I Want to Be a Culinary Cultivator [Cultivation]

My next book will be "Farming and Ascending in the Cultivation World," a farming story with a pocket dimension. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list. Sending love! The blurb is at the very end.

Song Qingyuan transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes the most inconspicuous outer disciple of the Qingsong Sect.

His spiritual roots are mixed, with all five elements. He got into the sect through sheer luck. In other words, he's the kind of disciple the sect accepted just to fill its numbers.

While everyone else cultivates immortality, he hones his cooking. And as it happens, he also has a cooking skill panel: stir-frying can trigger critical hits, while stews grant skills.

In the modern world, with this golden finger, he could surely become a master chef.

But in the cultivation world? ...He might as well give it a shot and see what happens.

Fortunately, the cultivation world really does have the obscure path of culinary cultivation. There are so few practitioners, though, that he might have to make up the techniques himself.

Song Qingyuan is delighted. He loves this sort of bottom-tier profession.

When he plays games, he always picks the class nobody else plays. Naturally, he has to cultivate in the rarest path, too.

He has always believed in one principle: There are no weakest classes, only players who don't know how to play.

So while everyone else meditates in seclusion, he flips and fries; while everyone else hunts for treasures in secret realms, he squats by the river and simmers fish soup.

With his cooking panel, he turns unwanted spirit vegetables and herbs into priceless spiritual dishes, earning piles of spirit stones and sending his cultivation soaring.

He goes from an invisible outer disciple to the Chef Song everyone in the inner sect wants to recruit.

But... why is Senior Brother Lu Zhaoye, the famously aloof sword cultivator, always hanging around his stove?

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For some reason, this guy always stops by when flying past on his sword, takes a detour on his way back from training, and even chooses a spot beside Song Qingyuan's stove for his cultivation seclusion.

Song Qingyuan has barely set up his pot when Lu Zhaoye appears, expressionless and silent. He sits beneath the tree by the entrance with his sword in his arms, looking just like a guardian deity.

Song Qingyuan tentatively asks, "Senior Brother Lu, are you...?"

Lu Zhaoye glances at him, then looks back at the pot. "Just passing by."

You passed by from the neighboring mountain all the way to my stove? That's some remarkably precise passing by.

The strangest thing is his natal sword.

They say a sword cultivator never lets his sword out of his hands, but Lu Zhaoye's sword keeps running over here every few days. It eagerly chops wood, cuts vegetables, and even fans the fire for him with its own blade. It's less a weapon of death and more a kitchen assistant.

"Why is my new kitchen knife a little dull?" Song Qingyuan mutters.

The sword immediately gives a buzzing hum and rubs its hilt against his palm, fawning over him shamelessly.

Lu Zhaoye calmly takes the sword back, but the tips of his ears turn bright red. "...The sword moved on its own."

After stir-frying a few dishes, Song Qingyuan looks at the natal sword struggling wildly and straining toward the stove, then at Lu Zhaoye, whose ears are red enough to drip blood.

"Senior Brother, your sword wants pork shreds with green peppers."

"..."

"With extra chili, too."

Lu Zhaoye coughs lightly and turns his face away. "...Just a little spicy."

Song Qingyuan: "..."

Wasn't this sword cultivator supposed to be aloof? Why is he even more of a glutton than the chef?

# A chef boosts the entire cultivation world's food industry #

# The rise of Qingsong Sect's top spiritual chef begins with bone broth noodles #

Reading Guide:

1. A superb cook with an optimistic, cheerful personality (bottom) x a cool-looking, foodie-on-the-inside sword cultivator (top) = warm-faced cutie x cold-faced cutie.

2. Food-focused cultivation progression story. Food takes center stage at first, then cultivation later.

3. Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation.

4. Anti-piracy protection is currently set to 70%. The newest chapter will be available after 72 hours. Paragraph comments are open.

Coming-soon divider

"Farming and Ascending in the Cultivation World"

Zhou Nian wakes up one day to discover he has transmigrated and become a spiritual farmer disciple at the bottom of the Xuanxiao Sect.

Every day, he gets up early and works late, growing spirit grain and tending spirit herbs. He works in the wind and sun, exhausted as an old ox.

While other cultivators fly through the sky and burrow underground, he cultivates by swinging a hoe faster than anyone else.

Fortunately, there is always a way forward. He accidentally discovers that he has a pocket dimension, filled with dense spiritual energy. Anything he plants grows, and time passes faster inside!

Now, while other people toil for ten years to grow spirit herbs, he can harvest a crop every year, and the quality is excellent!

He makes a fortune through farming, quietly saves spirit stones, takes pills, and watches his cultivation climb. He rises from an invisible outer disciple to an elite member of the inner sect.

But... why does Senior Brother Shen Linyi, the cold-faced sword cultivator, keep showing up while he's farming?

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The first time they meet, Shen Linyi flies past on his sword and catches sight of him furtively swapping out spirit plants in the field. His gaze turns cold. "What are you doing?"

Zhou Nian's hand trembles. "...Fertilizing?"

The second time they meet, Zhou Nian is secretly gathering spirit herbs in a secret realm. When he turns around, Shen Linyi is leaning against a tree with his sword in his arms, smiling faintly. "A spiritual farmer disciple is looking for opportunities, too?"

Zhou Nian laughs awkwardly. "...Just passing by. Purely passing by."

By the Nth time they meet, Shen Linyi is standing right outside his cave dwelling. He says calmly, "Give me half the spirit herbs in your pocket dimension."

Zhou Nian is shocked. "How do you know I have a pocket dimension?!"

Shen Linyi calmly draws his sword. "Now you know."

Zhou Nian: "..."

Wasn't this sword cultivator supposed to be aloof? Why is he even more obsessed with money than I am?

# Make a fortune farming, and pick up a sword cultivator as a cultivation partner along the way! #

# The rise of the cultivation world's top spiritual farmer! #

Theme: Even in the cultivation world, strive to make your own way.