After releasing Tiger Demon Form, Yuan Zhu, 1.89 meters tall and dressed in a pitch-black racing suit, stepped back onto the cobblestone path. The vicious tiger baleful intent around him had yet to disperse.
He looked up at the sky, where the stars blazed. His right hand clamped around the throat of a Golden Bodhisattva, dragging it half along the ground. He looked savage and domineering, like someone wielding a one-legged golden man and heading out for a street brawl.
As he walked forward, the sleeve wrapped around his right arm began to wriggle restlessly. It split into pitch-black threads that crawled and spread over the surface of his clothes, winding downward, climbing over his glove, and fastening themselves to the Bodhisattva's golden statue in ever-growing numbers.
They first twisted together into thick strands, forcibly bending all eight of the Bodhisattva's raised or lifted arms tight against its body, making it stand at attention! Then they stretched out like plastic wrap, packaging the statue layer upon layer until it became a black cylinder with a blurred outline.
The Little Elf came online in sync. "Boss, I might be able to add a portable personal storage space to your human form?"
Yuan Zhu halted, his tone brimming with distrust. "You can do that?"
"I can't, but you can. The principle is simple. Use the Uniform's Shadow Manipulation ability to stuff the Buddha statue, already packaged by the 'shadow threads,' into your shadow for temporary storage. This Foam World has crude spatial rules, and Shadow Apertures are far too easy to exploit. You can easily tuck the package into the layers of your shadow and carry it around. But your physical body will have to bear the weight."
Using his shadow for storage while his flesh bore the Bodhisattva statue's weight would