[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl":3,"chapter-the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-184":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Great Jin's Most Iron Rice Bowl",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1896958,2531,"Chapter 184: Soul River","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-184",184,"\u003Cp>[Realm: Nascent Soul Stage 1.5 billion\u002F1 billion; Divine Sense: (100 + 50.5) ten thousand]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the realm data in her vision, Hua Changxi first showed joy, but soon that joy turned to confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her joy stemmed from the realm points finally breaking through the bottleneck and surpassing the one billion mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her confusion arose from the changes in the divine sense data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"100 plus 50.5?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What does this mean?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Hua Changxi did not understand why the divine sense data was not simply merged but instead marked separately; however, she soon figured it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivators inherently possess a soul body, which carries its own soul power; the one million in her divine sense should be the innate soul power of a Nascent Soul cultivator's soul body, while the 505,000 soul power points must be what she had cultivated herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This data had not appeared before, perhaps because her realm had not yet broken through the one billion point threshold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having clarified the matter of the data, Hua Changxi immediately began inspecting her dantian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, when she had fused the seven-colored strange flames into the Great Sun Divine Flame, although she had rushed into the spatial rift at maximum speed and chopped off a branch of the Fusang Divine Wood just as quickly, her dantian had still been burned by the Great Sun Divine Flame; the fire spiritual qi stored in her qi sea had nearly evaporated under its scorching heat, and the nascent soul hovering above the qi sea had been roasted to the brink of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the qi sea had recovered its former vastness, yet the fire spiritual qi within it had become much more condensed; if the fire spiritual qi before was in a gaseous state, then the fire spiritual qi in the qi sea now was in a liquid state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gaseous fire spiritual qi could easily cause instability in the qi sea if the dantian encountered any issues, and such instability could not only injure the dantian but also trigger violent surges of spiritual qi within the body, whereas liquid fire spiritual qi was undoubtedly far more stable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although somewhat surprised by this transformation of the qi sea, Hua Changxi felt more joy than anything else, and she believed there were two reasons for this change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the soup bath benefited cultivators; soaking in it was like returning to the womb, healing all the wounds that had covered her body when she escaped from the spatial rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, through the penetrating vision of her Diagnosis Technique, she could see that her spiritual roots were now even more crystal clear and luminous than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assessing the quality of spiritual roots largely depended on their luminosity; the clearer and brighter the spiritual roots, the purer and tougher they were, allowing them to withstand a greater flow of spiritual qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the quality of her spiritual roots improved, her dantian naturally followed suit, becoming more solid than before; if massive waves of spiritual qi surged in her qi sea again, it could likely endure them for much longer, and if an enemy attempted to destroy her dantian, it would certainly be far harder to inflict severe damage compared to an ordinary person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An enhancement in dantian quality naturally allowed it to contain a liquid qi sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second reason was the Great Sun Divine Flame itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Great Sun Divine Flame had scorched her dantian, from another perspective, the dantian repaired by the soup bath had effectively been tempered by the Great Sun Divine Flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Great Sun Divine Flame perched on the branch of the Fusang Divine Wood no longer radiated heat capable of burning heaven and destroying earth, yet its suppressing power had not receded; hovering above the qi sea like a torch, its immense pressure accelerated the transformation of gaseous fire spiritual qi into liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, while the suppression of the Great Sun Divine Flame stabilized the qi sea, it exerted tremendous pressure on the nascent soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, the nascent soul had hovered in mid-air above the qi sea, but now it could only sit cross-legged, floating upon the surface of the qi sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This change in the position of the nascent soul within the dantian caused Hua Changxi some concern, as she did not know whether this would affect her cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there was the wisp of black flame on the heart of her nascent soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the earlier crisis, the black flame had nearly completely submerged the nascent soul; now that the danger had passed, the black flame had retreated to the heart, yet it had grown several times larger than before, covering half of the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This coverage was not merely a surface submersion as with the nascent soul; rather, half of the heart was engulfed in black flame from the inside out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the heart that had turned black on one side, Hua Changxi's expression grew serious; the black flame amplified emotions, and once reason was overwhelmed by emotion, one could easily do unpredictable things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, her will to survive had triumphed over fear; had she retreated even slightly, she would have been drowned by fear, falling into complete helplessness, and could only passively await the arrival of the God of Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just thinking about the situation back then left Hua Changxi with lingering fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi stroked the back of her right hand, feeling