"Master."
From the Family Fortune Cauldron, a smaller spiritual entity version of the cauldron flew out, complete with a nose, eyes, and mouth.
This was the artifact spirit of the Family Fortune Cauldron, and its soft voice sounded just like a three or four-year-old girl speaking.
Guo Feilong's divine soul beckoned with his palm facing up.
The artifact spirit of the Family Fortune Cauldron immediately flew into his palm.
This little thing looked peculiar yet quite adorable.
Guo Feilong gently stroked the artifact spirit with a finger from his other hand.
The little creature, almost like a person, let out a tinkling child's voice, "Hahaha, Master, hahaha, don't tickle me, I'm ticklish, hahaha..."
Guo Feilong stopped his finger's movement, held the artifact spirit up to his eyes, and asked, "What's your name?"
The mouth on the artifact spirit emitted a little girl's voice, replying, "My previous master called me Little Cauldron. Master, you can give me a new name if you like."
"Little Cauldron is a pretty good name, I won't give you a new one," Guo Feilong said, then asked, "What was your previous master's name?"
Little Cauldron replied, "My previous master's name was Ji Xuanyuan, also known as the Yellow Emperor. He was the one who forged and created me.
As long as the master marries more wives and takes more concubines, and the descendants multiply,
My main body, the Family Fortune Cauldron, can produce more auspicious clouds."
The previous owner of the Family Fortune Cauldron was the emperor, which startled Guo Feilong, but then he recalled a myth.
According to legend, the Yellow Emperor ascended to the heavens with three thousand women, and his main wife bore him 25 sons, 14 of whom were granted fiefdoms and new surnames.
The other wives and concubines of the Yellow Emperor bore him countless children.
Although there aren't many records of the Yellow Emperor's children, a saying has been passed down: all Chinese descendants are the offspring of Yan and Huang.
The Yellow Emperor ascended to the heavens with three thousand women; could it be because of this Family Fortune Cauldron?
Guo Feilong immediately asked the artifact spirit of the Family Fortune Cauldron, and indeed, his guess was correct.
The artifact spirit explained that the emperor married and had children, using the auspicious clouds produced by the Family Fortune Cauldron to continuously break through cultivation stages, eventually ascending to the heavens.
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The Yellow Emperor's three thousand women didn't mean he married three thousand wives and concubines to ascend; rather, it was a metaphor for marrying many wives and concubines.
Guo Feilong asked the artifact spirit why he had crossed over to this cultivation world and when he became the owner of the Family Fortune Cauldron.
The artifact spirit replied that it didn't know either.
At that moment, the artifact spirit suddenly said, "Congratulations, Master, one of your children has broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, producing 400 auspicious clouds in the cauldron."
Guo Feilong was taken aback and asked, "You can sense when one of my descendants breaks through a cultivation stage?"
"Of course, as long as they are a member of the master's family, whether it's a wife, concubine, or descendant," Little Cauldron said. "Whenever they break through, and auspicious clouds are produced in the cauldron, I know who has broken through from which stage to which stage."
Guo Feilong understood, and suddenly remembered something, eagerly asking, "Little Cauldron, you've been with your previous master for so long, do you know about the Yellow Emperor's cultivation techniques, as well as his alchemy, artifact crafting, and talisman formation skills?"
Little Cauldron replied, "The previous master, the Yellow Emperor's techniques were innate, suitable only for him. However, I do remember some things about alchemy, artifact crafting, talisman, and formations."
Buzz!
As it spoke, a green light shot from Little Cauldron into Guo Feilong's divine soul, containing the Yellow Emperor's knowledge in alchemy, artifact crafting, formations, and talismans.
It was unclear how much time passed, as if millions of years had gone by, or perhaps just a moment, but Guo Feilong understood the Yellow Emperor's alchemy and artifact crafting techniques.
The Yellow Emperor's alchemy involved understanding the properties of all things in the world, then combining them as needed to refine elixirs, with a focus on analysis.
There were two types of analysis:
One was forward analysis.
The other was reverse analysis.
Forward analysis involved putting different medicinal herbs together to determine what kind of elixir could be refined.
Reverse analysis involved someone giving you an elixir, which you would crush and, through observation and scent, deduce which different medicinal herbs were used to refine it, essentially determining its composition.
Additionally, there was a set of personal insights from the Yellow Emperor on elixirs, teaching how to analyze and deduce both forward and backward.
Once proficient in this ability, there would be no need to spend a fortune buying alchemy recipes; just a few elixirs would suffice.
Through analysis, one could determine what ingredients were used to refine an elixir and in what proportions, thus obtaining the alchemy recipe.
Similarly, there were no shortcuts in alchemy; whether one could learn these methods depended on their comprehension. Without sufficient comprehension, even if the methods were taught, one wouldn't grasp them.
Guo Feilong wasn't sure about his own comprehension in this area, so he planned to visit the cultivation market later to buy some unused elixirs and practice reverse deduction to see if he could deduce the recipes.
The Yellow Emperor's alchemy was vast and profound, something he couldn't learn in a short time, but he could take it slow in the future.
The Yellow Emperor also had profound knowledge in artifact crafting, using the properties of various objects and the effects produced by their fusion to craft sacred treasures and spiritual instruments.
In terms of formations, the Yellow Emperor was extremely skilled, able to use ordinary flowers, trees, stones, as well as mountains, rivers, and all things in the world to set up formations, even using the entire world to create grand formations, which was quite impressive.
The Yellow Emperor was also incredibly skilled in drawing talismans, achieving a 100% success rate in creating any talisman.
Of course, even though he now had the Yellow Emperor's legacy in alchemy, artifact crafting, formations, and talismans,
learning all of these wasn't just a matter of knowing them; it required long-term practice and research.
It's like a physics or chemistry book; just having it in front of you doesn't mean you can create anything after reading it once.
It requires constant deduction and experimentation to finally create something.
In short, the Yellow Emperor's methods in alchemy, artifact crafting, formations, and talisman creation
were very advanced and easy to grasp compared to those in this cultivation world.
In any case, they were impressive.
All methods in the world are interconnected, and the great path is one.
Through obtaining the Yellow Emperor's legacy, Guo Feilong suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Since he could reverse deduce alchemy recipes through analyzing elixirs, and create things by understanding the properties of all things,
why couldn't he deduce the lower part of the Golden Body Technique by combining the upper and middle parts of the cultivation technique?
Even if the deduced lower part of the Golden Body Technique differed from the original, as long as it continued to enhance his body's strength, it would be acceptable.
Perhaps the deduced lower part of the Golden Body Technique might even be better than the original; it's not impossible.
If others could create cultivation techniques, why couldn't he? After all, all techniques in the world are man-made.
Not only the body cultivation technique Golden Body Technique, but also other divine powers and spells, as long as he understood the principles, he could create them too.
With this thought, Guo Feilong's mind suddenly cleared, as if a door to the path of creation had opened.