Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel-Chapter 376 - 231: Bitter Sea, Tribulation Fire, and Wine Brewing Arts
"Tribulation Fire."
"I’m not good at naming Spirit Beasts, what do you want to be called?"
"How about just calling it ’Little Tribulation’ then."
Li Ye thought this name was quite nice.
Simple and clear.
However, the rhythm of the Tribulation Ash, which had its spirituality enlightened by the Holy Books Heavenly Inquiry, briefly paused and then expressed obvious reluctance.
Immediately after—
"Whew!"
A flash of fire fell to the ground.
Two characters were burned directly onto the ground: Ming Zhao.
—It meant it wanted to be called Ming Zhao.
"..."
Actually, I think you’re quite uncultured; isn’t this just the first two characters of "The darkness of Ming Zhao, who can fathom it?"
Li Ye silently mocked, but his face wore a gentle smile: "In front of outsiders, I’ll call you Ming Zhao, but between us, it’ll be Little Tribulation."
Only then was the Tribulation Fire satisfied.
It slowly sank into Li Ye’s palm.
Until its entire body touched Li Ye’s hand, emitting a warm heat, then completely relaxed, sprawling in his palm.
Just like a Beaver would lay its head in his hand while he slept, something done out of complete trust.
...
Outside.
The Celestial Tribulation halted.
Mr. Di Sui, along with a white-robed woman full of vigor, appeared in this Primitive Cave Heaven.
The woman spoke first, "How is it?"
"I used the Sea of Learning to temper the fire for him and even invoked the original text of Heavenly Inquiry. Would this repay the favor from Miao Du?"
The youthful-looking Mr. Di Sui, with hands behind his back, shook his head leisurely: "Halfway repaid, perhaps. Later, when enlightening the spirituality of the Tribulation Fire, wasn’t it the Token of the Four Seasons Smooth that exerted its power?
If you truly wish to repay, you should have mobilized the Merit of the Academy."
Hearing this, even the female scholar who had reached the Hongdao Divinity Transformation Realm couldn’t help but roll her eyes: "With the Academy’s Merit? Would that make the Tribulation Fire a member of Bitter Journey or Four Seasons?"
"Would you dare have it belong to Bitter Journey?" Mr. Di Sui seemed amazed, feigned a respectful gesture, "You’re truly audacious, not afraid the old fellow would plant you in the tree?"
Upon mentioning this, the female scholar paused in rare hesitation.
Then she shook her head: "Everyone in our generation who reached Divinity Transformation has been planted in the tree by him. But where the old fellow is now, after creating the Netherworld, he vanished completely."
"Hehe."
Mr. Di Sui did not respond to this.
He stepped forward.
Their figures appeared directly before Li Ye, and he looked at Li Ye with a smile:
"Good lad!"
"You dare stealthily learn our Bitter Journey Academy’s Holy Enlightenment method. I found you a master at Hongdao... that is, Divinity Transformation Realm, call him ’master,’ and it’ll be over."
"How about it?"
Li Ye heard it as mere banter.
With a clever smile, he greeted them: "Greetings, Mr. Di Sui, greetings, Mr. Xianghuai."
Xiang Huai, the female scholar, nodded: "Earlier, I invoked the Sea of Learning for you. Now, I have a favor to ask of you, if it pleases you?"
Her straightforwardness was precisely to Li Ye’s liking.
"Of course."
"If there’s anything you need help with, as long as it’s within my power, I won’t hesitate to assist!"
As soon as the words fell.
The familiar bitterness of the Sea of Learning and the sound of waves arose once more.
A stream of Sea of Learning water appeared again, falling before Li Ye, forcibly condensed by a tremendous power into a page.
On it, in wild cursive script, were written several words:
The method of brewing wine from the Sea of Learning!
The page floated to Li Ye.
He merely glanced over it, absorbing all the contents.
This...
It truly was a method of brewing wine.
By mixing the Sea of Learning water with the Four Seasons Sect’s unique Compassion Wheat, using Tribulation Ash as vats, roasting it with Tribulation Fire, and finally adding the Academy’s particular Spiritual Object called "Wenxin" as yeast, one creates the genuine Bitter Tribulation Wine.
Look at these required materials.
Sea of Learning Water, Compassion Wheat, Tribulation Ash, Wenxin...
What caliber of wine is to be brewed, perhaps the legendary Immortal Brew?
Moreover.
Am I meant to make it?
"Senior, do you mean for me to do this? But I can’t brew wine!" Li Ye was quite helpless, looking at this pile of materials. If he didn’t do it well, how many Spirit Stones would be wasted.
If it were in his own sect, it wouldn’t matter. After all, the masters wouldn’t care about the loss of Spirit Stones, but this was someone else’s home.
He felt that he needed to be cautious.
