Su Yi, an immortal guardian of Taotie, is a sharp-tongued head chef at Shanghai's Taotie House by day and the wielder of the Judge's Brush by night, traversing cyber ghost markets and ancient battlefields. Every dish he makes is a talisman sealing a ferocious beast, and beneath the bubbling nine-compartment hot pot lies a Taotie evil spirit capable of devouring cities.
"What are you really protecting: the people, or the prison you've built for yourself?" When the twenty-four solar terms collapse, oracle-bone script rains down on the Spring Equinox as visions of the Red Cliffs appear on the night of the Limit of Heat. At last, Su Yi discovers:
He is the living fragment of the final volume of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Each time Su Yi unlocks a sealed recipe, he forgets the face of someone dear to him. The restaurant's menu is actually a death register from the Liangzhu period.
