[{"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-386":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},152072,261,"Chapter 386: Zhurong's Grave","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-386",386,"\u003Cp>In the Zhurong Tomb, everything was blood-red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place was completely different from what Hua Changxi had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not a sea of fire with flames shooting into the sky; not to mention flames, there wasn't even a single spark or ember.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the scorching and burning air inhaled into the body, and the intense burning pain felt physically, were so obvious that it felt like being in a sealed pressure cooker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the sea of fire under the Lihuo Cliff was a world of flames, then this time, what she witnessed was a world of \"fire\" — fire that could not be seen but was everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from that, the place was also filled with a strong smell of blood, which came from the dense and pure Qi and blood energy, making one feel not disgusted but instead comfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the sense of fragmentation that the Zhurong Tomb gave her: on one hand, she felt suffocated and strongly suppressed; on the other hand, she felt exhilarated, as if her physical body had become more full and energetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi walked cautiously in the Zhurong Tomb but did not see the royal clan disciple who had entered before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blood-red sky, a blood-red ground, with nothing else in between, giving a sense of desolation and vastness like walking on a blood-red Gobi Desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No high platforms, no waterfalls, no cliffs...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since there was nothing, what was the trial of the Zhurong Tomb?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Hua Changxi walked fairly easily, but not long after, when her feet stepped on the ground, sparks began to appear under her feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after the sparks appeared, flickering flames climbed up Hua Changxi’s feet, and at that moment, the burning pain transmitted from her feet was instantly magnified several times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi looked at the flames on her feet, roughly guessed what the Zhurong Tomb was testing, stopped walking, looked ahead, hesitated, and wondered whether to continue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having experienced occupying the Karma Fire Platform, the Nine Heavens Fire Spring, and the Lihuo Cliff, she knew that to become the master of a blessed cave or paradise, one needed both a certain opportunity and to pass corresponding trials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occupying the Karma Fire Platform was easy because she had first cultivated the Karma Fire Red Lotus and mastered the law of \"Karma,\" which highly matched the Karma Fire Platform, so it didn't take long to obtain the cave master's token.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occupying the Lihuo Cliff was also quick because she had absorbed and refined a drop of Vermilion Bird’s essence blood, and it only took her three months to subdue the ancient Lihuo Flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, occupying the Nine Heavens Fire Spring, due to the lack of a special opportunity, took her a full three years to become the Palace Lord of the Fire Spring Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Zhurong Tomb, whether outside the barrier or deep inside it, Hua Changxi had no special resonance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, there was no particular opportunity between her and the Zhurong Tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, to become the master of the Zhurong Tomb, she would have to conquer it like the Nine Heavens Fire Spring — repeatedly going upstream until she reached the Fire Spring Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this blood-red world before her, Hua Changxi did not know how large the Zhurong Tomb was, nor how far she had to walk, but she could guess that the trial would take a considerable amount of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, she would not have thought much about it, but now the situation in Nanxiang County was murky and unpredictable. The Vermilion Bird Army had encountered impersonation and unexplained disappearance incidents; if she left suddenly for too long, she worried that the Vermilion Bird Army would not be able to hold up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after not thinking for long, Hua Changxi stepped forward again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since she had already entered, she had to at least bring back some Zhurong Stones to refine her body; at the same time, she had to find that royal clan disciple and prevent him from taking over the Zhurong Tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the Zhurong Stones, Hua Changxi regretfully slapped her own head. She tried to circulate the \"Zhurong Meridian Expansion Technique\" that Jingsheng had taught her. Soon, the Qi and blood energy in the air was drawn into her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her face lit up with joy, but perhaps because the Qi and blood energy in the air was not as abundant as that in the Zhurong Stones, it could not strengthen the body or expand the meridians, though the pain in her feet was somewhat alleviated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From then on, Hua Changxi kept circulating the \"Zhurong Meridian Expansion Technique.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The further she went, the denser the Qi and blood energy became, and at the same time, more and more of her body was engulfed by flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Qi and blood energy drawn in by the \"Zhurong Meridian Expansion Technique\" helped counteract some of the burning pain, it still failed to light up the meridian nodes. Feeling that the effect was minimal, Hua Changxi immediately stopped circulating the \"Zhurong Meridian Expansion Technique\" and switched to practicing the body-refining chapter of the \"Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art,\" the seventh part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hiss—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the body-refining technique began, the ubiquitous \"fire element\" in the air rushed into her body. Instantly, Hua Changxi felt as if every cell in her body was being scorched by fire, the pain causing her to gasp sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the body-refining effect was unexpectedly good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the fire element entering her body, Hua Changxi felt as if her body was illuminated. One by one, crystalline and dazzling meridians emerged in her \"field of vision.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the flames engulfed her head, the network of meridians wrapping around her brain also appeared under her internal sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the entire meridian network in her body was fully revealed, Hua Changxi turned into a human torch. By then, she did not know how far she had advanced. In her sight appeared a blood-red mountain of bones, like a mountain range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without needing to approach, she recognized it at once: the bone mountain was a Zhurong Stone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She also saw that at the foot of the bone mountain stood another fire person like herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was stuck. Not many words today.\u003C\u002Fp>",1048,"2026-05-29T04:10:48.594Z","2026-06-01T04:29:08.487Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","70d771e7f1803ac0ef342a10dc6904e40ebc3a9d2f57a900d3710808cfe51f4e","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-387","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-385",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-cover.jpg"]