Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 679: People are separated by thick hair
After a long time, perhaps because he had been staring at the back of the woman in front of him for too long, Pei Ye finally moved his eyes and said hesitantly: "Xu Chuo..."

Li Xizhou turned around and smiled at him. There was not much change on his face.

"Don't yell like that from now on. You need to show your respect to His Highness as you did when we first met." She said with a smile.

Pei Ye breathed a sigh of relief: "This, this is Queen Wei?"

"Yeah." Li Xizhou paused for a moment, "This is the first time I've seen her."

Pei Ye shifted his gaze to this breathtakingly quiet scene. In a place without movement and sound, it seemed as if time could not flow. Probably not until this body completely disappeared in the water, and then this shark house would gradually melt into the water.

Pei Ye's eyes narrowed slightly, and suddenly he saw Wei Qingju holding a ball of faint light in her hand, hidden among the flowers.

He pointed and immediately wanted to say "Don't touch it yet", but Li Xizhou had already approached Wei Qingju's body and raised his hand to pick it up.

The woman seemed to be ten thousand times more familiar with this place than he was. Pei Ye said no more words, but moved forward and looked at what the woman was holding, his pupils dilated slightly.

There was no doubt that in this clean place where one could see everything at a glance, this was all that Wei Qingju had left for the woman.

It was a bead formed by two streams of liquid.

They seemed to be separated into the smallest individuals, and then bit each other like star sand, without any repulsion, as if they had merged into the same substance. But it was not like pouring two kinds of paint together, they were very distinct from each other, as if they could be separated at any time - and both of these liquids were very familiar to Pei Ye.

On one side, it is clear and cold, flowing gently and calmly, with all kinds of illusions coming into being, as if there is a world in every drop of liquid, and each world is full of gorgeous flowers; on the other side, it is the same color as blood, flowing thickly and steadily, with bright golden flames seeming to flicker in it, bright and majestic, as if wisps of golden sand were mixed in with the blood.

This small bead is only the size of a walnut. Li Xizhou placed this dreamy object in the palm of his hand, and it floated gently.

"This is..." Pei Ye was stunned.

Li Xizhou was silent for a while, then said softly, "My mother's legacy, [Mirage Knot]."

"…Mirage Knot?"

“Yeah.” Li Xizhou didn’t rush to do anything with it. She sat down next to the swing and looked at Wei Qingju. “Look, is she any different from what you imagined?”

In fact, standing in the water was not tiring, but humans still tend to feel relaxed in certain postures. Pei Ye also sat next to her, leaning against the flowers, while tiny fish swam around her ears and face.

"I thought... she didn't leave any remains." Pei Ye hesitated, "She didn't seem to have experienced any battles in her lifetime."

Yes, not only were there no obvious scars, but even her clothes were clean as new, just like someone who had just sat on a swing and was taking a nap. Pei Ye thought of the saying that Empress Wei had committed suicide.

Li Xizhou pulled up her skirt and hugged her knees with both hands: "Of course, if she can fight, she won't need Yue Muzhou to guard her."

"... Queen Wei has no cultivation?" Pei Ye was slightly stunned. But how could this be possible? She traveled through the capital and fought in the deserted north.

"Of course, but I think she lost most of her strength at that time." Li Xizhou said softly.

"why?"

Li Xizhou looked at him: "Because of the conflict between the unicorn blood and the mirage blood in the body."

This seems to have returned to the time when Pei Ye first took over this case. The former queen stole the blood of the unicorn and plotted treason and was deposed.

"Why is there unicorn blood in Queen Wei's body?"

"Yes, why?" Li Xizhou lowered his eyes, "But that was about March, I have to find the answer before I can write."

"You just said that Queen Wei was holding the key to inherit the mirage, but she used it for something else." Pei Ye said, "You also said that it was related to "Exorcising Snakes and Insects in February"."

"Because if she hadn't ascended the throne, mother might not have had to do this in her life." Li Xizhou said, she paused for a moment, "When mother was born between the rivers and the sea, her body was flowing with mirage blood; when she gave up the freedom to roam the lakes and seas and came to the land of the human world, she followed the saint for twenty years in the north and south, and her body was still flowing with mirage blood; only after ascending the throne and becoming the mother of the country, her body had unicorn blood. Tell me, why is that?"

