Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel-Chapter 592 - 338: Creating the Celestial Domain, Bathing Sun and Sleeping Moon (Part 2)
The palace’s exterior was extremely magnificent and grand. It was adorned with gold bricks, glazed tiles, and various rare treasures, making it impossible to tell it was made of clouds. It truly seemed like a real Immortal Cloud Palace.
Truly, it was a spectacle of dazzling beauty.
Then, after building this palace, they began to bow to Li Ye again, making indistinct sounds—clearly indicating that they wanted Li Ye to take charge of this palace.
"..."
Li Ye was indeed curious.
So, he directly stepped into the palace.
Inside, he astonishingly found that the palace’s interior was even more luxurious, with colorful murals painted on the walls, gemstones embedded in the dome like a beautiful starry sky, and ethereal cloud qi floating on the ground.
At the very center and highest point of the palace was a throne.
Surrounding the throne stood cloud spirits with solemn expressions, like guardians.
It looked quite impressive, though they were too cute to feel serious, instead bringing a magical sense of childlike play.
"Ee yah!"
The cloud spirits urged Li Ye to quickly sit on it.
Honestly, Li Ye didn’t know what this thing was good for besides looking nice—would he be showing off to the spirit beasts and plants in his Cave Mansion?
Reasonably, this thing was to display majesty to outsiders, but he no longer needed such external displays to assert himself.
Nevertheless, he sat on it.
Overlooking the splendid yet empty hall.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths...
Nothing special happened.
Nor did sitting grant him any special divine techniques.
"So, it’s really just decoration, huh."
He sighed helplessly, about to leave, when he suddenly felt that this Cloud Palace seemed able to move at will with his mood.
"Hmm?"
After discovering this, he tried to move.
Then.
The Flint Fire Crystal Insects and Moon Butterflies, peacefully fluttering in the snow and watching the outside, suddenly saw a massive palace appear out of nowhere in the snow.
Having lived peacefully for decades, they’d never encountered such an event and almost wanted to attack the palace, calming only upon sensing a familiar aura.
"So that’s how it is."
Only then did Li Ye realize that the palace could move freely according to his will, not just within the Cave Mansion, but also in the outside world, with just a thought.
That would be quite useful indeed.
Li Ye already envisioned himself and some friends having tea and discussing Tao over the East Pole Yang Sea with this palace.
He smiled and said to the cloud spirits, "Not bad, why don’t you help refine the palace even more so I can use it to entertain friends."
Hearing this, the cloud spirits seemed invigorated and began polishing the floors, walls, and making tables, chairs, tea cups, and utensils like a gust of wind.
The originally splendid palace gained a touch of "human warmth."
Meanwhile, another group of cloud spirits came over, chirping at Li Ye and inviting him to see the two other palaces they’d built. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
The two other palaces lay beneath the first, on layers of cloud mist, one golden and splendid, the other slightly dim yet exceedingly gentle in silver.
Like the sun and the moon.
He took a look and entered the golden palace directly.
Inside, he saw a massive fountain at the center of the palace, with a nine-tiered jade staircase built around it.
The fountain splashed crystal-clear water mist down the jade tiers, ultimately forming a waterfall-like spectacle.
At the end, when the water hit the golden floor, it even formed a gold pool reaching knee depth.
"Is this... the Sun Temple?"
With just one look, the palace’s function appeared in his mind automatically—it was a sanctuary for the sun to rest.
Li Ye thought for a bit.
Since the sun was already up, he simply invited it over.
The little fellow entered the temple, seemingly aware it was prepared for it, and dashed into the fountain, splashing around and immersing its feathers and body.
Eventually tired, it just lay down and slept.
Lying belly-up, floating on the water, bubbles escaping its mouth.
"... Quite cozy." Li Ye muttered.
Though the sun embodied extreme Yang Fire, it harmonized perfectly with this water.
Thus, the fountain’s water vapor grew even clearer, and when it hit the ground, the collected water flowed out and through the clouds, turning into a golden rain.
Unlike ordinary rain’s chilly dampness, this rain felt warm and pleasant, with beavers and other spirit beasts dancing joyously, reveling in the sun’s nourishment.
"... Sunlight Spirit Water."
Li Ye summoned a ball of golden water, examining it, his expression complex.
This spiritual liquid was very akin to Sunlight Spirit Water.
Sunlight Spirit Water’s price was high, yet unexpectedly, here it was—Golden Crow’s bathwater?
Fair enough, as long as no one knew it was bathwater.
He glanced at the little sun snoring in the fountain, turned, and entered the other palace.
This was the Moon Temple.
This palace felt relatively more peaceful inside, with silver mist wafting and silver jade wheels growing on the ground, surrounding a central jade laurel tree.
Unfortunately, since Li Ye hadn’t cultivated a moon, the palace lacked a resident.
Li Ye sensed if sun and moon both were present, this Celestial Domain might change somehow.
"Looks like I need to lift the Moon Soul Horror Curse soon."
He gave the palace one last look, then turned away.
When he got below, he was astonished to find Li Yulan had absorbed ten spiritual lights forming Sunlight Spirit Land, creating a total of 360 jade vessels.
Each was brewing some peculiar spirit honey.
"Father."
Li Yulan eagerly offered a vessel of spirit honey to Li Ye, boasting, "Try it!"
"Hmm?" Li Ye dipped a finger to taste, carefully sensing the inner spiritual power, realizing this new honey contained... time power, albeit faintly.
But it did have some time power.
If pills were made with this honey, there’d be almost no need to preserve them with magical treasures like sealing bottles.
Furthermore, using it to maintain weapons or blend it into spiritual ink for talismans and arrays would have similar effects as pills, minimizing spiritual power loss.
And most importantly, pills could grow more potent over time, especially when exposed to sunlight.
"Not bad."
Li Ye instantly conceived a plan for the honey’s use.
Their sect had small arrays to control time’s flow, so putting finished pills in such arrays could create many spirits pills of age-old potency.
Discounting costs and array spirit stone expenses, profit seemed likely, plus such spirit pills could sell well or be useful personally.
Recalling this, he patted Li Yulan’s head, playfully messing her silky hair into a mess, praising, "Well done, what reward would you like?"
The return far outweighed the invested spirit stones, already a generous reward.
Li Yulan pondered seriously.
Only to make a request that utterly surprised Li Ye.
