Zhao He was no longer the little child who didn't know the value of things; this pile of treasures, if sold, could easily fetch millions of Spirit Stones.

"You can play with these things for now."

Li Ye wasn't satisfied with them though. Since he had accepted Zhao He as his disciple, he definitely needed to make proper arrangements.

At the very least, things should be custom-made, right?

Too bad he hadn't really studied Artifact Refining... Hmm?

He actually didn't know how to refine artifacts, but the beavers did.

True Man Bai Shi had often praised these beavers; letting them tailor a set for Zhao He should be a breeze.

So he immediately summoned the beavers and told them his requirements.

"Chirp chirp!"

The leading beaver nodded right away.

Then it, with its brothers and juniors, started measuring Zhao He with various Spiritual Artifacts.

Displayed on the artifacts were detailed spiritual power data of Zhao He's entire body, so detailed that they even showed his bone age and whether he had recently engaged in any Yin Yang harmonizing activities.

As they recorded, they chirped among themselves.

One of the beavers even used a charcoal-made pen to draw diagrams.

It wasn't long before the beavers had sketched out a stack of drawings and handed them to Li Ye.

"Hmm."

He looked at them one by one.

This was a set of outerwear robes with an inner lining, plus a recommended list of Magical Treasures for battle, Spirit Plants, and Spirit Beasts matched for convenience!

Oh, and it even included the cost of materials at the end.

130,000 Spirit Stones.

For a Qi Refining level cultivator to spend 130,000 Spirit Stones crafting their magical artifacts was definitely not a small amount.

But after all, Li Ye was wealthy.

After reading through it, he nodded, "Let's start making it now. How long will it take to complete?"

The beaver chirped — it meant, three days.

To complete such a custom set of magical artifacts in just three days?

Li Ye suddenly became curious about how they did it, so he had Zhao He follow him, and together they trailed the beavers to their nest.

Upon reaching the nest, Li Ye found something amiss—

On what should have been dams made of branches, grasses, and mud, there was steam sizzling above.

There was even firelight spilling from several large dams, and outside many of the nests, beavers were hammering metallic chunks with large mallets, while others used their claws to hold needles and threads, sewing garments.

At a glance, this didn't seem like a beaver nest at all; one might have thought it was an Artifact Processing Workshop!

And when a curious Li Ye extended his Divine Sense into the nests, the interior scene further surprised him.

Inside the nest, there were numerous large and small furnaces.

Around the furnaces, the benevolent and bright firelight from Treasure Lotus Lamps was burning. Inside, bubbling was clearly molten metal.

Beside the furnaces stood beavers holding various petals like those of a lotus, scales of a Golden Red Dragon Carp, fragments of a gourd, or oil

Whenever the molten metal inside overflowed, the furnace would tilt slightly; the metal would flow into molds and be quenched with water dammed by the beavers.

It seemed the beavers had long acclimated to such a lifestyle, enjoying the steam as they quenched, wriggling their plump bodies like taking a sauna.

All this was due to the protection of the Treasure Lotus Lamps.

With them dispelling all dangerous elements, the beavers could revel and roam freely within this Artifact Processing Workshop.

"This is all your doing."

Li Ye knew he was stating the obvious but was still curious.

"Chirp chirp." The beavers proudly puffed out their little chests, requested an Emotion Song, and started to chatter about their time operating the refining workshop.

Hearing their surprisingly orderly boast amidst the chatter, Li Ye couldn't help but laugh wryly.

Unexpectedly, in an unnoticed corner, these little buddies had created something like this and even profited from it—part of the Spiritual Artifacts sold by Zhao He came from the beavers' Artifact Refining Workshop.

It should be noted that the beaver population had multiplied from the initial few hundred to tens of thousands—besides the five purchased beavers that couldn't reproduce, all the rest could nurture offspring.

With abundant living conditions and food, and without worries, wasn't it natural to engage in Yin Yang harmonizations within the nest?

Thus, clusters of little beavers were born.

If it weren't for Li Ye's extremely bountiful Cave Mansion, he might not have been able to support an ever-growing beaver clan.

Looking at the beavers' workshop, an idea suddenly popped into Li Ye's mind—His previously crafted Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts were yet to be specialized for Alchemy and Artifact Refining purposes.

Should he try developing these lanes now?

Let the beavers' refining workshop grow bigger.

He thought about it, and straightforwardly proceeded, heading to the Four Seasons Jade Pendant to find common Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts used by the Pill-Refining Hall and Artifact Refining Hall.

Embarrassingly, he hadn't really paid much attention to these things before.

But now he discovered—

There were already complete 'production lines' for extracting to primary refining, quenching and molding with Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts.

No, the Four Seasons Sect calls them Spirit Gardens.

Take artifact refining, for instance.

The initial sorting and material extraction process were performed by "Fire-Eyed Spirit Monkeys" and "Iron-shaping Fish."

The former, with its fiery eyes and three heads and six arms, could easily see through most Spiritual Materials for sorting; the latter could swim freely in molten compounds, using its Spirit Fire to refine materials.

The further refining involved "Heavenly Luck Tripod Wood."

This mysterious Spirit Wood had a vast internal space that could accommodate both the Divine Soul and Divine Sense of a cultivator, allowing precise manipulation of artifacts or Magical Treasures being refined.

If one's Divine Soul power wasn't sufficient, a kind of Spirit Beast called Seven-Colored Sea Jellyfish could help amplify the Divine Sense.

For alchemy, there were also... Heavenly Pill Feather Doves, Flint Charcoal Trees, Cyan Horned Deer, Cloud Stepping Bead Mother...

Li Ye found himself dazzled.

These already systematic Spirit Plant and Spirit Beast "production lines" even had distinctions of cultivation levels, types of Magical Treasures, and Pills crafted, complex enough to give Li Ye a headache.

"Should I just buy them all?"

"Hmm..."

Just as he planned to lavishly purchase everything and slowly sort them out upon return, he saw the Golden Core level Spirit Gardens for alchemy and artifact refining priced at ten million Spirit Stones.

That was the cheapest.

Even more, expensive ones were priced in the hundreds of millions of Spirit Stones.

Though Li Ye had a fair amount of savings, facing millions in Spirit Stones still pained him—yet, upon reflection, it made sense since these could be nurtured for hundreds, even thousands of years.

"Then I can only buy the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stage ones for now."

"Although alchemy is not yet settled, it won't hurt buying them."

"I can study them slowly."

"Plus, I remember I have Golden Horned Ants and Spirit Vein Willows..."

Ever since taking Zhao He as a disciple, he felt he could laze around in his Cave Mansion; matters like those of the Bitter Journey Academy could be left to Zhao He.

After all, it was just the finalization and retrieval stages.

Sending Zhao He would not only let everyone know Zhao He was his new disciple but also allowed him to sort through these things at home—see how to bind, hybridize, or advance them all together.

So, he naturally delegated the task to Zhao He.

Meanwhile, he remained in the Cave Mansion, taking it easy.

Time passed by day by day.

Two years went by in the blink of an eye. When Zhao He returned with a sealed book containing a fish depicted like an ink painting to report back.

The grandeur within the Cave Mansion left him utterly stunned.

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