Chapter 652: Everyone Loves Butterflies, Who Would Love a Fly? (Part 3)

Like a deflated ball, the high-pressure mercury steam turned into a powerless groan. Drizzling mercury liquid flowed out from the gap pierced by the Jade Tiger, first burning Yu Sicheng's own spine.

But he couldn't move at all now. The price of accepting 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 piercing into the Dantian was to be completely integrated with it, and even true Qi was difficult to operate independently. When 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 erupted, the body could be synchronized with it without any delay, enjoying the benefits it brought, and once it "died", the entire body was like being fixed on a corpse.

Pei Ye knew by this time that this Dragon Gold skeleton was not a mechanical aid like a wooden limb. It was truly cast into the human body in a "living" state, piercing the Dantian, entangling skin and flesh, and truly constituting a part of the human body.

He pressed the sword down and pulled it, cutting off Yu Sicheng's heart when he pulled the sword back, and then he stabbed the sword into his lower abdomen again, crashing Yu Sicheng to the ground while staggering, and pierced the entire sword into it.

The two of them fell to the ground overlapping. Pei Ye panted for a while, braced himself on the sword hilt and stood up. Yu Sicheng lay on the ground, stiff and trembling, his gaze dimming, blood and mercury liquid mixed and flowed out from the wound.

The spirit body after the Body-Molding was not so fragile; even if the heart and dantian were pierced, it was difficult to die, but at this moment, it was the entire skeleton destroying his body from within, and the Gonghua Gonghua Fucha that was currently dissociating and collapsing was simultaneously taking his life away.

Pei Ye panted for a while. He looked down at Yu Sicheng's eyes, which were gradually turning the color of pebbles. At this time, he felt that there was no mistake. This was indeed still an extension of the battle twenty-three years ago. At that time, the person lying before him hadn't broken in, and today it was still the same.

He caught his breath slightly, wiped the remaining blood on the sword blade, squatted down, and cut off his head.

Many, many Luoshen flowers surged gently toward Pei Ye, sinking into the wounds, saving the vitality of this body.

Li Xizhou walked up from behind and squatted down before Yu Sicheng's broken corpse, picking out a weak Luoshen peach blossom from the broken neck. Pei Ye turned his head and saw her pale face, swaying as if about to fall: "Why are you bleeding so much? Giving the sword a bath?"

Li Xizhou didn't answer, stretched out her hand, and picked this flower.

The two were silent for a while, experiencing the time when their tense nerves and tendons relaxed. Slowly, the entire area before the Luoshen Palace returned to tranquility. A large number of bubbles dissipated and floated up, and the water temperature also dropped, but there were many fewer Luoshen flowers, and the light was much dimmer.

"Your blood is really easy to use." Pei Ye said. "I didn't expect it to be like this."

"If you hadn't always misled me with your 'Qilin fire', I would have thought of it earlier." Li Xizhou looked at him.

"... This doesn't make sense." Pei Ye said. "I was also misled by you. You had no reaction to the name 'Zi Liang'. I thought you were a know-it-all in the palace, but it turns out you didn't know Yu Sicheng had two names."

"Actually, it's not that it couldn't be checked, it's just that I didn't think in that direction." Li Xizhou didn't refute. "Because Yu Sicheng actually never used that name. When he entered the palace as a miscellaneous eunuch thirty years ago, he was nicknamed 'Little Fish'. Some rumors said it was because he was often bullied and played with by palace people, so he was given such a name. Later, when the current Sage ascended the throne, he bestowed upon him the name 'Sicheng', and his position also rose with the tide... Guo You called him Zi Liang because they knew each other before entering the palace, and two orphans rushed into the war to seek a living together. It's just that probably because Guo You was talented and had opened his meridians, he was selected into the Imperial Guard; Yu Sicheng was short and ugly, so he was castrated and became a miscellaneous worker."

"Hmm, so only Guo You didn't change it and kept calling him that."

"Correct. This kind of private address from twenty years ago, I naturally didn't know."

