Sect Brothers and Sect Sisters,
This Junior would like to ensure that they cultivate Sect resources in accordance with Sect tastes.
Please take a moment to vote on what you enjoyed and...
2025-11-03 04:44:34 +0000 UTC
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Sect Brothers and Sect Sisters,
The time has come to summon November’s recipes!
Immortal Recipe Elders, as always, it falls to you to cast the format...
2025-11-02 10:06:37 +0000 UTC
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Fellow Daoists,
If you ever find yourself just broken through to Qi Condensation and in need of some post-purge cleansing soup ... never fear, a recipe is here!
After Ming Shi ...
2025-10-24 17:47:13 +0000 UTC
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Ming Shi’s first instinct had been to decline the duel. He didn’t see the point in fighting over the obvious. He’d gone too far with Chang. He knew it. Everyone knew it. Ping Guoshen and Sist...
2025-10-23 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Seniors,
This Junior confesses with great humility that there has been Qi Deviation affecting both myself and the Scripture. With apology, chapter servings w...
2025-10-23 01:59:01 +0000 UTC
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“A duel?” Ming Shi squawked.
“A duel,” said Madam Zhang, thrusting the chopstick at him. “Welcome to Fragrant Bowl City, country boy. Here, slapping someone with a single chopstick ...
2025-10-21 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Fellow Daoists,
The Scripture teaches us that every dumpling hides a filling, and every asshole hides a backstory.
Thus, we gather today to decide the childhood trauma that cooked Chang...
2025-10-19 07:02:38 +0000 UTC
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The title character for that next section seemed to sink into the page as if it had been engraved in stone. When Ming Shi touched it, it felt warm and patient, like heated Kitchen tiles under your ...
2025-10-18 02:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Ming Shi was sure his nose was blistering from the heat. He could feel the vibration of A’Nuan’s boiling–growling in his skull.
“Sorry,” he said, quickly. “Sorry, sorry, sorry.”...
2025-10-16 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Uncle was screaming … with laughter.
It worked!
Uncle was laughing now! The funny feelings worked!
He was laughing so hard he’d sat down on the floor, pounding his flamin...
2025-10-14 02:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The text was written in bold calligraphy that retained a surprising amount of gravitas despite all the sauce, tea stains and subtitular margin notes that crowded the pages.
2025-10-11 02:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“CEASE YOUR PERVERSIONS!”
Madam Zhang’s bellow was deafening. She stood in the doorway, furious, holding a jade tablet that flashed rapidly with crimson light.
Ming Shi, who was s...
2025-10-09 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Breakthrough.
Light erupted from Ming Shi as his meridians blazed, incandescent. His chest swelled and his back arched so forcefully he thought he might burst or snap.
Blindly, he felt ...
2025-10-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Sect Brothers and Sect Sisters,
The questions channeled into the Knowledge Seeking Array this September were:
- What is a Kitchen Spirit?
- How is Old Man Zhen able to do...
2025-10-01 02:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Sect Brothers and Sect Sisters,
The time has come to summon October’s recipes!
Immortal Recipe Elders, as always, it falls to you to cast the formation and summon thr...
2025-10-01 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Sect Brothers and Sect Sisters,
After last week's qi-deviation (wherein it was discovered that a chapter mysteriously uploaded itself in the wrong order eheheh), this Junior ...
2025-09-28 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Good news!
His qi found its paths!
A thousand meandering channels that looped and branched and reconnected!
… A thousand.
Meandering.
Channels.
That l...
2025-09-27 02:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Ming Shi’s qi erupted.
Without meridians this should have blasted him into a smooth purée.
He should have become a cautionary tale about Mortal Cooks who thought they could ...
2025-09-25 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Ming Shi made it back to his room at Madam Zhang’s without exploding.
Great sign. Very auspicious, he assured himself.
He sat on the floor at the foot of his bed. There was a...
2025-09-23 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Rechenbaer is hard at work on a character illustration of Xiaoye. She always puts so much thought into her illustrations. Here's her process so far!
First, thumbnails of composition and diffe...
2025-09-20 02:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Sect Brothers and Sisters,
Due to a qi-deviation in my Chapter Release Technique, this week’s chapters (31, 32, 33) have already been released ahe...
2025-09-20 02:00:07 +0000 UTC
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FRAGRANT BOWL CITY'S ANNUAL JADE BEAUTY COMPETITION ENDS IN CHAOS, AGAIN
Judges Default to “Jade” for 1047th Consecutive Year of Violent Inability to Agree on a Fo...
2025-09-20 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Seniors,
It has come to my attention that I accidentally forward-jumped one chapter in my upload schedule after Chapter 23! Instead of posting Chapter 24, I posted Chapter 25 instead. The cha...
2025-09-18 14:28:56 +0000 UTC
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The world went quiet as Young Master Fang approached.
How quiet?
Well, there’s the peaceful quiet of a chef conducting solitary prep.
There’s the focused quiet of a Kitchen du...
2025-09-18 14:28:27 +0000 UTC
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Ming Shi’s Day Three masterpiece was a magnificent abomination.
It was, generously speaking, a child’s drawing of Chang holding a bowl of congee while emanating holy light. Ming Shi had s...
2025-09-18 02:00:30 +0000 UTC
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Theory and practice always differ, and Ming Shi spent the next three days exploring how wide that gap could be.
Day One began with Ming Shi arriving at his stall while the stars still gossipe...
2025-09-16 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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He figured it out as he half-walked, half-ran through the night.
How full of secrets the street felt at this small hour. They teased and beckoned beneath the moon, veiled silver-blue in its k...
2025-09-13 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Ming Shi did not black out for very long.
Just long enough for the nameless thing to arrive where it had always been.
In other words, no time at all.
A few seconds, if we must put...
2025-09-11 02:00:07 +0000 UTC
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I knew it, thought Xiaoye. He is indeed a hidden master.
For hours, she had been excelling with peerless humility.
But every time she looked over, Ming Shi was humbler...
2025-09-09 02:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“Please, Ming Shi, don’t mind me,” Xiaoye said. “I will just practice my beginner’s manual while you practice yours. Like you, I am being truly challenged by the basics of my own Approved...
2025-09-06 01:00:05 +0000 UTC
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