Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi intervened in Stephen Chow’s feud with Goosehead and Turkey, helping them turn their rival food businesses into a hit and earning Stephen Chow a place in the God of Cookery Competition. After Stephen Chow confronted Tang Lung and Uncle Tat at the award ceremony, Turkey fought them and later left angrily after Stephen Chow scolded her.

• Ling Yi knocked Goosehead’s cleaver away with a playing card and persuaded Goosehead and Turkey to combine their businesses by making pissing beef balls.
• Stephen Chow directed the cooking, and the pissing beef balls became a popular international product that won him the Hong Kong Exotic Food Award.
• At the award ceremony, Ling Yi warned Uncle Tat that his thousand tons of beef could kill people, while Stephen Chow challenged Tang Lung to the upcoming God of Cookery Competition.
• Stephen Chow exposed Tang Lung’s humiliating past, and Turkey knocked Tang Lung and Uncle Tat down with a trash can before Stephen Chow pulled her away.
• Turkey tried to kiss Stephen Chow but missed; when she later threatened to chase Tang Lung and Uncle Tat, Stephen Chow scolded her and she stormed off.

Ling Yi searched the skies for the Immortal Realm but returned empty-handed, then realized it could appear only during a nine-star alignment. At the God of Cookery Competition, Stephen Chow arrived with Shaolin powers, while reporters learned he had become a lay disciple of Shaolin Temple.

• Ling Yi followed Stephen Chow to Shaolin Temple, filmed there, and flew around the world for half a month searching for the Immortal Realm without finding it.
• At the God of Cookery Competition, Ling Yi learned from Tong Ngau that a nine-star alignment could bring about the return of a god and realized it was a condition for the Immortal Realm to appear.
• Stephen Chow arrived early at the competition on a bamboo raft, and Tong Ngau sensed that he had gained internal power from the same source as his own.
• The host had security remove Abbot Meng Yi, who had entered to support Stephen Chow, and the competition began.
• Stephen Chow remembered how Turkey had protected him and realized she had become important to him.
• Outside the venue, Abbot Meng Yi told reporters that Stephen Chow had become a lay disciple of Shaolin Temple.

During the God of Cookery competition, Stephen Chow defeated Tong Ngau and learned his trial as an immortal was complete. Guanyin offered to take him back to Heaven, but Stephen Chow chose to remain in the mortal world for someone he loved, while Ling Yi watched Guanyin depart.

• Ling Yi urged Stephen Chow to cook with the few ingredients left after Tong Ngau had sabotaged them, and Stephen Chow began preparing egg fried rice.
• Gourmet Princess eliminated several chefs for their antics and lack of focus, then selected Stephen Chow and Tong Ngau as the only qualified competitors.
• Stephen Chow and Tong Ngau traded insults and cooking attacks before fighting, and Stephen Chow beat Tong Ngau with a folding stool.
• Tong Ngau took the God of Cookery trophy, but Stephen Chow declared that everyone could be a God of Cookery, prompting Guanyin to appear and reveal his immortal past.
• Guanyin turned Uncle Tat into a pit bull and wounded Tong Ngau after they attacked her, then summoned Stephen Chow back to Heaven.
• Stephen Chow refused to leave the mortal world despite Guanyin warning that he would lose his Magic Power, and Ling Yi chose not to follow Guanyin.

Ling Yi said goodbye to Stephen Chow, returned to the Comedy world to reunite with Lau Piu-piu, and then discovered that his videos had become viral after Master Sing praised them. With platforms competing to sign him, Ling Yi weighed the risks of handling his sudden fame and wished he had a platform of his own.

• Ling Yi told Stephen Chow that he came from another world and could travel through movie worlds, then transformed his appearance and said goodbye when Turkey arrived.
• Ling Yi returned to the Comedy world, explained his disappearances to Lau Piu-piu, and spent two days with her.
• Back in the real world, Ling Yi found that his videos had gained tens of millions of likes and followers after Master Sing praised them and invited him to collaborate.
• Representatives from Po Station and other platforms called Ling Yi with lucrative contract offers, but he told them he would think it over.
• Ling Yi decided he would need to sign with a platform to protect and promote his videos, and wished he owned one himself.

