I Fabricated the Techniques, but my disciple really mastered them? - Chapter 350

Chapter 350: Chapter 203 Great Harvest, News from the Spiritual Realm_2
 

Moreover, he had taken up residence inside the body of a snow bear.

The deeper they went, the more Spiritual Medicines they found; of these, the sixth-grade Spiritual Medicines were the most abundant, with the occasional fifth-grade present.

Ahead, in a large pit that had no snow, only a layer of hard ice covered it. Beneath the ice, one could see a body split in two by a single stroke.

With a punch, Meng Chong shattered the ice layer and, looking at the shriveled corpse, couldn’t help but frown.

The body was desiccated, as if all its vital essence had been thoroughly drained by a single cut.

The face was no longer discernible.

Beneath the tattered clothes lay a grey pouch resembling a toad!

A Storage Bag!

Meng Chong’s heart leapt with joy as he took the Storage Bag and opened it to find that there wasn’t much inside, just some bottles and jars, a few Spirit Crystals, and a jade token.

“What a pity,” Meng Chong sighed inwardly. Those strong enough to come here to kill the demon master clearly knew the dangers of the journey and thus carried no valuable possessions on them.

Only some medicines and Spirit Crystals.

He handed Zi Yun the jade token and asked, “Is this the Yu Ling you’re looking for?”

Zi Yun glanced at it, shook her head, and said, “This isn’t the Yu Ling I need. You keep it; it might come in handy if you enter the Spiritual Realm Gate.”

Meng Chong took back the jade token and hung the Storage Bag at his waist.

They continued towards the depths of the canyon.

Along the way, they saw several completely desiccated and shattered remains; even their Storage Bags seemed to have been destroyed.

Meng Chong thought it was such a waste.

Eventually, they came upon another body, apparently that of a woman?

“This person died a rather horrible death!”

Meng Chong clicked his tongue. The body had been sliced open from the bottom up by a single blow, the perpetrator evidently did so deliberately.

After removing the Storage Bag from the remains and checking inside, he found a jade token, some bottles and jars, a few Spirit Crystals, and nothing else.

The weapons of these strong warriors seemed to have been destroyed in the great battle.

“Quite the haul!” Meng Chong exclaimed in excitement.

This trip was worth it; two Storage Bags were collected, and these bags, carried by the powerful, were made from a higher-grade Mountain Devouring Toad.

They had more space inside, large enough to hold the snow bear corpse.

“Considering the Storage Bag, I won’t be asking for any other reward,” Meng Chong said to Zi Yun with a chuckle.

“Then I really must thank you!” Zi Yun replied with a beaming smile.

By the time they reached the end of the canyon, Meng Chong had obtained three Storage Bags.

He marveled inwardly that the precious Storage Bags of the Inner Domain, once so rare, did not seem so exceptional after gaining three at once.

At the end of the canyon, on the mountainside, a corpse was pinned against the rock by a bolt to the head.

A pale purple robe was strikingly visible.

Zi Yun jogged over, knelt respectfully before the corpse, knocked her head several times, and then started searching the body to find a Storage Bag.

Inside was a purple jade token.

“I’ve found it!”

Zi Yun was overjoyed and solemnly stashed away the Storage Bag.

She then handed the original Storage Bag to Meng Chong, saying, “Thank you so much, Meng Chong. Without your escort, I don’t know when I would have managed to get here.

“This is the reward I promised you, it contains Spiritual Medicines and Spirit tickets.”

Without any pretense, Meng Chong collected the Storage Bag and turned to the corpse in the purple robe, asking, “Is this your ancestor?”

Zi Yun shook her head, “No, but he left behind some things. With his jade token, I can enter the Spiritual Realm Gate freely.

“Meng Chong, you should come with me when it’s time.”

Meng Chong shook his head, “We’ll talk about it later. You seem to know quite a bit about the Spiritual Realm Gate.”

Zi Yun smiled, “By chance, I acquired some things. There’s a booklet in the Storage Bag I gave you; if you read it, you’ll learn some of the secrets.”

Meng Chong opened the Storage Bag from Zi Yun and indeed found a small booklet, but he didn’t immediately take it out to read.

Zi Yun was digging a hole, seemingly intending to bury the corpse in the purple robe.

Meng Chong raised his hand and threw a punch, blasting a large pit directly in the ground.

“Meng Chong, you are such a nice guy!”

Zi Yun leaped with excitement, stretching out her arms as if she wanted to wrap them around his neck, but Meng Chong quickly grasped her and flung Zi Yun toward the front of the purple-robed corpse.

“Humph!”

Zi Yun grunted twice, dragging the purple-robed corpse over to bury it in the pit.

