Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel

Although some were only circulated within the Four Seasons Sect, it didn't stop the storytellers, who specialized in retelling these tales, from spreading them throughout the Tao Furnace Realm after a second-hand retelling.

However, he always kept to himself, only interacting with familiar people, so no one had mentioned this matter to him.

In any case.

Even though Li Ye hadn't left his home, his reputation had already spread far and wide.

This news naturally drew many cultivators towards the Four Seasons Sect, including disciples from some smaller sects and families both within the Eastern Domain and beyond in the other Four Domains.

For a time, even the spatial formations leading to the Eastern Domain became slightly crowded.

Among them were two rather special cultivators.

A man and a woman.

The man appeared to be just a young boy.

He was dressed in a robe whiter than snow, tightly holding the hand of a girl by his side who wore a colorful robe as splendid as the feathers of a phoenix.

"Why are you so nervous?"

The girl, Fuyue — who had her body remolded by Divine Snow True Man with the great power and essence blood of a phoenix — glared at Fuye.

"Afraid nobody will notice how unusual we are?"

Fuye dared not speak.

Having spent a long time in the Suike Realm, he was truly unaccustomed to this kind of cultivation world and was clueless about how to even enter the Transmission Hall.

Even for someone who had once been favored by the Suike Realm, at this moment, he truly felt the disparity between worlds.

Fortunately.

He still had his childhood companion, who was always rather reckless.

Fuyue, puffing up in frustration, grabbed Fuye's hand and called out to a nearby young man, "Dao You, Dao You, are you also heading to the East Pole Yang Sea? Why don't we travel together?"

The young man, upon hearing this, turned around.

Curiously, he asked, "I am from the Southern Domain, from where do you two Dao You come?"

——The young man's attire was equally simple, and his waist was adorned with an amulet woven from rice stalks, giving him the appearance of someone who had just returned from the fields.

Yet he faintly exuded an aroma of sunlight and a peculiar rice fragrance.

For some reason.

Fuyue and Fuye both sensed a trace of familiar spiritual power.

The former bluntly asked, "Dao You, do you know, or have you seen True Man Li Ye?"

"Hmm?"

The young man from Xiguang Village, Jianhe, was momentarily taken aback.

"I've seen him."

He wondered, "The auras on you two Dao You seem a bit peculiar, as if you're not from this world."

Jianhe, having grown up in Xiguang Village listening to the legends of Li Ye and sheltered by Jianmu, was particularly sensitive to such auras — he had originally thought he would stay in the village, living a safe and peaceful life.

But not long ago, the village elder abruptly approached them with news that Li Ye was recruiting subordinates, making the village youth all excited.

It had been several years since Li Ye had liberated Xiguang Village.

Those who were children back then had grown old, continuously narrating Li Ye's deeds to the younger generations.

This led to the children in Xiguang Village seeing Li Ye almost as an immortal god.

And now, there was even a chance to serve the "Immortal God," so they gave it their all, selecting only one inheritor of the village's entire legacy from hundreds of candidates.

And that was Jianhe.

Finally, he left the village with a branch of Jianmu, intending to undergo the Four Seasons Sect's assessment and join Li Ye's ranks from the outside world.

Unexpectedly, upon reaching the Eastern Domain, he encountered two similarly unusual individuals who were quite like him.

Upon hearing Jianhe speak, Fuyue relaxed and said casually, "That's quite a coincidence. Ah Ye and I came from the Suike Realm; it was True Man Li Ye who saved us.

We were training in a secret place until we received the news and came here. We are not very familiar with the situation here, so we took the initiative to invite you, hoping to travel together."

Upon saying this.

Jianhe's expression immediately turned a bit strange.

He awkwardly scratched his head: "But I only just left the village too; I'm not very familiar with this place either. To be honest, I'm also torn about which spatial formation to take."

The three of them stood there exchanging looks.

Among them were a child of fate from a small world and a farm boy from an isolated village just entering the cultivation realm, figuring out the vast yet intricate rules of the Four Seasons Sect was undeniably challenging.

