[{"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-348":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},1897122,2531,"Chapter 348: Nine Heavens Fire Spring","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-348",348,"\u003Cp>As the karmic fire extinguished, Hua Changxi even felt a trace of reluctance, wishing the karmic fire would burn a little longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For no other reason than that the tranquility and serenity felt from body to soul were simply too exquisite. In that moment, she seemed to merge with heaven and earth, endless and eternal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She perceived her entire existence, and thus, her heart was filled with joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having experienced the complete process of karmic fire combustion, Hua Changxi now had some understanding of karmic force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The karmic force borne by a person consists of both evil karma and good karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karmic fire burns away evil karma and transforms good karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evil karma damages the foundation, while good karma consolidates and strengthens it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When karmic fire burns evil karma, everything from the physical flesh to the spiritual roots, the dantian, the nascent soul within the internal elixir, and finally the primordial spirit in the sea of consciousness suffers multiple layers of scorching; the pain of burning the body is not only punishment but also a retracing and amplification of \"evil.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When transforming good karma, from the physical flesh to the primordial spirit, one receives nourishment and repair; simultaneously, this serves as affirmation and recognition of \"good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A person's karmic force cannot deceive anyone; once an action is committed, it remains within the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the illusory shadows of karmic obstacles revealed by the petals of the karmic fire lotus, artificial disguises are stripped away, forcing one to face their own evil and good directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi looked inward at her own body; after being burned by the karmic fire, her physical flesh had become more solid, her spiritual roots more brilliant, and her dantian increasingly stable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What surprised her most was that the black flames on her nascent soul had diminished after being burned by the karmic fire!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Hua Changxi felt lighter than ever before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi gazed around the lotus platform, her eyes sparkling with light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This karmic fire platform was undoubtedly an extraordinary blessed land; being here would grant one a form of witnessing, as well as corresponding judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as one withstands the burning of the karmic fire, their state of mind will undergo a certain sublimation; at the very least, through the illusory shadows of karmic obstacles, one can see clearly things usually overlooked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, fears and anxieties buried deep in the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Hua Changxi somewhat understood the meaning behind the words that she was \"living in fear\"; certain fixed states of mind had begun to loosen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she had seen some of her own fears and anxieties within the illusory shadows of karmic obstacles, she still could not let them go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could not imagine that without the drive of fear and anxiety, she would still possess the motivation and need to move forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi exhaled a breath, ceasing to ponder further; then, she summoned the seal of the karmic fire platform, dripped a drop of essence blood onto it, and her perception of the lotus platform became even clearer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The karmic fire platform had suffered massive damage; apart from the lotus seed pod platform which lacked no major parts, the outer lotus petals were damaged to varying degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without thinking, one could conclude this was definitely caused by that ancient invasion war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a mere thought, Hua Changxi vanished from the lotus seed pod platform and hovered above the outer lotus petals surrounding the lotus platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outermost layers of lotus petals suffered the most severe damage; in a few places, entire petals were missing, while most petals remained only one-fifth to one-third intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The karmic fire platform was not forged from any natural substance in heaven and earth; it was formed when Zhu Que, the Imperial Lord, cast a wisp of karmic fire seed into this realm, igniting it, and through the burning of karmic force, it coalesced from that very karmic force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, every lotus petal inherently carries karmic force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi collected some fragments of lotus petals, intending to take them out and give them to Tong Yao, asking him to craft them into karmic force boxes to be placed in the four corners of the Lingguang Hall plaza, thereby collecting the \"public opinion\" of the Zhu Que Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An irreconcilable structural contradiction exists between those who govern and those who are governed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Depositing \"opinions\" into the karmic force boxes would increase the depositor's karmic force, thus avoiding malicious attacks to a certain extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If true \"injustice\" occurred within the Zhu Que Army, reporting it via \"opinions\" would entail bearing a certain amount of karmic force, but to seek justice, she believed most of the Zhu Que Army would be willing to bear it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the best method Hua Changxi could currently devise to balance the interests of the various managers of Lingguang Hall and the ordinary soldiers of the Zhu Que Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was also clear that the biggest problem was her lack of time to personally participate in the management of the Zhu Que Army, so she could only maintain stability through this method of mutual supervision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, Hua Changxi inspected every other part of the karmic fire platform; confirming there were no other discoveries, she condensed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus to open a spatial rift, preparing to depart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time she emerged from the karmic fire platform, the sky had already darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling entirely relaxed, Hua Changxi saw that the current dark and windy night was even more suitable for searching for the twelve blessed lands, so she did not return to Lingguang Hall or Danyuan Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twelve blessed lands of Nanxiangcheng, when connected, formed a Zhu Que totem; now that she had the karmic fire platform as an anchor point, finding the other blessed lands would be much easier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the one closest to the karmic fire platform was the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reaching the approximate location of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring revealed by the Zhou Tian Star Chart, Hua Changxi began circling in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a flat and open area, neither a canyon nor a cliff; she could not imagine a waterfall flowing through here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet both the Zhou Tian Star Chart and the intelligence gathered by the Zhu Que Army indicated that this region was indeed the location of the \"Nine Heavens Fire Spring,\" so she could only patiently search bit by bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this region lacked canyons and cliffs, there were quite a few lakes and rivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, relying on her sensitivity to spatial fluctuations, Hua Changxi located several spatial rifts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These spatial rifts were all very tiny, the largest being merely an inch long; had she not mastered the spatial \"Rift\" character law, been sensitive to spatial fluctuations, and searched so meticulously, these spatial rifts would have been truly difficult to discover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anyone else had passed through, they absolutely would not have detected them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How do I get in?