Pei Ye stared into the empty space for a long time, muttering, "...because she has to face it."

"Yes, she had to face it. In the past six hundred years, everyone who entered the Daming Palace had to face eternity." Li Xizhou said softly, "Mother also reached that step. I think... during those years, she thought of some solutions."

"You mean..." Pei Ye lowered his head and looked at the bead made of two kinds of blood in her hand.

"You know, when I first wanted to seal the blood in my body, I went to ask Li Yan. He told me one thing - only the blood of the Immortal Hunter can fight against the blood of the Immortal Hunter." Li Xizhou said, "I thanked him, and he shook his head and said that this was not his discovery, but something my mother had told him."

"..."

"So, I have always had a guess." Li Xizhou said, "The reason why my mother is so weak is because she is using her own body as a training ground to test the confrontation between Mirage Blood and Kirin Blood... In order to find a solution."

She turned her head and looked at Pei Ye with her beautiful eyes.

Pei Ye blurted out softly: "A way to get rid of the unicorn blood."

Pei Ye suddenly felt that many things in his mind were clear. He first thought of Meng'er's dreamlike wish. People said that the deceased Queen Wei left a method to wash away the blood of the unicorn, which could help people in distress to escape. Of course, Pei Ye felt pity for the maid at that time, because this was simply a beautiful dream designed to deal with suffering. But Wei Qingju, is she a dream weaver?
This is certainly a miracle. Li Xizhou has now sealed the Lin blood in his body, but that is an extremely expensive elixir. Moreover, after entering the body, the other types of immortal hunting blood will be exhausted, but the Lin blood will be endless. Maybe in ten days, maybe twenty days, maybe a month, the blockade will be broken.

This is of course an act of treason.

This is a conspiracy that must never be made known to anyone.

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment: "So...she succeeded?"

"I think so." Li Xizhou held up the bead and looked at it carefully. Her eyes were as beautiful as the bead. "I have been wondering what was left in Luoshen Palace. I think, in the beginning, it must have been a special 'mirage blood', that is, the blood of the prince. Just as the prince ascended the throne when he was older, the mermaids have a lifespan of 300 years. After 60 years, this mirage blood matures. From this, the mermaids can go to the depths of the mirage realm, complete a certain ritual, and inherit the mirage realm.

"But my mother never planned to fulfill this destiny in her life, so this mirage blood remained in her body and was used by her as the main force to fight against the unicorn blood." Li Xizhou said, "Now, sixty years have passed. Although my mother is dead, this mirage blood remains here - just in another form."

Pei Ye moved his throat: “Then, then we can use it to wash away the unicorn blood on your body…” The young man’s eyes flickered. He still didn’t know what exactly Wei Qingju left behind, but he did see a glimmer of hope. Ever since he saw these geniuses with unicorn blood that night, he felt deeply that women were born into a fate that could not be escaped.

That fate was like the silk ribbon that fell from the sky as described in the book. It had been wrapped around her since she was a child, but it only began to show itself after she was six years old. It endowed her with talents and intelligence that were one in a million, as well as a look and body that were rare in the world... because that was her value as a doll.

If possible... Pei Ye moved his throat again and looked at her, knowing that she understood what he meant.

"Of course, I will use everything my mother left behind." Li Xizhou smiled slightly.

Pei Ye also smiled. He felt so deeply the love that Wei Qingju left for the woman beside him. He had prepared it for her twenty years ago. Wei Qingju herself threw herself into the world of dust, but she left this freedom to her daughter. You can get rid of the needle and thread that the Li family had woven into your fate at any time and become the master of the spiritual realm.

You can roam freely in the lakes and seas of the world.

Pei Ye felt a little warm in his heart. He was really happy for her at this moment. He turned his head and put his face on his knees to look at her.

"Why are you staring at me?"

"Aren't you happy?"

"...Happy." Li Xizhou looked at him for a while and whispered, "Because you are so happy for me, I am happy too."

Pei Ye let this sentence linger in his mind for a while, pursed his lips, turned his head away and stopped talking.

