King Yu's Nine Cauldrons

Returning to the pavilion area, the Holy Mother of Wudang held hands with Dong Zhongshu, and then disappeared from sight.

"My friend is really something. All she did was stop by that big cauldron for a bit, and she had to fight it all over the place. What a waste of her time!" Pilan complained. "She didn't even take her treasure!"

That's exactly what I'm saying!

Zhang Xuezhou nodded repeatedly.

Bilan's defection at the crucial moment was simply brilliant.

Without the help of this bird demon, he and Dong Zhongshu would inevitably have suffered a plane crash.

At this moment, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but feel fortunate for the Golden Toad Dharma King's accidental discovery, and for the "Technique Within the Clouds" that Hongku had found for him.

Hongku is right. Flying is indeed a skill that many great cultivators are not good at. No matter how powerful one is, one can only wreak havoc on the ground.

I don't need this ability to be exceptional; as long as it's useful, that's enough.

This ability is crucial for survival in critical moments.

Zhang Xuezhou stared at the ground, his wings still not retracted, and he did not reveal the matter of the Ten Yin Holy Son to Bilan.

He was also afraid that the Holy Mother of Wudang might go back on her word, trapping Dong Zhongshu inside with a suffocating attack, and then emerging from the ground to kill him.

This made Zhang Xuezhou absentmindedly respond to Bi Lan's words, and he flapped his wings and flew around randomly, eventually landing on the canopy of a tree that was two zhang tall.

"Do you also like to squat in trees?" Pilan asked.

"Yes, I love squatting up in trees. I have a good friend who built a nest in a big tree. Every single herb in that nest is a herb. Small herbs won't do, and old herbs won't do either; only medium-sized, fragrant herbs will do. And then the herbs will dry out..."

"How luxurious!"

Zhang Xuezhou and the bird demon still have some appeal, and their delaying tactics are very effective.

Pilan had barely finished speaking about the Ten Yin Holy Son when he changed the shape of his mouth again, and then Zhang Xuezhou firmly grasped his words as he explained the luxury of birds.

She quickly became addicted to this luxury.

"If only I had a nest like that, my baby would smell wonderful when it hatched in one," Pilan said enviously.

"Is your child a boy or a girl?"

"We don't know yet!"

"So, do you want a boy or a girl?"

"It must be a man! A widow like me can't live without a man in my family, or a lot of people will come and bully me!"

"Hey, I happen to know a secret to having a boy. If it doesn't work, I won't charge you..."

Zhang Xuezhou kept talking and praising Bi Lan to the skies, making her extremely happy. She vowed that she would definitely come back to repay Zhang Xuezhou after she gave birth to a son.

When the Holy Mother of Wudang brought Dong Zhongshu out again, they saw the two, a human and a bird demon, squatting on a tree chatting enthusiastically, showing no signs of doing anything serious.

Then Dong Zhongshu, with a relaxed expression, bowed and thanked the Holy Mother of Wudang.

"Let's go, let's go!" Dong Zhongshu urged from below.

"You must come and thank me after you give birth to a baby boy," Zhang Xuezhou added.

"Absolutely!" Pilan said confidently, "I'm a man of absolute integrity!"

"Okay, goodbye then!"

Zhang Xuezhou flapped his wings and floated into the air, then Dong Zhongshu tied him to the air with a wind rope.

"Girls, let me tell you..."

Just as Pilan was about to launch into a long explanation of Zhang Xuezhou's secret to conceiving a son, she remembered her own business when she heard the question from the Holy Mother of Wudang.

"Hey, you still haven't told me about that Ten Yin Holy Son Child!" Pilan flapped his wings and followed, shouting.

"Kong Ning, the Demon King of the Xieluosi River Holy Land, met Zhu Shiyin two years ago. You can go and ask him," Zhang Xuezhou replied as he flew. "As for whether you believe it or not, that depends on your own judgment!"

