Li Ye made a decision in his heart.

Immediately, he sat cross-legged as the fragment of the Earth Book glowed close to him.

He injected the impure Spiritual Qi into his body to maintain the Spiritual Power needed to perform the Emotion Song.

In an instant, the seal on his Golden Core's mana broke open, and the powerful mana surged within him relentlessly.

He was going to use the most common yet most unique method for cultivating Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants in the Four Seasons Sect.

That method was "Spirit Patterns."

Simply put, the cultivators of the Four Seasons Sect believed that everything had its own Spirit Patterns, which carried corresponding Innate Divine Techniques.

As long as the Spirit Patterns can manifest in the real world, they can retain the divine techniques of Spirit Beasts, Spirit Plants, and even the Spirit Race and all life forms.

Spirit Plant Masters would observe and record these Spirit Patterns using a special divine technique.

Then, powerful Spirit Plant Masters would select some universal ones that wouldn't provoke resistance in Spirit Beasts or Spirit Plants to give to less skilled Spirit Plant Masters.

This allows them to use their creativity to cultivate Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts.

—Because, after all, different Spirit Patterns being inscribed in the essence of different Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants is quite complex, they must be selected.

Therefore, this magic can only be barely used at the Golden Core mid-period. Now, for Li Ye to use it, he not only needs to unseal some power but also to borrow the Earth Book's power.

As long as he can see it.

He can engrave the Spirit Pattern of the Light Snow Phoenix-Tailed Duck onto the pine tree.

Using the inherent connection between the duck and the pine tree, using the pine tree as the foundation of the array, he can create a stable array.

He is confident they won't have any "rejection reaction."

"Senior Brother."

"Please protect me."

After saying this, Li Ye gathered all his mana and Divine Sense into a crystal sphere in his palm, taking advantage of his connection with the Light Snow Phoenix-Tailed Duck to perform a magic only Spirit Plant Masters could cultivate.

"Wonderful Spirit Observation Technique."

This magic allows one's mana and Divine Sense to penetrate into a wonderful realm and see through the essence of Spirit Beasts or Spirit Plants.

This can probe their Innate Divine Techniques.

If it was any other Golden Core or even Nascent Soul cultivator, this would not be easy.

But for Li Ye, it was not difficult because the pine tree and the duck already had Vital Essence he had infused into them as an adhesive, so he encountered no obstacles in probing them.

In his daze.

He saw a "home" — a place lush with water plants, filled with all kinds of strange flowers and grasses, and many fat fish swimming around, seeming like a paradise to the Light Snow Phoenix-Tailed Duck.

The ducks living in this Divine Sense-created world just glanced at him and then silently gathered together to continue their slumber.

The most challenging part was easily passed this way.

Because this belongs to the Spirit Beasts' "essence," without the agreement of Spirit Beasts, even a Nascent Soul cultivator could not spy on it by force.

And without the mana and divine techniques of the Golden Core mid-period, it's impossible to construct "Spirit Patterns" that could exist in reality.

Fortunately.

Li Ye was able to meet these requirements.

This "paradise" was composed entirely of extremely complex and ethereal Spirit Patterns, as bright and beautiful as a phoenix's tail feathers.

"As expected..."

Li Ye earnestly observed and memorized the Spirit Patterns forming this paradise.

These were very special Spirit Patterns, the complexity of which was the most he'd ever seen, surpassing the ones passed down in the Spirit Plant Hall's Basic Spirit Pattern Collection by an unknown number of times.

While understanding and documenting, he wrapped his Divine Sense Crystal Silk around the pine tree, using the Divine Sense of the Light Snow Phoenix-Tailed Duck as ink, with his own Divine Sense and Spiritual Power as the carving knife, engraving on the "essence" of the pine tree.

This process was quite trying.

For such a divine technique as the Light Snow Phoenix-Tailed Duck's, even an ordinary Golden Core probably couldn't explain it, likely deriving from a phoenix.

Time ticked by.

