Other cultivators cultivate by meditating, refining pills, and comprehending the Dao.
Lin Bufan cultivates by playing the qin, hitting the wrong notes, and squatting in the latrine.
Other cultivators break through with auspicious signs from the heavens and spiritual energy pouring into them.
Lin Bufan breaks through by playing “Happy Birthday” so badly that he knocks the thunder off course, striking a demon beast next door that's undergoing tribulation.
Other people fall in love beneath the flowers and moonlight, reciting poetry and composing verses.
Lin Bufan gets frozen into an icicle for three days by a socially anxious Saintess. When she thaws him out, his first words are, “You're paying for my qin!”
Other people get a golden finger in the form of ancient divine artifacts or guidance from immortals.
Lin Bufan's golden finger is a wild boar claiming to be Marshal Tianpeng reincarnated, though it actually grew up eating slop in a pigsty, and a temperamental pill-refining grandmaster who looks like a five-year-old child. The side effects of his pills include, but aren't limited to, changing sex, losing your memory, and having diarrhea for three days.
Other people ascend after accumulating great merit, welcomed by all the immortals.
Lin Bufan ascends after shouting at the Heavenly Dao, “I'm tone-deaf, so what? You gonna bite me?” Then a lightning bolt that misses its mark sends him straight up.
This is a cultivation novel where you can never guess what absurd thing will happen on the next page.
The writing is very interesting. I rarely see such funny fantasy novels.