Quan held the Wishful Treasure Pouch in one hand and channeled his soul power into it.
At that moment, Quan's dragon eyes stared at the Wishful Treasure Pouch, and he saw the special patterns flickering inside the leather pouch.
Relying on his powerful mental strength, Quan quickly memorized all the patterns.
Through repeated memorization and comparison, Quan spent an hour finally engraving them in his mind.
Immediately afterward, he picked up a carving tool and directly began carving the patterns on a piece of soul-guided metal.
Quan's hand was incredibly steady, and his control of soul power was flawless. With Quan's terrifying eyesight, he could focus on every detail, making carving small and intricate patterns no problem at all.
“Sizzle, sizzle.”
The friction between metal and metal produced a harsh sound. It was not a simple task to engrave exquisite patterns on hard metal.
However, Quan did it not only smoothly but also as if he were casually drawing on paper with a paintbrush.
Countless metal shavings fell off during the carving.
Although the patterns on the Wishful Treasure Pouch were not simple, they inexplicably had a great deal of overlap with other storage soul-guided devices that Quan had seen.
Therefore, Quan carved them even more easily.
A quarter of an hour later, Quan's carving knife perfectly connected the lines together.
He completed the entire process in one go.
Quan gently blew away the debris on the surface.
Then, he injected soul power into the metal.
In the next moment, the entire piece of metal rose with a blue glow, and then the entire metal became crystal clear, just like blue jade.
Immediately, a familiar spatial fluctuation rippled from the pattern as the center.
The corners of Quan's mouth curled up in joy, and he whispered, "It's a success."
This phenomenon was an important sign of success. If the engraving failed, this effect would not occur when soul power was injected.
However, to truly determine its effect, it still needed to be tested with real objects.
Quan's gaze shifted to the Nine-Section Emerald sleeping soundly beside him.
Looking at its cute figure, Quan really couldn't bear to use it for experiments.
“Sigh, I should go outside and catch some small bugs.”
Immediately, Quan walked into the courtyard and caught several crawling ants.
Returning to the workshop, Quan divided the six ants into three equal parts.
One part was placed in the Heart of Scorching Sun, one part was placed in the Wishful Treasure Pouch, and the last part was placed in the replica.
Quan needed to observe the differences between the three by comparing them.
Every minute, Quan would take out the three groups of ants to observe.
After repeating this more than thirty times, the ants placed in the Heart of Scorching Sun visibly withered away, while the other two remained in good condition. Each time they were taken out of the space, they scurried around.
An hour passed, and the ants in the Heart of Scorching Sun completely lost their vitality. Although there were individual differences, it was about an hour or so.
In contrast, the other two groups had no problems.
At this stage of the experiment, testing in minutes was no longer meaningful.
Quan put all the remaining ants into the storage space of the replica and ended the test.
He decided to test it in days.
As far as Quan knew, ants could survive for a week without eating and about three days without drinking water.
He wanted to test how long they could survive with water and food provided.
In this way, Quan flew back to the cabin in the woods.
The sun set, and night fell.
Quan saw the lights emanating from the cabin from the sky.
Quan immediately knew that Huo Wu had finished her seclusion.
Quan descended from the sky and directly pushed open the door and walked in.
“Xiao Wu, I'm back.”
“Xiao Yi!” This shout contained a joyful emotion.
In the next instant, noisy footsteps came from the stairs. After a while, a fiery red figure rushed into Quan's arms.
Quan took the opportunity to pick up Huo Wu's delicate body and spun around a few times in place.
The joy of reunion made it impossible for the two to separate.
After a long time, the two separated and began to talk about the changes during this time.
First of all, Huo Wu announced something to Quan with a proud expression.
“Xiao Yi, you came at the right time. Today, I broke through to level fifty.”
“Really!”
Quan's face was full of surprise.
“Hehe, of course, it's true. How about it, are you surprised, are you not expecting it?”
Seeing Quan happy for her, Huo Wu seemed to feel double the joy.
In two years, she had leveled up five times. Moreover, this was the level-up speed in the mid-to-late stage of the Soul Ancestor realm. Huo Wu's talent in cultivation was undoubtedly top-notch.
However, Huo Wu's current achievements could not ignore her own efforts.
Huo Wu's training intensity was also inhuman at the same level.
From the time she met Quan, for about ten years, Huo Wu had been maintaining high-intensity training.
Now that she had achieved her current results, Quan was also very gratified.
“Xiao Wu, to congratulate you on this successful breakthrough, I have a gift I want to give you.”
“What gift?”
Hearing that Quan was going to give a gift, Huo Wu's eyes lit up instantly, with an expectant expression on her face.
Quan dotingly tapped Huo Wu's forehead and said, “You're really a little miser. You wait.”
Huo Wu's personality was direct. In her usual life, she didn't have much coyness, but this was also what Quan appreciated about Huo Wu.
In Huo Wu's expectant gaze, Quan took out the Wishful Treasure Pouch from his pocket.
Then, he summoned the Nine-Section Emerald stored in the Wishful Treasure Pouch.
Seeing the emerald snake that looked like a fine work of art, Huo Wu was not only not afraid but instead leaned her face closer to carefully admire the Nine-Section Emerald.
Huo Wu said fascinatedly, “What exquisite jade, what amazing carving skills, is this the gift for me?”
The Nine-Section Emerald was in a sleeping state and had just been taken out of the soul-guided device.
Therefore, Huo Wu mistook it for some kind of craft.
“Haha, Xiao Wu, look carefully, this is not some kind of craft.”
Immediately afterward, Quan pinched the Nine-Section Emerald's tail with his hand and gently shook it.
In the next moment, the jade-like Nine-Section Emerald opened its red eyes and began to sway its soft body.
“Ah! This is a real snake!”
Huo Wu was startled by this scene and let out a small scream, but her eyes were always fixed on the Nine-Section Emerald.
Only because the Nine-Section Emerald, with its red and green interlaced eyes, added more agility to its original exquisite base.
This appearance instantly attracted Huo Wu's vision.
Quan reached out and held Huo Wu's jade hand, then guided it to his chest.
“Xiao Wu, this little snake is called the Nine-Section Emerald. It is the best of the bamboo pit vipers. It not only has a strong body but also has fierce venom.
After my training, if danger is approaching, it will protect your safety on its own.”
Immediately afterward, the Nine-Section Emerald in Quan's hand climbed onto the back of Huo Wu's hand along Quan's palm.
Huo Wu was a little nervous, but out of trust in Quan, she did not take her hand away.
At this time, she only felt that the touch of the Nine-Section Emerald was really like smooth, cool jade.
Under her gaze, the Nine-Section Emerald slowly coiled around her wrist. After circling her wrist a few times, it stopped crawling.
Huo Wu looked at the emerald green snake ring wrapped around her wrist, and her eyes lit up with starlight.
