Chapter 628: Hand-drawn Immortal Body

Seeing Pei Ye frowned slightly.

The rapid end of this fight was indeed beyond his expectations. According to his prediction, this should have been an intense fight. Ziliang said in the Mirage Garden that he was "already in the Mystic Gate", so being able to cast and fuse the 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 meant he was at least above the Body-Molding stage. And he was facing Yu Sicheng twenty-three years ago. From common sense, this really shouldn't have been a crushing battle.

However, it was not impossible to explain. The 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 he faced was in a state where the driver had been grinding with it for twenty years. The Ziliang who was hastily cast and carried it for the first time might be far from reaching this state.

Or, the 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 was just so vulnerable in front of the Qilin fire.

Another feeling this scene brought him was that Guo You and Ziliang of that year were actually as caught off guard as he was before this scene.

He looked at the wooden puppets that were no longer moving. Due to the fine craftsmanship in the subtle places, their movements indeed embodied many details and emotions to a considerable extent.

It was clear that they saw the person blocking them before the war started, but that was not the moment of emotional collapse.

Ziliang exploded the mercury liquid in his bones for the first time, which indeed represented that the opponent brought him great pressure, but he still rushed forward. Until the moment of the fight, the battle situation suddenly turned into a disparate contrast of strength, and then he was defeated within a few breaths. That was exactly the moment when Guo You's emotions were most intense.

This process actually corroborated Seeing Pei Ye's discovery and speculation in Bright Moon Palace—the strength of the two sides was not necessarily that disparate. There was a key object that showed its power only after the fight. It was clearly the nemesis of the 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 and obviously beyond the expectations of Guo You and the other.

But there was also a tiny possibility, for example, the opponent was disguised or masked...

Seeing Pei Ye turned his eyes to Li Xizhou beside him. The woman was still looking down at the puppets, seeming to think longer than he did.

At this time, Qu Xin beside him said: "Is this the purple-gold body you mentioned?"

Seeing Pei Ye turned his head, and her hand was pointing at the puppet that collapsed on the ground.

"... Yes."

"It doesn't look strong." Qu Xin glanced at him. "Are you too weak?"

"... Next time we fight, I'll definitely bring Physician Qu."

"I am a physician. If I take action, it's a different price."

Li Xizhou raised her head at this time: "Little Physician Qu, in this way, has Guo You's heart trauma recovered a bit?"

Qu Xin nodded and shook her head: "He didn't go crazy here."

"Hmm?"

Seeing Pei Ye also looked over in surprise.

The young girl tucked the dry hanging hair covering half of her face. It was clear she hadn't washed since entering Zhu Jingdian. She looked at the old man's trembling brows, and her hand was on the fine lines drawn out: "This matter indeed crushed his mental defense, thus causing his mind to enter a turbulent and sensitive state, but the collapse seems to be later."

Seeing Pei Ye didn't understand: "You mean, there is something else later that he cannot accept?"

Qu Xin shook her head: "Not necessarily. It's just that even for the same thing, witnessing its outbreak and suffering its consequences are often not at the same time. Many people are crushed by the latter."

The young girl's fingers gently and nimbly massaged or fluctuated on the fine lines. When Guo You's emotions looked a bit more stable, she fed him a bowl of decoction and then untied the acupuncture points on his head that had just been sealed.

Guo You opened his eyes, and the puppets on the desk stood up again.

But this time, the scene lacked recognition. The puppet that had just been knocked down stood up. It seemed that time had completed a jump. It just walked toward Guo You step by step, and then several people watched Guo You making sounds in his mouth, his emotions becoming more and more agitated, slowly climbing to the edge of collapse.

It was here that Qu Xin flicked the hidden thread pulling this puppet in her hand for the first time, observing Guo You's expression, letting it stop its footsteps, and then began to release some gentle movements, followed by taking a few steps back.

Guo You's emotions stabilized here, holding his head, but the collapse did not happen again.

Qu Xin stretched her brows, took off the thread in her hand, turned her waist to wash her hands in the water basin beside her: "The location is determined. In a quarter of an hour, I will bandage this heart trauma, and then you can ask him some deeper questions."

Li Xizhou nodded with satisfaction: "That couldn't be better. Thank you, Little Physician Qu."

"Princess, you are too polite."

Seeing Pei Ye looked at her: "What does the Princess want to ask?"

"It won't come until half an hour later. No rush." Li Xizhou was still looking at the desk. "Judging from this scene, does it represent that Ziliang didn't die in that fight?"

Seeing Pei Ye also noticed this point and turned his head: "Qu Xin, could this be an illusion in his heart?"

