Chapter 1302: Chapter 490: Jade Cauldron Nation (Part 2)

Yun Ziliang grabbed Zhao Wuya and said to Li Changxun, "Bai Guang is the Star Covering."

"Huh? This Star Covering is a singer?"

"Changxun, this song ’Nanping Late Bell’ is the representative piece that made Bai Guang famous all over Mingjiang Prefecture before the Xianhuo disaster."

Yun Ziliang continued, "Listening to this song now is good too. Mingjiang Prefecture, from the explosion of this song, fell into the Xianhuo disaster. Now, as we listen to this song, feeling the peaceful years of Mingjiang Prefecture, there’s quite a sense of fate when we savor it carefully."

Zhao Wuya thought about it and thought it made sense, so he sat down steadily, raised his glass, and said, "Grandmaster Zhao, Grandmaster Grandpa, we the third generation of the Dragon Seeking Sect, bless Mingjiang Prefecture."

"Blessing, blessing indeed."

The three clinked their cups, and the red liquid swayed as they enjoyed this rare moment of tranquility.

...

"Is everything ready?"

"Ready."

"Count off."

"One, two, three..."

In front of the City God Temple in the Secret Realm, Miss Qiang, Engineer, Little Brain, Big Child, Third Child, Green and Red Fish, Blood Well Human Brain, lined up neatly,

Mr. Bai Lu also transformed into a form of an ancient book, coming to the Secret Realm to mooch food and drink.

Zhou Xuan, with an air of a "new instructor," said, "Regarding this ’grand dining’ event, I emphasize only three things! Discipline, discipline, and discipline again!"

"During dining, please mind your manners and try not to make too much noise. No matter how delicious the food is, do not smack your lips."

"Respect the senior figures like well and Shui Zi and don’t take food from them."

"Finally, wish everyone an enjoyable meal, Ganfan."

Zhou Xuan waved his hand, and the orderly group, with uniform footsteps and disciplined queuing, went to dine.

The Buddha Country Five Forms, the Six Great Escape Armor Supremes, along with a series of Dun Jia disciples, lay dead, becoming the sole theme of this night in the Secret Realm.

Inside the City God Temple, the sounds of chewing and swallowing echoed continually.

Zhou Xuan went into the Black Water.

Now, upon the Black Water, there was an additional "Shanshui Jian" stone temple.

Beside the temple, six withered flowers floated, four of which had been melted by the Black Water till only the stamens remained.

These six flowers were the "eyes" that Heaven and Earth had planted in the stone temple, now all picked out by the Black Water.

The stone temple opened, revealing a Child inside chanting scriptures, dressed half monk, half Taoist,

It was the Dan Demon.

"Dan Demon, aren’t you going to eat or drink?" Zhou Xuan asked.

When the Dan Demon was shoved into the Secret Realm by Zhou Xuan, it was lured into the City God Temple by the Blood Well,

Only after the stone temple’s eyes had been picked clean by the Black Water, ensuring no ears beyond the walls, was the Dan Demon released by the Blood Well.

The Dan Demon Child lowered its head, stopping its chanting, and said to Zhou Xuan, "I am not a Dan Demon, I am Danzi."

"You’ve certainly acclimated to the local customs, naming yourself ’Danzi’."

Zhou Xuan is accustomed to calling the Black Water Shui Zi, the Blood Well well, and the peach tree Tree Zi. This Dan Demon, to show friendliness, called itself Danzi, which showed some insight.

"I was originally called Danzi, the child of the Dan Mother."

"..." Zhou Xuan.

"You Jing Country people habitually call us demons. We are not demons." Danzi stood up, touching the wall of the stone temple, and sighed, "This ’Shanshui Jian,’ in a sense, is my sister."

Zhou Xuan was a bit confused and asked Danzi, "Shouldn’t ’Shanshui Jian’ and you not be refined from the same furnace? You two should have no relation."

This is like comparing Granny Wang from East Street having a daughter, and Aunt Li from West Market having a son, what relationship is there between this son and daughter? There is no relationship.

"All the furnaces in the world are just production mediums. Without the Dan Mother, these elixirs cannot be refined."

"Where is the Dan Mother?"

"It is formless and intangible, only we Danzi can find her." Danzi said.

Zhou Xuan asked again, "Then what about the Star Sky Scroll, and its cauldron body, what is it when combined? Isn’t it the Dan Mother?"

"It was once the Mother Palace of the Dan Mother, but ever since the Dan Mother achieved the Tao, it ascended and no longer needs this physical Mother Palace."

Listening to these relations, Zhou Xuan felt his mind spin.

He mulled over it for a while, finally straightening out the threads, and said, "Listen and see if this is what I’m getting at?"

"Please speak." 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"You originally come from another civilized realm?"

"We come from the ’Jade Cauldron Heaven,’ our Gods, Guardians, are all born from within the Mother Cauldron."

Zhou Xuan nodded and said, "The Star Sky Scroll is part of the Mother Cauldron?"

"Yes."

"But the one truly able to preside over the refining of elixirs is not the Mother Cauldron but the formless and intangible Dan Mother."

"You have great insight."

"Jing Country previously couldn’t perform Alchemy until the Mother Cauldron fell from Outer Heaven as a Flying Star onto the land of Jing Country, then its body was discovered by a Jing Country master, and from then on there was Dan."

Zhou Xuan shifted the topic, saying, "So, in addition to the Mother Cauldron, the formless and intangible Dan Mother also fell into Jing Country."

"Yes."

Danzi said.

Zhou Xuan became increasingly clear-headed, saying, "I refined you..."

"It wasn’t you who refined me, but the residual will of the Dan Mother guided you to refine me."

"You little thing, you’re quite precise with your words!" After one last jab, Zhou Xuan said,

"So when I took your Source Power Pill, your eye-opening and flesh rebirth wasn’t a flaw of yours, but something you deliberately showed me,

Your purpose was to find me?"