For the past year, Rui had done nothing but endure hellish training… Well, the pain he experienced during his training was nothing compared to living with a damaged soul for 5 years.
The day for Rui to leave the woods and explore the world has finally come.
All he had was a single sword, a few clothes, and plenty of food inside the storage ring his aunt gave him as a gift on his sixteenth birthday.
"I'm gonna miss you, little Rui." said aunt Meiqi, showing Rui with kisses and strangling hugs.
But Rui didn't complain, he was actually enjoying this love showering.
However, Rui was also getting impatient. He wanted to leave these woods as soon as possible. "I'm gonna miss you too, Aunt. Now can I go now?"
"Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Did I not raise you with proper love and care? Do you hate me that much?" Aunt Meiqi acted like she was sad.
Rui avoided her eyes and said, "Of course not, Aunt. I just wanted to hunt a specific spiritual beast before I found a sect. The recruiting season will be ending in a month, right?"
"What kind of spiritual beast are you looking for? Perhaps I could help you find it quickly?" Aunt Meiqi offered her help.
She never let Rui hunt without watching over him, no matter how weak the spiritual beast he wanted to hunt was.
"The Azure Pouch Monkey. It's a spiritual beast that stores its offspring inside a spatial storage in its stomach that looks like a pouch. It's usually found on the tallest trees in the woods with incredibly dense Profound Qi."
Rui explained what he was looking for, but Meiqi didn't know anything about such a spiritual beast.
However, she did know a place with dense Profound Qi and very tall trees.
"Well, you just have to go west. About 20 to 30 kilometres, you'll see the tall trees there. The strongest spiritual beasts should only be 1 Realm above yours."
And so, after half an hour of being showered with kisses and hugs, Rui finally left the hut near the waterfall. However this time, Aunt Meiqi didn't follow him behind to make sure he was safe.
He travelled west at high speed while also keeping his Soul Detection Technique to the max. With this technique, he could sense everything with a soul within half a kilometre.
According to his information about the Azure Pouch Monkey, they only climb down their tall trees when they spot red spiritual fruits within the range.
(Spiritual fruits are fruits that contain some spiritual Qi within them. Usually only herbivorous spiritual beasts eat them)
So Rui collected a few spiritual fruits for bait.
After hanging a few spiritual fruits on random trees he hid himself with one of his stealth techniques he learned while trying to run away from his training.
After 3 hours of waiting, only one bait remained because the others were taken by other spiritual beasts.
However, now his target has finally decided to show itself. The Azure Pouch Monkey was an Earth Spirit Realm spiritual beast, it had four arms and two legs, its fur was white with the exception of its azure pouch. Fighting it where there are trees is like seeking death.
But not for Rui. Nothing below the Heavenly Spirit Realm could ever detect his presence.
The Azure Pouch Monkey tried to reach for the food's spiritual fruit, but before the spiritual beast touched the fruit, it was beheaded.
What Rui truly wanted was the core of the Azure Pouch Monkey. It contains unique properties to create spatial storage pouches
However, Rui was not planning on creating any spatial storage pouches. He actually planned on turning one of his dantians into a spatial dantian.
The chances of this destroying his dantian were more than 75%, but since he has five dantians, he was fine sacrificing one knowing he could heal it within weeks if he failed.
Rui quickly found a cave he could hide in, then protected it with a few formations at the entrance of the cave.
He then sat down cross-legged before he started reciting a different kind of cultivation technique. Of course, it was a stolen cultivation technique.
It belonged to a clan that focused mainly on spatial and teleportation techniques. Most of the teleportation gates in the Divine Realms were created by them.
The cultivation technique was called Heaven's Sacred Realm. If cultivated till the immortal stage realms, one could create this own secret world. However, not more than a handful of people have ever achieved this stage in history.
It was a long and painful process, some of Rui's internal organs were even damaged but he finally succeeded in the end.
He has finally created a spatial Dantian.
Rui spent the rest of the day healing. Thanks to his bloodline, his regeneration ability was a dozen times stronger than cultivators in his own realm.
His Spatial Dantian was currently as big as the hut he lived in with his aunt Meiqi. What's even better was the fact that he could store living beings inside. As long as they don't resist, of course.