"So the maximum range is just over 500 meters? I didn't expect such a big gap compared to the Perception Domain."

Lin Zheyu frowned slightly, somewhat disappointed with the effectiveness of spiritual sense.

He had thought that, after condensing spiritual sense, it would grant perception far superior to that of the Perception Domain. He had not expected this outcome.

"The sensing quality of spiritual sense is indeed much stronger than the Perception Domain. It's just that the range is too small." Lin Zheyu shook his head slightly.

Still, he was already satisfied. After all, he was not a traditional immortal cultivator. It was acceptable that the spiritual sense he condensed fell somewhat short.

"My perception of spiritual qi has become much clearer... The coverage of the Perception Domain has increased further. It can now spread over 1,800 meters. That's impressive! My ability to control objects is now far beyond what it was when I just used my spiritual form..." Lin Zheyu tested the effects of spirit power.

Under the control of his spiritual sense, the Blazing Sun Saber streaked through the night like lightning. Lei Yunshu had not taken the blade back. After all, it was only a standard-issue dharma artifact and not particularly valuable. Lin Zheyu had helped her so much that she could not bring herself to reclaim it.

The Blazing Sun Saber shot toward Lin Zheyu's chest. A dim gray true origin shield formed around him. The sharp tip pierced into the shield, forcing it to cave inward under the powerful impact. But that was all.

The combat capability is decent. However, to begin with, the Blazing Sun Saber is just a standard-issue dharma artifact. It's reasonable that it can't even pierce my true origin shield.

The strength of an immortal cultivator was influenced by several key factors: realm, techniques, divine abilities and spells, and dharma artifacts. Among them, dharma artifacts had the greatest impact. With sufficient backing, wielding artifacts far beyond one's own realm made it entirely possible to fight across realms or even multiple levels.

"I wonder if I can nurture a natal treasure..." Lin Zheyu recalled the Blazing Sun Saber.

After successfully condensing spiritual sense, his attention shifted to natal treasures. The Origin Returning Art contained methods for nurturing one, but these methods were closely tied to immortal cultivation techniques. If Lin Zheyu wanted to adapt them into something suitable for martial artists, it would not be easy.

I'm thinking too far ahead. Nurturing a natal treasure isn't easy, and it costs a fortune. My greatest reliance is still martial cultivation. Immortal Dao and spiritual sense are only supplementary for now. Focusing my energy on martial cultivation is what matters most.

There was something wrong with the Immortal Dao in this world. Until he understood its hidden dangers, Lin Zheyu had no intention of stepping onto that path. His martial cultivation had not yet reached its limit, and his strength could still grow. With power already comparable to the Foundation Establishment realm, he believed growing strong enough to fight cultivators in the Golden Core realm wouldn't be too difficult.

After testing his spiritual sense, Lin Zheyu turned his attention to his storage pouches. He now had a general understanding of spiritual sense, but he knew nothing about the restrictions and mechanisms within the pouch. Taking out the already opened pouch, he extended his spiritual sense into it. Instantly, a small space of about one cubic meter appeared in his awareness.

"What a fascinating sensation. What's the principle behind this? Is it a special restricted space, or does it contain some kind of spatial material?"

Lin Zheyu felt a surge of curiosity. He toyed with the storage pouch, but as a complete novice, he could not figure out anything useful.

How do you close this thing? Before he died, that guy mentioned that the opening and closing of the storage pouch are related to restrictions. Are the restrictions located at the pouch's opening?

He extended his spiritual sense into the storage pouch, examining it inside and out in detail.

"Hm..." Lin Zheyu let out a soft sound of surprise.

A look of understanding appeared on his face. Before long, the open mouth of the storage pouch closed on its own.

"Good thing it's foolproof. So this is what a restriction is? It even comes with its own guidance system," Lin Zheyu muttered.

When he extended his spiritual sense into the storage pouch, a sudden understanding arose, allowing him to instantly grasp how to use it. An unclaimed storage pouch was like a lock without a registered fingerprint, while spiritual sense was like the fingerprint itself. Once Lin Zheyu's spiritual sense entered it, it was automatically registered. With a single thought, the pouch closed on its own.

