The next morning, Ryan woke up with a throbbing headache and found himself lying on the cold floor in an awkward position.
Ryan felt his entire body was stiff due to lying on the floor in awkward positions.
Ryan struggled to stand up, his body aching with every movement. He managed to unlock his room door and stepped outside. After drinking some fresh water to ease his headache, he returned to his room, as the sun had not yet risen.
After a few minutes of sitting on the bed, his pains lessened, and then Ryan sat once again in meditation position and closed his eyes.
This time, he didn't enter meditation, as Ryan was only trying to process the information he received the previous night.
According to the information that was transmitted to him, Ryan knew the Cauldron was called Fortune's cauldron.
The Fortune Cauldron is a chaos-level spirit treasure born in the Chaos Sea, where over a thousand worlds have been destroyed.
Ryan doesn't know what a chaos-level spirit treasure represents, but he's sure it's awesome after checking its abilities.
It has three abilities, namely, the user selected by it can have greater luck during his lifetime.
Unlike the earth, where luck is tested through only scratching cards, etc.
Here in the cultivation world, sometimes Luck decides his destiny.
Ryan now has immense luck after becoming the owner of the fortune cauldron, and his luck also influences the people around him, affecting their judgment of him.
Ryan usually gets good deals when he does business with others, thanks to his luck.
If it weren't for his luck, he wouldn't have been picked by Old John when he was just a small child, and he would have died of starvation.
The chances he got from the cultivators during the spirit root test were because of his luck.
The second ability of the Cauldron allows Ryan to obtain spirit stones, which manifest within it every time he meditates.
The amount depends on his cultivation level; as his cultivation level gradually increases, the number of spirit stones generated also slowly increases.
Currently, after reaching the first stage of the Qi realm, he produces one spirit stone each day he completes a meditation session.
The third ability of the cauldron was tricky, as he didn't know if it was a boon or curse after Ryan saw it.
The third ability has enhanced his spirit root from a five-element heavenly spirit root to a chaos spirit root.
Because the chaos spirit root is one-of-a-kind and unheard of, there are no particular exercises to practice and become a cultivator.
Fortunately, there are no issues with the exercise, as the cauldron has transferred the specified exercise to Ryan's brain. He is ready to abandon the current five-elemental exercises and start anew, but he is shocked to see that there are no other elements besides the five elements and their mutated spirit qi in the current world.
So, he can't gather the energy required to perform the complete exercise as he can't gather the other elements to form chaos spirit qi and introduce spirit qi into his body.
Fortunately, the cauldron has a hidden ability to raise one's cultivation level every ten years. Without any practice, he just needs to meditate daily to maintain his body's regulation and stay healthy, and his cultivation levels will rise with time.
Typically, this function was unnecessary for others as they could practice and enhance their cultivation with the infinite wealth produced by the fortune cauldron. However, Ryan was fortunate enough to discover and try the hidden function.
All he could say was that his luck was too good for him to test the hidden ability of the cauldron.
Ryan opened his eyes after checking his abilities and took a moment to contemplate. Then he went to bathe and returned wearing clean clothes.
He sat cross-legged and instructed the fortune cauldron to transfer the cultivation level of his 1st level Qi Cultivation to him. The cauldron's timer had long surpassed ten years, and he was still a mortal, so according to the logic, he could become a cultivator now.
As soon as the instruction was given, a thin spirit energy was generated in the cauldron and passed into Ryan meridians, which then automatically formed a cycle according to the chaos exercise and completed one circle around the body.
As soon as the rotation was formed, the spirit qi began to gather in his Dantian, and the first infusion of chaos spirit qi increased the size of his meridians and Dantian while expelling waste from the body and purifying it through the skin pores.
The waste that was expelled now formed a black layer on his body, which emitted a foul smell.
The foul odor jolted Ryan awake from his meditation. He had been observing his body's changes through his soul consciousness, but the bad smell disturbed his concentration, causing him to retch at the stench emanating from his own body.
Ryan dashed outside and began bathing, scrubbing his body over a dozen times to ensure no black-colored, tar-like substance remained and the smell was completely gone.
Ryan then washed the dress and dried it on the nearby rocks and went inside.
He went back into his room and opened all the windows to let fresh air in and get rid of the bad smell.
It took a few minutes to get rid of the smell, and Ryan once again sat on the bed and started observing his body.
To his surprise, Ryan grew a few inches taller, his skin became smooth like a baby's, his bones stronger, and his muscles well-defined with a few packs on his abdomen.
Ryan is now confident that he can easily carry rice bags weighing at least 50 kg each while working in the fields, something he couldn't do during the last harvest.
While he was daydreaming, the fortune cauldron immediately transmitted another few spells, which he could learn during the Qi training realm, and imprinted them in his brain.
As Ryan was checking the information he just got, he heard some sounds in the hall and knew his grandfather had woken as the sun has risen in the east.
So, he went outside to help his grandfather after deciding to head into the mountains behind the village to practice after having some prepared breakfast.