Before officially brewing the spirit wine, Yang Hong did one more thing: finding helpers.
"Listen up, demon monkeys inside. I'm about to brew the Ten Fruit Brew. If you can brew wine, stand up, and I'll let you out."
He looked inside the scale space. There were four fifth-tier monkey demons. So, he transmitted his divine sense to them.
All the demon races could hear.
"Great King, I can, I can!"
"Great King, I can too!"
"We all can."
Hearing they could be released, all four monkey demons stood up, shouting one after another.
In such a confined environment, these demon races were driven to the brink of madness.
More terrifying than death was witnessing one's own death.
This was the direct experience these demon races were having now.
"Great King, I can also brew wine, Great King, please let me out."
"Great King, I can forge artifacts, I'm useful too, let me out."
"Great King, I'm a snake demon, a female snake demon! Great King, I can warm the bed."
"Great King..."
Instantly, all the demon races started clamoring, earnestly recounting their worth, hoping to escape this cursed place.
Ten days had passed since they were locked into the scale space.
For these ten days, not only could they not absorb any spiritual energy, but they also had to constantly try to prevent their life force from being siphoned away by the space.
Unfortunately, the loss of life force was unavoidable!
At the same time, this space, only 100 zhang wide, had no light and no sound. Even if they shouted at the top of their lungs, no sound would escape.
The darkness and confinement were enough to drive one mad.
In such a space, even if they were fifth-tier demon races, having lived for at least 500 years, they would go insane.
At this moment, Yang Hong's divine sense entered, and the space gained light and sound. How could these demon races not be overjoyed?
"Shut up, everyone. I only want monkey demons who know the 'Spirit Monkey Wine Brewing Technique.' The others can wait."
Hearing so many demon races shouting at once, Yang Hong grew a little impatient and coldly roared.
"I know!" x4
The four demon monkeys cried out in unison, filled with excitement.
The joy of escaping certain death written on their faces made the other demon races twist in agony.
"Great King, please, I am willing to sign a blood pact and become your slave, release me!"
"That's right! Great King, I can sign a soul contract!"
"Me too, I can."
Seeing that Yang Hong's divine sense had not withdrawn, the other demon races cried out again.
They truly dared not stay in this place any longer.
"Wait, when I have time, I'll deal with you."
Yang Hong had no intention of subjugating these demon races immediately.
After all, he had used the [Universal Salvation Demonic Sound] to convert them before, but something seemed to have gone wrong, and the effect wasn't good.
He needed to figure out the problem before converting them.
Secondly, blood pacts and soul contracts were not to be signed lightly.
Even though he was the master, he would have to bear a certain amount of spiritual pressure.
Accepting so many soul contracts or blood pacts at once might be too much even for his spiritual strength.
"No! Don't! Great King, I'll be good!"
"Don't imprison us anymore."
"We surrender, we all surrender."
Yang Hong had never entered this scale space before and did not know how terrifying it was after his divine sense withdrew.
Seeing so many demon races weeping, he mistook it for them acting and frowned. He was about to pull out one of the monkey demons.
However, as the monkey demon ascended halfway, he suddenly found himself unable to move it.
Upon closer inspection, three demon races were clinging to that monkey demon.
Although Yang Hong's divine sense was powerful, this scale space had its own rules. When his divine sense was not covering it and was withdrawn, he couldn't retrieve items from within.
Seeing this, he let out an angry roar: "Get down!"
Then, using his divine sense, he threw the three demon races down one by one.
"Since death is inevitable, it's better to die sooner.
Lest we suffer."
Suddenly, a shrill cry of despair echoed among the demon races.
Then Yang Hong felt some demon races attempting to self-destruct.
"Heh heh. On my territory, you still want to self-destruct? You're thinking too much."
Yang Hong sneered, and his divine sense suppressed the self-destructing fluctuations, instantly crushing them.
However...
"Right, die sooner, and be free."
"Right, let's be free together."
"Let's die together!"
Just as Yang Hong was about to grab another monkey demon, 175 demon races began to self-destruct almost simultaneously.
"Damn it! Don't any of you want to live?"
Yang Hong cursed and immediately withdrew his divine sense from the scale space.
He was temporarily unable to suppress the fluctuations of 175 self-destructing beings. It was better to withdraw his divine sense.
Inside the scale space, darkness and silence descended instantly.
Even as many demon races roared and shrieked, they could not hear each other's voices;
Even as they began to self-destruct, with spiritual lights bursting forth, none could escape even an inch.
Such darkness and silence only strengthened their already wavering resolve to die.
Silent, brilliant explosions erupted in the dark space, and terrifying energy began to detonate.
Even the four monkey demons who did not wish to self-destruct were torn to shreds in an instant.
The violent energy continued to rage within the space, but it could not break through the space's confinement.
In the space, over a hundred Nascent Soul phantoms watched the indestructible space,
And finally, under the tearing of the violent energy, they gradually dissipated.
The demon races were not fools. Their intention for self-destruction was to blast open the scale space.
It was just that they did not know the formation process of the scale space, nor its sturdiness.
In the end, they could only perish with resentment.
In reality, Yang Hong only felt a slight warmth on the back of his hand, like water at fifty degrees Celsius, warm and comfortable.
This sensation lasted for about two days before it disappeared.
Then, the scale space's area slightly expanded.
From its original 100 zhang width, it grew by 100 zhang and 7 chi.
"So my storage space can be improved like this. I've learned something.
Next time, I'll catch more demon races and force them to self-destruct to increase my space's size."
Sensing carefully, Yang Hong discovered another small improvement.
"The vitality in this space seems to have increased slightly.
I'll try planting some grass."
Because the increase in vitality was not obvious, Yang Hong directly brought a patch of turf and several trees of varying sizes to plant.
While cultivating and collecting spiritual flowers and fruits, he also began to research this scale space.
Even the matter of brewing spirit wine was pushed back slightly.
"The vitality in this space has indeed increased a little.
The small grass can still only survive for 30 days, shrubs with stronger vitality can live for 31 days, and trees with more life force can live for 32 days.
But as long as they are not ranked, and not spiritual plants, they won't last beyond 33 days."
"It seems I still need to improve.
I'm truly a hardworking soul, burdened with these insatiable gluttons."
Thinking of the advanced body-tempering technique that required 300,000 martial skill points to evolve again, he felt a headache.
Now, there was also a storage space that consumed demon races, making him feel utterly dejected.
However, fortunately, the scale space could store artifacts, spirit stones, and spiritual energy without dissipation. It was still a normal storage equipment, not entirely useless, and could be used for now.
"When I have the chance in the future, I'll catch more demon races. For now, let's brew wine."
Yang Hong temporarily set aside his experiments with the scale space and began to focus on brewing spirit wine.
He suddenly had a good idea.