Chapter 622: The Old Site of the Directorate for Palace Buildings

Seeing Pei Ye had long been clear about what he wanted to ask. He had originally come for Yu Sicheng. The construction of the Yuxian Garden back then and his current covering of the sky with one hand in the palace, everything could not be separated from him.

It was just that Seeing Pei Ye couldn't beat him now.

The 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 was indeed a monster in the Great Ming Palace. It was born purely for this place, and even without talking about the huge martial pressure brought by those strange bone joints, wanting to cause damage to it itself was an unsolvable problem.

So he was sitting in front of this old designer at this time.

As time passed, Seeing Pei Ye truly understood the medical principles mentioned by Qu Xin more and more. Directly and violently entering the mind-spirit realm to connect and comb was indeed the act of a cultivator. The profoundness of the medical path lies in treating a person as a person, rather than a problem, and in a near-gentle way, using needles and medicine to advance slowly, adjusting the internal mechanism, communicating from the outside in, using the five senses as a bridge, making the patient unload their mental defense in comfort and peace, and exposing the trauma.

The steps of destruction are only clear to the patient himself, so only when he stands up himself can he truly rebuild everything.

The disappearance of the obstacles in Guo You's heart was so clearly manifested on his face. The half-open mouth closed, the tense facial muscles relaxed, and those eyes that were always out of focus with the real scenery gradually fell back. The pupils slowly retracted, as if they had been collected from a distant place to the front of his eyes.

No one made a sound. He actually moved his head himself, as if he were looking at the furnishings in the hall.

Seeing Pei Ye whispered: "Qu Xin, you are so amazing."

Qu Xin's expression didn't change, and she was completely immune to this plain praise.

"Can you teach me this prescription?"

"Are you going to join the Taishan sect?"

"Aren't you widely benefiting the physicians of the world? Why are you still so sectarian?"

"Are you a physician?"

"If you teach me, won't I be one?"

Qu Xin glanced at him: "I can teach you some simple and clever medical methods after we get familiar. But the *Spirit Pivot Knocking Heart Record* is a very profound medical classic. Although it looks simple to use, it is actually a very high test of the physician's attainments. Needle path, pharmacology, meridians, divine pivot, experience... if one's level is insufficient in any one place, it may lead to unpredictable situations. The use of this technique requires a separate plan for each patient, it's not just about sticking needles and feeding medicine."

Seeing Pei Ye didn't listen to the long list behind, only frowned slightly: "What do you mean by 'after we get familiar'? Aren't we familiar now?"

Qu Xin turned her head to look at him: "Can I pull out a tendon of yours to use?"

"No."

"You see." The young girl turned her head back coldly, as if this was enough to prove that their friendship was still shallow.

Seeing Pei Ye propped his chin and didn't speak anymore. Qu Xin suddenly said: "Guo You."

The old man raised his head in a daze.

Seeing Pei Ye straightened his body, and Li Xizhou also looked over.

"Alright, thanks to the good body of the Mystic Gate, this step is very successful." Qu Xin lowered her head and picked up the fine threads lined up on the case, straightened them one by one, and shook them gently. A piece of fine light and flowing silver seemed to splash out from the old man's head, and the thirty-two soft needles popped out at the same time.

Qu Xin wrapped her slender fingers, and the thirty-two needles were neatly collected in her palm. But Seeing Pei Ye was no longer looking at her. He stared at the old man in front of him, his waist and legs supporting him slightly, and his body was already tensed.

Guo You seemed to have come alive.

His expression was still dazed, and his eyes almost didn't land on anyone's face, but Seeing Pei Ye clearly felt that he was in the field of vision of a Mystic Gate. Even if there was no hostility, when you were within two yards of him, that kind of threat was actually lingering.

"... Guo You?" Seeing Pei Ye tested.

The old man's gaze fell on him.

"I want to ask you a few questions." Seeing Pei Ye looked at these eyes and said, "Do you still remember the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 from twenty-four years ago... It is said that it was cast from the bones of a dragon's molting. What is that?"

Guo You stared at him. In Seeing Pei Ye's waiting gaze, this old man actually opened his mouth, dazed, as if talking to himself, and as if earnestly exhorting: "Dragon's molting bones... dragon's molting bones were bestowed by the Ming Ming Niangniang, they cannot be moved lightly. The Ming Ming Niangniang's decree, need... need to extract from it... extract... Oh, right, it has already been used to cast the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】."

