Let’s Cultivate! The Lazy Senior Sister

Overworked office drone Yun Jiang dies suddenly from working overtime. When she opens her eyes, she’s become the vicious supporting female character in a cultivation novel, the one who gets killed off in chapter three: the worst spiritual roots, three spirit stones in debt, hated by the entire sect, and doomed to be out of the story in six months.

Just as she reaches rock bottom, a mechanical voice rings out:

[System bound to the Slacker’s Handbook. Beginner mission: fall asleep in public for the time it takes an incense stick to burn. Failure penalty: execution.]

Her: ? Does this System have some kind of misunderstanding about me?

With nothing to lose, Yun Jiang decides to try her luck and slack off scientifically. But the more she lies down, the stranger things get:

She sleeps in public, and a lightning tribulation goes around her. She sweeps the floor while slacking off and uncovers a lost sword intent. She mooches a grilled fish meal, and her fire spiritual root awakens on its own. The senior brother watches her sweep and immediately goes into seclusion. The sect master’s first order of business after coming down the mountain is to find her for a chat and a good vent.

Misunderstandings snowball: the more she tries to explain, the more moved everyone becomes; the more she slacks off, the faster her power grows. By the time the entire cultivation world is lining up on the mountain to ask for her “Secrets to Lying Flat,” Yun Jiang just wants to flip the table.

“I really am just an ordinary person who wants to coast through life and wait to die!”

No one believes her.

Even more outrageous, she uncovers a huge secret: the saying “Heaven rewards the diligent” is a lie. The Heavenly Dao in this world is a soul-harvesting machine, and the harder cultivators work, the faster they’re exploited. Her slacker System is a loophole left behind by generations of rebels who gave their lives for the cause.

And so begins the least motivated campaign to save the world in history. The final battle won’t be won with fighting. The deciding move takes four words:

Everyone goes to sleep.

This is a mass livestream of people lying flat, leaving the Heavenly Dao in a public meltdown.

Other transmigrators defy fate to change their lives. She transmigrates just because she wants to clock out. When the entire cultivation world is forced into the rat race, the only office drone sincerely slacking off becomes the grandmaster who topples the Heavenly Dao.

True ascension means living a decent life.