Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 595 Snow Buries the Old Canal
He remembered very clearly the heavy swordsman who almost forced him into a desperate situation in the water.

To be honest, although every move Xichi made when facing Qiu Tianyu that night was dangerous, he always had a move to make. Every move by both sides was trying their best to cut the other's throat. Pei Ye knew that he might die at some point, but he also knew that it would be difficult for the other party to survive the next sword.

But facing Chen Renzhong in the water was another unfamiliar experience. He was suddenly caught in the waves, with no way to defend but to attack, and was constrained everywhere. At that moment, he deeply realized that the world is so big and everyone has his own territory.

Qiu Tianyu is of course much more powerful than Chen Renzhong. If they meet at the banquet, they are not even from the same world. Qiu Tianyu sits high on the roof of Feijing Tower and should be the center of attention, while [Heiyun on the River] will only be one of the "heroes" who toast.

Later, Pei Ye lay in bed and thought about the man's movements underwater. Many of the details were not just those of a person who was familiar with water.

Pei Ye could swim, and he was very good at it. When he was in his teens, he had been floating in the tributaries of the Lushui River, and had refined his body into a lean body. He could compete with black carps weighing several kilograms, and finally climb ashore with them in his arms.

The confrontation and coordination between man and water will never be as natural as it seems.

Those swinging legs, those waving arms, those rhythmic movements of muscles, to that body, water is not an object that needs to be dealt with, but rather it is integrated into one, moving toward and away from the water with ease.

Mortals saw how agile and swift the cultivators who used true qi as a supplement were in the water, but Pei Ye saw how ghostly that figure was. So Pei Ye thought at that time that there must be such a secret martial art, and they should have such a special skill to make a living on the river.

It was not until he saw the faint light scales on Chen Renzhong's skin joints and the pair of deep yellow animal eyes that were filled with pain during the battle.

Later, the government office took the body away. When they were having dinner together, Xie Chuantang told him that the Immortal Platform and the government office had dissected it together and found that a lot of foreign matter had grown in the internal organs. The places that should have been soft flesh and blood had grown soft lumps that felt like the soft seeds in a persimmon.

The entire skeleton is distorted towards being narrower and has a tendency to become thinner, while the pupils are shrinking and stretching to adapt to the dark environment. Xie Chuantang said that if time goes on for a long time, a transparent membrane sheath may grow on the eyes.

At that moment Pei Ye realized that it was this body itself, not some secret Qi technique, that gave Chen Renzhong all his abilities.

As for where this body came from, they did not receive enough revelation.

Changing a human body in its thirties or forties is like changing a ripe apple into a pear. It may become a harmonious product with the flavor of both apple and pear, but the more absolute probability is that it will be completely rotten.

Pei Ye had only seen or heard of one kind of power so far that could manipulate the flesh, blood and bones of the human body at will like the hands of Nuwa - the power from the flesh and blood of the Immortal Lord.

So they temporarily closed the book at that time, thinking that it was just a secret trick to risk their lives, exchanging their lives for a chance to become a water spirit, even if only for a brief moment.

It was not until today, when the bones of Gu Tan were copied and sent back to the Immortal Terrace, that he could try to put his pen to the three words "Chen Renzhong" and then connect them to the name "He Wujian".

——If Chen Renzhong died in the process of obtaining this body, then is there anyone who succeeded?

Even if the probability is extremely small and the action is extremely dangerous, is there a group of people who have been trying to touch this field, paving a path with their lives and experience... There are always a few people who hold this power in the end.

Then they may be "He Wujian", the so-called "Green Wind Envoy".

Can such a person enter the spiritual realm?

With a lot of things on his mind, Pei Ye sat in front of the hall for a while, stroking the soft fur of the little animal on his lap. He watched the cold stars gradually rise and the sound of the wind became clearer.

This Ming Palace was indeed different from what the young man had imagined. It was empty and spacious, cold and silent, with no sound heard during the day or at night. It was hard to imagine that this was the very center of the Tang capital, where the emperor's sons lived.

But when he was distracted, he suddenly heard footsteps on the steps of the main hall. He turned his head and was stunned. A girl in palace dress and with a very quiet expression was walking out of the main hall. After seeing Pei Ye, she nodded slightly, came to the bottom of the steps, and headed towards the main hall, bowed straight, and saluted deeply.

No sound came from the hall, and the girl didn't say anything more. She turned around and left.

It was the Sixth Princess Li Youlong.

It turned out that there were two people in the main hall just now. I wonder what these two princes talked about... Pei Ye stepped forward and went up the steps. When he came to the front of the hall, he bowed his head and asked, "May I ask if Your Highness is well?"

"Nothing." Li Xizhou's voice came from the hall.

Pei Yecai nodded and left.

