Chapter 39: The Spatial Beast Pouch

“Hiss!”
“Such ruthless methods! Truly worthy of the title Cold Moon Fairy, famed for her iciness!”
In the underwater tunnel, looking at the sea fish before him, its body already beginning to freeze, exuding a chilling aura of death, Lu Sheng felt a wave of lingering fear.
Just now, if he hadn’t acted on a hunch when retrieving the Mind-Control Gu and directed it to possess a passing sea fish in the tunnel, it might have been him lying dead at this very moment!
An attack that erupted so swiftly—even he would not have had time to activate his Wishful Jade!
His spirit was protected by the Wishful Jade, so perhaps it would have been fine, but if his body had frozen to death, then there would be no coming back—
After all, with the merits he currently possessed, it was far from enough to bring a completely dead body back to life!
“It seems my use of the Mind-Control Gu is still riddled with flaws!”
By the pond earlier, Lu Sheng had already examined everything left behind by Wan Gu Xiao, Ma Buting, and Ma Buti, but he found no trace of their secret cultivation techniques.
Even if there were some martial arts manuals, most were common techniques found in the martial world, at best allowing one to reach the level of a martial master—not the least bit helpful to Lu Sheng.
Because of this, although he had obtained the Mind-Control Gu, Lu Sheng still had little idea how to use or improve it.
This time, if not for his intuition guiding him to let the Gu first possess a sea fish, he would have suffered a grave loss!
“Fortunately, the Mind-Control Gu wasn’t damaged!”
Looking at the Gu, also tainted with a trace of cold, Lu Sheng comforted himself.
After he had refined it with merit, the Mind-Control Gu had become akin to a magical artifact—regardless of cold or chill, as long as its mystical patterns weren’t destroyed, it would remain unharmed.
“Even a grandmaster couldn’t damage it—”
“As long as I’m careful, this Mind-Control Gu can be used with confidence!”
Lu Sheng reassured himself.

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“I glimpsed the blade intent of the Sea Moon Severing God Blade just now; the Cold Moon Fairy surely holds a poor impression of me!”
“To avoid being killed by her upon leaving, perhaps I’d better hide here for the time being!”
After what had just transpired, Lu Sheng had come to understand the Cold Moon Fairy’s temperament firsthand—
“She truly deserves her reputation as the most ruthless among the three Fairy Beauties of the martial world!”
Reflecting on the experience with the Mind-Control Gu, Lu Sheng took out his two spatial pouches and a spatial beast pouch, then removed all materials with spatial properties from them and began to make plans:
“In the future, I must always carry some living creatures with me—
“Before retrieving the Mind-Control Gu, I’ll have it pass through one of them first!”
This incident had left a deep impression on Lu Sheng, forcing him to become even more cautious.

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“A spatial pouch that can store living beings is worth far more than an ordinary one!”
“For example, this spatial beast pouch, though it’s only five feet across, is more precious than a regular spatial pouch with a fifty-foot radius.”
“If Wan Gu Xiao hadn’t been an elite disciple of the Primal Gu Sect, he probably would never have obtained it.”
The Primal Gu Sect possessed many methods for controlling monsters and thus had a great need for spatial beast pouches. As a high-level martial master, Wan Gu Xiao could only have acquired one because he had the potential to become a martial grandmaster.
“A spatial beast pouch requires special refining methods and causes any creature placed inside to fall into a deep sleep automatically.”
“Moreover, it contains a unique primal energy that preserves the creature’s vitality during slumber and even allows it to cultivate on its own.”
“This is the secret to sustaining life within!”
Ordinary spatial equipment is essentially a vacuum inside; it can preserve items indefinitely but cannot store living beings—
Only by infusing it with special primal energy can the vitality of living creatures be maintained.
“This kind of primal energy is extremely rare and must be replenished regularly after consumption—”
“It’s also one of the means the Primal Gu Sect uses to control its disciples.”
As a demonic sect, the Primal Gu Sect never relied on loyalty alone; besides tiered transmission of techniques, restrictions on resources were also a method of control.
This special primal energy in spatial beast pouches was one such tool.

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“To expand this spatial beast pouch, apart from upgrading its materials and pushing its internal spatial fragments to the limit—”
“I also need to increase the amount of special primal energy inside!”
“All of this will consume merit!”
Merit could provide energy and could also be converted into primal energy; for the past few days, Lu Sheng’s cultivation had relied on the energy of merit.
Though he worried about depleting his reserves, Lu Sheng did not hesitate. A spatial beast pouch capable of storing living creatures was far too valuable to abandon lightly.
“The spatial fragments in this pouch have nearly reached their limit in potential.”
“Only by merging this spatial pouch with it can I expand its space!”
Spatial fragments could be fused together, and with enough merit, Lu Sheng could achieve this.
“This spatial pouch has a potential of over a thousand cubic feet, but as for merging it with the beast pouch—”
“That’s impossible for now!”
Fusing huge spatial fragments required too much merit; Lu Sheng simply couldn’t afford it at the moment.
Thus, he had to settle for the next best thing:
“This spatial pouch’s potential is less than ten cubic feet, but its refining method is rather unique—”

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“It uses a certain camouflaging material that allows its color to change freely!”
Before the opening of the Divine Ruins, spatial equipment was extremely rare due to its military value and the scarcity of materials—even martial grandmasters seldom saw it.
However, after the Divine Ruins were opened, spatial materials were discovered in abundance within.
To bring back as many items as possible from the ruins, the powerful cultivators began to mass-produce spatial equipment—
Over a thousand years, equipment once rare beyond imagining became so common that even many martial masters possessed it!
Consequently, all sorts of methods for discovering, stealing, and breaking into spatial equipment were developed.
Those who refined such gear began adding camouflaging materials to make them harder to detect.
This spatial pouch was created with that very idea in mind.
“Besides its camouflage, fusing this pouch will only cost 15,551 points of merit.”
Fifteen thousand five hundred fifty-one points was not a small sum, but compared to previous expenditures, it was almost negligible—
Let alone the fact that this would produce a camouflaged spatial beast pouch that could store living creatures!
So, after finalizing the design, Lu Sheng began the expansion without delay.
Before long, a spatial pouch and the beast pouch had been fused into a uniquely shaped spatial belt, its internal space now pushed to the limit!
“One zhang wide, two zhang high, five zhang long—a total of ten cubic zhang—”
“That’s enough to house a few living beings!”
With that, Lu Sheng grabbed several of the fish swimming nearby and placed them inside.

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“Damn!”
“The Blue-striped Coral Snake isn’t dead!”
Just after catching a few fish, Lu Sheng suddenly remembered the blue-striped coral snake and realized he’d forgotten something:
“Most of what happened by the pond was witnessed by the blue-striped coral snake!”
“Now that it’s been caught by the grandmaster—”
“Doesn’t that mean the secret of the dragon corpse I obtained will soon be known to the grandmaster as well?”