Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 627: Hand-painted Immortal Body
Pei Ye frowned slightly.

The quick end of the fight really exceeded his expectations. According to his expectation, this should have been a fierce fight. Ziliang said in the Mirage Garden that he "had already entered the mysterious gate", so he was able to cast and melt [Mercury Hua Fu Raft], which meant he was at least at the level of a body fighter. And he was facing Yu Sicheng from twenty-three years ago. According to common sense, this should not be a crushing battle.

However, it is not impossible to explain. The [Mercury Hua Floating Raft] that he is facing is in a state that the driver has been working with for twenty years. The sub-beam that was hastily melted and carried for the first time may be far from reaching this state.

Or maybe, [Mercury Hua Fu Raft] collapsed at the first touch in front of Qilin Fire.

Another feeling this scene gave him was that Guo You and Ziliang at that time were actually caught off guard just like him.

He looked at the puppets that were no longer moving. Due to the meticulous craftsmanship in the details, their movements did reflect many details and emotions to a considerable extent.

It was obvious that they saw the person who was blocking them before the battle, but that was not the moment for emotional breakdown.

Ziliang immediately ignited the mercury liquid in his bones, which indeed meant that the opponent brought him great pressure, but he still rushed forward bravely. It was not until the moment of the fight that the situation suddenly turned into a huge disparity in strength. Then he was defeated within a few breaths. That was when Guo You's emotions were the strongest.

This process actually confirmed Pei Ye's discovery and speculation in Mingyue Palace - the strength between the two sides may not be that disparate. There is a key object that shows its power only after a fight. It is obviously the nemesis of [Mercury Hua Fu Raft], and it is obviously beyond the expectations of Guo You and others.

But there is also a small possibility, such as the opponent is disguised or masked...

Pei Ye turned his head to look at Li Xizhou beside him. The woman was still looking down at the puppets, and seemed to be thinking longer than he was.

At this time, Qu Xin beside him said, "Is this the purple-gold body you mentioned?"

Pei Ye turned her head and pointed her finger at the puppet lying on the ground.

"……Correct."

"You don't look strong." Qu Xin glanced at him, "Are you too weak?"

"...Next time we fight, I will definitely bring Qu Yaojun with me."

"I'm a healer. If I do it, there's another price."

Li Xizhou raised his head at this time: "Qu Xiaoyaojun, in this way, has Guo You's heart injury recovered a little?"

Qu Xin nodded, then shook his head: "He didn't go crazy here."

"Ok?"

Pei Ye also looked at it with slight surprise.

The girl gathered her dry hair that covered half of her face. It was obvious that she had not washed her hair since entering the Red Mirror Palace. She looked at the old man's trembling eyebrows and placed her hand on the thin thread: "This incident did break his defenses, causing his mind to enter a turbulent and sensitive state, but the defeat seems to be yet to come."

Pei Ye didn't understand: "You said, there is something else that he can't accept?"

Qu Xin shook his head: "Not necessarily. It's just that even if it's the same thing, witnessing its outbreak and suffering its consequences are often not at the same time. Many people are crushed by the latter."

The girl's fingers gently and flexibly pressed and rubbed the thin lines. When Guo You's emotions seemed to have calmed down a little, she fed him a bowl of decoction and then untied the acupoints that had just been blocked.

Guo You opened his eyes and the puppet on the table stood up again.

But this time the scene was very unrecognizable. The puppet that had just been knocked down stood up, as if time had completed the jump. It just walked towards Guo You step by step. Then several people watched Guo You making hoarse sounds, becoming more and more agitated, and slowly climbing to the brink of collapse.

It was here that Qu Xin pulled the hidden string in his hand that controlled the puppet for the first time, observing Guo You's expression, causing it to stop, then begin to release some gentle movements, and then take a few steps back.

Guo You's emotions stabilized here and he held his head, but the collapse did not happen again.

Qu Xin relaxed his frown, took off the wire in his hand, turned around and washed his hands in the basin beside him: "I have determined the location. I will bandage this heart injury in a quarter of an hour, and then you can ask him some deeper questions."

Li Xizhou nodded with satisfaction: "That couldn't be better. Thank you very much, Mr. Qu."

"Your Highness is very polite."

Pei Ye looked at her: "What does your highness want to ask?"

"I'll be here in half an hour, no rush." ​​Li Xizhou was still looking at the table, "Based on this scene, does it mean that Ziliang didn't die in the fight?"

Pei Ye also noticed this and turned to ask, "Qu Xin, could this be an illusion in his mind?"

"It's possible." Qu Xin lowered his head to mix the medicine. "This scene represents that his final unbearable collapse came from the pressure of this puppet. As for who this puppet represents, and whether this scene is reality or a nightmare, I don't know."

