Weren’t We Supposed to Lie Flat? How Did You All Become Heavenly Emperors?

Lin An is a man with “996 trauma” branded deep in his soul. In his previous life, he spent every last ounce of energy on his boss’s PowerPoint presentations. In this life, after transmigrating as the young master of Qingyun Sect, he has only one goal in life: lie flat! Thanks to the elite skill of being born into a good family, he spent eighteen years as a contented good-for-nothing, perfectly excising the word “cultivation” from his life’s dictionary. Then one day, a System that was eighteen years late crashed straight into his brain, already filled to the brim with thoughts of slacking off. Lin An assumed Heaven had bestowed upon him the ultimate tool for taking it easy. He imagined summoning a good-for-nothing clone to play chess, drink tea, and discuss “One Hundred and Eight Ways to Lie Flat.” Instead, the System promptly summoned a demonic private coach who was all wrong for the part: a sword cultivator workaholic who never rested, with nothing on his mind but “slaying demons and vanquishing evil”! From there, things spiraled out of control. One clone after another reported for duty, each more hardworking than the last: an overbearing CEO who devoted himself to unifying the demonic path and worked year-round; an alchemy maniac who would blow up his furnace to hit his KPIs; a ruthless merchant who opened for business at midnight to monopolize the market… While the great powers outside trembled in fear at the terrifying might of the “Divine Mechanism Pavilion,” Lin An, the “mastermind behind the scenes,” was fretting in his little courtyard over “spiritual energy indigestion” caused by his cultivation rising too quickly from all the feedback. “Please, I’m begging you, stop working so hard!” “If you keep at it, my lazy old bones are going to break through and make me an Immortal Emperor! How am I supposed to lie flat then!”