Demon-Refining Pot

Biodata

Power Progression

The entries below track the pot’s totem development and cultivation-dependent unlocks, rather than a cultivation realm of its own.

Background / History

Before his transmigration, Jiang Zhu saw the pot hanging from the front of a Dayun truck during the collision involving two trucks that ended his former life. After discovering it in his new body, he identified it as the cause of his transmigration 1.

On Mars’s Five-Colored Altar, the pot repaired the hole in Jiang Zhu’s head and transmitted knowledge of its functions. Its refinement of Divine Crocodile blood gave him a transformation that saved him from the creatures eating his body, although he still failed to board the departing bronze coffin 1 2.

When Jiang Zhu opened his Bitter Sea, the pot descended from his mind along his spine and settled inside it. Its entry forcibly enlarged the newborn sea, while the precious blood it released helped establish his Life Spring 6.

Appearance

• Color and material: Brownish-green, resembling neither metal nor stone 1.
• Overall shape: Broad-rimmed with a narrow base 1.
• Base: Resembles a ritual cauldron without legs 1.
• Body: An ancient clay-pot shape with two handles, intricate runes, and carved totems 1.
• Lid: Resembles the roof and eaves of an imposing celestial palace 1.
• Surface marks: Some markings look like sword scars to Jiang Zhu; their origin is not established 1.

Abilities & Skills

Bloodline Refinement

The pot removes impurities from demonic bloodlines and returns them to their origins, producing pure source blood that can strengthen a human body and confer the bloodline’s innate abilities 1.

• Whole-body processing: Divine chains of Dao laws envelop collected corpses and dissolve them into Origin Blood 8.
• Selective extraction: When processing blood-bearing artifacts, it extracts nonhuman blood while leaving human blood behind 5.
• Plant refinement: Fire Vine remnants, medicinal essence blood, and divine sap can contribute to true spirit totems 12 14 16 20.
• Precious blood production: Otherwise unusable demonic beast blood becomes an energy-rich cultivation liquid rather than source blood 1 5.

True Spirit Transformations

The pot transmits origin secret techniques associated with its true spirit totems. These transformations alter Jiang Zhu at the source of his being, rather than merely changing his outward appearance 2.

• Bloodline supply determines development: Limited true dragon source blood initially yields a Divine Crocodile form; sufficient blood later enables a true dragon body 2 9 10.
• Cultivation restricts access: Detecting a bloodline does not automatically make its transformation available. Jiang Zhu initially cannot activate a second true spirit totem 5 7.
• Inherited arts: Completed transformations provide access to the true dragon treasure arts and Grass Character Sword Art 10 20.
• Resource cost: More than half Jiang Zhu’s accumulated precious blood disappears during the True Dragon Transformation. He attributes this to replenishing his essence and obtaining the inherited arts 10.

Healing and Cultivation Support

• Emergency healing: Contact with Jiang Zhu’s mind triggers power that repairs his head wound 1.
• Cultivation initiation: A drop of precious blood guides him to sense his Wheel of Life 5.
• Bitter Sea expansion: The pot stretches his soybean-sized Bitter Sea to fist size, then releases precious blood that expands it further and supports formation of the Life Spring 6.
• Power replenishment: Stored precious blood restores divine power during his search for the Ginseng Ancestor 14.
• Medicine nourishment: Precious blood restores He Shou Wu after it gives Jiang Zhu essence blood and serves as payment for other medicinal resources 16 20.
• Sacred Heart nourishment: Its precious blood feeds the Demon Emperor’s Sacred Heart, which releases life-giving radiance that tempers Jiang Zhu’s Bitter Sea and Wheel of Life 45.

Internal World

The pot contains an immense space, described as seeming capable of holding heaven and earth 1.

• Collection and storage: After forming his Life Spring, Jiang Zhu can draw corpses and other objects inside using divine power 8.
• Living habitat: Imported immortal soil and immortal qi turn part of the space into land suitable for medicinal plants 21.
• Resource extraction: During Jiang Zhu’s Four Extremes breakthrough, Divine Medicine auras are continuously drawn from the internal space into his body 42.
• Companion accommodation: The White Tiger Divine Medicine can stay inside, but prefers Jiang Zhu’s shoulder because the interior is lonely 21.

Artifact Refinement and Forging

Although primarily a bloodline-refining artifact, the pot can also process weapons and forging materials 22.

• Immortal metal melting: It slowly melts the Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda despite Jiang Zhu being only a Dao Palace cultivator. He initially estimates that the process will take about a year; the pagoda is fully melted by his later forging session 22 39.
• Chaos flame: Jiang Zhu draws stored chaos qi from the pot and turns it into flame to fuse divine mark purple gold with his existing weapon, creating the Chaos Bell 39.
• Resentment cleansing: He places the inch-long dragon-patterned black gold sword inside to cleanse the Saint Spirit’s remaining resentment 34.
• Inscription template: Copying the pot’s true spirit images and inscriptions onto the East Emperor Bell grants the bell strange powers and the capacity for further transformation 13.

Protection and Flame

• Solar Essence Flame protection: The pot shields Jiang Zhu while he approaches Chisongzi’s burial chamber and supports his attempt to close the coffin 12 13.
• Limited protection: It cannot protect him sufficiently against the lingering killing intent at Mount Lu’s dragon-vein source 11.
• Curse destruction: A flicker of flame drawn from the pot burns Underworld-cursed red hair to ash 38.

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