Xiao Yu did not put away the immobilized Gold-Eating Insects on the ground just yet. He intended to let them digest the lightning power they had devoured and recover first.
Nudging the Gold-Eating Insects aside with his foot, he walked straight up to the stone platform. With a wave of his hand, Xiao Yu opened the Jade Box on the right. Inside lay several Jade Slips and a few pieces of dark beast hide.
He casually picked up a Jade Slip and sent his divine sense into it to examine its contents.
Six golden characters spelling "Insights into the Profound Heart Formation Dao" appeared in Xiao Yu's mind. As he read on, he found that everything within consisted of Daoist Profound Heart's insights and experiences in the art of formations.
It contained every sort of magic formation: illusion formations, slaughter formations, trapping formations, and formations for special purposes such as spirit gathering. There were over a hundred in all, ranging from the simplest Lost Track Formation to immensely complex and powerful ancient formations such as the Five Elements Cycle-Returning Formation.
"Could... could Daoist Profound Heart actually have been a grandmaster-level Array Master?" Xiao Yu was astonished, then overjoyed.
If he studied these formation insights thoroughly, his own mastery of formations would surely improve immensely.
He carefully put away the Jade Slip, then examined the others and the pieces of beast hide. They all recorded methods for deploying and dismantling magic formations, including the Five Elements Cycle-Returning Formation and Falling Thunder Grand Formation he had encountered in this cave abode, as well as the Heavenly Heart Thunder-Nurturing Formation on this stone platform.
"Mm, not bad. Anything a late Nascent Soul cultivator took such care to preserve really is extraordinary." Xiao Yu put away the Jade Slips and beast hides, then swept