To explain it in detail, this method of forming a pact with a magical treasure was something Fang Jinyu had learned from Su Yier.

In that fleeting book, it was mentioned that at the beginning of Su Yier's cultivation, because of her poor talent, her mana advanced slowly. So she took a liking to miscellaneous studies, namely the Four Arts of qin, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and then… from the common spells related to these four skills, she discovered some commonalities.

That commonality was precisely this method of communicating with magical treasures and establishing a pact!

One could only say, a Child of Fate is a Child of Fate—the way they cheat leaves others completely without complaint.

By following the same pattern, Fang Jinyu also managed to find this method of forming a pact with magical treasures.

After all, those four types of spells possessed no offensive power; they were only for refining one's temperament. Because of this, within the Tianling Sect, practically every cultivator knew a little bit.

Just a tiny amount of mana was needed to let one's originally clumsy painting, calligraphy, qin skills, or chess skills temporarily reach a level comparable to grandmasters! This could grant the mind immense satisfaction in a short time, helping to alleviate the dark thoughts that arose during the tedious and dull cultivation period.

Now, having successfully obtained a magical treasure he'd long been pining for, Fang Jinyu was naturally overjoyed.

Then, he began to search for the spirit materials in the vicinity.

He remembered that wherever a magical treasure was gestated, there would definitely be quite a few spirit materials around. It was just that once a magical treasure took form, the grade of the surrounding spirit materials wouldn't be high, because the spiritual opportunity had been stolen by the treasure.

But for Fang Jinyu, that was completely no problem.

After all, he was merely a little cultivator at the second layer of Foundation Establishment; even the lowest-grade materials were usable. Many pills taken by Foundation Establishment cultivators had auxiliary ingredients that were merely ten-year medicinal herbs.

In this cultivation land of the Nine Wastelands, the medicinal herbs needed by cultivators for alchemy weren't so outrageous as to require thousands of years, a series that could outlast the cultivator's own lifespan.

And not to speak of what was far off, for Qi Refining stage pills, the herbs needed for refining could usually be cultivated in a few years. Even the main ingredients among them were, at most, twenty or thirty years old.

This was probably related to the density of heaven and earth spiritual energy.

In the Nine Wastelands, even places where spirit veins no longer existed still had spiritual energy permeating the air. Though very thin, it could still allow Qi Refining cultivators to slowly increase their mana.

For this trip to the Lingdu Secret Realm, Fang Jinyu had specially prepared five spirit-tool-grade Hundred Treasure Boxes. Not only could they change size at will, their capacity was also not small.

And the reason he had prepared so many was naturally because of the different types of spirit materials.

The cyan Hundred Treasure Box could reduce the loss of medicinal properties of spirit herbs, while the purple Hundred Treasure Box could make heavy things seem light, allowing the items stored within, such as spirit stones, to become extremely light in weight. Fifty thousand spirit stones could be stuffed inside without producing the slightest weight.

Besides these, there were also some spirit materials of dark and shadowy attributes, and for these one needed to use the white Hundred Treasure Box.

After Fang Jinyu's thorough search, all five Hundred Treasure Boxes were stuffed with quite a lot. Among them, the white Hundred Treasure Box had its capacity directly occupied by one-tenth.

‘It seems this stone sphere magical treasure is of the dark and shadowy attribute.’

Thinking of this, Fang Jinyu felt a bit regretful, because a wind-lightning attribute magical treasure would suit him better. But magical treasures were gestated by heaven and earth, so there was nothing to be picky about. Many Golden Core great cultivators didn't even have a magical treasure and could only use top-grade spirit tools.

Immediately, he activated his spirit tool and soared into the air once more.

However, after flying out for only a short while, Fang Jinyu looked with an odd expression at a mountain wall that appeared directly before him. This mountain wall was like Mount Buzhou from the primordial era, thrusting straight into the depths of the heavenly vault, as if connecting heaven and earth. But Fang Jinyu's expression was odd not because the mountain wall was so majestic.

‘This seems to be the place where that magical treasure named the Azure Luan Shears, one of the two treasures Su Yier would obtain, was located? Is it really that close to the stone sphere magical treasure?’

Fang Jinyu was inevitably astonished at heart, but immediately, he swiftly reversed his mana and descended.

After landing, Fang Jinyu immediately began to search.

Not long after, he found a rather peculiar tree. After circling this tree three times to the left, then three times to the right, a gate full of fantasy once again opened. This delighted Fang Jinyu immensely, and he hurriedly stepped inside.

This time, he appeared in a place of beautiful mountains and clear waters, where two luan birds danced in the air, displaying azure and red colors.

Fang Jinyu was about to step forward but felt an invisible resistance.

He looked up to see the two luan birds that had been dancing just moments ago now staring at him with cold eyes.

‘They don't approve of me? This magical treasure has even given rise to spirituality?’

After a moment's thought, Fang Jinyu understood. Then he reached out and formed a seal, and the incantation sounded from his mouth again. As the mana inside him halved in an instant, the two luan birds, no matter how unwilling, could only obediently merge together at this moment, transforming into a flash of light like shears that landed in Fang Jinyu's hand.

With a clasp of both hands, the Azure Luan Shears also vanished—just like the stone sphere, hiding itself within Fang Jinyu's body.

‘This ingenious trick Su Yier discovered is really so useful.’

Fang Jinyu couldn't help but praise. No matter how unwilling the magical treasure, it had to obediently behave!

Then he prepared to do as before and loot the spirit materials nearby. But at that moment, a formless wave of light appeared, and Fang Jinyu, in a daze, was already out of the Lingdu Secret Realm.

Looking at the familiar surroundings, Fang Jinyu couldn't help but be stunned. How had he come out?

Suddenly, he thought of Su Yier. According to the book's description, she had also left after obtaining two magical treasures.

‘Could this be a hidden mechanism of the Lingdu Secret Realm—once you obtain two magical treasures, you're sent out?’

At that moment, a white bird flew over.

Arriving before him, it suddenly spoke in human tongue: “You, come to Guiwang Peak.”

Fang Jinyu was alarmed, because the voice of the white bird was the voice of that Nascent Soul stage ancestor.

Immediately, not daring to delay, he cast out his spirit tool and soared into the air.

Guiwang Peak was the place where the Tianling Sect's Nascent Soul stage ancestor cultivated, but there were no disciples on this peak. Only one puppet beast after another was responsible for the operation of the formation restrictions around this peak, occasionally acting as receptionists.

However, though the mountain was devoid of human habitation, it was not lonely, for there were all kinds of spirit beasts. Fang Jinyu even saw two familiar black pigs.

And just as Fang Jinyu looked over, those two black pigs also saw Fang Jinyu. They took the initiative to come up to him, and one of them spoke in human tongue: “It's you, kid. Not bad, haven't seen you in a while, and you've already reached Foundation Establishment.”

The king of that group of mutated black pigs was at the Golden Core stage, but under its command, there were also two other black pigs at the Golden Core stage.

“Greetings to the two Seniors!”

Fang Jinyu quickly clasped his fists. Although these two were of a different kind, they were genuine Golden Core cultivators who could stand as equals with great cultivators.

“Alright, alright, go on and see the ancestor! We won't hinder you!” The two black pigs nodded, considering this a greeting to Fang Jinyu, and then left first.