Origin Awakening Vessel

The Origin Awakening Vessel, also called Su Ming's Origin Vessel, is the object formed when Su Ming refines Earthen and Void Lightning during his Awakening. It initially appears to be lightning caught between material and immaterial states, but its true form is a black, cauldron-shaped plate with nine holes. It becomes the core through which Su Ming gathers, stores, and directs Origin Lightning and later supplies spirit to his God of Berserkers statue's left arm. (Chapters 191–199, 585, and 666)

History

Choosing lightning during Awakening

Su Ming originally prepares the medicinal pill Spirit Plunder as a safe, tangible candidate for his Origin Vessel. When blue celestial lightning enters his body, he instead wonders whether its brief physical state can be retained. He knows neither what lightning is made of nor how it arises, so he initially resolves to use Spirit Plunder. The collision of Earthen Lightning and Void Lightning gives him a workable principle, and he chooses the unprecedented, dangerous attempt rather than accept a substitute he would regret. (Chapters 191–195)

Awakening Qi slowly refines the two lightning forces inside his body. The process is so slow that an ordinary attempt would leave even a prodigy vulnerable to death, and Su Ming's body begins to fail before completion. He persists until the lightning is fully refined. Although the result commands lightning and seems partly illusory, an accidental collision later reveals its true material core: a black plate shaped like a cauldron and pierced by nine holes. Su Ming does not yet understand what the object is or why refining lightning produced it. (Chapters 195–199)

Growing control over Origin Lightning

The Vessel supports Su Ming's early Awakening combat by letting Origin Lightning spread through his body and meet Si Ma Xin's ice. Training under Tian Xie Zi strengthens it and deepens Su Ming's control, eventually allowing him to place thunder in his voice. Its visible scale can be deceptive: during one vision, Su Ming explicitly recognizes a display of mighty lightning as powerless illusion rather than a genuine attack. The Vessel's actual usefulness therefore depends on gathered lightning and understanding, not appearance alone. (Chapters 235–383)

Nine holes and the God of Berserkers statue

During the struggle for the Lightning Berserker inheritance, Su Ming spits out the cauldron-shaped object and sends it into the clouds. Ambient lightning pours into it and fills one of its nine holes, showing that the Vessel can act as a collector and reservoir as well as an internal source. The black stone fragment helps guide him to the inheritance, but the narration states that the fragment could not have drawn out the lightning without the cauldron-shaped Vessel. (Chapter 585)

Su Ming later fuses Origin Lightning from the Vessel with the blood moon and floating snow that form his God of Berserkers statue's left arm. This gives the arm the missing spirit and joins lightning to bloodlust and shredding force. Lightning from across the world of the Berserkers gathers toward the result. The Vessel's last direct role is thus integration into a larger divine ability rather than continued use as an independent carried plate. (Chapter 666)

Abilities and properties

• Dual visible nature: Its power spreads as Origin Lightning caught between illusion and reality, while its physical true form is a nine-holed black plate shaped like a cauldron. It can change from physical object to apparent lightning and return inside Su Ming. (Chapters 197–199)
• Lightning generation through fusion: Earthen Lightning fills the organs and Void Lightning the head; their collision produces the lightning that manifests outside the body. The Vessel lets Su Ming reproduce and direct this process after the original Awakening ordeal. (Chapters 195–199)
• Collection and storage: When placed in storm clouds, it absorbs large quantities of lightning, with the gathered force visibly filling individual holes. The evidence shows some holes filled but does not establish a complete nine-stage system or the effect of filling all nine. (Chapter 585)
• Combat and technique integration: Origin Lightning strengthens direct combat, counters ice, travels through Su Ming's body, and can be incorporated into a thunderous voice. Its later fusion with blood moon and floating snow supplies the spirit and lightning component of the statue's left arm. (Chapters 237, 292–383, and 666)
• Severe formation cost: Creating the Vessel requires Su Ming to endure sustained internal collisions between celestial forces during Awakening. His body nearly fails, and the slow refinement would ordinarily leave a cultivator exposed long enough to be killed. This cost belongs to formation; later use is not shown repeating the entire ordeal. (Chapters 195–197)
• Incomplete understanding: Su Ming succeeds before he understands the black plate's identity. Some later displays are illusory and powerless, so visual magnitude alone cannot establish output. The corpus never fully explains the object's deeper origin or why it has nine holes. (Chapters 199 and 360)

Ownership and custody