After the Great Dao died

Chapter 43 The Fortuitous Encounter with the Cauldron

Upon hearing the thunderous sound of the cauldron, Chen Lingxi looked up at the Purple True Treasure Bottle in the sky and suddenly felt enlightened.

The fragmented clues he had just pieced together were now strung together by the phrase "Sacrifice thirty-five lives, nurture the Purple True Treasure Bottle".

It's like an invisible thread that strings together those scattered beads one by one!

"The Crown Prince was fond of animal fighting and frequently held feasts featuring animal fights."

Chen Lingxi quickly calculated in his mind: "The banquet is set up in the broken pieces of the cauldron. The noblemen and their sons drink and make merry in the hall outside, while the fighting beasts are driven into the cauldron to fight and kill each other."

They most likely will never witness the fighting within the palace.

The more he thought about it, the clearer it became.

"In ordinary beast fights in the capital, what nobles want to see is a life-or-death struggle."

However, within these fragments of the cauldron, separated by the boundary between reality and illusion, they might not be able to see the scene inside the palace at all, and at most only know the result of the beast fight.

If that's the case, then what kind of beast-fighting banquet is this? This prince... likes beast fighting. Holding a beast-fighting banquet is a pretense; his real purpose is to find martial artists to perform rituals at this beast-fighting palace and nurture the Purple True Treasure Bottle.

His gaze sharpened as he continued his deductions.

"As for this Qiu Chihu..."

Chen Lingxi's gaze suddenly fell on the spiritual jade bead.

"This pearl is probably the prince's spiritual energy." His eyes were burning. "When Qiu Chihu won the battle against the beast, he used the prince's spiritual energy and his own blood to sacrifice to the cauldron master in exchange for the opportunity to obtain the cauldron."

This is some kind of favor from the Crown Prince! Princess Yunhe, Yang Zhuri, and Chu Linzi have very likely all received this opportunity and favor from the Crown Prince!

In a short moment, Chen Lingxi seemed to have figured out a lot.

He looked again at the heroic face suspended in mid-air, his eyes gleaming.

"So, Your Highness, will you be able to see everything that happens inside this cauldron?"

Chen Lingxi gently shook her head, her eyes calming down.

"In that case, I will test whether the Crown Prince has fully controlled this cauldron and whether he has seen the many things that have happened within it."

He raised his right hand, a wisp of spiritual energy still lingering between his index and middle fingers.

"What I have in common with the Crown Prince lies in this spiritual energy..."

"The spiritual energy I cultivate may become my life force."

Chen Lingxi's thoughts settled on this point, and finally, without further hesitation, her consciousness suddenly connected with the divine chamber.

"Complete enlightenment!"

He silently recited two words in his mind, and the divine chamber in his mind suddenly lit up.

Suddenly, two bright mirrors appeared in the void of the divine chamber. One was as blazing as the sun and the other as silvery as the moon. At the same time, they descended with dazzling pillars of light, shining on his body where his consciousness was concentrated, enveloping him in a golden and white radiance.

The void before him seemed to shatter.

Chen Lingxi entered the divine chamber and then slowly opened her eyes.

The world within this divine chamber is exactly the same as the Beast Fighting Palace where he resides.

Mountains and rivers share the same shape, grass and trees share the same color, and the jade bottle in the sky hangs high there, with purple light cascading down like a waterfall.

The only difference was that the two round mirrors hung high in the sky, much higher than the treasure vase.

Chen Ling glanced at the two bright mirrors in the sky, then looked at the face suspended in mid-air. She took a deep breath, then bowed down, her posture respectful yet composed.

"The Supreme Being reigns supreme!"

The man's gaze finally fell on him.

The gaze was neither sharp nor fierce, but rather a calm and indifferent one. Yet, it caused Chen Lingxi's spiritual energy to falter slightly, as if she had been swept over from head to toe.

Even the azure qi in the dantian and the silver marrow qi and blood surging in the meridians were exposed in a single glance.

"The victor in the beast fight will obtain the opportunity to acquire the cauldron! What will this opportunity be?" the Cauldron Master asked again.

After a moment's thought, Chen Lingxi finally took out the small musk pouch from his belt.

