Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Ancient Flame Tiger’s Cave

"Anyway, I will deal with her later, for now let’s continue."

"What about her saint grade spiritual roots, her bloodline and her physique? This is the fist time I see someone with one other than me."

[Spiritual roots grade, form low to high was low to high are Mortal, Earth, Heaven, Saint, Sovereign, and Origin. The same applies with Bloodline and Physique.]

[For bloodline and physique, they can be attain from birth or from legacy. Also, usually the only get either bloodline or physique, it’s rare to get both of them.]

"I see, I understand the structure of cultivation world now." Damon nodded after the system long explanation.

"Now, let’s see what I’ve done." He looks the surrounding and see the destruction.

She probably saw what I can do... he got up and began collecting the core but stop at The Ancient Flame Tiger corpse.

He found the tiger’s core nestled within the smoldering ruins of the beast’s chest cavity, though it was unlike any core he had ever come across before.

Rather than the dull, inert sphere of condensed spiritual energy he expected, this one was alive with flickering orange and crimson flames that danced across its surface without consuming it.

He could feel the heat radiating from it even through his gloves, a dense, pulsing wave of spiritual energy and raw Fire qi that pressed outward like a miniature sun cradled in his palm.

He carefully picked it up and slipped it into his storage ring, then turned his gaze back toward the massive corpse of the Ancient Flame Tiger. Even in death, faint embers still licked along the creature’s fur, refusing to fully extinguish.

’Is the corpse even useful? The hide alone must be worth a fortune, not to mention the bones and claws. I’ll take it for now and figure it out later.’

He reached out and attempted to store the tiger’s enormous body the same way he had everything else, willing it into the ring.

But nothing happened. The corpse simply sat there, heat shimmering off its charred frame, utterly unmoved.

’Huh, why didn’t it work?’

[Host, you should use the incubus celestial eye on your storage ring.]

He follows system suggestion.

’Huh, why isn’t it working?’

[Host, you should use the Incubus Celestial Eye on your storage ring to assess its limitations.]

He exhaled slowly and followed the system’s suggestion, activating his Celestial Eye and directing his gaze downward toward the ring on his finger.

[Storage Ring]

[Description: A Spirit Grade Storage Ring. Capable to store any item with maximum 4x4 meters.]

’Ahhh, so it won’t fit since the tiger more than 10 meters.’

He then opens the lust store and shock at his points.

[Lust store]

[Lust points: 301,710]

<Cultivation resources>

<Cultivation/combat techniques>

<Weapons and armor>

<Recovery pills>

<Spiritual materials>

<Lust items>

<Spiritual Roots>

<Talismans>

<Bloodlines and constitutions>

<Miscellaneous>

’What? I just lost 35k? where is it?’

[Host, you use it for astral step upgrade and Sword Grand Master Memories.]

"Ahhh... I see, I was filled with rage that i buy it without realizing it. Well, the Astral Step necessary upgrade since i was slower than the tiger but Sword Grand Master Memories..."

"Whatever, I can’t reverse what already happen, well everything happens so fast, but from now on I need to fight more calmly and make the girls stronger." he murmur to himself and let out a sigh.

"Anyway, let’s buy a new storage ring." as he scrolls through the lust store until he found it.

He let out a slow, measured sigh, then turned his attention back to the floating interface before him, fingers idly scrolling through the Lust Store’s catalogue.

"Anyway, a new storage ring. That’s the priority right now."

His gaze moved methodically through the listings until the entry caught his eye.

[Storage Ring]

[Description: A Heaven Grade Storage Ring. Capable to store any item with maximum 100x100 meters. It has Time Suppression array, Protection Array and Communication Function.]

[Heaven Grade Item - Peak]

[Price: 25000 lust points]

’I like this, it has a communication function. I should buy one for each of the girls later, so we can stay in contact no matter the distance. System, buy this item.’

[You bought the Heaven Grade Storage Ring. -25000 lust points.]

A soft chime answered him, and a ring materialized in his open palm.

It was deceptively simple in appearance, a slim band of pale silver metal with a faint blue rune etched along the inner surface, glowing faintly like an ember refusing to die.

He turned it once between his fingers, admiring the craftsmanship, before sliding it onto his finger.

He then began the methodical process of transferring everything from his old storage ring, pulling item after item free and feeding it into the new one’s far more generous spatial pocket.

The difference was immediately noticeable. Where the old ring had felt cramped and restrictive, this one swallowed his belongings without protest, the tiger’s enormous corpse included, disappearing inside as though it weighed nothing at all.

"Good." he muttered with quiet satisfaction, flexing his hand once. "Now, with all of that settled, let’s train."

****

Few hours passed, now the sun already setting down. Damon lay on the ground with ragged breathing.

"System, how is it?"

[Host, now can fully control your fighting arsenal and fully integrate the sword grand master experience into your body perfectly.]

"Good, now let’s go back." Damon slowly got up a turn around to go out for Fire Valley, and suddenly he heard something.

A sound coming from a cave where the Ancient Flame Tiger come out from. curious about the sound Damon went to the cave.

Damon walked toward the cave, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword.

The sound was faint, like something scraping against stone, but it was rhythmic and it was getting louder the closer he got.

He activated his Incubus Celestial Eyes.

The cave walls lit up in his vision, every crack and shadow rendered sharp and clear.

He scanned the darkness ahead and found nothing hostile, no qi signatures, no cultivator auras, just stone and heat and the faint orange glow of residual flame from the tiger’s territory.

Then he heard it again.

A whimper.

Damon moved deeper into the cave, stepping over the scorched bones of old prey, and rounded a corner into a wider cave.

In the far corner, curled in a cage. A white cat with a tiger stripe across its body.

’A Cat?’