Chapter 732: Another Branch Sprouts

The two swam out of the white rhinoceros cave in silence.

"On the first day of the new Lord's ascension, what he devours is not the bones and blood of loyal ministers, but the fat and cream of the people." Li Xizhou sighed lightly, "Muddled monarch."

Seeing Pei Ye was still thinking about the shocked and aggrieved look of the spirit rhinoceros just now, unable to hide his shame. At this time, he had no choice but to glare at the woman: "I said, if you had written a few words on the horn, nothing would have happened."

"Constantly venting anger on close ministers, tyrant."

"Don't change the subject. I ask you why you didn't write."

"Don't blame me. Who expected you to eat it?" Li Xizhou looked at him with a pair of apricot eyes, "That horn isn't like a scale demon; it flows in when you touch it. I can't even imagine how you ate it—gnawing?"

Seeing Pei Ye was silent for a while: "Then I wasn't in a hurry to find you, and had no other way."

"..."

He looked at her. Li Xizhou turned her head away and pursed her lips: "Stupid yourself, I handed you the horn and you didn't understand."

"Why would I understand if you handed me a horn."

"This is called 'heart has spirit rhinoceros, a point of connection'." Li Xizhou said, "And you still claim to be a good friend of Li Yu-xi."

"... Who has a point of connection with you." Seeing Pei Ye didn't want to pay attention to her and went south by himself.

Knowing that the youth was angry from embarrassment, Li Xizhou followed behind with a smile.

After a while, the excitement of the Spirit Realm came one after another, and Seeing Pei Ye forgot about this shameful matter. The two patrolled the entire south. Along the way, the woman introduced him to many strange creatures, but they didn't find that large turtle.

The two wandered leisurely toward the east. Ordinary things in the Spirit Realm were not so novel anymore. Seeing Pei Ye suddenly turned his head and said: "When I was in the Shark Palace, Yongji was very shocked that I had Mirage Dragon True Blood."

"Mm, because he didn't get the Mirage Dragon True Blood himself, he always thought only I could inherit it."

"Why?"

Li Xizhou paused for a while and said: "Seeing Pei Ye, what kind of Water Lord do you think the Mirage Realm wants?"

"You."

"It chose me because of my mother. Then why would my mother be the Water Lord it wanted most?"

"..."

"I don't think you can think of it, but I figured it out." Li Xizhou said, "The difference between my mother and other spirit demons is that she is human, and she can go to the shore."

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned.

Li Xizhou looked back at him: "The Mirage Realm is not completely stripped from the human world, Seeing Pei Ye. On the contrary, it is hung on the real human world. A Water Lord is not to close the door and be king in the Mirage Realm; he must be able to connect the two worlds."

Seeing Pei Ye was slightly enlightened.

"The road is exhausted, the dream is far, and the spirit is seen. The Mirage Realm is far from the human world, but it is watching the human world at all times. A person who is willing to accept its gentle rules is the monarch it admires." Li Xizhou smiled slightly, "The shape of a person, the Mirage Realm can recognize. The name 'Seeing Pei Ye' spread in the Divine Capital and on the Eight Waters, and you entered the Mirage Realm several times, combined with our Mirage-Scale Knot, the Mirage Dragon True Blood is naturally willing to choose you."

"So that's it."

The key turning point in confronting Yongji was this Mirage Dragon True Blood. After obtaining this blood, first, he could come and go freely in the water, and to a certain extent, Yongji was even more flexible; second, every contact would take back Bai Shui from Yongji's body, making Yongji tied hand and foot; finally and most importantly, after obtaining the Mirage Dragon True Blood, he connected with the world through the Mirage Realm and re-awakened the God Name 【Fire Official Yan Bo】.

But what Seeing Pei Ye was still brooding about was that he still didn't kill him.

He had absolutely exhausted all his strength, but he was still two things away from cutting off his head: the first was time, and the second was a true defeat.

Just as Yongji defeated him by relying on the advantage of 【Bai Shui】, Seeing Pei Ye beating Yongji until he couldn't lift his head was also due to having Mirage Blood in hand.

You can burn away his true Qi and skin, take away all the Bai Shui on his body, but that original him just held on firmly—he wasn't defeated; he was just beaten until he couldn't lift his head.

Only by fighting generals in front of the formation can you kill them. If you close the city gates, it is difficult to have results. Only when the other party also wants to kill you can you break his moves; that is the fight betting on life.

From beginning to end, Seeing Pei Ye didn't learn much about his spear technique, nor did he understand the effects of those two heterogeneous true Qis. He only drove the sea of fire to press toward Yongji, but this Prince was far harder to kill than he imagined.

"He won't leave the Divine Capital. There is no way to live like that." Li Xizhou said, "As for Yongji's life or death, we don't need to make a move for the time being. The Five Families will find a way to kill him first. We can watch the Prince of Yan's Mansion's response."

