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

Chapter 244 Worry-Free Refining Spirit Garden, Automated Workshop
A tree?

Or rather, it should be described as a... strange spiritual plant.

It is somewhat similar to a banyan tree.

They all have long roots that extend into the ground.

But this banyan tree is made of countless metals. Its leaves, branches, and almost the entire trunk are made of various metals, shimmering brightly in the sunlight.

Only the aerial roots are considered normal.

Actually, it's not quite normal, because the air root is translucent, with firelight flowing inside. The firelight, which contains all five elements, floats within the air root, rising and burning freely.

Even from a distance, a wave of heat rushed straight towards me.

After a brief moment of surprise, Zhao He realized that this must be an object cultivated by his master... but should it be called a spiritual plant or some kind of mechanical creation?

"Come in."

As he hesitated, Li Ye's voice rang out directly from the depths of his heart.

He quickly went into the strange tree.

Once inside, the surrounding space suddenly opened up.

It seems that one can see palaces, lakes, and endless cities.

The closest place to him was a wooden palace where the Fiery-Eyed Monkey could live, and which was covered with countless Jade Banana Rice.

Look out into the distance.

A steady stream of various minerals was transported in from the array on the ground. The three-headed, six-armed fiery-eyed spirit monkeys picked and sorted the minerals according to their spiritual purity, five-element attributes, size, and other factors, and sent them into the array.

"Fire-Eyed Monkey?"

"what."

Zhao He naturally knew about this kind of spirit beast.

Actually, he's seen quite a lot, after all, he's been selling all sorts of goods, probably more often than Li Ye has seen them in person.

However, these fiery-eyed monkeys seemed a bit off.

Above their eyes, there seemed to be something called glasses—Zhao He was familiar with this, as many Confucian scholars in the Ku Lu Academy wore them.

In a sense, it can be considered a magical artifact that assists oneself.

On the high bridge of these fiery-eyed monkeys also stood glasses, the frames of which were oval and made of clear, watery material, while the temples were made of the lively and beautiful fairy light that he was very familiar with.

At first glance, it really does look quite trendy.

"Boy."

"These are spiritual plants that the master cultivated for the Fire-Eyed Monkeys."

aside.

Suddenly, the Spirit Vine emerged.

Compared to its somewhat reserved demeanor in front of Li Ye, it was completely relaxed in front of Zhao He, practically limply wrapped around the latter's neck and shoulders.

Faced with this senior, Zhao He still dared not be presumptuous.

Even though this "senior" is younger than him.

He greeted her very respectfully, "Senior Lingji Teng."

"Hmm," the Spirit Vine continued slowly, "The glasses they wear are actually a kind of spirit plant called the Pure Mirror Flower."

"Although the Fire-Eyed Monkey has extremely sharp eyesight and is born with a bloodline-inherited pupil technique, keeping its eyes open for too long can easily cause its eyeballs to detach."

"But with this Pure Mirror Flower, there will be no such problem."

As it spoke, it gestured for Zhao He to step into the formation.

Zhao He quickly did as instructed.

Before leaving, he glanced back at the fiery-eyed monkey bustling about in the palace, his gaze lingering for a moment around the mirror frame.

What is that celestial light?
Isn't that the celestial light from Master's Love Song?
Since Lingji Teng didn't explain, he naturally couldn't understand.

The formation, like a flowing river, carried Zhao He, the Spirit Vine, and various selected spiritual materials forward, soon flowing to a vast and boundless lake of fiery lava.

The material fell into the lake with a "plop".

Before falling, Zhao He jumped down with the Spirit Vine and looked at the lake—in this vast and boundless lake grew tall, towering spirit plants, like pine trees.

Blue resin was dripping from the plump pine cones on the pine tree, drop by drop.

Under the pine trees gathered some fish with steel-like bodies. The surface of those fish seemed to be covered with a thick layer of pine resin. When burning or calcining materials, it was the pine resin that burned first.

Even more miraculously, there were also rings woven from the ethereal light of love songs on the back of their heads, glowing faintly.

They seemed to possess considerable intelligence, burning and refining the continuously transported spiritual materials, with even a sense of competition among the fish.

They went back and forth, almost as if they were fighting over spiritual materials.

"This is the plastic iron fish."

"The owner cultivated this kind of Heavenly Soul Resin Pine for them, so they can just burn the resin when they need to burn."

"This way, we can avoid direct burning from the flames, which would harm their bodies."

As usual, Lingji Teng gave an introduction, and then gestured for him to sit down and enter the city through the array.