That actually doesn’t matter, Pei Ye turned around and thought quietly, because even if it was an illusion, it was a doubt that could not be ignored.

How could it be that the most devastating pressure on Guo You came from Ziliang?

He glanced at Li Xizhou again. In fact, from the very beginning, they could roughly know the reason why Guo You fell into his current situation. Firstly, Wei Qingju had an extremely transcendent position in his heart, both from the family and as an individual. Secondly, Ziliang was his most important, or even his only close friend.

The successive deaths of these two people were equivalent to the collapse of the deepest part of his heart. He suddenly suffered a drastic change, so it was understandable that he became half crazy.

Yesterday in the ruined General Design Institute, Guo You was still obsessed with the completion of "Mercury Hua Fu Raft". It was obvious that he could not let go of this creation which seemed to be the only thing that could save the situation at that time.

Although looking back now, perhaps the cross [Mercury Floating Raft] was just a thin boat in the wind and waves.

But when it comes to the details, this matter can be considered. As Qu Xin said, Guo You did not go crazy when he saw Ziliang's defeat and Wei Qingju's death, but it was still the consequences of this incident that broke him down later... But why was this consequence imposed by Ziliang?

Pei Ye thought quietly for a while, then he turned his gaze and saw Li Xizhou also looking at him, and it was obvious that they were thinking the same thing.

"Do you think that if a person's closest relatives die within just one month, he will go crazy?" Li Xizhou said slowly.

Actually, it won’t.

He will most likely change his temperament, stay at home, and maybe even be a walking corpse for a while... But if the enemy is still there, as a master of Xuanmen, he is more likely to seek revenge.

Even if it's paranoid revenge.

Or even just run away cowardly.

Unless he was really that fragile, like a child, after losing his shelter, his sanity would collapse and he would live in dreams every day.

"So, this is actually an explanation..." Pei Ye thought.

"Yes." This was a painful experience for him, because he truly believed that he was the cause of Ziliang's defeat.

It must be like this, he regrets and cannot accept this memory, because it is not just the death of relatives and friends, but more importantly the collapse of relationships.

If Miss Ming was killed by someone, he would hold the sword tightly, but if he was the one who killed Miss Ming, he would helplessly let go of the hilt of the sword.

Is such that.

So... the fact that Yu Sicheng was able to defeat [Mercury Hua Fu Cha] so easily, is it related to Guo You?
He was waiting on the mountain road with the Qilin Fire that day, just like he was waiting for the question with the answer. So who carved the question on [Mercury Hua Fu Raft]?
Thinking of this, Pei Ye turned his head to look at the old man who had calmed down and lowered his head in silence.

Qu Xin took back the thirty-two needles on his head and said, "Alright. You can ask him about the purple gold body now. He will answer based on his memory and intelligence, but his memory is still not completely clear and his expression is still confused. He will slowly recover after he is fully healed."

"Okay." Pei Ye was about to speak, but Li Xizhou raised his hand to block his mouth, "...What?"

"Wait a moment, the things I want are almost here."

"what?"

"The letter I sent to Yangyi Tower the night before was agreed to be sent back at twilight hour." Li Xizhou said, "I asked about the matter of [Mercury Hua Fucha]. I will ask again after I get the reply."

"So punctual?"

"Usually, yes." The woman stood up and stretched her limbs a little.

Li Xizhou was not mistaken. Indeed, half an hour later, not long after the You hour, a nimble green shadow flew in from outside the hall. It was not the first time that Pei Ye saw this mysterious bird. It was the Soul Bird of the Immortal Terrace.

It brought a thick letter. Li Xizhou raised his hand and it obediently rested on his arm, allowing him to unload the load.

"How come the letter from Yangyi Tower was delivered by Xianrentai?"

"Because it is inconvenient to pass it to the palace, I entrusted it to someone else." Li Xizhou released the soul bird and opened the envelope. There were three copies in total.

Pei Ye moved to her desk and looked at it quietly.

The first letter came from Xianrentai itself. It was the old blood scraped from the vial that Li Xizhou sent yesterday. It was the easiest clue to get. Xianrentai acted quickly. Now the result was sent back. It said "It is indeed from the same lineage as His Highness Jinyang", which denied the possibility that it came from Ziliang or Yu Sicheng.

The second letter made Pei Ye tilt his head, because it was written on a very simple paper, completely different from the Xianrentai. It was also not very formal. The writer had obviously taken a piece of paper at hand and wrote a few words on it, without a title or a signature.

