thefictionvixens Chapter 604 - 603: The Five Countries Exchange Meet
Chapter 604 - 603: The Five Countries Exchange Meet
The one thing they were grateful for was that it was currently the coldest season on the Yongchang Continent. Everyone was holed up for the winter, which meant they had plenty of time to search for the Pocket Dimension Spaces.
Besides, the temperature over the sea was a bit higher than inland, especially since the towering volcano blocked the howling sea wind. The sun shone down lazily, and basking in its rays felt warm and comfortable.
The scenery here was beautiful. Far from the noisy Beast City, their hearts grew calm.
Pocket Dimension Spaces were incredibly rare, and finding the right rock required a good deal of luck. Since they had all made it here and had strength in numbers, there was no need to use up Little Jing’s good fortune.
Each member of the family was assigned an area. Carrying their Water Beads, they went into the lake to inspect the stones one by one. Perhaps because of the active volcano nearby, the rocks at the bottom of the lake were warm, feeling exceptionally pleasant under their feet.
The Spirit Plants that had awakened their Spiritual Sense, not wanting to be left out, followed their lead and started digging through the stones. Whenever they found one with a nice color or a pretty shape, they would hold it and stare blankly for a moment before casually tossing it aside and continuing their search.
Si Shuo and the others placed inconspicuous marks on any stone they had scanned with their spiritual power, making them look like the rock’s natural patterns.
After a full day, they were tired and hungry, but they had found nothing.
"Just how low are the odds?" Tuanzi couldn’t help but scratch his head. ’This kind of meticulous, patient work really isn’t for me.’
Si Shuo smiled and patted his little head. "Tuanzi, look. We’ve been busy all day, but there are so many rocks at the bottom of the lake. We’ve barely even scratched the surface."
"As long as we find a few Pocket Dimension Spaces before the coldest season ends, we’ll be blessed by luck," Gong You said with a smile. "But since the Beast God guided us here, we shouldn’t leave empty-handed as long as we’re careful and diligent."
Sweet Ring stuck out their tongue. "I’m so curious what a Pocket Dimension Space is like. What kind of incredible functions does it have? Could it be even more powerful than Mother’s and Uncle Xu Chi’s Sumeru Spaces?"
"Probably. We can’t even begin to imagine how amazing a naturally formed Pocket Dimension Space is," Zhi Le said, their eyes shining brightly. They knew all too well how convenient a Storage Space was, but those spaces only got smaller the more they were used.
Everyone was exhausted, but their hearts were filled with hope. They ate a quick meal, absorbed some energy from their Crystal Stones to complete a few cycles of Cultivation, and then went right back to their treasure hunt.
Later, they decided marking the rocks was too much trouble and simply put the scanned ones into their personal storage. Once the rocks started piling up, they would clear out a patch of ground and move them there.
It was as if they were swapping out entire patches of rock. They steadily worked their way from the lake’s edge toward the center.
On the second day, they still had no luck. The young ones, who had been a bit restless before, stopped fussing. After obediently eating their meal, they took out their Crystal Stones to practice their Cultivation.
On the third day, the Si Teng beside Si Shuo suddenly let out a piercing shriek, startling Si Shuo so badly that she nearly dropped the rock in her hand.
"Si San, did you find a Pocket Dimension Space?" Si Shuo asked, amused, as she leaned in for a closer look.
The Si San immediately formed two hands from its leaves, held up a stone to her, and began excitedly shaking its head and wagging its tail, twisting itself into a pretzel.
Si Shuo hesitantly took the stone. It was a particularly beautiful red rock that glittered with fine specks of light under the sun. The lake water had worn down its sharp edges, leaving it smooth and beautifully rounded.
Not expecting much, she extended her spiritual power into it. But unlike before, her spiritual power wasn’t repelled. The rock, which looked smooth on the outside, appeared magnified many times over to her spiritual power. Its surface was like a honeycomb, densely packed with holes.
With a thought from Si Shuo, the black rock in her other hand was drawn into one of the holes in the red rock. Using the black rock for comparison, she estimated that a single hole in the red rock was about the size of a Storage Ring—roughly twenty square meters and five meters high. And the surface of the red rock was covered with countless such holes. ’This... this is just too incredible, isn’t it?’
Her expression went blank as she thrust the red rock into the arms of Xu Chi, who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion.
Xu Chi casually probed it with his spiritual power and was also left dumbfounded. With the same blank expression, he passed the rock on.
"Hiss... Regardless of what other functions the space inside this red stone has, its sheer storage capacity is enough to make every Beastman fight crazily over it."
They entrusted the red stone to Si Shuo for safekeeping. Their gazes burned as they looked down at the rocks at their feet, and they resumed their search with even more vigor.
As they scanned the rocks one by one with their spiritual power, their spiritual power was trained in the process, and their detection speed steadily increased. Two days later, without cheating by using his Blessing, Little Jing also found a cyan-colored rock.
This rock had an inconspicuous little hole on its surface. When spiritual power entered through the hole, it found the inside was hollow, like a space between two cliffs. The cliff walls had many caves that could be used for storage.
After that, they found more Pocket Dimension Spaces of different colors one after another. The storage space inside each one varied, shaped as randomly as if they had been eroded by wind and rain.
But the amount of space was truly astonishing!
They only stopped searching after every member of their family had found a Pocket Dimension Space and even the Spirit Plants were equipped with one.
Such naturally formed Pocket Dimension Spaces were too game-changing. They decided to keep them for their own use.
And after experimenting for the past few days, they discovered that these spaces were divided into two parts. The inner part could be used for storage where time was frozen, while the outer part could be filled with soil for farming and planting.
It was as if each rock was like a miniature celestial body.
However, all these tasks required their spiritual power to accomplish, making it the absolute best way to practice spiritual power Cultivation!
Once refined, the Pocket Dimension Space would merge with their sea of consciousness, leaving only a very faint, differently colored mole behind their ear.
They gathered a good amount of fish, shrimp, and crabs from the sea before returning to the mine cave, satisfied.
By this time, the weather had started to warm up. The Beastmen, who had been holed up for five or six months, could no longer contain themselves and began to come out more frequently.
The Royal Guard Captain standing guard by Si Shuo’s cave saw that the weather was clearing up. The sky was cloudless, the sun was warm, and the snow showed signs of melting. Not daring to delay any longer, he came to find them.
"Sir, could you please pass a message to the Si Shuo Divine Servant? We should pack up and set off for Pingjing.
Every year after the coldest season, the Beast Countries of the Yongchang Continent hold an exchange conference. This year, it’s our Guanping Country’s turn to host.
The Princess’s wish is for us to get there as soon as possible, so we have time to learn about the other Beast Countries and avoid being caught off guard and humiliated when they come looking for trouble."
Zhi Zhan, who was guarding the entrance, grunted in acknowledgment. "I’ll pass on the message."
With that, he turned and entered the cave. With the Protective Shield in place, he wasn’t worried about being spied on.
He wrote a note for the young female. A moment later, he felt a fluctuation of Spiritual Power in the air, and with a smiling leap, he caught the young female securely in his arms.
"If all goes according to plan, we should be able to find plenty of villains at this exchange conference—the ones who are disgracefully living on by possessing the bodies of Horned Deer Beastmen!" Si Shuo said, grinding her teeth.