Chapter 596: Snow Buries the Old Canal

He remembered quite clearly the water hero with the heavy blade who had almost forced him into a desperate situation in the water.

To tell the truth, although every move was dangerous when facing Qiu Tianyu at the West Pool that night, he always had moves to make. Both sides were trying their best to cut the other's throat with every move. Pei Ye knew that he might die at some point, but he also knew clearly that it was equally difficult for the other side to survive the next sword.

But facing Chen Renzhong in the water was another strange experience. Suddenly falling into the waves and surges, he was constrained everywhere. At that moment, he realized deeply that the *jianghu* is vast, and everyone has their own territory.

Qiu Tianyu was naturally much more powerful than Chen Renzhong. If they met at a banquet, they wouldn't even be people of the same world. Qiu Tianyu sat high on the top of the Flying Mirror Building, which should be the center of attention, while 【Black Cloud on the River】 would only be one of the "heroes" who toasted.

Pei Ye later lay on the bed and thought about the man's movements under the water. Many details were not just those of a person familiar with water.

Pei Ye himself could swim, and was very good at it. When he was ten or so, he floated and sank in the tributaries of the Lu River, refining a body of fine meat, able to compete with green fish of several pounds, and finally carrying it to the shore.

The confrontation and coordination between humans and water are always difficult to be as natural as that.

Those leg swings, those arm swings, those rhythms of muscles, for that body, water is not an object that needs to be dealt with, but blended into one, avoiding and following at will.

Mortals look at how agile and fast cultivators assisted by True Qi are in the water. Pei Ye looked at that figure and felt it was more ghostly and difficult to describe. So Pei Ye thought at that time, there must be such a secret martial art. Those who make a living on the river should have such a housekeeping skill.

Until he saw the faint shallow scales on Chen Renzhong's skin joints during the battle, and those deep yellow beast pupils with pain.

Later, the government office took away the corpse. When eating together, Xie Chuantang told him that the Immortal Platform and the government office dissected it together and saw that many heterogeneous qualities had grown in the internal organs. Places that should have been soft flesh grew pieces of toughness, feeling like the soft seeds in a persimmon.

The whole skeleton was deforming toward the narrow, and there was a trend of thinning. The pupils were shrinking and stretching, moving toward the direction of adapting to the dark environment. Xie Chuantang said that if the time was longer, transparent membrane sheaths might grow on those eyes.

At that moment, Pei Ye realized that what gave Chen Renzhong all his abilities was the body itself, not any True Qi secret technique.

As for where this body came from, they didn't get enough inspiration.

Changing a three- or forty-year-old human body is like changing a ripe apple into a pear. It might become a harmonious product that possesses both apple and pear flavors, but the absolute probability is that it will rot completely.

The only power Pei Ye has heard of that can turn human flesh, blood, bones, and muscles at will like the hand of Nuwa is the flesh and blood authority from the Immortal Venerable.

So at that time, they temporarily concluded the case, thinking that this was just a desperate secret move, using life to exchange for a chance to become a spirit in the water, even if only for a short moment.

Until today, when this skeleton from the ancient pool was rubbed and transmitted back to the Immortal Platform, he could try to put his pen on the three characters "Chen Renzhong," and then connect it to the name "He Wujian."

—If Chen Renzhong died in the process of obtaining this body, then were there any successful people?

Even if it is an extremely small probability and an extremely dangerous act, whether a group of people has been trying to touch this field, using life and experience to pave a small path... There are always a few people who finally grasped this power.

Then they might be "He Wujian," or the so-called "Cyan Wind Envoy."

Can such people enter the Spirit Realm?

Thinking about many things in his heart, Pei Ye sat in front of the hall for a while, his palm rubbing the soft fur of the little beast on his knees, watching the cold stars gradually rise, and the wind in the wilderness became clear again.

This Ming Palace was indeed different from what the young man imagined. It was empty and vast, cold and lonely. Neither day nor night could hear any sound. It was hard to imagine that it was the center of the Divine Capital of the Great Tang, where the imperial children lived.

But when he was distracted, he suddenly heard footsteps on the steps of the main hall. He turned his head and was stunned. The young girl in palace clothes with a very faint expression was walking out of the main hall. After seeing Pei Ye, she nodded slightly. After reaching the bottom of the steps, she faced the main hall, bowed upright, and bowed deeply.

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

It was the Sixth Princess, Li Youlong.

It turned out that there had been two people in the main hall all along. I don't know what these two Highnesses talked about... Pei Ye stepped forward to the hall and lowered his head to confirm: "May I ask if Your Highness is well?"

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

Pei Ye nodded and left.

