From Nanyang Coolie to Martial Arts Saint

In the final years of the Yin Dynasty, famine left the land strewn with corpses, the corrupt court was utterly inept, and the Western powers ruled the four oceans.

Shi Hui transmigrates into this world as a refugee. He sells himself as a coolie at a concession port and is sent south to work in a Nanyang plantation, where a life of hard labor awaits him.

Fortunately, he awakens a system that grants proficiency in battle and lets him level up without limit. Even ordinary martial arts can become extraordinary in his hands.

Rising step by step from the cramped, freezing steerage of a ship, he slays ghost tamers in Nanyang, defeats Western superhumans, and wipes out Eastern ninja masters...