However, just as the heavenly fire and earthly wind enveloped the space where Wenqu stood, a bronze-colored bamboo slip fell from the scroll. It tumbled through the air, and the Confucian cultivators saw clearly that it bore a large oracle-bone inscription: "Ding"!
Not only were Great White Golden Star and the others baffled—even Immortal Emperor Gouchen was slightly stunned. He had no idea what this suddenly appearing oracle-bone inscription was meant to do.
When the bamboo slip fell into the heavenly fire, crack, crack, crack... The flames burned it until it split with countless fine fissures. From those cracks, the oracle-bone inscription fell away. Boom, boom, boom... The instant it touched the heavenly fire, it thundered loudly. The heavenly fire followed the roar into the inscription, while countless Righteous Qi Pillars radiating golden light surged from the void and poured into it. The oracle-bone inscription unexpectedly broke into two halves. The upper "eye" portion hummed, transforming into an enormous cauldron lid, while the lower half of the character "Ding" fell like a meteor!
Wenqu curled his lips into a smile and reached through the air with a huge hand, grasping at that half of the character "Ding." Unfortunately, his hand closed on empty air. Clearly, this half of the oracle-bone inscription was not even in the same space as Wenqu!
Whoosh, whoosh... The half-inscription fell into the earthly wind, which immediately swept into it. Amid a buzzing tremor, golden Righteous Qi Pillars poured down, and a massive cauldron formed!
"Heaven and Earth Cauldron?" Immortal Emperor Gouchen's expression changed abruptly, as though he had recalled something.
Empress Dongmian anxiously asked, "Your Majesty, what is the Heaven and Earth Cauldron?"
"Just watch..." Immortal Emperor Gouchen did not explain, saying only hesitantly, "I cannot yet be certain."
Boom... As Immortal Emperor Gouchen's words