[{"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-383":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},152069,261,"Chapter 383: Body Refining VII","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-383",383,"\u003Cp>The retired emperor ultimately agreed to the emperor's proposal, using the blessed cave heaven nearest to Lingguang Hall discovered by the imperial family as bait, preparing to join forces with the Phoenix clan of the demon race to forcibly divert the Lingguang Hall master's attention from the mass grave in the southeastern area of Nanxiang County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, contrary to the imperial family's expectations, the matter of the mass grave not only drew the attention of Lingguang Hall, but all major forces also took notice of this region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the disappearance of the Vermilion Bird Army also spread throughout the cultivator circles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, everyone knew that someone had made a move against the Vermilion Bird Army in the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attackers were suspected to be the ghost race and the demon race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demon race is humanity's archrival in the struggle for territory. The news that a Lingtai realm demon had appeared in Nanxiang County directly drew the close attention of the Demon Suppression Army and the Xuan Yuan Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the ghost race appearing in the mortal world also violated a major taboo of the human realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, even people who had not been paying attention to Nanxiang County turned their gaze there, causing the situation in Nanxiang County to become increasingly chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Hua Changxi, after parting ways with Tong Yao, she returned to Lingguang Hall and immediately issued a new mission—surveillance of the mass grave and the charity funeral home a few li away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disappearance of the Vermilion Bird Army had unexpectedly implicated the imperial family and the demon race—this was something she had not anticipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demon race was lurking in the shadows, eyeing Nanxiang City hungrily, while the imperial family seemed to have occupied Ghost Fire Well...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this weighed heavily on Hua Changxi's mind. The survival anxiety that had been slightly alleviated after completing the sixth chapter of the *Nine Revolutions Mystic Art* now surged back, and she once again felt the crisis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her inability to break through to the Lingtai realm also made her somewhat anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While body refinement could increase her strength, it mainly enhanced the defensive capabilities of the physical body, with only limited offensive power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, at the same cultivation level, a body cultivator is no match for a qi cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason she currently did not fear Lingtai realm cultivators was that, although she remained in the Huaying realm, the spiritual power stored in her body was not weaker than that of early Lingtai realm cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after the Lingtai realm, cultivators cultivate their primordial spirit. Without advancing to the Lingtai realm, she could not open the sea of consciousness, could not cultivate her primordial spirit, and could not strengthen her divine sense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And attacks using the primordial spirit or divine sense are, to a large extent, fatal to cultivators!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, although her physical body's cultivation level corresponded to the qi cultivator's Chuqiao realm, allowing her to rely on her body and \"use brute force to overcome ten opponents,\" if she faced too many Lingtai realm cultivators, her spiritual power might not be sufficient, and her physical attack methods were too simplistic. If the fight dragged on, she could easily be defeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How can I break through the Huaying realm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi grabbed her head in frustration. Suddenly, her expression froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She might not be able to break through the Huaying realm for now, but she could still increase the offensive power of her physical body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi flipped her wrist, and a cultivation technique appeared in her hand—*Fa Tian Xiang Di* (Heaven and Earth Dharma).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Fa Tian Xiang Di* ranks first among physical body divine abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she had only cultivated up to the sixth chapter of body refinement and could not fully unleash the power of *Fa Tian Xiang Di*, after cultivating it, she could at least somewhat increase the offensive strength of her physical body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Hua Changxi was soon disappointed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The requirements for cultivating *Fa Tian Xiang Di* were too high. Even though she had perfected the sixth chapter of the *Nine Revolutions Mystic Art*, she still did not meet the prerequisites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivating *Fa Tian Xiang Di* required at least reaching the seventh chapter of the *Nine Revolutions Mystic Art*—the Meridian Chapter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Hua Changxi's understanding, the body's meridians include the neural system of the brain, and the neural system of the brain has a similar effect to the qi cultivator's sea of consciousness, allowing one to cultivate divine sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The divine ability *Fa Tian Xiang Di* allows a cultivator to use themselves as a conduit to communicate with the laws of heaven and earth, merging their own being with the power of nature and the universe, manifesting the might of \"man as heaven and earth, heaven and earth as man.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the physical body is not strong enough, it cannot bear the power of heaven and earth; if the divine sense is insufficient, one cannot achieve deep resonance with the rules of heaven and earth, and thus cannot perform this divine ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, only when a body cultivator has cultivated divine sense can they be considered to have crossed the threshold for cultivating *Fa Tian Xiang Di*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she could not immediately cultivate *Fa Tian Xiang Di*, Hua Changxi was not discouraged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the seventh chapter of the *Nine Revolutions Mystic Art*—the Meridian Chapter—could cultivate divine sense, it could make up for her inability to open the Lingtai, which had prevented her from increasing her divine sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For now, I'll have to free up the time I spend on alchemy and cultivate the seventh chapter of the *Nine Revolutions Mystic Art*.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having determined her next course of action, Hua Changxi then checked her \"Yi Nian Tong\" (instant communication device).