Chapter 151: Upgraded Cauldron

A barrier surrounded the puppet tower ship, and it started to descend into the ocean. It traveled through the water like a sea beast.

Jiang Lin lay on his calabash with his arms and legs wide open while talking in his sleep.

There were compliments about how his Master-Uncle was, and the rest was gibberish.

Hong Yu chuckled and turned her attention back to the spirit silkworms that her three other sisters were tending to.

They had a lot of different types of silkworms now. Some came from the clan, the others from Wang Tong.

The plan was to raise the silkworms inside the incubating room built on the ship until they matured and underwent another metamorphosis.

The eight female servants helped out as well, though they were only watching most of the time.

Hei Ji stood tall on top of the tower while watching the view in front of her.

The ship wasn’t traveling very fast, and she was able to see the water moving around them. She also noticed a few spirit fishes swiftly swimming past them. The scene was somewhat familiar to her, and her eyes began to fog up.

Chen Jingzhai did not need to control the ship as it had sentience. He even processed Liu Mingke’s soul inside the Grotto-heavens and fused it with the ship’s puppet.

Liu Mingke ceased to exist then and had now become the boatman of the puppet tower ship.

The young man had planned to create even more boatmen so that the puppet could battle as well.

At least the ship would become livelier after that.

Inside a huge room on the ship, Chen Jingzhai activated a restricted formation.

He entered the Primordial Essence Grotto-heavens and looked at the Silver Screen Spirit Cloud that had stopped moving.

According to the Grotto-heavens, the cloud had become its spirit cloud’s seed.

As long as the Silver Screen Spirit Cloud remained undamaged, it would continuously produce new Silver Screen Spirit Clouds, and their grades would also increase, according to the Grotto-heavens.

Just like the huge jade statue and the Small Heavens Cloud Forbidden Restriction, the Silver Screen Spirit Cloud had completely become one with the Grotto-heavens, and it was even compatible with the restricted formations in it.

A silver light appeared beneath Chen Jingzhai.

The Silver Screen Spirit Cloud had gathered under the jade statue and quickly dissipated into a fog.

A silver screen separated the sky and ground before it disappeared.

The Primordial Essence Grotto-heavens were now even more perfect.

Although the spirit cloud didn’t cause any reaction in the space, it had piqued the innate money tree’s thirst.

Chen Jingzhai felt completely different after he had processed the innate money tree. He felt as if it would react to any special power, but he could tell that it wanted the Rotating Herb the most this time.

With a slight push, the plant was left in front of the tree.

The tree quickly wrapped itself around the Rotating Herb, and in mere seconds, the herb disappeared.

Instead, a black and white pattern appeared on the tree, originating from the root hair and spreading up to the branches.

A small black and white coin appeared on the top of the innate money tree as well. It was only the size of a fingernail, but it was strong enough to strengthen the source of the tree and even attracted the Yin and Yang Energy.

Chen Jingzhai raised a brow at the tree that had undergone a noticeable change. He then took out the black box from Chen Feiyu and found a seed the size of a fist.

It was the seed of an Advanced Grade 3 gourd. Although the grade was high, the seed was dry, causing its value to drop as it would be hard to plant it without any special method.

It wasn’t even as valuable as the two Will Cold Steel from Fan Mingge. Nevertheless, he wasn’t happy with what he had found inside the box.

However, he was also surprised that Chen Feiyu, who was not a disciple of a celestial clan, was able to give a Grade 3 item out. It was also fated that the seed would fall into Chen Jingzhai’s hands, as he knew how to use it.

His spiritual power enveloped the seed, and he guided a line of Innate Qi into it. Once the seed had fully absorbed the energy, Chen Jingzhai let it drop into the Seven Stars Moon Pool.

With the Innate Qi to replenish its source and the spiritual water of the Seven Stars Moon Pool to revitalize it, he was sure that the seed could recover to its original state quickly. He already had high hopes that it would produce something good.

As he looked at the seed, it reminded him that Wine Celestial Peak’s wine calabashes that were made out of gourds were unique as well.

The wine calabash was also a type of spirit seed—one that worked very well with the sky scripture of the Wine Celestial lineage. It seemed to be related to the path they walked as well, but Chen Jingzhai did not know the details.

