I Study Cultivation at a Vocational High School

On the planet Dixin, the cultivation world reveres Confucianism.

Confucian cultivators inhale spiritual energy and set pictographic characters in motion, making each character a technique of its own. Those with heavenly spiritual roots enter Qingyun Academy; those with useless roots are sent to technical vocational school, where they weld flying swords and replace spirit stones in arrays, treated as less than ants.

Lin Feng, the top scorer in the high school entrance exams, is declared to have useless spiritual roots at the aptitude assessment and exiled to the lowest rung of society, a vocational high school. The whole city laughs at him.

Here, he finds a fragment of the Mohist Canon and a Mohist saying written two thousand years ago: “Even among farmers and artisans, anyone with ability should be promoted.”

No spiritual roots, bloodline, or inherited family legacy are needed. Farmers, blacksmiths, bookkeepers, carpenters... Anyone who understands the principles of all things can become a sage.

This is Mohism, the way of universal love that Confucians cut out of the history books.

And in this scrap-metal recycling yard of a school, Lin Feng will inherit this sealed legacy, uncover the real killer of his mother, and revive the contention of the Hundred Schools of Thought. From vocational-school technician to Mohist Juzi, from a laughingstock with useless spiritual roots to the founder of a new tradition that the Hundred Schools can no longer ignore, his path to cultivation begins the day the world casts him aside.