Chef God of the Wuxia and Fantasy World

“I know who stole the government treasury silver,” Ling Chi said.

"What!?" Li Gongfu was startled, then overjoyed: "Who is it!?"

“A snake spirit,” Ling Chi said. “She controlled five ghosts and used their magic to steal silver from the Qiantang County government treasury. How could Constable Li possibly catch her?”

"It's a monster!?" Li Gongfu exclaimed in shock and horror, "What... what should we do?"

“That’s easy,” Ling Chi said. “Just kill that monster, and that will solve everything.”

"Huh? Killed it?" Li Gongfu smiled wryly: "Brother, that was a monster, you can't just kill it like that."

"So what if it's a monster?" Ling Chi said. "Some highly skilled martial artists can kill monsters as easily as killing chickens."

"Where... can we find a skilled swordsman?" Li Gongfu looked distressed.

"Ahem." Ling Chi pointed to himself: "Far away, yet right before my eyes."

"you?"

"What, you don't believe me?" Li Gongfu's gaze hurt Ling Chi deeply. "Do you know what it means to judge a book by its cover? Do you believe me if I could beat you a hundred times with one hand?"

“(▼ヘ▼#)” Li Gongfu placed his right hand on the hilt of his sword at his waist: “Do you want to eat in jail?”

"I advise you to let go," Ling Chi said. "The opportunity is right in front of you; once it's gone, it's gone forever. You should think it over carefully."

"Think it over?" Li Gongfu sneered, "I've seen plenty of charlatans like you. If you know what's good for you, get out of here, or don't blame me for being impolite."

"..." Ling Chi shook his head, turned around and left, sighing as he went, "You reap what you sow, you reap what you sow!"

"Damn it, still saying he's not a fraud? A real master wouldn't curse like that! Bah!" Li Gongfu loosened his grip on the hilt of his sword and pounded on his front door: "Open the door!"

……

In Shuangcha Lane, Qingbo Gate, opposite the Temple of the God of Wealth, stands the Qiu Wang Mansion. It belonged to a prince from the late Northern Song Dynasty who, after his army's defeat, had his property confiscated by the succeeding emperor and was exiled to Lingnan. From then on, the Qiu Wang Mansion fell into disrepair. There were even rumors that night watchmen heard ghostly wails coming from within the mansion, frightening the locals so much that they dared not approach it. Over time, it became a place no one visited.

When Ling Chi arrived here, she complained repeatedly: "Another fictional place name. Since you're using a modern town name, at least use the name of the actual location! What Shuangcha Lane? There's no such place name in Hangzhou. Luckily, I have a good memory, otherwise I wouldn't be able to find the entrance."

Pushing open the door and stepping into this abandoned prince's mansion, I must say, it truly lives up to its name as a prince's mansion. The area is enormous; after walking around, I realized it covers tens of thousands of square meters and is built like a garden. It's just a pity that it has been abandoned for many years, the buildings are rotten, and it exudes a sinister aura, like a haunted house.

"Dry and rough, not smooth at all, let's get it!"

Since advancing to the gold level, Ling Chi has mastered the ability to create things from the void. After he used his magic, the entire Qiu Wang Mansion was transformed from a haunted house into a garden building that remained ever-new throughout the four seasons in the blink of an eye.

White walls and green tiles, pavilions and waterside terraces, small bridges and flowing water, flowers that bloom in all seasons, and vegetable gardens and orchards for growing fruits and vegetables. Indeed, the residence of the God of Cookery must have land, which is befitting his status.

Ling Chi looked at the brand-new palace and nodded in satisfaction. Then he ran to the front gate and hung a plaque above the gate with the two large characters "Ling Mansion" written on it.

"That's about right." Ling Chi nodded in satisfaction.

Then they released Su Mei and Panda Fatty.

Su Mei is Ling Chi's contracted spirit beast, and the panda Pangda was also successfully contracted by Ling Chi and became his mount. Usually, this big fat panda stays in the bamboo forest of the farm, eating tender bamboo shoots everywhere. Because of its adorable appearance, it has become the farm's darling, especially the girls, who often come over to feed Pangda delicious food and play with it. It's like being treated like an emperor.

Shuang'er and the others are honing their cooking skills in the space right now, and they don't have time to play with him outside for the time being. He can only bring Su Mei and Fatty out to maintain appearances, otherwise how can such a big Ling mansion be without some liveliness?

"Huh?" Seeing the newly appeared mansion, Su Mei blinked and asked, "Brother Ling, where is this?"

"This is the Ling Mansion in Shuangcha Lane, Qingbo Gate, Hangzhou," Ling Chi said with a smile. "We'll be staying here for a while."

"Oh." Su Mei walked around the Ling residence and smiled, "This place is nice, I like it very much."

"I'm glad you like it." Ling Chi patted the big, fat bottom and said, "I planted a bamboo grove in the backyard. You can stay there and guard the house."