After the video platform blocked Ling Yi’s withdrawals, he rejected its pressure and moved his videos to microblog. He then entered Flirting Scholar, where the system’s rewards made him an Earth Immortal, and found himself serving Tong Pak Fu as Lin Shui.

• Ling Yi shut off his phone after a barrage of calls, then discovered the video site had frozen his tip withdrawals.
• Ling Yi posted a screenshot demanding refunds for his fans, moved his videos to microblog, and removed them from the video site.
• Ling Yi returned a police ID to Wen Caixia after she ran into a utility pole, then went back into King of Comedy before the system selected another world.
• The system sent Ling Yi into Flirting Scholar and awarded him combat power, God of Cookery and Thor divine statuses, and three thousand years of Magic Power, raising him to Earth Immortal level.
• Ling Yi learned he was a servant named Lin Shui in Tong Pak Fu’s household and watched Tong Pak Fu order Lu Renjia to throw scraps outside for the people seeking paintings.

Tong Pak Fu helped Zhu Zhishan pay off his gambling debt with an extraordinary painting, then enjoyed Ling Yi’s magically enhanced cooking before leaving home to avoid Prince Ning and his demanding wives. Ling Yi went with him, and they set out together from the Tong residence.

• Zhu Zhishan begged Tong Pak Fu for thirty paintings to settle a gambling debt of three hundred thousand taels, and Tong Pak Fu painted an eagle using Zhu Zhishan’s body.
• Ling Yi took over grilling chicken wings, and Tong Pak Fu was amazed by how delicious they tasted.
• Tong Pak Fu offered to fund a restaurant for Ling Yi, but Ling Yi chose to remain by his side.
• Tong Pak Fu’s mother and eight wives arrived and devoured the chicken wings before pressuring him to grill more.
• Lu Renjia told Tong Pak Fu that an envoy from Prince Ning had arrived, and Tong Pak Fu went to the reception hall.
• Two days later, Tong Pak Fu left the residence with Ling Yi to avoid Prince Ning and his wives.

Tong Pak Fu and his companions went sightseeing, encountered Ruhua on a bridge, and then headed to the temple to see Madam Hua’s maids. Ling Yi called out to Qiuxiang and later claimed he had fallen in love with her, giving himself a reason to join the group’s plan to stir up trouble at the temple.

• Tong Pak Fu, Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhengming, and Zhou Wenbin went sightseeing while Ling Yi followed and filmed them.
• The four composed a silly poem, and Tong Pak Fu approached Ruhua before their argument turned into a fight and sent Ruhua into the water.
• After hearing that Madam Hua and her four maids were going to the temple, the group went to watch the procession.
• Ling Yi called out to Qiuxiang and then shouted for the women to turn around, making Qiuxiang look more beautiful by comparison.
• The group disguised themselves as beggars and waited near the temple, where Ling Yi told Tong Pak Fu he had fallen in love with Qiuxiang.

Ling Yi helped Tong Pak Fu pursue Qiuxiang, but Tong Pak Fu’s attempt to chase her by boat ended with him and the boatman sinking into the lake. Tong Pak Fu later staged a “selling himself to bury his father” act to enter the Hua household, and Ling Yi watched the farcical scene with growing discomfort.

• Ling Yi approached Qiuxiang for alms, received two steamed buns, and decided her mocking laugh meant she was not his type.
• Tong Pak Fu became captivated by Qiuxiang and tried to follow the Hua household’s boat, but his chosen boat sank and he swam back with the boatman.
• Ling Yi followed Tong Pak Fu, and that evening they staged a roadside sale outside the Hua residence’s back gate.
• Qiuxiang recognized Tong Pak Fu as familiar, but Tong Pak Fu changed the subject and Sister Shiliu considered taking him in as a servant.
• A coughing man arrived with a cart of people, and Tong Pak Fu’s exaggerated performance convinced him to strike himself “dead,” allowing Tong Pak Fu to enter the Hua household.
• Ling Yi reflected that life and death, along with human joys and sorrows, had become merchandise in this world.

Ling Yi entered the Hua Residence by winning Madam Hua over with his magical cooking, while Tong Pak Fu joined as a lowly servant. As Tong Pak Fu staged a fall to get close to Qiuxiang, Ling Yi suspected she was a powerful martial artist with a hidden identity.