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Lingguang Hall's side, the steward of the Discipline Hall and the steward of the Mission Hall successively sent messages saying that they had calmed down the Vermilion Bird Army patrolling today; the steward of the Mission Hall also sent a message saying that the tiger demon's burnt corpse had been received.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Danyuan Peak's side, only Wan Feng sent a message, saying that the Spiritual Realm Pavilion, Qihuang Pavilion, and Jiujie Hall had held another meeting regarding the Alchemy Convention. At the meeting, Xia Zhen mentioned her name, hoping she could attend the next meeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi glanced at it and immediately dismissed the message from Wan Feng. With so many things happening in Nanxiang County, she wished she could split herself into clones; she had no leisure time to attend that boring meeting on the Medical Department's side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that nothing urgent was happening at Lingguang Hall or Danyuan Peak, Hua Changxi took out a seven-stripe Xuanhuang Fruit and consumed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One night passed, and the Xuanhuang Fruit was fully absorbed and refined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Hua Changxi sensed that the seventh shackle on her physical body had been broken, she used the teleportation array to return to the Danyuan Secret Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Body refinement required soaking in body-refining medicinal baths. Fortunately, the Danyuan Secret Realm was of a high grade, an eighth-grade secret realm, and the spiritual herbs needed to cultivate the seventh chapter of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art could be found on the seventh layer of the secret realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After collecting all the required spiritual herbs, Hua Changxi summoned the Shennong Cauldron and brewed a pot of seventh-grade body-refining medicinal bath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After soaking in the medicinal bath, the next step was to temper the physical body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As more shackles on the physical body were broken, Hua Changxi's understanding of the physical body grew deeper, and her insight into how body cultivators could achieve the Great Dao through refining the body became more profound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, beginning to cultivate the seventh chapter of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art—the Meridian Chapter—gave her an even more advanced understanding of body refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if a cultivator had no spiritual root, the Heavenly Dao still left a glimmer of hope for ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physical body is covered in meridians, and meridians are the \"innate trajectories\" imprinted within the human body by the \"Great Dao of Heaven and Earth,\" the \"natural interface\" through which cultivators resonate with Heaven and Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the view of body cultivators, the human body has limitless potential, and the meridians within it can be refined into channels that store the laws of Heaven and Earth, just like spiritual roots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Dao bestows upon the human body eighty-one hidden nodes, corresponding to the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the Twelve Regular Meridians, and other branch meridian networks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meridian network of an ordinary person remains in a dormant state. Cultivating the seventh chapter of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art was to activate all the meridian nodes within the body, allowing the meridian network, which carries the power and laws of Heaven and Earth, to form a self-contained circulatory system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sorting out the theory of the seventh chapter of body refinement, Hua Changxi teleported to the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, members of the Vermilion Bird Army had gradually started coming to train at the Fire Spring. As soon as she arrived, without meeting any of them, she plunged straight into the Fire Spring and swam upstream again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cultivating Vermilion Bird Army soldiers saw a red figure, enduring the immense force of the Fire Spring's current, rush up to the top of the spring in a flash and disappear. They all gaped in astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that... the Hall Master?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Hall Master is too incredible. The farthest I can go upstream is a dozen or so meters. I have no idea how she does it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If only we could hear the Hall Master lecture on the Dao.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi ascended to the Fire Spring Palace, but she realized that the body-refining effects of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring had become negligible for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi sighed. She knew she would have to find a new place for body refinement again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what kind of place for body refinement could activate the meridians within the body?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi temporarily set aside this question and collected a large amount of Mars Fluff, which looked somewhat like moss, from the floating island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, she took out the \"suggestion boxes and suggestion stones\" refined by the Artifact Saint Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, using spiritual power, she imprinted the Mars Fluff onto the suggestion boxes and suggestion stones. Instantly, the suggestion boxes and suggestion stones took on a completely new appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the makeover of all the suggestion boxes and suggestion stones, Hua Changxi immediately placed a suggestion box at the entrance and exit of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the Nine Heavens Fire Spring, she went to the Karma Fire Platform and also left a suggestion box at its entrance and exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, she went to the Li Fire Cliff, placed a suggestion box there, and at the same time, handed out a suggestion stone to everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Hua Changxi returned to the Lingguang Hall. She placed suggestion boxes at the four corners of the mountain gate square, and at the same time, handed over one hundred thousand suggestion stones to the Logistics Department, instructing them to distribute one to every member of the Vermilion Bird Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After doing all this, she set out again to inspect Nanxiang County.\u003C\u002Fp>",1887,"2026-05-29T04:10:48.594Z","2026-06-01T04:29:08.487Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","91d100c9ac96a37cb853006972f56153da6c64bf45bfb9b5e76461e406e3d52c","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-384","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-382",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-cover.jpg"]