Ryan picked up the golden wood brocade box and thought about his previous attempts to open it. He had first tried using force but failed, then resorted to throwing it from a greater height to break it open. However, the box just bounced away without a single scratch after hitting the ground.
He figured the force wasn't enough to open the box, so he put it on a rock under a tree, tied a small boulder above it, and smashed it repeatedly. Instead of breaking the box, the rock shattered into pieces, wasting his energy and time.
As a last resort, he roasted it over the flames. His grandfather thought he was hungry, couldn't find any food in the house, and decided to eat the box by imagining it as food.
Under his grandfather's pitying and sad gaze, he returned to his room and decided to drop a small amount of blood, hoping it might open the box with its immortal origin. However, the blood merely slid off the surface, leaving him with teary eyes from the pain of puncturing his finger to extract the blood.
He has no fond memories of this box. When he tried to open it, it wouldn't budge, so he stashed it in the attic and forgot about it until now.
This time, he decided to try a different method using the spirit vision he had learned. He would gradually determine if the box had any sealing function, then slowly refine it with his spirit energy and attempt to open it.
After deciding on the method, Ryan activated his spirit vision and began inspecting the sides of the box for any seals to appear before him.
As he slowly rotated the box clockwise, he discovered a small seal on the top, which made his eyes light up with excitement. He quickly channeled his spirit energy and started to grind away at the seal. It wore off quickly, and with a click, the box opened easily, making him doubt himself.
What was he thinking when he got the box instead of just waiting until he became a cultivator to open it? He uses various mortal methods to open it, which makes him want to beat his past self for not thinking things through.
Ryan quickly regained his composure and carefully opened the box, discovering a small black pouch with instructions on how to use it tucked underneath.
Maybe the box was a gift to cultivators, given that it was filled with neat, intricate designs and decorations which shone with various light upon opening.
Ryan took the instructions and read them twice, realizing it was a space storage bag containing essential items for qi training realm cultivators, brought from the immortal city that belongs to the Medicine Valley.
The back of the slip listed the items in the spirit bag. It included a set of array formation flags and a core disk engraved with various formations. The concealing formation would hide people inside, while the defense and offense formation could defend for up to an hour against intense attacks from several late-stage qi formation realm monks and could switch to attack the assailants. Lastly, the illusion formation would prevent mortals or those with lower cultivation from unknowingly approaching the retreat location.
It also mentioned that the spirit storage bag contains 100 types of low-grade spirit seeds, which can be planted in their medicine field.
There is also a five-element Robe and a five-element shield that mid-stage qi refiners can use after refining them until they reach the foundation establishment realm.
The challenge is to refine the array formation, robe, and shield in the storage box. Ryan needs to be at least at the mid-stage of the qi realm, but he's currently only at the early stage. He could reach the mid-stage now since the fortune cauldron had gathered enough chaotic energy for him to reach the foundation realm, but he planned to progress slowly during the qi refining period to achieve a stable foundation in the early stages, which would help him progress rapidly in the cultivation realms in the future.
Ryan decided to wait until he reached the mid-stage of the Qi refining stage before opening the storage bag, opting to hide it in the house for now.
Ryan thought about the golden wood brocade box, realizing it could safely seal the spirit energy inside when closed. He then considered that he had no containers for storing the spell seed and decided the box was the best option to store them for a longer period.
He decided to give the box to the village chief, as it could hold up to 100 spell seeds when stacked, which he would use to keep the spell seeds safe until they were sold.
Ryan went out of the house and brought back some plant seeds that could grow into long vines.
He then used the earth manipulation spell to create a large rectangular pit and formed a small tank to store water in his house's backyard.
Ryan used several spirit rain techniques to fill the tank, then tossed in all ten spirit stones he had, which were created by the fortune cauldron. He added the thousand seeds he just bought, poured a special solution made from failed spirit seeds into the tank, and sealed the entrance while manipulating the earth.
Ryan will then check the spirit concentration in the tank once a day and replenish the spirit water by performing the spirit rain technique, sealing the tank properly afterward.
After fifteen days, Ryan opened the tank and discovered that nearly 100 spirit seeds were ready, 10 to 20 had spoiled, and the remainder were still maturing.
Ryan gently scooped up the spirit seeds, which had matured and were ready to be used as raw material for spell seed manufacturing.
Ryan then took out the spoiled seeds and placed them in another bottle, which can be used to make fertilizer for the farm that was recently bought.
The last time, he had no idea that mixing the spoiled seeds into the ground would bring such benefits instead of just wasting them.
He discovered their uses when he visited the valley to cover the entrance with an earth wall and found that the tree he used for various experiments had grown several meters high and lush with green leaves after absorbing the remnants of the seeds he had crushed on the ground.