The Mortal's Immortal Gourd and Treasure-Gathering Broken Pot

[Mortal’s Journey] [Cultivation] [Classic Cultivation] [Cautious] [Decisive and Ruthless] From the start, his fiancée shattered his dantian with a single palm strike. Then he was found to have a mixed five-element spirit root, becoming the laughingstock of his entire clan. Everyone said his life was over. That is, until he found a green-skinned gourd and a chipped, battered pottery basin in a ruined temple. The gourd could ripen thousand-year-old spirit herbs, and hidden inside the broken basin was the remnant soul of an ancient being. From then on, he cultivated faster than those with Heavenly Spirit Roots, and his face-slapping was faster than anyone else’s. But as his cultivation grew, he discovered that the gourd and basin were far older than even the most ancient powerful beings. They weren’t magical treasures, but two keys. And he himself was stepping, one step at a time, into a game of wits spanning ten thousand years. Only when his master, already at the Nascent Soul stage, affectionately stroked his head and said, “Your Golden Core is quite impressive. I’ve waited so many years for this day,” did he realize that some calamities don’t come from the outside.