Day after day, Liu Yu toiled on the assembly line, working rotating shifts. His miserable life seemed to have no end in sight. He had long since decided to lie flat, yet every so often people still called him a lonely loser, a pathetic creep, and ugly. Then, by chance, Liu Yu discovered that he was a one-of-a-kind cosmic being. He stopped lying flat and began pursuing the mysteries of the universe... the ultimate truth of the Immortal Dao... In this boundless cosmos, who rules its rise and fall? The Path of Nothingness: with one hand, I seal the heavens!
It gets more exciting towards the end; the flowing water doesn't compete for the lead, but for its endless flow...