No System + transmigration + cultivation through cuisine + sly tricks + comedy + survival-first cultivation
Liu Fan transmigrates to the Tianyuan Sect on the Tianyuan Continent. He thinks that being born with a fire spirit root means he has a perfect start, but after blowing up the pill furnace thirteen times and turning the peak master's alchemy room into rubble, the whole sect mocks him as an alchemy good-for-nothing with nothing but a spirit root. Just as he's so desperate he wants to pack up and run, hunger strikes, and he stir-fries the alchemy herbs into a dish. To his surprise, one bite sends his cultivation soaring, and it works even better than top-grade pills!
From then on, Liu Fan begins cultivating through cooking: stir-frying spirit herbs like vegetables, grilling demonic beast meat, and even juicing qi-condensing fruits. One spicy stir-fry of spirit vegetables can help a Foundation Establishment cultivator break through a bottleneck.
The sect leader of the Tianyuan Sacred Land wonders why the genius from the outer sect, Tianyuan Sect, hasn't returned to the sacred land. “I'll go see for myself.” The food is so delicious that the sacred land might as well move to the Tianyuan Sect!
But he never imagined that his home cooking would alarm the entire Immortal Realm. The Immortal King of the Alchemy Realm begs him in tears to make a bowl of egg fried rice, saying it works better than his own Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill. The Venerable Immortal of the Artifact Realm sells everything he owns just to commission a “spirit chef's wok” that can withstand an eruption of spiritual energy. The Sword Realm's Immortal Lord puts aside his dignity and camps outside Liu Fan's courtyard every day, just to mooch a hot meal.
The great leaders of the Immortal Realm's various races gather to outdo one another, competing to see who can be the first to taste Liu Fan's custom medicinal cuisine. Even the Heavenly Emperor has to pull strings to get a taste.
Looking at the courtyard full of Immortal Realm bigwigs, Liu Fan holds his chopsticks in his mouth and stares blankly. “Seriously? I just wanted to quietly be a chef. How did I end up taking over the Immortal Realm?” After all, who could have guessed that the ultimate destination of cultivation wasn't surviving tribulation and ascending to immortality, but Liu Fan himself?
Not bad, let's see how it goes later
This novel is well written, the storyline is exciting, and the male protagonist is sometimes funny and worth watching.