1402 A Mistaken Scheme

“Here you go, sir. This is all the herbs you have asked for. You can check yourself.” The Clerk handed the small pouch to Lin Mu.

The clerk looked to be quite eager and Lin Mu found it to be strange even now.

‘Is it just the normal procedure or is this man just too eager?’ Lin Mu wondered.

Still, he took the small pouch from the man. And the moment he held it, he found it to be different.

‘Mm? This is a strange way to make a spatial storage treasure…’ Lin Mu sensed the spatial storage pouch to have a new type of a spatial array on it.

It seemed to be normal at first, but if one looked at the stabilization sub formation, they would realize that it was really weak. But at the same time, it had an obfuscating formation added to it. This was highly unusual for a spatial storage tool to have, and Lin Mu hadn’t seen any.

‘Why would they add an obfuscation formation and increase their own complexity? It would be a lot easier to just put a better stabilization array in here.’ Lin Mu was confused.

Even if the storage tool was meant for fooling someone with inferior goods, they weren’t doing it well enough. Usually one did this to save costs, but in this case it was increasing the cost.

‘The runes also seem to be rather fresh… as if they were just inscribed.’ Lin Mu looked deeper and found more peculiarities.

This alarmed him a bit and made him think that he might be getting scammed.

‘The preservation formations… are they bad? Or is there an illusory formation added to make the herbs look better?’ Lin Mu had several concerns popping up in his mind.

His expression changed too and he looked at the clerk with a straight face.

~Shiver~

At that moment, the clerk felt like he was facing a mountain as the aura of Lin Mu spiked in a unique way. It was only contained within a few meters of him, but it was enough to pressure the clerk.

The man was actually an Immortal Realm cultivator too, but only at the First Tribulation Stage of the immortal realm. One could tell from this just what kind of status an organization like this held to employ a first tribulation stage Immortal realm expert for the post of a basic clerk that had no work.

But even if Lin Mu was at the same stage as the man, the pressure he felt was on an entirely different level.

“S-sir… Please… Sir…” The man stuttered trying to ask Lin Mu to stop.

Internally, the man was also getting really confused.

‘Why hasn’t the security acted? No customer can act with hostility and not be stopped.’ The Clerk thought at first, but then a few seconds later his eyes went wide.

‘No… that only applies to guests at a certain level… DAMMIT! I knew something was wrong! He isn’t just a first tribulation stage expert. He must be offended somehow.’ The Clerk thought to himself.

Lin Mu continued to gaze at him with a silent look, only making the man feel more pressured. This lasted for just a minute, but it felt like an hour to the clerk.

And when it ended, he felt a great relief.

At the same time though, he heard Lin Mu speak.

“Why does this Spatial Storage Pouch have a passive collapsing function?” Lin Mu questioned in a firm voice.

“W-what?” The Clerk said in a baffled tone. ‘Why would someone of his status ask that?’ he wondered.

“The pouch, why is it made to collapse after a few days?” Lin Mu asked again.

“That!?” the Clerk felt like Lin Mu’s question was absurd.

Even Lin Mu could sense it in the clerk’s tone and knew that his question had made the man think again about him.

“Just… Tell me.” Lin Mu stated again.

‘Someone of his status should know it but I’ll just have to cooperate anyways.’ Fearing for his life, the Clerk decided to speak according got Lin Mu’s wishes.

“M-My lord… the Spatial Storage pouches offered to our customers have the highest privacy protection functions. This is made to ensure that your goods cannot be stolen and others cannot take them for themselves after being obtained.” The man answered.

“Mmm? So it’s mean to keep away thieves?” Lin Mu asked.

“Y-yes… well for several reasons. I hope that the lord does not test me more and understands it all.” The Clerk tried to plead.

After hearing this, Lin Mu truly calmed down.  The feature that he had thought was meant to scam him was in fact a common feature for deals like this.

Since many immortals didn’t like showing others what they obtained, they would make uses of pouches like these since they left no traces of what was contained in them originally.

This was also why Lin Mu couldn’t fully sense it at the same time and needed to go through it layer by layer.

But in reality, the array that was present on the pouch was nothing malicious, it was just a common feature that many people liked. With there being mostly immortals buying stuff, the spatial storage tools weren’t that precious to them.

Especially the ones that were given to customers like this. They were meant to be complimentary and they could very well make them proper spatial storage tools.

But as immortals, most would be concerned about this and would be hesitant in trusting tools that were given to them by other people. Because of this, a cautious practice of making self erasing spatial storage tools was developed.

This made it so that they had absolute privacy in buying things and at the same time, they could not get their goods stolen.

It was a common concern that people would rob the customers of resource pavilions, but the use of such spatial tools made it so that anyone else using them would make the tool collapse.

This would end up with them losing the items that were kept inside, thereby defeating the original goal.

Having heard of all this, Lin Mu felt a little embarrassed.

But he knew showing it on his face would be detrimental to his image, thus he simply kept a straight face.

He fully withdrew the pressure he had put on the clerk and let the man relax.

“T-thank you my lord.” The Clerk quickly said while lowering this head.

The other people and customers hadn’t noticed this since it was a rather ignored area, plus Lin Mu hadn’t outwardly expressed his hostility either.

Normally, places like these had arrays that could sense hostility and high fluctuations of energies. But in Lin Mu’s case none of them arise at all.

Even if it were another immortal standing and watching them, there would be no reaction. As the way Lin Mu experted pressure was intrinsically different than others.

He was simply using his Dao Embryo to do it, thus there were no obvious signs.

It was the best way to pressure others while giving no clues to the foes. Plus after grasping it, Lin Mu wanted to use it more and more so that he could gets proficient in it.

He knew that after a progressed more in it, he would be able to have a breakthrough in his own skill level and it would improve the skill’s power too.

Even if he had gained the new Spatial Dao Embryo, the Four Faceted Embryo, there was no way he could forget nurturing the Earth Dao Embryo , True Earth Heart as well.

“My lord… forgive me if I’ve offended you in any way. But I assure you that I am not trying to trick you in any way. Our Resources pavilion would never do something like that and compromise our image.

If you wish to have a proper spatial storage tool, we’ll be glad to provide you one for no extra charge.” The clerk quickly offered.

At this point, the concept of ‘Customer is always right’ applied. And the Clerk wanted nothing more than to placate Lin Mu.

“Fine.” Lin Mu said calmly.

“Yes sir!” the clerk immediately went to get the spatial storage tool.

Lin Mu truly didn’t need one, but at this point it was more about keeping up appearances.

~sigh~

“I should have been more reserved.” Lin Mu sighed to herself.

“It is fine, you were just being careful. Besides, with the demonstration you’ve shown the clerk, he won’t question you either.

In fact, if you try to apologize after this, they will find it very suspicious. This is something you will simply need to experience and learn in an Immortal world.” Xukong explained to Lin Mu.

He thought over this and found it to be reasonable. Thus not wanting to waste anymore time, he simply took the new spatial Storage tool he was gifted and left the pavilion.

~Phew~

“He’s finally gone… I thought I was a goner too…” The Clerk thanked his fate.