Just as he works himself to death from overtime, corporate drone Han Yue binds himself to the Merit Cultivation System.
From then on, punishing evildoers and bringing them to justice becomes his daily task, while merit points become his hard currency.
Other cultivators rely on spiritual energy. Han Yue cultivates through his performance reviews.
While traditional cultivators fight to the death over a handful of resources, Han Yue is writing “A Feasibility Report on Optimizing the Distribution of Spiritual Energy in Cities” for the government agency known as Bureau 749.
When a demonic overlord boasts that he will offer a million living souls as a blood sacrifice, Han Yue simply files a report, prompting the national missile force to carry out a “precision demolition.”
And Su Muqing, the aloof, otherworldly sword cultivator who was the target of his very first S-rank mission, now stares at the “Application to Notarize the Joint Property of Daoist Partners” he just submitted, and falls into a long silence.