"This was passed down to me by my great-grandmother. Senior Brother, could you hold on to it for me?"
At the door of the little wooden cabin, Bu Chan smiled as she carefully held out the old ring in her hands to Wang Ba.
Standing inside, Wang Ba silently looked at the ring resting in her fair, delicate hands.
Naturally, he recognized it as an extremely rare storage ring, with far more storage space than an ordinary Storage Bag.
But what silenced him was not the ring's value, but... the fact that Bu Chan had given it to him.
Wang Ba hesitantly accepted the ring, then paused.
"I... I'll hold on to it for you."
At those words, the smile on Bu Chan's face dimmed slightly.
As though she had made up her mind about something, she nodded firmly, and a bright smile returned to her face.
"Then I'll head back to prepare, Senior Brother."
"...Go ahead."
Watching Bu Chan leave, Wang Ba slowly lowered his head, shifting his gaze from the old ring to the Heavenly Gate Duty Order in his hand.
The flowing screen of light clearly read:
"Accepted Mission No. Four, seventeenth day of the fifth month, Guiyin year: Investigate 'Meng Xing Village'..." "Number of participants: Five." "Participants: Wang Ba, Bu Chan (please confirm as soon as possible)..."
The sheer size of the old ring's storage space exceeded Wang Ba's expectations.
Even putting the Spirit Fields beside the Chicken Farm inside would have left plenty of room.
Yet there was little inside.
There was only a small pile of Lower-grade Spirit Stones of varying sizes, a few books, and a jade book slip that Wang Ba found somewhat unfamiliar.
His gaze swept over the Lower-grade Spirit Stones, and he fell briefly silent at the