This senior… actually bought various Spirit Plants and materials needed for daily life worth nine hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

Moreover, he still seemed somewhat unsatisfied.

Just the commission from this transaction was enough to make Li Shi overjoyed, not to mention he had gathered some information about Li Sui and hastily went to retrieve the Spiritual Objects required by Li Ye.

Watching the "youth" leave happily, Li Ye couldn't help but mumble: "Is cross-dressing as a man really that popular now? And not quite convincingly either."

In almost an instant, he could see that this excessively handsome youth was actually a female.

Furthermore, when she mentioned Li Sui, her lovestruck expression was evident—perhaps she was some kind of childhood sweetheart.

He imagined the scene of Li Sui and Li Shi standing together and quickly wiped the image from his mind with a slight frown.

Earlier on, he had indirectly inquired about the situation of the Enlightened Race, and according to Li Shi, they were not pure-blooded Enlightened Race but a mix-blood with the Human Race.

In fact, most of the Spirit Race members of the Four Seasons Sect were mixed-bloods with the Human Race, with few being truly pure-blooded Spirit Race members.

That means the mixed-bloods couldn't trigger the panel.

Pure-bloods could.

"So that Taoist Friend Yuanyan is actually a pure-blooded Yuansheng Deer, no wonder classified as a demon."

Demon Race could trigger his panel.

It's just a pity that the panel is extremely important to him. Altering Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants is barely feasible, but dealing with the Demon Race isn't that simple.

As he thought about this, he finished drinking the tea from the jade cup.

This tea indeed had quite a nice taste.

It seemed that when he returned, he also needed to purchase a few tea trees to plant. Tea, in the Cultivation Realm, was considered an absolute luxury item.

How could he have forgotten about this?

Li Shi was very efficient, as it only took a short moment for him to gather all the items Li Ye needed and placed them in a specially made Storage Pouch.

Before leaving, she also handed Li Ye a VIP Token for the Treasure Nest Pavilion, stating that he could get a 10% discount when shopping there in the future.

Li Ye was quite satisfied with this, taking the Storage Pouch as he left.

...

After returning to the Cave Mansion, Li Ye didn't rush into starting construction but instead took out each purchased item, one by one, to check if they could be bound.

The results were fairly positive.

The Cave Mansion Spiritual Bamboo could be bound, and it could bind ants, but only those of pure Wood Attribute.

The Spring Spirit Flower could be bound, and it could bind any species of butterfly-type Spiritual Insect with a fragrant scent.

The River Vine could also be bound, requiring Mud Water Worms of Earth and Water Attributes for binding.

As for the other Spirit Plants, they were not so fortunate, as none could be bound. He could only wait and see if they would be needed for Spirit Beasts in the future.

"But it really is a coincidence, all Spiritual Insects."

"No Spirit Beasts."

After confirming what they could bind to, Li Ye began searching for the corresponding Spiritual Insects, and the result was quite smooth.

It didn't take long.

The three types of Spiritual Insects were delivered to his Cave Mansion, namely: Bamboo Wood Ant, Ten Thousand Fragrance Butterfly, and Mud Water Worm.

Li Ye did not immediately bind them all, first because the Vital Essence was insufficient, and secondly, he wished to compare the original and mutated versions.

What followed was a busy period.

He was not planning to alter his small courtyard, as it was where he was accustomed to living. The Cave Mansion Spiritual Bamboo was mainly intended to create a place for him to entertain guests and occasionally reside within various parts of the Cave Mansion during leisure.

Thus, the areas chosen for the Cave Mansion Spiritual Bamboo were:

Within the snowy field of the Moonlight Spirit Land, under the Mist-Imbibing Magnolia of the Sunlight Spirit Land, above the white clouds in the sky, by the East Lake, by the hot springs where the Spring Spirit Flowers were placed, and areas designated for receiving guests.

The other type of construction, the Five Elements Ridge Tree, was actually meant to store various Spiritual Materials. Once matured, the tree bore honeycomb-shaped compartments of varying sizes.

