Heavenly Creation Cauldron

Dinner time.

The sky outside the wooden cabin had already gone completely dark.

Soft Soul Tool lights illuminated the room.

Several steaming home-cooked dishes sat on the dining table.

Sitting across from Huo Yuhao was a refined-looking middle-aged couple.

They were Ju Zi's parents.

The father was called Gan Ju, and the mother was called Gan Tian.

When Huo Yuhao had first heard those two names, he had been utterly stunned.

He had thought Ju Zi was merely the little girl's childhood name or nickname.

Who would have thought it was actually a family naming tradition passed down through generations?

Only after Ju Zi casually explained it did he understand.

In the Sun Moon Empire, commoners at the bottom rung of society simply had no right to possess something as lofty as a surname.

To save trouble, most people directly used their Martial Souls as their names.

Ju Zi's father's Martial Soul was an utterly useless ordinary tangerine, so he was called Gan Ju.

Her mother's Martial Soul was an ordinary apple. Since it was sweet, she was called Gan Tian.

Simple.

Straightforward.

And extremely down-to-earth.

"Come, Yuhao, have some more meat."

With a gentle smile on her face, Gan Tian warmly placed a large piece of soul beast meat into Huo Yuhao's bowl.

"Thank you, Auntie."

Huo Yuhao gave her an obedient smile.

I was eating and drinking for free, and they were even waiting on me. I had to show some emotional intelligence if I wanted to keep living off them.

Not only did he have to eat, he had to make them happy while he ate.

"Delicious." Huo Yuhao generously gave a thumbs-up.

The smile on Gan Tian's face grew even brighter.

"And you too, Guyi. Eat more."

As she spoke, Gan Tian turned and placed a chopstickful of food into Ye Guyi's bowl as well.

Ye Guyi's body stiffened slightly.

Looking at the piece of meat that had appeared in her bowl, her hand gripping the chopsticks unconsciously tightened.

Her knuckles even turned somewhat white.

"...Thank you."

Her voice was very soft, as though she were suppressing something.

Watching the ordinary couple across from her bustle about and repeatedly urge them to eat,

Ye Guyi's eyes gradually reddened.

A warm mist kept swirling in her eyes, but she clenched her teeth tightly and refused to let the tears fall.

Not long ago,

her family had been like this too.

Her father and mother would sit at the table, smiling as they bickered while placing food into her bowl.

But now, it was all gone.

Only she remained, carrying a cold short sword on her back and barely surviving in the shadows.

If she had not encountered the people Ju Zi had sent, she would probably have become a cold corpse by now.

Ye Guyi lowered her head and stuffed the food in her bowl into her mouth in large bites, trying to use the motion of chewing to conceal the emotions that were on the verge of breaking her.

Meanwhile,

Ju Zi sat beside them, quietly eating.

She silently observed the two utterly different people before her.

She watched Huo Yuhao desperately shovel down food in an attempt to win over her parents with emotional intelligence, then looked at Ye Guyi, whose reddened eyes accompanied her equally desperate eating.

Deep in Ju Zi's eyes flashed a calm composure that seemed to hold the entire situation under control.

Late at night.

Huo Yuhao lay on the soft bed with his hands behind his head.

The Soul Tool chandelier on the ceiling had already been turned off.

The room was very quiet.

But he had no intention of sleeping.

As a proper transmigrator, his current situation was truly absurd.

According to the usual webnovel formula, he should have already begun showing off, slapping faces, and embarking on the path to invincibility.

But reality was that before he had even encountered a single monster in the beginner village, some big shot who seemed to have reincarnated at max level had directly taken over his life.

The worldline had already been altered beyond recognition.

Ju Zi had awakened her ambitions ahead of time and had even assembled her own team.

Even Ye Guyi, the Holy Angel who should only have appeared near the very end, was now sleeping in the room next door.

What would happen in the future?

Just how badly had the plot collapsed?

Huo Yuhao could not imagine it at all.

Thinking of this, he could not help sighing.

Forget it.

If the sky fell, the tall ones would hold it up.

With Ju Zi, this reincarnated powerhouse, standing in front of him, all he needed to do was peacefully freeload until death.

