[Urban fantasy + spiritual qi revival + Chinese mythology + foodie cultivation + civilizational domination]
Shen Zhiyao is a struggling senior in high school in Jiangcheng, so poor he can't bear to pour out his instant noodle broth. Before a fight, he negotiates reimbursement, and after casting a spell, if he doesn't eat three bowls of pork rib noodles, his blood sugar crashes and he passes out.
One rainy night, exotic beasts attack the city. The ten-yuan wooden Bagua pendant around his neck is stained with blood and activates, suddenly rebooting the Chinese Heavenly Court, missing for a thousand years, inside his mind. Western divine descendants chant for three minutes to borrow divine power. Shen spits out his grilled sausage skewer, says a single “Edict,” and knocks every god offline.
From then on, the Nightwatch Bureau treats him like their own father, while the Western Holy Shield Alliance lists him as the world's number one bug.
But when the Heavenly Court's last surviving scroll opens to its final page, he discovers that the price of reopening the Southern Heavenly Gate is to forge himself into a new lock on the Heavenly Dao.
He rubs his stomach. “First, let's eat. I'll worry about my life after that.”
