"Please grant them life."

Li Ye pointed at those Spirit Eggs: "Even though they were created by me, I’ll still leave your name on them, to be passed down through the generations."

"Oh?" Ying Zhao stretched out his hand and summoned the power in the seedling garden, teasing, "Do you really want to spread my fame, and not just borrow my prestige?"

"Then don’t worry about it!"

Having been exposed, Li Ye still spoke with perfect confidence. After cultivating for so many years, the most useful thing he’d learned was... sometimes, it was actually pretty great to be shameless.

"You child."

"Just who did you learn this thick skin from?"

The Sect Leader couldn’t help but complain: "Don’t go learning both the good and the bad. In the future you’ll be the pillar holding up the Four Seasons Sect; sometimes we still need a bit of face..."

He actually, for once, felt a bit of pity for the future Sect Leader. Sure, that fellow was Li Ye’s senior brother, but having such a troublesome junior was just too miserable, wasn’t it?

"Don’t you go sowing discord between the brothers!"

Su Xing was holding his son, speaking lazily: "He acts shameless with us, but in front of his senior brothers and sisters he’s very well-behaved."

"..."

At this very moment, the urge to retire was overwhelmingly strong.

The Sect Leader wished he could smash the sect’s golden seal directly into Li Ye’s senior brother’s face right now, then take his fishing rod and go to the Suspended Sea to fish for dragons.

But the problem was, he was quite envious of what Li Ye was doing.

If he could finish this before retiring, he’d have plenty more topics to brag about even when playing chess later; it really made it hard for him to let go.

So he decided to endure a bit.

But enduring Li Ye didn’t mean he also had to endure his junior brother who was still standing by and making snide comments while watching the show!

He narrowed his eyes and sized up Jiang Qingqiu, smiling: "Junior Brother’s child is quite talented, and has also gained the help of Nephew Li Ye’s talent. It’d be a shame to waste such a gift.

How about sending him to the Spiritual Fertility Hall to learn a few things?"

Hmm?

When Jiang Qingqiu heard this Sect Leader of the Four Seasons Sect mention him, and then heard it was actually the Spiritual Fertility Hall, he was actually a little happy.

You had to know, that place was the very foundation of the Four Seasons Sect.

For a member of the Spirit Race like him, getting in was not easy. Although the Four Seasons Sect had no such thing as Human Race supremacy, the Spirit Race still had to pay quite a price.

One of the reasons was that their own power and inheritances restricted their wild ideas; if even their minds were shackled, then naturally there was no way to talk about researching new Spiritual Objects.

"Father..." He wrapped his arms around Su Xing’s neck, looking up at his father, eyes sparkling with expectation.

"It’s still a bit early for you to go to the Spiritual Fertility Hall." Su Xing rubbed his head: "I’ll ask your senior brother to teach you some things first. His future is limitless; if you can learn even a tiny bit, it’ll be a good thing."

As if he couldn’t see through the Sect Leader’s malice.

That guy clearly just wanted to squeeze his son dry—anyone could guess what kind of strange Spiritual Object that Turquoise Pool immortal mist was; it would definitely attract the attention of all the cultivators in the Spiritual Fertility Hall.

By then, though his son would be able to quickly blend in, he’d also be very exhausted. He didn’t want this child to get so tired so early; better to let him play to his heart’s content for a while longer.

Even if he had to cram later, he still had confidence.

What’s more, there was this kid Li Ye. After Late-stage Nascent Soul, he’d had something like an epiphany and completely comprehended his own Dao; having him teach more was far, far better than sending the boy to the Spiritual Fertility Hall.

"Hmph."

The Sect Leader knew Su Xing had seen through him.

He gave a cold snort.

Then turned his gaze toward the dragons and phoenixes that had been nurtured from those Spirit Eggs made of gold and jade.

Ying Zhao, huh.

As the Deity of the Celestial Seedling Garden, he naturally possessed the ability to create life, similar to the Candle Dragon.

