[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-966":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"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},2356149,4608,"Chapter 966: The Treasure Gathering Basin","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-966",966,"\u003Cp>What a loss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After trying for two months straight, He Pingsheng finally reached a conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, with a snap, he dropped the golden sphere onto the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No good!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It simply cannot be refined!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a loss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But He Pingsheng still wanted to try one last time—he picked up the golden sphere again and tossed it into the Treasure Gathering Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next came the enhancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he enhanced it, he split off a portion of his spiritual sense to watch the Treasure Gathering Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he couldn’t risk enhancing the original divine sphere as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once duplicated, he’d take out one, and keep the other for further enhancement—perhaps another divine ability would emerge!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng watched silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his brow furrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s odd!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the basin, the golden sphere had not been enhanced at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t even duplicated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until dawn, He Pingsheng saw no enhancement whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t the key issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, some treasures were too high-grade, beyond the enhancement range of the Treasure Gathering Basin—that was understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what struck He Pingsheng as strange was that not only had the sphere not been enhanced, but none of the other items had either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Treasure Gathering Basin contained more than just the sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was also a third-rank immortal artifact, the [Bronze Mask], a first-rank immortal artifact, the [Qianyuan Jin Dou], and roughly hundreds of low-grade spirit stones!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bronze Mask not being enhanced was understandable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qianyuan Jin Dou and the golden divine sphere not being enhanced was also understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, these items were simply too high-grade!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why hadn’t the spirit stones been enhanced either?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could my Treasure Gathering Basin have malfunctioned?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng felt unprecedented tension surge within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Treasure Gathering Basin was the foundation of his superiority over all others, his greatest safeguard on the Dao path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this thing became useless, how would he ever break through again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, with a try-it-and-see attitude, He Pingsheng added more items to the Treasure Gathering Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no enhancement occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet at night, he still observed moonlight gathering into the basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng racked his brain but found no answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he let out a deep sigh, frowning as he muttered to himself: “I get it… the Treasure Gathering Basin doesn’t malfunction without reason—it’s almost certainly tied to the Heavenly Dao!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Heavenly Dao manifests a ‘Jiazi Heavenly Blindness’ once every sixty years—could my basin’s malfunction be linked to this Jiazi Heavenly Blindness?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That must be it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine… I’ll wait until after the Jiazi Heavenly Blindness passes and see then!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng withdrew his spiritual sense from the Treasure Gathering Basin and ignored it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing else to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because He Pingsheng could no longer cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At present, the most crucial aspect of cultivation was breaking through the Dao barrier—but to break through, one must comprehend the laws of heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng was saturated with karmic light; trying to comprehend heavenly laws now would be futile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the next period, he neither cultivated nor studied arrays or talismans—he picked up his alchemy furnace and began refining elixirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A year passed in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Molin had finished the array!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve fulfilled my duty!” Liu Molin grinned as he showed off his work in He Pingsheng’s Dao hall: “Brother He, I’ve completed the array plate, the array core, and the array flags…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now comes the setup!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’ll take about a few days to install.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Should we install it on Solitary Pine Mountain?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He muttered inwardly: If the Treasure Gathering Basin still worked, wouldn’t it be better to enhance this array inside it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, his spiritual sense swept over the Treasure Gathering Basin once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t realize it until he looked—then he was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy shit…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy shit holy shit holy shit…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enhanced?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes—the [Qianyuan Jin Dou], which he’d thought impossible to enhance, had been strengthened by the Treasure Gathering Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One had become two!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng swiftly pulled one of the Qianyuan Jin Dou out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t it supposed to be unenhanceable?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why had it split into two?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked again—the low-grade spirit stones inside the basin had begun to enhance as well, and several had already become top-grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could the Treasure Gathering Basin be working again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng was utterly bewildered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother He… Brother He, what’s wrong?” Liu Molin was equally puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nothing, nothing, nothing…” He Pingsheng glanced at the array materials scattered on the ground. “Brother Liu… go rest for now. I’ll examine these materials, and in a few days I’ll take you to Solitary Pine Mountain to set up the array!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright!” Liu Molin left immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng sat on the chair, closed his eyes, and thought deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he emptied every single item from the Treasure Gathering Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed only Liu Molin’s newly crafted array materials inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When night fell, he extended his spiritual sense into it once more, observing closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, moonlight gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless rays of moonlight converged into the basin, and within moments, one set of array materials had been enhanced into two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took out one set; the remaining set had been enhanced to top-grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, He Pingsheng launched into frantic experiments!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit stones!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normal enhancement—yes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Herbs—normal enhancement—yes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elixirs—normal enhancement—yes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every item within the Treasure Gathering Basin’s enhancement range could now be enhanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what had been wrong before?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng stared at the two Qianyuan Jin Dou before him, frowning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the answer wasn’t hard to guess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he thought of a possibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That the Qianyuan Jin Dou was an immortal artifact!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it was within the Treasure Gathering Basin’s enhancement range, it required far more energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far more moonlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that much moonlight couldn’t be gathered in a single night—so it enhanced night after night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unconsciously, it had enhanced continuously for a full year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had taken a full year to complete the enhancement!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps that was it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, earlier, when the Treasure Gathering Basin seemed to enhance nothing at all, it wasn’t truly idle—it had been quietly enhancing the Qianyuan Jin Dou all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng suddenly slapped his thigh: “Damn, thank goodness I didn’t take that Qianyuan Jin Dou out of the Zhubao Immortal Basin back then—otherwise, I wouldn’t know if the immortal artifact could’ve been strengthened at all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank goodness, thank goodness!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the two Qianyuan Jin Dou before him, He Pingsheng’s face was nearly blooming with smiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phew…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this raises another question!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If my guess is right, then strengthening an immortal artifact requires a full year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem is, He Pingsheng had previously refined a Grade Nine elixir, the Earth Mother Blood Pill—this thing was theoretically Grade Nine, which equals Grade One in the Immortal Realm, identical in level to the Qianyuan Jin Dou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then why could the Grade Nine Earth Mother Blood Pill be strengthened in a single night?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t figure it out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it—if I can’t figure it out, I’ll set it aside for now!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng pulled out the golden divine bone sphere from the Witch Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Toss it into the Zhubao Basin!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let’s see if it can be strengthened now!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng’s spiritual sense monitored it constantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night fell!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hours later, moonlight condensed, and suddenly one divine bone sphere became two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng was overjoyed and swiftly pulled out one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other continued to be strengthened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One night passed, and this second golden sphere had turned purplish-gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The runes on its surface had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The patterns had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even its aura had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he grasped it, a vast, ancient aura surged toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>",1286,"2026-06-21T04:09:01.327Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","743b5d312d1bbc54f66bc5810a25da14d102302765ce5a0f2ebd29b26e5b738f","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-967","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-965",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]