Chapter 789: Chapter 436: Beaver: Cosmic Light Is Also a River!_2

Approximately four or five breaths later.

It suddenly released the stream surrounding Li Ye.

Its consciousness gradually withdrew, as if it was disappearing without a word.

"Hmm?"

"Where are you going?"

Li Ye felt something was amiss.

But trying to keep it was already futile.

It had dispersed, leaving only a trace of sound echoing:

"Go."

"I permit you to retrieve those two souls."

"Fish, lead him there."

The fish, who had been almost burned and was about to flip over, suddenly got energized, thrusting forward furiously, its two dragon-like whiskers tearing open a gap in space.

Then it urged Li Ye to go inside hastily.

Li Ye bit his lip. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

He retrieved a nine-colored lily from his storage space.

This item was a gift from the Taiyi Suffering Celestial Lord named "Joy," considered a reward. He was powerless, only hoping the Lord’s deliverance might relieve the spirit of the River of Cosmic Light’s pain.

He sat cross-legged.

And solemnly recited:

"Infinite heavens and boundless mana, Taiyi Deliverance from Suffering..."

— This was the prayer to invite the Taiyi Suffering Celestial Lord to bestow divine techniques, a recitation Li Ye did for the first time, feeling somewhat uneasy.

Not knowing if the Lord has time to come here.

Before he even finished reciting.

The glow around the lily suddenly became brighter.

From within, flowed a high yet warm consciousness, neither ethereal nor unclear:

"You are not the one, let them come instead."

Them?

Li Ye paused.

He immediately thought it had to be the beavers!

Speaking of the earliest learners of this dharma method, it definitely had to be the beavers!

But could they really be summoned here?

As if sensing Li Ye’s hesitation, the consciousness spoke again:

"Act with all your might, all will be without worry."

This time, Li Ye did not hesitate.

He took out the Eight Trigrams Celestial Plate and gently shook it.

The next moment.

Five beavers sprang out uniformly.

These were the original five beavers that followed Li Ye, now established as leaders in Li Ye’s domain, even the vine steward had to show them some respect.

As for the little beavers?

They almost worshipped them.

However.

They did not stay in Li Ye’s cave mansion to indulge but traveled across the Eastern Domain, assisting Weichuan in sorting out the rivers; a hundred years of time had granted them much authority.

Their bodies were no longer plump, even appearing somewhat muscular...

They wore special blue Taoist robes given by the Four Seasons Sect, decorated with patterns of water waves and the galaxy.

The entire beaver looked almost like a妖仙.

But upon seeing Li Ye.

They excitedly chirped with delight.

Then all jumped into Li Ye’s arms, rubbing their heads against him at every chance — only in front of Li Ye would they act as freely and comfortably as children.

"Okay, okay, my dear ones..."

Li Ye comforted each one.

He looked up at the sky with an apologetic tone: "I have to trouble you to help me again, and it should be painful..."

Before finishing speaking, the beavers loudly chirped in dissatisfaction, clearly meaning — if you say that again, we won’t pay attention to you!

Each of them held their paws proudly, standing there, their small feet moving slightly as if angry, but more so just acting spoiled.

The floating nine-colored lily seemed to gently tremble.

As if laughing.

Then, it released a stream of light.

It landed on the five beavers.

Li Ye didn’t know what happened, but he could faintly feel a mysterious dao aura flowing around.

The beavers’ expressions gradually transformed from their adorable sulkiness to something immersed, eventually sitting on the water surface, their fur exuding nine-colored brilliance.

This sight surprised Li Ye, also filling him with joy.

Could the Heavenly Venerate be preaching to them?

These little creatures really are lucky.

This is a teaching from the Heavenly Venerate!

Even the slightest bit is a tremendous fortune.

He felt genuine happiness.

The smile on his face couldn’t be hidden.

However.

As time slowly passed.

When the power of the lily dimmed.

One beaver stood up, without significant changes, yet seemed more... ethereal.

Its eyes flowed with a sympathetic yet somewhat reluctant emotion.

It spoke:

"Master."

"We should stay here."

"The Heavenly Venerate imparted to us a dharma method, allowing us to build dikes here; if there’s a dike buffer, the time erosion pain can be alleviated."

"The River of Cosmic Light is indeed a river!"

Li Ye’s pupils slightly contracted upon hearing this.

Coming to the River of Cosmic Light once is not easy; if these little ones are here forever, meeting them would become very difficult.

He thought for a moment.

"I can leave the Xiangshui Tree here."

"Use it as the core to create a residence that connects the outside world."

"That way, we can still meet anytime."

But this would require extremely long efforts.

Also needing a stable foundation, since the River of Cosmic Light washes everything away with the tide of time, and the Xiangshui Tree can’t truly root here.

Otherwise, it would be more potent than the Jianmu.

The beavers chirped vigorously upon hearing this, reverting to their usual clinginess around Li Ye, rubbing against him again.

Then decisively turned around.

Started diving into the River of Cosmic Light repeatedly under the protection of the nine-colored radiance to dredge up "mud" settled for unknown days from its bottom.

Then using the nine-colored light to burn these muds.

Soon.

The mud transformed into transparent glass bricks.

Building nests and homes with branches and soil is their inherent nature, but using these special glass bricks to build nests is quite difficult.

Yet not impossible.

After all, they have learned a long time from True Men skilled in arrays, although they feel uneasy building with it.

So they brought these glass bricks to Li Ye’s side, chirped a few times, then diving back into the river bottom, excavating more mud.

This time they controlled the burn intensity of the nine-colored light, turning these muds into... stick-shaped branches, even with leaves, reflecting magnificent light.

Seeing this, they nodded in satisfaction.

Begin building dikes in the River of Cosmic Light with these burnt branches mixed with soil, but this proved very challenging.

The river seemed calm, but its internal flow was extremely fast; without the nine-colored radiance’s protection, they might be washed away instantly, trapped forever in time.

Building dikes inside was far more difficult.

Li Ye saw them finally fix the branches only to be washed away, and themselves repeatedly swept away, yet they never lost morale, striving to achieve their goal.

If it were outsiders, Li Ye wouldn’t feel this way.

But since they’re his spirit pets... no, calling them partners seems more suitable.

He couldn’t bear to watch.

Because he couldn’t help either; watching would only upset him.

Interestingly, the consciousness of the River of Cosmic Light’s spirit, originally somewhat attentive, seemed to have left, the river’s flow even accelerated.

Is it expecting whether the beavers can succeed, hence deliberately refraining from appearing to help?

If true, Li Ye might as well refrain from helping.

Rather than watching here.

It would be better to pity Zhuge Ya outside, quickly finding the target.

So he nodded to the fish long awaiting: "Let’s go, take me to the riverbed."

The fish felt relieved, took a last glance at the beavers’ busy direction, and dove into the riverbed.

Entered the sticky, unformed amber-like space.