Chapter 597: Chapter 345 Inventory
The space within this Space Ring was exceedingly large, even larger than the Mustard Seed Ring that Li Shiming had previously obtained from Supervisor Feng Yi. What surprised Li Shiming even more was that the interior of the Space Ring was divided into several independent areas.
One was a static space area, where the items stored would remain in a time-frozen state, undergoing no changes whatsoever.
Another was a life space, in which living beings could be placed. This space would also absorb Spiritual Energy from outside through the Space Ring, maintaining a certain concentration of Spiritual Energy in the area.
The third was a normal space, where living beings could not be placed, subject to normal time flow.
In the static space, Li Shiming found fifteen jade boxes, each containing a Fourth Grade Spiritual Medicine.
The jade boxes were made from Third Grade Spiritual Jade, crafted jointly by an Artifact Refining Master and an Array Master, designed to lock in the Spiritual Energy and prevent it from leaking.
Because they were stored in the static space, the fifteen Fourth Grade Spiritual Medicines were in excellent condition, just as they were when freshly harvested.
Li Shiming’s eyes widened when he saw the fifteen Fourth Grade Spiritual Medicines.
Once a Spiritual Medicine reaches the fourth grade, each one is considered a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure.
Just the Fourth Grade Spiritual Medicines in these fifteen jade boxes could be exchanged for resources sufficient for his advancement to the Nascent Soul Stage, including not only for himself but also for his alter ego, Li Yuanba.
Even though Li Shiming himself was an Alchemy Master, such vast wealth still exhilarated him.
Beside the jade boxes was a piece of Fourth-grade Metal, so high-grade that he could only discern its grade, but knew nothing of its actual name or characteristics.
This was not surprising, as Patriarch Weng Zhao was not a native of the Beishu Continent; it was entirely normal that his resources might never have appeared on the Beishu Continent before.
This piece of Fourth-grade Metal was sufficient to refine a Fourth-Grade Magical Treasure.
The other items in the static space were some Spirit Fruit, Spirit Tea, spirit water, and a complete set of teaware, fruit plates, and a kettle, all of Third Grade.
Li Shiming’s lips twitched involuntarily. Fourth Grade Spirit Items were too high-end for him, but Third Grade materials were enough to be made into Magical Treasures.
Yet, Patriarch Weng Zhao had used Third Grade materials to make teaware, fruit plates, and a kettle, which even made him, a quite wealthy cultivator in the Golden Core Stage, feel it was extravagant.
He regretted that there were no Fourth Grade Spirit Fruit, Spirit Tea, or spirit water, only Third Grade ones, which though numerous, were all things he could procure himself.
In the life space, ten Third Grade Spirit Fruit Trees and five Third Grade Spirit Tea Trees were planted, forming a small garden.
The soil used for the Third Grade fruit trees and Spirit Tea trees was rich in Spiritual Energy, made from unknown Spirit Materials; Li Shiming felt that not only Third Grade, but even Fourth Grade Spirit Plants could survive in this soil.
Among the spirit woods, a large number of spirit flowers were planted.
Beside the fruit trees and tea trees, there was a beehive, a Third Grade Beehive Treasure. It didn’t need a master nor recognition from one.
Its function was to automatically nurture Spiritual Bees. The Spiritual Bees would collect nectar from the spirit flowers, and the Beehive Treasure would automatically separate part of the honey produced by the Spiritual Bees for cultivators to collect at any time.
In the normal space, the first thing Li Shiming noticed was a large number of Jade Scrolls.
The Jade Scrolls were categorized by Cultivation Techniques, Secret Techniques, Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Formations, and also included some predecessors’ cultivation experiences and travel notes.
This was the collection of a Nascent Soul Ancestor, and as Patriarch Weng Zhao was a Supreme Minister of the Skywalk Trading Company, he had access to a richer array of Jade Scrolls than the average Nascent Soul Ancestor from a large sect.
Li Shiming’s Divine Thought split into over a hundred strands, greedily copying all the content of these Jade Scrolls into his lifebound Magical Treasure, IBMz15.
This knowledge would become the foundation of his cultivation and also enriched the theoretical basis of the lifebound Magical Treasure IBMz15, facilitating its analysis and research of cultivation knowledge.
A strand of Li Shiming’s Divine Thought reached into a fiery-red Jade Scroll, and he felt as though he had fallen into a sea of fire, the flames burning his Divine Thought, stabbing at his spirit.
The fiery-red Jade Scroll recognized this Divine Thought as a complete cultivator’s Divine Thought, without pulling in his other Divine Thoughts into the fiery-red Jade Scroll.
Li Shiming also realized that this fiery-red Jade Scroll was not just an ordinary Jade Scroll on the surface, but a Divine Skills inheritance.
He had undergone the Divine Foot Skill inheritance before, and this was similarly challenging though different in execution.
However, this time, as his brain had expanded to one hundred and ninety-one, and it was only one of those brains’ Divine Thoughts that had been drawn into the inheritance test, the situation was somewhat unusual for him.
No matter how terrifying the challenge of the fiery-red Jade Scroll was, the stimulation it brought to Li Shiming was only one hundred ninety-first of the whole, coupled with his already strong spirit and the sharing by his lifebound Magical Treasure IBMz15, a large, emotionless server, made the test seem trivial.
Truth be told, the test of the fiery-red Jade Scroll was strong; the flame inside was testing the cultivator’s spirit’s endurance to fire. If one’s endurance was insufficient, they could not receive this inheritance.
The flame was not ordinary but a Divine Skill-induced flame, precisely testing a cultivator’s fire attribute talent; this Divine Skill was a fire attribute Divine Skill, naturally requiring fire attribute talent as a basis.
At this point, Li Shiming realized that his lifebound Magical Treasure IBMz15 also had such a function—the ability to reduce the intensity of a Divine Skill inheritance test to such an extent.