Upon waking, the world had changed beyond recognition. His father was an engineer at a high-speed vehicle manufacturing plant; his mother, a junior cultivator at a spiritual medicine company. As for himself, he was a high school student about to sit for the university entrance exams. Staring blankly at his textbooks, Chen Meng was utterly bewildered and trembled with anxiety. …Daily news: DQ Corporation was fined one hundred million yuan for constructing a rune formation without authorization. Renowned rune scholar Wang Li achieved a revolutionary optimization of the flight rune and was awarded a national special patent! The curtain has fallen on the thirty-third National Collegiate Alchemy Competition—Li Sanyi from Jiangdu University claimed the championship with an average score of 98.2. …This is a cultivation era unlike any other. This is the Age of Divine Physiques! In this era, knowledge is power; knowledge changes destiny!
"Knowledge is power."
Chen Meng felt someone nudging him. He struggled to open his eyes and then saw those six characters written in bold on a red sheet directly in front of him.
Beneath the words was a large blackboard, marked heavily by the sweeps of an eraser, with nothing else written upon it. To the right of the blackboard hung an electronic clock, as large as a washbasin, displaying the time: 10:25.
Chen Meng shook his head, trying to clear his mind, convinced that he must be dreaming. How else could he explain that just moments ago, he had graduated from a prestigious university—one of the elite 985 schools—and was celebrating with classmates, only to find himself suddenly transported here?
No matter how hard he shook his head, the scene before him refused to fade from this supposed "dream."
What the hell!
"Chen Meng, how can you give up now when there are still three months until the college entrance examination? Even if you can't get into a top university, there are still regular ones. If not regular, then at least a junior college. Scoring just one more point could put you ahead of tens of thousands of others—this concerns your entire future."
A middle-aged man, clutching an exam paper, spoke with a tone of bitter disappointment, then turned to address the rest of the class. "And you, all of you—I've told you before: knowledge is power, knowledge changes fate. If you don't work hard now, you'll regret it one day."
"Mr. Chu?"
Chen Meng stared at the