Striking It Rich!

After leaving the Yunlou Merchant Guild, Ronald waved to Black Moon and the others who were waiting outside, then made his way straight to a nearby inn.

One hour later, inside his inn room.

Ronald sat cross-legged on the bed, carefully holding the storage pouch in his hands. With a subtle movement of his internal spiritual energy, he cautiously approached the pouch's protective seals.

To his surprise, the seal broke with ease, as if it were nothing at all! Perhaps it was due to the pouch's age, or some other reason, but he barely had to exert any effort before the barrier was undone.

Inside the pouch, the space was vast—Ronald estimated it to be at least the size of a warehouse. This was incredible. Usually, storage items only had a few square meters of space at most, but this pouch had at least a thousand square meters!

"Striking it rich!" he laughed heartily.

At the corner of the pouch, he noticed a pile of items. With a flick of his wrist, more than a dozen objects scattered across the bed.

Upon closer inspection, he saw a scroll, seven vials, eight white orbs, a strange token, and a pile of multi-colored stones glittering with radiant light.

"Spirit Stones!" Ronald immediately recognized the glowing stones. As a practitioner of Daoist techniques, there was no way he wouldn't recognize them!

"These are... High-grade Spirit Stones! My heavens!"

Spirit Stones were incredibly rare on Tianheng Continent. They could replenish both spiritual energy and a mage's magical power, which is why they were also called Magic Stones. Compared to the bag of magic stones that Liu Chen had given him, these were of much higher quality!

"Looks like I won't have to worry about cultivation resources for a while," Ronald thought. These high-grade Spirit Stones would significantly accelerate his training speed.

He quickly stored the Spirit Stones back into the pouch and turned his attention to the seven vials.

After a moment, the excitement on his face was unmistakable.

The vials contained pills, and although he only recognized one type, that was enough for him.

"Face-Resetting Pills!" he exclaimed.

One vial contained twenty Face-Resetting Pills! These pills were notoriously hard to make and had incredible effects, making them outrageously expensive and often in short supply. Who wouldn't want to stay forever young, to maintain their beauty for all time? Especially women—this was a treasure that could make them go wild with desire!

As for the other vials, although he didn't recognize the pills inside, with the Face-Resetting Pills among them, the others couldn't possibly be inferior. He'd go through his medicinal compendium when he had time and figure out what they were.

With a satisfied grin, Ronald stored the pills and moved on to examine the strange token and the eight white orbs. After a brief inspection, he couldn't discern their purpose, so he put them aside as well.

Flipping open the ancient scroll, he found it to be a manual on body cultivation written in ancient script. The title was "Heavenly Thunder Body Refining Art."

Just a few pages into the manual, he was completely captivated by its contents.

The technique focused on placing the practitioner in life-or-death situations, channeling heavenly thunder to strike the body, and then using special methods to distribute the thunder's power through every muscle and bone. Though it was an incredibly dangerous and difficult technique to master, once perfected, it would greatly extend the practitioner's life, make them impervious to blades and fire, and grant them the ability to summon thunder to strike enemies—extremely powerful.

The manual also contained cultivation notes written by an ancient practitioner named Gu Langchen. Ronald read them with great interest, losing track of time until it was already dark!

Ding dong. The World Loop System is starting. Please prepare, host.

He froze for a moment, then remembered that today was another day to enter the spatial realm. With a deep breath, he closed his eyes, and in an instant, darkness engulfed him as he entered the World Loop.