Shennong Cauldron

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shennong Cauldron
Original Name	神农鼎
Classification	Tool Martial Soul; identified as a top-tier support Martial Soul and a supreme Medicine Dao Martial Soul 2.
Wielder	Jiang Baiyu 2.
Origin	A trace of the Shennong Cauldron’s projection received through the Flame Emperor’s blessing 2 31.
Role	Healing, medicinal refinement, cultivation support, agriculture, and nurturing life 4 25.
Internal Realm	Cauldron World, also called the Shennong Creation Realm, Cauldron Grotto-Heaven, and Shennong Grotto-Heaven 35 36 48 49.
Soul Rings	Purple, purple, black, and multicolored when displayed during Jiang Baiyu’s test in Worship Hall 55.
First Appearance	During Jiang Baiyu’s Martial Soul awakening in Jiangshui Village 2.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Martial Soul awakening	2	Manifests after the Flame Emperor blesses Jiang Baiyu. Immediately gathers Soul Power and plant essence, releases healing vitality, and accompanies Baiyu’s Innate Full Soul Power.
Innate abilities identified	3	Baiyu discovers an innate domain and five-colored Pill Flame. Shennong’s Classic of Materia Medica provides a cultivation art suited to the cauldron.
First Soul Ring — 1,200 years	6 7	The Dragonblood Medicineheart Wood willingly becomes a purple ring after accepting Baiyu’s Medicine Dao oath. Grants Domain: Hundred Herbs.
Second Soul Ring — 5,400 years	9	Recounted in a flashback: the dying Nine-Colored Spirit Deer sacrifices its essence after Baiyu attempts to heal it. Grants Spirit Deer Nine Seals and strengthens his affinity with nature.
Wielder reaches level 30	9	Baiyu advances from level 29 with help from his Medicine Garden and the Blue Silver Emperor, preparing to obtain his third ring.
Third Soul Ring — ten-thousand-year class	10	The nine-thousand-year Azure Origin Ancient Cypress willingly offers its essence. With the cauldron’s help, its ring becomes black and grants Azure Origin Eternal Guard. Preserving the cypress’s seed brings further refinement and harmony among all three rings.
Shennong Angel Sacred Form	17 18	Complete fusion with Qian Renxue’s Six-Winged Angel unlocks Heavenly Light Dust-Cutting and Myriad Woods Rejuvenation.
Agricultural path revealed; wielder reaches level 31	25	A cauldron pattern reveals the Shennong Book. Baiyu realizes that agriculture, not merely medicinal plants, lies at the root of his Martial Soul.
Two-Yi Great Dao; embryonic Inner World	31	Absorbs the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s essence and harmonizes cold and heat. An Inner World begins forming, while Baiyu’s Soul Power rises from level 32 to the peak of level 34.
Completed Cauldron World	35	The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings channel the well’s accumulated yin-yang power into the cauldron. Its interior develops land, sky, celestial bodies, waterways, weather, and a day–night cycle.
Fourth Soul Ring; wielder reaches level 40	37 38	The Five-Colored Spirit Rice preserves its seed inside the world and sacrifices its body. Its initially ten-year ring is transformed by the Dragon Kings’ essence, granting Breath Soil and Five-Colored Divine Light. The seed completes the cauldron’s agricultural essence.

Background and Nature

The cauldron awakens when six-year-old Jiang Baiyu encounters the Flame Emperor within his consciousness. Calling Baiyu his descendant, the Flame Emperor explains that the world’s fragile barriers prevent him from bringing Baiyu back and instead offers limited help. The resulting Martial Soul immediately impresses Jiang Zheng, who believes it could challenge the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s standing as the continent’s greatest support Martial Soul 2.

Its Medicine Dao takes compassion as its foundation and life as its path. This alignment helps Baiyu form willing bonds with his early Soul Ring donors rather than obtaining their power through ordinary hunts. The Azure Origin Ancient Cypress recognizes the cauldron’s affinity with its own principles of strengthening roots and nurturing life 6 10.

Baiyu initially understands the cauldron chiefly through medicine. The revelation of the Shennong Book broadens that understanding to farming, seasonal growth, fertile soil, and sustaining humanity. He consequently begins seeking Soul Rings for their compatibility with nurturing life rather than age or destructive strength alone 25.

