Trapped in the Artist's Nightmare Chapter 308

"What do you mean? Such a big tripod can just disappear like that?" Owen Wei asked in surprise.

"The Nine Cauldrons are a sacred artifact passed down from generation to generation. The ancients who believed in gods and ghosts believed that whoever possessed the Nine Cauldrons would be able to rule the world and become the ruler of the world as destined by heaven." Shaoling said, "Therefore, it is said in "Shiyi Ji": 'The saints of later generations, following the footsteps of Yu, have cast cauldrons from generation to generation.' Therefore, these nine cauldrons became rare national treasures that monarchs of various countries competed to possess during the Warring States Period when the world was in chaos.

"As for the whereabouts of the Nine Cauldrons, some say that the Zhou royal family was in financial distress and heavily in debt at the time, so the Nine Cauldrons were melted down and minted to pay off the debts. Others say that the Zhou royal family was weak and the king was afraid of getting into trouble, so he sank the Nine Cauldrons into the Si River and lied to the outside world that the Nine Cauldrons were missing, which led to the famous historical event of Qin Shihuang fishing the cauldrons out of the Si River.

"But the most miraculous thing is the record in "Shiji Zhengyi", which said that King Zhao of Qin plundered nine tripods from the Zhou royal family and brought them back to his country. One of the tripods suddenly flew into the Si River, and the other eight tripods later disappeared. Later, Qin Shihuang sent a thousand people to fish for the tripods in the water, but in the end they found nothing. From then on, the nine tripods disappeared from the world.

"From ancient times to the present, so many people have been looking for the whereabouts of the Nine Cauldrons for so many years, but they all ended in failure. There are only ten of us. If we want to find the Nine Cauldrons out of thin air, we must have God to give us a golden finger."