and realizing the extraordinary road from the "physical realm" to the "spiritual realm". The work depicts urban and rural changes in the late period of reform and opening up with delicate brushstrokes, embedding personal confusion, struggle and growth in the current of the times. Qiao Shengjun's practice is not to pursue flying into the sky and escape from the earth, but to temper his mind, get rid of delusions amidst the failure of stock trading, business turmoil, and family responsibilities, and find inner peace and strength in the most ordinary world of fireworks. This is a spiritual long march of "hearing thunder in silent places". It tells the story of how an ordinary person takes the secrets of the mountains and fields, rises and falls, takes root in the tide of the times, and completes his own life epic.