[{"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-185":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},1896959,2531,"Chapter 185: The Power of Laws","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-185",185,"\u003Cp>\"Is that the Soul River?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi knew little about the Nine Netherworlds, but the third chapter of the *Annotations on the Classic of Hundred Herbs* recorded divine plants specifically meant for various medicinal materials used in Yuan Spirit cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine plants can also be called soul plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is a type of soul plant called the Primordial Soul Fruit, a supreme heavenly treasure comparable to the Creation Fruit; while the Creation Pill refined from the Creation Fruit can shape spiritual roots, the Soul-Shaping Pill refined from the Primordial Soul Fruit can reconstruct one's Yuan Spirit as long as a single wisp remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For cultivators, as long as the Yuan Spirit does not completely dissipate, even if the physical body is destroyed, it does not count as true death; in other words, the Primordial Soul Fruit, capable of reconstructing the Yuan Spirit, possesses the power to bring the dead back to life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Primordial Soul Fruit grows within the Soul River!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the *Annotations on the Classic of Hundred Herbs* did not detail the conditions of the Soul River, feeling the pure and dense soul force contained within the white currents and seeing the soul crystals covering the riverbed of the soup bath, Hua Changxi had reason to guess that this white long river was indeed the Soul River.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the Fusang Divine Tree and the white Soul River beyond the rift, Hua Changxi felt eager to try entering again to explore; her previous entry into the divine tree space had been too hurried, and apart from obtaining a segment of divine tree branch, she had gained nothing else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Encountering both the Fusang Divine Tree and the Soul River is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the divine tree space was vast; inside it, she was like a headless fly, and one careless move could easily cause her to become lost, unable to find the way back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, she had found the spatial rift leading back to Tang Gu only by relying on the totemic sensation left behind in Tang Gu after the Zhu Que spiritual shadow dissipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, wanting to enter again...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi turned her head to look at the Shennong Cauldron, her eyes brightening; the Shennong Cauldron could perfectly serve as a coordinate point for her to find her way back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shennong Cauldron was still absorbing soul crystals, but the soul force contained within the crystals was certainly not as pure or dense as that in the Soul River; Hua Changxi hastily summoned the Shennong Cauldron to her side, directly aligning the cauldron's mouth with the sloping flow of the Soul River.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it began absorbing the Soul River water, the Shennong Cauldron stopped absorbing the soul crystals from the riverbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi carefully felt the connection between herself and the Shennong Cauldron; since the Shennong Cauldron was a divine artifact bound to her divine soul, their connection was far tighter than the one between her and the Floating Light Sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ensuring she could find her way back, Hua Changxi hesitated no longer, picked up the Floating Light Sword, and continued to pry open the spatial rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, her spiritual power had fully recovered, completely capable of withstanding the tearing forces surrounding the spatial rift; once the rift was wide enough for a person to pass, she rushed out against the pouring Soul River water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment she entered the divine tree space, she was surrounded by pure fire spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the bottom of the soup bath, she felt as though she had returned to the womb; entering the divine tree space felt like stepping into a sauna, with impurities constantly being expelled from her body's surface while the fire spiritual energy in her dantian sea continued to condense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling that the fire spiritual energy in her sea of qi had become more viscous and solidified than before, Hua Changxi was shaken; it turned out that the transformation of the fire spiritual energy in her sea of qi from gaseous to liquid state was also influenced by the Fusang Divine Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi had pried open the spatial rift from the location of the Fusang Divine Tree's roots, so now that she had entered the divine tree space, her position was naturally at the roots of the Fusang Divine Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, facing the Fusang Divine Tree, Hua Changxi was as insignificant as an ant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During her first rush into the divine tree space, Hua Changxi had been severely injured by invisible spatial rifts surrounding the Fusang Divine Tree; this time upon entering, she dared not move recklessly, and indeed, she could not move recklessly even if she wanted to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For no other reason than being suppressed by the divine tree's majestic pressure, she could only move within a small range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the heavy pressure suppressing her, Hua Changxi felt both lingering fear and relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she feared was that during her first intrusion into the divine tree space, the divine tree branch had been right near her; if the branch had been farther away, under the tree's suppression, she would not have even been able to approach it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What relieved her was that her luck had been quite good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of her luck, Hua Changxi's eyes flashed; if luck was truly linked to merit, then in the future she would need to do more things that accorded with the revival of spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, she did not want to gamble with her little life again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppressed by the divine tree, Hua Changxi could not investigate upwards and could only look at the Soul River with regret; she still wanted to enter the Soul River to explore, just in case she happened to encounter a Primordial Soul Fruit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a limited area to investigate, Hua Changxi could only circle around the vicinity of the divine tree roots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where exactly are these Fusang Divine Tree roots anchored?