Chapter 625

It was perfectly normal to leave bloodstains in a fight, especially with fragments like this that broke through bone. In Seeing Pei Ye's view, this bleeding was actually a bit too little.

Or rather, one shouldn't have been able to see even a trace of it.

Under such intense high temperatures, the blood should have been steamed dry... but since a trace remained, there was no harm in collecting it to verify its origin.

Seeing Pei Ye took out a small porcelain bottle, gently peeled off this old blood, and put it inside. Then he moved his eyes back; what was truly placed before him was another incredible matter.

"Fire..." Seeing Pei Ye looked at the twisted, miserable hole in this piece of gold. The sight of such indestructible metal appearing so dilapidated gave him a great shock. "What kind of high temperature... could cause this kind of destruction?"

He himself was a rare fire-controller among those in the Vein Realm. After obtaining the 【West Court Heart】, in the Star-Guard state, all the fire he saw was at his command, making him a master of fire.

However, the fire he himself controlled was truly sparse. Apart from the original state of the Chi Fire and ordinary fire, there was only the Zhu Lian Fire taken from the Yi family—born of burning mystery, with heat reaching the Third Li, and an astonishing high temperature that could reach three times the melting point of gold. This had always been the sharp sword blade Seeing Pei Ye relied on to break through to the upper two realms and even the Mystic Gate defense.

In the past, when holding the Mountain Feather, Seeing Pei Ye couldn't let this kind of fire burn wantonly on the blade for too long. He only pushed it to its peak when attacking. That temperature was certainly quite a distance from melting, but it was enough to damage the precious blade.

Now that he had changed to the Jade Tiger, he could finally control the Zhu Lian Fire steadily. However, when he drove it with all his might that day and slashed down, the golden bone under the skin only gave him a crisp "ding" in return.

Was it necessary to bake it unremittingly for a long time to have an effect, or did this nameless fire that appeared twenty years ago truly possess a high temperature rarely seen in the world?

Seeing Pei Ye touched the pitch-black heart of the tree silently and gently; now his fingertips were left with only coldness.

He stood quietly for a while, then suddenly felt a chill behind his neck. He rubbed this gold piece with his fingers and became dazed.

"Little cat," he immediately turned his head and said, "call Li Xizhou over."

He paused, grabbed its tail, and added: "Don't pass on my original words."

After only a moment, the red-clad woman appeared from the palace on the top. She walked over, gathered her skirt, and squatted down, touching the carbonized heart of the tree: "What is it?... Is this the fire ash left behind back then?"

Seeing Pei Ye handed the fragment in his hand to her: "Look."

Li Xizhou took a look: "Dropped by the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】?"

"Most likely," Seeing Pei Ye said. "When I was underwater, I used all my strength, but I couldn't even cut off a sesame-sized piece of it."

Li Xizhou watched quietly for a while: "You mean, the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 is afraid of fire?"

"It's afraid of a special kind of fire," Seeing Pei Ye corrected.

He leaned on his knees and handed the porcelain bottle to her: "Take a look at this, too."

"What is it?"

"It's the old blood stained on this fragment."

Li Xizhou took a look: "What? Do you want me to send it to the Immortal Platform for verification?"

"No, you verify it," Seeing Pei Ye said earnestly.

"I verify..." Li Xizhou was slightly stunned, "What do I verify?"

"Don't you feel that there's something different about this blood?" Seeing Pei Ye leaned over and stared at her golden mask, but only a pair of pale-colored eyes looked at him with slight confusion.

"Very... old?"

Seeing Pei Ye thought to himself that this princess understood the things he pointed out immediately, yet she couldn't keep up with his line of thought at all. No wonder she complained, "You are too smart."

"I mean, do you have any special feelings about this blood?" Seeing Pei Ye guided her patiently, "You can get closer."

"... Still nothing. Can you just say it directly?" The woman's patience was running out.

"I think this might be the residue of Qilin blood," Seeing Pei Ye said earnestly. "This kind of fire might be Qilin fire."

"..."

"As a princess of the Qilin bloodline, don't you have any special feelings about it?"

"What kind of feeling do you want me to have?"

"I don't know, I think... maybe you'd feel it if you tasted a little bit." Seeing Pei Ye frowned, very earnest.

"You taste it if you want to," Li Xizhou rolled her eyes slightly and stood up. "What kind of feeling can a smear of black from twenty-plus years ago have?"

"..."

"Qilin fire, huh..." Li Xizhou was silent for a while.

"What is it?"

"... Nothing," Li Xizhou said. "If you think it's Qilin fire, then we'll proceed accordingly. If Qilin fire could defeat the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 once twenty-three years ago, then it can defeat it a second time twenty-three years later."

"Then, can you give me some?" Seeing Pei Ye rubbed his hands together, pursing his lips as he looked at her.

The black cat also poked out a pair of blinking emerald eyes from his shoulder.

"I don't have any, so how can I give you some?" Li Xizhou brushed the charcoal ash off her hands.

"... Then who has it?"

"Qilin fire burns on Qilin blood—not the thin Qilin blood in the bodies of any random Li-surnamed descendant, but the truly pure and concentrated Qilin blood that flows like fine gold," Li Xizhou said. "Only by ascending to the imperial throne and achieving a symbiotic contract with the Qilin can it be sublimated into such blood."

She looked at Seeing Pei Ye: "In other words, in the whole world right now, only one person has such blood."

"..."

Seeing Pei Ye froze, not only because the road under his feet suddenly became a ten-thousand-foot cliff, but also because he subconsciously looked at the fragment in his hand, unable to stop himself from thinking about what happened on this land twenty-three years ago.

So, could Yu Sicheng have had such blood to defeat the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】...

He looked at the woman beside him, but she was also looking at him, seemingly having thought of nothing: "I know how to obtain this kind of blood."

"This subordinate is dull; please instruct me, Your Highness."

Li Xizhou nodded with satisfaction: "You don't need to go and cut a slit in the Saint. He once bestowed his blood upon someone to help him observe the world and resolve principles. So, besides the Saint, there is one other person who holds 【Qilin Fire】."

"Who?"

"The fourth one, Li Zhi."

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned for a while: "Then what should we do? Do you want me to kill Li Zhi... this matter is a bit big, isn't it?"

"Is there nothing in your brain besides killing?"

"... This subordinate is dull; please instruct me, Your Highness."

"Li Zhi is not in the palace right now, but he will definitely come in a few days. When that time comes, we can just borrow it from him."

Seeing Pei Ye was truly dull this time, suspecting that his memory had failed him, and said blankly: "Li Zhi is the Empress's offspring, and both of them are representatives of the Five Surnames... You..."

"That's right, so Li Congfeng won't want the Yan Prince's Mansion to marry a true Qilin child," Li Xizhou said, looking at the youth. "If we deal with Yu Sicheng, she might not be unwilling to help."