Li Ye was actually a little dumbfounded too.
He had merely found the repetitive motions too monotonous and wondered whether he could make something to help him out.
And he really had kneaded this thing into existence.
Was he somehow at odds with gourds and turtles? Why did things like this keep appearing?
If there were any more in the future, he could open a whole gourd counter.
At that moment, he felt just a little disdain for this newly born Heart-Earth Spirit.
Which caused the little fellow to sense Li Ye's "disdain."
It raised its head with tears brimming in its eyes.
Great drops of tears fell from its eyes and melted into the seawater.
A sharp gleam flashed through Senior Brother's eyes. He quietly backed away and hid behind Beaver Xiaobai.
Xiaobai: "..."
The tears born from that desolate sorrow transformed the surrounding seawater into sparkling round grains of earth that circled Li Ye, as though crying could be heard from within them—
"Wuwuwu..."
Li Ye instantly felt a tightness around his heart.
That sound had actually pierced straight through his Divine Sense defenses and acted upon his heart, stirring up sorrow and clutching at it.
And he could tell that this was unconscious grief, not an attack deliberately launched by the Heart-Earth Spirit.
If it had attacked deliberately, it would probably have been even more terrifying.
"Don't cry, don't cry..."
Li Ye had not expected that revealing just the slightest hint of dislike would make it cry so miserably, and he hurriedly soothed it.
Fortunately, he had always been good at comforting spirit beasts and spirit plants. Coupled with the soothing of spiritual energy, the Heart-Earth Spirit soon stopped releasing its sorrowful emotions.
It began gathering the surrounding Heart Power and kneading clumps of mud, proving its