415: Chapter 409 Storage Space 415: Chapter 409 Storage Space Yan Sanpao, who had just escaped through the main gate, had only time to let out a single cry of agony before he fell silent.
A streak of Blood Light shot back from outside the main gate into the hall and landed on the chair, transforming back into the true form of the Hongming Blade.
Perhaps it was because it knew Chen Hai was in the critical moment crafting the Storage Bag.
After dealing with Yan Sanpao and Chen Laohei, the Hongming Blade did not seek to take credit by disturbing Chen Hai; instead, it fell into silence once again.
Chen Hai breathed a slight sigh of relief after knowing this outcome.
When Chen Laohei came at him with that axe, he had hesitated in his heart whether to give up crafting the Storage Bag and just kill the two intruders who had forced their way into his home.
But to make such a difficult decision was something he found somewhat unacceptable in his heart.
After all, it was one thing to waste Fine Gold; that could be overlooked as, with money and some more time, it could ultimately be crafted again!
But if the Giant Kun leather ended up wasted, Chen Hai truly did not know whether he would have another chance to obtain such precious materials.
The thought that Chen Laohei’s intrusion had nearly caused his in-progress Storage Bag to be ruined made Chen Hai desire to tear them apart.
Their deaths at the hands of the Hongming Blade seemed too lenient to him.
Those two had brought it upon themselves, their deaths well-deserved.
“The slightest distraction earlier already caused some problems in the crafting of the Storage Bag.”
“Continuing to craft it, I hope to mend the gap, and correct the little mistakes made earlier!”
Looking at the few spots that appeared like scorched marks on the Giant Kun leather, he sighed and muttered to himself.
Chen Laohei and Yan Sanpao, who had turned into dried corpses, laid unattended as Chen Hai had no time to deal with their bodies.
He concentrated all his spirit and plunged back into the crafting of the Storage Bag.
Time flew by rapidly, and almost a day passed in the blink of an eye, reaching dusk of the next day.
The main gate was left wide open, as Chen Hai simply couldn’t find the time to close it.
Chen Laohei had died inside the hall, and unless someone broke in, there was no worry his corpse would be discovered.
But Yan Sanpao had died just outside the main gate, on that flat area.
If someone passed by nearby and gave it a glance, there might be a chance they would notice the body.
Luckily for Chen Hai, his luck held.
Up to now, no one had discovered the corpse and consequently knocked on his door.
Of course, the lack of discovery was also related to the secluded location of his old house, which was typically bypassed by few.
He wove the Fine Gold Wire into a small sachet and imbued it into the Giant Kun leather, fully integrating the two.
This was the most crucial step in the crafting of the Storage Bag.
Since this step had begun, he could not stop until it was entirely completed.
From yesterday afternoon all the way to this moment.
To fully fuse the Fine Gold Wire with the Giant Kun leather, Chen Hai had gone almost thirty hours without sleep.
It was fortunate that he was mostly practicing fasting and did not require any food for energy, merely sustaining himself on wind and dew for lengths of time.
Otherwise, he probably would have fainted from hunger and wouldn’t have made it through.
“The Storage Bag is finally crafted successfully…”
Feeling the small sachet in front of him as it seemed to return to simplicity, no longer displaying any colorful radiance.
Upon close sensing to ensure that the Fine Gold Wire had completely disappeared, authentically merged into the Giant Kun leather.
Chen Hai was delighted, and after imprinting a sliver of his divine consciousness into the Storage Pouch, he finally stopped his work and exhaled a long breath.
Even for him, crafting this item was quite exhausting.
After all, relentlessly working day and night for several days was one thing, but the constant drain on his Divine Soul power was the key strain.
Since the last time, after prying into the existence from an unknown realm and suffering severe damage to his Divine Soul, several months had passed.
According to his original estimates, even if he could not return to his heyday, the damage his Divine Soul had endured should have almost healed after these months.
However, the range of fire he could control with his Flame Power was still only around 150 meters.
There was still a significant gap compared to the 200-300 meters he could reach at his peak.
Besides this time officially crafting the Storage Bag, extracting Fine Gold from the regular Gold also consumed a great deal of his Divine Soul power.