"Hmm~!" Fatty still made a panda's sound, showing no sign of transforming into human form.

Watching the fat man waddle towards the backyard, Ling Chi took out a handful of golden beans and used the magic of turning beans into soldiers, conjuring up a hundred adorable maids aged fifteen or sixteen.

The maids were only slightly stunned for a moment before their eyes brightened, and they bowed to Ling Chi and Su Mei, saying, "Greetings, young master, greetings, young lady."

"Hmm." Ling Chi nodded in satisfaction. Ever since he learned the skill of turning beans into soldiers in the Heavenly Court, he has never lacked manpower. Although these maids are all transformed from golden beans, because his magic is profound enough, these maids are almost indistinguishable from real people. They can talk, laugh, cry, and make a fuss. They can also warm the bed and wipe the back for their master. It couldn't be more pleasant.

The only drawback is that once Ling Chi turns them back into golden beans, their memories of their 'previous life' will be wiped clean. Even if they become the same as before, they will still have to start from scratch.

Ling Chi didn't know if this was good or bad. But he had done his best. Unless his cultivation level continued to improve in the future, perhaps one day he could preserve their memories amidst repeated changes. For now, he could only make do with what he had.

Su Mei looked on with envy. Perhaps because of her race, Su Mei could never learn this kind of transformation magic. Her talents were almost all in combat. She was very good at various attack spells, curse spells, and healing spells, and their power was strong enough. But she just couldn't do things like talismans, alchemy, weapon crafting, or formations.

Fortunately, Su Mei didn't need to learn. She was Ling Chi's contracted spirit beast, so it didn't matter if she didn't know how. As long as Ling Chi knew how, that was enough. She just needed to help Ling Chi with some chores and let him relax.

Ling Chi assigned tasks to the hundred maids, including cleaning, cooking, serving, and purchasing.

As mentioned earlier, these hundred maids were almost indistinguishable from real people, so they also had physiological needs, needed to eat, and also needed to excrete, but not frequently. As long as the consumption was not too great, they could basically eat once every three days. They also excreted precisely 24 hours after eating, without any delay.

However, if the energy expenditure is high, such as carrying cement all day, then they must eat within a day to replenish the lost nutrients and energy, otherwise their physical condition will drop by 20%. If left unattended, after five days, they will inevitably run out of energy and turn into gold beans again.

Does that sound interesting? Actually, it's not at all.

Now that they have become human, Ling Chi will treat them as human beings and will never do anything so heinous.

"Alright, everyone go do your own thing!" Ling Chi waved his hand, and the hundred maids sprang into action. Except for four maids who each took two positions to accompany Ling Chi and Su Mei, the other maids began their work.

For three days, life proceeded smoothly without any unexpected incidents, until that night when a figure in blue suddenly appeared in the mansion, shouting, "Who goes there? How dare you occupy my territory? Don't you want to live?!"

Ling Chi and Su Mei were resting at the time when they heard the shouting. Su Mei frowned slightly and said, "Who is so annoying? Why are they wailing and making a scene so late at night?"

Ling Chi's heart skipped a beat, and he got up and said, "Alright, you can continue sleeping. I'll go out and take a look."

"Why are you still sleeping?" Su Mei got up and shook her head, saying, "You're already awake, I'll go out with you to take a look."

Ling Chi smiled slightly and said, "Get dressed. What's coming might not be a human."

"Oh?" Su Mei's eyes lit up.

Chapter Nine Reunion

In the front courtyard of the Ling residence, a handsome young man dressed in blue robes, accompanied by five pale-faced children of different colors, stared menacingly at Ling Chi and Su Mei as they approached.

Many maids also gathered around, glaring coldly at the six uninvited guests.

Although they were maids, they were warriors conjured by Ling Chi using golden beans. Each of them possessed combat strength at the ordinary red level. Simply put, a hundred of them would be equivalent to a hundred experts at the Grandmaster level. Of these uninvited guests, only the young man in blue seemed to have some skill; the other five... well...

Ling Chi sensed the location of the fat dog and found it fast asleep in the bamboo forest, completely unaware of its surroundings.

Does it think the visitor poses no threat and is too lazy to get up?

In any case, once the matter is resolved, he needs to be taught a lesson so that he doesn't just know how to eat and sleep.

"Where are you from? What brings you to my residence?" Ling Chi asked lazily.

His attitude enraged the young man in blue, who said in a deep voice, "Do you know that this is my territory? Why did you come here without informing me? Don't you know the rules?!"

"Rules?" Ling Chi glanced at him and said, "All I know is that this is an abandoned mansion. I spent a lot of time renovating it, and you come here and say this is your territory. Kid, who doesn't know the rules?"

"So, you don't want to talk to me anymore?" the young man in blue said in a deep voice.

"What's there to talk about?" Ling Chi said, "It's just a mere green snake demon that has cultivated for a few hundred years. It wants to negotiate with me? It really doesn't know what death means. Guards!"

