Poison God's Heritage

"More like… it always drags its owner to the path of anhelation and self-destruction. One cannot simply cultivate that Dao without falling into the depraved path of gluttony and consumption. They would find it hard to combat the will to constantly consume and absorb until nothing is left.

That\'s why they always end up bringing destruction upon themselves when they bite more than they can chew… however…"

Eccentric Long didn\'t seem too willing to continue his train of thought.

"However, this one is special," Xiao Du finished the sentence. "He is fully capable of though, and isn\'t affected by the Dao of Absorption. He is sane, no more like more sane than even normal people. He doesn\'t have any vileness in him or wickedness. But simply seeks to learn more of the Path of Absorption," Xiao Du added. "He\'ll definitely be a big figure in the future if he keeps this mental.

To have access to incredible power yet still show some restraint, the mental one needs to do this is simply incredible."

\'I guess Dao Shen is rather talented. Well, since he is technically one of my descendants, that\'s a given," I grinned as I watched him taking down one cultivator after another.

This part of the tournament was rather lackluster. Because it was basically just a bunch of fights. Most people were hyped up at the start, then soon it all became rather boring to watch.

With the exception of a few cultivators that showed up here and there.

Dao Shen had already managed to qualify and after him, I was rather uninterested in who to watch.

Besides one man.

Law Tang. An extremely lucky guy.

Who seemed to have also managed to make it to the top ten by the most absurd of methods.

Not only did his opponents either have their cultivation base spiral out of control, fall on their face on the first move. One even managed to rupture a vein in his brain and fell unconscious. Whoever fought against him seemed to be fighting against fate itself. And everyone who faced Law ended up losing miserably before they even launched a single attack.

The strangeness of this event caught the attention of a couple Suns, but they didn\'t deem it worth speaking of. Not even the Dusking Sun next to me uttered a word as he saw what was going on.

After a long time, the final battle started. With this, the hundred winners of this tournament will be finalized.

It was sadly a lackluster fight where one of the two cultivators was too injured from the other fights and gave up immediately.

"Congratulations! You have all managed to rank in the top hundred in this tournament! Proving your quality and ability among your fellow cultivators! Though there can only be one Under the Sun, that doesn\'t mean that any of you should feel encumbered or dishonored to not have made it far. There mere fact of joining this tournament requires a lot of guts! And you all have proven it!

Still with this tournament done, I will withdraw back and allow the last Sun to finalize the event! They will start the event when everyone is deemed healthy enough to take on her challenge. Good luck to all!" the flamboyant sun said.

I guess we\'ll have a small break.

Everyone from the hundred contestants breathed a sigh of relief after all the majority were injured.

"Oh, you\'re not thinking of forgetting about me?" I said, though I spoke softly, for one of the Suns my words were loud and clear.

"What do you mean?" the Flamboyant Sun replied.

"You promised me a reward after the tournament is over, and it is over," I said.

"…"

"Don\'t go on saying you meant the whole event, you specifically said the tournament. And you mentioned that it is now done. I suppose the last part will be something that isn\'t tournament-related," I said.

The Flamboyant Sun then began laughing, "Good, I guess it is my fault for not specifying. Still I cannot give you anything that is at the Origin Shattering level… Well, oh, I have something," he said as he pulled a small cauldron from one of his rings and threw it towards me.

I grabbed the cauldron and instantly realized how stupidly absurd this thing is.

The energy it was releasing was out of this world, and it seemed to be made of some form of metal that even I have yet to see. But that wasn\'t all, the cauldron itself was cracked but it had a formation inside it.

"That\'s called the Heaven Swapping Cauldron. You\'ll enjoy its ability, sadly it can only be used a few more times before the cauldron breaks. The cauldron itself is actually at the Heaven Stage. But sadly since it is now fractured and cannot be fixed. It dropped its quality by a great margin." The Flamboyant Sun said.

"You\'re an alchemist and I\'ve seen how you enjoy using Spatial Law, you\'ll probably learn a thing or two from that cauldron," he said and soon withdrew back to his tower.

"What a great gift," said Eccentric Long, "I\'ve heard about this cauldron," he added.

"Really?" I said as I looked inside the cauldron and was able to see the inscription inside it. Well, most of it. Since a big portion of the inscription was missing.

"They say that this cauldron does not belong to this world," Eccentric Long said.

I looked at Eccentric Long worriedly. Surely this doesn\'t mean that the Beyond itself is nothing but another small world where another even bigger one exists. After all, this is a cultivation world but cliché like this are very disheartening.

"It\'s just hearsay," he said as he shrugged, "After all, there have been no signs of the presence of another world or civilization besides us and the few minor worlds like the Vast Expanse which are far below the Beyond\'s ability. Still, what I heard is that the cauldron, with its inscriptions, is something that hasn\'t been seen before. No one was able to understand them or replicate them.

That\'s why the cauldron itself was never fixed, the metal that makes the cauldron itself is not present in the Beyond. So we guessed it was an extraterritorial item. But we have nothing to prove if that is true." He added.

"I\'ve seen the Wisest Sun playing around with this item for a bit after he asked the Flamboyant Sun to lend it to him for a bit. Even he couldn\'t figure out the Inscriptions making that thing, so he also gave up on fixing it," the Dusking Sun said.

"He gave up… I muttered, but this looks rather simple to fix," I added.

The Wisest Sun immediately appeared in front of me after I finished saying these words.

"You mean… you can understand these inscriptions?" he asked.

"Oh, understand no. But you don\'t need to understand something to fix it. Same as you don\'t need to understand why fire is hot but you still don\'t put your hand in it," I said.

The Wisest Sun frowned at me.

But I replied, "Everything works systematically, all you need to understand is the system itself. For example, these inscriptions…"

And I began explaining how they\'re interlinked together and how they are repeated all over the cauldron.

It took a few hours for me to explain everything I could see and then I said.

"Well, the Flamboyant Sun said that he figured out an ability of the cauldron," I said.

"Yes, it is able to swap position between anything one can see via their divine sense. However, it costs tremendous amounts of Qi to do so. And it also further reduces the cauldron\'s durability, that thing probably has one or two more uses, it could be a very useful life-saving tool," the Wisest Sun said.

"Then this should be another ability," I said as I infused Qi in a different part of the cauldron.

Immediately the cauldron magnified in size, enough that I had to push it away from me.

The cauldron became hundreds of meters long and wide. And as heavy as it looked.

"Oh, convenient," I muttered.

"Hoo, that\'s something even I didn\'t know was possible…" the Flamboyant Sun said.

"You\'re not thinking of taking it back are you?" the Wisest Sun snorted.

"No," the Flamboyant Sun shrugged. "One shouldn\'t take back gifts they offered. Also, it matters not that it can grow and shrink, after all, it still is useless.

\'Well, maybe for you it is, but no one seemed to notice that when the cauldron grew in size, a new formation had been revealed.

I reversed the cauldron\'s size increase by reversing the Qi flow via the size formation and it returned back to its smaller size able to stand comfortably on top of my palm. I then placed it in my holding back to study it later.