Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel

Are they dead?

This reality made Li Ye feel heartbroken.

Since he began cultivating, he had never experienced such discomfort.

The emotions rising from the depths of his heart entangled his mind like delicate threads, causing him momentarily to feel a bit distracted.

His emotions were indeed rich; to perform many kinds of magic meant he had to understand those emotions, otherwise, without understanding and empathy, he would not be able to perform them.

He was well aware that this was both a blessing and a curse.

"Chirp chirp?"

At this moment, the Cyan Bird Red Bean, who had been resting in the Cave Mansion and had no need for any combat, suddenly fluttered its wings and flew over.

It landed on him, rubbing its cool beak against his cheek.

Farewell.

Ever since it followed Li Ye, it almost hadn't had such emotions in a long, long time, and the longing from the Love Life and Death Beans was almost gone.

Li Ye gently touched its feathers.

The cool touch was like the cold rain at parting, making even this Golden Core True Man, who was impervious to heat and cold and could walk alone in the snowy field with a single garment, feel damp and cold.

"It's okay."

"I should have known long ago that matters of life and death are beyond my control even now."

"But where exactly have their souls gone?"

He had heard many senior brothers and sisters say that for Inner Sect Disciples like them, in the cave mansions of the Celestial Inquiry Mountain Range, the cycles of life and death within have traces to follow.

The souls would never reincarnate without them knowing.

As long as he could find the souls.

He would have a way to forcibly keep them in the mortal world.

At worst, he could use the ink technique to create a body; an insect's body is very easy to create.

"Chirp?"

The Cyan Bird raised its head to look at the sky.

Then a trace of puzzlement flickered in its eyes as it chirped at Li Ye a few times, shaking its head.

——This meant that the souls could not be found.

Know that its true form is the Love Life and Death Beans, and love and death in its eyes are like the only colors in this world, yet even it couldn't find them.

Were they truly gone?

"Master."

At this moment, the Spiritual Mechanism Vine suddenly approached.

"If I'm not mistaken, their missing souls should have merged into this land."

"They didn't want to let you know they were about to die, so there's this layer of mist here, which even you and I didn't notice."

——Just like cats and dogs nearing their end choose to leave home.

Li Ye nodded silently.

"I knew naturally."

"But as cultivators, we only ask for that one possibility."

He bent down, his fingers touched those two blooming bright golden-red flowers.

The scorching temperature reminded him of when he first came here, and those little creatures lifted their heads to touch him.

[Name]: Flint Fire Soul Flower

[Mood]: Tranquil

[Status]: A Spirit Plant grown from the burned bodies of Flint Fire Crystal Insects in moonlight and Flint Fire, as long as "Li Ye" needs it, it will continue to bloom in any environment.

The Moon God Wangshu is very fond of this flower.

She was even willing to exchange a Divine Position for this item.

Wangshu?

No wonder he always felt the moonlight here was exceptionally bright, probably because Wangshu could always sense her beloved object here, but without his permission, she couldn't enter.

"This is really a big gift left for me till the end."

"But I will not give you to anyone."

He withdrew his gaze from those two flowers and turned to look at the three flowers still alive, or rather, where the Flint Fire Crystal Insect was still alive.

[Name]: Flint Fire Moon Welcoming Flower

[Mood]: Calm

[Status]: A flower formed by integrating Moon-controlling Spirit Fire and Flint Fire with the Flint Fire Crystal Insect as the main body, it's making a difficult choice, seeking a balance between Flint Fire and Moon-controlling Spirit Fire.

Without balance, it will die.

Expected death time: ten two-hour periods.

In Li Ye's eyes, within this golden-red flower, strands of moonlight flowed; Silver Moon Grass and the surrounding environment were infusing some very special Spiritual Power.

Only the Flint Fire Crystal Insect, its body buried underground, emitted Flint Fire that conflicted with the surrounding environment, this Flint Fire, even in severe cold and moonlight, remained bright and warm.

In the Flint Fire's Spiritual Power… there was unexpectedly already a trace of the eternal brilliance akin to the Golden Core.

This scene made Li Ye's expression change slightly, then he suddenly realized:

"I actually forgot."

"This Flint Fire Crystal Insect has always lived under this icy and snowy, moonlit cover, the Flint Fire inside it has been undergoing temper.

"It actually wants to form a Demon Core, a Demon Core of Flint Fire Flame!"

Previously, the Flint Fire Crystal Insect had too much internal heat, so it needed to bond symbiotically with the Silver Moon Grass, but over these ten-plus years being here, the internal heat hadn't shown any signs of extinguishing.

Logically, it was just a small fire, and it should have gone to a warm place to replenish itself, but who would have thought this fellow had the thought of using the environment and Silver Moon Grass to refine its own fire.

This made Li Ye a bit speechless.

Over ten years, it endured in such a way for over ten years, and the key point is that Li Ye didn't even notice it; this ability to endure, indeed in whatever it does, it will succeed.

Now that the symptoms have been discovered, Li Ye had a way.

He sat directly in the snow, took out the Emotion Song, and began to play gently.

The halo of the willow-branch-shaped Immortal Music connected Silver Moon Grass and Flint Fire Crystal Insect with Li Ye as a node, and pure and strong Vitality surged into the two like a torrent of the Heavenly River.