Jiang Zhuozhuo, a cook with no spiritual roots, carries a black cooking pot on her back and a bundle of fiery peppers at her side as she leaves the forbidden land of Jiuzhou, Ashen Pot Ridge, and settles in the old kitchen courtyard of Yuntai Immortal Sect. A bowl of red-oil hot pot costing three spirit stones cures disciples of years of accumulated pill poison. A bowl of clear-meridian spicy rice noodles costing four spirit stones rivals a Meridian-Clearing Pill worth forty spirit stones, threatening the centuries-old medicinal herb trade of the Alchemy Alliance. When the chief alchemist arrives to investigate, she simply says, 'Don't touch my pot.' When an inspector comes to shut her down, she changes her sign right there in the street. When the alliance leader hosts a banquet to recruit her, she refuses the token of authority, declaring, 'You don't get to control my pot.' From the old kitchen courtyard to the Myriad People's Hall in Yunxiao City, and finally to the Jiuzhou public tribunal, where one overturned pot turns the whole court upside down, she turns the simple truth that food is meant to be eaten by everyone into the hottest principle in all of Jiuzhou.