Shen Wanquan: "You'd better move to another place. This year the Star Source has elites from all the major powers cultivating here, there's too much attention. I'm afraid they'll discover you."
Dragon-Man Tribe: "Afraid of what? Divine sense can't be released here. Even you, a respected Martial Saint, cannot levitate — you still have to step down on this little toy."
Shen Wanquan: "Don't be reckless. The surface forces may be weaker than our Shen Family, but who knows if someone understands some unique secret technique that could detect your presence!"
Dragon-Man Tribe: "Elder Wanquan, you're being overly cautious.
I was planning to use this opportunity to wipe out the various prodigies cultivating in the Star Source in one fell swoop!
Once these talents mature, they'll pose a small obstacle to the Dragon-Man Tribe's plans. Killing them would be a merit for us!"
Reading their lip movements to this point, Chen Yi couldn't help frowning.
Luckily he noticed it, otherwise he might have been ambushed.
Fortunately, Shen Wanquan wasn't that crazy.
Shen Wanquan: "Are you insane? Those people are the treasured prodigies of various schools and sects! If they all die here, will the sects behind them let the Shen Family go? Do you want the Shen Family to be enemies with all martial artists?"
Dragon-Man Tribe: "Relax. I'll add the 'Demon Seed Poison' into the Star Source Liquid. This poison is extremely valuable — colorless, tasteless, absolutely lethal!
Poisoning via immersion causes a long latent period. By the time they succumb, they won't be with the Shen Family anymore.
Then you can simply declare you had no involvement. What can they do?"
Chen Yi was familiar with this Demon Seed Poison.
During the third simulation, he had died from this very poison.
Even having the Senior Tomato User trait only delayed it for a while, which shows how potent the toxin is.
In the end, Shen Wanquan refused the Dragon-Man Tribe's poisoning plan, only warning them to evacuate the Star Source Star immediately, or he would cease cooperation.
The Dragon-Man Tribe reluctantly agreed.
They said they needed a few days to cover their tracks.
After that, Shen Wanquan left on his Star Shuttle.
The Dragon-Man returned to his cave.
"There seems to be a restriction array here..."
Chen Yi lay prone on the ground, originally planning to continue his cocooning and ambush this Dragon-Man.
But he discovered a warning formation placed in front of the cave.
This was likely Shen Wanquan's arrangement. It looked like a formation protecting the Star Source, yet conveniently provided an early warning for the cave where the Dragon-Man hid.
"If I act, it must be a one-shot victory, and I can't attract the Shen Family's attention. Also, the Qiankun Mirror and the Star Source should preferably be taken together..."
Chen Yi lay on the ground thinking.
Suddenly, a bold idea came to him.
"Da Chun! Da Chun!"
Inside the Cauldron Realm, Da Chun, who was eating a peach, heard Chen Yi's mental transmission.
"Yi Brother, I'm here."
"Can you contact the Qiankun Mirror?"
"Is Kun Brother there?"
"Yes! He's nearby, soaking in the Star Source. Can you contact him remotely?"
"Maybe, but only if Yi Brother brings the cauldron out."
Keeping the Nine Provinces Cauldron inside his body for nurturing couldn't unleash its true power.
To use it properly, it had to be summoned.
Chen Yi gritted his teeth.
"Do it!"
Fortune favors the bold!
You can't want the benefit without taking any risk. Where does that happen in this world?
In the worst case, he could bail. With Chen Yi's current Martial King Realm strength, plus two Immortal Artifacts and the Nine Provinces Cauldron in hand, his retreat would be secure.
Chen Yi returned to the Star Source.
On the way he ran into one of the Martial Kings assigned to guard the Star Source, who had come looking for him.
"Where have you been?"
"I just got lost. The fog is too thick; I couldn't tell directions. Divine sense is unusable, so..."
"Enough. Come back with me. Next time you're lost, call for help. Don't wander off alone. If you run into a killing formation, you'd be asking for death."
