Zhang Ping had high hopes for his abilities.

Especially when it came to Upgraded Skills—his imagination ran wild, and he wasn’t shy about experimenting.

For instance, he once tried storing a weapon in a Storage Contract, swallowing the entire thing in hopes that digesting it would grant him the weapon’s abilities.

It didn’t.

The Storage Contract was ridiculously tough and classified as an inedible Contract Gem. Swallowing it ...