At the moment the contract ritual began, Qi Ping knew the talent he had shared.

Golden Stone Body!

After quite some time, when Qi Ping woke up again, his mind was filled with insights about the Golden Stone Body.

Due to the long duration of the contract, when he awoke, the little Stone Spirit had already fallen asleep beside him.

This sleepiness ability, it can sleep even longer than the little Spirit Fox.

Seeing the little Stone Spirit sleeping soundly, Qi Ping didn't disturb it, instead placing some Spirit Stones and ores by its side.

When a Stone Spirit is in deep sleep, it can autonomously absorb the elements of the Spirit Stones and ores around it.

As expected, shortly after Qi Ping placed the ores and Spirit Stones beside the little Stone Spirit, strands of Spiritual Qi and Ore Essence were absorbed by the little Stone Spirit.

Perhaps it sensed there was no danger, or maybe the Animal Companion contract allowed it to sense Qi Ping's presence, so the external disturbances didn't wake it.

The little Spirit Fox, however, was particularly curious about the little Stone Spirit and wandered around it for quite some time.

A talking stone was indeed a bit peculiar in its eyes.

But now that the stone seemed asleep, it didn't feel right to disturb, planning to play with it once it awoke.

Yet it didn't know, unless something special happened or Qi Ping actively sought it, no matter what disturbances occurred outside, as long as there was no perception of danger, the little Stone Spirit would never wake up.

After petting the little Spirit Fox a few times, Qi Ping continued to comprehend the talent he just shared.

Though the Golden Stone Body talent had been shared with him, he was still far from familiar with it.

Now was the perfect time to gain more insight while he could.

Due to the lack of Spiritual Qi for cultivating Spiritual Medicine on his land, Qi Ping temporarily did not need to cultivate Spiritual Medicine, so he focused on sensing and testing the Golden Stone Body talent for two consecutive days.

It was only after two days that Qi Ping concluded this round of insight.

"What a terrifying Gold Attribute talent!"

After thoroughly understanding the talent of the Golden Stone Body, Qi Ping was completely shocked by its power!

Firstly, it exceeded Yaya's Yang Fire Body in terms of affinity and control over Gold Attribute Spiritual Qi!

Qi Ping estimated Yaya would need to undergo another bloodline transformation to catch up to the small Stone Spirit in this regard.

Qi Ping couldn't help but marvel at the Stone Spirit, truly a rare innate creature, with an unparalleled talent; being able to form a contract with a Stone Spirit was very fortunate for Qi Ping indeed.

However, the might of the Golden Stone Body was far from just this.

With a mere thought, stone blocks and metal weapons instantly hovered around Qi Ping, performing various precise high-difficulty maneuvers under his control.

"This level of manipulating Gold Attribute objects is truly frighteningly strong!"

Qi Ping believed that if a Sword Cultivator acquired this talent, it would probably drastically elevate their combat ability.

Not only could it augment the power of a Flying Sword, greatly enhancing swordsmanship control, but it could also disrupt the enemy's weapon attacks.

Even the slightest influence could have a fatal impact on the battle.

Additionally, the appearance of the Stone Spirit and the Golden Stone Body talent gave Qi Ping some feasible ideas for his Lifebound Magical Artifact.

Before this, Qi Ping had considered having his own Magical Artifact.

After all, for a Cultivator, not having a Lifebound Magical Artifact was quite unsatisfactory.

However, powerful Magical Artifacts were hard to find, and ordinary ones would be of little help to Qi Ping.

The most important thing was, Qi Ping didn't have powerful methods to utilize Magical Artifacts; even using ordinary ones wasn't as effective as Qi Ping's bare hands.

But now, things were different!

"If I use the companion ores that arise from the Stone Spirit as raw materials, refining thousands of metallic scales, then form a special Ore Scale Armor."

"This Ore Scale Armor could be controlled by me for full-body defense, or for multi-layered defense on specific body parts against attacks!"

"Moreover, defense is not the entirety of this special artifact; I could also manipulate the ore scales like Flying Swords, splitting them into thousands of attacks!"

"My Divine Soul strength and the Golden Stone Body fully support me carrying out such high-difficulty defense and offense!"

"Finally, I could inscribe Defense Arrays and Attack Arrays onto these hard and special ore scales, allowing the Ore Scale Armor to form special Defense and Offensive Arrays at any time!"

"As for upgrading the ore scales, as long as the Stone Spirit has sufficient Spiritual Qi and metal ores, it can produce more companion ores, which can then be combined with basic refining and crafting methods to create metal scales suitable for array inscription, without needing to turn them into fully formed artifacts, just have them of sufficiently high quality..."

Basic refining and crafting were not hard to find for Qi Ping, as Meng Yan was a master of Artifact Refining, and Qi Ping only needed to find time to mention it to Meng Yan.

"Not bad, not bad. With the Stone Spirit, I will have a special artifact that can be constantly upgraded and honed!"

"In the future, if I gather the Five Elements Talent, it's not impossible to refine it into a Five Elements Magical Artifact!"

The artifact Qi Ping envisioned could attack, defend, upgrade, and integrate arrays, perfectly matching Qi Ping's needs and talents.

Once this artifact initiates full defense and offense mode, Qi Ping could hardly imagine the level of strength it would reach.

However powerful it might be, it's suited only for Qi Ping himself, as most people couldn't use such a unique artifact, and Qi Ping couldn't just buy it.

"I never thought that contracting the Stone Spirit would not only add a Metal Talent but also solve the persistent problem of Magical Artifacts!"

Qi Ping was extremely satisfied with this harvest.

...

However, after becoming familiar with the recently contracted talent, Qi Ping faced a new difficulty—he ran out of Spiritual Qi!

Now, the whole Spiritual Land was barely being maintained by the Star Spirit Wood (Spirit Gathering Technique). Qi Ping had no way to continue cultivating, nurturing Spiritual Medicine, or cultivating his Animal Companions.

If not for the excellent Spirit Gathering effect of the Star Spirit Wood (Spirit Gathering Technique), Qi Ping's territory would probably be running at a deficit.

"It seems obtaining Spirit Vein Essence and contracting more Spirit Woods is imperative; otherwise, I can only focus on Law Understanding and studying Arrays for this period..."

"But how should I obtain Spirit Vein Essence?"

Facing this issue, Qi Ping was quite troubled, thinking for a while before deciding to try everything.

So he sent messages to both Meng Yan and Hongli of the Yunshan family, expressing his interest in acquiring Spirit Vein Essence.

Currently, with Natural Perception as a foundational blessing of fortune and avoidance of disaster, these endeavors were slightly safer.

Still feeling uneasy, Qi Ping set his sights on the Black Market.

However, the Black Market that Qi Ping targeted was no ordinary one but an extremely mysterious organization within the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

It is said that anything one desires can be found there, but the entry and transaction thresholds are extremely high...

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