Chapter 650: Everyone Loves Butterflies, Who Would Love a Fly? (Part 1)

"... Zi, Liang?" Seeing Pei Ye spat out these two words in a daze, feeling a rotation again.

There was no answer. A "Click" sound of locking came from the sword in his hand, as if it were cast dead in the opponent's body. Yu Sicheng lowered his head silently and stared straight at him. While pulling his body backward, the long spear also retracted slightly.

Seeing Pei Ye's pupils constricted. His wrist exerted force and twisted. The force of the obstruction exploded on the sword body. Amidst the crisp sound of breaking, Seeing Pei Ye pulled out half a broken sword.

At this instant, all his expressions were retracted again. He raised his eyes and stared dead at Yu Sicheng. Two pairs of cold eyes crashed together, one pair dark yellow, one pair bright gold.

Yu Sicheng stiffened for an instant again.

Seeing Pei Ye absolutely couldn't give up. He struck with his sword a second time to cut his Dantian, and at the same time, his fingers hooked. The sword tip broken from Yu Sicheng's spine, under the connection of the true Qi silk, turned back cunningly, cutting straight toward Yu Sicheng's remaining eye from the side.

At the same time, in the fine sand on the ground beside him, an extremely fast and swift dark green sprayed toward his face, followed by a strange shadow half the size of a body popping out from the sand, its poisonous claws pouncing straight at Yu Sicheng's back neck.

Yu Sicheng woke up earlier. He held the spear vertically and slanted it, first flicking away the sword tip, and then blocking the broken sword under his abdomen. Following that, his body tilted to one side, avoiding the poisonous sand at the critical moment. By this time, he had exhausted his room for maneuver, and the Water Fox had already soared onto his back neck.

Then he twisted his head fiercely and stared at it. His mouth opened, and a kind of emerald green fire rushed out, illuminating the water area and submerging the Water Fox's body. It crashed diagonally three or five zhang away, emitting a sharp, painful hiss. That kind of fire actually burned in the water without any obstruction. Seeing Pei Ye raised his hand, and the Chi fire extinguished them.

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned for a moment in front of this suddenly appearing fire, as if he had suddenly continued some line, but he had no time to think. The next moment, terrifying power pressed over from the spear body in front of him. Seeing Pei Ye tilted his body and leaned back, 【Drifting Returning Wind】 met the spear momentum by a hair's breadth, but immediately his heart and lungs clenched... there was no "wind".

The spear had clearly been struck out, but the entire water area had never been as quiet as it was now. 【Drifting Returning Wind】 missed without any foothold.

After saving him from the spear edge so many times, this style finally couldn't work in front of Yu Sicheng anymore. Amidst all stillness, Yu Sicheng's spear stabbed over sharp and silent. The black Chi embraced the youth again, but this spear broke through the black Chi's scales, and then pierced through man and Chi entirely. Just like Seeing Pei Ye piercing through his body, the spear body also dissected Seeing Pei Ye's abdomen.

His strength flowed away like water in large quantities. Seeing Pei Ye slashed with his sword, stopping Yu Sicheng's spear strike for an instant. His own body was pushed by true Qi and broke away from the spear tip, being thrown far away six or seven zhang, crashing into the palace wall again.

Yu Sicheng didn't move. Blood flowed out from the opening in his abdomen. He raised his hand and tore off the tattered purple robe on his body, and a ferocious, suffocating upper body was completely exposed.

When Seeing Pei Ye braced himself against the wall and stood up with difficulty, he saw this appearance.

Like a tree growing in the body. The body was only six chi, but it had grown to eight chi tall.

Stretched skin membranes, deformed skeletons, branches growing in the two arms, extra short branches breaking through the skin and stabbing out from various places... Seeing Pei Ye couldn't help but imagine Yu Sicheng as a human skin, then being stretched and forcibly put on this excessively tall, multi-distorted, sharp skeleton.

This was exactly the reason why he had hit the bone spurs in the water last time.

Seeing Pei Ye had once thought that it was a pre-emptive design of 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】, but now he understood.

