Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel-Chapter 596 - 340: Fruitful Divine Body Returns to Celestial River City (Part 2)
Li Ye was pondering why that deity would bestow this divine technique upon him. Was it just on a whim, or did this dharma method have some unknown purpose?
He didn’t think much further about it.
Instead, he said to Li Xun, "Once I’m done with my duties, or perhaps on the road, we can chat slowly. You seem quite knowledgeable in the divine path, right?
In a moment, I am going to consecrate the mountain god and the land.
Could you give me some pointers on whether what I’m doing is right or wrong?"
"Sure, sure." Li Xun nodded happily, then hesitated, glancing at the half-weeded field: "Or perhaps I’ll finish weeding before we go."
"..." Li Ye rubbed his forehead, glanced at his senior brother, who smiled helplessly, "Go with your junior brother. Once you’re done outside, you can come back and continue weeding. I’ve saved it for you."
Hearing this, Li Xun finally felt assured.
As he was leaving, he reminded, "Uncle Master, don’t finish the weeding while I’m away. Please wait for me to come back!"
"Hurry up!"
His senior brother pretended to be angry.
He just looked like a child right now, not very scary, but very cute.
"Alright! I’m leaving now."
Li Xun quickly departed.
Li Ye watched these two and couldn’t help but smile.
They were indeed quite amusing.
It had been a long time since he felt so relaxed.
...
The two of them quickly returned to Spirit Leaf Island.
Then they picked up Zhao He, who had just successfully crossed the tribulation to achieve the Golden Core, and hurried towards Celestial River City without delaying.
To get to the Mountain and River Realm, they needed to ride the Cloud Boat.
After decades, Li Ye was once again standing on the Cloud Boat, gazing at the magnificent scenery of rolling clouds in the distance.
The first time he came here, he was just a Qi Refining junior cultivator, not even a member of the Four Seasons Sect, but this time, he was already a late-period Golden Core cultivator, an existence worthy of being called powerful.
He could more clearly see the array within the cloud river and the deepest part where the Celestial Light Cloud Leaf from Jianmu thrived amidst the Cloud Qi.
"So that’s how it works."
The arrays he couldn’t understand before were no longer troublesome with his cultivation improvement.
The array maintaining the Celestial Light Cloud Leaf seemed to be a barrier isolating the Immortal Dao, meaning that in the Mountain and River Realm, the main paths might just be martial arts, divine paths, and very few inherited immortal paths.
In a way, it was similar to what the Gnostic School mentioned about using the world to cultivate myths, except their myth cultivation came at the cost of destroying the world and extracting the world’s origin.
However, here was a "field" different from the Immortal Dao, which indeed nurtured many spiritual objects somewhat similar to but distinctly different from the Immortal Dao.
He suddenly felt as if he could delineate a region within his cave mansion to try out the divine path.
For example, those fungi would be quite suitable.
He fell into contemplation.
And the Cloud Boat pressed forward, directly crashing into the Celestial Light Cloud Leaf, formally reaching the skies above Celestial River City.
The new land deity and the guarding cultivator here had long been waiting, and upon the Cloud Boat’s arrival, they quickly stepped forward to greet without any negligence.
They shouted, "Greetings to True Man Lingye!"
Only upon hearing their voices did Li Ye snap back to reality.
He looked up.
Only to see an elder in a land deity robe and a middle-aged man respectfully saluting towards him.
There were hundreds of people waiting on the mountain path behind them.
And all configured as one god and one immortal.
Clearly, they knew Li Ye was to take over Celestial River City and the surrounding hundred cities, so they had come early to wait.
After all, within the Mountain and River Realm, there are millions of cities, but only a handful would be taken over by high-tier cultivators from the Four Seasons Sect—it’s not only extremely stringent in review but also bear significant karma.
Thus, they could only resort to collaborating with low-tier Spirit Plant Masters, at least the creations of low-tier Spirit Plant Masters rarely have side effects.
Li Ye descended the Cloud Boat, waved his hand:
"No need for formalities."
"Rise."
Only then did the Celestial River City’s land deity and guardian disciple stand up, followed by those hundreds from afar.
"True Man." Celestial River City’s land deity spoke voluntarily: "I will now hand over Celestial River City’s Divine Enthronement Seal to you."
As he spoke.
He took out a seal engraved with Celestial River City’s landscape.
The seal spun around, came before Li Ye, then naturally rested in his palm, radiating countless rays of rosy light, from which some...
Words.
They gently swirled around Li Ye.
Forming around him a scenic scroll akin to a mountain and river map, revealing every grass, tree, bird, and beast within Celestial River City.
"This is..."
Li Ye looked carefully and realized these words were exactly the seal text for conferring divine positions, or rather, the text maintaining Celestial River City with the divine path as the foundation. It was their existence that allowed this land to nurture the divine path.
In other words, this was the "laws of heaven and earth" here.
And now these laws were in his hands, with just a thought, his power rooted in the Immortal Law could effortlessly modify these laws.
For example, he could sever the blessing of divine power from incense offerings, making it so that no local god would ever appear on this land again.
"I see."
He mulled over it for a moment and seemed enlightened.
Up till now, Celestial River City had only just begun to birth some entities with an upper limit equivalent to Foundation Establishment Stage spiritual objects or demon beasts. This was because the land did not have enough power to nurture them.
Aside from helping the people here continue their cultivation and feeding back the Divine Path laws with Immortal Dao power, there was another way to quickly enhance its "level".
Which was sacrifice.
Using powerful forces to directly sacrifice to and nourish the land itself would raise its "level".
"Junior brother."
"It seems I really need your assistance."
"Do you have enough power for me to complete a rite to heaven and earth?"
Li Ye turned to Li Xun and asked.
The latter didn’t even think, responding immediately, "Of course, are you intending to use a blood rite or something else?"
As he said this, he stepped forward, took out a sharp sword, and eagerly aimed it at his wrist—the advantage of the Fruitful Divine Body was here. As long as he sacrificed and contributed, he would receive returns.
Although he would endure some pain, pain was also a form of training.
This would hone his body, soul, and mana to perfection.
"I need some of your blood..."
Just as he said this, Li Xun did not hesitate to slash at his wrist, and immediately blood flowed out like a spring.
All of it was essence blood tinged with a hint of gold-green.
His face instantly turned a bit pale.
Yet he still smiled: "Just tell me how much you need."
Li Ye: "..."
It was apparent that Li Xun wasn’t forcing himself to smile like this, evidently in a quite good mood.
No wonder you haven’t appeared in the public eye, just a few words and you draw blood, and in this manner too, it’s really too close to those of the Demon Path.
What exactly is the inheritance of the Compassionate Medicine King!
He muttered a few words in his heart, but his hands didn’t stop, collecting all the gold-green essence blood from Li Xun, then threw it towards the heavenly dome.
He executed the "Flower Blooming in an Instant" method instantly.
Those countless drops of blood water grew into extremely dazzling or one might say magnificent, blood-colored spirit flowers, gracefully floating upwards in a mysterious manner, then falling in all directions.
Li Ye sat down cross-legged.
He waved his hand gently, and the Emotion Communication with immortal mist appeared directly.
Numerous branches like Immortal Ribbons stretched out towards the earth and the heavenly dome, carrying Li Ye’s "heavenly heart."
It needed to report to Heaven above and to the thick earth below.
Only in this way could the spiritual power and "level" of Celestial River City be elevated.
And at this moment.
The sacrifice began.