"In this way, Guo You followed the late Empress's instructions and left 'Sin Scales' on 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】 without informing Yu Sicheng." Pei Ye paused for a while. "Was it this matter that caused Guo You to go mad and Yu Sicheng's temperament to change greatly?"

"Hmm."

Pei Ye was silent for a while, thinking about the ups and downs in that old past, but Wei Qingju's image became clearer in his heart. When thinking of this, he tilted his head to look at Li Xizhou: "Speaking of which, why does your blood have this kind of divine strangeness?"

"... This is Mirage blood."

"Mirage blood?"

"Hmm, the most essential and deepest things of the Scale Clan bloodline are all Mirage blood. After some unknown steps, it can probably be extracted." Li Xizhou lowered her head. "I know I have this kind of blood in my body, passed down from Mother, but it is entangled with the Scale blood, the two opposing each other, neither able to suppress the other... Searching for Mother's relics, a large part of my purpose is also to solve this matter."

Pei Ye was stunned. At this time, he remembered the rumors in Meng'er's mouth: "So... the late Empress left a method to wash away the Scale blood, is that true?"

Li Xizhou nodded: "Remember Guo You said, Mother gave him Dragon Gold, originally to extract something from it? I think that was Mirage blood. Many signs indicate that Mother put a lot of effort into Scale blood, but after she died, those things didn't remain."

Pei Ye paused for a while: "Yu Sicheng also said the four words 'White Water Key'. What does that mean?"

"That is something I have been guessing, and now I have obtained verification from his mouth." Li Xizhou said. "Remember when I compared Luoshen to the Crown Prince of the Ancient King in this era?"

"Hmm."

"Then what is left in the Luoshen Palace is the Crown Prince's crown." Li Xizhou said, "Putting it on, one possesses the identity of the Crown Prince... and can inherit the legacy in the depths of the Mirage Realm."

Pei Ye nodded slowly. At this time, he remembered Yu Sicheng's behavior of accommodating dragon and man, remembered the existence of "Yu Ziliang", but Li Xizhou had already stood up swaying: "It's about time, let's go out first."

Pei Ye moved his leg and paused again. He turned his head and saw Luo Weiyou standing on the stone waving at him. He turned his head back: "That... you can't see Luo Weiyou... do you want me to pass two words for you?"

"..."

"Your Highness?"

"No need. I don't need to talk to Mother here." She pursed her lips several times, and finally raised her head slightly, as if somewhat stubborn.

"Oh."

Yu Sicheng's corpse remained here. Pei Ye originally intended to move it up, but Li Xizhou only let him carry the head, and then she herself fell onto Pei Ye's back.

She was indeed unable to stand firmly. This was quite reasonable. If he carried Yu Sicheng, he couldn't carry her.

Pei Ye picked up the listless little cat, because his life was replenished, and the little cat was also able to escape from the situation of being on the verge of death.

He finally turned his head, smiled at Luo Weiyou behind him, carried Li Xizhou, held the little cat, and moved away from the Luoshen Palace step by step.

The Luoshen flowers replenished a lot of strength, but the injuries didn't recover so quickly. He was still staggering when walking, especially his clothes were truly tattered, and his body was full of blood. Li Xizhou on his back was sticking softly, with a feeling of a corpse without bones.

Pei Ye couldn't help it again: "Your Highness is really interesting. You came down once, no one hit you, no one scolded you, and you almost drained your own blood with one knife."

"..."

"You dripped a large pool, and I only used a tiny teacup." Pei Ye shook his steps, passing true Qi to her. "If I had killed Yu Sicheng any slower, I suspect you would have broken here."

Li Xizhou didn't speak, just rested her chin on Pei Ye's shoulder. The Mirage Realm was very quiet. When there was no fighting, it was really like a dream.

"Ming Qitian told you 'losing is nothing'." she suddenly said.

"... Ah?" Pei Ye was dazed.

He turned his head, suspecting he had misheard something.

Li Xizhou looked at him lazily with her golden face: "But I will take you to win all the time."

