Symbiotic panel, I am cultivating immortality in the world of immortality

Chapter 120 The Potato Dragon Splits, the Gourd Spiritual Land

After Li Ye arrived at the riverbank, several beavers that were staying in their den immediately ran out and handed him some image-recording crystals.

—These are the records the beavers made of the birth process of the potato dragon.

After receiving Li Ye's orders, they worked in shifts almost around the clock to record the Xuan Shui Jiao and the Kan Shui Shu.

To be honest, after watching these images, Li Ye felt that the reason they weren't eaten by the enraged Xuan Shui Jiao must be because he had given it a serious warning.

Because it contains a complete record of everything from the Xuan Shui Jiao's eating to its post-meal exercise, and even its normal and abnormal metabolism.

It's practically like installing a tracking camera around the Xuan Shui Jiao, the kind that shoots at your face from multiple angles.

"...You guys are really bold." He could almost picture the two Xuan Shui Jiao being slapped in the face like that by the beaver every day, and how helpless they were, unable to harm them.

The beavers, however, didn't seem to care.

She just circled around him and chirped a few times ingratiatingly—meaning, could she go back and rest?

"Go."

This was already promised.

So Li Ye simply waved his hand, indicating that they could go and rest for a while.

The beavers chirped twice more, then immediately turned and scurried into their burrow to pack their things.

In no time, she had packed all her luggage and valuables into the storage bag around her neck and left happily.

As they walked, they jostled each other with their chubby bodies, and even if they fell, they would immediately get up and continue playing.

Watching them hop and skip away, Li Ye's lips unconsciously curled into a smile.

These little guys' happiness is so simple; they can be happy for a very long time just to go back to rest.

The infectious joy of that kind of mood is a rare experience for cultivators, which explains why so many cultivators like to keep beavers in their caves.

Not to mention how meticulous and cautious they are in doing things.

Just for the emotional value they provide, Li Ye is willing to keep them, even if it's just for amusement.

He watched the beaver disappear from sight before finally turning back and muttering to himself, "They're getting smarter and smarter... uh."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw two dragons emerge from the river and thrust their large heads directly in front of him. Their vertical pupils, which should have been majestic, actually held a pitiful look.

"You two."

"How big of a dragon are you? Do you still want to act like a beaver?"

He patted the Xuan Shui Jiao on the head and said, "I already know how the Potato Jiao is born, so I need you to do a little work."

With that, he entered the river.

It stopped directly at the horn of the giant, dragon-shaped sorghum plant at the bottom of the riverbed.

"Hmm, I feel like we need to widen and deepen the river channel."

He looked around and felt a bit cramped.

The Ling River is three zhang wide and five zhang deep, which is considered the standard configuration of the Ling River.

Normally it's fine, but now the yams are growing bigger and bigger, so we need to expand them.

It's always better to get it right the first time than to worry about it later. It also helps to expand our knowledge of the different types of spirit fish.

Without hesitation, he spent 40,000 spirit stones to purchase two more spirit rivers, merging them with the current one.

He also bought a batch of spirit fish fry worth three thousand spirit stones and released them directly into the river, letting them grow and move freely.

With a thunderous roar, the water flow in the spirit river suddenly surged, gradually encroaching on the surrounding land and widening and deepening the river channel.

This process is very fast, but the water flow is not rapid at all.

Even the blue-water carp, the mystical algae, and the thousand-bearded jellyfish that live in the river were not frightened; they simply followed the current curiously to explore wider and deeper waters.

After a brief moment of confusion, the newly arrived fish began to explore their surroundings.

Even more amazing is that the beaver burrows and the soil where the spiritual plants grow are still preserved, standing in the surging river like small islands.

In just a short while, the river channel had been widened and deepened.

The width increased from three zhang to nine zhang, and the depth increased to ten zhang.

"This is acceptable."

Li Ye nodded in satisfaction.

He then beckoned to the Xuan Shui Jiao standing to the side.

"bring it on."

The latter clearly knew what Li Ye wanted them to do, but they had done it many times before, so they swam over without hesitation.

The birth of the Potato Dragon is indeed a miracle conceived through the interaction of Yin and Yang, and is not a product of simple reproduction.

