After Zhao He left to rest.

He organized the things on the table and placed them all into the storage pouch specifically for food, instructing the beaver to send them to the kitchen.

Then he looked at the Eternal Life Tablet, muttering to himself, "Can the Emotion Song sense the emotions within here...

Alas, wanting to try but not being able to, it's truly tormenting."

Though he said so, he was actually able to very well adjust his own mindset.

One cannot be hasty with cultivation.

In less than a year after arriving here, he was already sitting in the cave mansion of an inner sect disciple of the Four Seasons Sect, the overlord of the Eastern Domain.

Having a Nascent Soul cultivator as a backing is already an extremely rare opportunity.

Anyone would say it's a heavenly prodigy.

"Jingle jingle~"

He shook the bell in his hand, and with the bell's soothing sound, his mindset quickly stabilized.

"Might as well see if there's any interesting literature."

Li Ye thought for a moment and took out the previous books to start reading.

The first one to read was naturally "Basic Techniques of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment".

At first, his expression was calm, but the further he read, the more surprised his expression became.

In the end, he couldn't help but exclaim:

"So many?"

——This thick book contained everything from the basic Dust-raising Technique to the Sky-controlling Technique for short flight that could be learned in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Even some rare Divine Sense attack techniques numbered over thirty.

There were even some techniques like "Thunder Summoning Technique" and "Wind-controlling Technique", which could be learned by those with variant spirit roots.

It was called "basic techniques", but in fact, it was a Magic Encyclopedia!

With just this book alone, if you gave it to any family, it would absolutely be treated as a family treasure. Regardless of the spirit root type, as long as one was in the Foundation Establishment Stage, every technique in it was comprehensive.

"The Four Seasons Sect's heritage always reveals itself inadvertently like this."

Li Ye hadn't sighed in a long time.

In his view, such comprehensive foundational knowledge is crucial for talent cultivation, even more important than how powerful the apex is.

If it were his usual self, he would definitely read it like a precious treasure.

But unfortunately, after studying the Emotion Song for a full fifteen days, he really didn't want to learn more techniques, so after skimming a few pages and noting down the techniques he planned to learn, he picked up another book.

"Spirit Plant Encyclopedia" and "Spirit Beast Atlas" were, as the titles indicated, introductions to various spiritual objects, although the highest was only up to the Fourth Tier, they were very helpful in supplementing Li Ye's knowledge base.

"Four Seasons Sect: Introduction to Five Domains" introduced the customs of the entire cultivation realm, including the situation of the Five Domains and Four Seas.

The Five Domains are simply the East, South, West, North, and Central; the seas completely under Human Race control are the East Pole Yang Sea and North Suikong Sea.

The remaining Southern Flame Spring Sea and Western Pole Minghai are still being contested.

What surprised him was that the Sword Mountain where the previous sword cultivator named Wei Qingye was from, was actually the overlord-level sect in the Southern Domain.

With material support from the sects led by the Four Seasons Sect, the sword cultivators have been suppressing the Demon Race outside the Southern Domain.

This book contained so much information that after glancing for a while, Li Ye decided it would be his leisure reading and turned to the last book on the Hundred Skills of Cultivation.

He wanted to see if there were any interesting minor arts he should learn.

"Alchemist, Artifact Refiner, Array, Puppet..."

He thought that since his Divine Sense was currently quite strong, and he had also learned some Divine Techniques to communicate with nature, it would surely be better to involve such aspects.

However, after looking for a long time, even staying on the sections on Array Master, Talisman Master, and even Celestial Painter's dharma methods for a long time, he still gave up.

"Forget it."

"I'll ask my master when the time comes."

"Maybe there are things I don't know."

He did have a master now. When his master returned, perhaps he could gain some special insights?

...

In the following month, Li Ye stayed in the cave mansion, continuing his busy reading of the literature to enrich himself.

If he found himself unable to study further, he would collect honey, lotus pills, and various spiritual materials...

This method of using harvests as a way to unwind truly provided a satisfying experience.

The various Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts he had spent so much effort to cultivate finally began to grow and reproduce, and he thought it wouldn't be long before the cave mansion would truly be full of vitality.

Additionally, the Qingsui Silkworms he was raising had already spun silk for the second time, and instead of dying and turning into moths as they were supposed to, they spun silk for a third time—

Strands of ink and water colored silk.

Li Ye held these silk strands in his hand, focusing carefully.

The silk carried an indescribable sense of "illusion", as if constantly transitioning between virtual and real, with a cool touch, and almost weightless.

"So this is Ink and Water Silk." he found it quite mysterious, why did the silkworms produce such silk after consuming ink?

The black cat seemed to know something.

But the black cat hadn't come out for a long time. If it weren't for Li Ye flipping open the Locust Spirit Scroll and occasionally seeing that fellow playing inside, he would have thought it had silently passed away.

