Faced with Li Ye's astonishment, the clam shell merely opened slightly, and a round golden pellet within shot out several streams of warm light.
It was clearly sentient.
Yet Li Ye could sense that its intelligence was drunken and not particularly bright. It had even carelessly exposed its own inner core like this.
Like a drunkard throwing open his clothes to reveal his round belly.
Perhaps it was the intoxicating scent of alcohol, but Li Ye vaguely seemed to see a rather stout man baring his chest and belly...
"..."
He hurriedly shook his head, casting that bizarre image from his mind, and tried to communicate with the Drunken Light Spirit Clam.
Though this fellow was a Golden Core-level spirit beast, it did not put on any airs. It answered almost everything Li Ye asked.
Thanks to its cooperation, Li Ye came to understand its background.
Deep within the sea of clouds of the Ninefold Celestial Gate, a place most cultivators had never reached, there was actually a wine pool of Heavenlight Brew. It had escaped from there.
The pool contained fine wine formed from misty Heavenly light and cloud qi. Any Drunken Light Spirit Clam within it was at the Golden Core level.
They possessed a special divine ability that could turn materials they liked into wine. It had awakened specifically because it sensed these River Jade Fungi.
"So these River Jade Fungi were formed from the vital yang qi forced out by the River Vine and Muddy Water Earthworms?"
Li Ye looked at the round pale-blue beads floating through the air. Even with his current Divine Sense and perceptive abilities, he could not tell that they had been formed from yang qi.
Whether judging from their appearance or the way they were born, they ought to have been