Five Elements in Debt: The Retired Life of an Immortal Chef

After a century of standardization in the cultivation world's spiritual cuisine, the upper realm has decreed that ancient methods of blending are forbidden arts. In an era where every meal must be approved by celestial officials, a woman holding a spirit wand sits in a corner of the lower realm's immortal pavilion. Liu Yuying, a descendant of ancient spiritual chefs from three hundred years ago, can harmonize the five elements with her stove, and her divine beast 'Tudou' can taste everything and excrete seven-colored sand. When the celestial official He Mingzi arrives with a seal order to shut down her establishment, and the second half of the 'Ancient Spiritual Recipe' resurfaces, a battle over 'flavor' quietly begins. 'The lower realm's food is crude and vulgar,' says the official. 'Crude things can cure your ailments,' Liu Yuying taps her stove. 'They can seal the door, but they can't seal the stomach.' Entering the Dao through food, uniting the five flavors—this is not just a culinary contest, but a spiritual food revolution that overturns the order of the upper realm. — Description from novelcodex.org