[{"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-304":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},1897078,2531,"Chapter 304: The Twelve Cavern Heavens of Nanxiangcheng","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-304",304,"\u003Cp>The night was ink-black, the stars brilliant, scattered like shards of glazed glass crushed by a deity, weaving the celestial sphere into a flowing, resplendent scroll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi, who had been weighed down by the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan draining some energy from her body, was nonetheless stunned by this magnificent and spectacular sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing at the cluster of stars that seemed 'within arm's reach,' Hua Changxi, sitting collapsed on the ground, involuntarily reached out her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could pluck the stars with one's hand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that if she merely stretched her hand a little further, she could touch the stars in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was merely Hua Changxi's illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi soon recovered from her shock, only to notice that the entire firmament seemed drawn by some invisible force, as the myriad stars began to rotate in reverse and shift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, stellar formations emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the firmament, the star walls hung like a curtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the east, the cluster of stars emitted a hazy green glow; amidst the dancing starlight, a colossal green dragon seemed to lie dormant, the entire star field brimming with vibrant life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the south, the brilliant stars resembled blood jade, coalescing into the shape of a firebird, with flowing flames and light, as if burning with an eternal fire that turned even the darkness warm and red, leaving scorch marks even on the star trails.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the west, it seemed as though a White Tiger tread upon the stars to arrive, the star-wind howling like blades, imbuing even the individual stars with a solemn, killing metallic qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the north, a fierce beast with a snake's body coiled around a turtle's back crouched within the star abyss, stirring the flow of star qi to form a small star vortex; all the stars revolved around this fierce beast, time seeming to freeze, slowing the fall of the stars by three parts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi felt her divine soul drawn away by the stellar formations; in a trance, she heard the low chants of the Four Spirits: \"The Azure Dragon governs life, Zhu Que governs burning, the White Tiger governs killing, the Black Tortoise governs silence. The Four Images rotate, and the stars do not fall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi felt her mind go blank, and by the time her vision cleared again, the prominent stellar formations of the Four Spirits in the night sky had vanished, leaving only a patch of green in the eastern sky, a mass of red light in the south, fierce golden radiance in the west, and a cold silence in the north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recalling what she had just witnessed, Hua Changxi swallowed hard, planted her hands on the ground, and prepared to stand up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did she realize that the Qintian Tower beneath her had changed drastically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 'ground' beneath her, made of an unidentifiable material, faintly flowed with starlight; whenever she moved, spiderweb-like patterns of starlight would illuminate upon the 'ground,' as if an ancient array was awakening in the dark night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shiver ran through Hua Changxi, and she suddenly realized she seemed to have caused another 'major incident.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could it be that I truly am a child of destiny?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, why did every major disturbance seem to find her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, regarding the so-called 'child of destiny,' Hua Changxi maintained an attitude of respect from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People fear fame just as pigs fear fattening; she simply wished to cultivate her Dao in peace, without drawing too much attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hope today's events won't bring me any trouble!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi hurriedly stood up, preparing to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment she stood, she froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Climbing high to gaze far, the entire Jingcheng now lay fully within her view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi's heart suddenly began to pound; compared to the shock brought by the Four Spirits' stellar formations, the myriad lights of households she now saw seemed to touch her heart even more deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Young Friend Hua, drip a few drops of essence blood into the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan; you may gain an unexpected harvest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Hua Changxi was immersed in the warmth of humanity found within those myriad household lights, a male voice entered her ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi instantly snapped back to her senses; who was it, who was speaking to her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That voice just now seemed to be voice transmission?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who was transmitting a voice to her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi looked around, finally bending down to peer below, where she discovered two figures atop the Tian Department tower, and another person in the distance upon the Guangyin Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the three, she recognized Wei Zhenjie, but the other two she had never seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having dealt with Wei Zhenjie before, she recognized his voice, so the voice transmission just now must have come from one of the other two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi noticed a turtle shell before the person standing with Wei Zhenjie, and immediately formed a guess: that person was very likely the Master of Qintian Tower. As for the person on Guangyin Tower, that must be the Master of Guangyin Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Master of Guangyin Tower should have no way to transmit a voice up to Qintian Tower, so the one transmitting to her could only be the Master of Qintian Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drip blood into the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Hua Changxi thought of how the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan had previously drained some energy from her body, she felt an instinctive repulsion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Wei Zhenjie had helped her and bore her no ill will, so the likelihood that the Master of Qintian Tower, who was with Wei Zhenjie, intended to scheme against her should not be too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I give it a try?