After the Village School Closed: Teaching the Heavens with a System

[Steady protagonist + System + exploring the myriad realms + mysterious cases + founding patriarch]

The protagonist has a strong moral compass. After a future event, he sets out on the path to invincibility. Much of the early story lays the groundwork.

Su Changming, a private-school teacher on Mount Taicang, may be the most “unprofessional” schoolteacher in all the myriad realms.

By day, he wields a ruler and teaches children to recite, “Man at his birth is naturally good.” By night, he has to clutch a yellow talisman and haggle with the System: “You charge twenty source points just to send a vengeful ghost on its way? You’re worse than the pawnshops at the foot of the mountain.”

Staring at the System panel’s record for “redeeming a ferocious ghost,” the System begins to doubt its own existence. “You old fossil, can’t we follow the normal procedure for once?”

Su Changming says nothing, simply continuing along at his own pace.

In the years to come, it is not only lonely ghosts who listen to his teachings on good and evil. The followers who trust in his principles gradually become a spark.

A proud traveler from another land sets aside his arrogance. An old woman charged with guarding the boundary offers him a cup of hot tea. And those who were once lost in obsession are willing to follow him, ruler in hand, as they discern right from wrong.

A bond that began with teaching and guiding others takes root in the lands of the myriad realms, following in his footsteps.

One day, those sparks will spread into a prairie fire, forming a sect that safeguards peace and justice for all ages.