After awakening, Qi Shuo discovered he was in a martial world overrun by demons and monsters, with sects scattered everywhere.
The good news: He followed in his father's footsteps and became a member of the Jingwu Bureau of the Great Yan Dynasty, with a government job to keep him fed.
The bad news: He was just a low-ranking clerk in the Jingwu Bureau, often used as cannon fodder to kill demons and monsters or mediate conflicts between sects.
The even worse news: The Great Yan Dynasty had already rotted from within. The empress was weak, the order of the imperial court was gradually collapsing, and the once-feared Jingwu Bureau had become a nobody.
Qi Shuo had planned to keep his head down, slack off, and coast through life to stay alive, but then he activated the [Referee Panel]. As long as he settled disputes and made rulings that both sides accepted, he would earn Justice Points.
Justice Points could be spent to deduce martial arts and improve his cultivation.
Qi Shuo: Have I become Captain Dragonfly?!
"You've been fighting for days over a martial arts manual, and you've disrupted the peace of the county. Now listen to my instructions and compete according to the rules I've set!"
"You won't listen? You broke the rules of the competition? Red card, you're out!"
And so, Qi Shuo went from a low-ranking Jingwu Bureau clerk in a remote border town, step by step, into the heart of the imperial court's power struggles.
"I'm here to do only three things: fairness! Fairness! And, uh, fairness!"
"What? The empress is planning to take back control of the court? Well, here's my next job!"
The two emperors fought beneath darkened skies as mountains crumbled and the earth split. Everyone kept their distance, afraid to approach.
Qi Shuo arrived, his voice reaching the scene before he did.
"First, never let your emotions take control..."
