Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 628: Stars in the Night
"I shouldn't... I shouldn't have hidden it from Ziliang, I shouldn't have hidden it from Ziliang, I shouldn't have hidden it from Ziliang..." Guo You held his head in his hands and muttered, his body curled up against the pillar and trembling.

Qu Xin took over the scene again and took some time to calm him down.

"What you want to ask is exactly his real trauma." The girl said, "The questioning ends here, and we can't go any deeper."

Pei Ye nodded and looked at the old man who was still trembling slightly. In fact, from this exposed behavior, he could probably infer the cause and effect of the matter.

Guo You is the designer of [Mercury Hua Fu Raft]. He actually knows everything about this set of dragon gold bones better than anyone else. Every detail of it was cast by him personally.

After the defeat at Mingyue Palace that day, he and Ziliang were equally shocked, but perhaps only a few breaths later, when Ziliang was still in a daze, Guo You realized what had happened.

No one knows better than him what will defeat [Mercury Hua Fu Raft].

The Qilin Fire did not overwhelm the purple gold bones with its own powerful characteristics. If the Qilin Fire was powerful enough to burn everything, the two would not have been so shocked by the failure, and Guo You would not have blamed himself for the mistake.

Kirin Fire is just a key, and the lock was cast by Guo You himself into the [Mercury Hua Fu Cha].

But he didn't expect to hear the "click" sound of the lock being unlocked at that moment.

Why did he bury this lock in [Mercury Hua Fu Raft] and why didn't he tell Ziliang? Of course, there are reasons unknown to outsiders. Now it is buried in the mind of this crazy old man, and Pei Ye probably has no way of knowing it.

But there is no need to dig into the truth. Pei Ye's purpose is not to dig out the painful past of Mr. Gao Xun, but to find a way to defeat Yu Sicheng.

He has looked at every detail of this body and knows how it operates and exerts its power. He has also verified the two "vital points" from Guo You. Now, he just needs to wait for the private banquet that Li Xizhou mentioned and borrow the Qilin Fire from Li Zhi.

"Okay, let's play a game now." Qu Xin sat back at the desk. Guo You had calmed down again, with only tears still flowing from the corners of his wrinkled eyes. Following the girl's finger, he cast his gaze on the drawing on the desk.

Qu Xin placed the fragment that Pei Ye brought back on the table and said, "This [Mercury Hua Fu Raft] was forged by you. Now a small piece of it has fallen off. Can you find the damaged part?"

This kind of words that were like coaxing a child actually worked. This design was both the old man's cage and his shelter. After he devoted his body and mind to thinking about [Mercury Hua Floating Raft] again, Guo You gradually and visibly recovered the ability to communicate.

In just over a quarter of an hour, he pointed out where the fragment should have been.

The old man's wrinkled fingers fell on the drawing. To Pei Ye's surprise, it was right in the middle of his heart, in front of his body.

That was where two layers of Jiao Gold overlapped, firmly shielding the heart and lungs behind them. Obviously, even with the "key" like Qilin Fire, the other party only cut out such a narrow and short piece from the first layer.

It was an almost ineffective attack.

This made Pei Ye raise his eyebrows because this attack choice was almost exactly the same as his - when he first faced [Mercury Hua Fu Raft], he tried his best to use his throat and heart.

Now I know it is the spine and dantian.

However, how could Yu Sicheng have blocked the mountain road with the Qilin Fire back then, but he knew nothing about this dragon bone?

The thought flashed through his mind, and Pei Ye still carefully noted down the location, but a drop of liquid suddenly "popped" onto the drawing in his field of vision. He was startled and looked up, and saw that Guo You's old eyes were filled with tears.

He stretched out his hand tremblingly, grasped Pei Ye's arm and murmured: "The scales of sin are stained with blood, and the floating raft will be untied... Charioteer, you go to see the goddess of Luo River, and you don't have to take me with you. She likes you... That's good, that's good..."

