[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin":3,"chapter-the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-348":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The First Iron Rice Bowl of Great Jin",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},152034,261,"Chapter 348: Nine Heavens Fire Spring","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-348",348,"\u003Cp>As the Karmic Fire was extinguished, Hua Changxi even felt a little reluctant, wishing it would burn a little longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the only reason—the tranquility and peace she felt from body to soul were simply too wonderful. At that moment, she seemed to merge with heaven and earth, endlessly regenerating and enduring through eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt her entire existence, and thus, her heart was filled with joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having experienced a complete burning of Karmic Fire, Hua Changxi gained some understanding of karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The karma that people carry includes both evil karma and good karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karmic Fire burns evil karma and transforms good karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evil karma damages the foundation and weakens the base; good karma solidifies the foundation and strengthens the base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Karmic Fire burns evil karma, it sears the physical body, the spiritual root, the dantian, then the inner core and nascent soul, and finally the sea of consciousness and primordial spirit, inflicting multiple layers of scorching pain—a punishment that is also a retracing and amplification of \"evil.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When transforming good karma, it nourishes and repairs everything from the physical body to the primordial spirit, and at the same time affirms and acknowledges \"good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A person's karma cannot deceive anyone; once it is enacted, it remains within the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the karmic obstacle phantom revealed by the Karmic Fire Lotus petals, the artificial disguises are stripped away, allowing one to face their own evil and good directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi looked through her own body; after being burned by the Karmic Fire, her physical body became more solid, her spiritual root more radiant, and her dantian more stable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What astonished her most was that after the Karmic Fire burned, the black flame on her nascent soul had shrunk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Hua Changxi felt an unprecedented lightness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi looked around the lotus platform, her eyes sparkling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Karmic Fire Platform was undoubtedly an extraordinary cave heaven blessed land; being here, one would receive a kind of testimony and, at the same time, a corresponding judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as one withstood the burning of the Karmic Fire, their state of mind would be elevated to a certain degree—at least, through the karmic obstacle phantoms, they could see clearly some things they usually overlooked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the fear and anxiety buried deep in the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Hua Changxi understood somewhat what Jing Lian meant by saying she \"lives in fear,\" and some of her fixed mental states began to loosen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she had seen some of her own fear and anxiety in the karmic obstacle phantoms, she still could not let go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could not imagine that without the drive of fear and anxiety, would she still have the motivation and need to move forward?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi let out a breath and stopped thinking deeper. Then she summoned the Karmic Fire Platform seal, dripped a drop of essence blood onto it, and her perception of the lotus platform became clearer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Karmic Fire Platform had suffered great damage—aside from the lotus seed pod, which had no major loss, the outer lotus petals were damaged to varying degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need to think, this was definitely caused by that ancient invasion battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a thought, Hua Changxi vanished from the lotus seed pod and floated above the outer lotus petals of the platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outermost layers of lotus petals were the most severely damaged; in a few places, entire petals were gone, and most petals had only one-fifth to one-third remaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Karmic Fire Platform was not forged from some natural object in heaven and earth; it was ignited by a wisp of Karmic Fire cast down by the Vermilion Bird Emperor, and through burning karma, it condensed from karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, each lotus petal carried its own karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi collected some fragments of lotus petals, intending to take them out and give them to Tong Yao, asking him to forge them into karma boxes to be placed at the four corners of the Lingguang Hall square, in order to collect the \"public opinion\" of the Vermilion Bird Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between those who manage and those who are managed, there exists an irreconcilable structural contradiction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dropping \"opinions\" into the karma boxes would increase the karma of the depositor, which could to some extent prevent malicious attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If an \"injustice\" truly occurred in the Vermilion Bird Army, reporting an \"opinion\" would incur some karma, but to seek justice, she thought most of the Vermilion Bird Army would be willing to bear it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the best method Hua Changxi could think of at the moment to balance the relationship between the various stewards of Lingguang Hall and the ordinary Vermilion Bird Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She also understood that the biggest problem was that she had no time to personally participate in the management of the Vermilion Bird Army, and could only maintain stability through this mutual supervision method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, Hua Changxi inspected every other part of the Karmic Fire Platform one by one. Determining there was nothing else to discover, she condensed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus to open a spatial rift and prepared to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exiting the Karmic Fire Platform, it was already dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling light and carefree, Hua Changxi saw that it was a dark and windy night, more suitable for searching for the twelve cave heaven blessed lands, so she did not return to Lingguang Hall or Danyuan Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twelve cave heaven blessed lands of Nanxiang City, when connected, formed a Vermilion Bird totem. Now with the Karmic Fire Platform as an anchor point, it would be easier to find the other cave heaven blessed lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the closest to the Karmic Fire Platform was the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Hua Changxi reached the approximate location of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring revealed by the Zhou Tian Star Disk, she began to circle in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a flat, open area, neither a canyon nor a cliff. She could not imagine a waterfall flowing through here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet both the Zhou Tian Star Plate and the information uncovered by the Vermilion Bird Army indicated that this place was where the 'Nine Heavens Fire Spring' was located, so she had no choice but to patiently search bit by bit, very carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this area had no canyons or cliffs, it did have no shortage of lakes and rivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, relying on her sensitivity to spatial fluctuations, Hua Changxi found several spatial cracks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These spatial cracks were all very tiny, the largest no more than an inch long. If she hadn't mastered the 'Crack' character law of space, been sensitive to spatial fluctuations, and searched so meticulously, these spatial cracks would not have been easy to discover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anyone else had passed by, they absolutely would not have found them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How do I get in?