Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel

"Haha."

"It seems your Spiritual Qi has become increasingly abundant and smooth since we last met, and you're about to break through the Mid-period Golden Core. It looks like things have been going well for you."

Yuan Yan's face blossomed into a radiant smile as he replied, "It's all thanks to you. If it weren't for True Man Su Xing allowing me to operate here, I wouldn't have been able to gather Spiritual Qi and advance so quickly."

"Brother Li must have something important for your visit."

"Why don't we go inside and have a chat?"

He gestured for him to enter.

"Alright."

After seeing Li Ye nod, he took the lead and guided the way. Crossing through a portal made of flowers and vines, they arrived in a verdant courtyard.

This courtyard was clearly a separate space, with the sky green like dripping jade, and the lush grass was being slowly nibbled by black and white Spiritual Deer.

Those deer... they were all Yuansheng Deer.

So many?

After they were seated on either side of the stone table, Yuan Yan poured tea and introduced, "These are younger generations I brought out from the ancestral grounds."

"Now, there should only be me as a pure Yuansheng Deer. These juniors have impure bloodlines and, without my protection, won't resonate with the Deer God, and will ultimately perish."

"I have no choice but to keep these little ones by my side."

Li Ye swirled the green tea in his porcelain cup, speaking, "Does your clan possess any special Divine Techniques or abilities?"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Yan's eyes lit up.

"Of course!"

"Our blood can act as glue and other substances, connecting different Spirit Plant branches, making peach trees bear grapes, transforming lotuses into orchids."

Isn't that just crossbreeding and grafting?

Actually, the Four Seasons Sect has abundant knowledge on this subject, even extremely rich—though Li Ye's Golden Finger purely affects Spirit Beast and Spirit Plant.

While the sect mainly breeds Spirit Beasts with Spirit Beasts, and grafts Spirit Plants with Spirit Plants, creating nearly entirely new species using different Dharma Methods.

However, this method requires prolonged cultivation, far less miraculous than Li Ye's Golden Finger that works instantly upon binding.

So, the special aspect of Wuyou Spirit City—that's "bindable": those it "considers" Spirit Plant and beneficial to itself.

Does this special bindable ability originate from the Yuansheng Deer clan?

Because of... "Mountain Ghost"?

So it's that! That's how it is!

It's the power of the Emotion Song making Wuyou Spirit City consider those Spirit Plants as "beneficial."

Today, with Li Ye's deepened knowledge and understanding of Divine Techniques, he only needs a bit of inspiration to connect all these things.

Emotion Song, Yuansheng Deer, Wuyou Spirit City... these three might very well be where the ancestor originally cultivated Spirit Plants!

Wuyou Spirit City is akin to a culture medium, Yuansheng Deer is the Spirit Medicine for crossbreeding and grafting, Emotion Song is the catalyst.

When the three are fully combined, it's the hidden Divine Technique in "Nine Songs Mountain Ghost."

It's the method used by the Mountain Ghost Mountain God, researched by the ancestor, for cultivating Spirit Plants!

At this moment, he felt a bit regretful.

Why didn't he come to chat with Yuan Yan sooner?

If he had known these three elements were interlinked, wouldn't he have been able to start cultivating different Spirit Plants long ago?

Then, by creating symbiosis between different Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts, he could create even more peculiar new species?

He let out a long breath of turbid air.

"Forget it."

"It's not too late."

Originally, the techniques for cultivation had already been taught to him by his master when he started, which explained choosing Emotion Song as his first Divine Technique.

Upon grasping this point, a bold idea surfaced in his mind—the blood of the Emotion Song and Yuansheng Deer enables crossbreeding and grafting of Spirit Plants, while his Golden Finger can bind Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts in symbiosis.

The combined benefit isn't merely a simple sum.

Why not give it a try?

Then let's try!

"I want to create a granary."

"I need a seed of Wuyou Spirit City and your blood."

He straightforwardly mentioned to Yuan Yan, gently pinching the Emotion Song and holding it in his hand.

"You are the direct descendant of the Mountain Ghost."

"And I happen to be the only current inheritor of the Nine Songs Mountain Ghost Divine Technique."

—"Nine Songs" is unique. Once someone thoroughly learns it, the previous cultivator loses their memory related to "Nine Songs."

It's singular.

"..."

Yuan Yan hesitated.

Then replied, "Alright."

He took out a seed that glowed with Spiritual Light and sliced open his wrist, letting streams of blood drip slowly and gather mid-air.

Yuan Yan's complexion became somewhat pale.

"This is a gamble for me."

Li Ye consoled, "It's okay. I've always been lucky, so even if it's a gamble, I'll surely win."

As he said that.

To ensure this granary can be successfully built without fail, Li Ye still extended his wrist, shaking the Eight Trigrams Celestial Plate on it.

Accompanied by a flash of Spiritual Light.

Five beavers in splendid Taoist robes suddenly appeared.

They seemed accustomed to being summoned by Li Ye, holding pieces of shimmering mud in their hands, its color and brilliance constantly changing—seemingly Fifth Tier material, Formless Spirit Mud.

"... you were assisting Uncle Master Bai Shi earlier?" Li Ye's expression grew complicated.

Why take even the Fifth Tier Spiritual Material from others?

"Chirp chirp!"

The beavers casually chirped.

—They were making a Magical Treasure.

Wait.

Using Fifth Tier material Formless Spirit Mud for crafting a Magical Treasure? Wouldn't that be used for the Golden Core, possibly until the Nascent Soul?