The Secret of the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron (Unofficial History)

The image on the Sky Screen suddenly changed.

[The following scene appeared inside a ruined building.

At the center of the building was a massive pit. In the middle of the pit stood an ancient Altar, connected to the surrounding edge only by a stone bridge.

The Altar was covered in densely packed runes. Their lines were strange and their shapes peculiar, carrying an indescribable aura of mystery.

Di Tian stood at the edge of the Altar with his hands behind his back. His golden dragon eyes swept over the runes, and his brows furrowed slightly.

He could not identify these runes...

Wu Wei placed Xiao Xiao beside the Altar, then crouched down and reached out to tear off the tape sealing her mouth.

"Hiss!"

The instant the tape was ripped away, Xiao Xiao sucked in a sharp breath from the pain.

But as soon as her mouth was free, she immediately started talking.

"You'd better let me go!"

Xiao Xiao glared at the man and dragon before her. Though she was afraid, she could not simply sit and wait for death.

So she forced herself to threaten them. "My master is Taotie Douluo Xuan Zi, the current Master of the Sea God Pavilion! If anything happens to me, my master won't let you off! Shrek Academy won't let you off either!"

Neither Wu Wei nor Di Tian looked at her.

Wu Wei crouched by the Altar, his fingers slowly tracing the runes as though he were studying something.

Di Tian stood with his hands behind his back. His gaze left the runes and swept across the surrounding ruins, his expression blank.

Seeing that neither of them paid her any attention, Xiao Xiao's grievance and anger tangled together, and she changed tactics.

"I don't know what a Dragon Vein is! I know even less about how to break the seal! You've got the wrong person!"

At those words, Wu Wei stopped moving.

He slowly rose to his feet, turned to look at Xiao Xiao, and smiled.

That smile made Xiao Xiao's heart sink, and unease quietly rose within her.

Wu Wei did not answer right away. He merely raised his right foot and stomped down hard.

"Buzzz!!"

A deep hum rose from underground, and the entire Altar trembled slightly.

Soul Power surged from Wu Wei's body into the formation beneath his feet like a tide. The previously dim runes instantly lit up, radiating purple light.

Before Xiao Xiao could react, a flash of light suddenly burst from her body.

A golden ball of light shot out from within her and floated in midair.

Xiao Xiao stared at it closely, and her entire body froze.

"Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron?!"

That was right. The object that had suddenly emerged from her body was her martial soul, the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron!

Xiao Xiao looked at her martial soul in alarm, panic filling her heart.

Her life was now entirely in the hands of the man and dragon before her.

What if releasing her martial soul was mistaken for resistance, and they slapped her to death?

Xiao Xiao gritted her teeth and tried to control her martial soul, intending to take it back.

But the next moment, her expression changed completely.

"What's going on?!"

No matter how she tried to control it, the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron gave no response. It remained steadily suspended there, completely beyond her control.

"The Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron... is out of control?!"

Xiao Xiao's eyes widened as she stared at her martial soul in disbelief.

She had never encountered such a situation before. A martial soul was something a Soul Master was born with, a part of the body itself. How could it possibly be beyond control?

Wu Wei followed her gaze to the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and said,

"Do you know why your martial soul is called the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron?"

Xiao Xiao looked at him in confusion, unable to understand what he meant by that question.

Wu Wei stood with his hands behind his back and spoke unhurriedly. "According to legend, during ancient times, the Dragon Vein's seal was watched over by a certain family."

"Those with pure bloodlines from that family could even draw upon a portion of the Dragon Vein's power."

He paused, his gaze falling on Xiao Xiao. "And that family's martial soul was the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron."

Xiao Xiao's pupils contracted slightly.

Wu Wei walked over to Xiao Xiao, reached out, pinched her chin, and raised her face.

"Unfortunately..."

There was a trace of regret in Wu Wei's voice. "The bloodline inheritance of the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron vanished long ago."

"I searched the entire continent, combed through all kinds of ancient records, and stole the genealogies of every family. Only after great difficulty did I learn that someone in a family whose inheritance was the Nine-Phoenix Flute had awakened the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. That person is you."

Xiao Xiao could not speak with her face pinched in his grasp. She could only glare at him with her eyes.

"Although your bloodline is already exceedingly thin, fortunately, you still awakened the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, which had been absent for generations."

Wu Wei released her, turned around, and looked at Di Tian, who had been listening all along.

Clearly, he was explaining all this to Di Tian as well.

Di Tian frowned slightly as he watched Wu Wei struggle to contain the excitement in his heart.

Finally, Wu Wei could no longer suppress himself. He spread his arms, his voice carrying a trace of fanaticism.

"The secret of the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, unknown to the world!"

"Is precisely the key to breaking the Dragon Vein's seal!"

The more he spoke, the more excited he became. He raised his head toward the ceiling, his face twisting as his tone neared madness.

"Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron!"

"The cauldron is its form! Soul-suppressing refers to the sealed Dragon Vein!"

He suddenly stopped and slowly lowered his head. His gaze swept over the terrified Xiao Xiao, over the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron floating in midair, and finally settled on Di Tian.

"And Three-Life..."

His eyes widened, and he revealed a crazed smile.

"...refers to human, dragon, and soul."

"Human is the Soul Master who possesses the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron! Soul is the martial soul, the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron!"

"Dragon is a pure-blooded giant dragon with the purest bloodline in the world!"

Before his words had even faded, the madness on Wu Wei's face intensified.

He suddenly spun around and viciously slammed both hands onto the formation on the ground.

"Bang!"

A deep, thunderous boom rang out, and the entire Altar shook violently.

Wu Wei rapidly chanted a string of obscure, incomprehensible incantations.

The runes on the formation suddenly blazed brighter. Dazzling purple light illuminated the ruined building as brightly as day.

Immediately afterward, arcs of purple energy emerged from the edge of the formation, streaking through the air like lightning.

Di Tian's expression changed drastically.

He instantly sensed that something was wrong. A surge of Soul Power far beyond anything he had imagined was rushing up from underground!

Even a hundred of him could not compare to this immense Soul Power!

"Roar!!!"

An earth-shaking dragon roar rang out. Di Tian's body instantly expanded, transforming into a massive black dragon.

His golden dragon eyes were filled with boundless fury.

"You humans really never keep your word!!"

Di Tian's roar exploded through the air.

His dragon maw opened wide, and terrifying energy rapidly condensed within it, forming a brilliant sphere of light aimed directly at Wu Wei below.

Earlier, Wu Wei's agreement with him had been this.

There was a taboo within the ruins that could only be broken with the disciple of Shrek Academy's Taotie Douluo, Xuan Zi, as the condition.

But Wu Wei was not strong enough himself, and Shrek had many powerful experts.

If he tried to abduct the disciple of the current Master of the Sea God Pavilion in Shrek City, he would likely never return.

So Wu Wei had sought him out, asking him to appear in Shrek City and hold back Xuan Zi and the others while Wu Wei secretly captured the target.

Afterward, the opportunity to become a god within the ruins would be divided equally between them.]