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- 1 The Little Culinary God of Cultivation 修真小厨神 What’s so special about being a chef? Isn’t it just cooking? Ordinary chefs may not be anything special, but a chef who can use martial arts in the kitchen is something else entirely! In Huaxia, a nation with five thousand years of history and culture, there’s a secretive group of chefs who use martial arts to cook. They are mysterious and highly esteemed, and their dishes are not only delicious but also have all kinds of special effects. Lin Muye runs a steamed bun shop on Qinggang Road that ba 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Strongest Chef System: I Won a Hundredfold Cashback 最强厨神系统，我抽中百倍返还 Ye Xuan wakes up one day to discover that he has transmigrated to a cultivation world where the culinary arts have fallen into decline. With the System to help him, he can earn great rewards by completing Culinary God training missions, so he puts his knowledge of traditional Chinese cuisine to good use. “It's spicy, it's fragrant! Wait, this scallion-oil noodles can even temper your spiritual energy? Bring me ten more bowls!” “This cuttlefish roe soup! It can actually improve my physique, too.” 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Entering the Dao Through Cooking: I'm a Chef in the Cultivation World 以厨入道，我在修仙界当厨子 By chance, Zhang Xiaojiu discovered a recipe book left behind by his grandfather. To find the Dragon-Shaped Grass mentioned in its pages, Zhang Xiaojiu embarked on a quest to seek it out. During his search, he unexpectedly transmigrated to the Shenwu Continent. Come see how a chef uncovers the truth behind his parents’ disappearance and learns the treachery of human nature in the cultivation world. There are countless immortals and gods, but who says a chef can only cook and cannot cultivate imm 53Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 I'm a Culinary God: The Way of Nature? More Like the Way of Cumin! 我厨神：道法自然？道法加孜然！ Passionate and hilarious, with a laid-back vibe, unbeatable cooking, a protagonist who grows into his power, and a gaggle of hungry senior brothers and sisters to raise. No female lead. Stir-frying heaven, earth, and the Heavenly Dao. Wei Jitong, heir apparent to the head chef of the state banquet, accidentally transmigrates to a fantasy cultivation world and becomes a junior disciple of Qingfeng Mountain, where he awakens the God of Cooking System. As long as his dishes amaze people, he can ear 216Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 5 Xuanhuan: I’m the God of Food, and I’ve Made the Entire Cultivation World Drool 玄幻：我食神，馋哭了整个修仙界 [Also known as: “I Just Became a Peak Master, and You Want Me to Be a Chef?” and “Invincible God of Food: All My Disciples Have the Potential to Become Emperors”] Lu Qi transmigrates to the cultivation world and spends twenty years finally becoming a peak master of the Xuantian Sect, only to awaken the Invincible God of Food System. Damn System! I just became a peak master, and now you want me to be a chef? Luckily, all the dishes he makes have special effects: longevity noodles that extend your 156Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 6 Gourmet: Fragrant Dishes That Have the Sect's Disciples Fighting Over Them 美食：爆香菜肴，宗门弟子疯抢 [Scoundrel + Food + Sect + Hilarious + Cutthroat Competition] Shi Hao transmigrates into a fantasy world and awakens the Chef God System. As one dish after another is served, the entire sect is thrown into an uproar. Not only are the dishes delicious, they even have special effects: increasing cultivation, healing hidden injuries, enhancing beauty... The disciples fight tooth and nail for every bite. Each one swears to train harder so they can grab two more bowls of rice. Shi Hao gives a crooked 18Reads7.5Score214d adds
- 7 The Sect's Culinary God: I Conquer the Immortal Cultivation World with Food 宗门厨神，我靠美食征服修仙界 [Food + No Female Lead + Farming + Ensemble Cast] Ye Bai transmigrates to a fantasy cultivation world, with nothing but a body incapable of cultivation and an inn from the start. Fortunately, he awakens a Culinary Cultivation System. Complete its quests, and he can earn recipes, spiritual roots, cultivation techniques, immortal artifacts, a pocket dimension... And so, every meal Ye Bai cooks becomes an unparalleled delicacy. The entire cultivation world goes crazy trying to get a taste of his co 248Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 8 I Bound the God of Cooking System and Became Unbeatable in the Sect 我绑定厨神系统，在宗门无敌了 [Everyday life + silly, brainless wish fulfillment] After transmigrating into a fantasy world, Ye Chenxing takes charge of all the old, weak, sick, and young members of Cangqiong Peak from his senior brother. A good-for-nothing second senior brother takes over as peak master. Cangqiong Peak is doomed! After binding to the God of Cooking Food System, Ye Chenxing cultivates through cooking. His dishes can increase spiritual energy, help people reach enlightenment, raise their cultivation, and ha 470Reads8.7Score11014d adds
