The beaver, urged on by the cat’s rapid-fire words, reluctantly hopped down, standing on the ground and looking over here.
Li Ye: "..."
Zhuge Ya: "..."
What on earth is up with these two Spiritual Objects.
Even their temperants are this amusing.
"Don’t be anxious." Li Ye rubbed his brow, reached out and beckoned to the cat, and the latter, without another word, sprang straight into his arms.
Then obediently curled up and lay down.
Judging from this practiced movent, it was clearly sothing it had done many tis.
It was almost second nature by now.
The beaver, however, seeing its own "Heaven" like this, grew anxious and clawed at Li Ye’s clothes: "What about , what about ! Master, don’t forget !"
This kind of blunt vying for favor really was a first.
Just as Li Ye was about to pick it up as well, the cat suddenly spoke: "You oaf, your whole body’s all tendon and muscle, heavy as the earth itself. What if you tire out Master?"
"Can’t you feel a little heartache for our Master."
"Every day he worries deeply, and he even went into the River of Cosmic Light to bring our souls back. You’re really not cute at all!"
The tone carried a kind of "hate iron for not becoming steel" feeling.
Yet it itself clutched tightly at Li Ye’s clothes, its face pressed so close it was almost flattened, claws practically hooking into the fabric.
Through the Emotion Song, Li Ye could faintly sense a bit of its mood. Roughly... this Master is even more handso and better-slling than that Master, and holding feels even more comfortable, so I absolutely can’t let the beaver steal anything...
Well then.
You really are quite the scher.
Li Ye clicked his tongue in amazent and rubbed its satin-like fur.
He didn’t expose it.
He had figured it out: this fellow and that beaver were clearly one willing to hit and the other willing to be hit; why should he be the bad guy here.
The beaver below, hearing the cat’s words, really did beco so pitiful that it didn’t dare co up, and could only stare over here with longing eyes.
Zhuge Ya watched from the side, even taking out so pumpkin seeds and slowly cracking them.
Li Ye ignored him and asked the cat in his arms:
"Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Did you... foresee or calculate sothing."
The cat hesitated for a mont, then said softly:
"In truth, this is to accumulate rit for us."
"The Heaven and Earth we form can block the intrusion of Tribulation Qi—because we ca from a tributary of the River of Cosmic Light, but the living beings and existences we save will truly and genuinely provide rit.
In this way, when the great tribulation ends, we can use this rit to exchange for the chance to permanently dwell in this Chaotic Cosmos, not be rejected, and even gain the opportunity to bear offspring."
So that was it.
Li Ye nodded in sudden understanding.
His mind imdiately began pondering how to make good use of their abilities.
Tribulation Qi.
In recent days, so research results had already been delivered.
Among them was a letter from Gu Qing, one of the founders of the Mixed-Origin School, which stood at daggers drawn with the Gnostic School.
He told Li Ye.
At the instant Tribulation Qi rises.
Everything that can be affected by Tribulation Qi will be "anchored."
As long as even a trace of Tribulation Qi appears, the entire world will sooner or later be tainted by it; even with their efforts, so uncontrollable disasters would still arise.
But, very strangely, mortals would not be anchored by Tribulation Qi.
In other words, they are only affected because their surrounding environnt changes; if the environnt itself has no problem, they will not encounter tribulation.
This really was very peculiar.
Even a senior like Gu Qing could not thoroughly figure out what kind of mystery lay within.
Thus, this also ant that building shelters for mortals was entirely feasible.
However, if one wanted to build so-called shelters, unless they were those Upper Realm artifacts that could truly and completely isolate Tribulation Qi, then they had to be entirely newborn Spiritual Objects—ones that had never appeared before in the world.
The Spiritual Objects required to maintain the operation of a world were not things that ordinary items could manage.
Even if people just muddled through day by day.
At the very least, there had to be Spiritual Qi, right.
At the very least, there had to be enough food, and land, and water, right.