It was at this moment that he boldly asked, "Senior, I see the divine light of Master's Love Song on the Fire-Eyed Monkey's glasses and on the heads of these fish."

Is that a love song?

"Hehe." Lingji Teng chuckled, "Don't be impatient, this is the most magical spirit plant that my master has ever made."

You will find out when you reach your master.

Although Lingji Teng kept it a secret, Zhao He was certain that the thing was the Tongqing Melody.

Just love songs and spiritual plants?

With some doubt, he followed the formation upwards.

Then we arrived at that sprawling city.

The most eye-catching thing in this city is a spirit vein willow tree located in the center of the city. It is not very big, but its branches all hang down to the ground and spread throughout the city like a stream.

The willow branches meandered through the streets and alleys, connecting to all the houses and courtyards.

Strangely, there wasn't a single person in the city.

Even more strangely, even when the city was deserted, some tools and furnaces in the courtyards operated on their own, forging the transported materials into parts of various sizes.

"This was all made of bamboo and wood ants?"

"Wait, why do I see the golden ant that Master raised?"

Zhao He took a closer look.

The tools, stove, and other items in the courtyard were clearly transformed from bamboo and wood ants, but it's strange that bamboo and wood ants could transform into objects made of metal and stone.
Can't they only turn into bamboo?

The ethereal light of the Love Song still shimmered like a ring around the heads of every bamboo ant and golden ant.

He realized that all of this might be related to the symphony.

Finally, following the guidance of the Spirit Vine, he arrived at the very center of the city, where all materials and parts were gathered, and each beaver had its own small workshop.

They are huddled in their small workshops, assembling parts and producing magical artifacts at an almost unbelievable speed.

Li Ye sat to the side, holding a newly forged longsword and looking at it. He flicked his finger, and the surface of the longsword immediately shone with spiritual light and sharp golden energy, clearly a third-order magic weapon that could be used by the Foundation Establishment stage.

—A longsword like this was originally composed of several parts, including a scabbard, a hilt, a blade, and magical runes to be engraved on the blade. After being assembled by the beaver, it became a complete magical longsword.

"good."

"It was quite successful." Li Ye nodded in satisfaction, his gaze sweeping over a willow tree that only he could see, almost illusory. The willow's branches moved without wind, and the light emanating from the willow branches was almost identical to the celestial light of the love song he was playing.

That was a spiritual plant that he had inspired through the Tongqing Melody and the "Nine Songs: Mountain Spirit" as a sacred text.

【Name】: Understanding
Mood: Joyful
[Status]: A spirit inspired by the spiritual essence infused in the sage's book "Nine Songs: Mountain Spirit" and the Song of Understanding. Its willow leaves can transform into "Understanding Rings," allowing the wearer to communicate with each other.

[Can be bound]: Any spirit beast willing to accept "Song of Understanding".

Its creation was actually a stroke of genius.

When Li Ye was planning to cultivate a brand new spirit garden, he was considering whether the beavers could make different parts and then assemble them.

He tried it and found it quite difficult.

The main problem is that the magical artifact must be "completely integrated". If different beavers make it, even if the beavers are of one mind, it is difficult to truly achieve complete integration.

After discovering this, he tried to solve it.

A soothing melody can certainly solve this problem.

With the help of such supernatural powers, not only can you make them perfectly seamless, but you can even make them exactly the same without any problems.

Li Ye tried to record the love song using special magical artifacts or simply solidify it using talismans, but the result was difficult.

The level of this supernatural power is truly too high.

Moreover, it requires a very high state of mind, and magical artifacts or talismans simply cannot record it, so Li Ye can only try to find a way through spirit beasts or spirit plants.

After a series of attempts and failures, he finally tried to awaken the spirit using "Nine Songs: Mountain Spirit" and the Song of Love, and eventually created this spiritual plant.

With the help of this spiritual plant, the entire spiritual garden, from the very beginning of selecting materials, can be synchronized with the beaver craftsman, so that the most suitable materials can be prepared from the start.

Then, after a series of procedures, the parts are finally made by the Golden Horned Ants, which have almost merged with the Spirit Vein Willow and have bred with the Bamboo and Wood Ants.

Then the beavers assemble it.

Of course, he also provided binding assistance for the spirit beasts and plants in each ring of the spirit garden, making them more "perfect".

Ultimately, the entire nursery became an automated workshop.

Li Ye was quite satisfied with his creation.