"Pei Ye, don't you think that everyone is lonely? If you can have a confidant and partner who you can trust forever, it is simply the luckiest thing in the world." Li Xizhou hugged his knees and raised his head, "Hmm? What do you think?"

Pei Ye was slightly startled, not knowing why she suddenly mentioned this. He thought honestly for a while: "I... I don't feel too lonely."

“I have kittens,” he added.

“…You are not old enough to be lonely yet.”

"What age is loneliness, your age?"

"How old am I?"

"..." Pei Ye quickly changed the subject, "Where is the bead?"

Li Xizhou opened her hands to him, with the bead still suspended in her palm.

"How come it has become so much smaller?!" Pei Ye was surprised. It was as small as a walnut just now, but now it is as small as an apricot kernel.

"I ate it." Li Xizhou said.

"Ah?" Pei Ye stared at her mouth.

"I mean, it will go into my body on its own, very close." Li Xizhou said, "I don't feel anything strange."

Pei Ye felt that he suddenly realized that her lips were very beautiful. He was stunned for a moment and forced himself to turn his eyes away: "Oh."

"Maybe it's because you have these two kinds of blood in your body." Pei Ye looked at the bead and raised his eyebrows. "Hey, then, are you getting rid of the control of the unicorn blood now?"

Li Xizhou smiled: "What are you thinking about? Do you think I will vomit blood soon?"

"I don't know how it works." Pei Ye said, "I have a sword with me, so I can cut you a wound."

Li Xizhou smiled: "No. The so-called [Mirage Dragon Knot] is to use the completely equal amount of Mirage Blood to connect and lock with the Kirin Blood in the body on the smallest scale. This kind of 'knot' was designed by my mother. In this way, there will be no more independent Kirin Blood in the body... But in fact, if I want to really use it, I still need the 'Mirage Dragon True Blood' now."

Pei Ye understood at first, but was confused for a moment: "What is 'Mirage Dragon Blood'? What do you want this blood for?"

Li Xizhou did not speak. She looked at the boy with a smile in her eyes, and a tenderness that the boy could not distinguish. She turned her head and said, "Anyway, I just need something like this. Because according to legend, the mirage grew from the corpse of the mirage dragon. Its true blood must be different from the true blood in my body... You don't have to worry about it."

Pei Ye still hadn't formed a clear equivalence in his mind, and at this time he heard the second half of her sentence, "Why don't I worry about it? I still don't understand what this mirage is. We have to discuss it clearly before we know what to do."

Li Xizhou smiled and said something Pei Ye seemed to have heard before: "I didn't assign you this task."

Pei Ye was about to say something, but was suddenly stunned. The beads in the woman's palm had disappeared, and some tiny and shiny scales began to grow on her face. He hurried to look at her legs, but fortunately there was no change.

"When I asked you that question just now, I actually wanted to say that sometimes freedom is not what everyone pursues." Li Xizhou suddenly looked at him seriously, "Also, I brought you here not to ask you for help, but just to stay with you for a while."

Pei Yexin twitched again.

But the woman's words below stunned him.

"Because, Xu Chuo will be away from the capital for a while." Li Xizhou said, "Your [Zhi Yi] may not be able to contact her... You must keep this matter secret from everyone. His Highness Jinyang will be in the palace, but as I said before, you must be respectful and not do anything presumptuous."

"..."

Pei Ye was still in a daze. Li Xizhou stood up and nodded at him: "See you next time."

Pei Ye stood up suddenly, and the entire quiet water realm seemed to pour towards a certain empty space, as if forming a path connecting to a deeper and colder abyss. Without any explanation, Pei Ye could feel the vaster, more prosperous, more dangerous and colder world on the opposite side.

"I'm going to the real mirage, don't worry." The woman smiled at him again, her calm and composed expression restored. She leaned back and fell towards the abyss.

"Li Xizhou!!" Pei Ye suddenly stretched out his hand to grab her, but the woman raised her hand and made a stroke, as if a gauze ribbon appeared in the water - in fact, it was a countercurrent. Pei Ye reached his hand in, and then watched the hand reaching out towards him from it.

In just a moment, the door disappeared, and he was left alone standing in the quiet water, with countless Roselle peach trees swaying around him like in the wind.

(End of this chapter)