When he had first arrived on Continent Number Fifty-Six, Ye Han had already sensed that the gourds on the vine forming a faint ring around the Purple Cauldron's lid had ripened. At the same time, the Three Realms Gourd inside the Purple Cauldron had withered and vanished.
However, they had been dealing with the Mountain Giant then, with the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, Wuxie Scholar, and the others nearby. Ye Han had found no opportunity to spare any attention for the gourds on the Purple Cauldron...
Now that he had a little breathing room, he examined them carefully.
The seven gourds on the Purple Cauldron's vine all emitted mysterious, profound purple runes. They radiated astonishing spatial power and life aura, making their extraordinary nature unmistakable!
However, he remembered that Teacher Lan Qing had become trapped in the Tower of Hell because he had gone there in search of the legendary Three Realms Gourd, which supposedly allowed one to break through the boundaries between realms and ascend.
Even after obtaining the Three Realms Gourd, Ye Han had never figured out how he had acquired it, because he had been in a sealed state at the time...
He knew that the Purple Cauldron had exerted some mysterious effect and rescued him from that peculiar sealing. After his rescue, the Three Realms Gourd had been inside the Purple Cauldron. By then, the Purple Cauldron had also absorbed its aura and sprouted an extremely tiny gourd vine. There had to be a profound connection between them.
Yet Ye Han felt that Teacher Lan Qing might have gravely misunderstood the Three Realms Gourd's effects.
He felt that the Three Realms Gourd might not be a treasure that could enable cultivators to leave the Earth Realm and ascend to the Upper Realm...
Even if Teacher Lan Qing