[{"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-393":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},152079,261,"Chapter 393: Proving Dao with Power","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-393",393,"\u003Cp>A major difference between body cultivators and technique cultivators is that body refinement has no elusive mental-state trials; however, because it requires maximizing the tempering of the physical body and breaking its limits, the practitioner must endure unimaginable pain from the body’s disintegration and reconstruction, constantly testing one’s willpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, as long as resources keep up, body refinement has almost no bottlenecks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, when Hua Changxi condensed her soul marrow, as long as she gritted her teeth and withstood the pain from the collision and permeation of soul power, blood energy, and fire-rule power, she could smoothly condense one soul marrow after another and embed them into the meridian nodes without obstruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The excruciating physical pain had numbed Hua Changxi; time seemed to stand still for her, and all her awareness was focused on the soul marrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One, two…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the eighty-first soul marrow condensed and embedded itself in a meridian node, the meridian network inside her body, blazing red like a starry sky, immediately gained a complete layer of holy white soul garments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red firelight and white soul light intertwined, making the starry-sky-like interior of her body even more dazzling and bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Realm: Hua Ying Realm 99.99 billion \u002F 1 billion; Divine Sense: 1 billion points]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With eighty-one soul marrows connected end to end, her soul body formed its own circulation, and Hua Changxi’s divine sense instantly surged ninefold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extending her divine sense outward, Hua Changxi discovered that the range of her divine sense could now touch the Fire Axe “not far away.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This discovery startled Hua Changxi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she couldn’t catch up to the Fire Axe, could she use her divine sense to “pull” it over?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi immediately began to try, attempting to drag the Fire Axe with her divine sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the Fire Axe stood motionless like a mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine sense—that is, soul power—weakens as it spreads further; by the time it reached the Fire Axe’s position, its strength had become negligible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Hua Changxi was not discouraged that her divine sense could not move the Fire Axe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as she continued to strengthen her soul body and her divine sense became powerful enough, she would eventually pull the Fire Axe to her side with her divine sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seventh chapter of the Nine Transformations Mystic Art mainly includes four parts: manifesting the meridians, lighting up the meridian nodes, widening the meridians, and condensing the soul marrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the soul marrow fully condensed, Hua Changxi had essentially entered the threshold of the seventh chapter of body refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, it could only be called entering the threshold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the meridians are the “innate trajectories” imprinted by the “Great Dao of Heaven and Earth” within the human body, the “natural interface” for cultivators to resonate with heaven and earth, and the channels for cultivators to bear the power and laws of heaven and earth, the wider these trajectories and channels are, the better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Hua Changxi to cultivate the seventh chapter of body refinement to perfection, she must continue to widen her meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the meridians widen, the meridian nodes will grow larger, providing room for the soul marrows to increase; larger soul marrows naturally mean a stronger soul body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether to obtain the Fire Axe or to increase her strength, she had to go deeper into body refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi forcibly suppressed the urge to retreat triggered by the extreme pain of body refinement, took out a seventh-grade fire lingzhi, and while taking large bites, looked at Chu Junshan and Zhu Yan, who were still chasing the Fire Axe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, her strength had increased, but so had theirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the two chased the Fire Axe, they now seemed able to restrain it somewhat; the Fire Axe’s movement was no longer as smooth and fluid as at the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Zhu Yan transformed into fire, he could sometimes even make the Fire Axe pause for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the direction in which Zhu Yan and Chu Junshan were chasing the Fire Axe had changed; both were getting closer to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was obvious that these two couldn’t wait to kill her!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Yan could control others by manipulating black flames, and Chu Junshan, being a member of the imperial family, likely knew some secret arts unknown to ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither of them was easy to deal with; one misstep and she might end up failing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi felt somewhat heavy-hearted, quickened her consumption of the fire lingzhi, and as soon as her stamina recovered, she ignored the pain of body refinement and quickly began cultivating the seventh chapter of the Nine Transformations Mystic Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the meridians already opened and the soul body formed, the operation of the Nine Transformations Mystic Art became much smoother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, the formidable aspect of this top-tier body refinement technique was fully revealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood energy, fire-rule power, and soul power all surged into her body simultaneously, yet under the operation of the technique, the powers within her did not become mixed or chaotic; instead, they organized themselves into a natural order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the meridians, blood energy scoured the path, fire-rule power tempered and reinforced, and soul power cooled and permeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi, operating the Nine Transformations Mystic Art at full speed, endured inhuman pain a hundred times more intense than lingchi, yet she remained clear-headed, using her flesh as a furnace and her divine soul as fire, continuously tempering and widening her meridians over and over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, her whole body was stained crimson by blood energy, a thin layer of white soul garments adorned the surface of her flesh, and fire-rule power swirled around her; her hair moved without wind, each strand carrying burning flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood energy was fierce and domineering, like the “force” of fire; the fire-rule power was agile and ethereal, like the “framework” of fire; the soul power was cool and flexible, like the “core” of fire. Each had its own rules, yet they merged and permeated one another, allowing Hua Changxi to truly understand what it meant to “use the flesh as a furnace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she sensed that her physical body had become a furnace, Hua Changxi immediately gained a different perception of this chaotic space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She perceived the faint and elusive might of heaven and earth; she also perceived the omnipresent laws of heaven and earth within the space, except that only the law of fire existed in this space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This physical furnace of hers truly seemed to have the power to contain the force and laws of heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each complete cycle of meridian expansion, Hua Changxi's physical furnace grew a bit more resilient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the ninth meridian expansion was complete, Hua Changxi felt as if she had truly become a vessel capable of bearing heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi opened her eyes, her gaze brilliant. For a single moment, she even felt that if her body were large enough, she could contain this entire space within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Realm: Nascent Soul stage 99.99 billion\u002F1 billion; Divine sense: 10 billion points]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her divine sense surged again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, releasing her divine sense outward, Hua Changxi directly used it to forcibly pull the fire axe in front of herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Chu Junshan and Zhu Yan were utterly stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Hua Changxi grasped the fire axe, a startling scene emerged in her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A giant phantom, towering between heaven and earth, stood within the chaotic space of the cosmic egg. The giant was covered in flames, holding a fire axe, with fearsome power flowing along the axe blade. Every swing of the fire axe caused the chaotic qi to explode and the boundary walls to shatter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant swung the axe downward; there was no earth-shaking roar, but each swing was the ultimate release of \"force.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Proving the Dao through force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the giant's axe swings, Hua Changxi clearly and distinctly sensed these four words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not far away, seeing Hua Changxi obtain the fire axe, Chu Junshan and Zhu Yan's expressions turned extremely grim and ugly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We cannot let Hua Changxi continue cultivating.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Junshan looked seriously at Zhu Yan: \"No more holding back. You and I must get rid of Hua Changxi immediately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Yan said nothing, which was taken as tacit agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, the two quickened their pace toward Hua Changxi, even directly abandoning the chase for the fire axe. Both had a premonition: either they killed Hua Changxi first, or Hua Changxi would kill them.\u003C\u002Fp>",1412,"2026-05-29T04:10:48.594Z","2026-06-01T04:29:08.487Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","d721e0dffe986b560c73fa84d4e98fe7dbabadacd703f4380074c04b84e06689","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-394","the-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-chapter-392",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-first-iron-rice-bowl-of-great-jin-cover.jpg"]