The beavers were quite perplexed upon arriving.

—Why are these people having so much fun playing with mud?

Previously, in the sect, they heard Teacher Bai Shi say that the students of the Bitter Journey Academy are very meticulous. Even the finished Magical Treasures and Arrays require multiple inspections before passing.

And yet...

Playing with mud over here?

Hmm?

The beavers suddenly noticed the white-clad girl who seemed to be having the most fun with mud.

The girl seemed quite ordinary.

But they inexplicably felt that the girl had a familiar aura, or rather, a quality that made them want to approach her.

"Chirp?" The beavers looked back at their owner, Li Ye, who hesitated slightly but nodded.

Only then did they head towards the white-clad girl.

As they approached the girl, she raised her head to glance at them, and there was a flicker of dazzling divine light in her eyes.

"Beavers from Weichuan, huh."

"Come, come over to sister here."

The girl was exceedingly friendly to the beavers.

She beckoned them over, directly picking up a lump of mud mixed with Sea of Learning Water and Tribulation Ash, and patiently said:

"The essence of Tribulation Ash is actually the material constituting all things in the world. You can't add too much water, like this..."

"Whoosh!"

About ten catties of Sea of Learning Water were poured into the Tribulation Ash by her, naturally making it too much, causing it to become too thin.

"Uh."

The white-clad girl, with a calm demeanor, grabbed another handful of Tribulation Ash and added it, finally barely forming a mud lump that could be molded.

"Look, just like this."

She shook the rather thin mud lump, looking quite proud.

"Chirp?"

The beavers didn't understand what she was doing at all.

Is this how mud is mixed here?

After exchanging glances, they followed the white-clad girl's method, each time feeling exceedingly uncomfortable and making troubled faces.

This kind of mud lump...

If they were to use it to build nests, they'd definitely throw it away! It simply wouldn't work.

But now, faced with something unknown, they could only follow the girl's method—make it very thin first, then add Tribulation Ash, knead it, and add water...

Not far away, Li Ye almost couldn't help but burst into laughter seeing this scene.

And beside him, Su Ya wasn't doing much better, also seriously contorting his face.

As for Mr. Di Sui?

He had long since laughed into folds, gently encircling the two with his power within a Spirit Domain.

"Look."

"This guy, an esteemed dean, but always loves playing child's play."

Mr. Di Sui said to Li Ye: "Could you see the clue behind her mud mixing method?"

Li Ye squinted his eyes:

"It's for making pigments, right."

"Mr. Xiang Huai, aside from having an aura akin to seniors, could it be that she's also walking the path of the Shi Family?"

Earlier, while chatting with Su Ya, he learned a few things, so he quickly caught on.

"Exactly." Mr. Di Sui nodded, with a nostalgic tone: "Once, a founder of the Bitter Journey Academy believed that all things in the world, once processed, would eventually lose their spirituality completely.

But if using Spirit Ore nurtured by the world itself, the juice of Spirit Plants, the Essence Blood of Spirit Beasts... these items ground into pigments and painted as murals, they'd grow more vibrant over time.

Xiang Huai is also on the Painting Path, practicing the ways of the Shi Family. The grand mural of the Shi Family in the Bitter Journey Academy was painted by her."

Hmm?

Suddenly mentioning Mr. Xiang Huai's path.

Could it be...

"Do you mean there's a connection between the Duyu Spirit Yu Shichen and Mr. Xiang Huai?"

"Or is it related to this thing?"

Li Ye spread open his palms.

The remnant page of the Meiling Scroll silently floated in his palm.

At this moment, a strange idea suddenly emerged in his mind... Six thousand years ago, the Painting Path adepts from Four Seasons Sect and Bitter Journey Academy collaborated on a grand project, could it be that the academy's successors have this kind of 'fine tradition' too?

It's not possible that the polluted Grotto Heaven was actually due to some Painting Spirit painted by your dean, is it?

That would indeed be interesting.

"Of course not."

Mr. Earth Spirit realized his words had been misunderstood by Li Ye.

He explained: "Actually, a founder of the Four Seasons Sect once said that special Spirit Plants could be grown from the murals combining special Dharma Methods."

"So?" Li Ye didn't immediately grasp his meaning.

"A wine jar made from Tribulation Ash and Sea of Learning Water plus your sect's Compassion Wheat brewed wine is not only a peerless wine but also a kind of pigment."

"I see."

Having reached this point, Li Ye understood.

However, he still had some doubts: "Shouldn't this be a secret of your academy? Are you telling me just like that?"

"The true Stronghold of the Hell Path may be within a mural, where all Evil Ghosts and Vengeful Souls are cultivated as if planted on the mural."

"So I'd like to teach you this Dharma Method."

"Unless it's absolutely necessary, the Hell Path is merely a practice ground for you descendants, this was the thought of the previous dean."

"But what if they have committed many bad deeds?" Li Ye frowned: "If allowed to do evil deeds just for practice, it's truly... detestable."

These words are expected to be quite rebellious, but Mr. Di Sui nodded approvingly: "Indeed, if we see evildoers committing evil and do not stop them, it's as though we are equally guilty.

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