Starry Sky Overlord: Enlightenment Through the Tao Te Ching

When civilization crumbles and humanity cowers beneath steel domes, one teenager's gamble changes everything. Chen Zirui trades his family's precious rations for worthless "old-era trash"—a battered copy of the Tao Te Ching. His parents rage, his classmates mock, but when monstrous beasts shatter their sanctuary and death comes for his father, Zirui's genius awakens. Through pure mental calculation, he deciphers the ancient scripture's hidden power, manifesting a water barrier that defies the new world's gene-warrior system. Now armed with philosophical cultivation in a world obsessed with bru…