Looks like to open these storage pouches, I'll have to forcibly break the restrictions inside. The strength of these restrictions seems to vary. These ordinary storage pouches don't have strong restrictions, so breaking them shouldn't be too difficult. As for that Directorate of Celestial Observation youth's pouch, it seems to be of higher quality. I wonder if my current spiritual sense is strong enough to break it.

Lin Zheyu thought of the storage pouch hidden in the mountains.

Now that his spiritual sense had been successfully condensed, Lin Zheyu planned to find time to check whether that storage pouch was still there and whether anything had gone wrong. If not, he would try to break the restrictions on it. He felt that a pouch of such quality likely held quite valuable contents.

Lin Zheyu took out the other seven storage pouches. Six of them were similar to the one in his hand, belonging to the lowest grade used by immortal cultivators. The remaining one was rather special.

This storage pouch had been taken from a barbarian warrior. It was made from the hide of some unknown, mysterious beast, covered in rough and cryptic runes. Its style was completely different from the formation patterns used by immortal cultivators. When his divine sense entered it, a dense, bloody aura and a wild, primal presence rushed toward him.

"It's a completely different style from immortal cultivator restrictions, but brute force works wonders. Break for me!" Lin Zheyu muttered as he condensed his spiritual sense into a single stream and slammed it into the opening of the special storage pouch.

He did not understand the methods of Immortal Dao restrictions or the barbarians' techniques. Conventional methods would not work, but with brute force, strength alone was enough.

A crisp sound rang out from the storage pouch. The bloody, primal aura that had shrouded his spiritual sense dissipated instantly like mist. What appeared in his awareness was a space slightly smaller than one cubic meter.

"It's much weaker than I expected."

Lin Zheyu's lips curved slightly. Everything inside the storage pouch appeared clearly within his consciousness.

"It's just beast bones? As expected of the barbarians. What kind of strange things are these?" Lin Zheyu could not help but remark.

He shook his head slightly, took out the only two spirit stones inside, and dumped the rest of the items to the side. A storage pouch with its restrictions broken was like a lock forced open by brute strength. It had lost its function and needed to be replaced or reset. Lin Zheyu planned to keep it for now and either sell it at an immortal market later or set up new restrictions on it.

A series of cracking sounds followed as Lin Zheyu broke open the remaining seven storage pouches one by one.

"These restrictions are practically useless, just like the locks in my previous life. They stop the honest, not the determined."

Lin Zheyu formed a rough judgment of these low-quality storage pouches.

He emptied all the contents from the storage pouches. There was all sorts of clutter, even half-eaten roasted meat, wine, and pastries. Lin Zheyu sorted the useless items to one side and piled the random weapons separately, while carefully collecting the spirit stones. There were twenty-seven in total.

Not a bad haul.

"'The Spirit Martial Sword Control Art,' eh? It's actually a sword-control technique. Even though I'm not an immortal cultivator, the methods for controlling swords with spiritual sense are still quite useful as a reference. There's also something called the 'Severing Spirit Finger.' I'll try later to see if it can be adapted into a martial cultivation technique. A pity there are only two techniques, and neither seems particularly useful to me."

Lin Zheyu put away the two manuals and stored them together with the spirit stones in his own storage pouch. The remaining miscellaneous weapons were stuffed into another pouch with its restrictions removed, and he tied its opening tightly with a rope.

"The matter of spiritual sense is finally settled. Next, I need to create a powerful concealment technique and then figure out my future path in martial cultivation," Lin Zheyu murmured thoughtfully.

He already had some ideas for a concealment technique, but as for his future martial cultivation path, he still had no clear direction.

Suddenly, a streak of fire shot into the sky and exploded into a dazzling burst of light.

"Something happened again?" Lin Zheyu's expression shifted.

The Ninefold Origin Lock Art activated instantly, and his aura quickly diminished. Until he created a concealment technique suited for himself, he could only make do with the Ninefold Origin Lock Art.