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi fell silent; she absolutely did not want the situation of \"doing the tailoring for others\" to happen again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scenario where she found a blessed land only for others to occupy it could not happen a second time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In search of a suitable entry and exit point, Hua Changxi wandered throughout the night; finally, just before dawn, she discovered a spatial rift at the bottom of a lake that served as a suitable access point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi condensed a spiritual energy shield, stood at the lake bottom, and carefully pried open the spatial rift, daring not to make the opening too large lest she attract others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on her relatively powerful physical body, once the spatial rift reached three feet in length, she forcibly squeezed herself through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rumble~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passing through the spatial rift, Hua Changxi found herself amidst cascading scalding water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heat, volume, speed, and weight of the water flow were unlike anything she had ever seen in her life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though her body endured tremendous scouring force, Hua Changxi gritted her teeth and condensed a fire lotus to block the spatial rift, then quickly flew away from the water current, landing on a nearby rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as she steadied herself, Hua Changxi was stunned by the scenery before her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A torrent plunges down three thousand feet, as if the Silver River falls from the highest heavens.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This line of poetry now manifested concretely within Hua Changxi's line of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky seemed to have a huge hole torn in it, drawing down a red fire spring from above the firmament to cascade here, forming a magnificent and shocking waterfall spectacle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Red silk poured down from above the nine layers of cloud curtains, as if heaven and earth had split open to reveal a crimson fissure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing within it, one felt the waterfall's roar like thunder, resembling ten thousand horses trampling the nine heavens; without even flying into the cascade, the sound alone was enough to shake one's spirit and mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire spring crashed into the deep underground pool, sending up waves dozens of zhang high, yet the pool's surface remained perfectly clear, instead shimmering with a lustrous red glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the waves subsided, they coalesced upon the water's surface into transparent red lotuses, their petals swirling with faint luminescence before dissolving into mist moments later, making this realm resemble a hazy fairyland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was unknown how much time had passed before Hua Changxi finally snapped out of her trance amidst the beautiful scenery, followed immediately by immense joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only was the fire spiritual energy here astonishingly dense, and the cascading fire spring an ideal place for body refinement, but most importantly, the roaring eruption of the fire spring aided in causing the five viscera and six bowels to vibrate in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After patrolling the entire realm of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring and finding no abnormalities, Hua Changxi could hardly wait to test the effects of this body-refining location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi took out the spiritual herbs she had prepared long ago, boiled a pot of body-refining medicinal bath, soaked in it, swallowed a six-mark Xuanhuang Fruit, and then plunged headfirst into the fire spring waterfall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, she did not dare venture upstream into the waterfall, staying only in the lower reaches where the current was less turbulent, and operated the sixth chapter of the \"Nine Cycles Mysterious Art\"—the Viscera and Bowels Chapter—at full speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Hua Changxi became completely immersed, losing all sense of the passage of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the Duke of Liang, whose bloodline power had been utterly incinerated by Hua Changxi's sword, finally awakened after consuming a massive quantity of heavenly treasures and earthly delights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon waking and learning that his cultivation would halt at the Spirit Platform Realm, the Duke of Liang completely collapsed, shouting loudly that he must find Hua Changxi to exact revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Hua Changxi never appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Duke of Liang's residence had also planted spies within the Medical Bureau and knew that Hua Changxi had been severely injured by the Duke of Liang and was likely in secluded cultivation to recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uncertain how long Hua Changxi would remain in seclusion, the frustrated Duke of Liang directly turned his spearhead toward the Hua family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, to deal with foreign cultivators entering the capital, Jingcheng had promulgated a regulation prohibiting cultivators from acting recklessly within the city, which prevented the Hua family from suffering persecution by the Duke of Liang's residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, given the vast disparity in status and power between the Duke of Liang's residence and the Hua family, even without making a direct move, the Duke of Liang's residence had plenty of methods to torment and harass the Hua family members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Hua Minghe's three brothers and the three Yao sisters-in-law successively suffered invisible attacks, the Dingyuan Count's residence, under immense pressure, brought the panicked Hua family members into the Count's residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, as a Count's residence, it still possessed some connections within the circle of nobility in Jingcheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shortly after the Dingyuan Count's residence intervened, and through the mediation of various parties, the Duke of Liang's residence took a step back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They declared that if the Hua family produced five Xuanhuang Fruits, ranging from one to five marks, to restore the Duke of Liang's body, the grudge between the Duke of Liang's residence and the Hua family would be considered settled; otherwise, they would fight the Hua family to the death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Duke of Liang demanded Xuanhuang Fruits, not just one, but five; once this news spread... any cultivator who knew the efficacy of the Xuanhuang Fruit drew in a sharp breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Duke of Liang truly dares to make such a demand!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before the Duke of Liang's residence, the Hua family is but an ant; who would be polite when dealing with an ant?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am quite curious whether Hua Changxi will actually yield.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unless she cares nothing for the life and death of the Hua family members, she will have no choice but to yield.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2170,"2026-06-12T02:51:23.636Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","01a016cea1aa69ca9bca69c7dd688ba5c0f3b7466c5ffe401e9771038e038858","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-349","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-347",558,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-cover.jpg"]