Chapter 285: Chapter 230: Spatial Container
Inside the storage cabinet, more than thirty Purple-Backed Sunflowers were arranged in neat rows!
Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures!
Moreover, they were as fresh as if they had just been picked, so verdant they seemed to drip with life. Ling Xiao could even feel the surging Spiritual Qi emanating from the Purple-Backed Sunflowers!
Ling Xiao sucked in a sharp breath. A chill shot up from the base of his spine to the nape of his neck, and he couldn’t help but shiver.
"Brother Ling, what’s wrong?" Song Mingyue asked softly from the side, her eyes filled with deep concern. To avoid appearing nosy, she hadn’t come over to open the cabinet herself and even kept her distance.
"What happened, little brother?"
Ling Su reluctantly put down the journal in her hands. To her, nothing was more valuable than these written records. Any one of these books would cause a massive sensation if taken outside!
"Haha, it’s nothing, it’s nothing!"
An unnatural smile appeared on Ling Xiao’s face as he waved his hand dismissively. This was the first time he had ever felt so unnerved. As a Cultivator who followed the Great Dao, Ling Xiao feared neither gods nor ghosts.
But at this very moment, he felt as if a pair of eyes were watching him from the shadows!
How could medicinal herbs that were tens of thousands of years old remain so fresh to this day?
This... this was simply impossible!
The only other possibility was that the powerful Alchemist was still alive today. Ling Xiao considered the idea, but even he found it utterly unbelievable.
In the Cultivation Realm, after reaching Foundation Establishment, one would have a lifespan of about 150 to 200 years. If they could break through to the Fusion Stage before their time was up, they would gain another two hundred years. This meant a Fusion Stage Cultivator had a lifespan of roughly four hundred years.
Breaking through the Fusion Stage to enter the Heartbeat Stage granted a lifespan of at least six hundred to one thousand years. This meant that Ling Xiao, who had already reached the Early Heartbeat Stage, would, under normal circumstances, live far longer than the Martial Artists on the Canglan Continent who were of similar strength!
Generally speaking, the strength of a Heartbeat Stage Cultivator was roughly equivalent to that of a Demon Sword Master. Of course, Cultivators had countless Daoist Techniques and a wide variety of methods, so in a real fight, they would be slightly superior to a Demon Sword Master. However, the power of a normal Heartbeat Stage cultivation was certainly no match for the might of a Sword Sect.
The Golden Core Stage was a major hurdle for Cultivators. Countless Cultivators fell before the gates of the Golden Core Path. For many, breaking through to the Golden Core was like attaining the Great Dao itself!
This was because a Golden Core Stage Cultivator possessed a lifespan of at least three thousand years! In the eyes of people from the Mortal World, a Golden Core Stage Cultivator was a true Immortal! They wielded immense Magical Power, capable of moving mountains, parting seas, and shattering the heavens!
A Shushan Sword Cultivator who reached the Golden Core Stage could use Sword Flight. With a single strike of their sword, they could obliterate a mountaintop, a feat considered quite ordinary!
On the Canglan Continent, those at the Sword Sect level were no longer a match for Golden Core Stage Cultivators at this point; in fact, they were left far behind!
Even a Sword Emperor, when fighting a Golden Core Stage Cultivator, would find it nearly impossible to harm them with mere sword techniques, as the Cultivator would be protected by their True Essence Protection!
Ling Xiao had never truly witnessed the power of a Sword Venerable from this world. He felt, however, that once he reached the Golden Core Stage, he would definitely be able to put up a fight even against an expert of that caliber. And at that point, even if he couldn’t win, his opponent wouldn’t be able to injure him easily.
What’s more, Ling Xiao’s current state of mind and Spiritual Power had already reached the peak of the Golden Core Stage!
However, he found it impossible to make any further progress. Because his actual cultivation level hadn’t caught up, he couldn’t attain the necessary insights into power. His state of mind could only improve again once he broke through to the Golden Core Stage.
Based on the information he’d gathered, Ling Xiao felt that Sword Sect experts, whose strength was comparable to the Golden Core Stage, had a lifespan of no more than three or four hundred years. That meant the next rank up, Sword Emperor, probably wouldn’t exceed five hundred years!
He recalled Song Mingyue speaking of Sword Venerable experts. Her own grandfather was over two hundred years old. Given that, her great-grandfather couldn’t be more than five hundred, even with late births in the family. So even if a Sword Venerable *could* live for a thousand years...!
And above that were experts on the level of a Sword Saint!
’But... haven’t all Martial Artists with the power of a Sword Saint entered the Holy Sanctuary? At least... that’s what Song Mingyue said!’
Ling Xiao suddenly found his own train of thought ridiculous. ’Could it be that the master of this place broke through the Sword Saint realm to become a Sword God?’ In the Cultivation Realm, once a person cultivated a Nascent Soul, they were said to be immortal and indestructible, able to go anywhere in the heavens or on earth. They could even break through a planet’s barriers and fly through the cosmos in their physical bodies!