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Master of Qintian Tower had specifically transmitted a voice to her, Hua Changxi felt somewhat moved; while hesitating, her gaze swept over the snake demon's body, and her eyes immediately brightened as she took out a gourd ladle, stepped forward, and scooped up a ladleful of the snake demon's essence blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's try with the snake demon's essence blood first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After collecting the snake demon's essence blood, Hua Changxi walked to the front of the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan and discovered that it too had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan had appeared as a flat white jade table, but although its appearance hadn't changed now, it had become 'three-dimensional'; though it clearly had edges and boundaries, it gave people a sense of boundless vastness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi manipulated her spiritual power to drip the snake demon's essence blood into the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One drop, two drops, three drops...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the snake demon's essence blood fell into the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan, it vanished, as if... absorbed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, even after Hua Changxi dripped more than ten drops of the snake demon's essence blood, the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan showed no reaction whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, and remembering she needed to flee quickly, Hua Changxi grew too lazy to drip it drop by drop and simply poured all the collected snake demon essence blood in at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan finally showed some reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A brilliant white light surged within the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan, and a continent emerged in the central region; in the northwest sector of the continent, dozens of crisscrossing mountain ranges appeared, followed by the gathering of spiritual light above the ranges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual light twisted and transformed into four characters: Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost the instant the characters formed, the four words \"Hundred Thousand Great Mountains\" burst apart; the next moment, those mountain ranges vanished as well, followed immediately by the disappearance of that continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hundred Thousand Great Mountains?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi guessed that the continent was likely the Central Continent, but she did not know what kind of place the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains were; she made a mental note to ask Tong Yaojing, Yan Zhenzhen, and the third person when she had the chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that the snake demon's essence blood could cause the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan to reveal the terrain of the continent, Hua Changxi gritted her teeth, used her spiritual power to cut her finger, and carefully dripped one drop into the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the single drop fell, the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Pan lit up with white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Central Continent emerged once again, and in the due south direction, a magnificent red palace appeared—Lingguang Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the Lingguang Hall, Hua Changxi paused; could it be that the locations revealed by the Zhou Tian Star Chart were connected to her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the white light within the Zhou Tian Star Chart begin to flicker, Hua Changxi assumed the energy was insufficient and quickly dripped another drop of essence blood into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the essence blood fell, nothing new appeared this time, yet the white light grew even brighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi hesitated a moment before dripping more essence blood into the Zhou Tian Star Chart; this time, she was not stingy, letting several drops fall at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With more blood drops, the benefits were obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Zhou Tian Star Chart, below the position of Lingguang Hall, a patch of fiery light appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately afterward, other things began to manifest within that fiery light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First to appear was a forest of wutong trees, followed by Suiren Valley, the Ye Fire Platform, the Fire Cloud Cave, the Nine Heavens Fire Spring, Chiyan Mountain, the Fire Rock Grotto, Zhurong's Tomb, the Li Fire Cliff, and the Ghost Fire Well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starting from Lingguang Hall and connecting these locations together perfectly outlined the pattern of a fire bird.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi paused: \"This is... the Zhu Que totem!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the heart of the Zhu Que totem stood a magnificent city—Nanxiangchengcheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Nanxiangchengcheng lay a fire pool that flickered between bright and dim—the Nirvana Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi recalled the locations she had marked as exhibiting clear spatial fluctuations; they matched exactly with the places now revealed in the Zhou Tian Star Chart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These locations must be the blessed grotto-heavens that Tong Yao spoke of.\u003C\u002Fp>",1692,"2026-06-12T02:51:23.636Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","7179defc664e3c59cd1e1a22ff551beead8dc5925f317f9d7e0b0f3a1345f28b","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-305","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-303",558,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-cover.jpg"]