This Foodie Feeds on Time

After transmigrating to another world, Zhong Xuan discovers a unique ability: by extracting time from food ingredients, he can power a temporal machine that allows him to travel freely to his own past and future. If he is merely an ordinary person, he simply investigates the missed opportunities of his youth and returns to his childhood to secure martial arts training for his younger self. Upon returning to the present, he possesses formidable cultivation attained through retroactive effort. If his background lacks influence, he exploits the permanent nature of his cultivation to bring his current strength back to the past. Transforming into an infant with immense power, he infiltrates enemy households to swap himself with talented rivals, thereby securing a prestigious lineage. When he returns to the present, he enjoys wealth, luxury, and unparalleled connections. Should his cultivation still prove insufficient, he travels thirty years into the future to reclaim decades of arduous training, bringing that advanced power back to his current timeline. Through countless journeys across past and future, Zhong Xuan continuously refines his strength and reshapes his destiny. Looking back, he realizes that his temporal interventions have triggered a massive butterfly effect, transforming him into a savior upon the river of time and the creator of innumerable epics and myths.