413: Chapter 407: Storage Pouch 413: Chapter 407: Storage Pouch Chen Hai pulled out the piece of Giant Kun skin he always carried with him and pondered over it for a long time.
In his mind, a Storage Bag should be about the size of the ancient coin purses people hung at their waist.
Unfortunately, it seemed completely unrealistic to refine a Storage Bag of that size from the beast skin in his hands.
“I estimate that this piece of Giant Kun skin can at most be made into a sachet.”
“After successful refinement, calling it a Storage Bag doesn’t seem appropriate; at most, it might qualify as a Storage Pouch!”
“I just hope the space inside isn’t too small; otherwise, the over sixty million I’ve spent would be quite a waste…”
He sighed, feeling a sense of loss.
The size of a Storage Device isn’t closely related to the space within.
The stronger the Space Characteristic contained within the main material used to refine the Storage Device, the larger the space inside will be after successful refinement.
No doubt, the skin of the Giant Kun contains the Space Characteristic.
But in the end, this is just an Acquired spiritual material.
The Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that naturally contain the Space Characteristic are the truly top-grade materials for refining Storage Devices.
Unfortunately, such Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures are far too rare.
Even in the era when the Hongming Blade was born, those Innate top-grade spiritual materials were already difficult to find, exceedingly rare.
Under such circumstances, many powers, in order to refine Storage Devices, could only settle for second best and hunt Fierce Beasts and Spiritual Beasts that contained the Space Characteristic, like the Giant Kun.
Intending to use Giant Kun skin to refine a Storage Device with a large space isn’t impossible, but it certainly requires more than just a little bit of skin.
After all, the Space Characteristic contained in the Giant Kun’s skin is directly proportional to its size.
The piece of Giant Kun skin Chen Hai had was just so small, and to make matters worse, some of its spirituality had also been lost.
Even if a Storage Pouch were successfully refined from such a skin, how much space could it possibly hold inside?
About this, Chen Hai really had no confidence.
However, despite this, such a wondrous object still held tremendous allure for him.
If it weren’t for that, he wouldn’t have spent so much, dropping his savings from eight digits down to seven, to purchase Gold to refine Fine Gold.
Although he felt uneasy, the money had been spent and the purchased Gold had already been transformed into Fine Gold.
The arrow was now on the bowstring, and he had no choice but to proceed; even if Chen Hai wanted to regret it, it was already too late.
“Hongming, protect me…” His gaze shifted a few steps away to the Hongming Blade resting on the chair as he asked.
He had left home to come to the old house to refine the Storage Bag, using the pretext of returning to the Capital City.
Regardless of the success or failure of refining the Storage Bag, he would leave Liuyuan County after the event and wouldn’t return home for a short period.
Naturally, he would only be at ease carrying the Hongming Blade with him.
It’s a pity that Hongming could only follow the milk.
Without Blood Food offered to it, Chen Hai’s calls would be utterly ignored by the blade, with no response forthcoming.
Asking Hongming to act as his protector was merely for his own peace of mind.
He casually instructed it, and although no response came, Chen Hai didn’t mind.
A baby’s head-sized blazing flame spontaneously appeared in front of him, completely enveloping the Fine Gold.
Then, Fine Gold Wires as thin as spider silk extended from the flame.
To weave these Fine Gold Wires into a sachet, one couldn’t use hands; the power of the Divine Soul was necessary.
Fine Gold, although not quite a spiritual material, already possessed some spirituality and could carry some Divine Soul power.
The Fine Gold wire that extended from the flame, under the influence of Chen Hai’s Divine Soul power, intertwined and entangled with each other as if alive.
An ordinary person would take many days to manually knit a sweater.
Using such fine gold wire as thin as a spider’s silk to weave a small sachet was naturally much more difficult than knitting a sweater.
The first step in formally making the storage bag was purely a matter of grinding effort.
Unintentionally, time flew by swiftly.
In the blink of an eye, two days had passed, and it was now past ten o’clock on the third night.
A few hundred meters away, on the mountain road leading to Chen Hai’s old mansion.
Two dark figures, one after another, were coming straight this way.
“Laohei, is the house up ahead the Chen Zhonghua’s place you talked about?” As the house loomed closer, the two slowed their pace.
One of them asked.
“Yes, that’s the place.
That Chen Zhonghua, his family has a college grad now and they’ve moved to the county, becoming city folk!”
“During the New Year, they returned for a visit, handing out cigarettes to anyone they met.
Guess what kind of cigarettes Chen Zhonghua smokes?
I’ll tell you, the ten yuan a pack ‘Jingbai Sha’.”
“Looks like, after moving to the city, their family really struck it rich.”
The other person, with an air of mystery, deliberately lowered his voice as he responded.
This man was named Chen Laohei and also hailed from Chenjiaping.
He also bore the surname Chen, but his family was rather distant from Chen Hai’s, with little interaction on normal days.
Even so, when he ran into Chen Zhonghua during the New Year, he received a warm welcome and a stick of ‘Jingbai Sha’.
The other person was named Yan Sanpao, a villager from the next village over and a sort of partner in crime to Chen Laohei.
Lately, the two shared mutual misfortune with neither having any luck in gambling, nearly losing their trousers in the process.
The two penniless men, while chatting aimlessly, brought up the situation of the Chen Zhonghua family.
Learning that nobody was in the house, and that the Chen Zhonghua family hardly ever returned, Yan Sanpao’s eyes lit up with a crooked idea.
Hearing they could try their luck here and maybe make a small fortune, the two men instantly agreed.
“Laohei, didn’t you say that after the New Year, that Chen Zhonghua family all went back to the county, so there’d be nobody in their old home?”
“Then how come there’s a faint light shining from inside their house?”
When they were thirty to forty meters away from that old mansion, Yan Sanpao, who was in front, suddenly stopped.
With a look of doubt and uncertainty, he pointed ahead and spoke.
“It’s an actual light?
It’s almost midnight; how could there be anyone around here at this time?”
Chen Laohei was equally puzzled and halted in his tracks.
During the day, he had passed by the area two or three times without much thought.
Each time he glanced over, the doors to the old mansion were always tightly shut.
Logically speaking, at this time, there should absolutely be no one inside the house.
“Laohei, what do we do?
There’s obviously someone inside.
Should we go back?” Yan Sanpao hesitated for a while before tentatively suggesting.
Coming here to make some cash was his idea first!
Usually, he and Laohei weren’t strangers to petty thievery, like sneaking into houses by scaling walls.
On their most audacious occasion, they had been caught red-handed by the homeowner, but equipped with weapons, they brazenly turned the theft into robbery.
But now, looking at Yan Sanpao’s demeanor, he seemed to be getting cold feet as well.
“We’ve come all this way already; we’re here, so why the hell be scared?”
“Who knows the reason for the bright light inside the house?
What if the person inside is a professional like us?”
“Besides, both of us are carrying tools on us, let’s first head over there and see the situation.”
“If something’s not right, don’t chicken out.
Just one word, action…”
Chen Laohei’s face hardened with resolve, pausing only briefly before he gritted his teeth and signaled to Yan Sanpao at his side.
Then he drew the small axe he was carrying and, holding it in his hand, strode towards the house.