[Mood]: Frustrated, longing to be eaten

[Status]: A special Spirit Plant fueled by Yang Qi, growing amidst the boundless winter snow, originating from the "Millennium Date." The more snow there is, the more fruit it bears.

Its fruit contains Yang Qi-concentrated "sugar," with excellent taste, and long-term consumption can enhance physical strength.

[Bindable]: Yin-type Spirit Beast nurtured by the "Summer Solstice"

"Oh? Isn't this the Millennium Date?"

"I should say it's a variant of the Millennium Date. Quite the treasure in this place."

Li Ye's eyes lit up.

This kind of date is sweet, and its inner Spiritual Power is mild, so even ordinary mortals can consume it without harming their bodies.

As if just by looking at it, he could imagine the taste of the date.

He immediately stepped forward, picked a bunch, and began to chew.

The plump dates, mildly sweet flavor, along with the flowing Spiritual Power inside, satisfied Li Ye's already growling stomach.

Due to the abundant Spiritual Power in these dates, it even increased his cultivation from "Qi Refining First Layer" to Qi Refining Second Layer.

It's been a long time since he felt the pleasure of a breakthrough.

"Aren't you eating these dates?"

Li Ye, eating while holding a date, waved it at the duck group.

It stands to reason that Spirit Beasts would pick this spiritual fruit, but strangely, none had been picked here.

Didn't the squirrel just say there are many Spirit Beasts living here?

Is there a problem with these dates?

With that said, the Long Feathered Snow Tail Ducks that came with him looked at him with strange eyes and instinctively stepped back two steps.

They gathered, quacking intensely among themselves, before starting to pick the fruits of the Solar Millennium Date.

But they didn't eat them, instead handing them to Li Ye, quacking a few times.

—Meaning, they should be cooked.

The squirrel chimed in:

"These guys only eat food that's been cooked with fire, which is why I brought you, Immortal, here. Just one meal, and they'll listen obediently."

The implication was that this had already been tested.

This can't be.

Only eat cooked food?

Then who cooks for them when no one is around?

Wild men?

The squirrel, perhaps recognizing the bright confusion on Li Ye's face, added:

"So they haven't eaten for a long time, buried in snow piles in hibernation, only eating a bit when extremely hungry, and then continue starving."

"But they're picky about taste and refuse to look for Spirit Race members who can help cook."

"The last time they ate was a year ago."

The squirrel said this with some resentment.

They once tried to connect the ducks with someone, as these Golden Core-level Divine Sense ducks were quite useful.

But without a culinary Spirit Race, they ended up being attacked if the food wasn't delicious, making it really difficult for them.

"...This sort of thing actually happens?"

"Luckily, I was prepared."

Li Ye pondered for a moment, then took a small iron pot, a treasured Taishou, out of his pocket.

Lucky he thought he'd soon see Uncle Master Shenxue, so he kept them in his pocket instead of in the Jianmu space, otherwise, he couldn't have taken them out now.

The Taishou pots shivered anthropomorphically, their surfaces igniting in a gold-red flame.

It didn't harm Li Ye, instead conveying warmth—making him regret not taking them out sooner to avoid the cold from the wind and snow.

He spoke to the Taishou pots:

"I need you to make these dates into food."

"No other ingredients needed, just simply make them edible."

As soon as he finished, they immediately sprang into action.

The simplest way is to make date pancakes or steamed dates.

Using local materials, they melted snow, obtained Qi-infused water, and began steaming the dates.

One could clearly see within the small bubbles, the dates were softening, and the sweet juice being steamed out was thick like syrup, coating the dates.

The red dates and the gold-red syrup shimmered together. If not for the bubbles sealing in the aroma, the scent of steamed dates would be wafting out by now.

"Quack!"

The ducks seemed to know that this thing would be delicious, and they all flocked over, surrounding Li Ye completely.

The gosling-yellow duck feathers brought a warm atmosphere, making Li Ye feel as if he was enveloped in a cloud of feathers.

He contentedly buried himself among the ducks.

Unfortunately.

This warmth lasted only until the little iron-pot creatures finished steaming the dates.

When the bubbles popped with a "pop".

The steam dates, filled with sweet and warm fragrance, directly fell onto the snow, or rather, were snatched up by the long-awaiting ducks before they even hit the ground.

"Quack quack quack quack quack!!!"

The ducks showed no signs of courteousness, immediately scrambling for them, even plucking each other's feathers in the process.

For a moment, it was a scene of pure chaos with ducks jumping around.

Snowflakes and duck feathers flew in disarray, transforming the scene into a chaotic mess, as if they were possessed, compared to their earlier wise yet foolish demeanor.

After tasting the exquisitely flavored steamed dates prepared by the iron-pot creatures, the ducks' once confused eyes suddenly lit up.

Moreover, around them, the excited ducks gathered their Divine Sense.

The powerful Divine Sense Power at the Golden Core level seemed to conjure up some strange "illusions" in the misty snow.

They were hopping, dancing dates.

The ducks' Divine Sense was completely intertwined, seemingly creating a grand illusion. Had it not been for Li Ye's strong Divine Sense, he might have been pulled into this illusion and suppressed from the get-go.

——Originally, the bouncing squirrels had already fallen for it.

They were chirping "chee chee" as they followed the hopping dates, bouncing along.

Occasionally smacking their mouths as if eating something, their faces full of satisfaction.

"Heart-Scapes?"

Li Ye was quite surprised, as he could feel that the ducks' gathered Divine Sense was constructing a small barrier around them.

This barrier was somewhat similar to the Divine Technique of Heart-Scapes, but essentially it was an application of Divine Sense, lacking the Heart Power foundation that Heart-Scapes required.

This method of utilizing Divine Sense made him a bit envious.

It bore no hostility.

Or rather, it wouldn't make someone feel attacked but would silently entrap them—if he could learn this Divine Technique, perhaps he could leverage it and the power of the Emotion Song to create a stable Divine Sense barrier.

Thinking about this, his smile grew even brighter.

"Want more to eat?"

"There's plenty, don't be shy."

"Eat more!"

He instructed the little iron-pot creatures to make more steamed dates, date pancakes, date slices, dried dates…

Creating an entire feast out of dates.

The only problem was that, after all, the little iron-pot creatures were small, so the food they made was also a bit small, which suited the not-so-big ducks' needs just right.

And so.

In the end, over a hundred ducks devoured more than a thousand pounds of dates from over a dozen large trees, still looking eagerly at the tired and collapsed little iron-pot creatures.

"Quack~"

The ducks made joyful quacks.

Their leader quacked twice at a few slightly rounder ducks, which promptly "sat down" in the snow.

In no time, they laid a few gosling-yellow eggs.

The duck leader nudged the eggs towards Li Ye with its flat beak, without the slightest hesitation.

At this moment.

The joyful barrier of the ducks' Divine Sense had disappeared.

The squirrels, who had returned to normal, widened their already small eyes, looking in surprise at the eggs.

They exclaimed excitedly, "Immortal, Immortal, these eggs are very precious!"

"If you like, we can trade them for Spirit Stones, each one can fetch a hundred Spirit Stones!"

Li Ye was unmoved.

He solemnly picked up one of the still-warm eggs.

Carefully examining it for a long while, he exhaled deeply.

"Phew."

Through the semi-transparent shell, he could clearly see multicolored flames gestating inside the egg.

It was a long feather.

Which was clearly...

Indistinguishable from a Phoenix's feather.

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