Inside the White-Gathering Pavilion.
Li Ping inspected all twenty-odd second-tier magic artifacts that had piled up over the past six months and more.
Although most were of no use to him, there was one unexpected pleasant surprise.
Holding a three-foot-long magic artifact shaped like a black staff, Li Ping showed a trace of a smile.
[A formation abacus containing the lifetime legacy of a third-tier top-grade formation master. Mid-grade spirit stones ×400, one portion each of metal-, wood-, water-, fire-, and earth-attribute third-tier top-grade spirit materials, and one third-tier high-grade spirit vein. Used as nourishment, these would grant mastery of third-tier top-grade Formation Dao skills.]
The black staff in his hand was a magic artifact unique to formation masters: a "formation abacus."
Once infused with magic power, the formation abacus would transform into nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine tiny counting rods. When a formation master surveyed the terrain and calculated the positions of formation anchors and cores, it could assist with the calculations, saving the formation master some brainpower.
However, auxiliary magic artifacts like formation abacuses were generally only used by formation masters of middling ability.
Li Ping had awakened his peerless talent and had little need for a formation abacus. With the Inheritance Tree's blessing, all he had to do was point casually, and he would have the correct answer.
"A third-tier top-grade Formation Dao legacy. When the opportunity comes, I can inherit it and turn it into my supreme talent!" Li Ping nodded slightly.
Unlike other crafts, the Formation Dao was a preeminent discipline in the cultivation world, capable of allowing the weak to overcome the strong.
Moreover, virtually every privately owned spirit land in the cultivation world had formations installed. Formations had a wide range of applications, and the speed at which they earned