"Yes, it is the Dao of Absorption, I never thought I'd see this again," Eccentric Long said.
"How come? Is it rare?" I asked.
"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!
"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..."
Discover magic on m_v_l_e_m_p_y_r
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.