Depending on the Five Elements attribute of the materials, different materials could be stored within to nurture them with its Spiritual Qi.

While planting these trees, he couldn't help but glance at the Earth Turtles scurrying around the Cave Mansion, each carrying their gourds.

With an increasing number of resources and the addition of entrusted Spiritual Materials from senior and junior fellow cultivators, the Bitter Spirit Gourd became increasingly in number, and naturally, so did the Earth Turtles.

They were genuinely prolific, spawning a batch of hatchlings every ten days or so. These little turtles were quite clever, not needing any direction from Li Ye, and they would automatically head to the gourd forest within the Spirit Field.

Once the numbers reached saturation, Li Ye didn't plan to bind further with Earth Turtles and Bitter Spirit Gourd, opting simply to continue planting Bitter Spirit Gourd.

This batch of Spirit Turtles—Li Ye chose not to bind them with gourd seeds; it wasn't just because the number of bindings continued to grow, leading to an increasing number of Gourd Spirit Turtle species, but also to discover the potential uses of unbound Gourd Spirit Turtle.

Relentlessly pursuing more mutations might not be beneficial.

Li Ye swiftly proceeded, planting the Cave Mansion Spiritual Bamboo and Five Elements Ridge Tree before beginning to arrange and set up the Spring Spirit Flower and other Spirit Plants.

Once the arrangements for these Spirit Plants were completed, he began sowing the river passage in the Cave Mansion underground with River Vine seeds.

From an initial Third Tier Spirit River to the distant East Lake, Li Ye created underground river flow networks throughout his cultivated area using River Vine, ensuring they supplied ample Spiritual Water to the Spirit Plants.

This endeavor exhausted enormous effort from Li Ye, as he needed to ensure interconnectivity of the watercourses while considering optimal arrangements.

Consequently, he purchased an additional five hundred River Vine seeds, along with a large number of Mud Water Worms.

Finally, using the thick, pale blue vines as large as two people could embrace, he constructed an underground river network appearing chaotic but exceptionally pleasing to the eye.

It took him a full month to complete the arrangements, only for him to discover a faintly visible row of pale blue mushrooms appearing above every area where River Vine was buried.

They seemed to have sprung up out of nowhere, growing densely, forming what resembled a naturally occurring array formation when viewed from above.

Mud Water Worms were wriggling around these mushrooms, seemingly consuming them.

"What is this?"

"River Jade Mushroom?"

Seeing no binding demand on the panel, Li Ye landed directly on the ground, only to feel an item he carried move slightly.

It was an object he obtained from the White Dolphin in the Ninth Layer Celestial Palace long ago — the Drunken Light Spirit Clam.

He had kept it with him out of curiosity if the clam shell would react to something, unexpectedly witnessing its reaction now.

When he took out the Spirit Clam, the half-eaten leaf-like clam cracked open slightly.

Subsequently, a fragrant liquor flowed out from within.

The jade-colored liquor contained an almost terrifying level of Spiritual Power.

"This Spiritual Power..."

The liquor spilled onto the ground and was instantly absorbed by the River Jade Mushrooms, causing the entire cluster to dissolve as if melting, the entire area melting along with it.

They transformed into a light blue liquid rising leisurely, condensing into pearls mid-air.

This series of transformations occurred in an instant.

When Li Ye came to his senses, not only this cluster, the entire Cave Mansion's River Jade Mushrooms continued dissolving, spreading among one another, and melting entirely.

Pale blue pearls floated in mid-air, resembling stars in the night sky, shimmering and emitting a heady fragrance.

But Li Ye no longer had the heart to look at those things.

He stared at the shell in his hand, incredulously saying:

"Golden Core."

"You are a Golden Core!"

—As soon as the clam shell opened, the unmistakable presence unique to the Golden Core emerged, akin to the radiance of a great sun.

It was undoubtedly a Golden Core.

He had unknowingly carried a Golden Core clam shell with him for such a long time.

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