"..."

Pei Ye turned his head silently and walked.

"You..." After a while, he pursed his lips. "You... can you compare with Miss Ming?"

Li Xizhou stretched her head over from his shoulder and stared closely at his face: "What does 'can you compare' mean? Who is comparing with whom?"

Pei Ye dodged to the side and stopped speaking.

Li Xizhou didn't chase him to ask either. After a while, Pei Ye walked out of the Jing Pool. She got off his back. Because of the true Qi, her complexion was much better: "Give me Yu Sicheng's head, and you go back to the Zhu Jing Hall yourself."

"... Where are you going?"

Li Xizhou didn't answer. After taking the heavy head, her lip line pursed downward, but the golden face didn't reveal anything. She said indifferently: "I'm going to the Zichen Hall."

Pei Ye watched Li Xizhou leave this realm. He held the little cat and was quiet for a while. At this time, it was still a spring night with the moon in the sky. He turned back to look at the Bright Moon Palace in the Mirage Realm. The eaves were still so fresh, and there seemed to be lamp light burning in the courtyard.

That place shouldn't have had dried-up pond water, but it clearly stood there. Pei Ye looked at it in a daze for a while, and a thought that made his heart beat wildly suddenly surged in his heart.

But he paused and temporarily suppressed it, walked along the small path out of the Mirage Realm, and returned to the Zhu Jing Hall.

Stepping on the moonlight and going up three sections of ninety-nine steps, he arrived before the Zichen Hall.

The responding eunuch stood at the door. Seeing Li Xizhou covered in blood carrying a head over, he had no expression on his face, nor did he say an extra word. He bowed respectfully and turned to enter the hall to report.

After a while, he came out, and Li Xizhou walked in.

There were few palace people in the Zichen Hall, only a few necessary ones standing in the shadows. This great hall was neither bright nor dark. It was peaceful and quiet, possessing the temperament that a place where the monarch lived should have.

The Tang Huang sat before the desk, reading through layers of memorials.

This was the thing he did most often. Different from what many people imagined, even though he had been on the throne for nearly thirty years, he still didn't have any trusted ministers. Every day, the military, punishment, agriculture, and commerce of the entire vast empire passed through his hands in detail. It hadn't changed for twenty-seven years. The Great Tang slowly recovered and became strong again in his hands. He understood his empire just as he understood his own body.

In the eyes of the Tang Huang, reading memorials was perhaps more important than most things. Therefore, when many people entered this hall, he wouldn't stop, but today, when Li Xizhou walked in, he put down his pen and raised his head.

Li Xizhou had already taken off her mask.

"I killed Yu Sicheng." she said.

The Tang Huang looked at the head in her hand for a while and nodded lightly: "Is there anything?"

"I want a handwritten edict from you, regarding the marriage of the Prince of Yan." Li Xizhou looked up at him. "Do you still remember Concubine Mei?"

"How?"

"Li Youlong has to leave here."

"She is True Blood." The Tang Huang paused for a breath and said indifferently, but the tone was not like opposition, but like a reminder.

"I know," Li Xizhou said, "but I am the eldest sister."

No one spoke in the Zichen Hall. The two looked at each other quietly. They had eyes of nearly the same color, and eyebrows of the same shape.

The Tang Huang lowered his head, took a pen, and took a piece of white paper, writing a few lines of words.

Li Xizhou waited silently.

The Tang Huang handed the written paper to the palace person, and the palace person passed it down to Li Xizhou's hand.

Li Xizhou took it, didn't speak, and just stood for a while longer.

The Tang Huang also looked at her quietly.

After a moment, Li Xizhou bowed: "Father Emperor, this daughter takes her leave."

"Hmm, go slowly."

Li Xizhou turned and left this great hall, stepped over the threshold, and stepped into the brilliance of the moonlight in the night. The shadows under the candles of the Zichen Hall seemed to want to chase after her.

The Tang Huang suddenly said: "Close the door." ===== CHAPTER 653 =====