After confirming the successful crafting of his Storage Device, he hadn’t even had time to consider how much space was contained within!
Exhausted to his limits, he didn’t care how dirty the ground was and just flopped down on it, taking big heaving breaths.
Of course, the main reason why crafting the simplest Storage Pouch left him so drained, besides the injury to his Divine Soul,
was also related to his first-time crafting attempt, where he took many detours and wasted a great deal of soul power.
Lying on the grubby ground, it took more than half an hour before Chen Hai finally caught his breath.
He sprang up from the ground, patted the dust off his body, and walked over to a chair a few meters away to sit down.
Holding the newly crafted Storage Pouch, Chen Hai’s eyes were half-closed as he began to sense the space contained within, with the help of the spiritual imprint he had left inside.
Guided by that faint imprint, in less than a breath,
a strange space, a little over a meter long and roughly twenty to thirty centimeters in width and height, came into Chen Hai’s senses.
“Hongming said the smallest Storage Bag it knows of has dimensions of one meter in length, width, and height, containing at least one cubic meter of space, right?”
“The space inside this Storage Pouch of mine is only so tiny; what is this, a substandard product among substandard products?”
Feeling slightly disappointed, Chen Hai let out a long sigh.
However, thinking of how a few black spots and wisps of blue smoke had appeared on the Storage Pouch due to his distraction,
and that he still managed to successfully craft it despite such blunders,
Chen Hai’s mood improved considerably!
“No matter how substandard a Storage Bag is, it’s still a Storage Bag.”
“Such an amazing item with its own magical space, even for the top powers on Blue Star, is an absolute priceless treasure!”
“Now this treasure is my private possession, firmly under my control.
What more could I not be satisfied with?”
Mumbling to himself, Chen Hai comforted himself.
Having calmed down, he fetched a few books and finally began to test how to store items using the Storage Pouch!
One hand holding the Storage Pouch, the other holding a book.
As he focused his mind and sensed the space like a rectangular box, he had a thought.
In a ‘whoosh’, the book in his hand vanished into thin air.
After sensing the small space, Chen Hai could clearly see that what was once an empty space now had a book lying in the far right corner.
After pondering, with another thought, he tried to retrieve the book directly.
In just a moment of thought, the book in the storage space disappeared and reappeared in his palm.
Storing and withdrawing, Chen Hai enjoyed himself to no end.
Once slightly tired of playing, he started trying to store other items in the room.
Desks, chairs, wooden beds, and the like, no matter how hard he thought, simply couldn’t be stored.
For smaller items like pen holders, ink bottles, and eating utensils, putting them into the Storage Pouch was smooth and without any problems.
It seemed that due to the space limitation inside the Storage Pouch, slightly larger items couldn’t be put inside at all!
After confirming this, Chen Hai began trying to store living creatures.
In the mountain behind the old house, although it was hard to find anything else, it was still possible to find some small bugs or mountain ants.
Of course, when he went out, he didn’t forget to lay down a few Corpse Transformation Talismans, turning the mummified corpses of Elder Chen and Yan Sanpao into nothingness.
After several experiments, he could confirm that living creatures, no matter how small, couldn’t possibly be taken into the space inside the Storage Pouch.
Once he killed a living creature, he could easily store it inside the Storage Pouch without any issues.
Furthermore, through constant experimentation, he also discovered that only his body could sense the space contained within when making contact with the Storage Pouch.
Given this situation, Chen Hai considered for a while and made a chain, wearing the Storage Pouch as a pendant around his neck.
The Storage Pouch lay against his chest and was thus truly in contact with his body.
Whenever he wanted to store something, he just needed to take the item in his hand and with a thought, the item would suddenly disappear, appearing in the space within the Storage Pouch.
Using the Storage Pouch in this way to store items was more secretive and harder to detect.
Even if someone saw the item suddenly vanish in Chen Hai’s hand, they would just think he was performing a magic trick.
It had to be said, the Storage Pouch had a strong attraction for any normal person.
Even the extremely weary Chen Hai, while playing with it and exploring its various functions, found that several hours had unknowingly passed.
It wasn’t until after one o’clock in the morning that he finally lay down on the bed in his room and fell into a deep sleep.