Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel-Chapter 193 - 146: Split Sand and Fill Sea, Shaping Water into Mountains
It seems reasonable enough, but Li Ye still couldn’t understand what kind of magic could create something out of nothing.
So, matter is not conserved, huh?
Noticing the confusion on his face, the senior brother chuckled softly: "Heart-Scapes is a type of magic that relies on imagination as its power. If you keep digging into it, you’ll never be able to master it.
Besides, this technique can only be performed on land where heart-power is abundant. Perhaps in the future, I will find a way to use it effortlessly in the outside world.
But not now.
Come, give it a try and see if you can use your heart power to split these grains of sand."
He pointed at Li Ye, imparting a magic technique to him.
Split Sand and Fill Sea!
Li Ye sat slowly on the beach and began to channel his mana.
He had performed the Earth Emotions Technique many times before; it had become as natural as breathing.
Colored spiritual power surged from his fingertips, spreading and growing like the roots of a spirit plant among the sand grains.
The senior brother beside him displayed a slight hint of surprise in his eyes.
Such complex yet orderly spiritual power, combined with familiar spatial spiritual power, seems his junior brother indeed has remarkable opportunities.
It’s a pity, though, that he knows his current situation. He can only impart some knowledge to Li Ye before fading away.
"Master."
The little beaver, Bai, had appeared beside him at some unknown point.
He picked up the beaver and lay on the beach, placing Bai on his chest, his starlit eyes showing a hint of helplessness.
Yet his smile remained bright and sunny.
"What I taught you about Heart-Scenes is not meant to be used this way."
"What you’re displaying now is merely a shadow of me from your imagination. How can we cultivators indulge in the past?"
The beaver stared at its "master," not speaking, only chirping twice and pointing to a wound on its abdomen.
That wound was cut by a lotus petal made from Qi Fortune’s Bright Gold. It still carried the resentment Qi of the Hungry Ghost, unable to be dispelled, constantly affecting its body and spiritual power.
"Oh?"
The senior brother smiled: "Consider it your punishment. I don’t know how long you’ll last, but I know my true body hasn’t perished.
Why do you trouble yourself so?"
Upon hearing that its master’s true body had not died, the beaver Bai’s eyes flared with a terrifying light of heart power.
But a moment later, it all dimmed.
A place even the True Man Suoxing couldn’t find, a place where it couldn’t predict despite millennia of accumulated heart power—likely it would not see its master again in its lifetime.
It slowly collapsed on its master’s belly, closing its eyes and chirping several times.
"Oh, you say the Blood Spirit Whale has eroded your body."
"That’s quite normal, considering it has some connections with me. Its blood may currently contain the purest of golden sands."
"But if you wish to use its power to manifest me from the Heart-Scene, it’s impossible."
The senior brother slowly stroked the now-aging fur of the beaver, comforting it: "You’ve waited this long; just wait a little longer...
Master, his elder self, surely knows about what’s happening here. He will help you sort out this mess.
Don’t be afraid; he is my master, so he’ll naturally care for you too. Accept punishment for mistakes, and everything else doesn’t matter.
I don’t want to return one day and find you gone."
After comforting the beaver for a while, he sat up and gazed at Li Ye in the distance, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
—He saw that the grains of sand near Li Ye were slowly wriggling. Though they weren’t splitting as fast as his, there were signs of splitting.
More surprisingly, those splitting grains of sand weren’t identical to the original; each had tiny variations.
These minute variations were incredible.
This slight change meant the grains weren’t just "copied" but new grains born attached to the original.
Even if thrown into the vast ocean, it remained a unique grain of sand, not a copy of another.
Li Ye seemingly hadn’t been cultivating for long, yet he had such a deep understanding of soil and sand?
He really couldn’t comprehend it.
But since his junior brother had this ability, he could later teach him another divine technique.
...
When Li Ye exhausted his energy, panting heavily.
Only then did the beach move half an inch towards the sea.
But even so, the senior brother was quite satisfied, continually praising, "You’ve done well! I didn’t expect you to extend the sand by half an inch on your first try.
Here, as promised, Ruo Wood and Spring Beauty Autumn Peach."
The senior brother readily handed two light globes to Li Ye, then used a divine technique to restore Li Ye’s mana.