• Ling Yi warned Tong Pak Fu that the people on the cart were dead, and Tong Pak Fu arranged for them to be buried.
• Ling Yi cooked magical egg fried rice that impressed Madam Hua, who agreed to let him stay in the Hua Residence under his rule of making only ten portions a day.
• Ling Yi spent half a month cooking and cultivating, while Madam Hua and Grand Tutor Hua fought over his food and Tong Pak Fu remained low in the household.
• Chunxiang told Ling Yi that Qiuxiang was secretive and skilled at smoking, drinking, gambling, and martial arts; Ling Yi suspected she was stronger than Madam Hua and Tong Pak Fu and might be connected to Little Li's Flying Dagger.
• Tong Pak Fu cut the kite string, entered the inner courtyard to retrieve the kite, and pretended to fall from the roof into the martial champion's arms while Qiuxiang watched with a faint smile.

Ling Yi watched Tong Pak Fu endure beatings, misunderstandings, and a public reprimand while Qiuxiang concealed that she knew his true identity. After Madam Hua spared Tong Pak Fu and renamed him Wah On, Ling Yi cooked for the household, and the feast made his reputation as a culinary god spread.

• The martial champion and Xiaxiang beat Tong Pak Fu after he tried to deliver Qiuxiang’s ruined kite, while Ling Yi returned to his nap with Chunxiang’s roasted beans.
• Tong Pak Fu went to confess his love to Qiuxiang, but Sister Shiliu punched him for letting everyone think he had a secret crush on her; Ling Yi later overheard Qiuxiang admiring Tong Pak Fu’s poetry and realized she knew his identity.
• Madam Hua accused Tong Pak Fu and four other men of trespassing, but Qiuxiang defended his education and persuaded Madam Hua to spare him and rename him Wah On.
• After Tong Pak Fu performed a drum-and-rap routine and the martial champion joined in, Madam Hua asked Ling Yi to cook; Ling Yi made dough-drop soup, and Madam Hua tricked him into using his next day’s servings.
• Ling Yi then prepared a feast of stewed meat, roasted sheep, and noodles for the Hua household, and word soon spread that the household had a culinary god.

Ling Yi learned the basics of martial arts from Madam Hua and planned to try cultivating, while Zhu Zhishan was mistaken for Tong Pak Fu and brought to the Hua household. Madam Hua saw through Tong Pak Fu’s disguise and sent Zhu Zhishan to the woodshed with Sister Shiliu, then arranged a feast and was asked by Ling Yi if she had already known Tong Pak Fu’s identity.

• Ling Yi’s reputation as the God of Cooking grew, accelerating his cultivation and bringing benefits to the Hua family.
• Madam Hua explained the martial arts ranks and taught Ling Yi about dantians, meridians, and cultivating internal power.
• The Martial Champion brought Zhu Zhishan to the Hua household after finding him selling Tong Pak Fu’s paintings in Suzhou.
• Madam Hua summoned Wah On, and Tong Pak Fu disguised as Wah On tried to keep Zhu Zhishan from exposing him.
• Madam Hua sent Zhu Zhishan to the woodshed with Sister Shiliu and ordered ingredients prepared for Ling Yi’s feast.
• After everyone left, Ling Yi asked Madam Hua whether she had long known Tong Pak Fu’s identity.

Madam Hua told Ling Yi how the court’s campaign against the Jianghu had driven Qiuxiang’s martial lineage into hiding, then defended the Hua Residence from Prince Ning with her newly acquired Innate strength. After Prince Ning plotted to seize Ling Yi, Madam Hua and Tong Pak Fu staged a comic confrontation that turned into a joint poison sales pitch.

• Madam Hua told Ling Yi that Qiuxiang had been an Innate expert when she joined the Hua Residence, and Ling Yi connected her to the hidden legacy of Little Li’s Flying Dagger.
• Madam Hua explained that Li Yuncai’s attack on the imperial palace had provoked the court to crush the Jianghu, while the new emperor had recently eased restrictions.
• Prince Ning appeared at the Hua Residence a week later, but Madam Hua drove off the Innate Deadly Scholar while Tong Pak Fu helped save the Hua family and exposed his identity.
• Prince Ning and the Deadly Scholar concluded that Ling Yi was the God of Cooking and plotted to lure him to the palace and seize him.
• Madam Hua confronted Tong Pak Fu and pretended to offer him Qiuxiang’s hand in marriage, then ordered her men to arrest him when he admitted his identity.
• Madam Hua and Tong Pak Fu revealed rival poisons and jokingly promoted them as essential remedies for home, travel, killing, and silencing witnesses.

