Heavenly Art

Heavenly Art is a xianxia and fantasy cultivation web novel by Yunlei Tianyu. It began serialization on Qidian on October 1, 2013, and concluded on August 31, 2015, running to roughly 976,000 Chinese characters. The protagonist, Ye Yiyun, was once a ghost chef in China. One day, while cooking with an old-fashioned pressure cooker, an explosion occurs, and he wakes to find himself cast into a world of cultivation—and somehow the new master of Yingyue Sect, a struggling little sect spanning the northern reaches of the southern borderlands. The pressure cooker that crossed over with him has also gained strange powers: it can refine pills and forge artifacts, making it his most relied-upon trump card in an unfamiliar world. Ye Yiyun's own aptitude is hardly ideal: his wind spiritual root is a false root that cannot be cultivated, and his dark spiritual root is a void root with slow progress. Add to that elders within the sect eyeing his position and the Beast Taming Sect pressing him with a marriage alliance, and he can only maneuver among all parties with the pressure cooker, steadying the situation step by step. The toxin clues hidden in the sect's foundational technique, the Secret Seal Art, draw him into deeper power struggles within the cultivation world; elements such as ancient script secret arts, artifact forging, and formation battles unfold, and the story ranges from a mortal sect all the way to supremacy struggles in the immortal realm. Overall it follows the light, satisfying formula of transmigration adventures combined with a cultivation system, where cooking, pill refining, killing, and the sect's expansionist desires and survival struggles intertwine, forming the protagonist's growth trajectory as he seeks the truth and breaks through realms.