Lin Xiaofan, a modern-day office drone, dies from overwork and wakes up in the body of a good-for-nothing named Lin Xiaofan. From the start, he faces the sect's annual assessment and is on the verge of being expelled. Just as despair sets in, the Slacking Off Cultivation System activates.
The System issues its first mission: recite "The Road to Shu" in front of everyone. Lin Xiaofan grits his teeth and does it, earning a meager amount of cultivation...