He would take things one step at a time.

Besides, this freeloading life tasted pretty good.

Unable to sleep, Huo Yuhao simply sat up from the bed.

He crossed his legs and slowly mobilized the Soul Power within his body.

Buzz.

A Centennial Soul Ring emitting a pale yellow glow slowly rose from beneath his feet.

This was the first Soul Ring he had obtained during the day.

Three hundred and eleven years.

It counted as a top-tier configuration among basic Soul Rings.

Huo Yuhao willed it.

His first soul skill activated.

Almost instantly,

Huo Yuhao felt a cool current rush directly into the depths of his mind.

It felt like biting down on a pound of chilled mint in the height of summer.

His thoughts instantly became incomparably clear.

His vision underwent a heaven-shaking change as well.

He raised his head and looked around.

His night vision greatly improved. Even the fine grain in the bedside table's wood, and even tiny dust particles floating in the air,

became crystal clear in his eyes.

The faint mental exhaustion brought on by pondering the plot's direction was also completely swept away by that cool current.

After carefully experiencing it for a while,

Huo Yuhao silently withdrew his Soul Power.

This was a purely passive support-type soul skill.

Overall, it did not possess any earth-shattering, heaven-defying effects.

It simply and brutally enhanced brain activity, neural response, and eyesight.

Although it was not particularly dazzling, Huo Yuhao was already extremely satisfied.

As a cheater with the dual Martial Souls of a brain and Spirit Eyes, this kind of support that directly affected the source was far more practical than any messy offensive soul skill.

Huo Yuhao gave this soul skill a highly fitting name.

Mind-Clearing.

Simple and easy to remember. One glance was enough to tell that it was passive.

After testing his soul skill, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes once more.

His consciousness began to sink deeper and deeper.

Soon, he arrived at his Sea of Spirit.

According to the original script, this should have been the stage for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's appearance.

But now, the vast Sea of Spirit was empty.

Only one thing floated quietly in its deepest reaches.

An ancient, unadorned cauldron.

This was also the only cheat he possessed as a transmigrator.

The Heavenly Creation Cauldron.

In its normal state, the cauldron was only palm-sized, its entire body a mysterious chaotic dark gray.

Its surface bore no excessive, flashy decorations.

Only nine faintly visible, strange Dao patterns circled around it.

They corresponded to the cauldron's nine layers of seals.

The cauldron had the classic design of three legs and two handles.

A hazy layer of Creation Mist always covered its mouth, making it look incredibly imposing.

By touching that mist, one could connect to the inside of the cauldron.

As a cheat, its functions were actually very simple and straightforward.

They could generally be divided into two parts.

Cosmos.

Creation.

The so-called Cosmos meant that the tiny cauldron contained a universe with a complete Great Dao within it.

It could contain and store any inanimate object, or even living beings.

The most overpowered part was that once something was taken inside, time would enter a state of absolute suspension.

Whether for hiding people or storing objects, it was the ultimate choice.

However, limited by his current level, he had not even unlocked the first seal, so for now this function could only serve as a low-grade storage space.

The second function was Creation.

This was also its most heaven-defying function.

The cauldron could directly convert any energy or substance into pure Creation Origin.

Creation Origin could not be directly used for cultivation.

But it could be used to nurture items.

As long as there was enough Creation Origin, it could forcibly raise anything to its theoretically most perfect state.

It was simply unreasonable.

The only problem was that the conversion speed of this Creation Origin was directly tied to Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed.

The faster he cultivated, the more origin it produced.

At this moment,

Huo Yuhao looked at the ancient cauldron floating quietly within his Sea of Spirit.

Then his gaze returned to the yellow Soul Ring he had just obtained.

Since Creation Origin claimed it could raise anything to perfection,

then what about Soul Rings?

Or rather, could the soul skills carried by Soul Rings be thrown into the cauldron and nurtured?

If that worked...

then forcibly nurturing a Centennial Soul Ring until it possessed the effects of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring might not be impossible.

Huo Yuhao's heart skipped a beat.

Trying it out could get him killed.

He took a deep breath and slowly extended his consciousness toward the hazy mist at the cauldron's mouth.