"The dragon nature is lively, difficult to control during casting." They flowed like magma and stretched like new buds. In the extremely short casting time, Guo You had no way to restrain it into a regular appearance... Seeing Pei Ye remembered the flesh buds of the "Little Dragon Heart" drilling and stretching everywhere at this time.

So Guo You didn't recognize him anymore. He determined that he had killed Zi Liang, and even more couldn't accept this appearance and the Yu Sicheng whose temperament had changed greatly, so he split them into two people. He muttered "Zi Liang is gone, Yu Sicheng killed him", but actually, this pair of old friends, one had walked to the present, and one had stayed in the past.

"I've seen you..." Seeing Pei Ye looked at Yu Sicheng. "Seen you in many different places... Since you are Zi Liang, why do you want to do all this?"

"Since you are Zi Liang, then twenty-three years ago, who was the person who blocked you... You couldn't save Wei Qingju at that time, why are you going against her last wish instead now?" Seeing Pei Ye's throat carried a bloody sound. "What exactly are you plotting?"

Yu Sicheng actually didn't chase after him for a moment either. He just stood in place like a statue, quietly looking at the countless dreamlike flower petals surging into the youth's body, like two huge butterfly wings.

After a long while, he said indifferently: "This name before entering the palace, besides Guo You, no one else has muttered it."

The flying Luoshen peach blossoms constantly surged toward Seeing Pei Ye. All the dark blue on the grass field was swallowed by him alone. The eight-life meridian tree was constantly maturing and becoming robust, but more energy was still used to stitch up the many terrifying wounds.

This was not a process that took effect very quickly. Yu Sicheng didn't seem to care what he recovered into. There was no difference between seven lives and eight lives for an Audience Palace official, and the victory or defeat between the two had nothing to do with the state.

The moment the Qilin fire was ineffective, Seeing Pei Ye was equivalent to losing the sword in his hand; the moment 【Drifting Returning Wind】 was broken, he lost his legs again.

"I want to enter the Luoshen Palace. Do I have to tell you one more time? Sixty years are about to arrive. I'm going to take out the White Water Key." Yu Sicheng lowered his head and picked up the spear again. "Plotting? What plotting do I have? What I am doing is what I should do. All along, I have been a petty person... and also a petty character."

He pursed his lips again. Yu Ziliang had completely submerged into his shoulder by this time, and that intense, screaming roar finally disappeared.

"Empress, after so many years, this slave has come to knock on your palace door again." Yu Sicheng sighed indifferently, and then he raised his head, leaving only an indifferent face. He slowly raised his spear and pointed it at Seeing Pei Ye. "Rebellious subject, why not surrender to execution!"

He swept up with his spear, pulling out a boiling white water line in the water area.

Behind him was the Luoshen Palace. Seeing Pei Ye braced against the wall and raised his head. He had the feeling that half of his body was out of control, and in his field of vision was Yu Sicheng, who was whistling over again.

Killing himself and then entering this palace was indeed what Yu Sicheng was doing... but many lines were in his brain, making Seeing Pei Ye unable to sort them out for a moment.

If he was Zi Liang, then many things would be different. The person who defeated him under the Bright Moon Palace back then wasn't Yu Sicheng... then who was it? Why would that person have Qilin fire on his hand... or was it not Qilin fire... could it be the Emperor?

What exactly was the thing that truly crushed 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】? Before that battle, Yu Sicheng was clearly standing with Guo You. Why did his temperament change greatly after Wei Qingju died, almost reversing his stance...

Seeing Pei Ye raised his arm to wipe the blood from his eye socket and gripped the sword in his hand tightly again. He had no time to think.

Whatever.

He had to find a way to slaughter him.

The tiger-roaring spear tip smashed over with several tons of water. Seeing Pei Ye raised the broken sword to barely brace it, was thrown flying away while grazing the wall. In the crash, several bones cracked again.

Yu Sicheng walked toward Seeing Pei Ye step by step.