At this moment, those dragons and phoenixes already possessed life.

Their scales and feathers were a glorious gold and jade luster. If they stayed motionless, you could probably move them straight onto a divine altar and they still wouldn’t feel out of place, so beautiful people would want to hold them in their palms to admire and play with them.

"And then?" Ying Zhao casually picked up a Phoenix, gently stroking its feathers, curious: "Now that they’ve been born, what do you intend?"

He had already sensed them once with his power.

But he hadn’t found anything particularly special about these fellows.

"Don’t rush, don’t rush." This time, Li Ye reached out for more gold and fine jade, and right there on the spot started kneading them into a tree.

The main trunk of the tree had two branches.

On the left was a coral of clear, lustrous jade; on the right was a radiant golden phoenix branch, and Li Ye had even specially infused it with the Power of Jianmu. The two different materials, fused through the trunk and in their essence, appeared incredibly harmonious.

Moreover, the Sect Leader and Su Xing keenly noticed:

"It looks like every branch and leaf on this tree of yours is independent."

"I think I’m starting to understand the ability of your Divine Techniques a bit."

They weren’t fools.

After learning some of the circumstances, it was natural to infer the ability of Li Ye’s Divine Techniques; it was probably a one-to-one strengthening, with power circulating between both sides, achieving a symbiotic, mutually beneficial effect.

"That’s right."

Li Ye didn’t hide anything.

So what if they knew.

Even the Four Seasons Sect, for all its research into Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts, couldn’t achieve something as godlike as his panel, which could almost stably trigger special mutations. Understanding the effect didn’t mean you could imitate it.

He himself had no intention of taking out his most precious Golden Finger and sharing it around.

Doing some good deeds was no big deal.

But it had to belong to him, forever and ever.

In short.

The prerequisites were now fully prepared.

Li Ye began binding them one by one, sending these spirits born of gold and jade into the nests he’d prepared in the branches and leaves of that golden-jade Phoenix Coral Tree.

In this way, they were essentially bound to the tree, yet still retained their own inherent Divine Techniques—this was exactly what Li Ye intended.

He did not plan to bind these gold-and-jade dragons and phoenixes permanently like the Candle Dragon Spirit Flower; instead, he wanted them to each choose a person or object, help them obtain a certain power, and at the same time provide the "space" of the golden-jade Coral Phoenix Tree.

"Please watch."

After completing the binding, Li Ye directly pulled out a Beaver that had been lying on its back asleep. The little guy still looked confused as it was lifted by the scruff of its neck, instinctively hugging its tail and wanting to gnaw a few bites.

But once it sensed Li Ye’s aura, it immediately became excited, struggling to climb up onto the back of his hand.

"Easy." Li Ye knocked it on the head, then summoned a Dragon Spirit. That golden-jade dragon directly coiled around the Beaver’s body, then turned into a faint pattern that was almost impossible to detect.

The Beaver’s eyes flashed with a gleam.

Then it vanished.

"Hm? Where did it go?"

"Is it here?"

The Sect Leader looked at that Phoenix Coral Tree, and sure enough, on one of the leaves he saw the Beaver, busying itself in a space that wasn’t exactly big, but far from small.

The space was a blank whiteness; only a few chunks of gold and fine jade lay across the ground, with nothing else.

It seemed to adapt instantly, and had also been granted some innate abilities.

It started working away, huffing and puffing.

As it dug and casually molded, the shapes of those pieces of gold and jade changed, actually turning into gold-and-jade-furred Beavers, each about the same size as it, with a little flower perched on their heads.

If it were only this, the people present probably wouldn’t have been that shocked; after all, the jade itself contained dense Spiritual Qi, and forming Puppet Array Spirits and such Spiritual Objects would be child’s play.

However.

Those gold-and-jade-furred Beavers... were complete.

The structures inside their bodies were exactly the same as ordinary Beavers; they even truly possessed the ability to reproduce and multiply.

How was this possible?

How could this be?