Second Storage Treasure

After saying that, Jing Qian put away the Blood Contract Grand Book, then shot out another strand of thread and tightly bound the fat man.

Afterward, he plunged headfirst into the seawater and felt his way toward the four sunken ships on the seafloor.

The spoils from this battle were quite impressive. Four large ships, more than forty cultivators, and most of their wealth had all sunk to the bottom of the sea along with the vessels.

Jing Qian naturally would not miss them!

With a push of the Tide Destiny's Magic Power, he easily sank to the seafloor.

He swam freely through the dark, profound waters, moving in and out of the four sunken ships, rummaging and feeling around.

From time to time, he discovered something.

However, when he was halfway through the search, Jing Qian realized that the sailors aboard these four ships had not been living very comfortably.

The wealth on their persons consisted mainly of Red Copper Knife Coins. Destiny Silver Ingots were rarely seen, and there was not even a single Yuan Gold Ingot.

After plundering all four ships, he found a total of just over seventy knife coins and four Destiny Silver Ingots.

Other than that, the only things of any real value were the ninth-grade weapons in the hands of three Destiny Stabilization cultivators.

There were two longspears and one harpoon, all in forms suited for fighting on the water, forged entirely from ninth-grade Sea Fang Iron.

Jing Qian slung the three weapons diagonally across his back, then finally came to a corpse.

The corpse had been firmly bound to the deck by a net of thread and could not move. Naturally, this was Jing Qian's handiwork.

As the strongest person in the entire fleet, Wu Yan's corpse was the spoils Jing Qian valued most.

He had even thoughtfully secured the corpse so that it would not drift away and be lost.

Yet after searching it carefully, Jing Qian found only a silver tablet engraved with the Destiny Constitution Refinement Method. He was sorely disappointed!

He had no idea that, in order to condense the Azure Wing Destiny Essence, Wu Yan had nearly exhausted all his wealth to exchange for the resources needed for advancement.

For that reason, he had sold all the weapons and armor on his body!

That was why he had been utterly defenseless before Jing Qian.

Jing Qian carefully examined the Destiny Constitution Refinement Method recorded on the tablet:

Mind Ape

Rank: Azure Wing

The breath obtained the Mind Ape, which refused to submit.

This Mind Ape Destiny was a full rank stronger than the likes of Crab Jade, so its might was naturally far greater as well.

Aside from the enhancement it brought to physical strength, it also possessed the magical ability to control divine sense and attack enemies.

He put away the silver tablet, treating it as part of his own cultivation foundation.

Then he left the sunken ship and continued deeper into the uninhabited sea.

Not long afterward, on a reef, he saw two corpses clasped in each other's arms.

They were the long-dead aunt and niece from the Jing Household.

He silently approached and removed the hairpin Jing Ran had worn in her hair, then drifted upward.

While they were alive, he had not seized Jing Ran's possessions, giving her the dignity she deserved.

But such a treasure was far too important to Jing Qian. He truly could not bear to let it be wasted in the depths of the sea.

That was because this hairpin was an extremely rare spatial storage treasure.

It was also the second storage treasure Jing Qian had acquired.

Recalling the wondrous interaction between the first item, the Brocade Pouch, and the Sumeru Destiny, he felt boundless anticipation toward this treasure.

When Jing Qian finally rose to the surface, he once again slipped into the Void Realm.

He had long since become extremely familiar with this independent space of his.

He had already thoroughly explored all the space's attributes and abilities.

Thus, he also knew clearly that this independent space formed by the Sumeru Destiny was indeed absorbing primordial energy and slowly growing.

It was just that its growth was so slow it was appalling!

More than a month had passed since he consumed the grandmother's Brocade Pouch to open this space, yet the total volume it had gained was not even enough to hold a single sesame seed.

At that rate, increasing its size by one cubic centimeter would take several years.

For Jing Qian, this was truly as useless as a rib.

Therefore, he had basically given up on relying on his own abilities to nurture this space.

It still had to rely on assistance from external forces!

When Jing Qian moved that strange hairpin from the outside world into the Void Realm,

the Sumeru Destiny in his sea of consciousness suddenly throbbed.

Immediately afterward, a strand of Magic Power thread extended from the Destiny, traveled along his arm, and landed on the hairpin.

The treasure instantly disintegrated, turning into a plume of gray smoke that drifted through the Void Realm.

As the master of the Void Realm, Jing Qian clearly sensed a strange force being added to the Void Realm's origin along with the gray smoke.

Then the narrow Void Realm suddenly expanded by a large margin!

Jing Qian carefully sensed it. The spatial dimensions of the entire domain had increased by more than sixty percent, reaching roughly 1.5 cubic meters.

The number might not look large, but it had genuinely transformed Jing Qian's experience.

As he stored more and more precious materials and his body developed faster and faster, the original space had already become woefully cramped.

He could stay in the Void Realm only by curling up as much as possible.

But now, with more than sixty percent of its volume suddenly added, the situation had completely changed.

After so long, Jing Qian could finally lie down comfortably in the Void Realm again!

With enough space, he could finally arrange the supplies he had gathered in a reasonable manner.

He pushed the entire Void Realm into the shape of a cuboid, 1.8 meters long and just over 0.9 meters wide and high, resembling a bright, spacious coffin.

Then he placed two spears, a fork, a hammer, and a spike—five ranked magical artifacts—in the space to his left.

He put the two Dragon Fang Daggers wrapped in thread within reach of his hands.

Nineteen white-toothed magical materials produced by the Sea Demons were lined up on his right, ready for use at any time.

Above his head lay a secret manual, a tortoise shell, and a silver tablet, all cultivation methods he had acquired by sheer luck.

At his feet was a pile of small coins. Counting them carefully, there were 3 gold, 17 silver, and 213 copper knives.

Judging by how poor these ships' crews had been, this money should possess considerable purchasing power.

Besides that, there were a few scattered items that had originally been inside the hairpin, all everyday necessities such as food, water, and clothing.

Jing Qian selected a few important things and discarded everything else.

He organized the Void Realm with exceptional order, and his mood brightened at once!

Afterward, he slipped into the Destiny Stele Space and began harvesting the true spoils of this great battle.

Inside the space, the souls of five human cultivators stood in a line, expressionless.

Wu Yan, Jing Ran, and the other three Destiny Stabilization cultivators were all there.

Human souls had always been considerably stronger than Sea Demon souls. The resources of power these five souls could contribute were at least equivalent to more than twice those of Demon Race souls.

Jing Qian did not hold back. He patiently began strangling the five souls one by one.