Although it is only a preliminary structure and there may be many shortcomings, it is definitely worthy of the name as a spiritual garden for the Foundation Establishment stage.

It is still a brand new, undiscovered sacred garden.

Automatic production is not a novel thing; the Mohist School and the Four Seasons Sect have many examples. The problem is that Li Ye's magic weapon is made entirely from the symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship between spiritual plants and spiritual beasts, and they are completely in sync.

The quality is definitely no worse than that of a weapon crafted by a single weapon refiner, and the production speed is also very fast. It only takes seven days for a Foundation Establishment level spiritual weapon to go from materials to finished product!
After deducting the cost of materials, spiritual plants, and spiritual beasts, the profit is several times the initial investment.

Moreover, those mechanisms require maintenance, while spirit beasts and spirit plants do not. They can become more proficient over time and even pass on this skill to their descendants.

According to Li Ye's speculation, if they could truly live and reproduce in the Spirit Garden for dozens of generations, they might be able to create a perfectly integrated spiritual artifact without the help of the Love Song.

Of course, this is just his guess, and more time is needed to verify it.

And the person who went to verify it on his behalf was right in front of him.

just now.

He looked at his apprentice.

My gaze lingered for a moment on the page of the book the latter was holding; it contained a spirit that looked like a fish, but was actually more like a tadpole—

[Name]: Silverfish Spirit - Yu Shichen
[Mood]: None, asleep
[Status]: A spirit born from the enlightenment of the story "Su Qiu" in "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio". It has two forms. When it takes the form of an ink fish, it can spit out ink blood that pollutes the world.

When it takes on the form of a silverfish, it can spit out "fairy silk" that can be used to make brocade.

It is simply a portrait of Yu Shichen from the real "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio".

[Can be bound]: Suqiu.

Fairy Silk?

Suqiu... this binding is far too vague.

Could it be that we're trying to find Su Qiu from "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio"? But Su Qiu is actually a spiritual plant, so how can the two be linked?

In an instant, a multitude of thoughts flashed through my mind.

"That's all."

"Let's get him to completely submit to me first."

Li Ye waved.

The book that sealed the bookworm spirit immediately left Zhao He's hand and came to him.

The layers of seals on top gradually disappeared.

The fish, which had been still and motionless, gradually transformed into a man dressed as a scholar. He was handsome and dashing, and one could even say he had the air of an immortal.

He bowed slightly to Li Ye from the book, his movements graceful and natural, his voice carrying an air of refined elegance imbued with the wisdom of classical texts: "Fellow Daoist, my name is Yu Shichen."

"Hmm." Li Ye nodded casually: "Fellow Daoist can play with my spirit pet for a while first. After I've dealt with the current matter, we can have a serious chat."

Li Ye said this with a gentle smile on his face.

Without hesitation, he sent the book into the Lesser Thousand Worlds, right next to the Spirit of Calamity Fire.

The inspiration of the calamity fire, sensing the arrival of a "playmate," immediately perked up and began circling the books.

Books, you know.

Naturally, they are terrified of fire.

Not to mention it was a calamity.

The handsome scholar Yu Shichen panicked almost visibly, but he was trapped in the book and had no choice but to shrink back and cover his head, trying to avoid the caress of the calamity fire.

Li Ye looked around outside and nodded in satisfaction.

Then he asked Zhao He, "Did anyone give you a hard time at the Bitter Journey Academy this time?"

"No." Zhao He shook his head very honestly, then scratched his head: "My grandmaster also gave me a treasure."

He took out a jade pendant from his storage ring.

The jade pendant contained a continuous flow of starlight, seemingly endless.

"Master actually gave you this treasure." Li Ye recognized at a glance that this was a substitute magic weapon given by a high-level cultivator to a low-level cultivator to lend power.

Inside is magical power equivalent to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

In other words, Zhao He can borrow enough magic power from inside at any time. Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator wanted to kill him, they would probably be seriously injured by the power left inside by their master.

This gift is truly perfect for Zhao He.

After all, as Li Ye's disciple, his cultivation level was rather low.

"Keep it safe."

"I have something to ask you to do next."

Li Ye withdrew his gaze and pointed to the Worry-Free Spirit Garden.

"I entrust this Worry-Free Spirit Garden to you, and all the spiritual artifacts produced within it shall be sold by the Merchant Guild."

"All I need you to do is record the entire production process here, and then give it to Xiaoling."

what?
This……

Zhao He was immediately stunned.

This incredible spirit garden was actually entrusted to him.

(End of this chapter)