Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel-Chapter 378 - 232: Brewing Wine with Tribulation Fire, Heavenly Color Stone Carving
That’s why he’s been locked up by me.
The current mountain head prefers to directly settle this six-thousand-year-old enmity.
Do you want to learn it?"
In a trance, Li Ye saw a ginkgo tree that covered the sky and the sun, with chains growing from its branches, almost every chain binding a figure, while the ginkgo leaves fluttered with the wind.
As if it would last till the end of time.
There was no doubt that this was the true form of the Di Sui ginkgo.
So Mr. Di Sui studied Divine Techniques of the Legalist School—is it really a fine tradition to plant people into trees?
"Sure, I’ll learn."
After all, possessing more skills never burdens one.
Besides, Li Ye felt that he had some ties with the Painting Path, whether it was the Life Breath Spirit Transformation Scroll from the past, the subsequent Heart-Scapes, or the Dharma Method he was about to learn now.
More or less, they were likely related to the legacy of the Painting Path here at Bitter Journey Academy.
Now that a big shot from Bitter Journey Academy was willing to teach him, why not learn?
Especially with the support from his sect, learning it wouldn’t lead to being schemed against or anything, even if it was bait, so what?
...
Soon enough.
A series of wine jars were completed.
These wine jars were extremely exquisite. After all, the Confucian scholars here were all learning the Painting Path, and each one was quite skillful. The patterns and paintings on the wine jars were lifelike.
The most ostentatious jar was painted by a Golden Core Scholar, who managed to depict ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine wintersweet flowers on a half-man tall wine jar.
Each wintersweet flower had a completely different form.
At a glance, you could even feel a clear scent of plum blossoms drifting by the nose, resembling more an heirloom of the mundane world than a mere wine jar.
The delicacy of other wine jars did not fall behind either.
However, among these wine jars, there were a few peculiar ones...
Simple.
They looked just like those large jars placed in farmyards to store water, with a somewhat mushy surface. To insist, they seemed like unfinished molds, simply highlighting their crudeness.
Who would have thought such crude wine jars were crafted out of so much Tribulation Ash and Sea of Learning Water?
"Ji ji."
The beavers stood calmly beside Li Ye, tiptoeing to touch the Eight Trigrams Celestial Plate on his wrist, feeling utterly humiliated. It’s better to return to their clan to build the dam.
"...You’ve done well enough."
"Why don’t you go take a rest first?"
Li Ye patted their heads one by one, intending to send them back, when suddenly, a white-robed girl spoke up:
"Little... Dao You."
"I noticed their aura seems odd, are they perhaps about to form their Golden Cores?
I have here a token that I once acquired in a Grotto Heaven, which can help them remove their demon aura during the core formation.
Consider it as a reward for helping me make wine jars."
Saying this, she tossed the wooden token over, bending down with a bright smile at the beavers, saying, "See you again, little ones."
Then she reluctantly left.
Li Ye glanced down briefly at the token in his hand, then nodded at the beavers.
"Ji ji!"
As she walked away, the beavers promptly chased after her, gifting her some small tokens.
The white-robed girl left joyously, carrying an assortment of seashells, twigs, and lotus petals.
Before long.
The dashing white-robed mountain head, Mr. Xianghuai, returned.
She appeared very composed.
With a wave of her hand, she released dozens of bright, lifelike hearts that still throbbed, each falling into the wine jars.
Nodding toward Li Ye, she said, "Little friend, I’ll leave it to you then."
She acted as if nothing had happened, as if the white-robed girl who had been having fun with clay wasn’t her at all—yet Li Ye knew that was definitely her.
Why was she so friendly with the beavers?
She really was an odd person.
Li Ye suppressed his doubts, nodding in response, retrieving the Drunken Light Spirit Clam, along with some Compassion Wheat grains, thankful for having cultivated quite a bit over time.
The once laissez-faire, borderline nonchalant Drunken Light Spirit Clam gently floated up, its shell slightly opening, revealing its Golden Core without reservation.
An immensely rich fragrance of alcohol rapidly filled the air.
"Thump thump."
The Confucian scholars at the Foundation Establishment stage from afar fainted one by one upon inhaling the wine aroma, lying scattered around in blissful slumber, all with flushed faces, sleeping soundly.
The Golden Core scholars barely held on but soon succumbed as well, with even Su Ya swaying slightly, almost fainting, had Li Ye not caught him in time.
"Are you alright?"
"I’m fine, just didn’t expect the wine aroma to be this rich." Su Ya shook his head, standing straight again.
Not far away.
A whiff of wine air circled around the wine jars.
"Master."
"Now’s the moment!"
The consciousness of the Drunken Light Spirit Clam transmitted.
Li Ye immediately brought forth the Tribulation Fire Spirit into the world, and as soon as the Tribulation Fire appeared, the space around them showed signs of collapse, with clouds gathering once more in the sky.
The entry of the Tribulation Fire Spirit into the world always resulted in such phenomena.
Fortunately, Mr. Xianghuai gracefully raised a hand, giving a slight wave.
The tribulation clouds immediately dissipated.
Without the interference of the tribulation clouds, the Tribulation Fire burned fiercely, encircling the wine jars. During the conflagration, Tribulation Ash was bonded by the power of the Sea of Learning, with the Tribulation Fire directly integrating into the wine jars.
Soon enough—
"Boom!"
The Drunken Light Spirit Clam split open entirely, with its shells falling onto the wine jars, enlarging to seal them completely shut.
"Done."
The Spirit Clam was evidently heavily exhausted, now only half its original size, falling weakly into Li Ye’s hand, in a state of "Weakened" and "Close to Death."
Terrified, Li Ye promptly injected it with significant energy and sent it into the Jianmu for recuperation.
"Convey my thanks to the Spirit Clam, little friend."
Mr. Xianghuai smiled gently at Li Ye, then with a wave of her hand collected all the wine jars, leaving behind three she had made with the beavers for Li Ye.
"These wines must be sealed for ten years. Once the time comes, you’ll understand what’s inside..."
She left playfully, taking the wine jars, leaving behind a hinting mystery.
Leaving Mr. Di Sui sighing helplessly: "Since she’s gone, I can now hand this over to you."
He reached into his robe.
Retrieving a stone slab roughly half a man’s height.
On the slab was a simplistic stone carving of a lotus flower, devoid of any color, just the plain gray-white texture of stone.
"What’s this?" Li Ye felt a strange stirring within, extending a hand to lightly touch it.
The surface felt rough, like aged, weathered rock, devoid of any trace of Spiritual Qi, even giving an odd prickly sensation upon touch.
"This is a Heavenly Color Stone Carving." Mr. Di Sui tapped the slab proudly, "It’s a treasure that only our Bitter Journey Academy can create.
If, little friend, you manage to dye this lotus flower with various colors, it’ll impart the Dharma Method I mentioned to you.
Of course, I speak not of ordinary colors, but those derived from the essence of all things to color it.
It’s not easy, you know."
"Can anything be used as pigment?" Li Ye’s eyes glimmered with a spark of curiosity.
"Of course."
"The myriad phenomena of the world, anything and everything can be used!"
As he finished, he watched Li Ye take his glass bracelet, without hesitation, take a glass bead, grinding it into powder, and then, with a finger dipped, smudging it upon the carved lotus petals.
Mr. Di Sui’s eyelid twitched incessantly.
This.
This is supposed to be a treasure of the Celestial Dao.
Even their ancestors seemingly hadn’t tried painting the stone wall with colors of the Celestial Dao.
What will happen indeed?
