What jolted Qin Fengming was that the instant he took out the jade vial containing Daoyan's blood essence and handed it to Chao Zhang, a peculiar sensation suddenly welled up from the depths of his heart.
It was a refreshing sense of ease that spread through every bone in his body, as though some invisible weight he had been bearing had suddenly vanished, leaving his entire body unburdened.
Qin Fengming's eyes flickered. He could clearly sense an invisible soul rune suddenly emerge from his body before shooting away into the void.
It was a rune almost impossible to see with the naked eye. It gave off no fluctuations of vital energy and power, only an extremely faint aura of soul runes. Had it not emerged from Qin Fengming himself, he probably would not have sensed it even at close range.
Qin Fengming could guess what that fleeting soul aura was: the very contract he had activated back then. The vast runic energy of that time now dissolved and vanished like a mere breeze. This alone showed how mysterious and uncanny runes could be.
Back in the lower realm, Qin Fengming had activated contract spells several times, but most of those contracts had placed little restriction on him.
Only the contracts with Ancestor Daoyan and Fairy Yaoxi had commanded his utmost attention.
If he remained in the Spirit Realm and possessed sufficient strength, yet continued to leave those two contracts unfulfilled, they would inevitably have some effect on him.
Now, however, although he had not fully fulfilled his contract with Fairy Yaoxi, it no longer imposed much restraint on him, because Fairy Yaoxi's soul essence had changed her objective of her own accord.
With the jade vial of blood essence handed over and Ancestor Daoyan's contract dissolved, he was finally free