"[Mercury Floating Raft], I still remember these four words. Zai Haidong placed his heart on this in Daming Palace 20 years ago. I have never seen this thing, and there are no pictures or texts left in the building. I really don't know the principle of its operation and its strengths and weaknesses as the emperor's son asked. However, the bones of a person are the natural law of heaven and earth. Cutting bones and replacing marrow are all within the three major and seven minor parts and the ten bone veins. Based on the description in the letter, I tried to draw the mechanism of the so-called [Mercury Floating Raft] as follows, I hope it will be helpful."

Pei Ye didn't realize what it meant after reading it for the first time, but the next moment the woman unfolded the third thick piece of letter, covering the entire desk, which made him freeze in shock.

Yangyilou has indeed never seen it...but perhaps the person who wrote the letter doesn't need to have seen it either.

To the young man, the man-made immortal body seemed amazing and miraculous. Just a few words of description like "bones made of dragon gold, marrow made of liquid mercury" were enough for the unknown person to outline everything.

The huge and precise blueprint disassembled the golden dragon's body, with the size and connection method of each joint and each bone marked, and the ratio of the mercury liquid also determined 90% of its composition... There were two circles drawn with a red pen in the upper middle of the spine of this body, and below the dantian.

"First, the Dazhui-Shendao bone pivot, if not the last cervical vertebra, then the fifth thoracic vertebra, should be a central pivot for the circulation of mercury liquid. Its shape is probably like an inverted funnel, which pushes mercury pressure into the meridians of the whole body like a dragon swallowing a pearl, similar to the human heart;
"Second, the eye of the Qi Sea, the Dantian three inches below the navel, where the Qi Sea acupoint is located, the mercury liquid is injected into the Dantian, and the meridians are planted in the mercury sea. It is the connection between this set of bones and flesh, and it is also the mixture of true qi and mercury liquid, so that the controller can control this set of bones at will, which is roughly like a human brain.

"These two places can probably be considered the 'vital gates', but they are also made of Jiao gold. If you don't break this gold, it will be useless."

“……” Pei Ye was speechless for a moment.

It was as if this person had been standing in the Department of Construction twenty-three years ago, watching Guo You and Zai Haidong design this skeletal body bit by bit... However, in reality, he had neither touched the Jiao gold nor seen Yu Sicheng fighting, and even the few descriptions he received were only obtained the night before.

He looked at Li Xizhou: "...Who is this person?"

"The person who understands the human body best in the world." Li Xizhou said calmly, gently spreading out the picture, "When Zai Haidong was still alive, this person was already sitting on the Yangyi Tower."

"..." Pei Ye looked at Qu Xin at this time, "By the way, don't you also know a lot about human bodies? Why don't you seem to be very interested in this thing?"

Qu Xin glanced at him and said, "I am a doctor. I want to fix broken people, not turn good people into something else."

She glanced at the drawing with cold disdain, turned her back and went to study the medical book.

Pei Ye and Li Xizhou naturally had no ideological problems. Pei Ye had now fully understood the significance of the blueprint that the woman had been waiting for. Obviously, a person with no imagination asking a person with disordered memory would never be able to get the real information about [Mercury Hua Fu Raft].

And with this object as an anchor for communication, things become much clearer.

He pushed the blueprint and the desk in front of Guo You and whispered, "Guo You, do you still remember this?"

Guo You slowly lowered his head, his eyes fell on the drawing and he was stunned for a while. Then his eyebrows began to raise. He raised his finger and pointed, making an "ah ah" sound.

"On this [Mercury Floating Raft], the 'heart' and 'center', are these the two places?"

Guo You nodded slowly: "Yes, yes...but, but you drew it wrong here..."

"Where is wrong?"

Guo You pointed out some deviations in details, and Pei Ye kept asking questions with his pen. Guo You's eyes seemed to be sucked into the drawing. In the conversation of questions and answers, the whole drawing gradually turned into its most realistic appearance at that time.

When the entire drawing was modified, it was already night, and Pei Ye had for the first time such a thorough understanding of this miraculous body.

Finally, he picked up the pen and said, "Guo You, did you make any mistakes when you cast it for Ziliang?"

"..."Guo You's body stiffened.

"After he climbed onto Mingyue Palace, he was quickly defeated. You know why, right?" Pei Ye didn't stop and looked at him. "That's not your fault. Tell me what happened, okay?"

Guo You's eyes once again showed extreme pain and panic. His stunned expression became distorted. He opened his mouth and held his head with both hands: "Yes, it's me...it's me..."

"What about you?" Pei Ye leaned forward and asked.

"It's me...I didn't tell Ziliang!!!" he roared.

Qu Xin raised his head abruptly, turned around and said, "Don't ask!"

(End of this chapter)