This truly took Ye Han by surprise.
He had never expected the Purple Cauldron to react as soon as he entered this passage leading into the cultivation area built by the Star Clan Ancestors.
More importantly, although his cultivation had improved considerably over the years and he had regained a little control over the Purple Cauldron, allowing it to restore his spell power again, its efficiency was extremely low-only two or three percent of what it had been at its peak.
Restoring Ye Han's spell power once or twice was enough to exhaust it.
Over all these years, he had never encountered anything that made the Purple Cauldron react. He had assumed that this ability had been sealed as well.
Could it simply be that I never encountered a treasure that interested the Purple Cauldron before?
What puzzled Ye Han even more was the look in Saint As's eyes. The fellow seemed to know something...
Damn it!
Could Saint As know that I have the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron?
This was hardly the first time Ye Han had suspected it. As early as their first encounter in the Tower of Hell, he had wondered whether Saint As and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race knew that he possessed the Purple Cauldron.
But throughout their many subsequent collaborations, neither Saint As nor the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race had ever asked about or mentioned it. Nor had they shown any sign of intending to attack him.
That had dispelled Ye Han's suspicions.
Yet now, that look in Saint As's eyes suggested that he knew something. Clearly, this matter was not as simple as Ye Han had imagined.
Still, after that series of frenzied charges, they had finally entered the cultivation Trial Grounds jointly built by the Star Clan Ancestors.
The Purple Cauldron, however, had only trembled twice