Zhang Xuezhou led Li Guang through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. In the Xieluosi River Holy Land, he did not see Zhu Shiyin, nor did he hear anyone discuss Zhu Shiyin. Even the Venerable One did not mention it at all.

Zhang Xuezhou thought that Kong Ning had most likely reported the matter, but whether anyone would believe him was another matter entirely.

Whether Pilan was willing to believe that Zhushiyin had transformed into Bashe was also a question. Zhang Xuezhou's own account was unsubstantiated, so he had to ask another witness.

"It's Kong Ning! I'll go find her right now!"

Pilan shook its head, and the three tail feathers behind its body flashed with light. Then it soared into the sky and flew rapidly in the northwest direction.

"You seduced him so easily?" Dong Zhongshu asked in surprise.

"It wasn't easy, was it?"

During a conflict, it would be difficult for Piran to have this kind of trust.

But after he explained the secrets to having a son, Pilan had less doubt about his words.

Of course, the bird demon's lack of common sense was also a factor.

At least Pilan, the expert in air strikes, has left.

Pilan flew away extremely quickly, so fast that even the Holy Mother of Wudang didn't have time to react.

"How did things go after you went in?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.

"I tried to test her verbally several times, and barely managed to get through; I wasn't suffocated by her in the underground palace!"

While Zhang Xuezhou remained cautious on the outside, Dong Zhongshu clearly faced numerous crises underground as well.

But Dong Zhongshu eventually passed the test and also entered the area beneath the large cauldron.

"What exactly is that?" Zhang Xuezhou asked in a low voice.

"That's one of the Nine Cauldrons cast by King Yu during the early Qing Dynasty. Legend has it that the Nine Cauldrons gathered the fortune of the Southern Jambudvipa Continent," Dong Zhongshu said in a low voice. "There's also a rumor that whoever possesses the power of the Nine Cauldrons will become the strongest in the world, and may even achieve transcendence!"

Did King Yu transcend worldly desires?

"Dead!"

"Then this is probably fake news!"

"The transport of the Nine Tripods will take time. King Yu didn't build the Nine Tripods for himself, but for future generations. You can look up the relevant historical records, or ask Wen Weng; he knows more than I do..."

Dong Zhongshu in a low voice.

He was also shocked when he first saw the giant cauldron, and then he thought about the records in some ancient documents.

"Legend has it that the Nine Cauldrons, gathering immense fortune, will slowly grow and eventually reach a height of nine zhang (approximately 33 meters)," Dong Zhongshu said in a low voice. "These cauldrons are currently three to four zhang (approximately 33 to 40 meters) tall, and I'm afraid they will need to grow for hundreds or even thousands of years to reach their full size!"

"Did that cauldron really grow?"

That's what the rumors say!

"How could something like that possibly grow?"

"In their time, spirit jade was as plentiful as stones; it wouldn't be surprising if they created something extraordinary!"

"Speaking of spirit jade..."

Although Zhang Xuezhou and Dong Zhongshu were chatting, they were both wary of their surroundings.

It wasn't until Dong Zhongshu mentioned the spirit jade that Zhang Xuezhou lowered his guard and began to question him.

Clearly, this world once had abundant cultivation resources.

At that time, cultivation had not become refined; both cultivation techniques and the use of Cultivation Resources were extremely crude, with little difference from the behavior of 'wilderness'.

With the depletion of resources such as spirit jade, the question of how to utilize Cultivation Resources more effectively has inevitably arisen.

For example, alchemy, formations, and talismans all belong to this category.

These industries may seem to use lavish resources, but they all make resources more efficient.

The use of spirit jade is something that Law Treasure specialize in.

As a Confucian School scholar who dabbled in everything, Dong Zhongshu was not an expert in the forging of Law Treasure, but he undoubtedly knew about them. In fact, Dong Zhongshu even guided craftsmen in Shu County to forge the Law Artifact 'Heng'.