And all of these had to be species that had never appeared in the current Chaotic Cosmos; that really wasn’t easy, or rather... a wild fancy.
Li Ye had thought likewise before.
Because the hardest part was the foundation that made up Heaven and Earth.
That "outer shell," the walls of the shelter.
He had pondered for a long ti and still hadn’t co up with what kind of new species could form Heaven and Earth, and hadn’t expected that this problem would now be solved.
As long as there was a Heaven that could provide cover, and an Earth one could stand upon.
Everything else would no longer be a problem.
Li Ye had even already been researching how to birth new species and had achieved quite a bit; he only lacked a "Heaven and Earth."
And now he actually had them.
Then he could begin implenting his plan.
He had no power to save those worlds already fallen into Tribulation Qi; his strength, however inexhaustible, had limits, but protecting so lucky mortals was still within his ability.
So.
He patted the cat’s head.
And said in a deep voice: "Then I’ll entrust this matter to you. Help construct a new world in the Chaotic Outer Domain, and then I’ll send my beavers to sow.
That will be a refuge, a place where those unable to resist Tribulation Qi can live and work in peace—if you can complete this, I will do everything within my power to help you fulfill your wish.
This is my promise."
Seeing him so solemn.
The cat and the beaver stopped speaking in their usual cutesy way as well.
They also nodded seriously:
"Rest assured!"
"Leave it to us!"
After speaking, they leapt up.
The power of Dao Fan seed to know what they were about to do as well.
It opened a portal leading to the Chaotic Outer Domain.
Li Ye watched them enter that region of pure chaos and closed his eyes for a mont.
Zhuge Ya, beside him, asked:
"Is this really feasible."
Li Ye let out a soft sigh:
"We can only pin our hopes on them."
"I’ll go on ahead; there are still many matters to attend to."
Zhuge Ya nodded and rose to see Li Ye off.
As he watched Li Ye leave, he couldn’t resist the itch in his hands and took out another Eight Trigrams Plate, giving it a light shake.
But that Eight Trigrams Plate instantly shattered.
His palm was blown bloody by the exploding plate, yet he didn’t care in the least and simply looked at his hand.
Murmuring with great certainty:
"It seems it truly is feasible."
"I can’t even glimpse the slightest bit of Heaven’s secret."
"If it weren’t feasible, how could it have such far-reaching impact?"
Even though he’d just been blasted like that, his mood clearly improved a great deal; humming an off-key little tune, he was about to head back.
When he saw Wen Suiyue of Bitter Journey Academy hurrying over.
She really was in a rush; beads of sweat had even ford on her forehead.
She walked straight up to Zhuge Ya, looked him up and down, and said anxiously:
"Where is True Man Lingye?"
"Why isn’t he here."
Zhuge Ya shook his head: "He just left. What do you seek him for?"
"...I just received word from the Academy." Wen Suiyue’s eyes held an unconcealable excitent and thrill: "The legacy of my forefather, who was once a mighty expert of the Painting Path, is currently in True Man Lingye’s hands.
The Academy has instructed to reclaim that legacy at any cost."
"Oh?" Zhuge Ya shook his bloodstained hand: "At any cost? That sounds quite interesting. For example, are you going to fight the Four Seasons Sect.
In that case, I’d have to stand on Brother Li’s side."
Fight?
Only then did Wen Suiyue realize that the way she’d phrased it was sowhat misleading.
She quickly waved her hands: "How could we possibly fight? We’re rely willing to pay an extrely high price, that’s all.
So long as it doesn’t violate moral principles, whatever the True Man wants, we will give."
—She said this on purpose.
Zhuge Ya was always like the old n and won at the village entrance; any gossip or trivial matters he knew would quickly spread to many ears.
Creating montum like this should be enough to drive the price up.
Thus expressing that they were willing to give everything with utmost sincerity.
Hopefully they would succeed in getting it back.
That Dharma thod...
Contained the inheritance of Mirror Heaven Court!
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