He clearly became more powerful. Dragon scales grew on his skin, and after exposing all his origins and past, those imagined weaknesses were all wiped out. You could no longer see any gaps from this skeleton.

Seeing Pei Ye knew he could still hold on for a while. Without 【Drifting Returning Wind】, he still had 【Jade Old】, 【Yang Flower】, 【Cloud Cold】, etc. As long as the sword was still in his hand and the black Chi was still by his side, it was hard for him to be taken by someone in one move.

But he had indeed begun to slide toward the abyss of death. The surging Luoshen peach blossoms were saving his body, but it was far from enough to support him to catch his breath under this spear. One spear, two spears... there would always be a time when the sword broke, and there would always be a time when the injuries accumulated to the point of being unbearable.

The black Chi was thinking about taking him away from here completely.

Yu Sicheng's top priority was to enter the Luoshen Palace. He had already obtained the dragon body. If Seeing Pei Ye didn't block him and focused on leaving, he probably wouldn't chase him to death.

A sword that goes forward without looking back must have a suitable scabbard. If the black Chi started to take the lead, Seeing Pei Ye wouldn't resist, but he also said that he hoped to drag it out a little longer... drag it out a little longer.

At this time, he was thinking about this skeleton cast twenty-three years ago, thinking about the West Court Heart and the Edict Map, and even thinking about "The Immortal in the Deep" he had read several times... The second sword had already failed again. He had to find another sword strike.

Even if his life was in danger, he didn't want to just walk away like this... not to mention he probably couldn't walk away either.

He tilted his head slightly. In the field of vision where blood had solidified, Luo Weiyou was already sitting beside him again. Just now, she didn't know how many schools of fish she had driven, almost swinging away all the Luoshen peach blossoms on the grass field, but it still hadn't worked. This behavior didn't know what influence it had on her. Now she seemed to have become a little shallower, and her voice seemed to have become distant.

"Looks like you still didn't beat him." She shook her calves very slowly, somewhat depressed. "You should run quickly, don't really die here. By then, I won't be able to move your corpse, and I can only watch it lie here and swell, rot, and scatter bit by bit, finally turning into a skeleton... In that case, for a very long time, I can only be called 'Luo Henyou'."

"Is that so? But I have a more ominous guess." Seeing Pei Ye smiled with difficulty and tilted his head to look at her.

"What?"

"If he truly enters the Luoshen Palace, perhaps you won't exist anymore."

"..."

"I die first, you die after a quarter of an hour. Neither of us should laugh at the other."

Luo Weiyou was stunned for a while: "Will it be like this?"

"I think so."

"... Then there's no way, right." Luo Weiyou supported her chin. "I originally didn't know where I came from, and on weekdays I didn't think about where I would go. I lived freely for these few thousand days, came for no reason, and should leave when it's time to leave. It's not bad."

I think it's bad. Seeing Pei Ye thought.

A person's birth, aging, sickness, and death is different from having one's life taken away by others. He remembered Li Cannan who fell in a daze, remembered Meng'er who had a dead silence in her expression, and also remembered the appearance of this light shadow sitting on the cliff.

But he didn't say it out loud, because he still hadn't found how to strike the third sword. The whistling hot water vapor surged over. He braced his sword to meet it. The next instant, the sword blade drifted askew as if out of control, and then the entire piece collapsed and flew away. Finally, there was only a sword hilt left in his hand. His heavily injured body couldn't dodge in time, and his waist and abdomen were cut open with a huge bloody gap.

Then Seeing Pei Ye's body was thrown away again, crashing heavily into that door on the palace wall.

At this time, Seeing Pei Ye realized that Yu Sicheng was executing him while walking to this door. Now he had arrived before the Luoshen Palace, standing three zhang away, his gaze passing over the youth sitting under the door, looking at this tightly closed portal.

"You didn't find his third fatal point. You have to go, Seeing Pei Ye." The black cat said. "If he takes one more zhang forward, I won't have the confidence to take you away from before him."

Isn't there still one zhang? Seeing Pei Ye thought.

