Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel

Before long, the Transporting Locust Spirit returned with a candle in hand.

Indeed.

This Spirit Plant that looks like a candle is actually a Third Tier Primordial Spirit Plant, the Lamp Wax Flower.

It resembles a vertical white candle, with some protrusions on its waxy surface that seem like flowing wax, but are actually its branches.

Unlike other spirit plants that produce their own oil, this one absorbs oil. Different oils enable it to produce different "Wax Flowers," each with unique effects.

Once, Li Ye found the Earth Fat Fragrant Ore in the mines, which is one of this Lamp Wax Flower's favorite oils.

For some reason, Li Ye chose this spirit plant.

He wanted to bind it immediately after picking it up.

He found out suddenly—

[Binding requires 3000 points of Vital Essence.]

Three thousand points!

A Third Tier Lamp Wax Flower shouldn't cost that much; the main drain must be from this lotus flower.

The amount surprised him, but soon turned to joy.

Three thousand points indicated it had a value of three thousand points, and the more it cost, the stranger and more wondrous the transformations might be.

Even if it required ten thousand points, Li Ye would still clench his teeth to gather them. After all, it's not uncommon for a cultivator to indulge excessively occasionally.

"Good thing I have enough."

Li Ye spent the three thousand points for symbiotic binding.

The instant the binding ended, the lotus bud slowly bloomed, revealing the lotus pod inside, which directly enveloped the Lamp Wax Flower.

—This scene was somewhat similar to when Li Ye used the Spirit-Uniting Lotus to refine the Lotus Pill.

It was precisely this consideration that led him to choose this Lamp Wax Flower.

The gourd oil around was swiftly absorbed by the Pure Lotus, gathering almost visibly to the naked eye, even the gourd oil in the distant ravines was drawn in.

Then.

The Lamp Wax Flower began to grow.

Its growth wasn't just increasing in height and girth but absorbing the oil to become part of itself, expanding outward like branches extending.

From the branches grew colorful wax flowers, all shaped like lotuses, perfectly totaling forty-nine in number.

The lotus shape sparked an idea in Li Ye's mind, so he fetched materials for crafting Lotus Lamp artifacts and carved an artifact around each lotus wax flower.

"Uh."

After finishing, he suddenly saw the status of the Lamp Wax Flower display [Desires to be Ignited].

Ignite, with so much oil around, you want me to ignite you?

This might be somewhat of a crazy move, but as a cultivator, Li Ye had the courage for such madness.

He ignited different flames at his fingertips, and after asking what the wax flower preferred, he tossed a bit of Flint Fire.

The Flint Fire precisely divided itself, each piece falling into the lotus pod of each wax flower, igniting instantly.

These dozens of wax flowers burned together, the intense flames illuminating Li Ye's face, with an indescribable fragrance and heat wafting over.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle."

The sound of the oil burning was distinct and audible.

At first, Li Ye found it interesting, but as time went on.

One day, two days…

A full seven days later, he began to feel a bit anxious.

Because during those seven days, nearly every moment, the gourd oil was burning, and the Spirit Field's gourd oil was depleted, totaling over ten thousand jin!

If senior brothers and sisters saw such precious gourd oil used this way, who knows how heartbroken they would be.

More troubling was that the Spiritual Qi in the Spirit Field was depleting quickly, and if Li Ye hadn't transferred the main vein of the Third Tier Spirit Vein here via the Array Plate, it might have affected gourd growth.

"If you don't show some results, I won't be able to maintain you."

He glanced at the lotus silently serving as the lampstand.

It was unclear whether it heard him, but for a moment, the flames of the wax flowers paused and transmitted a wave of Spiritual Power.

Then Li Ye saw numerous Gourd Spirit Turtles accompanied by small gourds running towards him, quite a lot in number.

The small gourds, which should have been trailing behind gourd vines, had detached and could move freely.

The tiny gourds left the protection of the Gourd Spirit Turtles, bounding towards him.

As they approached Li Ye, the gourd shells began to crack and tremble, evidently about to give birth.

Li Ye scanned with his Divine Sense, his expression strange.

Because inside the gourd shells, the little creatures were still gourds—as the shells cracked, out emerged one by one, small gourds with turtle feet and claws.

But the only difference was, they walked upright.

The gourds stood straight, with turtle feet and claws on either side of their bodies, and at the top of the gourd, a clump of differently colored gourd vine leaves and their heads.

[Name]; Turtle Spirit Gourd Clan

[Mood]; Happy

[State]; Good

At first, they staggered as they walked, but quickly they moved smoothly, tossing their shed gourd shells into the pit where the lotus grew, where the accumulated oil melted them.

"As expected, something strange was born."

"Gourd Spirit Turtles, Turtle Spirit Gourds… is this a tongue twister?"

Li Ye glanced at the Gourd Spirit Turtles with gourds on their backs, his expression extremely complex.

This counts as the progeny of two generations of gourds and turtles, right?

Are they gourd or turtle? Or a whole new species? The panel does say Turtle Spirit Gourd Clan, so it clearly is a species, right?