Thirty-year-old Chen Mo slept in a battered cardboard box beneath an overpass. In his pocket were just eighty-three yuan and a coin stained with the blood his father had coughed up. He had dropped out of school at fourteen, lost his father at sixteen, and been laid off seventeen times by thirty. Fate was a battered pot boiled dry, scorching him black and leaving him withered.
On a stormy night, a five-yuan gear-shaped iron scrap from a street stall cut his palm. The instant his blood dissolved the rust, an enraged voice exploded in his mind: "You have a Daoist bone, yet you've lived like a mud puddle? Even a pig is better than you!" The remnant soul of Ling Xu Zi, an ancient sword immortal, had been accidentally awakened by Chen Mo's filthy blood and was forced to pass on the "Immortal Cuisine Manual" to him.
A rusty water pipe became Chen Mo's first "kitchen knife." To save Su Wanqing, a widow who ran a wonton stall, he smashed seven joints on three thugs, with the precision of cutting apart pork ribs. An old, Big Dipper-shaped scar on Su Wanqing's scalded arm blazed with light. Ling Xu Zi sneered: "The Living Brand of the Li Huo Sect. They burn living people as firewood!"
To stay alive, he broke into the Meng family's "Hall of a Hundred Herbs" at night, only to witness poisonous ginseng grown with radioactive ore. The truth behind his father's bloody cough hit him like scalding oil! When the rusty pipe split open the blast-proof safe, Detective Captain Lin Bing arrived on his trail. "What kind of weapon can slice steel like rotten meat?"
Growing vegetables with spiritual qi toppled the Meng family's grain monopoly, and a blood-rusted ancient zither cracked open a path to the cultivation world. At last, Chen Mo saw the truth: his father had died from the "poisonous cuisine" the Immortal Realm used to harvest mortals, and Heaven's curse was designed to kill those who protected all living things!
"Immortals?" Chen Mo swung his mud-caked hoe and thrust it at the white jade gates of the highest heavens. "You're nothing but ingredients in my pot, **waiting to be cooked!**"
[Bone-Crushing, Soul-Braising x Mortals Slay Heaven x A Banquet That Ends the Immortals]