Even now, though they are intertwined and tearing at each other, they are only scraping off their scales, which still contain the spiritual blood of the Xuan Shui Jiao.

The key is the mysterious water that they contain.

As the two black water dragons played more and more happily...

The slightly viscous Xuan Shui flowed towards the Kan Sheng Shu and quickly wrapped around the Kan Sheng Shu vines.

It actually managed to sprout a new bud on the vine.

The new shoot absorbed the essence and blood of the Xuan Shui Jiao and grew rapidly outward. During its growth, it gradually transformed, truly resembling a giant Jiao that appeared out of thin air.

It quickly grew into a dragon slightly smaller than the vine dragon next to it, but between the two horns on its head, tiny dragon pearls were clearly being conceived.

It really works.

It seems we need to really squeeze these two Xuan Shui Jiaos dry, since they're still young and unable to reproduce.

"do not stop."

Li Ye bought some elixirs that could nourish the essence and blood of spirit beasts, and encouraged them, "If we can make three more, that will be great!"

Xuan Shui Jiao glanced at Li Ye silently, a hint of excitement in his eyes. After swallowing the pill, he began to repeat the actions he had just performed.

Time passed day by day.

Five days later, the two dragons finally completed Li Ye's task, but they were both quite weak. They went straight into their nest and fell into a deep sleep.

At this point, along with the original vine dragon, there were now five vine dragons at the bottom of the river, all of which grew from the mother plant of the Kansheng Potato.

Li Ye had already observed that the main reason limiting the growth of the sweet potato dragon inside the dragon pearl at the top of these vine dragons was the concentration of spiritual energy and nutrients in the surrounding area.

Because they are spirit plants, the characteristic of these spirit plants is that they can grow rapidly with sufficient spiritual energy and nutrients.

Li Ye was prepared for this situation.

"We need to give you branches."

The Four Seasons Sect's lineage of spiritual plant masters includes a method for successfully branching out without damaging the spiritual plant itself.

It is called the "Spirit Dividing Ruler".

Li Ye now held the Spirit Dividing Ruler and began cutting at the point where the yam and the vine dragon were connected. During the cutting process, he noticed that a lot of light red powder fell out. This powder emitted a fragrant aroma and gradually took on a somewhat viscous texture under the wash of the surrounding water, somewhat resembling the thin shell of the yam dragon pearl.

"Could it be starch?"

"I remember that sweet potatoes do contain starch, but the amount of starch is a bit too much."

"Let's collect some, and then we'll take them to our senior brothers and sisters to see what's going on."

He was busy collecting things at the same time.

As he separated the vine dragon and the mother plant of the kansheng potato, more and more light red starch spread outwards, and even began to make the surrounding water viscous.

One after another, the blue carp swam frantically towards this place, their mouths moving as they began to devour the food.

This didn't surprise Li Ye too much, but what surprised him was the mysterious crystal algae swimming around in the water. After absorbing starch, the algae gradually turned red.

Moreover, it seemed to be stuck together by starch, gradually becoming slender.

It even resembles the rudiments of a dragon...

This scene did not affect Li Ye's actions. He skillfully planted the branched vine dragons in different places, while still pondering the situation of the Xuanjing algae.

Mystic algae is actually a type of elemental plant.

In the Four Seasons Sect, the main purpose of this spiritual plant is to feed various herbivorous aquatic spiritual beasts. It can grow in almost all bodies of water, so its adaptability is naturally very strong.

It will also undergo some adaptive changes as the spiritual energy and environment inside the water change.

"That is to say, it is changing."

"Change is a good thing."

Li Ye looked at it for a while and, after confirming that his branching method was effective, breathed a sigh of relief.

This way, the mother plant of the Kansheng sweet potato will be able to grow more vines and be planted in various areas of the Spirit River.

If they are scattered, they will not compete for spiritual energy and nutrients, and they will grow faster.

"The 'Kansheng Potato' is also finished."

"Only the gourd is left. Let's see if there's anything that can be optimized or changed."

He got up and left the river, but what he didn't know was that after he left, the mystical algae that had been drifting everywhere gathered together.