Meng Chong observed the canyon, feeling increasingly that there was something special about this place, but he could not discern its specific uniqueness.

This journey had now come to an end.

A rich harvest!

“Let’s go!”

Zi Yun, having buried the body, spoke.

The two retraced their path out of the canyon and returned to where the snow bear’s corpse lay. Meng Chong took out a Storage Bag. True Yuan flowed into the bag, opening its mouth wide enough to stuff the snow bear’s corpse inside.

Such a massive snow bear corpse barely ballooned the Storage Bag; it remained small, with only a slight bulge.

Meng Chong couldn’t help but marvel, recognizing that the Storage Bag was indeed an essential for navigating the Martial Arts Realm!

He also collected the Long Spear, the only remaining weapon of a mighty warrior from the demon-hunter battlefield.

Just as they stepped out of the canyon, a sudden humming noise and a ripple emanated from the side of the canyon.

Meng Chong frowned and looked over. At that moment, a summit seemed to be covered in a veil of ripples, distorting as if about to disappear.

“What is this?”

“It might be the Spiritual Realm Gate opening.”

Zi Yun said, her expression suddenly changing.

Then, she murmured to herself, “Impossible. The Spiritual Realm Gate shouldn’t be opening now!”

“What happens when the Spiritual Realm Gate opens?”

Meng Chong, while opening the Storage Bag given by Zi Yun and taking out the booklet, asked.

“The Spiritual Realm is rumored to be the origin of the Inner Realm Martial Arts, the true Martial Arts Domain. The Inner Domain is but a barren land. The Spiritual Realm Gate is the portal between the Inner Domain and the Spiritual Realm.

“Only when the Spiritual Realm Gate opens can one enter the Spiritual Realm, and only the strong from the Spiritual Realm can come into the Inner Domain.

“The Inner Domain cannot open the Spiritual Realm Gate; it can only be opened from within the Spiritual Realm. The Demon Lord had fled from the Spiritual Realm to the Inner Domain.”

Zi Yun spoke solemnly.

Meanwhile, Meng Chong had begun to read the booklet.

This booklet was left by a strong individual who had once traversed from the Spiritual Realm to the Inner Domain, seemingly to pass down some legacy for the purple-robed corpse within the canyon.

Zi Yun had come upon it by chance.

The booklet described the conditions within the canyon as well as provided a brief introduction to the demon-hunter battles, along with some insights into the Spiritual Realm, including the function of the Yu Ling.

The more Meng Chong read, the more serious his expression grew, and a sense of longing emerged within him.

The Inner Domain was too small; the Spiritual Realm was the truly vast Martial Arts Realm.

“The Spiritual Realm!”

Meng Chong looked toward the rippling peak with excitement in his heart, saying, “I’ll stay for now. Let’s see what kind of strong being comes out of the Spiritual Realm Gate.

“Whether it’s like what is said in here, that any strong being from the Spiritual Realm can come to the Inner Domain and sweep through it unbeaten, suppress the Inner Domain.

“Whether they truly tower above, treating those from the Inner Domain like slaves or dogs and pigs!”

The pamphlet described how those from the Inner Domain, if entering the Spiritual Realm, would be immediately captured to serve as slaves or as pigs and dogs. In the eyes of the major forces of the Spiritual Realm, people from the Inner Domain were no different from pigs and dogs!

The Great Grandmasters, who stood high and mighty in the Inner Domain, would either have to kneel as slaves to obtain an identity in the Spiritual Realm or be killed or expelled back to the Inner Domain.

People from the Inner Domain were treated like pigs and dogs in the Spiritual Realm!

The powerful beings, who ruled over the winds and clouds in the Inner Domain, found their situation degrading upon entering the Spiritual Realm; they naturally could not endure such a suffocating humiliation.

Therefore, many of those who entered the Spiritual Realm were killed, and those who followed could only be resigned to a submissive life as pigs and dogs.

Only those holding a Yu Ling were regarded as human and, if they were talented, could be taken in by the force associated with the Yu Ling, becoming a member of a Spiritual Realm faction.

Before the incident with the Demon Lord, the Yu Ling was a treasure fought over by powerful beings within the Inner Domain.

Today, almost none of the powerful beings who know of the Yu Ling remain.

This was also why Zi Yun had come here, to obtain the Yu Ling.

The Spiritual Realm Gate, within the Inner Domain, had become an enigma known to very few, especially after the affair with the Demon Lord, when the strong from the Spiritual Realm had erased all records of the Spiritual Realm Gate.

That was why the current multitude of peak Great Grandmasters of the Inner Domain were nearly oblivious to the existence of the Spiritual Realm Gate.