[{"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-490":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},1897264,2531,"Chapter 490: Ghost Yin Wood","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-490",490,"\u003Cp>Falling from the rift in the realm, Hua Changxi stabilized her form and once again hovered above that vast, boundless river of ghostly green infant spirits; the yin coldness unique to the Ghost Domain forbidden land instantly swept over her entire body like a tidal wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, unlike the eerie vitality hidden beneath the ghostly atmosphere she felt when first entering this place, the River of Ghost Infants now exuded a deathly silence that made one's heart tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raising her eyes, Hua Changxi saw that not only the River of Ghost Infants beneath her feet, but also the vast wasteland deep within the forbidden land, and even that towering Ghost Mother Mountain in the distance, were all scenes of devastation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bizarre splendor of swirling ghost fires and flickering dark light from the past was gone, replaced by a deathly gray pallor, as if a massive amount of 'vitality' and 'essence' had been extracted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dense ghost qi, so thick it seemed almost unmeltable, had vanished completely, and the netherworld ghost fires visible everywhere were extinguished without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no bone-chilling wails of ghosts or howls of wolves, no whistling yin cold gale cutting across the face, and not even a stray wandering soul could be detected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire world was terrifyingly quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Witnessing such desolation, a chill suddenly shot up from Hua Changxi's feet, instantly sweeping through her whole body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She understood clearly in her heart: the main cause of this barren desolation in the Ghost Domain forbidden land was precisely the heavenly punishment that had descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a trance, her thoughts were dragged back to the moment she had previously suffered the bombardment of heavenly punishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That terrifying will, capable of destroying everything and eradicating all things, seemed to pierce through the barriers of time, casting a shadow over her heart once again, making her involuntarily feel that despair of struggling on the brink of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hum~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep within her sea of consciousness, the black broken blade trembled, pulling Hua Changxi out of the quagmire of memories and back to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the chill rising in her heart, and ceased examining this desolate scene further; with a sweep of her form, she landed lightly on the bank of the River of Ghost Infants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment her feet touched the ground, the 'Follow the Heart' dharma robe on her body shimmered slightly, instantly transforming into a pitch-black ghost clan long robe, while her features were concealed by a ferocious skull mask; her aura converged, perfectly blending into this deathly darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, she gripped the black broken blade in her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, using the black broken blade as a compass, she followed the direction that caused the blade to tremble, moving like a silent ghost as she quietly traversed the desolate Ghost Domain forbidden land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been only a little over a year since Hua Changxi's great battle with the Ghost King and the subsequent heavenly punishment; perhaps for this reason, few ghost clan members dared to set foot in the forbidden land until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, as she stealthily made her way, Hua Changxi encountered no danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she continued to traverse, she gradually got a general sense of the terrain of the Ghost Domain forbidden land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost Mother Mountain sat in the center of the forbidden land, with the River of Ghost Infants encircling its base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The terrain of the forbidden land was high in the west and low in the east, with the River of Ghost Infants flowing southeast, piercing through the entire forbidden land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heart of the forbidden land should have been where the ghost qi was most dense, but due to the attack of heavenly punishment, the Ghost Domain forbidden land now presented a unique and bizarre phenomenon: the further one walked toward the outside of the forbidden land, the denser and more vigorous the ghost qi and ghost fires filling the air became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traveling eastward for hundreds of miles, it was only then that the towering, corpse-like silhouette of Ghost Mother Mountain completely sank below the horizon for Hua Changxi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, what awaited her was not an exit from the Ghost Domain forbidden land, but a vast forest sea steaming with ghost qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That forest sea stretched endlessly beyond sight, like a barrier spanning heaven and earth, silently blocking her path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi exhaled; she was not surprised by the appearance of the forest sea, for if the Ghost Domain forbidden land truly allowed 'outsiders' to come and go as they pleased, the ghost clan would be too useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If her guess was correct, the forest ahead should be the outer perimeter of the Ghost Domain forbidden land; once she passed through this barrier of Senluo trees, she could exit the forbidden land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi converged her aura and cautiously approached the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the appearance of the trees gradually became clear in her vision, her expression grew increasingly grave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This forest sea exuded a bizarre quality that made one feel nauseous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as the eye could see, hundred-zhang giant trees presented a deathly gray-white hue; their branches twisted and stretched out like countless pale, withered claws greedily grasping toward the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more horrifying was that at the end of every branch hung a heavy, black sac-like object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between the cracks in the bark, veins of dark green fluorescence pulsed and flowed like blood vessels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire forest seemed alive; the bark slowly writhed and reorganized, as if countless living beings beneath the skin were breathing in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi felt her scalp go numb, yet her steps did not halt for even a moment, her gaze locking firmly onto what lay ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only when she narrowed her eyes and saw clearly that the 'black sacs' hanging on those gray-white trunks wrapped around curled-up figures of the ghost clan that she recognized what kind of trees these were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost Yin Wood!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inheritance of the Shennong Cauldron recorded that the ghost clan possessed a 'Sacred Wood' named Ghost Yin Wood; when a ghost clan member entered the 'ghost sac' nurtured by the Ghost Yin Wood, they could use the power of the yin wood to temper and strengthen their ghost body, with a cultivation speed at least ten times faster than elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, looking from afar, Hua Changxi saw that the expanse of Ghost Yin Wood seemed to bear tens of thousands of 'ghost fruits,' but in reality, those were clearly tens of thousands of ghost clan members in closed-door cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What made things even more troublesome was that there were ghost clan members patrolling within the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi's mood instantly became grave; she knew that passing through the Ghost Yin Wood forest ahead would not be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>",1133,"2026-06-12T02:51:24.126Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","16270172efe9c1981ca7dda11180aad3fcbef789bd5674de94c304b5b249f762","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-491","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-489",558,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-cover.jpg"]