The story takes place in a small town on the edge of the "common sense layer" of the Tower of Knowledge. The protagonist, Xie Jianguo, is eighty-two years old. He is a mortal cook who has wasted his life and has not yet developed his spirituality. When he accidentally cooked an ancestral "Xingmeng Soup", he unexpectedly awakened the dormant Taotie bloodline in his body and awakened spiritually. From then on, he embarked on a unique path of becoming a Taoist with cooking and suppressing evil with food. In the process of practicing, he got acquainted with "Zhiwei", a scholar who was hunted down for studying forbidden knowledge, and "Dream Weaver", a guide in the lost city of dreams. Faced with the crisis of blood backlash, he must constantly search for rare ingredients and cook spiritual food that can appease the vicious nature. At the same time, he must climb the Tower of Knowledge and learn the method of fighting poison with poison in the "Book of Return of All Poisons to the Sect". He gradually got involved in the ancient dispute between the top of the Tower of Knowledge and the depths of the Lost City of Dreams, and discovered that when he was young, he practiced an incomplete "Love-Breaking Art" in order to break through, which indirectly led to the tragedy of a mortal family. His surviving descendant, "Lu Ren", has grown into a powerful avenger, and is pressing every step of the way. In the end, Xie Jianguo faced the cause and effect of his life at the boundary between the "realm of omniscience" and the "origin of the great dream". He gave up using force to suppress or escape, and instead used his lifelong cooking skills to cook a "reincarnation banquet" that carried repentance, understanding and compensation, trying to resolve hatred and complete the Taoist heart. He failed to achieve the traditional supreme immortal position, but he found his own way of "dreamless awakening" between desire and reason, knowledge and ignorance, cause and effect and responsibility. ",