The next morning, Li Wuyan did not wait for him in front of the palace gate. According to Li Xizhou, today was a day for her studies, and yesterday was her rare holiday. When she turned six, everything was controlled, and the little girl was not as free as she appeared.

That didn't matter. Pei Ye would wander around the pond in the Ming Palace alone during the day and bring Li Wuyan out at dusk. He was not in a hurry, as if he was just playing with the girl. After three or five days of this, the boy finally walked through the huge harem and matched it with the map in his mind.

"Brother Pei, I read the Fish Book last night, and it said 'carp live in the pond in summer and at the bottom of the pond in winter'. Taiye Lake is very deep," Li Wuyan followed Pei Ye in the snow, carrying a small fishing rod, and said seriously, "Brother Pei, is the line you tied for me too short?"

"No, the one I tied for you is already very long."

"But, but, Taiye Lake is really, really deep." Pei Ye ignored her. Of course she knew that the big fish was in the deep, but it would be fine if it didn't bite the hook. If it really bit her hook, it would only pull the little guy into the water, and then it would be hard to say who would be fishing whom.

The line she was tied on was just the right size to catch small fish in the shallow pond.

The little girl kept calling out behind him. Pei Ye picked up his pen, looked up, and carefully distinguished the density of the trees.

This is the northeast corner of the Daming Palace, behind the Mingyue Palace. The pond and forest named "Yuxian Garden" has been deserted for a long time. The trees are tall and the swallows and sparrows abandoned their nests as early as autumn.

It is rare for someone to leave footprints here. Pei Ye waded through the snow, searching for the stone path of the past with his feet, and calculating the layout of this old garden bit by bit.

Li Wuyan was still mumbling: "Brother Pei, are we going to Jingchi? There are red carp to fish in Jingchi. Let's catch some today before leaving, okay..."

Pei Ye looked at the trees quietly for a while, then lowered his head and drew a curve on the paper. He closed the booklet, turned left, left the stone path, and walked into the forest on the knee-deep snow.

Li Wuyan followed two steps forward, but was stopped in his tracks by the boy's long pole. He did not look back, only white steam floated from his cheek: "Wait here for a while, I won't go far."

"Oh." The little girl said obediently.

But after a while, seeing the young man walking further and further away, he couldn't help but shout, "Brother Pei, what are you looking for?"

There was no response. She felt inexplicably flustered and took a step forward to follow him, but after only a few steps, she staggered and fell into the snow.

She was struggling to stand up when someone came back with the sound of footsteps on the snow, grabbed her on the back and lifted her up, then took her fishing rod with his other hand.

Pei Ye bent his arms and let her sit on them, then he looked at the booklet and walked forward again.

"Brother Pei, where are you going?"

"We have traveled all over the seven pools in the past two days. Do you know which pools are connected now?" They had not walked far before Pei Ye put the little girl down and looked around the area where no trees grew.

"Every one of them is connected!" said Li Wuyan.

Yes, each one is connected, from the Mirror Pool in the front hall to the Taiye Pool in the back palace, and then to the Zhu, Zi, Nan, Bei and Xia pools. The seven pools are connected to form a water system with different heights, with Taiye Pool as the center. The seven pools will not dry up in droughts and will not be flooded in rains, forming a very balanced system.

"They are the Chi family." Li Wuyan played the spirit of playing house, "Only Jingchi is missing!"

In addition to the Jingchi Pond behind the Mingyue Palace, its terrain is obviously higher than the palace, so it is also known as the "Tianchi".

After the current emperor entered the palace, he cleaned up the once extremely luxurious palace. The only work he did was to dig the scenic pond behind the Mingyue Palace.

Therefore, it is independent of the seven existing pools.

Pei Ye had specifically asked Meng'er about this two days ago, and the girl said with certainty that since she could remember, the Mingyuejing Pond was no longer within the scope of the palace people's talk. There was no need to clean up the fallen leaves for it, worry about its water level, or release koi or plant lotus flowers... It seemed that it had been abandoned just like the palace it had coexisted with.

Of course there is no water leading there either.

But it's not.

"The Jingchi is also connected." Pei Ye broke off a handy branch from the tree and sighed, "It just looks like it was a long time ago."

Li Wuyan covered his head to avoid the flying snow, while Pei Ye buried his head and worked hard to dig, gradually clearing out a vaguely sunken shape in this deserted garden.

"Look, this isn't a stone path, why aren't there any trees planted here?"

"why?"

Pei Ye said: "Because this place used to be a water path, the water from Jingchi flows down from the mountain and can flow into the water system of the other seven pools."

"Ah, then Jing Chi is also a member of Chi Zi's family!"

"Yeah, but more than 20 years ago, that might not have been a good thing." Pei Ye stood under the woods, looking up at the desolate mountain top. A corner of the palace was hidden among the woods.

(End of this chapter)