The River God

A Yin-Yang Fish at the Immortal Venerable realm?

But Jiang Che couldn’t care less about that. Forget an Immortal Venerable-level fish—even if it were a Transcendence-level fish, when Mr. Jiang was hungry, it was going to fill his belly.

“Stay still!”

Jiang Che raised his club and knocked the Yin-Yang Fish unconscious with a single blow.

“The Culinary Immortal isn’t here, so I guess I’ll have to cook it myself. But no big deal… little master me has the Dao of Food Origin!”

Jiang Che directly rented a year’s worth of the ‘Dao of Food Origin’ from the system.

The next second, Jiang Che felt his understanding of the Great Dao of Food reach its peak.

In an instant, his mastery of culinary arts surpassed even the Culinary Immortal.

“Huh? This Great Dao Origin… why does it carry a hint of fragrant wind?” Jiang Che frowned slightly.

…

Nine Heavens.

Kitchen Immortal Pavilion.

Inside a massive iron cauldron, some kind of medicinal soup seemed to be brewing. By the cauldron’s edge, a breathtakingly beautiful woman was leisurely resting, wearing only a bath towel, with a glimpse of a magnificent cleavage visible.

The master of the Kitchen Immortal Pavilion, the true Food God, the former boss of the Culinary Immortal, and the wielder of the Dao of Food Origin.

“What the hell is going on!!!”

Suddenly, the woman opened her eyes, her gaze full of shock and disbelief.

Where had the Great Dao Origin inside her gone???

“Where is my Origin???”

The Food God was utterly stunned. How could she just doze off for a moment… and the Dao of Food Origin decided to leave home without even saying goodbye???

“No! Someone forcibly severed my connection to the Great Dao Origin!”

The woman frowned deeply. This horrifying realization made her tremble slightly.

She had actually secretly achieved the level of the Supreme Immortal Emperor. She was born with a ‘Greedy Dao Body,’ always insatiably hungry. Even as a newborn, she showed her talent—she was never full. Her father, a king of an empire, had to summon a thousand wet nurses just to barely raise her to adulthood.

As she grew up, things got even crazier. At the age of ten, she ate her father’s entire empire into bankruptcy. And her father was a powerhouse at the Creation Realm, ruling over billions of miles of territory—yet she still ate it all away.

Eating her way through everything, she became an immortal without even training much. Later, because she was just too good at eating… the Dao of Food Origin chose her!

Truth be told, she couldn’t cook at all. She only knew how to eat—making Immortal Venerables weep and Immortal Emperors despair.

After all, ‘eating’ is still part of ‘food,’ right?

She had become a Supreme Immortal Emperor on the down low, just lazing around, and now… the Dao of Food Origin inside her had vanished?

This was too terrifying—who the hell had stolen her Great Dao Origin?

…

[Ding! Host scammed ‘Food Fairy,’ earned 2 billion points]

“What the heck? Food Fairy? That name is seriously absurd!”

Jiang Che, who was grilling fish, sniffled. He guessed this was the Supreme Food God that the Culinary Immortal had mentioned?

Sounded like a woman, but Jiang Che still scammed her without hesitation.

“Damn… this grilled fish is absolutely unreal! No wonder it’s a Dao-level ingredient!”

Jiang Che saw the fish was almost done and took a huge bite. The tender fish meat exploded in his mouth, Yin-Yang energy surging into every limb and bone. The meat melted on his tongue like soft, fragrant tofu—hands down the best fish he had ever eaten.

“Not bad, not bad. This Yin-Yang Fish tastes amazing. I’ll catch a bunch more to take with me.”

Jiang Che patted his sleeves, then leaped directly into the River of Time.

Pseudo-God Card—crushed!

In the next instant, Jiang Che’s perception surged exponentially, allowing him to precisely track even the fish swimming within the River of Time.

“Holy crap! So many Yin-Yang Fish? Jackpot!”

Jiang Che swallowed hard, then vanished and reappeared billions of miles away. There, a school of over ten thousand Yin-Yang Fish swam, including a Fish King whose aura rivaled that of a Supreme Immortal Emperor.

But to Jiang Che, they were all just scooped up with one net!

“Holy crap! I’m unstoppable… gotta hand it to the River of Time—the fish harvest is insane.”

Jiang Che nodded with satisfaction. Among the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds, the Five Calamity Immortal Venerable realm was already top-tier. But here in the River of Time, even a random Yin-Yang Fish had reached the Immortal Lord or Immortal Venerable level—some even Immortal Emperors.

You could train hard for hundreds of thousands of years and still end up weaker than a fish in someone’s pond.

“There’s another group over there!” Jiang Che vanished again, frantically buying item cards from the system and stocking up big-time.

“Buzz—”

The Yin-Yang Fish swarms squealed in alarm, scattering in all directions… but they were still caught.

To catch them, Jiang Che even used a Dao Artifact—the Emperor’s Seal!

The Yin-Yang Fish could shatter Six-Calamity Immortal Tools, but against a Dao Artifact, they had no choice but to surrender, obediently getting stored away.

Jiang Che spent over a decade frolicking in the River of Time, catching over a million Yin-Yang Fish and plenty of other ‘local specialties.’

When he had gathered enough, he decided to leave and keep heading upstream through time.

Jiang Che casually raised a finger and grabbed a ripple from the River of Time beside him. It contained the life experience of a Three-Life Immortal Emperor.

Calendar year twenty—still before the Ancient Heavenly Court era. Jiang Che shook his head and prepared to move on.

He wanted to reach at least the beginning of the Ancient Heavenly Court before making his move!

But just then, upstream in the River of Time, monstrous waves suddenly erupted!

“Boom—”

The River of Time was always roaring with countless waves, but never anything close to this terrifying spectacle!

Sky-high waves surged like a curtain, and a figure in a gray robe appeared, clutching a trident. Its gaze locked instantly onto Jiang Che, eyes filled with scrutiny.

The gray-robed figure seemed to be a young man. Though he wielded a trident, his aura was peerless and unmatched.

When he saw that Jiang Che was unaffected by the River of Time, a flash of surprise crossed his eyes, quickly replaced by anger.

“Why are you freely catching the fish I raise?”

The gray-robed youth spoke slowly, his voice like the divine sound of heaven.

Jiang Che frowned slightly. This guy… was something special. His own system couldn’t see through him?

That meant his rank was at least equal to Jiang Che’s current level—or even higher. Stronger than Yu Wan’er’s father, Yu Chuan.

He had probably fully achieved the Transcendence level.

But Jiang Che still wasn’t scared!

“I dunno, man? I thought these were wild fish, so I just grabbed a few.”

“A few??? You’ve taken every single Yin-Yang Fish from this river region!!!” the gray-robed man roared.

“Who are you to meddle so much?” Jiang Che pulled out a toothpick and started picking his teeth, his smug expression infuriating.

“Who am I? I am the River God! Overseer of all rivers, seas, and oceans across the heavens and universes. Even the River of Time… falls under my domain!”