The protagonist had worked himself to the bone at the Murim Alliance. Years of grinding. Years of taking orders. Years of watching others climb while he stayed in the trenches. Finally, he retires. No more missions. No more politics. No more answering to incompetent superiors.
He heads back to his hometown to fulfill his dream of becoming a sect leader. A small clan. A handful of disciples. A quiet life teaching martial arts and minding his own business.
Due to his meager savings, he ends up purchasing a manor that was suspiciously cheap. The real estate agent was too eager. The price was too low. The previous owners left too quickly.
Rumors say it is haunted. The neighbors avoid it. Locals cross the street when passing by. The protagonist does not care. A roof is a roof, and he is out of money.
Then an unfamiliar system suddenly appears before him. Blue windows. Menu options. Quest notifications. The kind of thing he read about in web novels but never expected to see in real life.
Though startled at first, the protagonist soon begins to use the system to efficiently recruit disciples and manage the sect’s finances and resources. The haunted manor becomes a training ground. The ghosts become training dummies. The rumors become free advertising.
In time, with the help of the system, his sect grows rapidly. So rapidly that it starts drawing the attention, wariness, and hostility of other Murim factions. The established clans see him as a threat. The old powers want to crush him before he becomes too big.
Now a retired grunt with a haunted manor and a mysterious system must fight off every major faction in Murim to protect the clan he built from nothing.
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