[{"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-383":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},1897157,2531,"Chapter 383: Body Refinement Chapter Seven","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-383",383,"\u003Cp>The Retired Emperor ultimately agreed to the Emperor's proposal, offering a cave heaven and blessed land discovered by the imperial clan, located nearest to the Lingguang Hall, as bait, preparing to join forces with the Phoenix clan of the Demon Race to forcibly divert the Lingguang Hall Master's attention away from the mass grave in the southeastern region of Nanxiang County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, contrary to the imperial clan's expectations, the incident at the mass grave attracted not only the attention of the Lingguang Hall but also that of various other factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, news of the Zhu Que Army's disappearance spread throughout the cultivator circles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consequently, all factions became aware that someone was making moves against the Zhu Que Army from the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The perpetrator was suspected to be from the Ghost Race and the Demon Race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon Race was the primary enemy competing with the Human Race for territory; learning that a Spirit Platform realm demon had appeared in Nanxiang County immediately drew the close attention of the Demon-Suppressing Army and the Xuanyuan Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the appearance of the Ghost Race in the human world constituted a grave taboo among humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, those who had previously ignored Nanxiang County now turned their gaze toward it, causing the situation in Nanxiang County to become increasingly chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Hua Changxi's side, after parting ways with Tong Yao, she returned to the Lingguang Hall and immediately issued a new mission: to monitor the mass grave and the mortuary hall a few li away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disappearance of the Zhu Que Army had unexpectedly implicated both the imperial clan and the Demon Race, something she had not anticipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon Race was lurking in the shadows, eyeing Nanxiangcheng with hostility, while the imperial clan was suspected of occupying the Ghost Fire Well...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this weighed heavily on Hua Changxi's mind; although her anxiety about survival had slightly eased after successfully refining the sixth chapter of the \"Nine Cycles Mysterious Art\" to perfection, she once again felt a sense of crisis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her inability to advance to the Spirit Platform realm also made her somewhat anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While body refinement could enhance strength, it primarily improved the body's defensive capabilities, with limited offensive power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, within the same realm, a body cultivator was no match for a spell cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason she currently did not fear Spirit Platform realm cultivators was twofold: first, although she remained at the Infant Transformation realm, the spiritual energy stored within her body was no weaker than that of an early-stage Spirit Platform cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after reaching the Spirit Platform realm, cultivators focused on refining their primordial spirit; without advancing to the Spirit Platform realm, she could not open her sea of consciousness, meaning she could not cultivate her primordial spirit or strengthen her divine sense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For cultivators, attacks targeting the primordial spirit and divine sense were, to a large extent, fatal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, although her physical realm corresponded to the Soul Departure realm of spell cultivators, allowing her to rely on her physique to \"overwhelm ten skills with sheer force,\" if she faced too many Spirit Platform cultivators, the spiritual energy within her might not suffice; coupled with her overly singular physical attack methods, she would easily be defeated if a battle dragged on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How can I break through the Infant Transformation realm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi scratched her head in irritation, when suddenly, her expression paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she could not break through the Infant Transformation realm for now, she could still enhance the offensive power of her physique!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi flipped her wrist, and a technique manual appeared in her hand—the \"Law of Heaven and Earth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Law of Heaven and Earth ranked first among physical divine abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she had only refined her body up to the sixth chapter and could not fully unleash or utilize the power of the \"Law of Heaven and Earth,\" cultivating it would still somewhat increase the offensive intensity of her physique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Hua Changxi was soon disappointed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The requirements for cultivating the \"Law of Heaven and Earth\" were too high; even though she had perfected the sixth chapter of the \"Nine Cycles Mysterious Art,\" she still did not qualify.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To cultivate the \"Law of Heaven and Earth,\" one had to at least reach the seventh chapter of the \"Nine Cycles Mysterious Art\"—the Meridian Chapter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Hua Changxi's understanding, the body's meridians included the brain's nervous system, and this nervous system shared similar principles with the sea of consciousness in spell cultivation, capable of cultivating divine sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Law of Heaven and Earth\" divine ability allowed a cultivator to use themselves as a conduit to communicate with the laws of heaven and earth, merging their own being with the forces of nature and the cosmos, manifesting the majestic power where \"man is like heaven and earth, and heaven and earth are like man.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the physical strength was insufficient, the body could not bear the power of heaven and earth; if the divine sense was inadequate, one could not achieve deep resonance with the laws of heaven and earth; under such circumstances, this divine ability could not be unleashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, only when body refinement produced divine sense could one meet the threshold for cultivating the \"Law of Heaven and Earth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she could not immediately cultivate the \"Law of Heaven and Earth,\" Hua Changxi was not discouraged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the seventh chapter of the \"Nine Cycles Mysterious Art\"—the Meridian Chapter—could cultivate divine sense, it might compensate for her inability to open a Spirit Platform, which had prevented her from increasing her divine sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next, I can only set aside time for pill refining and focus on cultivating the seventh chapter of the 'Nine Cycles Mysterious Art'.