Ling Yi refused Prince Ning’s attempt to take him to the imperial capital and agreed to travel there with Madam Hua and their companions. When Prince Ning’s pursuers attacked, Ling Yi revealed his identity as Thor and destroyed them with lightning, then carried his companions away on a cloud.

• After Madam Hua learned that Tong Pak Fu’s Half-Step Madness with a Smile was fake, an imperial edict ordered Ling Yi to go to the capital, but Ling Yi refused to leave with Prince Ning.
• Madam Hua challenged Prince Ning’s authority to take Ling Yi, and the Hua Residence agreed to escort Ling Yi to the capital themselves.
• Ling Yi, Madam Hua, Tong Pak Fu, and the martial champion set out before dawn and stopped at a tea stall outside Suzhou.
• More than a hundred riders approached, and Madam Hua prepared to hold them off while the martial champion tried to get Ling Yi to flee.
• Ling Yi transformed into Thor, revealed his golden armor and warhammers, and used lightning to turn Deadly Scholar and the pursuing attackers to ash.
• Ling Yi healed the surrounding people with magical rain and carried Madam Hua and the others away on a cloud.

Ling Yi used the emperor’s support to spread 999 Dharma Bodies and cultivated to the Golden Immortal realm before leaving the Flirting Scholar world. He returned to the real world, where an online uproar immediately enraged him.

• Ling Yi explained his divine identities to Tong Pak Fu and Madam Hua, then devised a way to speed up cultivation by creating Dharma Bodies that gathered Qi.
• Ling Yi persuaded the emperor to commission 999 earthenware Dharma Bodies, cured him with Magic Power, and struck Prince Ning with lightning to deter rebellion.
• Ling Yi cultivated at the Hua Residence for half a year, reached the Golden Immortal realm, and prepared to leave the world.
• Tong Pak Fu complained that Qiuxiang repeatedly beat him, so Ling Yi gave him a leaf infused with God of Cookery Qi in exchange for two martial arts manuals.
• Madam Hua told Ling Yi that the emperor was coming south; Ling Yi left instructions about governing well and protecting his Dharma Bodies, then exited the world.
• Ling Yi returned to the real world, saw the uproar online, and flew into a rage.

After his videos were removed amid copyright and image-rights complaints, Ling Yi used his divine powers to control those targeting him, and his videos were restored. He returned to the Comedy world, planned to accelerate his cultivation by creating Dharma Bodies, and entered The Deer and the Cauldron as the young Emperor Kangxi.

• Ling Yi followed karmic threads to Wen Caixia, then tracked 312 hostile threads and took control of the people behind the attacks on his videos.
• Copyright holders issued licenses, Ling Yi’s videos returned, and the people who had smeared him publicly apologized.
• Ling Yi reunited with Lau Piu-piu in the Comedy world and learned that Tin-sau and Fangfang had married and that Pumen City’s return had been settled.
• Ling Yi refined slivers of Xiang Ming and the others’ souls, then asked them to help develop film scripts that could build fame for the God of Cookery and Thor.
• The system selected The Deer and the Cauldron, and Ling Yi entered the world as sixteen-year-old Emperor Kangxi.

Ling Yi abandoned the seven banner lords’ ineffective plans and set out to deal with Oboi himself, then disguised himself and encountered Wei Xiaobao at Spring Fragrance Court. After Hai Dafu discovered the emperor missing and returned to search his room, someone placed a hand on his shoulder.

• Ling Yi met with the seven banner lords at Spring Fragrance Court, but dismissed their plans to poison or assassinate Oboi as useless.
• Ling Yi told Hai Dafu to send the seven banner lords home and decided to handle Oboi himself.
• Ling Yi changed his appearance and watched Wei Xiaobao entertain a crowd with a comic story about Chan Kan-nam.
• Hai Dafu accidentally caught Wei Xiaobao when the owner knocked over his stacked tables, then hurried upstairs after discovering Ling Yi had disappeared.
• As Hai Dafu entered Ling Yi’s room to search again, someone placed a hand on his shoulder.