"Both are possible." Qu Xin lowered her head to prepare medicine. "This scene represents that the pressure of his ultimate collapse comes from this puppet. As for who this puppet represents, and whether this scene is reality or nightmare, I don't know."

That actually doesn't matter. Seeing Pei Ye turned back and thought quietly, because even if it is an illusion, this is a doubt that cannot be ignored.

How could the pressure of Guo You's most collapsed heart come from Ziliang?

He looked at Li Xizhou again. Actually, at the very beginning, they could roughly know the reason why Guo You fell into his current situation. First, Wei Qingju had an incomparably transcendent status in his heart, whether from family or individual. Second, Ziliang was his most important, or perhaps his only, close friend.

The successive deaths of these two people meant the collapse of the deepest garden in his heart. Suffering a sudden dramatic change, it is understandable to be half-crazy.

Yesterday in the ruins of the Ministry of Works, Guo You was still foolishly obsessed with the completion of the 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】. It was clear that he couldn't let go of this creation that seemed to be the only one that could save the situation at that time.

Although looking back now, perhaps ten 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】s were just a thin boat in the wind and waves.

But when coming to the details, this matter can be deliberated. As Qu Xin said, Guo You didn't go crazy when witnessing Ziliang's defeat and Wei Qingju's death, but the consequence brought by this matter still crushed him later... But why was this consequence imposed by Ziliang?

Seeing Pei Ye thought quietly for a while. He turned his gaze, and Li Xizhou was also looking at him. Their train of thought was clearly in the same place.

"You said, if a person's closest relative dies within a month, will he go crazy?" Li Xizhou said slowly.

Actually, he won't.

He would mostly change his temperament, stay behind closed doors, and perhaps be a walking corpse for a period of time... But if the enemy was still there, as a Mystic Gate master, he would be more likely to take revenge.

Even if it was a paranoid revenge.

Or even if he cowardly fled.

Unless he was really that fragile, like a child, collapsing along with his sanity after losing his shelter, living only in dreams every day.

"So, this is instead an explanation..." Seeing Pei Ye pondered.

"Not bad."

This is his pain and trauma, because he really believed that he caused Ziliang's defeat.

It must be only like this. He regretted and couldn't accept this memory, because that was not only the death of a relative and friend, but more importantly, the collapse of the relationship.

Miss Ming being killed by someone would make him hold his sword tightly. The person who killed Miss Ming being himself would make him loosen the sword hilt powerlessly.

It is like this.

So... Yu Sicheng being able to crush the 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 so easily, is it related to Guo You?

He waited on the mountain road that day with the Qilin fire, as if waiting for the question with the answer. Then, who carved the question on the 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】?

Seeing Pei Ye thought of this and tilted his head to look at the old man who had become quiet and was hanging his head in silence.

Qu Xin took back the thirty-two needles on his head: "Okay. Regarding the purple-gold body, you can ask. He will answer based on memory and knowledge, but the memory has not been fully sorted out, and the expression is still chaotic. This will only slowly recover after complete healing."

"Okay." Seeing Pei Ye just wanted to speak, but was blocked by Li Xizhou raising her hand before his mouth. "... Why?"

"Wait a moment. The things I want are almost here."

"What things?"

"The letter sent to Yangyi Building the night before last. It was agreed that it would be sent back at the You hour." Li Xizhou said, "I asked about the 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】. After getting the reply, I will ask based on it."

"Is it that punctual?"

"Generally, yes." The woman stood up and moved her limbs slightly.

Li Xizhou didn't lie. Indeed, after a little more than half an hour, just after the You hour had passed, a light green shadow flew in from outside the hall. It was not the first time Seeing Pei Ye had seen this spiritual bird; it was the Soul Bird of the Immortal Platform.

It brought a thick letter. Li Xizhou raised her hand, and it stopped obediently on her arm, letting her take down the load.

"The letter from Yangyi Building, why is it transmitted by the Immortal Platform?"

"Because it's inconvenient to transmit to the palace, so I entrusted it." Li Xizhou released the Soul Bird and opened the envelope. There were three copies in total.

Seeing Pei Ye moved to her desk and watched quietly.

The first letter was from the Immortal Platform itself, which was the small bottle of old blood scraped off that Li Xizhou sent yesterday. That itself was the easiest clue to obtain. The Immortal Platform acted very quickly, and now the result was sent back. It said "Indeed of the same pulse as Princess Jinyang", denying the possibility that it came from Ziliang or Yu Sicheng.

The second letter made Seeing Pei Ye tilt his head, because it was a very ancient paper shape, completely different from the form of the Immortal Platform. It was not very formal either. The writer clearly took a piece of paper at hand and wrote a few words on it. There was no beginning or signature at all.