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having decided on her next course of action, Hua Changxi then checked her One Thought Connect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Lingguang Hall, the Discipline Hall steward and the Mission Hall steward had sequentially sent messages stating they had pacified the Zhu Que Army members on patrol today; the Mission Hall steward also sent a message confirming they had received the charred corpse of the tiger demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Danyuan Peak, only Wan Feng had sent a message, stating that the Spirit Realm Pavilion, the Qihuang Pavilion, and the Nine Streets Hall had convened another meeting regarding the Pill Refining Grand Assembly, during which Xia Zhen had mentioned her by name, hoping she would attend the next meeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi glanced at Wan Feng's message and immediately dismissed it from her mind; with so many matters unfolding in Nanxiang County, she wished she could split herself into clones, let alone have the leisure to attend boring meetings at the Medical Bureau.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that there were no urgent matters at either the Lingguang Hall or Danyuan Peak, Hua Changxi took out a seven-patterned Xuanhuang Fruit and consumed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As night passed, the Xuanhuang Fruit was completely absorbed and refined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sensing the seventh shackle of her physique break open, Hua Changxi used the teleportation array to return to the Danyuan Secret Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Body refinement required soaking in body-refining medicinal baths; fortunately, the Danyuan Secret Realm was of high enough grade—an eighth-grade secret realm—so the spiritual herbs needed to cultivate the seventh chapter of the \"Nine Cycles Mysterious Art\" could be found on the seventh layer of the realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After gathering all the required spiritual herbs, Hua Changxi summoned the Shennong Cauldron and boiled a pot of seventh-grade body-refining medicinal bath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After soaking in the medicinal bath, the next step was to temper her physique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As more and more shackles of her physique broke open, Hua Changxi's understanding of the body grew deeper, and her realization that body cultivators could also achieve the Great Dao through refining their physique became more profound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, beginning to cultivate the seventh chapter of the \"Nine Cycles Mysterious Art\"—the Meridian Chapter—gave her an even more advanced understanding of body refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if a cultivator lacked spiritual roots, the Heavenly Dao had still left a sliver of opportunity for ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The human body was filled with meridians, and these meridians were the \"innate trajectories\" imprinted by the \"Great Dao of Heaven and Earth\" within the human body, serving as the \"natural interface\" for cultivators to resonate with heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the eyes of body cultivators, human potential was infinite, and the meridians within the body could be refined into channels capable of storing the laws of heaven and earth, just like spiritual roots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Dao endowed the human body with eighty-one hidden nodes, corresponding to the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, the Twelve Regular Meridians, and other branch meridian networks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meridian network of ordinary people remained in a dormant state awaiting activation; cultivating the seventh chapter of the \"Nine Cycles Mysterious Art\" meant activating all the meridian nodes within the body, allowing the meridian network that bore the power and laws of heaven and earth to form a self-sustaining cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having sorted out the theory behind the seventh chapter of body refinement, Hua Changxi teleported to the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nowadays, members of the Zhu Que Army had gradually begun coming here to cultivate; upon her arrival, without encountering any of them, she plunged straight into the fire spring and once again surged upstream against the current.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Zhu Que Army members cultivating there saw a red figure withstand the tremendous force of the fire spring's surge, shooting up to the spring's surface and vanishing within moments, and they all dropped their jaws in astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that... the Hall Master?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Hall Master is too formidable; I can barely surge upstream for more than ten meters; I wonder how she manages it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If only we could hear the Hall Master expound on the Dao.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi reached the Fire Spring Palace, but she discovered that the body-refining effects of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring had become somewhat negligible for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi sighed; she knew she would have to seek a new location for body refinement once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, what should a body-refining venue capable of activating the meridians within the body look like?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi temporarily set this question aside and collected a great deal of Mars Fuzz, which resembled moss, from the suspended islands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, she took out the 'Suggestion Box' and 'Suggestion Stones' crafted by the Artifact Sage Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, using spiritual power, she branded the Mars Fuzz onto the Suggestion Box and Suggestion Stones; instantly, both the box and the stones transformed in appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After refitting all the Suggestion Boxes and Suggestion Stones, Hua Changxi immediately stationed a Suggestion Box at the entrance and exit of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon leaving the Nine Heavens Fire Spring, she went to the Karmic Fire Platform and also left a Suggestion Box at its entrance and exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, she went to the Li Fire Cliff, set up a Suggestion Box, and simultaneously distributed one Suggestion Stone to everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Hua Changxi returned to the Lingguang Hall, where she placed a Suggestion Box at each of the four corners of the Shanmen Plaza; she also deposited one hundred thousand Suggestion Stones with the Logistics Department, instructing them to issue one to every soldier of the Zhu Que Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having completed these tasks, she resumed her patrol of Nanxiang County.\u003C\u002Fp>",1877,"2026-06-12T02:51:23.636Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","dfdbdbf9dcaea4bf76dfa630c0937d4c2ce7c3386fbf356f38a5016c58aedab3","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-384","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-382",558,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-cover.jpg"]