- 9 I’m Just Cooking, Why Are the Demonic Beasts So Nervous? 我就做个菜，妖兽你紧张什么？ Xie Fan, a food lover, accidentally transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and awakens the God of Cooking System! He thought a world of cultivation would be full of fun, but there’s no internet or air conditioning, and worst of all, the food is terrible! With the principle that he can give up cultivating immortality, but he can’t give up eating, Xie Fan decides to fend for himself! The entire sect goes wild! The disciples: “What is this? How can it be so delicious!” “Eating a bowl of f 700Reads6.6Score11214d adds
- 10 You're an Immortal Emperor, So Why Are You Running a Restaurant in the Outer Sect? 你一个仙帝，窝在外门开餐馆？ Gu Yuan transmigrated to a fantasy world and became an outer disciple of the Tianyan Sect. While sorting through his master's belongings, he found a diary about a hopeless simp. As it turned out, the old man had run a restaurant in the outer sect his entire life just so his goddess could eat a meal he had cooked himself? Poor Gu Yuan. Even on his deathbed, the old man made him promise to keep the restaurant running. “Master, as your disciple, of course I must carry on your legacy.” “This little 608Reads8.1Score10714d adds
- 11 The Bigwigs Go Wild Fighting over a Bite to Eat 为了一口吃的，大佬们抢疯了 [Gourmet] + [laid-back daily life] + [no System] + [comedy] Li Heng is a chef who accidentally transmigrates to a cultivation world where culinary skills have fallen into decline. He discovers that his dishes are not only delicious, but can also improve cultivation and strengthen the body. One day, while Li Heng is cooking, a passing sect’s saintess spirits him away to work as their chef. As Li Heng serves up dish after delicious dish, the entire sect goes wild. The disciples go crazy competing 2.1kReads8.8Score16114d adds
- 12 Gourmet: My Cooking Makes the Myriad Worlds Drool 美食，我的美食馋哭诸天万界 Fantasy, food, illustrations, comedy, scheming, farming. The starry-sky yanggeng, the undisputed beauty queen of desserts. The upgraded version of Stargazing Pie: Eyes Shut Forever. Boiled cabbage so beautiful it takes your breath away. Spicy crayfish that'll make anyone gain a few pounds before they leave. A chopped chili Kun head big enough to feed dozens. Red-braised lamb, fish-fragrant shredded pork, crystal shrimp dumplings, chicken broth soup dumplings, squirrel-shaped mandarin fish... Hel 951Reads8.9Score10114d adds
- 13 My Cooking God System Is Acting Up 我的厨神系统不对劲 A cultivation-world massacre sparked by egg fried rice, and a bowl of black sesame paste that fools people into founding a “sacred Buddhist lineage.” Lin Xian, a chef who transmigrates to the cultivation world, is bound to the “Ancient Food Cultivation System.” He thinks he can reach the pinnacle of life by cooking, until he makes a bowl of egg fried rice. Everyone who eats it sees their cultivation surge. It has just one “tiny drawback”: their hair falls out. Overnight, everyone in Radiant Sec 547Reads5.7Score10014d adds
- 14 The God of Cooking in Another World 异世厨神 In this fantasy world, where cultivators can split mountains with a raised hand and sever great rivers with a kick, he begins his path to godhood with a tiny restaurant! The most beautiful woman in the capital, the saintess of the Ice Spirit Palace, the enchanting demoness of the demonic cult, and the emperor who travels ten thousand miles a day all become his devoted foodies! Faced with the flood of customers, Qi Xiu declares, “Each person can order only one serving of each dish per day!” What? 1.5kReads8.0Score17414d adds
- 15 The Otherworld's Gourmet King 异界的美食天王 [Food + System] An ordinary chef is brought to the Continent of Gods and Demons, where he runs a restaurant that’s anything but ordinary. The food here can’t be found anywhere else, yet people from every corner of the continent can make their way to this restaurant. This world has magic, battle qi, cultivators, and charlatans. I, Chen Mo, just want to be an ordinary chef, winning every customer’s heart with the Chinese cuisine they can’t get in this other world. [Some characters in this book may 106Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 16 The Young Master Is a Fine Cook 公子善厨 (Slow burn, no romance, no System, has a golden finger, traditional xianxia) After living two lives, Chu Liuyun is used to being a spoiled wastrel. All he wants is to eat, drink, and wait for death. Then, by a stroke of bad luck, an immortal master chooses him to join the immortal sect. But with his five-element spiritual roots, he’s a good-for-nothing. The only job he can get in the sect is as a menial outer disciple, struggling to survive. He thinks his carefree days are over, but then his luc 1.8kReads8.4Score20614d adds
- 17 She Survived in the Cultivation World With Food and a System Until She Ascended 她靠美食和系统在修真界苟到飞升 [Transmigration + System + food + spirit pets + spirit fields + no romance] Xingchen kindly saved someone, then transmigrated to the Blue Star Continent. Her father had died before she was even born? Xingchen thought the story she'd gotten was... a tale about dressing as a man, making a fortune, and working her way toward a comfortable life through farming... But when she was ready to throw herself into the work... she discovered this was a cultivation novel... Cultivation... Fine, then, she'd c 518Reads8.8Score10614d adds
