William Clark didn’t feel the slightest bit of happiness at having seized the body of the legitimate grandson of the Duke of Zhenguo; all he felt was frustration, lamenting that his luck had worsened after obtaining the Void Yin-Yang Cauldron. Not to mention seizing the body of one of those prodigies or the four great scholars from the memories, but how could he end up in the body of William Clark, the number one scourge among the four great troublemakers of Yunge Imperial Capital? Although he was quite helpless, what’s done is done, and he could only accept it.

The original cultivation technique of the Cheng family was actually not bad, but compared to the Yin-Yang Myriad Arts Manual, it was far inferior. In fact, in his previous life, William Clark had studied countless powerful techniques from mighty beings and sects, but had never found anything as wondrous as the Yin-Yang Myriad Arts Manual. After circulating his internal vital energy, William Clark began to slowly operate according to the method of the Yin-Yang Myriad Arts Manual.

The Yin-Yang Myriad Arts Manual, aside from absorbing vital energy from heaven and earth like a normal cultivation technique, had a special feature: once cultivated to a certain level, it allowed one to absorb vital energy from all things in the world to assist in cultivation. This was the main reason why William Clark had progressed so quickly in his previous life. Moreover, because he could absorb vital energy from all things, he gained a different understanding of the world. For example, when William Clark cultivated in the jungle in his previous life, absorbing the vital energy from demon beasts allowed him to get along well with them, and absorbing the energy from plants and herbs let him sense their differences. This was also one of the main reasons he became one of the youngest top ten alchemy masters in Jiuzhou.

Even with normal cultivation, the Yin-Yang Myriad Arts Manual was far more effective than other techniques. However, this body was simply too weak; after just one cycle, it was already struggling. What a trash body—there’s no way I, William Clark, will accept this. Keep going.

If this continued, he feared he wouldn’t reach the Transcendent stage even if he lived out his hundred-year lifespan. Bearing with the exhaustion and the body that felt like it was about to fall apart, and with his vital energy nearly severed, William Clark began his second cycle of cultivation. As soon as the second cycle started, his body felt extremely uncomfortable, and gradually William Clark felt as if he was about to collapse.

Ah!

Endure, endure! William Clark was unwilling to just muddle through life after seizing this body. He hadn’t yet reached the level of Alchemy Grandmaster, hadn’t refined a ninth-grade pill, hadn’t yet refined the number one divine artifact of Jiuzhou, and still had many unfinished matters...

Later, it wasn’t just his body that was about to collapse—William Clark’s head felt like it was about to explode. Forcing himself to cultivate the Yin-Yang Myriad Arts Manual with such a fragile body and strength put immense mental pressure on him.

When William Clark’s body reached its limit, and even his mind was on the verge of collapse, that small cauldron once again appeared at William Clark’s brow, slowly emitting a glow. In his dazed, hazy state, William Clark felt as if his consciousness had left his body and entered a mysterious space.

Everything here was shrouded in chaos; he couldn’t make out what was around him.

“Boom!” Suddenly, it was as if the world was being created, chaos shattering apart. At the very moment when William Clark felt his body was about to collapse, streams of scorching energy surged into his body.

These streams of energy were incredibly powerful. Once they entered William Clark’s body, they began to circulate wildly according to the Yin-Yang Myriad Arts Manual, their speed instantly shifting from a horse-drawn cart to a jet plane. In the blink of an eye, a full cycle was completed, and the speed kept accelerating.

As the scorching energy continued to pour into his body, everything in William Clark’s consciousness gradually became clear. He clearly saw a very exquisite and beautiful small cauldron. A thin crack appeared on the lid, and from that crack, some of the scorching energy was drawn out, continuously entering his body.

The Void Yin-Yang Cauldron!!

That’s right, this was the Void Yin-Yang Cauldron he had gone through so much to obtain. But this cauldron seemed a bit different from before. It had become smaller—of course, the size of Jiuzhou’s number one divine artifact could change at will. This kind of smallness was like peeling away the shell to reveal the fruit inside. Suddenly, William Clark recalled the moment he refined the Void Yin-Yang Cauldron: yes, at the instant when the thirteen Void Yin-Yang Tribulations shattered the cauldron and his own body, the light that flew from inside the cauldron into his body was this small cauldron.

At this moment, William Clark suddenly understood. No wonder he failed to refine the Void Yin-Yang Cauldron even after a hundred years of preparation; no wonder so many people had obtained it over the past century, yet none could truly unleash its power. This was the Void Yin-Yang Cauldron, known as Jiuzhou’s number one divine artifact, but in the past hundred years, more than a dozen people had acquired it, all meeting tragic ends. Because no one realized that what they thought was the wondrous Void Yin-Yang Cauldron was just the outer shell—they hadn’t even entered the door, yet dreamed of relying on Jiuzhou’s number one divine artifact. What a delusion.

The one that shattered before was the outer cauldron; this small cauldron was the inner cauldron. It was laughable that back then he had marveled at the enormous storage space inside, amazed at its incredible alchemy effects, and even thought of refining it. In the end, all his life’s savings were destroyed along with the outer cauldron, and even his life was lost.

“Ah…” Just then, William Clark suddenly heard a sharp, piercing scream, which jolted his consciousness back into his body.