Spiritual Recovery Center

Ji Bai, a loose cultivator with three hundred years of cultivation, fails his tribulation and loses most of his power. He receives a 'notice of optimization' from the Heavenly Court—his employee ID is cleared, spiritual energy supply is cut off, and his position is abolished, effectively expelling him from the immortal registry. At three hundred years old, with no cultivation and no job, Ji Bai decides to give up. He opens a 'Spiritual Recovery Center' in the mortal world, intending to just coast through life. But on the first day, a customer arrives: a loose cultivator who has gone into qi deviation lies on the treatment bed, complaining, 'It's too hard to get work-injury certification for tribulation.' Ji Bai uses his three hundred years of cultivation experience to massage and unblock the cultivator's meridians, finishing in half an hour. The cultivator pays with tears in his eyes. Word spreads, and cultivators 'optimized' by the Heavenly Court come in droves: academy-trained cultivators with damaged spiritual roots, loose cultivators in qi deviation, old daoists with post-tribulation sequelae... Ji Bai's recovery center inadvertently becomes a refuge for laid-off cultivators. But he soon discovers—the Heavenly Court is also secretly sending 'customers.' These customers aren't here for treatment; they're here to spy on him. The Heavenly Court's 'intensive spiritual energy reform' isn't about improving efficiency—it's about completely monopolizing spiritual energy, making cultivation a privilege exclusively controlled by the Heavenly Court. — Description from novelcodex.org