He held the musk-skin pouch in his hands, raised it above his head, and proclaimed loudly, "The opportunity for the cauldron and artifacts will fall here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the handsome man's face remained expressionless, only his lips moved slightly, as if he were silently reciting something.

Immediately, the ancient aura surging between heaven and earth suddenly intensified, rushing towards Chen Lingxi like water bursting its banks, enveloping his entire body.

An ancient aura infused the musk-skin pouch in his hand.

The bag was originally just a piece of ordinary musk deer skin, which was softened and sewn together without even a decent pattern.

But now, as it hovered in Chen Lingxi's palm, it emitted a faint blue light.

The bluish light was extremely soft and faint, like the fuzz on the tenderest willow buds in spring, flowing endlessly across the surface of the bag.

Chen Lingxi waited a moment until the blue light completely disappeared into the bag before holding the bag in her hand again.

What changes have occurred?

Amidst her confusion, Chen Lingxi channeled her spiritual energy, guiding it through her meridians into her palm and injecting it into the small musk pouch.

The moment the spiritual energy entered the bag, he shuddered.

Upon investigation by spiritual energy, it was discovered that the bag contained a space.

The space was perfectly square, six feet long, six feet wide, and six feet high, enough to hold an unknown amount of things!

Chen Lingxi tried to put those pills into it.

The spiritual energy connected with the silver-white pill, and three breaths later, the pill was placed into the bag.

Chen Lingxi was both surprised and delighted, recalling three words she had seen in novels in her previous life.

"It's turned into a magic bag?"

He muttered something under his breath.

Right now.

Before Chen Ling could fully appreciate the wonders of the Qiankun Bag, another unexpected event occurred.

The thirty-five rays of light above his head, which had been hovering there and spinning leisurely, now seemed to be drawn by something, no longer circling, but flying upwards together, heading towards the luminous white jade bottle in the sky.

These rays of light formed a winding river of light, flowing into the purple waterfall cascading from the mouth of the jade bottle.

A few more tiny fragments fell from the purple waterfall, merging with the radiance. The fragments then transformed into a rich purple mist, blending seamlessly with the waterfall.

Upon seeing the purple fragment, Chen Lingxi knew it was identical to the Purple True Treasure Qi fragment he had refined.

He immediately understood.

"Most of the fragments of the Purple True Treasure Qi on Mount Cuojin must have been collected by the Crown Prince into this treasure bottle."

When Lin Su went to Cuojin Mountain a few days ago, the Crown Prince was probably still unconscious. The amount of purple energy remaining in the mountain was incalculable, and what he obtained was only a portion of it, which was just the amount he could control.

The peanut-sized one I obtained was probably just a lucky one, accidentally falling into a crevice in the rocks and escaping the prince's search.

When he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a little fortunate.

"It was a stroke of luck for me."

While his thoughts were in turmoil, the thirty-five rays of light had completely merged into the Purple True Treasure Qi.

The jade bottle in the sky trembled slightly for a moment, and the shimmering white luster of the bottle seemed to become even more lustrous. The cascading purple waterfall also became slightly thicker than before.

The Beast Fighting Palace suddenly changed at this moment.

In the void not far away, a gate appeared silently.

Chen Lingxi took a deep breath, looked up at the two bright mirrors hanging in the sky, and then stepped towards the gate.

Upon reaching the door, I pushed it hard, and the door opened silently.

Behind the door was a deep, dark passage, exactly the same as the one we had come through.

At the end of the passage was the first door—that large vermilion gate.

Chen Lingxi took a deep breath and stepped into the passageway.

At the end of the passageway, the vermilion gate slowly opened.

The magnificent main hall outside the gate remained resplendent in gold and jade, its brocade curtains gleaming faintly in the candlelight, and its lapis lazuli bricks gleaming like mirrors.

The old eunuch walked in from outside the door to greet him.

He remained silent and puppet-like, his face, though over fifty years old, betraying no emotion whatsoever, and his python robe gleamed with a somber, dark light in the candlelight.

But... when he saw Chen Lingxi, the old eunuch's pupils finally contracted slightly, and then returned to calm.

"Strange thing."

The old eunuch muttered something under his breath.