In a Society Ruled by Law, We Exorcise Spirits the Civilized Way

[Check out the adorable little characters in my author profile! "I Ascended to Greatness by Eating" is now underway. Come join the fun!] After becoming a living dead, Lin Tianling's daily tasks were to hide his abnormality and, more than anything, make sure he ate well and had his fill. Then he accidentally discovered that ghost energy could fill him up... Other people catch ghosts with peachwood swords, talismans, and heart's blood. Lin Tianling catches ghosts with chili powder, cumin, and skewers. Other people catch ghosts in bloody, evil battles with magical weapons, risking death at every turn. Lin Tianling catches ghosts with pots, pans, and every seasoning imaginable, filling the air with delicious aromas. The evil ghosts at first: This pretty boy Lin Tianling must be a pushover. Get him, brothers! The evil ghosts later: He's a total freak! Run, brothers! Lin Tianling, honored for his deeds: This is a society governed by law. Catch ghosts in a civilized manner! The evil ghosts, questioning their lives: Skewering ghosts and grilling them... Is that civilized? After living through it once, Chu Feiyi knew exactly how dangerous Lin Tianling would become after turning into a living dead. He was so powerful he could enslave every ghost, and even devour souls alive. Humans, gods, ghosts, and demons all feared him. But when Chu Feiyi saw Lin Tianling stringing evil ghosts together with peachwood sticks and grilling them with thunder talismans, he fell completely silent. Something... didn't seem quite right. One day. Chu Feiyi slowly smoothed out the shirt Lin Tianling had wrinkled, then looked at him, his voice carrying a hint of temptation. "Are you full?" "Would you like to... try another way of absorbing yin energy?" Scheming gong x foodie shou [Reader's guide] 1. This is a fictional world with no real-life counterparts. Please don't take it as reality. 2. There are lots of author-created details. Ghost and deity references are hard to research TT 3. Don't take it too seriously. Just have fun. 4. Eat well and be happy every day~ "I Have the Entire Cultivation World's Food Supply Under Control" On the first day after graduating from the "Old Southern School," which Pei Huaizhi had attended to prepare for his new role, a pot suddenly fell from the sky and hit him on the head. He woke up as a beautiful cannon-fodder character in a cultivation novel. This character had no spiritual root or cultivation, but was a scheming green tea who made trouble nonstop. He was one of the rare characters hated by both the protagonist and the antagonist, and his ending was especially tragic. Pei Huaizhi: ... He was starving to death and just wanted to stay out of trouble and get a hot meal. But the cultivation world in this book had a bizarre setup. Everyone fasted as part of their training and knew nothing about stir-frying, pan-frying, searing, braising, boiling, or the flavors of sweet, sour, bitter, and spicy. He watched the disciples in the courtyard trying to shove eggs into their mouths, shells and all, and fell silent. He rolled up his sleeves and smiled at everyone with ethereal elegance. "Do we have any tomatoes?" One dish was all it took for everyone to become obsessed, and Pei Huaizhi's fame for scrambled eggs with tomatoes spread throughout the sect. Later, everyone discovered that he could make more than scrambled eggs with tomatoes. He could also cook stir-fried pork, kung pao chicken, sweet and sour pork, boiled fish, and more... Every dish sounded delicious! Every dish was a masterpiece worthy of being recorded in the history books! Not only were these dishes delicious, they could also temporarily boost one's mental power, making cultivation easier. Some exceptional dishes, like Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and boiled cabbage, could even raise one's mental threshold level directly. The entire cultivation world was in an uproar! Pei Huaizhi, the useless pretty face everyone had always looked down on, suddenly became the object of a fierce bidding war among the major sects. Some were even willing to fight over him. Alchemy cultivators: These dishes are every bit as good as our famed pills! Medicine cultivators: Saving people through food means Pei Huaizhi was born to be a medicine cultivator! Talisman cultivators: Turning food into talismans that captivate the soul? He clearly belongs with us! The Hehuan Sect: Pei Huaizhi is so handsome. Shouldn't he join our Hehuan Sect? The sword cultivators, who had always looked down on Pei Huaizhi, were dumbfounded: ??? And that wasn't all. Elders at the Divine Ascension stage wanted to sample his cooking to increase their combat power. The cultivation clans fought tooth and nail for a taste of his dishes. Even the original novel's male and female leads and its antagonists secretly changed their names and became his junior disciples just so they could eat his cooking more often. Pei Huaizhi, who only wanted to avoid the protagonists and antagonists and live quietly in a corner: ??? Chu Qinglin, the story's greatest villain, was the King of Ten Thousand Demons, feared throughout the cultivation world. Ever since tasting Pei Huaizhi's scrambled eggs, he had become obsessed with him. Watching Chu Qinglin show up uninvited again and again, Pei Huaizhi gave him a helpless smile. "What would you like to eat today?" Chu Qinglin looked at Pei Huaizhi, his gaze darkening. Without a change in expression, he wrapped his tail around him. "I want to taste... you." Core message: Punish the wicked, uphold the law, and be a positive, law-abiding celestial master.