Golden Core.
Li Ye's physical body maintained the Heartfelt Melody.
He found it strange. The treasures within the fallen Sky Vein Shard had not been gathered, yet threads of glazed light flowed through the willow branches of the Heartfelt Melody and merged into his body.
They gently embraced the Golden Core taking shape—he had experienced this sensation before in the Ripple Cliff Grotto-Heaven.
That wondrous feeling of being "nourished" by the world.
Not by a grotto-heaven, but by a fragment that had fallen from the vault of the sky, a fragment truly belonging to the Heavenly Dao of this world.
Unfortunately, Li Ye had not yet learned the method of having the world nourish a Golden Core. Yet precisely because of that, he chose to receive this goodwill and this chance to be tenderly treated by the world in his own way.
"Let's do it this way."
"It should work..."
Other than the tiny portion of Heavenly Vein spiritual power that entered his body, he poured all the remaining spiritual power into the earth through the Earth Wish Art. A trace of life emerged from this eternally desolate land.
Li Ye's eyes shone brilliantly.
They shone even brighter than the Golden Core glowing within his dantian.
"I want to say..."
He quietly watched the impatiently surging spiritual power enter his body and be transformed, then softly said, "Human Desire is the Heavenly Dao."
The spiritual power seemed to sense something.
From his side, the outward-extending Heartfelt Melody gradually merged into the earth.
"Creation flows."
"I ask: how may Principle and Desire walk together?"
Li Ye's voice resounded across this land that had been barren for thousands of years—the vitality representing the Heavenly Dao seeped into the earth.
"Principle."
"This is Principle."
Another voice rang out. Its main note was still