Unexpectedly.

After the second senior brother revealed these secrets to Li Ye, he directly stated:

"You don't need to get involved in this matter yet."

"Junior brother."

"Come back after reaching Nascent Soul, quickly leave now, time waits for no one."

This left Li Ye, who was already contemplating how he could contribute to the matter, slightly stunned.

But under the complex gaze of the second senior brother,

he could only nod, "Okay."

Then, he slowly turned and left. As he was leaving, he could sense a bronze-colored halo seemingly extending around him.

This is...

Jianmu, or rather the power of the Bronze Tree from the Celestial Vein Sword Mountain, a power far more formidable than the little he had absorbed.

Li Ye didn't linger.

The bronze-colored stream of light wound around his body like the morning mist, drifting backward.

Gradually forming a bronze wall.

Only then did Li Ye suddenly realize... his second senior brother seemed to specialize in Body Refining Dharma Method.

He looked back, but only saw the bronze wall had already isolated the entire Grotto Heaven.

The power of time had cut everything apart.

"Why suddenly..."

Li Ye was a bit puzzled. Was it because he realized that the Celestial Vein Body Forging cultivators were part of the materials for cultivating the five-colored flower?

So the second senior brother wants to try it?

But isn't the second senior brother also just a Golden Core?

Standing in front of the bronze wall, he waited for a while, hoping that his master or other elders of the sect could come to clear his doubts.

However, after waiting a long time, no one came.

He could only sigh and return to the Cave Mansion.

Upon returning to the Cave Mansion, he was astonished to find out — even though he had been gone for just a short moment, the outside world had already passed ten years!

The Spiritual Mechanism Vine had long returned from outside, and it asked puzzledly, "Where did you go, why did you take so long?"

"..." After a brief hesitation, Li Ye still shook his head.

"It's nothing."

This matter was indeed too bizarre.

However, Li Ye had some speculations — it was likely that the Grotto Heaven was what his master had referred to, a place where time flowed differently from the outside, a Jianmu Grotto Heaven.

Since the second senior brother had clearly said to wait until he reached Nascent Soul to get involved, he quickly set it aside.

Thinking too much about things beyond his control would only unnecessarily drain his spirit.

Lying on the lounge chair, he asked the Spiritual Mechanism Vine, "Has anything happened during this time?"

"Uh..."

The Spiritual Mechanism Vine uncharacteristically paused for a moment.

Then it replied, "A lot of things did happen. I'll tell you slowly."

Then, it recounted the events that occurred during Li Ye's sudden ten-year absence.

First, regarding Zhao He.

After the Carefree Artifact Refining Spirit Garden was put into use, it continuously produced numerous magical and spiritual artifacts, although they were only used below Artifact Refining and Foundation Establishment.

However, due to their excellent craftsmanship, sales were exceedingly good.

Unfortunately, due to the constraints imposed by the foundation of the Chamber of Commerce and the cultivation levels of internal personnel, even with Li Ye's backing, the development of the Spirit Leaf Chamber of Commerce had reached a bottleneck.

The monthly income it could generate for Li Ye was only three million Spirit Stones.

That sounds like a lot, but if you wanted to buy Fourth Tier Spirit Veins, it would only be enough to buy three.

And this was only achievable with the help of Li Ye's senior and junior brothers, and his Cave Mansion continuously producing materials, otherwise reaching such income levels would be difficult.

After all, there were so many chambers and powers in the Four Seasons Sect, every extra piece the Spirit Leaf Chamber of Commerce ate, others had to eat less.

"So, you're saying."

"Conflicts have already begun."

Li Ye wasn't surprised by this; even with his reputation, everyone needs to eat.

Fortunately, the Four Seasons Sect was strict about this, preventing local powers from driving out quality goods with inferior products, as long as he maintained high quality, cultivators would voluntarily buy from him.

Even if he was taking food from others, it didn't matter.

As for anyone trying to trip him up by various means?

As long as the spiritual artifacts he produced were good, no one dared to do that, because in the Cultivation Realm, people wouldn't hesitate to confront him directly.

Moreover, on the Four Seasons Sect's territory, who could, who would dare to bully a genius Spirit Plant Master?

At most, they would use pricing strategies, competing in quality.

So after Li Ye nodded to indicate he understood, the Spiritual Mechanism Vine continued:

"Also, the sect has brought in the paper-making technique."

"If you have time, you can take a look."

Oh?

Hearing this, Li Ye became interested, immediately had the Spiritual Mechanism Vine bring the purple-gold Jade Scroll, and placed it against his brow to examine it word by word.

The more he read, the stranger his expression became.

Finally, he removed the Jade Scroll and said thoughtfully, "So many intricacies in this paper-making technique?"

— Paper-making, naturally, was something any sect could do.

But ordinary paper couldn't withstand spiritual power infusion and would turn to ashes under spiritual power with the slightest mistake.

Yet the paper-making technique in the Cultivation Realm had to consider the paper's texture, toughness, and durability, ensuring it could carry and stably transmit spiritual power, so the characters or talismans written on it could be preserved long-term without failing.

Just take this paper-making technique for example.

It provided detailed descriptions of selecting Spirit Plants, the water source, and the Array, ensuring everything must strictly follow the process.

Some of the Spiritual Liquid proportions in the materials were incredibly complex.

Even Li Ye found it a bit of a headache to read.

This simply couldn't be produced by individuals. Without the sect's strong organization and financial support, paper-making would just be a joke.

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