Say someone’s going to die, and they really end up dead.

Li Ye watched with his own eyes as he sat atop that massive Turtle Shell, the Eight Trigrams Plate in his hand flashing nonstop, while the black and white Two Qi around him were spinning like they’d gone berserk.

The surrounding Spiritual Qi and bolts of lightning were almost appearing out of thin air.

They began "gnawing" at Zhuge Ya’s body.

The once jade-like, lustrous skin now split with crack after crack, the bones and blood within vanishing, to the point that Li Ye almost couldn’t bear to look. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

So you fortune-tellers are even more desperate than Sword Cultivators, huh.

Divining and peering into the heavenly secrets is an extremely dangerous act; as the Ancestor Master once said, it’s no different from searching alone in a pitch-black deep sea for a treasure that’s tightly guarded.

"Sigh."

"How could I just stand by and watch someone suffer like this in order to seek something for me?"

Li Ye stretched out his hand.

The Mana belonging to a Nascent Soul Level Celestial Being gently gathered and flowed, pouring into Zhuge Ya’s body via the Emotion Song’s Immortal Ribbon.

This was the might of the Emotion Song.

It could transform Li Ye’s Mana into Mana that anyone could use, and there would be no obstruction or side effects at all.

"...Yang Ke Dao You, why trouble yourself?" Zhuge Ya split off a sliver of his mind. "Divining that Spirit Object requires an enormous amount of Mana. Even if you have a world to supply Spiritual Power, you still can’t make it perfect.

Only by sacrificing my own life-bound spirit source will it work best.

And you needn’t worry. I’ve done this more than once. Just keep my corpse safe, and in seven days I’ll definitely return to life."

But Li Ye shook his head and said, "You’re helping me this much; how could I just sit back and watch? If nothing else, I’ve got plenty of Spiritual Power.

I actually want to see just how much it can devour from me.

The more the better; that way you should be able to relax a bit, right?"

Zhuge Ya was stunned for a moment.

He looked at Li Ye, whose whole body was shrouded in countless radiances, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly:

"Yang Ke Dao You still not having a Dao companion to this day is truly an unsolved mystery."

Li Ye gave him a glance. "Yang Ke Dao You should focus on this Eight Trigrams first. If you split your attention, how are you going to handle two Eight Trigrams at once?"

The other man understood what he meant.

He curled his lips, then spoke solemnly: "Since Yang Ke Dao You is helping me, then please, by all means, don’t cut off the supply of Spiritual Power. I might be able to directly open a portal."

"Don’t worry." Li Ye sat over there, feeling that the current supply of Spiritual Power was still quite easy for him.

But the next instant, he hadn’t expected it.

An extremely strong suction force came from Zhuge Ya’s side.

His Spiritual Power surged toward him like a sluice gate had been opened, while the lightning around them grew more and more numerous. If Li Ye hadn’t prepared ahead of time, he really might have been caught off guard.

Luckily.

It was still within the range he could bear.

He even had the leisure to say, "I can help share the pain too. After all, you’re the one helping me."

The branches of the Emotion Song also absorbed the pain of his flesh being torn apart.

This not only made Zhuge Ya breathe a sigh of relief.

He even felt a kind of unprecedented ease.

In the past, whenever he did divinations and deductions, he always advanced alone through a dark fog. Now, suddenly, someone could help shoulder the burden; this feeling was truly wondrous.

No wonder his master had that sort of expression whenever mentioning True Man Suoxing of the Four Seasons Sect.

Now he finally understood.

In short.

With Li Ye’s help, things really did become much easier.

The black and white Two Qi coiled together to form the phantom of a river, then began exploring within it. Immediately, wave after wave of powerful Power of Time surged over.

They had no active aggression.

But they could make time speed up or rewind.

For a Cultivator, that meant cutting down their Life Span.

Even someone like Li Ye, who had formed his Nascent Soul early and already had a Life Span of 1,352 years, could absolutely not accept this kind of reduction.

As Life Span diminished, vitality and essence would also decline.

By then, to make up for it, he’d have to spend even more mind and resources.

"Time..."

Li Ye stretched out his hand.

A small bronze-colored tree slowly grew in his palm.

That bronze light, brilliant like gold, shone around him; it carried the splendor of gold and the heavy, ancient simplicity of bronze, and in an instant it suppressed the river that was trying to flow.

At this moment Zhuge Ya was already shocked beyond words at what he saw.

True Man Lingye was actually this powerful.

That thing—if he wasn’t mistaken, it should be Jianmu, right?

He had actually already mastered Jianmu’s segment related to time... With Li Ye’s Divine Techniques and Cultivation, let alone their generation, even one generation higher probably couldn’t match him.

He had already lost count of how many times he’d sighed in amazement.

But his movements grew all the more relaxed.

This time, very quickly, he found a "coordinate."

He immediately shouted, "Open!"

The Yin Yang Two Qi coiling around instantly fused, then exploded.

With a booming sound.

The gray, chaotic Qi burst apart.

It forcibly blasted open a crack in the originally seamless river phantom, and then he immediately threw out a few Talismans to stabilize this rift.

The scene within could be clearly seen—

A stretch of rippling waters.

In that body of water, some fish could be seen swimming about. Only, the fish were rather odd; the waters they passed through would all become chaotic and indistinct—if one had to describe it, it was as if they turned blurry, or...

A snow-screen?

And their appearance was quite peculiar as well.

They looked like tadpoles, yet grew long frog-like legs, and even had two strands of glowing whiskers extending from their heads like dragon whiskers, while their bodies were covered in pure white scales.