If given a chance, he would want to see if he could exchange it for the seed of a wine calabash.

After returning from the Primordial Essence Grotto-heavens, Chen Jingzhai opened his eyes.

He stretched his body and took out the White Crane Cloud Tree Celestial Cauldron.

The young man wasn’t planning on making elixirs. Instead, he took a piece of the Will Cold Steel out.

Even though the Pill Extraction and Purification Scripture was powerful, it had its drawbacks.

For one, it was hard to master, and even understanding the basics of it was challenging. He could only succeed in doing so because of his special talent.

He found a flaw, which was to borrow the cauldron’s power.

However, it wasn’t perfect as he could only make Grade 2 elixirs.

If he wanted to make Grade 3 elixirs, then the cauldron itself needed to be enhanced to a Grade 3 item.

At first, he thought it would be impossible to achieve that at his current level.

That had changed now.

One of the benefits of Chen Jingzhai’s Foundation Establishment passage was that it gave him an abundance of spiritual power.

He was able to condense the power into high-grade liquid form, and he could also borrow the power of the Grotto-heavens.

Chen Jingzhai had also gathered the necessary ingredients back in the clan by exchanging them with Foundation Establishment elixirs.

It meant that he could now enhance the White Crane Cloud Tree Celestial Cauldron to Grade 3.

He would be able to make Grade 3 elixirs once he was successful with that.

Grade 3 elixirs were also known as treasured elixirs.

Even treasured elixirs were graded by the pattern on their surface.

The Lotus Potion, made out of the white lotus seed, was also a treasured elixir.

The number of patterns on the elixir was a reflection of the elixir alchemist’s skill and understanding of the Path of Elixir.

Chen Jingzhai put the cauldron and the necessary ingredients, including the Will Cold Steel, into the Primordial Essence Grotto-heavens.

He then took on the form of the Supreme Sky Master once again.

However, this time, a new spirit deity with a red face and hair stood next to him. The deity originated from his heart and was known as the Flame of Heart Deity.

It was also one of the 36 deities that were woken up.

“Let’s begin,” Chen Jingzhai said.

The deity nodded, and the process began.

It sat across from Chen Jingzhai and spat fire out of its mouth.

The flame was red with a hint of yellow and white.

Chen Jingzhai did not waste any time and threw the cauldron and the ingredients into the fire.

The Supreme Sky Master started the enhancement process while the fire deity assisted him.

With the flame dancing around the cauldron, the cold steel began to melt.

And with the help of the Grotto-heavens, the cauldron began to evolve.

Perhaps because of the power from the Primordial Essence Grotto-heavens, everything went by smoothly.

The White Crane Cloud Tree Celestial Cauldron was successfully enhanced to Grade 3.

Because it was enhanced with a Will Cold Steel, Chen Jingzhai could now freely change its shape.

It could become a normal cauldron, a mountain, or even a tower.

Although that ability might not seem special, it actually brought a lot of extra functions to the cauldron.

The most important one was that he could not freely change the interior of the cauldron.

He didn’t even need to create a mold now.

The young man planned to start making elixirs right away.

However, when he got out of the Grotto-heavens, he realized that the fire deity was exhausted, and his heart had become weak.

Chen Jingzhai quickly directed some Innate Qi to his heart and forced it to beat at a normal pace again.

“It looks like I should not use the official deities before I fully awaken all the subordinate deities.” He was excited to learn of that.

Fortunately, it happened when he was upgrading the cauldron, or the side effect would’ve been even worse. It seemed that the price to pay for summoning the official deities was high.

Despite that, Chen Jingzhai still had a sense of success when he looked at the cauldron in front of him.

That was the first magic treasure that he had made on his own. Because of the ingredients and the Grotto-heavens, it came out as an Advanced Grade 3 treasure and was just a step away from gathering its basic sentience.

However, Chen Jingzhai was still far from achieving that, and he didn’t want to think about it yet.

After making sure that his body had recovered, he put the cauldron back into the divine stone and got out of Seclusion Training.

He realized that a day had already passed, and the ship was now floating on top of the water. He got out to the deck and was welcomed by the sea breeze and warm sun.