He didn't see any descriptions related to this after browsing through the Spirit Beast Atlas, so he had to give up.

But that's not the point.

The point is that he saw the silkworm, originally supposed to be called "Qingsui Silkworm," appear as "Life Ink Silkworm" on the panel.

Although the name indeed became less pleasant, a new option appeared in the binding section: it can be symbiotically bound with any space attribute spirit grass.

This indicates that after "evolving" into a Life Ink Silkworm, it urgently needs space attribute spirit grass to help it change something. If such a mutant species changes again, there must be extraordinary effects.

"Space attribute spirit grass, huh."

"Go to the Four Seasons Jade Pendant to look for it. Since there's no tier limitation, low-tier ones shouldn't be hard to acquire."

After deciding, Li Ye planned to try the abilities of this ink silk, using the "Winding Silk into Roots" magic previously taught by the black cat, which could perform the functions of spirit plant roots.

Since it can replace the roots, would it have a wonderful effect on spirit plants like tubers, whose roots transform into food? Or would it be useless?

This requires him to try it out.

Such interesting spiritual materials and magic must explore multiple possibilities.

What if he discovers something?

So, he immediately went to the riverside and called to the busy beavers, "Help me find a Kansheng Potato, and don't touch the Profound Water Flood Dragon's!"

The beavers busy frolicking on the dam immediately responded with chirps, and several beavers jumped into the river together, soon bringing a Kansheng Potato to Li Ye.

"Thanks a lot."

He casually thanked the beavers and then silently recited the technique of Winding Silk into Roots, manipulating the silk with a sword-like finger to wind it around the roots of the Kansheng Potato.

A miraculous scene unfolded—

The silk, seemingly made of ink and water, aligned perfectly with the ends of the Kansheng Potato roots and began to function as roots, absorbing the surrounding spiritual power and moisture.

More astonishingly, part of it actually started to thicken gradually.

Since the Kansheng Potato is a Primordial Spirit Plant, it can quickly grow with enough spiritual qi and nutrients.

At this moment, the ink-like roots seemed like the real stems of the Kansheng Potato, turning into edible tubers.

—It can indeed be used. The Profound Water Flood Dragon lurking in the river had already taken a big bite.

"Can it actually work?"

"What's the reason? If it just replaces roots to absorb nutrients and spiritual qi, that I can understand, but directly growing into tubers..."

Li Ye intentionally placed the Locust Spirit Scroll aside and tried various methods to hint, hoping the black cat would come out to explain.

But the black cat refused to come out, leaving him helpless.

Finally, he could only pluck this ink-colored tuber and, along with his other recent gains, planned to find Su Ya to see if he could sell them.

To exchange for some spirit stones and then buy that space attribute spirit grass, although it seems there is no tier limitation.

But he felt that the higher the tier, the better. If he's going to do it, he naturally wants the best.

As for the experimentation, it would wait until he bought it back; what if the Life Ink Silkworm undergoes some change, and the silk changes too?

So he took his things and directly entered the spatial array in his cave mansion, choosing Su Ya's cave mansion as his destination.

The two were already quite familiar, familiar enough that there was no need for prohibitions set in their cave mansions, allowing free access without the host's consent.

Li Ye walked into the space array like visiting a neighbor's house, confidently entering the outer court of Su Ya's cave mansion.

However, he didn't expect that inside Su Ya's cave mansion, there wasn't just Su Ya, but three cultivators wearing inner sect disciple's Taoist robes.

Among them, two had pill furnaces embroidered on the corner of their robes, but one had an Eight Trigrams Array pattern, indicating he was an Array Master.

The four were chatting joyfully.

Upon seeing Li Ye arrive, the first to react was Su Ya:

"Junior Brother Li, you finally decided to come out of your cave mansion."

He introduced with a smile to Li Ye, "These are Junior Brother Jiang, Junior Brother Ye, and Senior Brother Wang."

Then he introduced Li Ye to the three, "This is the very Junior Brother Li I mentioned to you earlier, disciple of Uncle Su Xing."

The three cultivators naturally greeted each other with smiles.

"So it's Junior Brother Li."

"I just heard Su Ya talking about you."

"Yes, yes, the spiritual materials Junior Brother Li grows are indeed unique. Is there perhaps some new spiritual material this time?"

Jiang, the Alchemist, turned his eyes and stared intently at the ring on Li Ye's finger, his eyes filled with visible covetousness.

He had previously seen the materials in Su Ya's possession.

Especially the materials stored in the Bitter Spirit Gourd, which strangely emitted a continuous breath of vitality, making him curious about how Junior Brother Li preserved them.

He had long wanted to visit, but Li Ye had consistently shut his door and declined visitors, keeping him away. Several other senior and junior brothers shared the same thought.

This heaven-sent opportunity had Junior Brother Li coming to his door, and this time, he was determined not to let it slip away!

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