Indeed, Ye Han felt that pinning his hopes on the Purple Cauldron was far more reliable than pinning them on Fourth Elder Qin Minghui and the Seventh Elder, who might have made it out.
But Ye Han recalled the old man in that eerie Black Bead he and Han Yuwan had encountered while capturing five Earthwalker Demon Beasts.
That old man must have been some evil demonic cultivator whose primordial spirit remained after his physical body was destroyed...
Even he and Han Yuwan together had been no match for that fellow.
If the Purple Cauldron had not devoured the old man's primordial spirit at the crucial moment, his and Han Yuwan's paths to immortality would have ended long ago. Like so many young cultivators, they would have perished in their youth.
Recalling that scene, Ye Han remembered that the Purple Cauldron had only taken the initiative to devour that fellow when he was very close to the old man's primordial spirit-just a few zhang away...
And even after being devoured, the old man's primordial spirit had refused to give up. Through schemes and trickery, he had nearly caused Ye Han to suffer cultivation deviation...
At this thought, Ye Han's brows knitted tightly. The present situation was completely different from back then.
First, he still did not know what kind of being the black shadow's primordial spirit belonged to.
Second, unlike now, he had kept the Purple Cauldron inside his robes back then. After he obtained the Purple-Gold Runes from Ye Chunfeng, however, the Purple Cauldron had entered his divine sense sea.
He could not be certain that if he approached the black shadow, the Purple Cauldron, now inside his divine sense sea, would emerge on its own and devour that fellow.
There was also another important issue: clearly, the Purple