"Ah." Mr. Sui shook his head: "You can’t, but your Spirit Clam shouldn’t be unfamiliar with this wine.
The Drunken Light Spirit Clam is a Spirit Beast from our Bitter Journey Academy’s Sea of Learning.
Back then, one of your ancestors stole a few and took them away, thus avoiding the disaster that would have wiped out their race when the Bitter Sea was in turmoil. But now, it seems only your Four Seasons Sect still has them."
Ah?
What?
Li Ye took out the Drunken Light Spirit Clam, which looked like half a leaf, and examined it from all angles, still unable to comprehend that this guy was a Spirit Beast from the Sea of Learning?
No, thinking about it this way, it’s not surprising.
No wonder this creature could directly dispel the mist and was so excited about the wine; it was originally the taste of its homeland, right?
"Can you do it?" Li Ye simply shook the clam shell and asked.
"Yes."
An awareness came from within the clam shell.
It was clearly a Golden Core, but it had no fear facing the two Divinity Transformation beings, demanding:
"Bring the Tribulation Ash and Wenxin quickly!"
Xiang Huai agreed directly: "Okay."
Then she lightly shook her sleeve.
A crack appeared in the space, and from it surged out a full hundred thousand jin of Tribulation Ash, floating in mid-air.
Hundered thousand jin of Tribulation Ash.
One tael of Tribulation Ash is equivalent to ten thousand Spirit Stones...
In this moment, wealth truly became tangible.
But even with the Tribulation Ash out, it wasn’t over. The mist that originally enveloped the three of them dispersed, and Xiang Huai spoke solemnly to the exhausted Confucian scholars: 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
"Disciples, hear my command!"
"Now mix these Tribulation Ashes with the Sea of Learning Water to create wine jars, each jar must hold forty-nine jin of wine."
The Confucian scholars, originally slumped, immediately perked up.
Just as if by instinct, they stood straight:
"Yes!"
Under the somewhat strange gazes of Li Ye and Su Ya, these scholars sat on the ground without any regard to their appearance... and started playing with mud, or rather, with Tribulation Ash.
Their expressions were excited and eager.
"Brother, give me another clump of Tribulation Ash!"
"Quick, give me some Sea of Learning Water!"
"Who can draw a jar? Never mind, just make the jar, I’ll paint the designs on it later!"
The Confucian scholars mixed the Sea of Learning Water with the Tribulation Ash to make mud, then collaboratively crafted exceedingly exquisite wine jars, their surfaces carved with numerous intricate designs.
Their elegant and graceful white robes were long muddied, yet each person’s spirits were high, their Spiritual Power even significantly enhanced.
You must know, this is Tribulation Ash!
Every tael of Tribulation Ash is equivalent to the Spiritual Qi from ten thousand pure Spirit Stones.
At this moment, they were not intentionally absorbing the Spiritual Qi from the Tribulation Ash, but through direct contact, the Spiritual Power of the Tribulation Ash and the power of the Sea of Learning inevitably merged into their bodies.
It looked like they were playing with mud and making wine jars, but the influx of Spiritual Qi within them certainly exceeded even what would be gained from continuously taking pills.
Indeed.
As they played, a few mid-Foundation Establishment scholars inexplicably broke through to the late-Foundation Establishment stage, and a few late-Foundation Establishment scholars visibly started showing hints of the Golden Core aura.
Li Ye silently took out a Memory Pearl to record this scene, while Su Ya had long been recording the entire process. The two exchanged glances, seeing the expression of gossip in each other’s eyes.
This truly was somewhat miraculous.
If they were to sell footage of this scene, people would probably think it was fake.
Moreover, he looked at the mud, feeling a slight movement in his heart, cupped his hands to Mr. Xianghuai, and said, "Senior, I have some Spirit Pets with a significant talent for crafting Spiritual Objects from mud. May I allow them to come here?"
Xiang Huai, who seemed to be lost in thought, regained his slightly nuanced gaze, and replied:
"You make your own decision."
"Speaking of which, I have a rather undutiful granddisciple, I’ll call her over to help with crafting the wine jars."
With that, she turned and left.
After a while, a young lady happily came over, quickly joining in the crafting of the wine jars. She seemed very excited, completely indifferent to the mud full of Tribulation Ash on her face, almost about to roll in the ash.
"Hehe." Mr. Di Sui let out a meaningfully ambiguous chuckle.
Li Ye was just about to summon the Beaver to this place.
He stared at the young girl.
Why did he feel that this girl in white seemed somewhat familiar?
Could it be...
An odd thought rose in his mind, and he hurriedly shook his head, flipping the Eight Trigrams Celestial Plate.
Impossible.
How could a dignified Hongdao Divinity Transformation Realm elder be playing with mud?
