Monday morning, nine o'clock. The ninety-ninth time waking up.
Liu Yiming had been trapped in a loop for ninety-nine days. He had tried cultivating immortality, surviving tribulations, and finding loopholes in the Heavenly Dao. All of it had failed. Then he met Su Wan on the subway, who was trapped in the same loop. They hit it off at once and decided to skip work for a change and slash their boss's Porsche.
The moment they finished, a heartbeat sounded from underground.
They discovered that the entire city was a gigantic cultivation artifact. Their boss's Porsche was the spirit vein's formation core, the office towers were cultivation grounds, and seven sources of corruption corresponded to seven companies. The loop wasn't a disaster, but a selection process, meant to find people who could "cultivate immortality while living the life of an office drone."
Liu Yiming and Su Wan brought in Lin Xiaoyu, a college student who had looped 371 times, and the three formed the "Slacking Off Cultivation Squad." Within the loop, they could make endless attempts, accumulate endlessly, and grow stronger without limit. While others broke down in the loop, they used it to sanctify their bodies, predict the future, and establish links between their minds.
But each time they broke through a layer of the loop, a greater truth emerged: seven cities across the country were looping at the same time, forming a larger "Seven-Star Formation." Their city was its formation core.
The only way to break the formation was to cultivate immortality in the office towers. And their greatest enemy was the loop itself.
