Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 957 - 494: The Sack

Originally, Tie Dan was taking the fall for the nine major sects this time. Moreover, as the Sect Leader’s Direct Disciple, four against one and still losing—the leader of Xieluo Mountain naturally didn’t want to lose face, so he casually sent a Golden Core Disciple to deliver payment and retrieve people. He just sent a sack to exchange the four clueless fools who learned their lesson.

Indeed, Tie Dan released the captives with just one sack, because this was specially made by the ancestor! A Nascent Soul Treasure! Sumeru Mustard Seed, vast space! It can hold anything and even conceal Heavenly Mechanism! Of course, the subtext being that they should take what they stole and leave quickly...

Tie Dan was happy, as expected, when you save face for the ancestor, the ancestor saves face for you. Furthermore, he’s never obtained a real spatial magic treasure in all his cultivation years until now!

Indeed, don’t underestimate storage treasures despite seeming unimpressive; in fact, they are treasures crafted by a full-scale genius who has reached Grandmaster level in arrays, artifacts, and talismans!

From the principles of Daoist Skill, storage treasures are extremely high-end, one end crafted into a ’mouth’ to carry with you, connecting the other storage ’bag’ by means of spatial folding, time-space tunnel, and other mystical techniques.

The ’bag’ part needs no further explanation; of course, it connects to one’s immortal estate treasury, a place of Daoist Collection. It’s less about artifact refining and more about array configuration. The warehouse array itself is also part of the sect’s grand array, maintained by the collective power of the sect.

As for the ’mouth’ part, it is the narrow sense of storage magic artifact, crafted into the shape of a pouch, sack, or ring container. As long as Divine Sense locks on, Dao Power activates, a spell is cast, it can sweep goods into the ’bag’ like a vacuum cleaner.

For instance, the Jade Pendant Waist Token usually distributed by the mystical sects to disciples, and spells like Sleeve Universe are very typical storage mouths, directly linking to sect treasuries like Cloud Platform Peak and Nine Yin Mountain. These can be used for daily items like clothes, documents, elixirs, and ingredients.

However, it is well known that using storage treasures to collect goods has limitations on mass and distance.

The greater the distance between pockets, the greater the Primordial Spirit consumption. The larger the quality of goods, the higher the Mana consumption, all increasing exponentially. Moreover, when retrieving items, one must precisely calculate the locker numbers and storage positions in the storage bag; otherwise, the magic won’t work, and it requires substantial calculation power.

So practically, only Golden Core Masters typically use them, and usually with flying boats or mounts to carry goods. Disciples might as well just carry bags themselves. For massive goods weighing thousands of pounds or tons, better to transport them honestly.

Of course, the storage sack made by the Enlightened Ancestor is not limited by such issues!

Tie Dan inspected carefully with Divine Sense, even sticking his head inside to take a better look, finally seeing a bit of the mystery.

Interesting, this ’mouth’ and ’bag’ are one.

The ’bag’ is indeed the ’inner universe,’ opening it reveals black and white qi slowly spinning within, Yin and Yang are distinctly separated, the effect is like Taiji, naturally presenting Qiankun, a Qi Group enveloping a Jiezhi Space within, a bridge of Divine Sense extends in, like a cellar, possibly storing ten thousand stones.

The ’mouth’ seems literally a mouth; though the exterior is woven with some kind of yellow hemp, the lining feels distinctly like beast skin structure, as if crafted from the oral cavity or stomach lining of some strange beast, completely extracted and made.

Since there’s no distance between pockets, it doesn’t consume Divine Sense when used, and it’s unknown whether it’s the Primordial Strange Beasts’ heavenly protection or the ancestor’s enlightenment of a new storage principle, it doesn’t suffer mass restriction either; no matter how much is stored, it’s just a Qi Group, holding it feels weightless. It seems that as long as the Mustard Qiankun isn’t filled, it can continuously stock goods. It fits Tie Dan’s robbery use perfectly.

Unfortunately, due to interference from the Xieluo Mountain four knights, Tie Dan’s original ’men, women, young and old stripped down and kidnapped’ grand scheme failed; he only grabbed several hundred carts worth of the North Palace’s property, while the people took advantage of the chaos and escaped completely.

However, anyway, the Duke’s property is hardly lacking, mostly similar to the goods on the ship, Tie Dan doesn’t bother counting. He only selectively picks Heavenly Materials Treasures with strong Treasure Light, casually stuffing them into the sack, piling them like a small mountain. As for the special provided grains, meat jerky, fruits, Immortal Vegetables, tea, and snacks—given they’re public resources, he simply leaves them by the roadside, letting refugees take them.

Then Tie Dan continues chasing towards the southeast, calculating where he might find more opportunities.

Indeed, times of turmoil and national collapse are best, with displaced officials everywhere, robbery opportunities abound, flying not even a hundred li before finding a swath of Treasure Light, but this time encountering some fellow adventurers.

A large group of masked bandits surrounds a convoy, charging on horseback, dividing the convoy into segments, and a great number of refugees rush from the forest, overturning carts, robbing amidst the chaos, and fighting with guards and house servants from aristocratic families.

For a while, the Chidao echoed with screams and horse cries, occasionally with men wailing as they were cut down, and women screaming as they were kidnapped, air filled with mixed fragrance of cosmetics and iron.

Tie Dan doesn’t intervene; he stands atop the clouds watching, casually calculating without worrying.

Internal strife of the Demon Palace, what does it matter to him?

Moreover, under Heaven’s feet, within the Royal Capital territory, where do so many bandit riders and mountain bandits come from? As if the Demon Sect and Demon Sect have nothing serious to do. Even Tie Dan, if not for increasing the favor of the world’s top Sect Leader, wouldn’t have leisure to come here to rob.