He immediately thought of the Storage Pouch holding those three spirit stones and respectfully asked, "Seventh Senior Brother, what is this Storage Pouch, and how is it used?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Daqiao glanced at Li Yan. Stretching out his long arm, he picked up Li Yan's Storage Pouch from the table again and pointed at it. "Storage Pouches are relatively common storage artifacts in the cultivation world. Of course, there are other storage artifacts and magic treasures in different forms—some resemble rings, some belts, some bracelets. Their shapes are strange and varied. But such storage tools require far greater skill from their makers, and their materials are exceedingly difficult to find. The materials for Storage Pouches, on the other hand, are comparatively easier to obtain. The inside of a storage tool is an independent space, a separate region from the space we inhabit. Carrying one is equivalent to carrying a patch of space wherever you go.
"Storage tools can only be forged by artifact-refining masters skilled in spatial immortal arts, or by specialized artifact-refining lineages. I hear there are relatively few artifact-refining masters on this continent. Even sects as large as the Four Great Sects generally have only three or four such masters each. The lowest grade of storage tool must be a magical artifact; spirit artifacts and spirit treasures are not sufficient for storage purposes. Storage tools are also divided into low, middle, and high grades. Their greatest difference lies in the size of the space within. Storage Pouches like ours are the lowest grade, with only about one or two zhang of space inside. They cannot hold overly large objects, nor can they hold living creatures, because there is no air inside. Any living thing placed within would suffocate to death."
Lin Daqiao spoke slowly.
"Our low-grade