- 18 I Turn the Tide in the Cultivation World with My Cooking 我靠美食在修仙界逆风翻盘 [Food + cultivation + slow-burn growth + lighthearted, witty style] [The heroine is clever and a bit of a goofball. The hero is obsessive and crazy, with a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and a haughty streak.] Living in the apocalypse, Yu Guiwan had imagined all kinds of ways she might die, but never that she, a celebrated chef, would be poisoned to death by a pot of mushroom soup! Humiliated, she realized she had transmigrated. Even more humiliatingly, the moment she came back to life, her husband 2.7kReads8.9Score34514d adds
- 19 Master Chef: From the Start, My Junior Sister Stole My Chicken 厨神，开局被小师妹偷吃了鸡 Hardcore food fiction + laid-back daily life + steamrolling the myriad races with food The executive chef of a six-star restaurant transmigrates to the Yaochi Holy Land and becomes the greatest chef in the world of culinary cultivation. There, he discovers that the pigs are bigger than elephants and the chickens have six legs! From then on, Beast-Taming Peak gets a large-scale, professional livestock farm, while fields of vegetables flourish year-round on Spirit Herb Peak. “These evil dragons an 6.6kReads9.2Score49014d adds
- 20 My Cooking Is So Good, the Entire Cultivation World Treats Me Like a Treasure 做饭太好吃，被整个修仙界团宠了 [Two male leads + cultivation + farming + food + street vending + devoted to each other] In his previous life, Yun Ci was a poor student. His parents signed him up for the New Chinese Culinary School early on, and he studied there for three years. Once he graduated, he was ready to show off his skills, but a car accident put a stop to that. When he woke up again, Yun Ci found himself in a world of cultivation. He had no golden finger, no System, and was just an insignificant cannon-fodder charac 10.1kReads9.0Score1.5k14d adds
- 21 The Chef God’s Study Guide 厨神学习手册 [Updated daily. Please subscribe, recommend, and comment! (ノ>▽<)ノ] The world is so big, you have to go see it! And then he arrived in a new world... To keep developing his skills as a chef, he had to start from scratch! New ingredients, new cookware, and a whole new family! The one thing that never changed was his devotion to delicious food. And so, Li Xiaomi became Li Xiaomi. Li Xiaomi: "I'm still a baby, really!" If you want to become a god, start when they're little! 1v1, slow burn, updated d 1.7kReads9.1Score16314d adds
- 22 A Great War in the Cultivation World, All for a Bite to Eat?! 修仙界大战，只为抢口饭？！ [Gourmet cooking + immortal cultivation + scheming sect disciple + lighthearted comedy + goofy daily life + no female lead or harem] Zhu Fan transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a disciple of a sect. Just as he was about to receive his golden finger, something unexpected happened Zhu Fan: Anyone else know this feeling? I was about to become a tycoon in the immortal realm! Once my divine pill was ready, I’d ascend to immortality! But someone suddenly cut in and bound me to the wrong 15.4kReads9.2Score1.8k14d adds
- 23 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World: Farming with One Hand, Cooking with the Other 穿越修仙界左手种田右手美食 Synopsis [Everyday life] [BL] [Cozy] [Farming] [Gourmet] [No golden finger] A tsundere, food-loving younger seme x a gentle, refined uke who loves making money Lu Sizhe transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation. Unfortunately, cultivation still isn’t in the cards for him. After thinking it over, he decides to return to his old trade and become a chef. As his business flourishes, Lu Sizhe’s customers come from across the Nine Provinces. “Boss Lu, could you make me a plate of fried rice?” “ 7.6kReads9.1Score91414d adds
- 24 All I Can Do Is Grow Vegetables and Cook, Yet I Became Cultivation World's Top-Tier Star 只会种菜做饭，却成了修真界顶流 [Hilarious and Heartwarming + Food + Farming + A Touch of Modern Cultivation] She inherited a cultivation legacy, and her innate talents were cooking and growing vegetables. She became the leader of a sect, but living in poverty was the norm. From the start, all she had was a ramshackle building, a patch of wasteland, and half a mountain forest. A leader with no great ambitions and four idle disciples. Sect leader Jiang Tingyun said, “In modern society, spiritual energy has dried up. Cul 23.2kReads9.5Score3.3k14d adds
- 25 The God of Cooking and the Demon Beasts: Oh No, We're the Ingredients! 厨神，妖兽：不好，我们成食材了 A chef transmigrates to a fantasy world and awakens the strongest Chef God System. Whenever someone praises a dish he makes, his talent, physique, and insight improve. Well, this is an instant takeoff. What's more, his dishes have special effects: they can strengthen the body, nourish one's health, and clear away hidden injuries… The entire sect goes wild. From the Ancestor, Supreme Elders, and Sect Master to the servant disciples, everyone goes crazy for a taste. The Sect Master say 66.7kReads9.1Score4.6k14d adds