He actually also realized that he couldn't block Yu Sicheng anymore. At this time, or as early as the moment the Qilin fire failed, being able to leave was already a result too satisfying. It was his choice not to admit defeat and choose to strike the second and third sword that led to this point.

He could feel the change in killing intent. Yu Sicheng didn't just treat him as an obstacle on the road anymore. Perhaps it was the "respect" won by this series of actions. He truly wanted to kill himself completely here, and even was willing to delay the matter of entering the Luoshen Palace for a while.

At this time, before Yu Sicheng was the him waiting to be slaughtered and the door of the Luoshen Palace waiting to be opened. Perhaps he truly should be victorious. He had indeed done everything to the best.

Seeing Pei Ye tilted his head. Luo Weiyou was sitting on that stone looking at him quietly, also not speaking, just waving her hand at him lightly. Even though she had no face, Seeing Pei Ye still felt her smile. She would truly disappear with the opening of the Luoshen Palace. She had existed here for so long, there should always be something waiting for her... how could she leave so silently?

In the entire world, the number of people who had seen her was only himself.

Seeing Pei Ye couldn't say a word.

Then Yu Sicheng walked forward two steps, and a light voice sounded from behind him.

"Eunuch Yu, if Mother didn't leave 'Sin Scales' on you, then after she died, would you choose to oppose the Prince of Yan and the Five Surnames?"

Yu Sicheng stopped his steps and turned his head. Li Xizhou was standing there quietly, her red dress like a ball of slowly burning fire in the water.

Her left hand was holding a sword in front of her, it was the Jade Tiger that Seeing Pei Ye had thrown away, and her right hand was holding a delicate small dagger, the sharp blade pressed against her left wrist, pressing and cutting with force.

Fresh red blood flowed down like a small waterfall, dripping down along the hilt of the Jade Tiger.

Yu Sicheng looked at her silently for three breaths, then he closed his eyes slightly, opened them again, and said indifferently: "Your Highness can take him away, or I can only kill both of you."

That person was not Yu Sicheng, nor was it the Emperor. That person was the Prince of Yan.

When Seeing Pei Ye broke through thousands of flying flowers and stabbed toward Yu Sicheng, Li Xizhou looked at them and thought.

A moment earlier, she saw those beautiful flowers surrounding Seeing Pei Ye like a wind. She knew what had happened, and she really wanted to see that slightly light figure, but in the end, she couldn't hear or see anything.

She didn't have any expression. Since entering here, she hadn't had any expression, sometimes like she was in a daze.

So, it was Yongbei who stood before Zi Liang that day. This was correct.

So that fire was of course not Qilin fire. This was also correct.

But what was on Yongbei's spear that day, and what kind of fire had he controlled?

She paused here again, because this question overlapped with the place where her train of thought had just been cut off—that is, she didn't know what that fire with manifestations similar to Qilin fire was, and there were no clues about it.

Then she watched Seeing Pei Ye stab the sword into Yu Sicheng's stomach. At this time, she knew that Zi Liang was Yu Sicheng's former name.

Yu Sicheng was Zi Liang. What did this mean? What kind of weakness did Guo You cast into 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 that caused Yu Sicheng to lose to Yongbei?

... No.

Guo You would not design the fatal point according to Yongbei's methods.

The shape of this "lock" he cast into 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 must be custom-made according to the key. Then this key should most likely be in... Mother's hands.

But why was it Yongbei who crushed 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】? What kind of fire had Mother controlled? In the month before she passed away, it was impossible for her to cooperate with Yongbei.

There was a place where the thinking went wrong... where was it... hurry...

She thought with an expressionless face, her hand tucked in her sleeve, rubbing that small dagger. At this time, Seeing Pei Ye launched a third attack on Yu Sicheng with the broken sword. That ugly water beast leaped high—for an instant, she thought it was about to succeed, but the next moment, emerald green flame light illuminated her pupils.

... Fire.

Fire!

It was Yu Sicheng's fire. ===== CHAPTER 651 =====