Eating Hot Pot in Chengdu

Xiao Tongyu of Chengdu's Sanfang Alley is known to the neighborhood as a "hotpot good-for-nothing." His knife skills are clumsy, his broth is bland, and Zhao's Hotpot apprentices often bully him. Then he accidentally awakens his ancestral Shu Spirit Pot and learns that he is descended from the ancient Shu "Food Shamans," entrusted with protecting the legacy of hotpot. After awakening the power of "Food Qi," Xiao Tongyu begins his comeback. In the Crisp-and-Chewy Forest, he tames a century-old tripe spirit and breaks through to the Food Spirit realm. With the help of a spirit-spring broth, he teams up with Feng Mozi to brew spirit-grade red broth. At Qingyang Palace, he deciphers the Book of Ba-Shu Cuisine and discovers the path to immortal cultivation: "Use heaven and earth as the furnace, and ingredients as medicine." When the Zhao Group plots to monopolize the hotpot market by tainting food spirits with evil qi, Xiao Tongyu fights back with "loyalty as the fire, sincerity as the ingredients." From a good-for-nothing apprentice, he rises all the way to the Food God realm. In the end, he purifies the resentment of the netherworld with a pot of immortal-grade hotpot, making the lively warmth of Chengdu hotpot the key to balance among the Three Realms.