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The endless divine tree roots looked like long snakes intertwined and tangled together, extending infinitely in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to detect where the divine tree roots were anchored and with a small area of movement, after investigating in a circle, Hua Changxi realized that upon entering the divine tree space, the only thing she could currently do was cultivate within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire spiritual energy in the divine tree space was far purer and denser than in the outside world; since she had already entered, even if there were no other gains, improving her strength was still good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Hua Changxi sat cross-legged upon the divine tree roots, closed her eyes, and sank into cultivation; soon, she clearly felt her cultivation speed increase again, at least doubling her previous rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, cultivating for one double-hour would increase her spiritual energy points by over two million; now, cultivating for one double-hour could increase them by four million points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi was unaware that the Fusang Divine Tree had appeared in the Nine Netherworlds and the human world; feeling confused by the sudden surge in cultivation speed, she merely assumed it was due to her body's constitution improving after soaking in the soup bath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one would complain about their cultivation speed becoming faster; apart from some initial surprise and confusion, Hua Changxi quickly accepted it and devoted herself wholeheartedly to cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as she was cultivating at full speed, the divine tree roots beneath her suddenly glowed with red light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the red light grew brighter, ripples like water waves appeared within the red glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ripples became increasingly obvious; upon closer inspection, one could see they were chains of light composed of runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These rune light chains hovered around Hua Changxi; some chains tried to approach, while others moved away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the light chains appeared, Hua Changxi, who was in the midst of cultivation, sensed the anomaly; through her divine sense, she clearly saw the light chains formed by those runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the unfathomable power radiating from the light chains, she instinctively wanted to absorb them into her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, no matter how much force she exerted, no light chains approached, until she condensed a Fire Lotus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Fire Lotus bloomed upon her, a bright red light chain swiftly plunged into Hua Changxi's body, drilling directly into her sea of qi where it merged with the red light and became one with her sea of qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the red light chain merged into her sea of qi, Hua Changxi opened her eyes, quickly condensed a Fire Lotus in her hand, and upon thinking of the red light chain, the Fire Lotus immediately transformed into an intensely crimson Red Lotus, within which red light chains rapidly began to condense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did she see clearly that the red light chains were composed of individual 'Karma' character runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Karma?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Karmic force?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi's eyes suddenly flared with brilliance; karmic force, Red Lotus—wasn't this the Red Lotus Karmic Fire?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Red Lotus Karmic Fire burns anyone bearing evil karmic force; once tainted by it, one's soul flies and spirit scatters, resurrection is cut off, and one cannot enter reincarnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi felt immensely excited; the appearance of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire elevated the power of her Fire Lotus to another level, meaning her ability to protect herself had improved once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that summoning the Fire Lotus could absorb the light chains, Hua Changxi repeated her trick, summoning the Great Sun Divine Flame and, enduring the pain of burning, letting the Great Sun Divine Flame cover her entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the Great Sun Divine Flame appeared, a white chain also plunged into her body, transforming into white light and merging with her sea of qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Crack?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Hua Changxi condensed the Great Sun Divine Flame in her palm, a chain of light composed of the 'Split' character runes coiled around the Great Sun Divine Flame.\u003C\u002Fp>",1651,"2026-06-12T02:51:22.172Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","d2fb1735e38c454e40d95260bb87329d504d47bf2567972dfd3dc409ad9e6039","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-186","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-184",558,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-cover.jpg"]