Signing the Contract, Returning to the Phoenix Clan!

Xie Fang reached out and touched the barrier before him, only to be instantly rebounded. This piqued his interest greatly.

He had thought this boundary was a place that could absorb most of the energy, but who would have guessed that after so many years, it would no longer let him out.

Something must be wrong. As Xie Fang walked around the area, he also noticed an unexpected situation.

Directly beneath where he had been cultivating, a peculiar stone altar had appeared. On this platform, something resembling a compass had suddenly emerged. Staring at it all, he felt a slight sense of unfamiliarity.

"Crackle, pop!"

A loud noise directly connected to the compass in front of him. Xie Fang examined it closely—this compass could actually summon lightning. In all his years of cultivation, he had never encountered anything so interesting.

The next second, Xie Fang's soul was sucked into the compass, and a child suddenly appeared.

"So you're the fated one. You look rather unfamiliar."

It wasn't hard to guess that this should be the spirit of the compass. He had thought he wouldn't come across such a spiritual object; he must have been overthinking it. But the more time he wasted, the more unexpected incidents would surely arise.

"This time is indeed a coincidence. I don't know how I ended up in your place. Do you have any way to leave here?"

"Of course I do!"

The little girl smiled very happily, as if she had no ill intentions. But what she said next left him stunned.

"Just sign a contract with me here, and I guarantee I can take you out safely."

Xie Fang twitched the corner of his mouth, unwilling to sign a contract with her. This was just a small compass—how could it possibly restrict his powerful strength? As if she knew what he was thinking, she smiled.

"This isn't just lightning. I remember you once wished for a group attack skill. If you sign a contract with me, you can use this lightning however you want. Isn't that enough to tempt you?"

The next second, just as he was about to reply, the little girl vanished again.

What followed was a vast sky appearing before his eyes. As clouds brushed past him, they brought a hint of icy chill. Xie Fang didn't understand the meaning behind her actions.

"This is the place where the lightning was summoned before."

Hearing her say this, he roughly understood. She wanted to let him experience it firsthand. But he had never had a deep impression of such things, nor did he have high demands.

"In that case, let's sign the contract."

"How can you be so casual? At least I'm a treasure others beg for outside. That Old Qilin kept me trapped here for so long—didn't you notice at all?"

The person beside him was stunned, as if he didn't understand what she meant. Then he realized that for the past ten thousand years, Shi Qilin had still been training on Buzhou Mountain. He hadn't expected the treasure he had been seeking to have slipped out.

"Are you sure he won't get angry when he finds out?"

"If the thigh I'm clinging to is yours, then I think even if he gets angry, it's no problem."

Something in those words pleased Xie Fang. He smiled broadly, used a small knife to lightly cut her finger, and directly signed the contract here.

Unlike ordinary blue or purple light, this Lightning Compass emitted a golden light. As it flashed before his eyes, he hadn't even reacted yet.

"Since the contract is successfully signed, I won't hold you up here anymore."

Then the little girl lowered her head and directly climbed onto his arm.

"If you need my power, just point your hand in that direction, and it will summon lightning directly."

After saying this, she vanished without a trace. He didn't know where she had gone. By the time he could leave this place, he realized how much the outside world had changed.

During the ten thousand years he had been in seclusion, the Yuan Feng Clan had already left this place and gone to another realm. After he went into seclusion, the Witch-Demon Tribes had moved into their territory.

They had directly squeezed the clan out of here, so it was no wonder they had left.

"I've heard of what happened before. I didn't expect they were driven out."

"Why are you all still here?"

"We are Qilins, living in the Extreme Cold Land. Our numbers are too few to cause them any trouble, so they simply didn't drive us away."

Xie Fang nodded. The other party handed him something.

"This is what Yuan Feng asked me to leave for you. I haven't opened it, so I don't know what's inside."

When he was alone, he opened it to take a look and found it was a connection to a Formation that led from here to their place.

Xie Fang arranged matters and made a special trip there. As for the Witch-Demon side, he would visit when he had the time.

In the Witch-Demon Hall, a man in black suddenly appeared and reported Xie Fang's movements in full.

"You're saying he left again?"

"Yes."

"Have you found any related clues?"

The man in black was silent for a moment, then immediately shook his head. The person above was somewhat displeased but didn't make things difficult for him.

"I remember Gege Wu said he had nothing to do before. Why not send him over to take a good look at what that man is capable of..."

The person on the other side nodded and didn't refuse.

After receiving the information, Gege Wu drew a Formation circle on the spot, preparing to go and take a look. As for the place where the phoenixes had migrated, this might be his first time going there as well.

"Anything I need to watch out for?"

"Just don't cause yourself trouble there."

Gege Wu gave a slight nod, then turned and left directly.

Xie Fang had just arrived at the place when, unexpectedly, someone came to greet him.

"You must be the esteemed guest of the old clan leader?"

A blind girl came to receive him—this caught Xie Fang somewhat off guard. Could it be that after ten thousand years, Yuan Feng had no one left under his command?

After she escorted him to the hall and left, Xie Fang immediately asked about it.

"Can you stop jumping to wild conclusions? You're confusing the poor child with all this nonsense."

Then he glanced at the retreating figure, a hint of lament in his voice.

"That child's eyes were merely affected during a battle with the Wu Yao group some time ago."