Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel

Golden Core.

Li Ye's physical body maintained the Emotion Song.

He felt strange. The treasures within the fallen Celestial Vein fragments weren't gathered, yet wisps of glazed light merged into his body through the willow branches of the Emotion Song.

In a gentle manner, they embraced the forming Golden Core—this feeling, he'd experienced in Huiya Grotto Heaven before.

The wondrous sensation of being "nurtured" by the world.

It wasn't a single Grotto Heaven, but fragments truly belonging to the Celestial Dao of this world fell from the Heavenly Dome.

Unfortunately, Li Ye had not yet learned the Dharma Method to nurture the Golden Core with the world, which is why he chose to embrace these kindnesses and the opportunities the world gently offered in his own way.

"Just like this."

"It should work…"

Aside from the minimal spiritual power from the Celestial Vein integrating into his body, he used the Earth Wishing Technique to inject the remaining spiritual power into the ground, bringing a trace of vitality to this forever barren land.

Li Ye's eyes shone brightly.

Even brighter than the glowing Golden Core within his Dantian.

"I want to say…"

He quietly watched the eagerly flowing spiritual power transforming within his body, softly saying, "Human desire, is the Celestial Dao."

The spiritual power seemed to feel something.

From beside him, the extending branches of the Emotion Song gradually merged into the earth.

"Creation flows."

"I seek to know how to reconcile desire with principle?"

—Li Ye's voice resonated across the land that lay barren for millennia, the vitality representing the Celestial Dao seeped into the earth.

"Principle."

"Thus is principle."

Another voice emerged. Though it was primarily Li Ye's, it carried a more distant calm, a sound produced through the resonance of spiritual power.

This sound disrupted the fragments of the Celestial Vein, bringing the warmth of spring sunlight, the burning heat of summer, the desolate autumn wind, and finally the all-encompassing chill of winter.

Seasons flowed, morphing through the shifts in solar terms.

Amidst these changes, terrifying lightning unlike anything seen before began to manifest.

Li Ye's Thunder Tribulation suddenly descended in this unimaginable manner.

First came the emergence of spring, heralding the first thunderous roar—

"Boom!"

The thunder awoke as if from slumber, carrying an unimaginable terrifying majesty, approached the willow branches of the Emotion Song, with the cultivators among them feeling heavy-hearted, and some even trembling.

This was the true majesty of heaven and earth.

Born from the eternal flow of the seasons and solar terms — a thunder tribulation never heard or seen!

"What is this? Is it Divinity Transformation?"

"Should we leave while the senior crosses the tribulation?"

"This is too terrifying."

The cultivators felt a bit afraid. After all, they'd never seen such a thing, and encountering it themselves might reduce them to ash.

But those speaking were mostly loose cultivators or from other sects.

"If you wish to leave, feel free to leave."

Wei Qingye stood up, gripping his bamboo sword, eyes gleaming with sharp golden light, laughing heartily, "Such an unprecedented thunder tribulation, I want to try it!"

"Is there anyone else willing to join me?"

After the words fell.

Two individuals from Bitter Journey Academy and Qiongguan Mountain stepped forward side by side, saying, "Count us in!"

As disciples of great sects, who wouldn't have some boldness?

If they stayed hidden now, they'd be laughed at by their elders during discussions for millennia, possibly remembered forever.

"You can count me in too."

From the crowd emerged a tall, tower-like male cultivator, barefoot, wearing thin clothes, resembling a humanoid beast.

"Oh? A fellow from the Spirit Refining Sect."

After he stepped forward, a female cultivator in simple clothes followed him out. Her appearance was plain, but she had no pupils, with eyes entirely white.

"I wonder if I, a cultivator of the Demon Path, can stand with fellow Daoists?"

The female cultivator, observed with peculiar gazes by others, remained expressionless, giving a sense of oddity—her beautiful face was just a "face" alone.

Wei Qingye grinned, "Why not?"

The female cultivator nodded without further speech.

Soon several loose cultivators stepped out, ranging from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, about thirty or so, then no more emerged.

At this moment, the willow branches of the Emotion Song gently stretched over, intertwining at each person's wrist into small willow bracelets, then snapped.

Li Ye's light laughter could be heard, "With your willingness to help me, naturally I won't keep things secret—having these, you are united with the willow branches, able to experience the Thunder Tribulation's seasonal changes.

And these spiritual energies.

Once I truly achieve the Golden Core, I will host a banquet for you all."

Along with his words came almost inexhaustible spiritual energy, with ninety-nine percent of the pure spiritual energy from the Celestial Vein fragments surging into the earth, yet Li Ye could still spare a little.

Even just a little was enough for Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators.

Surrounded by this pure spiritual energy from the Celestial Vein fragments, the cultivators swiftly charged toward the Thunder Tribulation.

The thunder tribulation of spring was very special.

It began with the emergence of spring, carrying the resounding echoes of Jingzhe, the pervasive rain, finally culminating in the cleansing of divine sense during Qingming and Guyu, and a touch of sweltering heat as the Thunder Tribulation concluded.