"【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】, I still have an impression of these four words. Zai Haidong placed his heart on this in the Great Ming Palace twenty years ago. I have never seen this thing, and no pictures or texts were left in the building. The operational principles and strengths and weaknesses inquired by the Imperial Son are indeed unknown. However, the human body is a natural principle of heaven and earth. Cutting bones and changing marrow is always within the three major and seven minor, and the ten paths of bone veins. According to the description in the letter, the mechanism of the so-called 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 is drawn as follows, hoping to be helpful."

Seeing Pei Ye didn't realize what it meant after reading it for the first time, but the next moment the woman unfolded the third thick letter paper, which covered the entire desk, making him stand dazed on the spot.

Yangyi Building indeed hadn't seen it... but perhaps the writer didn't need to see it either.

The miraculous man-made immortal body in the young man's eyes, with descriptions like "dragon gold casting bones, mercury liquid as marrow", was enough for that unknown person to outline everything.

The entire huge and precise blueprint dismantled the dragon gold body. Every joint and every section of bone was marked with dimensions and connection methods. The ratio of mercury liquid was also determined to be ninety percent... In the middle and upper part of the spine of this body, and below the dantian, there were two circles drawn in vermilion.

"One, the Dazhui-Shendao bone pivot. If it is not the last cervical vertebra, it is at the fifth thoracic vertebra. There should be a general pivot for mercury liquid circulation. Its shape is probably like an inverted funnel, pressing mercury liquid into the whole body's meridians with the momentum of a dragon swallowing a pearl, similar to a human heart;"

"Two, the eye of the Qihai, three inches below the navel, where the dantian and Qihai acupoint are located. Mercury liquid is injected into the dantian, and the meridian tree is planted in the mercury sea. It is the connection point between this set of bones and flesh and blood, and also the mixing place of true Qi and mercury liquid, allowing the driver to control this set of bones as he pleases, roughly like a human brain."

"These two places are probably 'life gates', but they are also cast from dragon gold. If this gold is not broken, it is also useless."

"..." Seeing Pei Ye was speechless for a while.

It was as if this person had stood in the Ministry of Works twenty-three years ago, watching Guo You and Zai Haidong design this bone body bit by bit... However, in reality, he neither touched the dragon gold nor saw Yu Sicheng's fighting style. Even the few descriptions were only obtained the night before last.

He looked at Li Xizhou: "... Who is this person?"

"The person who understands human body tools best in the world." Li Xizhou said in a flat voice, gently spreading this picture flat. "When Zai Haidong was still alive, this person was already sitting on the Yangyi Building."

"..." Seeing Pei Ye looked at Qu Xin at this time: "By the way, you also understand the human body very well. Why don't you seem very interested in this thing?"

Qu Xin glanced at him: "I am a physician. I want to repair broken people, not turn good people into something else."

She looked at this blueprint with cold disdain and turned her back to study medical books.

Seeing Pei Ye and Li Xizhou naturally had no conceptual problems. Seeing Pei Ye fully understood the significance of the woman waiting for this blueprint. Clearly, asking a person who couldn't imagine it to ask a person with confused memory, it was impossible to get the real information of the 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】.

And with this object as an anchor for communication, things became much clearer.

He pushed the blueprint and desk to Guo You: "Guo You, do you still remember this?"

Guo You lowered his head slowly. His gaze stayed on this blueprint for a while, and then his brows began to pick up. He raised his finger and pointed, making "ah ah" sounds in his mouth.

"This 【Mercury-Glazed Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】, the 'heart' and 'pivot', are these two places?"

Guo You nodded slowly: "Yes, yes... but, but you drew it wrong here..."

"Where is it wrong?"

Guo You pointed out some deviations in the details. Seeing Pei Ye kept asking with a pen. Guo You's gaze seemed to be sucked into this blueprint. In the conversation of asking and answering, the entire blueprint gradually became the most real appearance of that year.

When the entire blueprint was modified, the sky had already turned dark. Seeing Pei Ye also had such a thorough understanding of this miraculous bone body for the first time.

He finally raised his pen and said: "Guo You, when you cast it for Ziliang, did something go wrong somewhere?"

"..." Guo You's body stiffened.

"After he climbed the Bright Moon Palace, he was quickly crushed. You know why, right?" Seeing Pei Ye didn't stop, looking at him. "That wasn't your fault. Tell me, what happened, okay?"

But extreme pain and panic appeared in Guo You's eyes again. The originally dazed expression distorted. He opened his mouth wide and held his head with both hands: "It, it's me... it's me..."

"It's you what?" Seeing Pei Ye leaned forward and asked.

"It's me... I didn't tell Ziliang!!!" He hissed.

Qu Xin raised her head suddenly and turned around: "Don't ask anymore!" ===== CHAPTER 629 =====