The squirrels who went out had begun to return, but they didn't bring back many Spirit Beasts or Spirit Plants.

Because most Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants were part of a group, first not willing to leave, and second wanting to resist the spread of Demonic Qi.

The Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants bred by Divine Snow True Man wouldn't simply retreat at the sight of danger.

Moreover, they had ways to preserve their lives, and so declined Li Ye's goodwill.

So those returned were just some smaller Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants.

Like snow foxes, deer, ginseng babies, Lingzhi... Of course, the thousand-year Yang Pole date tree was also brought back.

They gathered in Li Ye's courtyard, not daring to be presumptuous as the Master Senior Brother stood behind Li Ye, looking at them with a faint smile.

As the Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants in the courtyard gradually increased.

The sky outside also visibly darkened, and in the darkness, distorted human figures crawled, their limbs moving.

They were all flocking towards this little courtyard.

The pure Spiritual Qi could alleviate their pain.

But on their attempted path to reach this little courtyard, there were many groups of Spirit Beasts and Spirit Plants—silver deer, a land of icy thorns, ice turtles...

Naturally, they did not hold back against these intruders in their territory, sending out various magical Spiritual Lights like fireworks.

However, what they faced was an invasion from an entire world.

The ever-present white Demonic Qi would gradually erode their living space, and after a while of resistance, realizing their power was insufficient, they opted to mobilize Spiritual Power.

Burying themselves in snow.

The preventive measures left by Divine Snow True Man using the Earth Emotions Technique began to take effect, forcing them into a prolonged "hibernation" without breath.

This way, they were no longer affected by any power, but the downside was that, lacking someone to awaken them, they would remain in slumber until they exhausted their Life Span and their Spiritual Power vanished.

Yet, this truly bought Li Ye some time.

Unlike the panel's nearly instantaneous formidable power, the engraving of Spirit Patterns required Li Ye to open up with his own Spiritual Power, almost akin to relearning a Cultivation Technique.

Thankfully, heaven favored those who try, and in the last moment, Li Ye still managed to finish the engraving—faintly, on the rough bark of the colossal pine tree, bright phoenix tail feathers appeared to take flight.

Accompanied by a sound like a phoenix's cry, they surrounded the courtyard, forming an array.

This array was constructed by Divine Sense, separated from the outside, successfully blocking the invasion of Demonic Qi because, in the eyes of Demonic Qi, or even the world, this place, this little courtyard, did not exist.

Not existing naturally meant it could not be invaded.

"Whew..."

Li Ye sat on the ground, breathing heavily without any regard for appearances.

For a cultivator of the early-stage Golden Core like him, this was truly troublesome—though he had Jianmu and a Small Thousand World, the true men of the Spirit Plant Hall certainly had an endless supply of mana.

Even so, it required the Golden Core mid-period, and for good reason.

If it weren't for a few things he could cheat with, completing this task would have been extraordinarily difficult.

Fortunately, it was a success.

With this success, the path ahead would be much easier.

The beginning is always the hardest after all.

Even the Master Senior Brother couldn't help but praise, "You young boy have great insight, actually managing to successfully perform the Wonderful Spirit Observation Technique at the early-stage Golden Core.

To clarify, a True Man at mid-period a thousand years ago performed this technique, so the requirement was lowered to mid-period. When word gets back, it might be lowered again."

Li Ye simply offered a humble smile in response, "It was just by chance."

He indeed used some tricky ways with his panel.

So he was unwilling to speak more on this matter and instead stood up, commanding the pine tree, "Let's go!"

The power of Divine Sense from the pine tree had already enveloped the whole courtyard.

The fluttering feathers brought the power to levitate the courtyard.

Upon Li Ye's command, the courtyard rose from the ground.

Under the command of the pine tree and the duck's Divine Sense, it swayed as it ascended, with countless phoenix feathers swirling around, drifting towards the distance.

Just like an actual Immortal's palace, it emitted brilliant light, seemingly illusory but truly existing.

Gradually delving into the eternal winter of darkness, entwined with white Demonic Qi.

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