This iron leaf was no bigger than a child's palm, with some damage along its edges.
It looked like nothing more than an ordinary decorative trinket.
Yet through Aaron's spirit eye earlier, it had appeared entirely different. Within those pitch-black veins, threads of spiritual light had flickered. He had immediately determined that it was no ordinary object.
"Go!"
At this moment, Aaron stroked the iron leaf but found nothing amiss.
After pondering for a long while, he tentatively sent a thread of mana into the black iron leaf.
Buzzz!
Something astonishing happened!
The iron leaf directly devoured that thread of mana. A soft glow spread across its surface as it floated into the air, and an even stronger suction emerged from within it, like a bottomless abyss...
Aaron's expression shifted slightly, but he continued supplying it with mana.
After roughly the time it took to drink half a cup of tea...
His face turned pale. His mana had been completely exhausted...
Aaron took a deep breath, gazed at the black iron leaf that had not changed much, and silently sat down cross-legged to restore his mana.
Once his mana had returned to its peak, he once again poured mana into the black iron leaf.
After doing this three times, the black iron leaf finally seemed like a glutton who had eaten its fill. It no longer greedily absorbed mana. Instead, light burst brilliantly from its body, and vaguely, it seemed to establish a subtle connection with Aaron.
Then, some information automatically surfaced within Aaron's sea of consciousness.
"Low-grade Dharma artifact—Iron Leaf Boat, used by immortal cultivators for travel?"
Aaron rose and stepped outside his cave dwelling. Forming a hand seal, he uttered, "Swift!"
The next moment.
The floating iron leaf abruptly swelled and enlarged... transforming into the shape of a