Overage Exam Failure, Awakened Martial Arts Status Panel

[Urban High Martial Arts] [System] [Status Panel] [Decisive and Ruthless] Thirty years after the supernatural returned, martial artists became pillars of society, and the Demon Suppression Bureau took charge of maintaining order among them. There were once legends of gods being slain. Immortality survives only in the ink of ancient books. The supernatural runs rampant, demons and monsters wreak havoc, and martial artists build a wall with their flesh and blood while ordinary people eke out an existence like ants. In Nancheng’s industrial district, a basement room rents for three hundred a month. Lin Yuan’s parents have been missing for twelve years. He is four years over the age limit and has no chance of getting into a martial arts school. A temporary worker for the Demon Suppression Bureau, he hauls goods, sweeps floors, and runs errands, with only forty-three yuan left in his pocket. Everyone calls him useless. Then, on a rainy night, his martial arts status panel awakens: [Name: Lin Yuan] [Realm: Mortal] [Training Mechanism: 1 day = 1 year of cultivation = 1 year of technique proficiency] [Today’s Mission: Night Market Ghost (Rank E)] One day of training is all it takes to gain a year’s worth of cultivation. Lin Yuan thought he would keep his head down at the Demon Suppression Bureau and slowly grow stronger. But his colleagues started making things difficult for him, and the jade pendant left behind by his missing parents underwent a strange change. Deep in the underground ruins, ghostly winds howled: [Name: Zhou Yan] [Realm: Rank B (Assimilated by the supernatural)] [Life History: Former deputy director of the Investigation Department of the Demon Suppression Bureau. Took part in the God-Slaying Project twelve years ago and was consumed by the supernatural…] Lin Yuan looked at the half-human, half-ghost staring at him with pity and curled his lips into a smile: