Xuanchen Cauldron

Yuan Tian was naturally serious about this. If he did something, he either did not do it at all, or he did it to the best of his ability. Yuan Tian had no choice; Innate Spirit Treasure-grade cauldrons were few enough in the entire Primordial Wilderness to count on one's fingers. Who knew whether he would be able to obtain one in the future? Since that was the case, he might as well give his all now and forge a cauldron that belonged to him. A self-refined one would also be easier to use. Could this be considered an alternative form of "Ah Q spirit"? That was a question worth discussing. If there was time later, everyone could talk about it together.

Since he was going to refine a cauldron, he first needed to determine its design. Yuan Tian thought for a long time before finally deciding on its shape. He could now officially begin.

Yuan Tian first used heartfire to refine Geng Metal, Gold Sand, Star Iron, Purple Cloud Crystal, Galaxy Purple Sand, and other top-grade artifact-refining materials one by one. The materials became heaps of golden liquid and purple liquid floating in the air. Needless to say, Yuan Tian was once again using the Heart Refining Method. Having used it several times already, he had gained considerable insight into the method and wielded it with complete ease.

Yuan Tian slowly removed the impurities from the golden and purple liquids in the air, then gradually fused them together and shaped them into the form he had envisioned. The entire process looked simple, as though it would take no time at all, but merely doing this took Yuan Tian three nines—twenty-seven years. Nothing was as simple as he had imagined. At last, the shaping was nearly complete.

At this time, Yuan Tian did not move his lips, but his hands continuously formed incantation seals, sending formation after formation into the cauldron that was about to take shape. Sturdiness formations, blazing flame formations, wishful formations, spatial formations—one after another, as though they cost nothing. In the blink of an eye, Yuan Tian had embedded two nines—eighteen thousand formations into the cauldron. Each formation interlocked with the next, while the smaller formations formed larger formations anew, raising the cauldron's functions and power to the utmost limit.

Yuan Tian then spent another five nines—forty-five years completing the various formations. The cauldron was also on the verge of taking shape.

Though it was said to be on the verge of taking shape, it still took nine more years. After a total of nine nines—eighty-one years, Yuan Tian finally refined his own cauldron successfully.

Eighty-one years. Although that was not a particularly long time for the living beings of the Primordial Wilderness, Yuan Tian had never spent eighty-one years refining a single Spirit Treasure. Even when refining the Golden Dragon Scissors, he had spent only forty-nine years. This showed just how much importance Yuan Tian placed on this cauldron.

With a gentle beckoning motion, Yuan Tian drew the cauldron still floating in the air into his hand. He forced out a drop of essence blood and used it to bind the cauldron as its master. The instant the blood vanished into the cauldron, a spiritual connection akin to blood ties arose within him. The cauldron had acknowledged him as its master.

Only then did Yuan Tian carefully examine the cauldron. It was a round, three-legged cauldron. The heavens' myriad Stars were inscribed above, while mountains and rivers lay below, as though the entire Primordial Wilderness had been engraved upon it, adding a layer of mystery to the cauldron.

The more Yuan Tian looked at it, the more he liked it. Yet the cauldron still had no name. He needed to give it one; he could not keep calling it a cauldron forever. That was far too ordinary.

"From this day onward, you shall be called the Xuanchen Cauldron," Yuan Tian softly said to it.

As soon as Yuan Tian finished speaking, the three words "Xuanchen Cauldron" appeared upon its surface. The Xuanchen Cauldron also seemed very happy, swaying continuously to display its feelings.

"What a spiritual Spirit Treasure!" Yuan Tian discovered that this Xuanchen Cauldron was even more spiritual than the Golden Dragon Scissors. The Golden Dragon Scissors were already more spiritual than Spirit Instruments of the same rank, their spirituality roughly comparable to that of a top-grade Innate Spirit Treasure. Yet this Xuanchen Cauldron possessed even greater spirituality than the Golden Dragon Scissors. It truly had to be called a miracle. Under normal circumstances, the higher a Spirit Treasure's grade, the greater its spirituality. The Xuanchen Cauldron and the Golden Dragon Scissors were of the same grade, both being top-grade acquired Spirit Treasures. Yet in terms of spirituality alone, the Xuanchen Cauldron might rival an ordinary Innate Supreme Treasure. Yuan Tian had never heard of such a thing before—a top-grade acquired Spirit Treasure whose spirituality could compare with an Innate Supreme Treasure.

This was a true miracle. The Xuanchen Cauldron had now acknowledged its master, so Yuan Tian naturally understood its functions.

Because Yuan Tian had incorporated no small number of spatial formations into the Xuanchen Cauldron, it possessed the ability to draw in and seize others and their magical treasures. This was similar to Yuan Tian's Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand, Zhunti's Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree, and Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light. It seemed that all famous cauldrons in the Primordial Wilderness possessed this function; the only difference was the strength of their respective powers.

The Xuanchen Cauldron also possessed defensive power. Though it could not render one invincible merely by hovering above one's head like the Heaven-Earth Cauldron, its defense was still exceedingly formidable, absolutely no weaker than a mid-grade defensive Innate Spirit Treasure. Compared to its defense, its offensive power was somewhat weaker and its method of attack somewhat simpler. It had only one method: smashing. Even so, Yuan Tian was quite pleased, since the Xuanchen Cauldron's primary purpose was not defense or attack. Those were merely auxiliary functions. Its true purpose was alchemy and artifact refinement.

As for the Xuanchen Cauldron's alchemy and artifact-refining abilities, they were exceptionally powerful. Although it could not, like the Heaven-Earth Cauldron, return acquired objects and acquired qi to their original states, much less refine Innate Spirit Treasures, the Xuanchen Cauldron provided a success-rate bonus when refining artifacts and pills, increasing the success rate by twenty percent. Even cauldrons such as the Heaven-Earth Cauldron, which were equivalent to Innate Supreme Treasures, increased success rates by only thirty percent. Do not underestimate that twenty percent increase. Earlier, it was said that Taishang Laozi had less than a thirty percent chance of success when refining Nine-Turn Golden Pills. If he used the Xuanchen Cauldron, his success rate would rise to nearly fifty percent. That was already an extraordinarily high probability. For an alchemy novice like Yuan Tian, it was simply wonderful.

The Xuanchen Cauldron had a twenty percent success-rate bonus when refining artifacts and pills. Its effects were especially obvious in alchemy: not only did it provide a twenty percent success-rate bonus, but the medicinal potency of the pills it produced would also exceed that of ordinary pills by thirty percent.

Upon learning this, Yuan Tian could not help but be deeply moved. This Xuanchen Cauldron could be called a heaven-defying treasure. In the rankings of cauldrons, it was probably inferior only to the legendary Heaven-Earth Cauldron and absolutely capable of contending with the Innate Spirit Treasure Creation Cauldron. Yuan Tian believed that with its aid, he could certainly refine large quantities of spirit pills and Golden Cores. Although these pills could not greatly increase his cultivation, they contained massive amounts of pure spiritual qi. This would alleviate the problem of requiring enormous amounts of spiritual qi during his cultivation. Yuan Tian had always harbored a thought: his need to absorb such a vast quantity of spiritual qi in cultivation might obstruct his future path of cultivation. Of course, that was a matter for later. For now, let us refine pills first.

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