Early the next morning, Li Wuyan was no longer waiting for him in front of the hall door. According to what Li Xizhou said, today was the day for study. Yesterday was a rare holiday for her. Once she reached the age of six, all actions and things were controlled. The little girl was not as free as she appeared.

That didn't matter. Pei Ye wandered alone in the ponds of the Ming Palace during the day, and only brought Li Wuyan out at dusk. He wasn't in a hurry, as if he were just playing with the little girl. Such days passed for three or five days, and the young man finally walked through this huge harem, corresponding it to the map in his mind.

"Brother Pei, I read *Fish Manual* last night. It says 'Carp are in the pool in summer and at the bottom of the pool in winter.' Taiye, Taiye Pool is very, very deep," Li Wuyan carried a small fishing rod, walking in the snow with deep and shallow steps behind Pei Ye, 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 Pool is really very, very deep."

Pei Ye ignored her. He naturally knew that big fish were in the depths, but it was fine if they didn't bite the hook. If they really bit her hook, they would only drag this little person into the water. It would be hard to say who was fishing whom.

The line he tied for her was just enough to catch some small fish in the shallow pool, which was most suitable.

The little girl was calling persistently behind him. Pei Ye raised his pen and head, carefully distinguishing the density of the forest trees.

This was the northeast corner of the Great Ming Palace, behind the Mingyue Palace. The pool forest named "Yusan Garden" had long been deserted. The trees were high, and the birds had abandoned their nests as early as autumn.

It was rare for someone to leave footprints here. Pei Ye waded through the snow, using the soles of his feet to find the stone path of the past, calculating the layout of this old garden bit by bit.

Li Wuyan was still muttering: "Brother Pei, are we going to Jing Pool? There are red carp to catch in Jing Pool. Can we catch them today before we leave..."

Pei Ye looked at the forest trees quietly for a while, lowered his head and drew a curve in the booklet. He closed the small booklet, left the stone path to the left, stepped on the deep snow that didn't reach his knees, and went into the forest.

Li Wuyan followed two steps forward, was stopped in place by the young man with a long rod. He didn't look back, only white steam drifted from his side cheek: "You wait here for a while, I won't go far."

"Oh." The little girl said obediently.

But after a while, watching the young man's figure go further and further, she couldn't help but shout: "Brother Pei, what are you looking for?"

No answer. She was inexplicably panicked and followed, but after a few steps, she stumbled and fell into the snow.

She was struggling to stand up when the sound of stepping on snow came back. She was picked up by a pinch on her back, and her little fishing rod was taken by the other hand.

Pei Ye bent his arm to let her sit on his arm, looked at the booklet, and continued to walk forward.

"Brother Pei, where are you going?"

"We ran through seven pools in the past two days. Do you know which pools are connected now?" It really wasn't far. Pei Ye put the little girl down and looked at the area where no forest trees grew.

"Every one is connected!" Li Wuyan said.

Yes, every one is connected. From the Jing Pool in the front hall to the Taiye in the harem, then to Zhu, Zi, Nan, Bei, and Xia, the seven pools are connected into a system of high and low, with Taiye as the center, making the seven pools not dry in drought and not flooded in rain, forming an extremely balanced system.

"They are a family of pools." Li Wuyan played the spirit of playing house, "Only Jing Pool is not!"

Except for Jing Pool, which is alone behind the Mingyue Palace, the terrain is obviously higher than that in the palace, and it has the title of "Heavenly Pool."

After the current Emperor entered the palace city, he cleaned up the once extremely extravagant Imperial Palace. The only construction was the Jing Pool opened behind the Mingyue Palace.

Therefore, it is independent of the old seven pools.

Pei Ye specifically asked Meng'er about it two days ago. The young girl said very firmly that from the time she remembered, the Mingyue Jing Pool was not within the scope of the palace people's discussion. No need to sweep fallen leaves for it, no need to care about its water level, and no need to stock brocade carp or plant lotus flowers... It seemed that it was abandoned together with that symbiotic palace.

Of course, there was no water leading there.

But actually, it's not.

"Jing Pool is also connected." Pei Ye broke a suitable branch on the tree and sighed, "It's just that it seems to be a long time ago."

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

"Look, this is not a stone path either. Why not plant trees?"

"Why?"

Pei Ye said: "Because this used to be a water path. The water from Jing Pool flowed down from the mountain and could flow into the water system of the other seven pools."

"Ah, then Jing Pool is also one of the family of pools!"

"Yes, but more than twenty years ago, that was probably not a good thing." Pei Ye stood under the forest, looking up at the deserted and cold mountain top, and a corner of the palace was hidden among the trees. ===== CHAPTER 597 =====