[{"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-548":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},1897322,2531,"Chapter 548","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-548",548,"\u003Cp>All things depend on and coexist with one another; especially humans, as social creatures, cannot survive alone. Thus, striving to become a person of use has become the foundation of establishing oneself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Becoming useful is a necessity for survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, a person must become talent and become a vessel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A person cannot live merely as a useful tool or implement!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a person lives in this world such that others remember only their utility, discarding them when they are no longer useful, how tragic that would be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before becoming 'not a vessel,' one must first become a vessel; after becoming a vessel, it is time to cultivate the body and mind. One must never, relying on already being a 'useful vessel,' use the 'standards of a vessel' to trap oneself or measure others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi believed she had already penetrated the true meaning of 'Not a Vessel' spoken by the Not-a-Vessel Deity. For a moment, her thoughts churned and her divine soul trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the space of a single thought, the scene before her eyes suddenly changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Merit Golden Lotus and the solemn figure of the Not-a-Vessel Deity suddenly began to collapse and scatter, then transformed into a sky full of brilliant light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light surged, and a Great Dao, imbued with an ancient, vast Dao rhyme yet appearing slightly insubstantial, suddenly spread out of nowhere within the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the Great Dao manifest in the void, Hua Changxi instantly recalled the scene from the past when she had summoned the 'Mirror of Laws' in the Wutong Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A similar Great Dao had also appeared within the Mirror of Laws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Great Dao had been her Physical Body Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that case, the Great Dao before her eyes was not hard to guess—this was the Not-a-Vessel Dao cultivated by the Not-a-Vessel Deity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Hua Changxi's mind was surging and she had not yet recovered her senses, the countless living beings surrounding her who were listening to the Dao could no longer restrain themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless figures shot up from the ground one after another, rushing toward the void, all determined to step onto that Great Dao, fearing to fall behind others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Witnessing this frenzied scene, a surge of impulse to rush up into the void and onto the Great Dao also welled up in Hua Changxi's heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao of a deity was undoubtedly an extraordinary opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, at the very moment she could not help but take a step, she forcibly halted her movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are myriad Great Daos; regarding the path of cultivation, she felt it was still more prudent and valid to walk it out step by step with her own feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inheriting the Dao of a deity seemed like a shortcut, yet a deeper doubt rose in Hua Changxi's heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she truly walked the Not-a-Vessel Deity's Dao, would her future cultivation be for herself, or would it be for the Not-a-Vessel Deity?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the void, just as many living beings were about to approach the Great Dao, they were struck down by an invisible force. The moment they landed on the water mirror, they vanished into thin air, just as they had appeared out of nowhere before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, a few living beings managed to fly onto the Great Dao and struggled to advance upon it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi saw that whenever a living being stepped onto the Great Dao, the insubstantial Dao solidified by a fraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching this scene, Hua Changxi's heartbeat quickened, and the two words 'Dao Lineage' suddenly floated into her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Not-a-Vessel Deity must have been a figure from ancient times; although he had long since returned to chaos, his Dao Lineage had been preserved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It existed within the Soul Well, awaiting those so-called 'fated ones.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because too much time had passed, his Dao was on the verge of disappearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the Not-a-Vessel Deity urgently needed a fated one to inherit his Dao Lineage, ensuring it continued to exist in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi did not know whether the living beings she saw were, like her, so-called 'fated ones,' or whether what she was witnessing was merely an image of the Not-a-Vessel Deity preaching the Dao from the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of which it was, she did not wish to remain here any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admittedly, the resources on Soul Island were extremely tempting to her, but acquiring resources was for the sake of cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And cultivation was to become a powerhouse, and becoming a powerhouse was to better be oneself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If, for the sake of resources, she lost herself, then her cultivation would become a joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, she could not walk another's path for the sake of a few resources, not even the path of a deity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having figured this out, Hua Changxi began to consider how to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching some living beings fall from the sky and then vanish, she did feel like giving it a try, yet she did not do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For no other reason than that she vaguely felt in her heart that once she flew toward the void, she would be drawn onto that Great Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, she would truly have stepped onto the Not-a-Vessel Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Divine Lord above, this junior has been fortunate enough to listen to your exposition of the Not-a-Vessel Dao and has been deeply enlightened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To avoid becoming the 'vessel' you spoke of, Divine Lord, this junior cannot walk your Not-a-Vessel Dao; I beg your understanding and forgiveness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changxi called out into the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as her voice fell, a sigh, barely audible, drifted to her ears, as light as wind blowing through withered leaves, scattering in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, heaven and earth changed color once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The water mirror, originally vast as a sea of smoke and reflecting the firmament, rapidly collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye; the sky-full of flowing light converged, finally transforming into a crystal-clear fragment shaped like a snowflake, which drifted lightly down into Hua Changxi's palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after she recovered her senses from that dazzling brilliance did she realize the surroundings had changed—she was now outside the Soul Well.\u003C\u002Fp>",1021,"2026-06-12T02:51:24.126Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","10ee9e1c3928325539253f1c75b8f820f4db3ba31acd065e6d48e07b1578afcc","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-549","the-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-chapter-547",558,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-great-jin-s-most-iron-rice-bowl-cover.jpg"]