Therefore, the trio simply chose to...

Follow the crowd.

All three had quick ears and eyes.

Listening to the surrounding discussions on how to present oneself under True Man Lingye, they quietly followed behind, stepping onto the spatial formation.

However.

Although the place they emerged from was the core area of the Four Seasons Sect, precisely because it was the core area, there were so many people that, despite the Four Seasons Sect's preparations, they couldn't avoid the fate of not reaching their destination directly.

Thus, the three had to endure a harrowing experience of two to three switches between spatial formations — from the Four Seasons Sect Teleportation Array No. 3 to the East Pole Teleportation Array No. 7, then transferring through Array No. 7 to enter the East Pole Marketplace's East Pole Array No. 2...

During this time, their unfamiliarity with the workings of the Four Seasons Sect's teleportation array nearly led them astray towards Dongcang Town.

When the trio stepped out of the Transmission Hall.

Seeing the blue sea and sky before them, their expressions weren't all too good.

The exquisite and grand Transmission Halls, representing the majesty of the Four Seasons Sect, were like a maze, with the gentle voice of the array spirit still echoing in their ears —

"Please proceed to Spatial Array A-323 for teleportation."

"Please refrain from casting any magic or divine techniques within the spatial array."

"The current array's teleportation is free to use, but repeated teleportation will require purchasing teleportation tokens to re-enter the spatial hall."

"Due to the current number of teleportations exceeding the array's threshold, please attempt again in half an incense stick's time..."

Thinking back to their back-and-forth teleportations only to end up back at the starting point, all three were practically green in the face.

"But at least we're here."

"Next, all that's left is to head to the testing point outside Ruoquan Island."

Jianhe looked ahead, watching as the other cultivators retrieved their flying artifacts after leaving the Transmission Hall and ascended into the sky.

"Uh." Jianhe rummaged through his artifacts and pulled out a cup: "This is my personally crafted flying artifact. If you two don't mind, we can squeeze in together."

Originally intending to transform into a phoenix, Fuye and Fuyue immediately nodded: "Of course we don't mind."

As he spoke.

Jianhe lightly tossed the artifact.

A blue light flashed, instantly enveloping the trio and lifting the cup leisurely into the sky, carving a trajectory across the sea.

Its speed wasn't slow.

But this cup was rather peculiar.

It flew while scattering countless streaks of light evenly across the sea surface, leaving behind continuous trails of light.

Such an unusual artifact certainly caught the attention of those around, though as cultivators, they wouldn't just stop and discuss openly.

However, the curious glances that kept falling on them made the three inside the cup uneasy.

"..."

Sitting within the cup, protecting his childhood friend, Fuye hesitated for a long time before finally speaking:

"Haha, this magical artifact is truly unique."

"Hehe." Jianhe also laughed awkwardly: "This artifact was crafted in the village for irrigating fields, made from a Jianmu branch, and it has a vast internal space.

It should work well as a flying artifact too."

He was about to say more about Xiguang Village to ease the awkwardness when suddenly the flying artifact plunged into the sea.

Then...

The surrounding stable spatial structure began to leak.

It began absorbing seawater with visible speed, seemingly desperate for the spiritual power within, drawing in a significant amount of seawater.

Jianhe: "!!!"

He tried to control the artifact, but it behaved wildly, swallowing seawater greedily, and he hadn't even noticed that some luminescent auras in the seawater were also being sucked into the cup.

As it looked like the cup's interior space was about to be flooded.

Fuye finally couldn't bear it, instantly transforming into a radiant and magnificent phoenix, using its tail feathers to whisk up his companions out of the cup, and after retrieving the cup, soared away into the distance.

Around them, other cultivators who initially intended to help stood watching the emerging phoenix in astonishment, almost doubting their sight.

It's well-known that even in the Tao Furnace Realm, phoenixes are particularly rare divine beasts.

They marveled at its beauty and purity.

And then suddenly remembered something —

The direction it flew towards… seemed to be Ruoquan Island.

Is this divine beast also vying for a spot among us?