Could it really be the Great Wilderness Cauldron? I still don't know where the Great Flood Bell is, or what the Mysterious Supreme Treasure might be, yet I've obtained the higher-ranked Great Wilderness Cauldron first?
Sensing the ancient cauldron's subtle changes, Xiao Ying entertained this rather curious conjecture.
Of course, it remained mere conjecture. Verification and confirmation would have to wait, and Xiao Ying could hardly take it to the Immortal Venerables and ask.
For now, the Great Wilderness Cauldron had only two known characteristics: durability and body refinement. Its other effects still required contemplation and research.
"Great Wilderness Imperishable Body!"
With that initial experience behind him, Xiao Ying could sense the Great Wilderness Cauldron's presence more clearly and deliberately as he circulated his cultivation technique. He perceived an exceedingly profound and complex meaning that seemed to be the Wilderness Profound Meaning.
The Great Wilderness Imperishable Body primarily cultivated physical strength and contained the profound meaning of desolation and imperishability. This was probably no more than its shallowest surface!
The character for "wilderness" took its form from the grass radical and its sound from "huang." The grass radical denoted dense wild grass, while "huang" denoted an uncanny marsh. Together, they meant "a marsh overgrown with wild grass." It represented danger and desolation, yet also held limitless vitality-an exceedingly complex and contradictory significance. It seemed to represent a complete, independent law, order, and Great Dao, yet contained the mysteries of numerous Great Daos: darkness and light, death and life, withering blossoms and growing plants, decay and prosperity, yin and yang, the five elements, and more. The more he comprehended, the more vast and profound it felt, as though it encompassed everything.
Put simply, the great wilderness was both an initial state and an apocalyptic state, both a beginning and an ending.