"Oh?"

Li Ye landed in the bamboo grove.

He reached out and gently stroked these still tender bamboos, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

There were inscriptions from Bitter Journey Academy on these bamboos.

And it was a particularly special character—"Light".

The exquisite inscription emitted power that soaked into the bamboo body of the Ten Thousand Sinking Bamboo, radiating a jade-like green glow.

Every character from Bitter Journey Academy possessed power.

And "Light" was the most outstanding among them.

Many students of Bitter Journey Academy first learned to write this character.

Penetrating the fog, illuminating the night...

The Enlightenment Method that Li Ye had secretly learned before was greatly related to this character.

"You guys learn so quickly."

He thought of those creatures flipping through books, and suddenly had a strange thought that he was not even as good as a nest of ants.

After all, they actually read a lot of books.

The unique ecological structure of the Bamboo Wood Ant allowed them to freely impart their knowledge to their kind, just like countless book-loving Bamboo Wood Ants uplifting the whole clan.

Li Ye initially thought they were only learning about building magical treasures, but it turned out they were already studying the inscriptions of Bitter Journey Academy!

"How many more surprises can you bring me?"

"Could it be that even the Confucian scholars of the academy won't be your match in the future?"

While sighing, he didn't stay here any longer.

Because.

The beaver had just sent a message.

The waters of Weichuan connected to the Sea Spirit Land, bringing along some...

Peculiar items.

Li Ye quickly rushed to the east of the Small Thousand World, where he found a beaver sitting with a furrowed brow on the dike.

Flowing out from this dike.

Was sea water carrying the smell of the salty sea breeze!

Not just seawater, but also a constant outflow of extremely beautiful, sand-like corals, appearing in the colors of the green sea and blue sky, mixed with a tinge of silver-gray.

Oh.

Isn't this the Green Sea Spirit Reef?

How did they get here?

Li Ye became interested immediately, standing by and holding the beaver in his arms, stroking its head.

He was noting the state of the Green Sea Spirit Reef, completely unaware that the beaver was almost fainting from happiness.

Admiring the posture of Celestial Beings isn't limited to the human race.

As long as they're not creatures of the Demon Path, they would be shocked by the posture of Celestial Beings. The beaver being held by Li Ye was thoroughly excited at this moment.

It even shook its paws, taking some small recording magical devices to capture this moment, especially recording Li Ye's posture in it.

Going to show off to its companions later.

It even thought up the phrase it would boast with—"I am indeed the most pampered by the master!"

The beaver was so excitedly fantasizing about shaking its entire clan with this, while those Green Sea Spirit Reefs underwent some changes—

After flowing out, they quickly solidified on the ground.

The clear and profound blue gradually expanded on the ground, as if trying to form a sea on the land—during the expansion, seawater flowed out from it.

This seawater also contained sand-like coral.

They eroded the land, and before long, created large pits into which seawater surged, yet the colors around those pits were not clear blue, but silver-gray.

"Oh?"

Li Ye casually walked into a large pit.

The instant he entered,

He felt the unique spiritual power fluctuations of the Sea Spirit Land, and the large pit supported by silver-gray power was no longer part of the Small Thousand World.

The interior of the pit was directly connected to his cave mansion's Sea Spirit Land!

This means...

The coral worms of the Green Sea Spirit Reef came here through the waters of Weichuan themselves, able to gnaw at the seams of space, not truly making the land disappear, but sending it back into the Sea Spirit Land?

This discovery particularly astonished Li Ye.

Space itself is extremely complex, even the Jianmu within him exercised extreme caution, daring not to be negligent.

Yet now, these corals could cross who-knows-how-long distances, connecting two places—and when he entered, he didn't feel the spiritual power being drawn, nor any tremor of space.

This indicated an unusually tight spatial connection between these two places.

Even more stable than a spatial array.

He pondered for a moment, looking around at the ground gradually becoming rounded, with a thin film of silver-gray power.

This shape...

Suddenly something crossed his mind.

He promptly turned back into his cave mansion, delving deep into the Sea Spirit Land, where he indeed saw...

Sinking Sea Shells!

Those enormous Sinking Sea Shells were resting in the dazzling coral clusters, leisurely absorbing the coral, and condensing within their grand shells a large, lustrous pearl.

Within the translucent pearl, one could distinctly see the scenery inside his Small Thousand World—those pits, perfectly rounded pits, were precisely these pearls!

But it wasn't just that.

Even without a panel, Li Ye could clearly see that these Sinking Sea Shells, or the entire Sea Spirit Land, had already "bound" with the Green Sea Spirit Reef.

Their aura was tightly connected.

Its rank had long reached the level of a Golden Core.

[Name]: Green Sea Spirit Coral Worm·Void Nether·Sea Spirit Land Spirit

[Mood]: Busy

[State]: Completely merged the power of the Void Nether Grass. It can gradually gain control over all sea creatures related to the Void Nether Power, transforming the entire sea region into its coral reef.

Within the range of the coral reef, when there's sufficient Void Nether Power, it can gnaw through spatial fluctuations or condense to create spatial passages or spatial essences.

Currently, it is using [Sinking Sea Shell·Void Nether] to craft pearls filled with spiritual power and spirituality from soil.

"..."

"You truly are developing quietly."

Even Li Ye momentarily was left speechless. He wasn't ignoring his cave mansion, and the Spiritual Mechanism Vine was helping him oversee the changes in the cave mansion.

But even the Spiritual Mechanism Vine hadn't noticed the changes in the Sea Spirit Land, which showed how terrifying its ability to hide truly was.

No wonder back then, the Spiritual Mechanism Vine mentioned this guy's increasing demand for the Void Nether Stone, though Li Ye, by then, was wealthy enough to give it whatever it needed.

He thought it would be a long transformation, waiting slowly for the results, but now it seemed tremendous changes had already occurred.

However.

Previously, it always hid its abilities.

But now suddenly showcased them, for what purpose?

Suddenly, the sea water surged.

"Huala~ Huala~"

Amidst the sound of waves came a very clear intent:

"Master."

"Please come in."

"This is... the gift you hadn't discovered before."

With the surge of waves and consciousness, within the coral clusters as clear as the green sea and blue sky, appeared a descending staircase.

Silver-gray light surrounded that staircase.

Secluded from any possibility of being spied upon.

The Spiritual Mechanism Vine, having hurried over upon inquiry, nearly erupted upon seeing that tunnel, quite surprised: "It could construct such a passage right under my nose?"

"Must have some expert advising it behind the scenes."

Li Ye wasn't too concerned.

After all, this was his cave mansion, long connected to his life force, even in case of anomaly, it wouldn't possibly harm him.

Thus he was somewhat curious.

What's down there?

To allow these Green Sea Spirit Reefs to transform from larvae and create such a concealed secret place in no time?

He proceeded down the stairs unhurriedly.

Without using Divine Sense to scan.

But observing the gradually clearing environment ahead.

By the time he walked down the last step, his vision opened up completely, presenting a small azure pool.

Sitting quietly inside was a long-haired, extremely exquisite-featured little merfolk, with a strand of moonlight adorning her forehead.

She leaned her head wearily against the edge of the pool.

Her lower body was a somewhat short, shimmering azure fish tail.

Li Ye furrowed his brows.

He spoke: "An unexpected guest is unwelcome."

"How did you arrive in my cave mansion, and what do you wish to obtain?"

He didn't act directly.

Because he sensed in her a power exactly the same as the deathly moon power of Yang Ke.

Moon Soul Horror Curse.

This little merfolk before him was also entangled with this curse.

And was close to death.

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