He muttered, as if a person with amnesia was picking up the scattered memories on the ground.

"That's right, you used this kind of dragon gold to design the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 body. Do you remember what its weaknesses are?" Seeing Pei Ye leaned forward and asked.

"Weakness..." Guo You was dazed, "【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】... 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】... Gold is the bone, mercury is the marrow, that is the immortal body of a mortal... Do you want it too..." The corners of Guo You's mouth actually bent slightly, like a child's smile. It seemed that the things he remembered were getting more and more, and he lowered his head and said dazed, "Weakness... how can dragon gold have any weaknesses? It's just that I haven't—"

His words suddenly cut off, and he stopped there. The hall was silent for a while. Seeing Pei Ye was slightly stunned and raised his hand: "Guo—"

His pupils shrank sharply, his waist and legs sprang up to avoid it. His first reaction was to protect Qu Xin beside him. But a moment earlier than him, the girl's plain white hand had gently sent him away with a soft force on his waist. At the same time, the girl flicked her fingertips, and a fine needle seemed to cut open a water curtain in the air, blocking in front of Li Xizhou.

The crazy old man with a bare head and cloak leaped up suddenly. Upon contacting the outside world, he seemed to have regained his powerful body. His leaping posture was very ugly, and he didn't control his balance well. He hit a pillar and staggered, and when he fell, he knocked over Li Xizhou's case.

But the next moment, he swept out of the hall door like a wild wind. Half a breath later, a loud noise came from outside; it was the sound of the main door being hit open.

Li Xianfang was carrying a basin of hot water that had just been boiled, and stood there blankly.

Seeing Pei Ye sat on the ground a yard away, raised his head to look at the girl standing quietly: "This 'unpredictable situation,' which level of the Divine Physician Qu is insufficient?"

Qu Xin glanced at him indifferently: "The assistant is not good."

Li Xizhou said: "Stop making trouble. This actually shows that the Little Medicine Monarch Qu is pouring onto the lesion and touching the key point. We must chase after him quickly."

She lowered her head to brush the candle oil spilled on her skirt. Seeing Pei Ye's gaze fell on this Highness just now. Before the case was knocked over, she jumped back quite nimbly, as light as a little deer.

"Your Highness is wise." Qu Xin said calmly, "However, there is no need to panic. I left a magnetic needle on his body, just for this moment."

After saying this, she took out a small magnetic disk and handed it to the youth.

Seeing Pei Ye took it: "Your patient, aren't you going?"

"The medical work for today is done, there is nothing I need to do." Qu Xin lowered her head and packed her box, "Ask what you should ask, and bring him back before this time tomorrow."

Seeing Pei Ye sighed lightly and picked up his sword: "I'm also a wounded person who was just stitched up, and I have to run around again."

"It is precisely because I considered this kind of situation that I used stitches that are not easy to break for you."

"..."

At this time, the woman beside her wiped her hands with a silk handkerchief and said calmly: "I'll go with you."

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned, turned his head, and that exquisite gold mask was looking at him.

"You have passed the life-and-death move with Yu Sicheng, so don't act alone in the palace at will. If you want to leave the Zhu Jingdian, try to be with me."

"... Oh, obey Your Highness's order."

"Let's go." Li Xizhou stretched her arm downward gently, and the little cat on the chair climbed onto her shoulder.

Although they were delayed for a moment or two in the hall, it was actually only a short while. When they walked out, Li Xizhou looked at the wood grain cracked by the impact on the door and sighed lightly. When she raised her eyes again, she could still see a small black dot in the residual snow to the west.

Seeing Pei Ye could have gathered his Qi to chase, but the red dress in front had no cultivation, so the two walked along the road unhurriedly.

This was probably the first time Seeing Pei Ye had followed behind this red dress since entering the palace. The palace people they met cast their gazes on them, and then avoided them from afar.

The woman seemed used to it, looking down at the small magnetic disk: "Walking so straight, does this person just hit trees and such directly... The confidant of Mother back then doesn't seem very smart."

Seeing Pei Ye didn't speak much. Indeed, Guo You's route was very wild. Rockeries, pool surfaces, dense forests, and high slopes were all swept over. Li Xizhou didn't have this ability, so the two bypassed and chased along the road.