"Understood."
Back at the Star Source pool, Chen Yi casually soaked and cultivated like everyone else.
But his hands, hidden under the thick liquid, began to move.
He withdrew the Nine Provinces Cauldron and shrank it to the size of his palm.
Luckily the fog was dense here and divine sense was useless, so no one could detect his small maneuver.
A faint divine aura seeped from the Nine Provinces Cauldron, like a thin red thread, penetrating the Star Source's bedrock and reaching into the main pool.
The partially submerged Qiankun Mirror in the large Star Source Pool suddenly woke up.
"Huh?? Cauldron Little Brother? My Cauldron Little Brother is here??"
The Qiankun Mirror surged out of the Star Source Liquid.
"Splash..."
Water sprayed everywhere.
"Cauldron Little Brother?! Is that you?? Where are you??
Oh brother, I've been soaking here every day for years, I'm bored to death!
Do you have any extra peaches? Give your brother some! Eating peaches restores you faster than this stuff!"
The Qiankun Mirror's sudden eruption immediately put the Shen Family Martial Kings on alert.
"This is bad! The Qiankun Mirror is acting up again! Force it back into the Star Source!"
Whenever the Qiankun Mirror went mad it would open chaotic spacetime flows and devour stars, causing heavy losses for the Shen Family.
Even Martial King cultivators had been lost before.
Seeing the Qiankun Mirror stir, these people ignored whatever it shouted; they had to suppress it.
As long as the Qiankun Mirror remained inside the Star Source, it couldn't trigger spacetime chaos.
Besides, who paid attention to a mad mirror's words?
The four Martial Kings struck together and activated the Stellar River Divine Art, forcibly pressing the Qiankun Mirror back into the Star Source.
"Stop! I'm not sick!"
"Please return the Qiankun Mirror to its place!"
"Return it to your grandmother's leg! Where is Shen Yang? Bring him out! I don't want to soak here every day, it's too boring! I want to run! To jump! To do a beautiful upside-down hook!!"
"Please return the Qiankun Mirror!"
"I said I'm not sick, are you all erlodron?!"
"Please return the Qiankun Mirror!"
The poor Qiankun Mirror was forcefully suppressed back into the pool.
Chen Yi, Tian Xiaofeng, and the others watched and glanced toward the main pool, puzzled about what had happened.
A Shen Family expert reassured them.
Even if the Qiankun Mirror went mad, they'd be safe staying in the Star Source. The space inside the Star Source Liquid was absolutely stable and could not be disrupted by any means, even by a Qiankun Mirror capable of opening spacetime chaos.
Chen Yi whispered.
"Da Chun, tell the Qiankun Mirror to go totally mad now! Make the Starry Domains erupt into chaos! You can promise him a hundred peaches!"
Da Chun released another thread of divine aura.
Disciples like Tian Xiaofeng sharing the same pool could actually sense the divine power leaking from the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
But since divine sense couldn't be used, they didn't know what it was.
They assumed the Star Source itself was surging.
"Just a moment ago it was ice-cold, now it's so warm. The Star Source is really mysterious!"
The sulking Qiankun Mirror received the Nine Provinces Cauldron's message and replied.
"Cauldron Little Brother, no!
Although being with the Shen Family these years has been unpleasant, we have cooperated well since ancient times.
I know I sometimes cause them a little trouble.
But they don't despise me. They even used the Star Source to restore my body — that's loyalty.
How could I deliberately do harm?"
Chen Yi had Da Chun pass the message.
"I'll give you a hundred peaches a month!
The Star Source will be packaged up and placed into the Cauldron Realm!
You can restore yourself in the Cauldron Realm and never trouble the Shen Family again!
One move solves many problems and shows consideration for the Shen Family. How is that doing harm?"
In the calm large Star Source Pool, the Qiankun Mirror suddenly emitted a brilliant divine light.
"Boom!!"
The pool exploded!

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