The scroll continued:
"Later, I traveled the world and, by a stroke of fate, encountered an ancient mighty figure at the moment of his passing. Before dying, he sighed and revealed a heaven-shaking secret: Pei Chenyuan, master of the Ten Thousand Mothers Relic, had the cunning of a rabbit with three burrows! The Ten Thousand Mothers Ancestral Land was merely a smokescreen he had cast out to draw attention! The true Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron had actually been sealed inside a jade bottle and hidden within an obscure, deserted cave dwelling in the relic—remote, nameless, and utterly unremarkable! Such scheming chills the heart, yet also inspires admiration!"
"What a pity! What a hate! By the time I learned this secret, I had already been poisoned by an unsolvable strange venom. My origin was exhausted, and my days were numbered! Though I knew where the treasured cauldron lay, I could no longer wait for the next opening of the Ten Thousand Mothers Relic! I held the clue to a supreme treasure, yet was fated never to see its true form, much less use its miraculous effects to save myself. This is the greatest regret of my life!"
"It is said that the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron possesses peerless might, a treasure nurtured by Primordial Chaos. Cultivating while seated within it can draw upon the essence of heaven and earth, yielding twice the result with half the effort! More wondrously, this cauldron possesses the supreme power to temper all things and purify every evil! If I had entered the relic in those days, found this cauldron, and used its purifying power to wash away the terrible poison within me, I might have rebuilt my Dao foundation, lived another life, and ascended to greater heights!"
"Alas! The times did not favor me! Thus,