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi fell silent. She absolutely did not want to experience 'making a bridal dress for someone else' again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She found a cave heaven and blessed land, and someone else came to claim it—that kind of thing must not happen a second time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To find a suitable entry and exit point, Hua Changxi wandered around for an entire night. Finally, just before dawn, she discovered a spatial crack at the bottom of a lake that could serve as an entry and exit point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi condensed a spiritual energy shield, stood at the bottom of the lake, and carefully pried open the spatial crack, not daring to open it too wide for fear of attracting others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on her relatively powerful physical body, she forced her way in when the spatial crack was only three feet long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rumble—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passing through the spatial crack, Hua Changxi found herself in a torrent of scalding water pouring down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The water was so hot, so abundant, so fast, and so heavy that she had never seen anything like it in her life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though her body endured an enormous scouring force, Hua Changxi gritted her teeth and condensed a fire lotus to block the spatial crack. Then she quickly flew far away from the water current and landed on a nearby rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as she steadied herself, Hua Changxi was stunned by the sight before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flying stream plunges three thousand feet, as if the Milky Way falls from the highest heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This line of poetry had now become a concrete reality before Hua Changxi's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky seemed to have a huge hole torn in it, allowing the red fire spring from above the firmament to cascade down here, forming a magnificent and awe-inspiring waterfall vista.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A red chain poured down from the nine-layered cloud canopy, as if heaven and earth had cracked open a red seam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing there, the waterfall roared like thunder, like ten thousand horses shattering the nine heavens. Even without flying into the waterfall, just its sound was enough to shake one's mind and spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire spring crashed into a deep pool below, stirring up waves dozens of feet high, yet the pool's surface showed no turbidity at all—instead, it shimmered with a lustrous red glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the waves fell, they condensed on the water's surface into transparent red lotuses, with a faint phosphorescence flowing over the petals before they dissipated into mist after a moment, making this place seem like a hazy fairyland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After who knows how long, Hua Changxi finally snapped out of the beautiful scene, and then she was overjoyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only was the fire qi here astonishingly dense, but the cascading fire spring waterfall was also an excellent place for body refinement. Most importantly, the roaring sound of the fire spring's eruption helped the five viscera and six organs vibrate and resonate in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After patrolling the Nine Heavens Fire Spring area and finding nothing unusual, Hua Changxi could not wait to try out the effects of this body-refining site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi took out medicinal herbs she had prepared long ago, brewed a pot of body-refining medicinal bath, soaked in it, then swallowed a six-mark Mysterious Yellow Fruit before plunging headlong into the fire spring waterfall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, she dared not go upstream; she only stayed downstream, found a spot where the current was not so turbulent, and fully activated the sixth chapter of the \"Nine Revolutions Mystic Art\"—the Viscera and Organs chapter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Hua Changxi became completely immersed, losing all sense of time's passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the Lord of Cooling, whose bloodline power had been completely burned away by Hua Changxi's sword, finally awoke after consuming a large number of heavenly materials and earthly treasures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon waking, the Lord of Cooling learned that he would be forever stuck at the Spirit Platform realm, and he immediately collapsed, shouting loudly about taking revenge on Hua Changxi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Hua Changxi never appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lord of Cooling's manor had also planted people in the Medical Bureau, and they knew that Hua Changxi had been severely wounded by the Lord of Cooling as well, so she should currently be in seclusion healing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not knowing how long Hua Changxi would be in seclusion, the Lord of Cooling, with no outlet for his rage, directly turned his矛head on the Hua family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, because of the previous ruling forbidding cultivators from acting recklessly within the capital to cope with cultivators from other regions entering the city, the Hua family members were not persecuted by the Lord of Cooling's manor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, given the vast disparity in status and power between the Lord of Cooling's manor and the Hua family, even without direct action, the Lord of Cooling's manor had plenty of ways to torment and make things difficult for the Hua family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Hua Minghe and his two brothers, as well as the three Yao sisters-in-law, successively suffered invisible attacks, the Dingyuan Earl Manor braved the pressure and took the terrified Hua family members into their manor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it was an earl manor, and it still had some connections in the capital's noble circles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after the Dingyuan Earl Manor stepped in, with mediation from multiple parties, the Lord of Cooling's manor backed down a step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He declared that as long as the Hua family handed over five Xuanhuang Fruits, from one-stripe to five-stripe, to heal Duke Liang's body, the enmity between the Duke Liang's estate and the Hua family would be settled once and for all. Otherwise, they would fight to the death with the Hua family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duke Liang wanted Xuanhuang Fruits—not just one, but five. As soon as this news broke... every cultivator who knew the effects of Xuanhuang Fruits gasped in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Duke Liang really dares to ask for so much!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before the Duke Liang's estate, the Hua family is nothing but ants. Who would show courtesy to ants?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm very curious—will Hua Changxi cave in?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unless she doesn't care at all whether the Hua family lives or dies, she has no choice but to cave.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2149,"2026-05-29T04:10:48.594Z","2026-06-01T04:29:08.487Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","3ed8a8c3912c5aecbf79635a9650f96300ea8e3e00dc27f6d7fa1d62897f15ea","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-349","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-347",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-cover.jpg"]