Appearance

• Original manifestation: An ancient bronze cauldron with three legs, two handles, and carved tiger, leopard, and divine-beast motifs 2.
• Light and mist: Blue-green and golden radiance, emerald medicinal mist, and a fresh herbal fragrance accompany its vitality 2.
• Later manifestations: Appears enormous and jade-green, with ancient plant Dao patterns flowing across its surface 20 47.
• After the Dragon King inheritance: Gold-green patterns and spiraling red-blue halos accompany a Primordial True Dragon presence 49.
• Visible interior: Its manifestation can reveal a hazy landscape of mountains, streams, spiritual fog, and flourishing herbs 47.

Abilities & Skills

Life Essence and Healing

The cauldron gathers surrounding Soul Power and plant essence, converting them into exceptionally pure vitality 2.

• Its first manifestation eases Su Wu’s decades-old injuries and loosens Jiang Zheng’s cultivation bottleneck, though Su Wu is not fully healed at that stage 2 3.
• Combined with carefully selected herbs and Pill Flame, it repairs Su Wu’s meridians, bones, and flesh, removes lingering murderous energy, and restores his vitality 4.
• It strengthens allied healing: Ye Lingling’s Nine-Hearted Begonia becomes markedly more effective within its abundant vitality 27.
• Its nurturing influence, resident Immortal Herbs, and Dragon Aura help improve compatible companions’ Martial Souls and Soul Power 42.

Natal Pill Flame and Alchemy

The five-colored Pill Flame is an auxiliary aspect of the Shennong Cauldron, not a second Martial Soul 3.

• Extracts, purifies, harmonizes, and blends medicinal properties without the potency losses associated with ordinary fire 4.
• Can gently refine medicine without destroying plants or damaging the vessel used to prepare it 4.
• Produces powerful medicines, including the Yin-Yang Creation Origin-Returning Pill 34.
• Later combines grotto-heaven vitality, the Bright Sacred Heart Flower’s Dao essence, and Dragon King origin power into a pill that helps Qian Renxue reach level 70 47 48.
• Refinement remains limited by Baiyu’s Soul Power; he repeatedly borrows Su Wu’s energy to complete demanding pills 33.

Domain: Hundred Herbs

The first Soul Ring develops the cauldron’s domain into a wide-ranging field of plant control, purification, support, and suppression 3 7.

• Senses and commands plants, strengthens allies, and weakens opponents while consuming relatively little Soul Power 7.
• Generates a Medicine Flame capable of burning the mind and purifying harmful energies 7.
• Suppresses the Imperial Fighting Team’s Soul Power by nearly thirty percent during their match 26.
• Dissolves Dugu Bo’s restrained Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison within three feet of Baiyu 29.
• Can suppress an opposing plant-based healer while providing abundant vitality to that same healer as an ally, as demonstrated with Ye Lingling 27.

Spirit Deer Nine Seals

The second Soul Ring grants a Power Attack System skill alongside an enhanced affinity with nature 9.

• Manifests a Nine-Colored Spirit Deer within the domain; flowers bloom wherever its phantom passes 9.
• Carries powerful explosive energy. Against Yu Tianheng, Baiyu restrains that energy and uses the impact to knock him away instead 27.

Azure Origin Eternal Guard

The third Soul Ring provides defensive power associated with the Azure Origin Ancient Cypress 10.

• Produces an Azure Origin Ancient Wood phantom that absorbs damage 55.
• Its protection is not absolute: Guang Ling and Mad Lion Douluo’s combined attacks eventually break the tree phantom and crack Baiyu’s defenses 55.

Spirit-Awakening Method

Baiyu develops Spirit Awakening after absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone and channels it through the cauldron 5 31.

• Awakens dormant plant spirituality, allowing plants to communicate their medicinal properties and voluntarily release stored essence 31 32.
• Gives all ten Immortal Herbs in Medicine Valley full intelligence, with other plants gaining varying degrees of awareness 32.
• The newly awakened plants count as one-year Soul Beasts, despite their advanced intelligence and accumulated essence 32.
• Extends beyond plants: Baiyu uses it to rouse the dormant remnant souls of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings 34 35.

Breath Soil

One of the fourth ring’s two skills, Breath Soil converts surrounding ground into fertile, five-colored earth over hundreds of meters 38.

