Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel-Chapter 717 - 401: You Are All My Friends

Saint Realm.

This world is quite peculiar.

Suspended in the sky is the "Ring" created by the Holy Temple.

Or perhaps, an eyeball.

It will open its eye at a certain time upon command, and from its eye, infinite light bursts forth, illuminating the entire world.

In any case, with the sensing ability of the Azure Gold Ant, Li Ye could already feel the surroundings as if sunshine was spilling over, yet it was unbearably scorching and intense... holy radiance.

Clearly, there are many crops growing around, and one can also see villages stretching continuously, but this violent holy light still made him feel a bit nauseous.

Yet he continued to endure the nausea and watched on.

And then he could see more.

Seeing those mortals struggling to survive, wearing coarse clothing, without even shoes, leaving bloody trails as they dragged their feet across the hard, rocky ground.

On land illuminated by "Holy Light," normal crops hardly grew; only a kind resembling wheat, but with extremely sharp surfaces and leaves akin to a First Tier Spiritual Artifact, could produce fruits for mortals to consume.

Every harvest required all their strength, and even left them covered in cuts; some who failed to dodge in time might even have their arms or legs severed, with blood staining the holy land more vividly.

As for those precious fruits gathered, most of them would be taken by the Holy Temple people in luxurious robes waiting nearby, leaving only barely enough to stave off hunger for the mortals.

Even so, those mortals could only kneel and bow, praising the great virtues of Holy Light.

Seeing these things through the perspective of the Azure Gold Ant left Li Ye quite numb.

How could there be such foolish people?

Faith isn’t meant to be extracted, and even the faith created by cultivators at the Qi Refining level is far greater than that of ordinary mortals. This kind of foolish method of extracting faith had not been seen by him for quite a long time.

When was the last time he saw this?

Seems like... back during Foundation Establishment?

But what exactly was instilling such an irresistible force of belief?

Hmm...

As it spins around.

The Sun and Moon Ring emerges.

Hanging quietly on Li Ye’s ear, it voices:

"Your perception is correct."

"This sunlight here is all condensed from faith."

"Rather than saying the sun is selflessly spreading its light to all beings, it is more apt to say it extracts the light of faith and thus forms the space in which all crops can grow."

The Sun and Moon Ring, refined long ago, is already far stronger than an Array Spirit, not only helping Li Ye understand the situation here but also analyzing the construct of the faith magic here.

How to say...

Quite crude but highly efficient.

Because humans are born to live.

As for the environment they live in...

Humans always have a very strong adaptability, coupled with the influence of those Deity powers, even this violent and harsh holy light allows those struggling to survive to live.

"What is the significance of such Deities?"

Li Ye murmured to himself: "With such oppression of the vitality of the Human Race, what must be exchanged for must be unimaginable things.

So.

Let me see what it is exactly."

He closed his eyes.

Then ordered the Azure Gold Ant to begin gnawing at the spirituality of its location, with the consciousness sustaining the Holy Light and the twisted awareness of Celestial Dao quickly being sent to the Azure Cradled Peach through its mouth.

One could clearly see within the halo atop its head, a phantom of a Cradled Peach rapidly taking shape, inside which enveloped the struggling Spiritual Light or, perhaps, spirituality.

This scene made Li Ye’s heart heavy for a moment.

Logically, he had already experimented.

If the Azure Cradled Peach were to "devour" spirituality, such a situation would not occur, as spirituality cannot resist the suppression of the Azure Cradled Peach; even the spirituality of the Tao Furnace Realm being devoured would have to admit defeat.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Tao Furnace Realm was so tense.

But now, the spirituality of the Saint Realm can actually struggle within the Azure Cradled Peach, which explains.

"This world has already been corroded by that so-called Holy Light God."

"Now being devoured is a part of its Divine Body."

"Heh."

He should have known long ago.

But why didn’t that Deity resist at all?

This is consuming its body.

Even people would be painfully desperate in such a situation, wishing to cut themselves open to remove the parasite.

Why is it so calm?

Li Ye was puzzled, so he summoned Ke Yu.

Then waved his hand.

Constructing an Illusion Realm around them almost identical to the Saint Realm.

This familiar environment made Ke Yu’s body tremble slightly, clearly having many not-so-pleasant experiences here, enough to make him uncomfortable even as a Nascent Soul cultivator.

"I know what you want to ask."

He deeply sighed: "The people here, or rather all beings, upon birth, undergo rituals from the Holy Temple, imprinting a special mark on their bodies.

Possessing this mark allows them to communicate with other marked individuals.

And even share their happiness, pain, joy, and emotions, even knowledge can be shared this way.

As for sharing, it only requires a bit of insignificant damage as a cost.

Yet some people refuse to do so, hiding deep underground or in corners, where Holy Light cannot illuminate, to resist the Holy Temple.

The Holy Temple and the vast majority believe that what they offer will become nourishment for the Deities, one day giving birth to a Deity to lead them into eternal bliss..."

With his narration.