About the Book
[A foodie transmigrates to the cultivation world: physical exorcism and chemical seasoning are the way to go!]
Modern foodie Lin Jia stays up all night practicing food carving, only to wake up in the cultivation world’s most spectacular public humiliation: the Qingyun Sect’s disciple recruitment ceremony. Her three spiritual roots all score below five, earning her the “peerless good-for-nothing” label and a chorus of jeers from the crowd.
Starving and thinking about whether to go down the mountain to sell roasted sweet potatoes or beg for food, she catches the eye of a perpetually tipsy, chronically idle wine immortal elder with half a squashed butter cookie. He forcibly drags her back to the sect’s most remote, and impoverished, peak, the Peak of a Hundred Flavors.
From then on, the Qingyun Sect’s style takes a sharp turn:
While others wield gleaming swords, she brandishes a flashing cleaver to butcher spirit pigs. While others are surrounded by the aroma of pills, she fills the air with wok hei, stir-frying dragon liver over a roaring flame. While others fly on swords, she rides a spatula to escape. “Senior Sister, wait for me! The oil’s getting too hot!”
Sect tournament? She knocks out her opponents with a single swing of her ladle.
Secret realm expedition? First she sets up a hot pot to cook the demonic beasts.
Demons attack? Try Grandma’s special pill of eighty-one soul-severing chilies!
The eldest senior brother works himself to the bone cleaning up the mess every day. The second senior brother grumbles as he gobbles everything down. The third senior sister frantically records recipes for dark cuisine… And Lin Jia only wants to quietly figure out whether a natural Dao body tastes better braised or steamed.
This is a fun ensemble story with no romance, a cast of lovable weirdos, and cultivation through eating, and physical combat! Watch as the junior sister charges through the immortal sects with a cleaver, conquering the world with food and force!
It's not bad overall. The female lead's progress is good and quite fast. However, there could be fewer of those inexplicable fault-finding and hostility scenes; they somewhat affect the viewing experience. Perhaps a different writing style could be used.
See for yourself.