Chapter 301: Jade Ke Array

Li Piaoqing had indeed not cultivated the Five Poisons Chuan Xin Zhu, and the four consecutive temperings had indeed not enabled her to gain the ability to counter-defeat Yi Chengxin.

But another thing had become different.

After mastering some mental arts, she could finally control some of her own body.

When the sharpness of that three-hundred-year Candle Sword descended, Li Piaoqing did not make any resistance, letting the poisonous storm shatter and fall into her state of mind. She used all her efforts to make her mind return to her body.

She finally communicated with a trace of the meridian tree.

And Yi Chengxin's body was no longer agile.

Thus, the bamboo shoot piece, under the infusion of true Qi, became the sharpest blade.

A sword that could harm both sides must never be held only in the enemy's hand. Yi Chengxin did not quite understand this principle.

Hearing the movement, Li Piaoqing immediately opened her eyes and turned her head, her gaze looking over weakly and vigilantly. She supported her legs and straightened her body, her hand already pressed on her waist.

Thus, the boy bathed in blood appeared in her field of vision. Li Piaoqing was stunned, but her body's tension did not relax, still somewhat unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.

"... Piaoqing." Pei Ye said softly.

The black cat jumped onto the young girl's shoulder, and the buried 【Chunshou】 instantly cleared her mind.

Pei Ye knelt down before her and gently reached out to hold the young girl's cold hand: "Are you okay?"

His voice paused, and a slender body had already rushed into his arms.

The young girl's soft and warm body buried itself deeply into his arms, two arms tightly wrapped around his neck, pressing her cold face and weak breathing under his neck.

Pei Ye stiffened for a moment, one hand gently hugging her waist, the other holding the back of her head.

"... You are injured?" Pei Ye discovered the scar on the young girl's waist and said in a low voice, "Let me see if it's heavy?"

The young girl just hugged him tightly and said with a crying voice, "Pei Ye... don't leave me."

"..." Pei Ye felt a hollow sourness in his heart and hugged her tightly: "I won't leave you... what's wrong?"

Li Piaoqing did not speak anymore, buried her head in his arms and shook it, sobbing and motionless.

After a long silence, the atmosphere gradually calmed down. The young girl in his arms gently propped up her body, her hand pressed on Pei Ye's waist: "... You have many injuries."

"They are all small injuries."

"Take off your clothes, let me treat them for you."

"... What kind of place is this, is it appropriate?" Pei Ye pressed his sword and looked around. It was clearly a sealed and locked great hall. The great array covering the floor was brewing something, and fluorescent light was rising, as if connecting to places he could not see.

"It's fine, I've checked." The young girl said in a low voice, "Completely sealed, can't get in, can't get out."

"..."

Pei Ye then untied his coat, revealing his upper body with bloodstains. Even though the true Qi bit together in time, blood still seeped out and dried on his skin. The new wounds behind were still bright red, and the old wounds in front had burst open in the subsequent battles.

Several golden wounds were indeed not serious. The heaviest was the spear from Yi Nandai. The boy's breathing was still not smooth, and his chest and abdomen felt intense pain from time to time.

The young girl took out medicine and gauze from his bag, soaked it in water to help him wipe away the bloodstains, and carefully wrapped them one by one.

Cold fingers touched his skin. Pei Ye gently held her forearm, looking at her still pale complexion: "How are you exactly?"

"I'm much better." The young girl raised her head and gave him a smile, "I've settled down a lot after seeing you."

"... What happened?" Pei Ye asked in a low voice.

Li Piaoqing then recounted in detail what she had encountered after they parted, starting from the Bixiao Pavilion, all the way to entering the ancient mansion, going deep into the secret realm, and finally stopping here.

"Then, I killed her with a purple bamboo shoot." The young girl said in a low voice.

"... Why didn't you use the small sword that Miss Ming gave you?"

Li Piaoqing gave him a weak smile: "What I lacked was an opportunity to strike, not the power to strike. And I didn't know when you would come. Later... there was still that so-called Divine Child."

Yes, even in such a desperate situation where she was exhausted and could barely stand, the young girl was still trying to calmly consider the enemies behind, and was truly prepared to face it alone.

Pei Ye silently pulled her gently into his arms.

The young girl's gaze fell on the corpse not far away, and she said in a low voice, "... I'm actually not very happy."

"I think... she originally truly regarded me as a friend, and I originally... truly wanted to help her save her." Li Piaoqing's gaze was stunned. "I saw the joy from her heart when she sang, saw her true longing for her family, and also saw that before parting, Yi Nandai gave her the bracelet he wove without saying a word."

"They are people with complete emotions like us... but all this reality fell before that noble and cold faith. I just feel that everything about 'people' is..."

She fell silent.

Pei Ye stroked her head: "They have dragon blood in their bodies and have grown up here since childhood."

