Is everyone in the cultivation world working themselves to death? Are prodigies and monsters springing up everywhere?
Don't panic! Chen Kun, a certified couch potato, terminally socially awkward, terrible at everything but eating, will personally teach you The Good-for-Nothing's Guide to Self-Cultivation and A Report on the Feasibility of Lying Flat Through Cultivation.
He's the legendary “useless spiritual root” that appears only once in a thousand years. Spiritual energy detours around him, and he cultivates slower than a tortoise crawls. The spirit-testing stone takes one look at him, smokes, and quits. The elders all shake their heads: “This child has no future on the path to immortality. Go home and wait to die (cross that out), or take up farming.” His ambitions are perfectly clear: bask in the warmest sunshine, gnaw on the tastiest chicken drumsticks, and find a quiet corner to peacefully live out his “good-for-nothing life.”
While others soar through the sky on flying swords, trailing immortal elegance, he rides a broom (yes, the cleaning tool), wobbling all over the place with built-in bumper-car effects. Terrifying midair close calls are just part of his daily routine.
While others refine pills amid dazzling rays of light, every time he opens his furnace, it either explodes or turns into a lump of charcoal. The only pill he ever manages to make... is a spicy-flavored fasting pill? If you eat this thing, will it give you the runs?!
Others subdue magical treasures with sheer strength. Him? He gets by on his lousy “luck”! The rusty sword he picked up at a roadside stall turns out to house the spirit of an ancient immortal sword with a terrible temper and an even worse mouth. Every day, it has to listen to the sword spirit curse and complain: “Idiot! Blockhead! Did you leave your brain at home this morning?!”
Come see how this good-for-nothing and his bizarre circle of friends turn the cultivation world upside down, throw it into chaos, and leave no shortage of laughs, before managing to “lie flat” their way onto the path to immortality in this fiery, feel-good tale!
Very funny novel