Ling Yi returned to the palace, revealed that Long'er was the fake empress dowager, and strengthened Hai Dafu before assigning him two secret missions. He brought Jianning to confront Long'er, ending by asking whose daughter Jianning really was.

• Hai Dafu struck at Ling Yi by mistake, then recognized him and learned that Ling Yi knew his hidden past.
• Ling Yi and Hai Dafu watched Oboi's forces ambush the Heaven and Earth Society; Chan Kan-nam was blinded by a dwarf and escaped with Wei Xiaobao through a dog hole.
• Back in the palace, Ling Yi told Hai Dafu that Long'er had replaced the real empress dowager and was responsible for several deaths, then ordered him to find A Ke and the twins Big Shuang'er and Little Shuang'er.
• Ling Yi restored Hai Dafu's body and taught him several martial arts techniques, winning his renewed loyalty.
• Ling Yi took Jianning to the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility, forced his way past Long'er's attendants, and identified her as the Mystic Dragon Cult's holy maiden.
• Ling Yi confronted Long'er and asked whose daughter Jianning was.

Ling Yi exposed Long'er as the false empress dowager, revealed his identity and plans to her and Jianning, and then began asserting his authority over the Qing court. The chapter ended with Ling Yi summoning Oboi after witnessing his contemptuous control of morning court.

• Long'er attacked Ling Yi, but he froze her with Magic Power and removed her disguise, then learned that Jianning was the daughter of Skinny Monk and one of Long'er's maids.
• Ling Yi calmed Jianning, told Long'er he knew about the Mystic Dragon Cult's alliance with Wu Sangui, and revealed that he was Han and had replaced Kangxi when Kangxi was eight.
• Ling Yi introduced himself as Ling Yi and said he would gradually replace Manchu officials, beginning by taking action against Oboi, while Long'er continued posing as the empress dowager and the real empress dowager remained imprisoned.
• Ling Yi returned to the Palace of Heavenly Purity and rose before dawn for morning court, where he watched Oboi dominate the officials and treat the emperor with contempt.
• After court, Ling Yi summoned Oboi to his imperial study.

Ling Yi killed Oboi and reshaped the court through force and controlled officials, but resistance from the Eight Banners grew. In the imperial garden, he met Wei Xiaobao, magically restored his severed arm, and sent him to deal with three rebellious princes while seeking a meeting with Chan Kan-nam.

• Ling Yi killed Oboi with the Turtle Wave Technique and handed the aftermath to Duolong and veteran officials.
• Ling Yi established a council, changed court hours, and opened the imperial examinations to Han people; after resistance, he executed six banner lords and many ministers to force the decree through.
• Ling Yi learned that the Eight Banners were secretly plotting to overthrow him, but he remained prepared to suppress any rebellion.
• Ling Yi recognized Wei Xiaobao in the imperial garden, cut off his arm, and then restored it with Magic Power.
• Ling Yi ordered Wei Xiaobao to deal with Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi within six months, promised Duolong’s support, and told him to ask Chan Kan-nam to meet the emperor.

Ling Yi met Chan Kan-nam and revealed his godlike powers, offering him strength and immortality in exchange for helping Wei Xiaobao suppress the Three Feudatories. He empowered Chan Kan-nam, Wei Xiaobao, and Duolong, then sent them off to carry out his orders.

• Jianning suggested a game that involved making young eunuchs fight, and Ling Yi sent her back to the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility, resolving to correct her attitude.
• Wei Xiaobao met Chan Kan-nam at the Heaven and Earth Society's secret base and asked if martial arts could regrow a severed limb; Chan Kan-nam said they could not.
• Wei Xiaobao told Chan Kan-nam that Ling Yi wanted him to help deal with Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong, and Chan Kan-nam agreed to meet the emperor.
• Ling Yi demonstrated his ability to fly on clouds and promised Chan Kan-nam great strength and eternal life in return for helping Wei Xiaobao eliminate sources of unrest.
• Ling Yi gave Chan Kan-nam, Wei Xiaobao, and Duolong cloud Qi that strengthened them, then instructed them to deal with the Three Feudatories.