Xie Yi has no idea who he is. His memories of the past are gone. When he opens his eyes, he sees a familiar line of writing on the stone wall opposite him:
"Cultivation isn't fun. Remember to try a different way of life."
He wrote it himself, and he believes it without a doubt.
So he refuses to cultivate.
But on his very first day, some troublemaker drags him by force into the number one sect in the cultivation world. After a series of bizarre mishaps, he somehow ends up with the strongest sword-cultivator as his master. Knowing he can't escape, he starts slacking off every day.
Before long, he becomes one of the sect's defining features: the strongest slacker in the world.
Then one day, his troublemaking friend accidentally sends a cultivation diary from the future to the present, a hundred years in the past, and posts it on the spiritual internet shared by the entire cultivation world.
Xie Yi, the useless pretty face, becomes an overnight sensation.
That's because the diary isn't just a diary. It also contains recordings and footage retrieved with an immortal artifact to reveal the truth behind certain events.
As more and more people watch the footage, discussion of Xie Yi grows ever more heated throughout the cultivation world.
[Why has no one in the cultivation world ascended in a thousand years? The reason: someone severed the Heavenly Ladder!]
[The former "loser" finally became a demon king. Is his true form a fox or a dog?]
[Canglan Sect, the strongest sect in the cultivation world: it turns out Canglan was someone's name?]
[A certain sect has been at odds with Canglan Sect for nearly a thousand years, yet it turns out both sects share the same founder. The peach blossoms kept their promise, blooming unfaded for a thousand years. An old friend returns, challenges the greatest heroes with a single sword, and saves that sect from disaster.]
[What fuels the immortal realm's God of War's desire for revenge? The God of War Yin Muli, who lives from dawn to dusk, and the ruler of the underworld are actually involved?]
[He bears Heaven's punishment, yet ascends once more, transforming from an immortal into a god. From then on, Xie Yi is no more, and only the High God Rong Du remains.]
It turns out that ascending to immortality is not the end of the Great Way. The true Great Way has no end.
But not only has every last detail of his life from ten thousand years ago been exposed, the real problem is that the fool writing the diary is making things up! He's ruining my reputation!
Xie Yi: "...Is this really a diary? You might as well call it a documentary about how I overcame hardship after hardship and finally ascended to godhood. But fine, you can misunderstand the relationship between me and my old secret identity. Why are you using footage to mislead everyone, too?"
His toes curl with embarrassment. And in the end, people even turn around and ask him: When will our venerable ancestor ascend to godhood?
Xie Yi: "..."
All he wants to say is: Stay away from troublemakers. You never know when one of your troublemaking friends might launch your career and make a complete fool of you in front of everyone.
Synopsis written October 3, 2025, archived.
P.S.:
1. The synopsis will be revised later. I'm terrible at writing synopses, and it'll take time to improve it. The main story is just as the title says.
2. The protagonist's name and category might change. The category will be either danmei or general fiction. The author will ask the editor before making a final decision.
Theme: The Way has no end, and people are boundless