Pei Ye was stunned, but it seemed that the old man didn't know what he was saying anymore. He was silent for a while, raised his hand to wipe away his tears, and sat back in his original position in a daze.

Li Xizhou stood up and said, "I'll come and talk to him. You've been staring at the picture all day. Go out and get some fresh air."

"……Row."

……

The moon is still not visible tonight, but there are a few sparse stars. The northern night is high and icy, empty and vast, which is very open-minded.

Pei Ye leaned against the tree outside the Zhujing Palace, still thinking about the many details on the drawing, and then put them on Yu Sicheng, staring at the night sky motionlessly.

About half an hour later, Li Xizhou came out with a small candlestick and sat down next to him.

Pei Ye straightened up: "Your Highness."

"Yeah." Li Xizhou lowered her head and gathered her skirt, her manners very graceful. "Wuyan came several times these two days and said that you had an appointment to go fishing with her." "...wait until things are over." Pei Ye had to smile.

"Wuyan is also six years old." Li Xizhou murmured in an ambiguous tone, raised his head to look at the night sky, and changed the subject when he turned his head, "I just talked to Guo You for a long time. It's difficult for him to sort out the things in the palace, but the things before that are still a clean land."

"Ok?"

"It's about the Guo family."

"Hmm. What do you mean?"

"Because, while sharpening the sword, don't we also have to pay attention to the enemy's movements?" Li Xizhou said, "What do you think Yu Sicheng's purpose is?"

"Enter Luoshen Palace."

"Why do you want to enter Luoshen Palace?"

"...I don't know. I suspect the late queen left something in there."

"Yes, that's what we thought before." Li Xizhou said, "Then you said, is Luoshen Palace left by my mother?"

"……do not know."

"Yes, I don't know where mother came from, why she built this underwater palace, and what she left inside?" Li Xizhou said softly. When she said this, her confused tone was like a real little girl.

But she quickly turned her eyes away, her expression regained focus: "The Guo family has their own story about this matter."

Pei Ye turned his head and listened.

"The Guo family has been pursuing the shadow of the legendary 'Lotus Goddess' for generations because in their heritage and memory, 'Lotus Goddess' is the master of the fairyland."

Pei Ye raised his head slightly, and he suddenly remembered the words that the old man murmured after receiving the [Small Correction Edict] on the night when he first met Guo You.

"... Because we, generation after generation, have been following the hem of the Goddess of Luo River... She is the master of the fairyland, the spiritual master of the water world. White water flows in her hands, and she can bring everyone the dream they want..."

"They believe that the Goddess of Luo controls a vast and magnificent fairyland. If one becomes her follower, one can follow her away from the mundane world and live in the legendary fairyland."

"Is this fairyland the spiritual realm?" Pei Ye frowned slightly. He had entered it several times. Although it was magnificent and unlike the human realm, it was certainly not a fairyland - people couldn't even breathe underwater.

"Have you ever thought about where the spiritual realm comes from?" Li Xizhou looked at him.

"..."

"You have been to Huanlou and Nanchi, but Huanlou has only been around in recent years, and even Nanchi has not been around for many years. Before that, where did the legend of the Spirit Realm come from?"

Pei Ye frowned slightly.

"What if that world... is much bigger than you imagined?"

Pei Ye was silent. He understood what the woman meant.

"Of course mother knows. Perhaps no one in the world knows better than her. Unfortunately, we can't talk to her." Li Xizhou said softly, "Yong Bei, Yu Sicheng, and many other people with or without names... They are so painstakingly trying to break into Luoshen Palace, perhaps in order to control that world."

"…Is this what Your Highness just asked from Guo You?"

"Even if no one asked, I still think about it every day." Li Xizhou said, "Even if Guo You wasn't there, I was almost certain. But Guo You did give me a surprise."

"what?"

"He said he could recite 'Searching for the Ferry in Luochuan' by heart."

(End of this chapter)