Gradually, the palaces became rarer, the old snow was not swept, and no palace people could be seen. This was the northwest corner of the Great Ming Palace, separated by the Bright Moon Palace, as desolate and uninhabited as ever.

The two followed the footprints and arrived in front of a dilapidated courtyard. The wide door and high eaves could still show the upright and imposing style of the past, but the degree of decay was even worse than the Bright Moon Palace, and it was now a place for bird nests and bat caves.

And now the rotten big door was hit open by great force, and half of the door leaf lay on the ground. From here, it went straight in, and a passage was trampled out.

Seeing Pei Ye looked up: "What place is this?"

"The former Directorate for Palace Buildings." Li Xizhou said, "This government office was in charge of the carving of utensils in the palace. It was set up in the palace before, but it moved out twenty years ago. I guess very few people remember that it once stayed here."

The two crossed the threshold and entered. The inside was also very quiet, and they couldn't hear Guo You's voice until they reached the very end, when the two saw that figure again.

The old man was kneeling on the ground helplessly, looking around dazed, muttering: "Where are the people... why are the people gone..."

Li Xizhou stepped into the door. Seeing Pei Ye took two steps to block in front of her and approached the kneeling figure.

"... Hurry up and come here... come here... I have to finish the Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha quickly..." He muttered dazed.

"Guo You, did you design the Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha here before?"

"Yes... yes..." Guo You raised his eyes and looked at him again, "You, who are you?"

Seeing Pei Ye was silent for a moment, looking at his cognitive state which was still twenty-four years ago, and said without changing his expression: "I am the guard in front of the Ming Ming Niangniang's palace, sent by the Ming Ming Niangniang to inquire."

"The Ming Ming Niangniang... what does the Ming Ming Niangniang want to ask?"

"The 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 body you designed, what are its weaknesses, and how should it be defeated?" Seeing Pei Ye asked directly.

"Weakness..." Guo You was dazed, "【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】, how can it have any weaknesses?"

"..." Seeing Pei Ye was stunned.

"Please rest assured, Ming Ming Niangniang. The dragon gold body constructed by me and the Nourishing Intent Tower is driven by the Ming Ming Niangniang, and it will never... never leave any weaknesses." Guo You said in a low voice, and stood up shakily, "You, you look..."

He grabbed Seeing Pei Ye's arm with one hand, and kept sketching on the table with the other, as if there was really a picture there: "You... look, first, dragon gold is the bone. This divine material is both rigid and tough, and has no flaws itself. It does not lose its nature through ice and fire, and dragon gold is not afraid of thunder and magnetism like ordinary gold."

He held Seeing Pei Ye's arm with one hand, and kept sketching on the table with the other, as if there was really a picture there: "Its... secondly, after dragon gold is connected into a body bone, it doesn't need to be pulled by muscles and tendons like human joints

He froze again, staring blankly at the empty table before him: "But... how could Yu Ziliang still have lost..."

Seeing Pei Ye immediately gripped his wrist: "Did you ever forge the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 for Yu Ziliang? Where is Yu Ziliang now?"

"Yu Ziliang... Yu Ziliang is gone!" He suddenly clutched his head and let out a low roar, tears gushing from his eyes, "Yu Ziliang! The Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha isn't finished yet, you'll die!!"

Seeing Pei Ye exchanged a glance with Li Xizhou, and the woman whispered, "As Qu Xin said, we've touched upon his trauma."

Seeing Pei Ye fell silent and pondered.

Li Xizhou stepped forward two paces and placed her hand on the old man's head.

After a moment, once he had quieted down slightly, she said softly, "Tell me, who did Yu Ziliang lose to?"

"..."

"Hmm?"

Guo You muttered in a daze: "Yu Ziliang... Yu Sicheng... Yu Ziliang is gone, the Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha is now with Yu Sicheng..."

He suddenly flew into a rage again: "Yu Sicheng! Let me go!!"

"His mental state is already very unstable; it's not good to ask any more." Seeing Pei Ye frowned slightly, "It's a pity we still didn't get the answer."

"Is that so? I think it's become much clearer," Li Xizhou said.

"Hmm?" Seeing Pei Ye looked at her.

"The 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 was indeed defeated," Li Xizhou said, looking at him.

"..."