Chapter 291: The Treasure Cauldron Recognizes Its Master, Heaven-Bearing Immortal Physique!

Wang Ping remained half-skeptical of Tianqu's words. He memorized the key points, but whether he would actually act on them was something he needed to consider later.

After all, meeting a True Person in private was no small matter.

Even if it was a True Person who had helped him in the past, Wang Ping didn't dare give them his full trust. After all, Mingyou had helped him kill Kunyun back in the day, too!

Soon after, he left the Cauldron Interior Grotto-Heaven.

"..."

Wang Ping stood blankly in place, unable to snap out of his daze for a long time. All memory of his conversations with Tianqu, Heavenly Work, and the rest of the five ancient qi-ingesting practitioners had vanished completely.

Only an inexplicable new dharma spell and information regarding Heavenly Yin Metal, the Heavenly Frost Cave Abode, and the Mysterious Wood Qi Daoist Master remained in his mind... Sensing his own condition, Wang Ping gradually frowned. 'Something isn't right. There seems to be a problem with my experience in the Cauldron Interior Grotto-Heaven.'

He knew his memories had been concealed.

For example, regarding the memory of Wood Qi True Lord taking away the lifespans of all Qi Refining practitioners in the world, he knew he would forget it while outside and could only recall it when beside the Treasure Cauldron.

But even so, he would still have a lingering sense of it.

He could sense whether the concealed memory was good or bad, and whether he needed to worry about it. That was why he had never dwelled on it too much.

This time, however, it was different.

'The memories concealed inside the Treasure Cauldron prior to this seem to have a problem. At the very least, I've developed a certain level of suspicion regarding my experience inside the Cauldron Interior Grotto-Heaven.'

At this thought, as he looked again at the mysterious spell and the intelligence regarding the Heavenly Yin Metal in his memory, a hint of vigilance flashed in Wang Ping's eyes.

'Maybe I should find someone else to ask.'

Wang Ping pondered inwardly.

After all, his cultivation was still too low. As a lowly cultivator, his perspective was limited. The Heavenly Yin Metal that seemed perfectly viable to him might actually harbor massive hidden dangers.

The question was, who could he ask?

Mingyou? No. Although their master-disciple bond had improved recently, the matter of the Heavenly Yin Metal concerned locking down Divine Powers, and Mingyou was the primary beneficiary.

If he couldn't ask him, who else was there?

The Heaven-Stealing Thief?

'That won't work either. That old bastard is just as shameless as Mingyou. Besides, he's only at the Tribulation Transcending Third Layer too; his insight might not be any deeper than mine.'

The True Person behind Xianfu?

This... was worth considering, but the credibility wouldn't be high. It could only serve as a backup option. A headache throbbed at Wang Ping's temples just thinking about it.

However, a long, ringing chime soon interrupted his thoughts.

"Clang—!"

Wang Ping abruptly snapped back to his senses and looked up. The Ever-Suppressing Six Harmonies Cauldron beside him was suddenly shaking violently, brilliant light spilling uncontrollably from its mouth.

To his surprise, Wang Ping discovered that this radiant light had actually connected to him. Along with it came a flood of memories and information, crashing into his mind like a broken dam. Only then did he realize: 'Oh right, I seem to have defeated all the phantom bodies inside the cauldron and completed the master-recognition trial!'

Rumble!

In an instant, Wang Ping even had the illusion that the Ever-Suppressing Six Harmonies Cauldron was forcefully stuffing its immense mysteries into his body, threatening to burst him apart!

He inhaled sharply.

Wang Ping hastily sat cross-legged. The Heavenly Martial Campaign Profound Armor on his body lit up rapidly, suppressing the mighty power surging and rampaging through his body.

During this process, the layers of mysteries concerning the Ever-Suppressing Six Harmonies Cauldron sequentially reflected in his mind. Unlike the Heavenly Martial Campaign Profound Armor, which was somewhat lacking in raw power, this treasure cauldron was not only a Spiritual Treasure in rank, but its might fully met that standard—it was equivalent to a Qi Refining practitioner!

There were a total of five mysteries inside the cauldron.

The first was Suppressing Axe, which could control heaven and earth qi. Aside from water qi, which could escape, it could suppress any entity or phenomenon born of heaven and earth qi!

The next two were Land-Walking and Monitoring Heaven.

These were exactly what the cauldron had shown him previously. They were tied to the national destiny. Wherever the national destiny existed, the cauldron could monitor the area and freely shift its position there.

Previously, the Treasure Cauldron Spirit had merely lent these two mysteries to Wang Ping, limiting their scope to the Great Shun Capital. Now that the cauldron had recognized him as its master, their effects covered the entirety of Great Shun!

The fourth mystery was called Concealing Mystery.

The cauldron had demonstrated this one before as well. It was a method to conceal memories and sever karma—it could even block karma related to a True Monarch.