"I understand." Li Piaoqing gave him a reluctant smile again, "I'm just very afraid, because this place is too close to Cuiyu, and the things you experienced on Xincang Mountain... are also too close to Cuiyu. I'm very worried... the Yi family was once a famous family, but they were eroded so silently. You said if they chose Cuiyu at that time, perhaps now I would offer the entire Cuiyu Sword Sect for them... and then stab the sword into your body."

"..." Pei Ye hugged her deeply, "Don't think nonsense."

"It's not nonsense." Li Piaoqing tilted her head and raised her head to look at the surrounding walls, "I have never seen... Cuiyu cannot stop this kind of thing either."

Thick clouds and heavy haze pressed deeply on the young girl's mind.

"..."

The black cat said at this time: "【Chunshou】 cannot solve your problem."

The two looked at it.

The black cat raised a pair of clear green eyes to look at the young girl: "I have given you the 【Chunshou】 on her body, and you can use it in the future. It's just that, although it cleared the maze illusion she imposed on you, the true source of fire comes from your own heart."

Li Piaoqing nodded gently.

She knew.

After reading the entire "Chuan Xin Zhu Transmission," she finally truly walked onto the right track of cultivating the Five Poisons Chuan Xin Zhu, gathered those scattered thoughts, and tried to go in the right direction.

However, the fifth Heart Poison still existed, and she still had not seen what it looked like.

When 【Chunshou】 cleared her mind under the control of the black cat, and the protagonist appeared in reality, giving her enough solid support, reality finally forced back those illusions. It retreated into a thick fog covering the soul. Although the young girl was no longer unable to distinguish between truth and illusion, she still felt suffocated from time to time.

This was not a problem that could be solved by external force; she could only go through it alone.

Pei Ye said softly: "Tell me, let's think of a way together?"

The young girl shook her head and gave a reluctant smile: "I don't even know what's going on myself."

In fact, a vague sense of unease lingered in her heart, and she was vaguely afraid to think about it very clearly.

Pei Ye looked at her with some worry and could only hug her tightly, trying to comfort her clumsily: "It's okay, the most difficult setbacks have passed... these are all small things."

These words indeed gave the young girl some strength. She smiled brightly, nodded against his chest, and used her head to knock his chin.

Pei Ye laughed: "Don't mess around."

Li Piaoqing propped up her body from his arms.

The wounds on her body had all been bandaged. Pei Ye put on his blood-stained coat again, his gaze falling on the young girl's blood-stained waist, and hesitated: "Do you want to treat it too?"

"... Ah?" Li Piaoqing was stunned, "Oh, I don't need to for this."

"It's okay, let me help you." Pei Ye did not react, his brain twitched, and he reached out to untie the young girl's belt.

Li Piaoqing dodged as if electrocuted.

"..."

"..."

Pei Ye's hand froze in mid-air, and the atmosphere was a little quiet.

A few breaths later, the young girl lowered her head, "I'll do it myself."

Li Piaoqing handed the medicine bottle and gauze to him and gently untied her belt.

Her green coat was loosened, and inside was a light green lining. The young girl lowered her head and gathered the two layers of soft fabric upward, hugging them into a cloud-like ball with her arms, stopping under her ribs, just revealing a section of fair and delicate waist.

The young girl gathered her lapels with both hands and held them, showing the wound to him.

Just as the young girl said, this wound could indeed "not need to."

Compared to the wounds on Pei Ye's body, this bloodstain from the dagger could basically be ignored for a Five-Life realm cultivator. At this time, under the firm closure of true Qi, only some bloodstains remained.

Pei Ye felt even more hot-faced, holding the gauze in his hand, not knowing whether he should continue for a moment.

Thus, the young girl also blushed: "You... don't just keep looking..."

Pei Ye blushed again, lowered his head without a word, soaked the gauze with clear water, gently wiped away the bloodstains, applied medicine, and clumsily wrapped the gauze for her.

The boy's gaze fell straight on this wound, and the fair white beside it shook his eyes. He only felt that his attention was drifting to the side without restraint, and he tried hard not to look directly.

The boy's stiff appearance made the young girl above him unable to help but laugh: "Pei Ye... you are so stupid."

Pei Ye raised his head, his cheeks still red, and glared at her fiercely with a stiff face.

The young girl pursed her lips and looked at him: "Touching it... will it burn your hand—ah!"

The boy had never been provoked. He pressed his hand fully on that delicate abdomen. Amidst the young girl's scream, he curled his fingers and scratched. The young girl's voice went up another octave, and she suddenly pulled her clothes to cover her waist, curling into a small shrimp and laughing, leaning on the boy's shoulder.

"Hmph."

"You haven't grown up!"

The fluorescent light around them filled the space even more, wrapping the boy and girl tightly inside.

Pei Ye hugged her and gradually calmed down. He said in a low voice: "I was scared to death when I knew Yi Chengxin believed in the Dragon Lord wholeheartedly."

