Blurb:
Shen Wu dominated the apocalypse with her 3S-rank Chef God ability.
Unexpectedly, she transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the substitute younger sister of the white-moonlight heroine.
In the original story, her spiritual root is extracted to save her white-moonlight sister. Then she is thrown into the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons and devoured by the demons.
The transmigrated Shen Wu says: Deep-fried, this thing would be crispy. Is it really a demon? Looks more like a high-energy mushroom.
A man-eating willow in the wilds? Its tender shoots would make great stir-fried tea! The branches could be woven into baskets, and they're impervious to water and fire.
Flying fire ants? Their eggs are packed with protein! Roast the eggs over ant fire. Perfect!
Whether it flies in the sky, walks on the ground, or swims in the water,
whatever she eats, she gains that species' innate abilities.
While others cultivate by using their spiritual roots to absorb spiritual energy, she cultivates by eating.
Before she knows it, she's eaten her way to becoming the number one in the Immortal Realm.
Every cultivator in the Immortal Realm dreams of eating one of her meals, but Shen Wu is busy plotting when to dig out her spiritual root. She doesn't need it, but why should anyone else get to benefit from it?
But her sickly husband, whom she picked up, is too frail. She needs to build him up first. She can dig out her spiritual root anytime, but if she loses such a beautiful little husband, he's gone for good.
Her sickly, beautiful little husband is timid, so Shen Wu is afraid of scaring him. She only dares bring ingredients home after disguising what they really are.
Flying fire ant eggs? Oh, just pigeon eggs.
Giant water demon rhino? Just beef.
Blue-winged lightning falcon? Just little quail.
Shen Wu, who comes up with new names for ingredients every day, happens to hear that the junior patriarch of Xuanding Sect, the number one immortal sect, keeps a cloud rabbit that grew up on spiritual spring nectar and is free from even a hint of worldly taint. What a nourishing treat!
Shen Wu swallows hard. Then she can make mild-braised rabbit heads and stir-fried rabbit cubes. They'll definitely have no gamey smell at all. Her little husband can't eat spicy food and can't stand even the slightest hint of a fishy or gamey smell.
Xie Yunzhou, the junior patriarch of Xuanding Sect, the number one immortal sect, is the strongest in the Immortal Realm. He is gravely injured while repairing a rift in the void, his cultivation plummets, and he falls into the mortal world, where a village girl takes a fancy to him and brings him home as her husband.
The innocent, adorable village girl is an amazing cook and has eyes only for him. Xie Yunzhou sighs. So be it. He'll consider it a trial of love. Mortal lives are short, so what's the harm in keeping her company for one lifetime?
The village girl loves life and cooking, but unfortunately, she doesn't have good ingredients.
As Xie Yunzhou gradually regains his strength, he goes hunting for her himself, taking care to process the catch as ordinary meat before bringing it home. After centuries of never lifting a finger, Xie Yunzhou learns to butcher demon chickens and kill spirit fish.
But why does this silver spirit fish taste so much like the grass carp the village girl brought home last time?
And why does this cold-pool demon eel taste just like the yellow eels she made before?
His spirit pet Yunhou tracks him down. Afraid Yunhou's temper might hurt the village girl, he hurries back.
But he hears Yunhou's shrieks from far away. The moment he steps into the yard...
He sees his usually arrogant and overbearing spirit pet Yunhou tied to a rack, while the village girl sharpens her knives...
Theme: Give back what you took from me, and spit out what you ate.