In just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Yang Hong had imprisoned all 180 great demons of the fifth-tier Nascent Soul stage.
The place of their imprisonment was his own hand.
It was the "scale" storage space on the back of his hand.
For reasons unknown even to Yang Hong, the storage embroidery piece he had obtained earlier had transformed into a scale on his hand.
However, this scale space had mutated and could now store life.
This was the first storage equipment Yang Hong knew of that could store living beings.
This vast space, with dimensions of 100 zhang in length, width, and height, could not be broken even by Yu Kewei in her true form at full power.
Yet, this space still had many limitations.
For instance, ordinary quality plants, even if transplanted with their soil, would only survive for 30 days.
After 30 days, they would begin to rapidly wither and die.
Ordinary animals could only survive for about 70 days.
The survival time for first-grade spirit plants could be extended to 90 days, and for first-tier demonic beasts, 200 days.
Regardless of their species, as time passed, their strength would rapidly decline until death.
Spirit plants and demonic beasts of greater strength could survive for longer.
Fifth-tier demons were estimated to survive for a maximum of 1000 days.
Another issue was that if Yang Hong did not actively guide spiritual energy into the scale space, it could not replenish itself.
This made the scale space an excellent prison.
When Yang Hong threw these great demons into the scale space, he stripped them of all their storage equipment and personal belongings.
He even extracted their spiritual energy in the end.
"Little lambs, you can stay put. When I have time, I will continue to enlighten you.
Be good and become my laborers."
Patting the scale on the back of his hand, Yang Hong smiled happily.
This time, he had faced 12 sixth-tier demon kings and 180 fifth-tier great demons alone and emerged victorious, an almost heaven-defying achievement.
According to the cultivation experiences he had read,
Fighting opponents one minor realm higher was considered elite. Fighting opponents two minor realms higher was considered a genius.
Those who could fight opponents three minor realms higher were core disciples of their sects.
Any cultivator who could fight an opponent an entire major realm higher was called a prodigy.
It was said that elites could achieve their status through diligent cultivation. Only one or two out of ten could become geniuses, and one out of a hundred became a core disciple.
As for prodigies, they were encountered once in a thousand years.
Cultivators like Yang Hong, who could fight opponents two major realms higher, were said to be encountered once in ten thousand years.
"Heh heh~ Your Grandpa is a prodigy now. Next time, I'll try to test the strength of a seventh-tier Integration stage cultivator."
Calculating his achievements, Yang Hong was getting a bit carried away.
"However, I should clean up the battlefield first.
Despite the great victory, I have lost quite a few spirit plants. I need to cultivate them anew and set up the formations again."
Victory always came at a price, but Yang Hong's price was minuscule.
Over 500 first-grade spirit plants, over 200 second-grade. These wouldn't even require special cultivation from Yang Hong; just planting the seeds would allow them to grow back within half a year.
Over 200 third-grade spirit plants. These would take four years of natural growth from seeds.
Only a little over 30 fourth-grade spirit plants were lost. These would require Yang Hong's dedicated cultivation,
But they could be regrown within two months.
Compared to the 192 fifth and sixth-tier demons, the losses were truly insignificant.
It took an hour to rearrange the formations. Jade Stream Island once again disappeared beneath the sea,
Along with the giant sea vessel that Lei Hu and his companions had used.
This was Yang Hong's spoils of war.
Besides the sea vessel, which had little use for Yang Hong, there were the storage equipment of the demons.
There were three storage rings, each 30 zhang wide, and 180 storage bags, each 10 zhang wide.
The storage rings naturally belonged to the late sixth-tier demon kings Lei Hu, Yang Cong, and Shu Kaihuang. The 180 fifth-tier great demons were not qualified to possess storage rings and could only use storage bags.
Of course, five other demon kings had storage bags, but Yang Hong had shattered them into dust, so they were lost.
What disappointed Yang Hong was that despite the vast storage space of these items,
Inside, besides various demonic beast materials and ores, there were only a small number of spirit plant seeds, and almost nothing else.
The total spirit stones in the storage bags amounted to less than 10,000, likely consumed by the demons when attacking the grand formation earlier.
Additionally, there were some jade slips, but the cultivation techniques within were repetitive of what he already had.
The inheritance cultivation techniques passed down among demons of the same race were essentially similar. If too many were alike, the system of divine endowment would not recognize them as new cultivation methods.
As for biographies and cultivation experiences, demons rarely recorded them, and they wouldn't even actively record their spells.
After all, demons possessed inherited memories.
Rummaging through, Yang Hong finally discovered something good.
"Spirit Monkey Brewing Art!"
It was the treasure of some unfortunate monkey,
It recorded four brewing techniques from first to fourth-tier, along with their corresponding four brewing recipes.
First-tier: Ten Fruit Brew. Second-tier: Ten Flower Wine. Third-tier: Hundred Fruit Brew. Fourth-tier: Hundred Flower Brew.
"Holy crap! A secret art level brewing technique! .oγg
Whose inheritance is this monkey's? So powerful."
After Yang Hong learned the jade slip containing the Spirit Monkey Brewing Art, he couldn't help but blurt out an expletive.
This was the first time he had seen any of the hundred arts of cultivation manifest as a spell.
This was akin to alchemy and artifact forging being simplified to a single spell.
It could even be understood as the printing technique for talismans.
Truly an incredibly powerful secret art.
"Moreover, the first-tier Ten Fruit Brew can be continuously applied to the brewed spirit wine, guiding spiritual energy to ferment it further, thereby continuously improving the quality of the spirit wine."
"That is to say, as long as there is enough time, even a first-grade spirit wine can be brewed into a ninth-grade spirit wine."
"Amazing! Just one word, and I'll only say it once."
"I must learn this, I absolutely must learn this."
Carefully recalling the introduction in the jade slip, Yang Hong was moved.
He had a system and was skilled at cultivating spirit plants. Besides alchemy, brewing was also a good choice.
After spending more than a day to cultivate the four secret arts to the perfected stage, the divine endowment system gave Yang Hong another surprise.
"Hahaha~~ It's great to have the divine endowment system!"
"Optimized by the system, I no longer need to collect fixed spirit fruits and spirit flowers. As long as I find spirit fruits and flowers with suitable attributes, I can directly brew."
The original four brewing arts were adapted to specific wine recipes that required designated spirit fruits, and not common ones.
Even collecting the materials for the Ten Fruit Brew and Ten Flower Wine recipes was impossible on Jade Stream Island.
Now, with the system's optimization, even without the designated spirit fruits and flowers, as long as their attributes satisfied the balance of the five elements and yin and yang, they could be brewed.
This not only made brewing easier but also more diverse.
"That's great. With the fifth-grade spirit fruits on my island now, it's not a problem to prepare a set for the Ten Fruit Brew!"
After organizing the knowledge in his mind, Yang Hong immediately took action.
He returned directly to the City Lord's Mansion of Jade Stream City and used magic to transform the mansion's enormous dungeon.
He created 10 vast spaces to serve as wine cellars.
Spirit Monkey Brewing did not require wine jars or vats. A pit would suffice.
However, to brew better spirit wine, Yang Hong spent considerable effort collecting third-grade stone material, inscribing spirit-gathering formations on it, and embedding spirit stones.
He then used these stone slabs to pave all five sides of the wine cellars.
Afterward, he proceeded to ripen and collect spirit fruits.
Finally, he began brewing.