They circled around the sweet potato pearl at the top of the vine dragon, seemingly invading it, while the sweet potato dragon inside offered no resistance, allowing the algae to invade and envelop it.

……

Immaculate Spiritual Field.

Almost every now and then, something changes here.

What he saw now was a vast gourd forest shimmering with five-colored spiritual light, with countless vines swaying in the breeze, and gourd spirit turtles and gourds swimming freely inside.

The reason it could grow so lush in just a few months is, of course, that this place was an experimental field that the sect had entrusted to him to manage.

He has already used three Five Elements Spirit Spring Jade pieces, not to mention the spiritual energy he often guides over and the earth-conditioning techniques he uses.

This area could be described as the most spirit-stone-intensive part of his cave, built entirely from spirit stones.

"The spiritual energy here is very strange."

"It seems... it doesn't exchange spiritual energy with the outside world."

Li Ye frowned.

When he actually stepped into the spirit field, he could feel that as soon as he crossed a gourd vine, the surrounding spiritual energy of the five elements became extremely rich.

It's like a different world from the outside world.

It's like a sacred place.

“…Spiritual Land.” He gazed at the winding gourd vines before him, and at the gourd oil flowing in the ditches he had instructed the beavers to dig.

Suddenly I sensed that something was wrong.

A fleeting spiritual sensation swept across his consciousness.

Li Ye's eyes narrowed, and he sat down without hesitation, channeling his divine sense into the earth and beginning to perceive it through the art of earth phenomena.

This was the place where he often practiced the art of geomancy, so his perception was very smooth, and he quickly grasped the source of the spirituality.

His face lit up with joy, and he transformed into a streak of light, quickly passing through the "forest" formed by gourd vines and arriving deep within the spiritual land.

The terrain here is somewhat low-lying.

Some of the gourd oil that hadn't had time to flow into the pre-dug trench array was piled up here, forming a pit about half a zhang deep.

There was a five-colored, translucent lotus bud in the pit.

They were conveying a sense of friendliness to him with a mixture of fear and curiosity.

【Name】；Pure Spirit Lotus

[Mood]: Curiosity, fear, and desire to please
[Status]: It is mutating; the spirit body composed of the earth's energy is being tainted by gourd oil.

[Can be bound]; spiritual plants that help it remove the oil from its body or spiritual plants that enjoy the oil with it. Different spiritual plants will produce different results.

"Oh?"

It turned out to be a spirit beast capable of choosing two mutation paths.

Wait a minute, this should look like a spirit plant, but it's categorized as a spirit beast on the panel?
Could it be because this thing is a pure spirit, and therefore belongs to the category of spirit beasts rather than spirit plants?

He curiously examined the lotus for a while, until the lotus, including its leaves and buds, began to tremble and even ooze drops of spiritual liquid, as if it were crying.

"..."

Li Ye withdrew his curious gaze and pondered what kind of spiritual plant he should choose for it, whether to enjoy the oil with it or to separate the oil.
If you think about it carefully, it's actually better to enjoy it.

Because the Immaculate Spirit Field is characterized by the birth of such Immaculate Spirit Lotuses, I will definitely obtain more in the future and have the opportunity to continue cultivating them.

However, this lotus flower is a mutated variety catalyzed by countless gourd vines and oils along with so much spiritual energy of the five elements. Moreover, it cannot truly be moved out of this spiritual field.

There has only ever been one choice.

Then we should consider what kind of spiritual plants to use.

To enjoy oils, one must either need oils or be able to absorb oils to grow, and it must be a Yuanling plant.

Otherwise, it would take far too long for it to grow slowly.

Countless spiritual plants flowed through his mind, and at this moment, the benefits of frequently consulting spiritual plant charts became apparent, and he quickly thought of one.

He took off the Bagua Sky Disc hanging from the Sun and Moon Ring on his wrist, summoned the Spirit of Transporting Objects, and instructed, "Go to the Four Seasons Jade Wall and buy a Lamp Floss Flower."

"Hey."

The spirit of the transporting object made a sound and then quickly left.

"When did it start making a sound? And it's still a whiny little thing?" Li Ye watched its departing figure and was surprised to find that this guy had already advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage.

It seems there are even more surprises in places I haven't noticed.

(End of this chapter)