He seemed eager to impart some knowledge to Li Ye, and after the Split Sand and Fill Sea lesson ended, he directly led Li Ye into the sea.
He grabbed a handful of seawater:
"Look."
"Heart-Scenes also has a special ability to change the five elements attribute. Just now, you merely split the sand grain. Now, I will teach you how to transform water into earth, shaping mountains from water."
"This divine technique is an advanced Earth Emotions Technique. You’ve studied the Emotion Song and should understand that all things are sentient, not just the earth, but all things in the universe."
The seawater in his hand was infused with white heart power, gradually turning from liquid to a clay-like substance, which he kneaded freely.
With his movements, the seawater clumped into blue planks, piled up to form a small mountain.
"..."
"Can it really work?"
Li Ye reached out to touch the mountain, discovering it was entirely earth, devoid of water’s characteristics, and he even felt it was fertile enough for planting.
The senior brother nodded:
"This is the fantasy power of Heart-Scapes."
"I can fully transform seawater with heart power, but you need the help of Qi of the Five Elements."
"Do you have any object with the Power of the Five Elements?"
Li Ye thought for a moment, then took out a bottle of Earth Gourd Oil: "Would this work?"
—Actually, his Jianmu world had Earth Element Qi, but he brought this to see how the senior brother would react.
"Oh?" The senior brother took the jade bottle and examined it: "This is quite good, filled with spirituality, seemingly a product of the spirit of gourd and turtle combined.
As far as I know, it’s not a registered species of our sect but a new type.
Junior brother, you seem to have many opportunities."
He glanced at Li Ye, then removed the cork of the jade bottle, pouring the gourd oil into the water, and once again imparted a magic technique to Li Ye.
This technique was called "Shaping Water into Mountains."
The previous one was Split Sand and Fill Sea, so would the others involve Wood, Gold, and Fire attributes?
Li Ye didn’t know; he hadn’t thought that far.
Such divine techniques were evidently extraordinary; queries could wait. For now, he preferred to master these divine techniques quickly.
However, the spellcasting process this time was not smooth.
The previous technique barely extended the Earth Emotion Technique. This, however, had some relevance but wasn’t significant.
It extended from pure earth to encompass the broader realm of universal phenomena.
This was a new domain.
Even though Li Ye frequently relied on the panel and the power of the Emotion Song to perceive the灵pet and spirit beasts’ understanding of phenomena, he still took ten whole days to finally hold a handful of seawater.
Yet, within that seawater, whether due to added Earth Gourd Oil or not, it refused to form into regular earth but grew naturally into something with a shell like a gourd mixed with the form of a turtle.
It looked as if a turtle had shed its shell within a gourd.
At first glance, it was reminiscent of the Turtle Spirit Gourd tribe.
Even the senior brother was stunned.
"You."
"How could you mold such an elf?"
"Why is this Heart Soil Spirit shaking and restless?"
"Its current state is formed by the Heart Power and the spiritual gourd oil, along with the All Things Sentient Method, creating this Earth Spirit."
The senior brother gasped.
"You."
"How did you manage to create an elf like this?"
"This should be capable of understanding any Five Elements Spirit Beast related to heart power."
Li Ye thought for a while and produced a bottle of Earth Gourd Oil from his belongings: "Will this do?"
The senior brother took the jade bottle, looked at it, then poured the gourd oil into the water before teaching Li Ye another technique.
This time, however, the process wasn’t smooth.
The previous divine technique barely worked with the Earth Element Qi. But this spanned the broad realm of All Things Sentient.
This was a whole new domain.
Even though Li Ye often used the panel along with the Emotion Song to understand the Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts in the realm of all things, it still took him a total of more than ten days to finally grasp a handful of seawater.
However, within that seawater, whether due to an excess of the Earth Gourd Oil added, it just wouldn’t form into a properly compressed earth, but rather instinctively grew into something with the carapace of a gourd and limbs, head, and tail of a turtle.
It looked like a turtle emerged from a gourd.
Momentarily, it bore a resemblance to the Turtle Spirit Gourd tribe.
Even the senior brother was stunned.
"You."
"Why were you able to create an elf like this?"