• Strengthens the Hundred Herbs Domain.
• Nourishes allied cultivators and plants.
• Drains and binds enemies within its influence 38.

Five-Colored Divine Light

The fourth ring’s second skill draws attacks, weapons, and other powers into the cauldron, where they can become nourishment 38.

• Makes Guang Ling Douluo’s incoming arrows vanish on contact during Baiyu’s Worship Hall test 55.
• Turns hostile power into a usable resource rather than merely blocking it 38.

Dragon Aura and Soul Ring Support

Following the Dragon Kings’ entry into its world, the cauldron can release a supreme primordial dragon aura 35 44.

• Its dragon-pattern origin raises Dugu Yan’s roughly two-thousand-year Soul Ring to nearly ten thousand years 42.
• Calms the twelve-thousand-year Thunder Prison Flood Dragon ring when its lingering will nearly overwhelms Yu Tianheng, enabling him to finish absorption 44.
• Ring enhancement causes significant mental strain: Baiyu becomes pale, and Ye Lingling’s healing does not relieve his condition 42.

Shennong Angel Sacred Form

The cauldron’s nurturing vitality complements Qian Renxue’s angelic judgment, allowing a complete Martial Soul fusion that blends their senses, Soul Power, and memories 17 18.

• Heavenly Light Dust-Cutting: Successful Holy Light Judgment locks onto the target and triples the attack’s power. Holy light tears apart the target while the Life Dao erases it 18.
• Myriad Woods Rejuvenation: Uses the cauldron as its core to heal, remove negative effects, restore Soul Power, and protect the area with an angelic Order Barrier 18.
• Cost: Barrier protection consumes Baiyu’s Soul Power. Using both skills during the initial fusion overexerts him and injures his meridians because of the disparity between the partners’ Soul Power 18.
• Related affinity: The Angel God’s partial authority over the sun resonates with the cauldron, strengthening rather than suppressing Baiyu at the Angel Temple 53.

Cauldron World

Formation and Environment

Feature	Description
Foundation	The cauldron’s life-nurturing power combines with the Two-Yi Great Dao to form an embryonic world 31.
Completion	The Dragon Kings supply the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s accumulated origin power, transforming the interior’s chaos into a complete landscape 35.
Natural systems	Contains sky, earth, sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, wind, rain, and alternating day and night 35.
Climate regions	Balanced cold and warm regions accommodate ice-type and fire-type herbs respectively 36.
Stabilizing anchors	The Dragon Kings’ eggs occupy the realm’s center, balance yin and yang, stabilize its laws, and provide source energy 47.
Access	Baiyu can enter physically, bring another person inside, and project an image of the realm for outside observers 47 49.

Residents and Resources

• Ice and Fire Dragon Kings: Reside as crimson and ice-blue eggs, absorbing Life Essence while awaiting rebirth 35.
• Medicine Valley’s plants: Immortal Herbs, Spirit Herbs, flowers, and roots voluntarily relocate into the new world, retaining their roots and soil 36.
• Five-Colored Spirit Rice: Preserves its original seed within the realm, completing the cauldron’s agricultural essence 37.
• Cultivation resources: The realm’s herbs nourish one another; their fragrance alone can cleanse marrow and purify Soul Power 47.
• Trade resources: Baiyu agrees to supply the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with herbs and other materials infused with Primordial True Dragon energy in exchange for resources and future public support 50.

Relationships

• Jiang Baiyu — Wielder and master of the internal realm; his understanding of medicine and agriculture directs the cauldron’s development 25 35.
• Flame Emperor — Ancestral benefactor whose blessing gives Baiyu a trace of the cauldron’s projection 2 31.
• Su Wu — Early healing beneficiary and alchemical assistant who supplies additional Soul Power when Baiyu cannot sustain refinement alone 4 33.
• Qian Renxue — Her Six-Winged Angel resonates with the cauldron and forms the Shennong Angel Sacred Form with it 6 17 18.
• Ice and Fire Dragon Kings — Complete and stabilize the internal world in return for refuge and a chance at rebirth; bind themselves by oath not to harm Baiyu 35 47.
• Five-Colored Spirit Rice — Supplies the agricultural essence needed to complete the cauldron’s nature and becomes the source of its fourth ring’s two skills 37 38.
• Blue Silver Emperor / A-Lan — Baiyu transports her inside the cauldron when departing Jiangshui Village 13.