Sarah: one of the nurses

Mr Malloy: the caretaker

Stanley: intellectual boy

Tom: social boy

Chad: athletic boy

Brad: bully boy

Arthur: wannabe hero boy

Nancy: attention seeking girl

Susie: creepy girl

Tiffany: selfish girl

Lilly: kind girl

Energies:

• Jing: Nutrition
• Qi: Strength
• Psi: Mind
• Spirit: Soul
• Mana: Worldly/primal energy
• Intent: Qi mixed with psi with a concept
• Heart: Intent mixed with a matching spirit
• Law: The rules of the world
• Dao: The understanding of the world by a profession
• Chaos: Conflicting Law energies
• Great Dao: the energy the world was born from
• Faith: Collected spirit from many people
• Domain: area the wielder influences, can be fixed or fluid
• Authority: Inspires both obedience and civil energy, made of psi/spirit.
• Civil: Energy belonging to a group. Must be held in common.
• Gu: Any energy tainted by death
• Ghostly: Spirit belonging in the afterlife
• Druidic: Plant Qi
• Shamanistic: Animal Qi
• Cosmic: mana not found on a planet
• Void: energy found between planes, drives mortals mad

Techniques by faction/energy:

• Orthodox: gathering qi that belongs to the body
• Demonic: gathering gu that doesn't belong to the body
• Mage: Quickly using mana fast enough that it doesn't destroy anything
• Cult: Using faith
• Imperial: Authority/Civil based
• Eldritch: Void based
• Unorthodox: Anything else

Stages (loose due to some concurrent/equivalent stages, subject to change on a whim):

• Mortal: nothing in practice
• Initiate: anything practiced below concrete stages
• Neophyte: access to external techniques
• Gathering: understanding of place energy resides. 
• Xth completion: unique per energy
• Fusion: any two energies mixing
• (1st) Dao: reaching an understanding of the world based on your profession and completing the fusion of all energies you have
• Law: Using your Dao to understand Laws and integrate them into themselves
• Chaos: Collapse of the Dao upon understanding of contradictions
• 2nd Dao: Understanding the energy the world was born from
• Void: Leaving the world to observe the void
• Leviathan: integration of void energies
• Plane: becoming a plane of existence
• 3rd Dao: Understanding the source of all things

Terms:

• Meridians: pathways for qi
• Dantian: center of meridians, place where treasures are refined. Has higher chambers where qi can flow into the mind.
• Acupoints: places where energy enters or leaves the body other than the lungs
• Chakras: Where the body and soul mingle.

• Id/Superego/Ego: Desire/Restraint/Compromise Between the two
• Sub-personalities: Personalities that are used in certain situations
• Alter egos: Complete set of sub-personalities different from normal.
• Attunement clusters: Engraved experiences that attune either an energy(mana) or an idea(heart)

I will not be classifying any concepts related to gender or sex in spirit. While parts of the subconscious will be gendered/oriented, these will fall under different categories. This will make sense later.

Professions (that don't explain themselves/ have specialized terminology):

• Warriors: practitioners without martial arts that fight
• Martial artists: uses martial arts
• ______ Masters: uses a specific weapon art
• Assassins: Stealth killers
• Demons: Mass killers
• Alchemists: crafter focused on materials
• Architect: Crafter Focused on buildings
• Array Master: Crafter focused on arrays, constructs that bend energies into their favor
• Scholar: Scientist/Teacher
• Paladin: Warrior of faith
• Any noble title: Usually command focused with a side job
• Soldier and Civil Servants: Civil focused
• Monk: Spirit focused

The eight trigrams and the four/five elements will be mentioned, but I'm playing that one by ear.

The basic format is a standard Isekai protagonist, with his cheat being understanding, traveling the world and influencing the world around him.

The wrinkles are that he is much too boring to start, and most interesting things are happening around him. This is strictly a first person novel with changes in prospective either indicating details missed by the protagonist in his entire stay, events important enough to gloss over, foreshadowing, or events taking place from far away.

To make this format work, every early arc should be self contained and leave simple plot threads at most. The focus should be on character development.

Later arcs are about the protagonist becoming a scholar, learning both how to further his advantages and teach others. In these arcs he shall become a better planner, constructing the circumstances for the growth of himself and his students.

His life shall follow the following guideline:

• He shall start as an untalented orphan child
• He shall be picked up as an apprentice by a wiseman/scholar
• He shall travel the countryside to find enlightenment
• He shall teach those he comes across