Ye might not have been immensely wealthy, but his family fortune was hardly lacking. What item did the Great Elder think could move him?"
Ye Tian looked at him.
The latter hesitated, but in the end, he took something from his sleeve.
It was a square stone artifact, smooth and warm on the surface, without any patterns. It looked utterly ordinary.
Yet the instant that ordinary stone cube appeared before Ye Tian, it made his heart palpitate.
"What is this?"
Ye Tian could not help asking.
"This was left behind by our ancestor. It is said to contain the secret of how he became a powerful expert."
As the Great Elder spoke, he handed it to Ye Tian.
After hesitating briefly, Ye Tian accepted it. He examined it with his divine sense, yet found nothing unusual. Still, the palpitation lingering in his heart refused to fade.
"Try communicating with it using the power of formations."
Bai Xiang reminded him.
Ye Tian suddenly understood.
Earlier, the Great Elder had said that his ancestor's greatest specialty had been the power of formations.
Thus, Ye Tian circulated the interwoven azure and blue formation power within his dantian, guiding it slowly through his meridians into his palm before injecting it into the stone cube.
The instant the formation power touched the artifact's surface, Ye Tian felt an enormous suction force surge from the stone in his palm. The formation power inside his body immediately went out of control and rushed wildly into the artifact.
It happened too quickly. In but an instant, even he failed to react, and the immense formation power within him did not last even three breaths beneath the artifact's ferocious absorption.
After three breaths, darkness fell over Ye Tian's eyes...
Howling gale-force winds awakened him.
From the moment he had