"... Hmm."

"Fortunately you are smart. How did you realize she was wrong?"

The black cat glanced at him. Li Piaoqing had always been clever, but this person always thought the young girl would be deceived everywhere. Looking at the traces outside, she clearly had never trusted Yi Chengxin, but it was hard to say if the other party believed her instead.

But she heard the young girl leaning on the boy's shoulder, whispering: "Because you reminded me before that that fire talisman is very dangerous."

Black cat: "..."

It rolled its green eyes and interrupted their conversation coldly: "What kind of place is this exactly?"

Li Piaoqing straightened up: "Yi Chengxin said, 【Listening to the Edict Divine Child】 resides in the purple bamboo forest, and this is the divine path leading to the purple bamboo secret realm."

"Then, what exactly is 【Edict Transmission】?"

The two were silent for a while.

After reaching this step, in fact, many things had surfaced, and everyone had thought of the same thing.

The reason they came here was that the Huan Si Lou showed traces in Bowang, and these traces pointed to the Candle World Sect.

The three words "Candle World Sect" were a guide that Pei Ye could not refuse.

Wudong said that this was information deliberately provided to them by the Tunri Alliance.

After coming here, they indeed did not find the conspiracy of the Tunri Alliance at a deeper level. Both the Huan Si Lou and the Candle World Sect were caught off guard by their arrival and had all their plans broken by them.

Then, what was the "plan" of the latter two in Xiangzhou?

The task of Zhang He of the Huan Si Lou was to "assist the Yi family."

And the center of all the Yi family's actions was the 【Edict Transmission】 ceremony on the eve of this distant marriage.

What is 【Edict Transmission】?

Thirty years ago, Yi Danjun had already experienced it once. The paper note said, "Night, enter the purple bamboo forest, face and listen to the Edict Divine Child."

It also said: "The Divine Child has no consciousness. After entering the forest, do not speak, close your eyes tightly, let it swallow, wait for it to eat at least fifteen jin of bones and flesh, then open your eyes to face it. Within three breaths, you will enter the divine realm, and you can sword-candle heart poison."

On the way, Yi Chengxin also told Li Piaoqing that the Immortal Lord passed down the Edict Map, and the listener was the 【Divine Child】. Every thirty years, the Divine Child gradually loses consciousness, and needs new heart-mind feeding, which is 【Edict Transmission】.

Therefore, the three speculated that 【Edict Transmission】 was to offer oneself as food, and through the "Chuan Xin Zhu Transmission" secret art, feed one's own heart-mind to the Divine Child.

How "Chuan Xin Zhu Transmission" plays a role in this process is temporarily unknown.

However, Yi Chengxin's 【Edict Transmission】 this time is clearly different.

She really killed the Edict-Receiving servants outside, carried 【Chunshou】, and today after the Edict Transmission, there is still a marriage ceremony tomorrow.

She said she came to assassinate the 【Listening to the Edict Divine Child】.

"To leave." The black cat said calmly.

The two looked at it.

"Pei Ye, do you remember? Fifty years ago, the Candle World Sect encountered a cleanup by the Immortal Terrace in the southwest."

"... Hmm." Pei Ye remembered, this was what Yue Muzhou told him.

"So fifty years ago, the Yang Edict people came to the Yi family through marriage. Since then, the Yi family has lived in seclusion and became a puppet of the dragon descendants." The black cat continued, "Now, the Candle World Sect failed on Xincang Mountain, and the Immortal Terrace in the Divine Capital is searching for them on a large scale, so another distant marriage appeared."

The two were shocked.

"Therefore, Yi Danjun's 【Edict Transmission】 might be truly offering oneself to the god, but Yi Chengxin's 【Edict Transmission】 is to take away the core things of these Edict-Receiving dragon descendants, just like the Yang Edict people fifty years ago, and then flee far away."

"... Therefore, the Edict-Receiving servants loyal to the Listening to the Edict Divine Child would not let her in." Li Piaoqing was slightly enlightened.

Now, they have taken over Yi Chengxin's fate and will face the Divine Child living in the purple bamboo white fog.

The atmosphere suddenly became much heavier.

"It doesn't matter." Li Piaoqing smiled lightly, "We can kill Yi Chengxin, then we must also—"

Her heart poison suffocated again, and she continued: "—be able to defeat this so-called Divine Child."

Pei Ye frowned and did not speak.

The secluded and high indifference echoed in the air. He was actually incomparably familiar with this will.

Born in the world for seventeen years, he had only felt this way when facing Him.

Just the word "Edict" should make one guess that this would likely be another direct confrontation with the Immortal Lord.

The things that the entire dragon descendant clan had guarded for generations.

Purple bamboo, white fog, niches, wall scriptures, in the deep and silent underground, the two and one cat sat in the array, and the fluorescent light rising had already touched the dome.

That high and distant will became heavier and heavier.

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