In the modern world, overworked wage slave Xin Jia spends his days flipping food in a wok and his nights working overtime in a cutthroat rat race, living like a “beast of burden chef” whom everyone can order around. After an accident, he transmigrates from a smoke-filled kitchen to the rigidly stratified Great Jing Dynasty, where he becomes the lowliest, most bullied kitchen boy in a frontier army camp.
With too little to eat and too little to wear, Xin Jia is cheated out of his rations by the head cook and bullied by veteran soldiers. He worked like a beast of burden in his previous life, and now he is still being trampled on. Just when he reaches rock bottom, he unexpectedly awakens three golden fingers: the Myriad Realms Chef God System, a world map that reveals everything, and a modern recipe database.
With an endless trove of modern recipes in his mind, he uses the roughest ingredients to make braised pork, hot pot, barbecue, spiced stews, and other delicacies that astonish the people of the past. With his real-time world map, he reads the terrain, resources, people's hearts, and hidden dangers, steadily rising from the bottom as an army cook.
A bowl of hot soup steadies the troops; a fine dish wins over the powerful; a new military-ration plan saves the frontier; and a masterful business strategy builds a food empire. Using cooking as his blade and food as his power, he fights from the army kitchen to the depths of the royal palace, and from the streets and alleys to the political arena. Amid princes vying for the throne and the flames of a chaotic age, he becomes the shadowy giant who commands the world's food supply and controls the lifelines of the military and government.
When he reaches the pinnacle of the mortal world, Xin Jia once again proves the Dao through cooking, combining modern recipes with the path of cultivation. He makes spirit food, forges immortal feasts, and founds his own sect, fighting his way from mortal-world Chef God to the Nine Heavens and the Immortal Realm, roaming across the Myriad Worlds.
In his past life, he flipped a wok to make a living. In this life, he wields the ladle to shape the world.
See how a modern wage-slave chef uses nothing but a pot and a spatula in ancient times to stir-fry a splendid realm and cook up the Myriad Worlds