grateful that she had trusted the master from Xiangguo Temple and branded the Awakening Mark onto the back of her right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Often, when emotions ran high, she failed to notice certain desires rising in her heart, inadvertently nourishing the black flame without realizing it; the Awakening Mark would immediately alert her whenever she was fueling the black flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the Awakening Mark could only remind her and make her aware of the desires in her heart; to completely resolve the issue of the black flame, she still needed to find the white jade lotus petal, ignite the white flame, and achieve a balance of yin and yang between the black and white flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing her physical inspection and confirming she was fine, Hua Changxi finally had the mind to carefully examine the bottom of the soup bath where she was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the roots of the Fusang Divine Wood, Hua Changxi sighed: \"If only I had known earlier...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she had known earlier that the Fusang Divine Wood was right at the bottom of the soup bath, she would not have needed to risk venturing into the spatial rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there are no \"if onlys\" in reality; given the situation at the time, she had no other choice, and furthermore, she was uncertain whether her ability to soak in the soup bath was due solely to her Fire Spiritual Body or also because she had subdued the Great Sun Divine Flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi summoned the Floating Light Sword nurtured within her dantian's qi sea, raised it, and chopped down at a slender tree root.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This array eye center was guarded by the Qisheng Palace; previously, when condensing the Great Sun Divine Flame, Master Bai Li and his disciple had treated her like a bandit, so opportunities for her to return to the soup bath in the future would likely be few; since she had encountered this, she should certainly chop off and take as many divine wood roots as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Floating Light Sword could not be drawn from her dantian, when used in conjunction with the Floating Light Sword Technique to chop wood, it remained extremely sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chopping trees underwater was exhausting; panting heavily, Hua Changxi stopped only after cutting more than ten sections of roots, each several meters wide and dozens of meters long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi attempted to store the Fusang Divine Wood roots in her Sumeru Mustard Seed Space, but as soon as she placed one inside, she saw the spiritual river within it dry up at a speed visible to the naked eye, frightening her into immediately retrieving the root.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Fusang Divine Wood carries powerful fire-type laws; ordinary mustard seed spaces cannot store it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking for a moment, Hua Changxi summoned the Shennong Cauldron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Shennong Cauldron should be able to store the Fusang Divine Wood roots, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi was somewhat uncertain; just as she released the Shennong Cauldron, preparing to transfer the spiritual plants and medicines inside it to the Sumeru Mustard Seed Space around her neck, the riverbed beneath her feet suddenly began to tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, the white soul crystals spread around the roots of the Fusang Divine Wood floated up, flying toward the Shennong Cauldron like birds returning to their nests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Witnessing this scene, Hua Changxi had no time to be shocked; before the soul crystals could enter the Shennong Cauldron, she quickly transferred the supplies inside it, then stared dumbfounded as the Shennong Cauldron, like a giant beast with a blood-filled maw, continuously devoured the soul crystals from the riverbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the nearby soul crystals were sucked dry, the white glow of the crystals around Hua Changxi's location vanished, and the riverbed gradually turned blood red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the sea of blood red, Hua Changxi noticed several spots where streams of white liquid were pouring down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The places where these white streams fell were precisely where the soul crystals were most abundant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi swam toward one of the white streams, and upon seeing that it flowed out from a black fissure, her complexion changed abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A spatial rift!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white streams were actually flowing in from spatial rifts; there were spatial rifts at the bottom of this soup bath!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi went to check the other locations with white streams, finding that every single one connected to a spatial rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing the pure soul power emanating from the white streams, Hua Changxi formed a hypothesis: the soul crystals at the riverbed certainly did not appear out of nowhere; they were most likely condensed from these white streams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the Fusang Divine Wood roots on the riverbed, Hua Changxi's expression gradually became clear; of course, with divine wood roots present here, this place must be connected to the space where the main trunk of the divine wood resided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If her guess was correct, behind these spatial rifts lay the space containing the Fusang Divine Wood she had ventured through earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at one of the spatial rifts, Hua Changxi took out the Floating Light Sword, inserted it into the fissure, gathered her spiritual power, and began tearing at the rift; soon, she tore open a large gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the crack widened, a thin white stream gushed down with a rushing sound, like a waterfall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the fissure, Hua Changxi saw the Fusang Divine Tree that blocked out the sky and sun, and she also saw a brilliant white long river coiling around the divine tree like a flowing scarf.\u003C\u002Fp>",1819,"2026-06-12T02:51:22.172Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","74936146476fb88ca52423d44f67dd6dfe2ebbf3bb526a0eb3cf1e3e7d45f340","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-185","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-183",558,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-cover.jpg"]