[{"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-389":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},1897163,2531,"Chapter 389: Physical Body Strong → Soul Body Robust → Physical Body Stronger","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-389",389,"\u003Cp>The egg-shaped chaotic space within the Zhu Rong Tomb did not appear large when viewed from the outside; after Hua Changxi flew inside, she still did not feel it was particularly vast, and that royal descendant who had entered before her stood not far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, she soon discovered that reality was not so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first thing Hua Changxi did upon entering the space was to launch a surprise attack and kill the royal descendant who had arrived before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This person, capable of manipulating her using black flames, kept her heart in constant suspense; he had to be eliminated immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi summoned the Floating Light Sword and exerted her full strength, flying at maximum speed toward the male cultivator nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the person opposite her remained completely motionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Yan watched the red-robed female cultivator charging at him with intent to slay him with great calmness; after a few minutes, seeing Hua Changxi come to an abrupt halt, he raised an eyebrow in understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This female cultivator was indeed vigilant, discovering the anomalies of this space so quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This chaotic space, shaped like an egg on the outside, appeared small yet was internally as vast as the starry sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he had first entered, he had exhausted more than half the spiritual energy in his body yet failed to move far from the spatial barrier; only afterward, by continuously employing the Star-Shifting Divine Ability, was he able to navigate within this space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flight technique of that female cultivator opposite him would be considered top-tier in the outside world, yet here it served little purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless she had also cultivated a spatial movement divine ability, she would never be able to approach him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi had indeed sensed something amiss; at her flight speed, she should logically have already reached the male royal cultivator, yet after flying for so long, there was not the slightest sign that the distance between them had shortened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What astonished her even more was that when she looked back, she discovered she was still near the barrier; she had flown in vain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was something strange about this space!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi looked at Zhu Yan, whose expression remained calm, and felt a surge of alertness in her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her flight technique proved ineffective in this space, yet that male cultivator could traverse it freely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant she could not approach him, but he could approach her; she needed to remain constantly vigilant against his surprise attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing she could not get close to Zhu Yan in the short term, Hua Changxi decisively abandoned her plan to assassinate him and turned her attention to investigating this egg-shaped chaotic space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the red-robed female cultivator cease her attempt to kill him, Zhu Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Employing the Star-Shifting Divine Ability consumed immense spiritual energy; his focus needed to remain on pursuing the Fire Axe, and once he obtained it and became the master of this blessed land of caves and heavens, killing that female cultivator would not be too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the Fire Axe merely a few meters away, Zhu Yan felt utterly despairing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a short distance; in the outside world, he could grasp the Fire Axe with a single wave of his hand, yet here, between him and the axe lay what seemed like an impassable chasm; no matter how hard he tried, he could never touch it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Fire Axe had not existed from the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after he entered the space, discovered its vast interior, employed the Star-Shifting Divine Ability to wander around without finding anything, and then recalled that this blessed land of caves and heavens was related to the Ancestral Witch Zhu Rong, did he attempt to use the 'Flesh into Fire' Divine Ability, causing the Fire Axe to suddenly appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 'Flesh into Fire' Divine Ability was a secret technique never passed outside the Zhu clan, executable only by those possessing the bloodline of Zhu Rong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he was the individual within the Zhu clan who possessed the most concentrated Zhu Rong bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the Fire Axe appeared, intuition told him that this axe was the token of the master of this blessed land of caves and heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Fire Axe appeared only after Zhu Yan employed the 'Flesh into Fire' Divine Ability, it made him even more certain that he was the chosen destiny-bearer of this blessed land of caves and heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the spatial barrier, seeing that Zhu Yan ignored her and resumed chasing the Fire Axe, Hua Changxi felt relieved yet simultaneously extremely anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, she too believed that Fire Axe was the token of the master of the Zhu Rong Tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, unable to take a single step in this space, she did not even qualify to compete for the Fire Axe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi could only suppress her anxiety and carefully investigate this space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space was elliptical; its barrier was neither stone nor jade, but a translucent crystal wall swirling with dark golden bloodline patterns; unlike other barrier formations she had seen, this one pulsed with a regular rhythm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each pulse was accompanied by a faint sound; listening closely, it resembled the beating of a heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the space contained three mighty forces: one was qi and blood energy scalding like magma, another was the power of fire laws encompassing all phenomena, and the last was soul force of utmost purity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before entering this space, Hua Changxi had guessed it might be the place to cultivate the third stage of the Meridian Chapter of the 'Nine Cycles Mysterious Art,' meant to broaden and fill the meridians; the three forces she now sensed were exactly what was needed for cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi did not immediately begin cultivating the 'Nine Cycles Mysterious Art' but instead observed Zhu Yan, who was chasing the Fire Axe, for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She discovered that although he could traverse the space, each movement covered only a short distance, and moreover, after every three moves, he had to stop and sit in meditation to recover his spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after confirming that this person could not casually approach her either did Hua Changxi begin cultivating the 'Nine Cycles Mysterious Art.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first to surge into her meridians was the qi and blood energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Hua Changxi realize how unbearable broadening the meridians truly was; as soon as the qi and blood entered her body, it felt like boiling magma flooding in, causing pain that made her entire body tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the effect of broadening the meridians was astonishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the scouring of the qi and blood magma, the meridians continuously expanded outward; amidst repeated tempering, faint cracking sounds emanated from within her body, subtly resembling the vibration of metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi clenched her teeth, struggling to circulate the 'Nine Cycles Mysterious Art.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever the pain made her want to give up, she would think of crises such as 'being manipulated by black flames' or 'being powerless to suppress the turmoil in Nanxiangcheng,' which allowed her to persist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the qi and blood energy cleared the path, the power of fire laws followed closely, surging into her meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the perception of Hua Changxi's divine consciousness, the power of fire laws transformed into tiny fragments of red light scattered throughout the space, floating in the chaos like stars, each particle containing the might to burn mountains and boil seas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the power of fire laws poured in, the pain Hua Changxi endured immediately multiplied several times over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the meridians were like star tracks, then the qi and blood energy was the mud paving the road, while the power of fire laws was the fixed steel mesh compacting the roadbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi persisted through only one meridian cycle before she could endure no longer, collapsing in exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding the Yellow Earth Fruit, she had consumed them from one pattern up to seven patterns, unlocking seven layers of her physical shackles; thus, cultivating the seventh chapter of the 'Nine Cycles Mysterious Art,' she could refine it to perfection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The limit for body refinement in each stage was nine times; this meant that if she did not wish to waste her potential, she still needed to broaden her meridians eight more times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment she thought of having to endure eight more cycles of agony worse than death, Hua Changxi wanted to cry right there, but seeing Zhu Yan 'not far away' still panting as he chased the Fire Axe, she sat cross-legged again after recovering briefly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fourth stage of the seventh chapter of the 'Nine Cycles Mysterious Art' involved using the 'flesh as a furnace and the divine soul as fire'; that is, the fire grows vigorous by the furnace's momentum, while the furnace becomes solid due to the fire's cooling, the two co-existing, co-growing, and nourishing each other to achieve the effect of body refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This stage of body refinement caused the soul body to grow robust in sync with the physical body, yet it remained attached to the physical form without separating from the original body; therefore, unlike Dharma cultivators, one could not condense a separate Primordial Spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, the seventh chapter of body refinement formed a complete closed loop of \"physical body strong → soul body robust → physical body stronger.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1554,"2026-06-12T02:51:23.636Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","a79c55baa4f2e25753f81fb48a40d727ef5405c116478afa4c88e7e787938d88","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-390","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-388",558,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-cover.jpg"]