But Ling Xiao knew that even Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators weren’t that exaggerated. Their lifespans were indeed very long, and the Nascent Soul formed within their bodies was like a second life. However, according to the historical records of Shushan, their lifespan was only about eight thousand to ten thousand years!
In other words, even a Cultivator who had formed a Nascent Soul would one day reach the end of their life! Otherwise, who would go through all the trouble of Cultivation? Wasn’t becoming an Immortal all about achieving eternal life?
’Could the master of this place be a Cultivator who reached the Nascent Soul Stage? Did he live for ten thousand years? Were these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures collected recently?’
Ling Xiao shook his head with a bitter smile. ’How is that possible?’ he thought. ’The journal entries clearly stop ten thousand years ago.’ Moreover, Ling Xiao was more inclined to believe that the master of this place had a breakthrough in strength and entered the Holy Sanctuary!
’But then how can I explain what’s right in front of me?’
"Ah!"
Just then, a cry of alarm from Ling Su startled Ling Xiao. He quickly turned to his sister and asked, "What’s wrong?"
Ling Su’s face was slightly flushed. She glanced at Song Mingyue and said with some embarrassment, "I saw you spacing out and wondered what in the storage cabinet could be so surprising. But when I tried to open it, my head felt like it was pricked by a needle. It was only for an instant, but the feeling... it was terrifying!"
"Hm?" Ling Xiao frowned slightly and asked his sister, "You can’t see what’s inside this storage cabinet?"
Song Mingyue walked over at that moment, looking at Ling Xiao suspiciously. "Are you alright? The cabinet is clearly empty!"
Ling Su also came closer, stared intently, and then shook her head. "I can’t see anything either!"
"Tiger! Come here!"
Ling Xiao woke up Tiger, who had been dozing off against a wall.
A trickle of drool was dripping from Tiger’s mouth; he must have been dreaming of some delicacy. Hearing Ling Xiao’s call, the bright light of the Luminous Pearl shone on Tiger’s head, making it gleam.
"Young Master, you called?" Tiger ambled over. He suddenly noticed the open storage cabinet and frowned slightly. "What are these? Medicinal herbs? I’ve never seen them before!"
"You can see them?" Ling Xiao asked, pleasantly surprised.
"Of course I can!" Tiger nodded as if it were obvious, then glanced at Ling Su and Song Mingyue in confusion. "They can’t? This... I think you need to use a little bit of Spiritual Power."
"Ah... A Spatial Container!"
Song Mingyue’s expression finally changed, and the way she looked at the row of storage cabinets was now completely different! It was as if a person who had been poor their entire life had suddenly come face-to-face with a mountain of Gold Coins.
"A Spatial Container? The pinnacle of craftsmanship from the Great Mages and Alchemists of the Ancient Era?" Ling Su asked Song Mingyue in a low voice.
Song Mingyue glanced at Ling Su with some surprise, then nodded and said, "That’s right. This must be a masterpiece of Spatial Container technology from the Ancient Era! To think we’d encounter one in a place like this... Heavens... this is... just astounding! Brother Ling, your Spiritual Power has actually reached the level of a Sword Sect expert? No wonder... no wonder the pressure from all those Demon Sword Masters was useless against you in one-on-one fights. No wonder you paid them no mind!"
"The... Spiritual Power... of a Sword Sect expert?" Ling Su’s mind seemed to short-circuit. She stared at her third brother in astonishment, crying out internally, ’Heavens, in just one short year, my brother... he’s had such a fortuitous encounter! This is too amazing!’
Only then did Ling Xiao roughly understand. It turned out that this row of ordinary-looking storage cabinets was a type of Spatial Container, just like a Space Ring!
But even a Space Ring couldn’t be so heaven-defying as to preserve Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from ten thousand years ago in such a fresh state, could it? Ling Xiao glanced at the ring on his hand and thought, ’If I put Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in here, they’d last a few hundred years at most!’
As if sensing Ling Xiao’s confusion, Song Mingyue said softly, "Brother Ling, were you surprised because the items inside are still as good as new? I believe Sister Su can answer that question for you!"
A faint blush appeared on Ling Su’s face. Being with these three had dealt a heavy blow to her usual self-confidence!
Every one of them was so powerful they could only be described as monstrous! Her father, whom she had admired most since childhood, probably wouldn’t even have a chance to make a move in front of these three now. So, she had remained low-key and silent. Seeing that the perceptive Song Mingyue had noticed her mood, Ling Su gave her a grateful smile.
In Ling Xiao’s eyes, however, this transformed into the two of them exchanging flirtatious glances, a sure sign of a secret affair... This just goes to show that even a genius can have his idiotic moments.
Ling Su smoothed back a lock of long hair that had fallen across her forehead and said, "According to some records, only Mages from the Ancient Era could refine Space Rings. The more powerful the Mage, the larger the capacity of the Space Ring they could create. This type of Spatial Container, however, doesn’t actually have a very large capacity. But creating one requires the combined skills of both a Great Mage and an Alchemy Master!"
Ling Su glanced at her brother and then said, "Because... in theory... anything placed inside this type of Spatial Container... can be preserved for all eternity!"
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