Breaking the Formation

"Ascension coordinates?"

Fang Qing deliberately hesitated for a moment, then smiled. "You truly possess great fortune, great destiny... and the ambition to achieve Spirit Transformation!"

Yet to him, these ascension coordinates were the least valuable things imaginable.

What was more, Fang Qing suspected that many of these Taixu coordinates concealed traps.

Thus, after only a brief bout of haggling, he finally agreed.

"Very well! But we must sign a fourth-rank contract, lest either side goes back on their word or conceals something."

"Of course!"

Zhan Hongxiu was secretly delighted and nodded again and again.

Fang Qing then took out an earthy-yellow spirit contract as though he had long prepared it. "This is a fourth-rank spirit contract I acquired at an auction. Its binding power is said to surpass even Shang Family contracts... You write it."

Zhan Hongxiu accepted it, sweeping it inch by inch with her divine sense. After consulting Elder Turtle, she finally stopped hesitating. Strands of cloud-script descended onto its surface as she drafted the contract.

Its general terms were that the formula and some ingredients for the "Prime Five Saints Pill" would be exchanged for insights into Spirit Transformation.

Then, after she achieved Spirit Transformation, she would trade the Taixu coordinates.

After finishing the contract, Zhan Hongxiu branded it with a wisp of divine sense, forming a seal shaped like a tiny turtle.

Fang Qing signed it as well, then smiled. "Excellent. Fellow Daoist, you are straightforward indeed!"

He did not waste words, simply handing over a jade slip.

"Insights into Spirit Transformation?"

Zhan Hongxiu's eyes lit up. She likewise passed him a jade slip and a storage pouch. "The pill formula is here..."

Fang Qing laughed inwardly. The contract he had produced had naturally been made by sacrificing to ghosts and gods through sorcery. Not only