"Young Master!" A hundred maids called out in unison, ready to obey.

"Give him a beating and throw him out. Don't get in my way," Ling Chi said.

"Yes." The hundred maids transformed into terminators, and within a few breaths, they overwhelmed the six uninvited guests, who were thrown into West Lake with bruised and swollen faces.

They weren't dragged to the West Lake and thrown in; rather, they were simply tossed from the Ling family courtyard towards the lake, and the six of them, master and servants, fell precisely into the water, hitting the bullseye every time.

This experience of the dog falling into the water terrified the young master in blue and his five ghost servants.

Who is this expert? She's too strong! She didn't even lift a finger, just relied on a hundred maids to beat them into a pulp.

This world is so dangerous; they want to go home to find their mother.

"Damn it!" The young man in blue climbed ashore and slammed his fist into the ground, cracking several lines on the bluestone.

“Miss Qing, let it go! These people are too dangerous. We were lucky to survive this time. If we provoke them again, I’m afraid we won’t be so lucky next time,” one of the ghost servants advised.

The young man in blue was none other than Xiaoqing, who had now shed her disguise and transformed into the charming and lovely young girl. Faced with the ghost servant's persuasion, Xiaoqing's expression was icy: "I've never suffered such a loss before; I can't let this go!"

The five ghost servants trembled as if they had a premonition of their tragic fate.

……

At the Ling residence, Su Mei climbed back onto the bed and nestled in Ling Chi's arms, saying, "Brother Ling, that green snake spirit seems to be a woman."

"You noticed?" Ling Chi smiled slightly and said, "You don't even have an Adam's apple. Your appearance is terrible, far inferior to A Zhu's."

Su Mei said, "Since you knew she was a woman, why did you still order the maids to use such force?"

In her mind, Ling Chi had always been a chivalrous man who had never been harsh on women, but today's incident overturned her impression of him.

"Letting the maids do it is showing mercy. If I were to do it myself, she wouldn't get away so easily," Ling Chi said. "Alright, it's late, go to sleep!"

"Ah."

……

At dawn, Qi San, a night soil collector in Qiantang County, was pushing his night soil cart to dump the sewage outside the city when a figure in blue appeared. A hand chop to the neck knocked him unconscious, and then the figure said to the five ghost servants who were covering their noses, "Come here quickly, push the night soil cart over there, and pour excrement all over the walls of that Ling Mansion!"

"Miss Qing, isn't this a bit unnecessary?" The five ghost servants looked resistant. "What if the other side finds out it was us? We'll be in big trouble!"

"What life? You're all dead already, what life do you have left?" Xiaoqing glared at them: "Hurry up!"

The five ghost servants were in tears: It's over, we're doomed this time.

Just as they were about to push the manure cart away, a white streak of light shot down from the sky. Upon seeing what was happening, it shouted, "Who are you? What are you doing?"

"Hmm?" Xiaoqing turned her head to look at the person who came in, and her eyes lit up immediately: "What a beautiful woman!"

The newcomer was a woman in a white dress. She was stunningly beautiful, with bright eyes and white teeth. She was more beautiful than a fairy, possessing beauty, elegance and nobility that captivated Xiaoqing at first sight.

The person who came was Bai Suzhen. A few days ago, following the guidance of Guanyin Bodhisattva, she searched and inquired about the specific location of 'Qiantang County'. For a woman who had been a recluse for 1,700 years, finding a place called Qiantang County in such a vast area was not an easy task. After much searching, she finally found the place at dawn today. However, as soon as she arrived, she discovered a group of people robbing a middle-aged man, which made her very angry.

"What are you doing?" Bai Suzhen asked angrily, holding the unconscious Qi Sanhu behind her.

"What we do is none of your business!" Xiaoqing was also a proud and arrogant person. Facing Bai Suzhen's questioning, she raised her head and said, "Little lady, if you want to meddle in other people's business, don't get yourself into trouble. I don't want any trouble right now, otherwise I would definitely take you back to be my wife."

Bai Suzhen looked at the young man in blue, a hint of sarcasm on her lips: "You think you can take me?"

"Hmm?" Xiaoqing's anger surged. She had been scolded by a pair of maids in the first half of the night, and now she was being looked down upon by the woman in front of her. How could she, with her proud and arrogant heart, accept this? She said in a deep voice, "Little lady, it seems you really want to be my bandit queen!"

"You are welcome to try," Bai Suzhen said.

"Let's give it a try." Xiaoqing started working.

In a one-on-one fight, Xiaoqing's strength is not bad. Even when facing Bai Suzhen, who has 1,700 years of cultivation, she can fight for a while. Of course, this is also because Bai Suzhen is in a probing phase and has not used her full strength. For a time, the two fought quite excitingly.

Seeing their mistress Qing's battle situation, Xiaoqing's five ghost servants knew things were going badly: Why had they run into such a tough opponent again? Was Qiantang really that dangerous? Why hadn't they encountered one before?