The Zhou Clan's Affairs, the Two Branches Face Off

More than half a year had passed. At last, he had succeeded.

Zhou You turned his palm over, and the stone bead string that had vanished reappeared. There were exactly thirty-seven beads, no more, no less, corresponding precisely to the number of peaks in Heavenly Pearl Mountain and the total number of seal characters he had left behind.

This string of stone beads was both the entrance to Heavenly Pearl Mountain after its completion and its key.

With a thought from Zhou You, he could summon the bead string and open a passage to Heavenly Pearl Mountain. This made use of the functions of Talent: Hunger, while the vast space within Heavenly Pearl Mountain combined the two seal characters, "Contain" and "Store."

To contain all things, with a small world formed within itself—such was the function of the seal character "Contain."

Its outward appearance remained unchanged. Without using the bead string to open the entrance, Heavenly Pearl Mountain was still that same mountain range, entirely separate from the space within. Such was the function of the seal character "Store."

With Talent: Hunger's anchoring function, even if Zhou You was thousands of miles away, he could store items by opening the world inside Heavenly Pearl Mountain.

With Talent: Hunger's activation function empowering it, Heavenly Pearl Mountain could also admit living creatures.

After all, Zhou You intended to move the Medicine Field in his possession inside, using Endless Vitality Soil to keep it planted and harvested, turning it into a secret base for refining great medicines.

He completed this massive undertaking under the protection of his personal guards, and in the close company of Zhu Qinghua and Yu Fu'er.

The instant construction was completed, an immense sense of achievement enveloped Zhou You, filling him with incomparable exhilaration.

"Lord, the Grandmaster requests your