However, true to the Treasure Cauldron Spirit's own words, the cauldron really wasn't skilled in combat. Out of the four mysteries, only one barely had anything to do with fighting. In reality, its usefulness to Wang Ping right now was extremely limited because the toll was too vast. With his current cultivation, he couldn't unleash its true might at all.

In comparison...

What Wang Ping truly valued was the cauldron's fifth mystery, which was also its most unique. It was called Bearing Heaven, a mystery that forged an Immortal Physique!

"An Immortal Physique..."

The moment he thought of this, Wang Ping immediately remembered You Xuexin's Bliss Immortal Physique. Similar constitutions were not uncommon across the Cosmos, yet they were exceptionally distinct.

"Heaven and earth qi is ever-present in the external world, stretching across the Cosmos, but it isn't immutable. It operates in waves, rising and falling. When it sinks to its lowest point, even Mortals can witness anomalies; when it peaks, even Qi Refining practitioners find it lofty and unfathomable. This is how Immortal Physiques emerge."

"During a ten-month pregnancy, a human fetus remains in a primal, innate state."

"If it happens to encounter a certain thread of heaven and earth qi at its lowest ebb during this time, there is an extremely high chance it will be tainted by the mighty power of that qi."

"Normally, this wouldn't amount to much. After all, when heaven and earth qi is at its lowest, its mighty power is limited to mundane changes, such as the weather or temperature."

"Given how vast heaven and earth qi is, a single cycle from trough to peak often takes hundreds or thousands of years. If a fetus happens to encounter heaven and earth qi plunging into a trough, is born a year later, and transitions from an innate to a post-natal state while the qi remains at its lowest, naturally, nothing will happen."

"However... there is also a one-in-a-billion chance."

Wang Ping's eyes shone brightly.

"If heaven and earth qi fluctuates at a high frequency within that single year, climbing back from the trough to the peak right before the fetus is born, the result is completely different."

In short, driven by the ascent of heaven and earth qi from the trough, the fetus would spontaneously manifest numerous mysteries out of thin air—this was the origin of the Immortal Physique.

During this process, the higher the heaven and earth qi climbed, the stronger the birthed Immortal Physique would be. Different types of heaven and earth qi also produced different mysteries.

Such were the miraculous wonders of creation!

Yet the Ever-Suppressing Six Harmonies Cauldron's fifth mystery, Bearing Heaven, functioned by using post-natal modifications to forge an Immortal Physique for the cauldron's master.

"Rumble!"

Just as this thought crossed his mind, intense agony erupting from every corner of his body jolted Wang Ping fully awake. In a daze, he felt as though his very body was collapsing in on itself!

Every inch of his flesh and blood, down to his tendons, bones, and skin, was being squashed and compressed by a vast, mighty power, transforming into a harder, denser existence. By the end, simply stretching his arm and slightly flexing his tendons produced a resonant, metallic clang, like gold striking iron.

"Phew..."

Wang Ping slowly exhaled, circulating his Divine Intent and divine sense simultaneously. Yet he found that the body he could previously command with total freedom had become completely alien to him.

It was like suddenly upgrading from a wooden raft to an aircraft carrier.

It looked like his original body, but its density and mass had reached an utterly terrifying level, as if an entire star had been stuffed inside it!

"Whoosh..."

A light breeze swept through the grand hall. The various decorations, chairs, and tables arranged inside began to slide involuntarily toward Wang Ping.

It was gravity.

His overwhelmingly massive weight had generated an extreme gravitational pull collapsing inward. Normally, a change of this magnitude would inevitably trigger unpredictable consequences.

However, some sort of mighty power transcending the mundane altered everything. It bent the laws of physics, stabilizing Wang Ping's state at a human level. As time passed, the numerous anomalies, including the collapsing gravity, gradually dispersed, leaving only Wang Ping sitting cross-legged where he was.

'What is this... a neutron star combat body?'

Wang Ping could feel that his physique had undergone an unimaginable upgrade at this very moment. It reminded him of Kunyun's A Single Dust Enclosing a Sea of Realms.

When that divine power was pushed to its limits, it became a gaseous planet.

Right now, he had achieved something similar on a different level. Wang Ping had no doubt that his body was currently equivalent to a star!

At the same time, the mysteries regarding the Heaven-Bearing Immortal Physique surged into his mind:

Clasping Mountains and Leaping Seas!

Wang Ping pushed his Divine Intent to its limits, raising his palm above his head before slowly clenching it, as if he were grabbing hold of heaven and earth itself. Then, he yanked it downward with explosive force.

"Boom!"

A surging torrent warped and twisted along with his pull, blasting out a visible shockwave in all directions.

'It's a shame there's no handle...'

He hated that the heavens had no handle!

Wang Ping grinned. He was a hundred percent certain that with this Immortal Physique, even if he took off the Heavenly Martial Campaign Profound Armor, he could still fight against a Tribulation Transcending Third Layer expert!