When Gu Xiaopao was eighteen, he was tested and found to have the Five Elements Spiritual Roots, universally considered the slowest in the cultivation world. Other people focus on a single path, but all five paths are blocked for him, and even the sects think they can't afford to support him.
Yet the Slacker Sect takes him in.
The senior sister is as gentle as a spring breeze, but will earnestly ask, “If I heal an enemy and then beat them up, does that count as double merit?” The fiery junior sister has a temper quicker than fire. The icy sword cultivator never misses with her sword, but always manages to get lost when walking. His sworn younger sister's formations either save the whole team or blow them all up. And there's a young woman who repairs roofs with a wooden sword, always managing to put the home back together after everyone gets into trouble.
Then there's a piece of black jade that only gives him a wisp of pure qi when Gu Xiaopao personally spots a problem and says the key point himself, and Old Bai, whose mouth is even sharper than his. From the very first day, this group's cultivation journey has never been serious.
They go from troublemaking friends to true companions, and over the long years they learn to love, build families, and let go. They attend classes, compete, explore secret realms, seek divine artifacts, and befriend divine beasts, journeying through demon cities, the Myriad Beasts Plain, the demon realm, the underworld, and the celestial court.
The first hundred years with the Five Elements Spiritual Roots really are slow. But when the five weak paths finally connect from beginning to end, Gu Xiaopao realizes that while others painstakingly cultivate a single great path, he might be able to link many paths together.
When invaders from beyond the realms seek to make all living beings across the worlds speak with one voice, six young people with entirely different ways of doing things stand at the ends of the worlds.
They will prove that the Great Dao has never had only one path. People need not become the same to walk side by side.
Relaxation and fun are more fun than joy