Lin Bai, a menial disciple of the Qingyun Sect, is the top-tier star of slacking off in the cultivation world.
Abandoned at the sect gates by his parents when he was ten, with only the words "slack off" left behind, he has followed them to the letter ever since: lie down whenever he can, sleep so deeply he can't be woken, goof off while sweeping the courtyard, and sneakily pick spirit fruit. His life is even more comfortable than the sect's lazy cat.
When it is time to retest spiritual roots, everyone else scrambles to compete for a place among the inner disciples. He naps beneath a willow tree, and when someone wakes him, he laments that his dream of making candied hawthorns wasn't finished. The testing stone thinks his spiritual roots are so good-for-nothing and lazy that they aren't worth glowing for, but he is delighted. At last, he can slack off in peace and stay away from the competitive types.
Who would have thought that while goofing off, he would find a chipped, broken bowl with a sharp-tongued artifact spirit inside, "Brother Bowl," and embark on an absurd path of cultivation: sleeping raises his cultivation, slacking off breaks through realms, and hard cultivation actually makes him weaker. The ultimate proof against overwork!
A competitive disciple challenges him to a duel, but he slacks off and refuses, making the other guy so furious he falls flat on his face. A cool and aloof senior sister tries to keep an eye on him, but ends up slacking off and eating candied hawthorns with him. Even the war between immortals and demons turns out to be, at its core, a farcical contest over a mahjong table.
Others cultivate through grueling effort; Lin Bai cultivates by lying flat. Others work themselves to death competing, while he goofs off, mooches meals, and becomes a god.
"Stop competing already. Isn't slacking off much better?" - Lin Bai (breaking through while asleep)
It's just a fantasy before the cows and horses die from exhaustion.