Not every Cloud River Realm cultivator bore Tattoo Patterns, for there were very few Tattoo Pattern Masters in all the Nine Provinces capable of inscribing Spiritual Patterns onto cultivators.
This required extremely profound attainments in the Spirit Pattern Path, as well as exceptionally exquisite tattooing techniques. Moreover, even if such a Tattoo Pattern Master were willing to act, the required materials were exorbitantly valuable.
Tattoo Patterns were derived from Spiritual Patterns and came in many varieties: offensive, defensive, auxiliary...
To Lu Ye, offensive and defensive ones were unnecessary, because he had Sharpness and Guard. He had little need for auxiliary ones either, since he could activate many auxiliary Spiritual Patterns himself.
However, there was one auxiliary Spiritual Pattern he had coveted for a long time.
So the moment Madam Yun said this, he replied without a second thought, "Void!"
He had learned the Void Spirit Pattern from books, rather than acquiring it from the Talent Tree. He had yet to reach the stage where a thought arose and a Spiritual Pattern formed. Its greatest use to him was arranging Teleportation Arrays, and the teleportation distance was limited while the experience was anything but pleasant.
Yet the Void Spirit Pattern was not only used for arranging Teleportation Arrays. It had countless other marvelous uses.
For example, with the Void Spirit Pattern as its core, one could refine special Spiritual Artifacts and thereby grant them storage capabilities, such as Storage Rings, Storage Bracelets... and so on.
The storage tool cultivators used most often was the Storage Bag. Storage Bags were sewn from a special kind of beast hide. That particular Monster Beast could be raised in captivity, so throughout the Cultivation World, Storage Bags were not especially valuable. Basically every cultivator owned one or two.
The storage space in a Storage Bag