The Old Lady Refuses to Grow Old, Making Barbecue in the Cultivation World

Ye Wanqiu lived to the age of fifty-eight before learning that her respectable-looking husband had another family on the side. When his lies were exposed, her own son drove her out of the house. She thought raising an ungrateful child for more than twenty years was bad enough. Then, with only fifty yuan to her name and nowhere to go, she got struck by lightning. When Ye Wanqiu opened her eyes again, she found herself in a strange world. The boys were handsome, the girls beautiful, and everyone could soar through the skies and burrow underground. They didn’t even mind that she was an old woman. After she was taken in, Ye Wanqiu discovered that the people here didn’t even eat. They were all sallow and weak, with no energy. She’d spent decades raising sons and grandsons. How could Ye Wanqiu stand by and watch? She tied on an apron, lit the stove, and started cooking! Grilled sausages and pork rib soup, so fragrant you could smell them from beyond the mountain! From that day on, the cultivation world’s ways changed completely. Sword cultivators who’d been pushing themselves to the limit stopped practicing. They chopped down every tree on the mountain just to get firewood for roasted pig trotters. The alchemy cultivators of Medicine King Valley brought out their ancestral furnace, just to trade it for a bowl of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. Even the neighboring Demon King and Venerable Demon secretly climbed over the wall for a bowl of pork rib soup. The old ancestor, who’d been in seclusion for a hundred years, came running out at the smell. After a few bites of pastry, the bottleneck that had stalled his cultivation for a thousand years finally loosened… Ye Wanqiu looked at the crowd queuing outside her courtyard every day for a meal and waved her spatula, utterly bewildered. “Don’t be like this. You just want something to eat, right? There’s plenty for everyone!”