The Mohist Pivot

In 2026, a cataclysmic super-typhoon ravages China. Lin Shen, a survivor who has always been able to see the flow of qi, soon discovers that this disaster was no act of nature—it was a calculated strike by foreign powers using shikigami to plunder the nation’s geomantic lifelines. Her unique perception awakens her as a living array eye for the land of China, a power that makes her invaluable yet doomed. In an instant, she is bound by black iron chains, reduced to a fuel source coveted by enemies who have spent a century hunting and draining her homeland. Refusing to sink into despair, Lin Shen forges an unbreakable alliance with two unlikely allies: Zhou Mingyuan, a brilliant physicist confined to a psychiatric ward, and Chen Lan, the last heir of the Guixu lineage. Together, they wage war on two fronts—deconstructing occult forces with scientific theory and physics, turning the laws of nature against vengeful spirits; and founding Mozi Heavy Industry, a corporation built on the enemy’s own capital, to forge China’s sea-stabilizing pillars amid the onslaught of financial and media warfare. From a scrap-metal crossbow in a Lingang industrial park, to the implosion of a four-hundred-meter skyscraper in Jianghai City, to the annihilation of a living shikigami island on the high seas, Lin Shen wields the Mohist principles of universal love and rejection of aggression as her blade, and the life force of 1.4 billion Chinese as her shield. She shatters the chains fused to her very bones and, across the dual battlefields of corporate intrigue and esoteric combat, obliterates the century-old conspiracy of foreign invaders. Heaven is a cold, indifferent machine—and she, the only gear within it that knows how to give. The roots of China are held firm.