I Only Work Until This Time, But the AI Keeps Telling Me to Go Back and Cultivate Immortality

In 2026, programmer Lin Zhou is reborn in a parallel world's major tech company. When his boss roars, “We’re working through the night to launch this!” the [Anti-Overwork Cultivation System] activates inside him. He refuses pointless overtime and instantly reaches the peak of Qi Refining.

His approach to cultivation is unconventional: he gives his boss’s empty promises the tag [Unappetizing · Causes Diarrhea], and bestows [Spirit-Gathering · Sound Sleep] upon his own bed. While others cultivate so intensely they suffer cultivation deviation, Lin Zhou sleeps, drinks tea, and leaves work on time, yet his cultivation keeps shooting upward. He can see the “tags” on all things, and even refactor flawed cultivation methods as if optimizing code.

In this high-tech city where spiritual energy is quietly returning, ancient cultivation clans are still grinding themselves down with obsessive training. Lin Zhou, meanwhile, establishes the “Qingxuan Sect (Slacker Edition),” recruiting laid-off programmers, washed-up influencers, and retirees, then teaching them to cultivate by resisting overwork. While traditional cultivators sneer at his “unorthodox methods,” he livestreams himself drinking tea as he breaks through, and casually hacks into the core code of an ancient spirit-gathering array beneath the city.