I'm a Chef, Not a Mage

Miao Qiang, a chef, encounters the “Ghost Soldiers Borrowing the Road” while working a night shift. By a twist of fate, he becomes an Underworld Inspector and is drawn into a case involving counterfeit spirit money. With the help of a coldly beautiful female ghost, he discovers through investigation that the previous inspector’s mysterious disappearance is closely tied to the counterfeit spirit money case. And behind the whole affair lurks an even greater conspiracy! While investigating the case, Miao Qiang makes the acquaintance of Bureau 79, a mysterious department. From then on, things spiral completely out of control... Bloodstained clothes made from human skin, a butcher shop selling human flesh on Ghost Market’s Grain Street, why a Yuan dynasty prince lies buried in a Warring States tomb, a formation that turns mortals into immortals across three lifetimes... What unknown secrets lie behind all of this? As the clues are painstakingly pieced together, the Church of the Other Shore gradually comes to light: the four envoys, Windcatcher, Shadowchaser, Black Impermanence, and White Impermanence, along with the Eight Vajra, including the Devas, Nagas, and Yakshas. Faced with formidable opponents and bizarre, complicated cases, what path will Miao Qiang take…