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Chapter 240: The Ability to Hold Everything in a Small Space
"You two, go and inform the others that there is a monster that eats people. I have dealt with it. Clean up the mess!"

Zhou You fell from the top of the wall, scaring the two night watchmen so much that their hands trembled and their lanterns fell to the ground.

After seeing Zhou You's face clearly, he felt very annoyed. Why did he meet him again?

Hearing Zhou You's words, the young night watchman pushed open the half-closed door and smelled a strong smell of blood...

"Oh no! Someone's murdered! Someone's murdered! The old man's entire family is gone! Ugh!"

After a while, all the important people in the town came. Looking at the broken limbs and arms all over the ground, they felt quite sad.

This family had some friendship with them and had visited each other before, but now they were torn into pieces like animals in a slaughterhouse, with blood, flesh and organs scattered all over the floor.

"What a wicked beast! What a wicked beast!"

They were either wealthy or noble people in the town, and they knew that the scene before them was caused by evil spirits that had sneaked into the town to eat people.

If they are not discovered tonight, the evil creature will lurk in the skin of this family and may harm more people, including them.

The two night watchmen were interrogated and asked about the whole story.

After finding out that it was 'Uncle Lu' who drove away the monster, everyone fell silent, with mixed feelings in their hearts.

As a wealthy and powerful family in the area, they knew that there were evil spirits in the world, but for various reasons they were unable to move into the city and so lived in an undefended town.

Why did they tacitly accept the occupation of Jinhe Mountain? It was because the martial arts master could act as a deterrent and make the demons fearful.

When Jin Heshan was there, he did not take the initiative to drive away and kill the evil spirits. Unexpectedly, when it came to Lu Zhigang, he took action personally.

"Mr. Lu has a cold face but a kind heart. He is kind and righteous!"

In an instant, Lu Zhigang's reputation changed 360 degrees.

Traveling around...

He returned to the secret room with his hungry skin and continued to study the mysteries inside.

After swallowing the eight monsters, the innate hunger did not dissipate, but was transformed into another form and merged with the skin.

The martial artist's human skin is indeed powerful, but it is not enough to trap eight transformed ghosts and compress them into the size of a palm, reducing their weight.

Therefore, it is the combination of the martial artist's human skin and innate hunger that has such a magical effect.

The secret room under Zhou You's feet is Jinheshan's exclusive base. From Li Chonghe's memory, he learned that he often handled some personal matters here.

Sometimes, even his four trusted disciples didn’t know what he was busy with.

After Zhou You occupied the villa, he immediately found the secret room, looted everything inside, and claimed the place as his own.

To his disappointment, Jinheshan's wealth was not much, not even as much as the sum of his disciples.

The total amount of gold, silver, pearls and jade was a little over 23, which was quite standard for someone of his status and did not seem like the savings that would be the result of excessive taxation.

There are a few things left that are of greater value.

The three amulets in the gift box were refined by him using the martial artist's blood and energy for 20 years and were of upper-middle quality.

Judging from the previous fights, none of these amulets were given to his disciples. He prepared them as gifts.

Fortunately, otherwise Zhou You and Jiang Hua would not have succeeded so easily.

There are also 5 bottles of Baohe Dan, which is the secret medicine of the Hemingquan school. He keeps it for training his disciples.

Well, Zhou You also learned the techniques and steps of taking the secret medicine from Li Chonghe, and took it for his own use.

The last piece of iron looks like it was torn from a feather-shaped iron plate, judging from the jagged edge.

The information recorded on the iron plate consists of two parts: Seven Birds Gathering Together and Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix.

It turned out that Jin Heshan was originally a big thief who traveled all over the place. He and his forty-eight sworn brothers enjoyed killing people and robbing.

One day, while searching for a place to bury valuables, they accidentally broke into an underground cave and unexpectedly discovered the place where the powerful martial arts master, Old Man Baiqin, had passed away a hundred years ago.

The old man Baiqin is a powerful martial arts master, and his heritage makes countless martial artists jealous, including this gang of thieves. An internal fight broke out, and all the bandits, who were as close as brothers, fought to compete for the relics of the old man Baiqin.

After fighting for more than ten days, only seven of the forty-nine bandits survived.

Among these seven survivors, Jin Heshan was one of them. They were all wounded, exhausted and unable to fight again.

After discussing it, they decided not to fight among themselves in order to avoid outsiders coming in and picking the peaches.

Then in the underground cave, the seven of them formally became sworn brothers and divided up the inheritance of the Old Man Baiqin. This was the Seven Animals Gathering.

Although the seven men became sworn brothers, they all had their own ulterior motives and kept something from each other.

Jin Heshan took the Heming Fist, and the other six brothers took the Eagle, Falcon, Owl, Heron, Peacock and other fist styles respectively, all of which were top-grade inheritances that could be practiced to become high-level martial artists.

However, the most crucial part, the secret to breaking through the powerful martial arts, was not obtained by anyone.

To be precise, everyone got a part, but it was incomplete.

Seven people must gather together and piece together the iron plate fragments in their hands into an iron feather to restore the secret called "Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix".

The seven people agreed to meet again every 7 years to gather the secrets and study them together to prevent someone from keeping it secret.

Counting the time, it has been more than 14 years since the last meeting.

Well, it will take another 5 years for the others to discover Jin Heshan’s death.

For the time being, Zhou You didn't have to worry about the other six birds coming to attack him.

Well, let’s put this matter aside for now and continue to study the matter of Hungry Skin.

On the riverbank, the ground still bore traces of the devastating battle.

The originally abundant crane population all ran away, and coupled with the residual venom in the river water, the fish and shrimp were completely extinct.

Zhou You held the hungry bag, weighed it a few times, and decisively untied the rope.

A surge of energy seemed to be gushing out from a bottomless pit, and with a slight explosion, the originally intact leather bag exploded instantly.

The innate hunger sealed within it completely disappeared.

Eight magical creatures fell from midair, toppling over and over like rolling gourds, though they were much weaker than before.

It's no wonder. I've been in there for several days without eating anything, and I'm so hungry and weak that I've never been before.

Now that the experiment is completed, there is no need to keep these monsters.

When Zhou You went to deal with them, the monsters were already so hungry that their bodies were shriveled, so it was effortless to deal with them.

"Trial Project (three stars): Kill the demon and save the people. Completed. Experience points +5000."

He summarized the patterns and began to analyze the characteristics of the hungry skin.

The innate hunger is attached to the container, which can only swallow but not digest, and time passes both inside and outside.

Otherwise, these creatures wouldn't have starved to death.

and also……

The gifted skin is indeed a disposable item. It automatically becomes ineffective when opened for the second time, and the container it carries is also scrapped.

However, if the skin is not opened or punctured actively, the hungry swallowing state will still be maintained, and there is no time limit. Well, perhaps the only limit is the aging period of the martial artist's skin.

When I got to this point in my travel record, a light bulb suddenly lit up in my head.

What do these characteristics mean?
"Sumeru mustard seeds, the universe gathers them!"

Isn't the Hungry Skin a ready-made substitute for the storage bag? Even though it is a disposable item, by piling up the number of them, you can achieve the freedom of carrying space with you.

The Winged Tiger Zhou You said that you only know how to practice martial arts and don’t know how to cultivate immortality?

(End of this chapter)