Seeing Pei Ye nodded.

No matter what plans others had, he first wanted to make himself capable of killing Yongji. This was also the reason he was eager to feed Bing Lu.

At this time, he stopped following the instructions of the scale demons and found that large turtle like a small hill.

It was actually the most manic one, crashing this water area into a mess, and possessed some ability to manipulate water.

It had clearly survived for a long time, but it had to die today.

Its neck was too thick, and its skin was as tough as armor. Seeing Pei Ye then whittled three slender sharp spears, piercing them into its neck one by one. When this huge head roared and could no longer shrink into the shell, Seeing Pei Ye used his sword to cut it off in four attempts.

Seeing Pei Ye sat cross-legged in front of its neck, and a vortex condensed around him. Blood, scale meat, and even the shell all melted into liquid and surged toward him, seeping in from every pore of his skin, and then all poured into the Dantian.

He closed his eyes, and Bing Lu swallowed like a glutton.

Just at the end of the third breath.

Exactly the same as when breaking through from Seventh Life to Eighth Life, the branches that had already matured to the extreme and reached the top sprouted again one after another.

Each branch re-forked two tender buds, and then immediately grew vigorously under the irrigation.

Seeing Pei Ye almost lost his breath for a moment.

He was stiff all over, as if a heavy hammer had smashed from his Dantian into his meridians. Intense pain flowed through his whole body in an instant. The next moment he reacted... that was a tsunami.

Starting from the Dantian, a tsunami roared and rushed through all his meridians, rushing through all large and small meridians in an instant, almost making Seeing Pei Ye roar in pain.

This was absolutely a tempering. 256 meridians doubled suddenly again, almost without giving this body time to adapt, and unimaginable, massive true Qi surged out.

Precisely because the increase from 64 meridians to 128 meridians was too terrifying, people defined Seventh Life and Eighth Life as the upper two realms. Then what kind of momentum was it from 256 meridians to 512 meridians?

Perhaps Seeing Pei Ye was the only person in the world to experience it.

He vomited blood in the first moment. The meridians were like dams unable to bear the weight, breaking everywhere. The roaring true Qi rushed into the tendons, bones, lungs, and viscera.

At this time, Seeing Pei Ye seemed to vaguely understand why Eighth Life was the upper limit of the Meridian Tree—because the human body could only bear true Qi of this magnitude.

Seeing Pei Ye could already be considered to have exceptional natural talent; his meridians were extremely wide, and his true Qi flowed smoothly without obstruction, yet in the face of this tsunami, it was all shattered to pieces.

In an instant, Seeing Pei Ye wanted to stop this feeding, or even use the Sleeve Tiger to burn away these sprouted branches—Bing Lu could be fed at any time, no need to suffer a serious injury.

But the next moment, Bing Lu reached out of the Dantian for the first time.

It extended upward. Seeing Pei Ye felt it was like a new organ of his own when he first obtained it. Now this organ welcomed a new growth. It started from the Dantian, completed a fusion with the ends of the meridians, and then starting from here, the entire set of meridians welcomed a tempering.

The majestic true Qi broke through a path for itself like a hot knife through butter, and the thousands of threads sprouted by Bing Lu reconstructed along its path.

Hooking up all the broken and collapsed meridians, integrating itself into them, just like forging iron into steel. When the second round of true Qi roared over, this new set of meridians was already able to cope calmly.

Seeing Pei Ye felt for the first time what "reborn" meant.

The clear spring turned into by the large turtle was still pouring in abundantly, and the speed of Bing Lu's absorption also doubled at the same time. 512 meridians grew vigorously, but under the distribution of this magnitude, a large turtle no longer brought a qualitative change.

Bing Lu stopped growing and began to prioritize repairing his wounded body. Seeing Pei Ye recovered from the intense pain and breathed violently.

Li Xizhou gripped his wrist.

"Are you okay?"

Seeing Pei Ye raised his head, somewhat unable to speak, only giving her a look of response.

After reaching Eighth Life, he already felt that the true Qi in his body was unprecedentedly thick. He had stayed in the lower three realms and middle three realms for several months. Although every improvement was double the previous one, it was nothing more than turning from a thin stream into a small creek. After Seventh Life and Eighth Life, he felt for the first time that the abundant true Qi had converged into a river. Looking back at that thin one in the First Life, he realized how big the gap was between the upper two realms and the front.

But that was just an ordinary river, just like the tributary of the Wei River that flowed past the back of Liu Town.

And now, even if it wasn't a tsunami in his body, it had to be comparable to the momentum of the Yellow River at the estuary.

Majestic and surging.

Seeing Pei Ye sat cross-legged for a quarter of an hour. His body gradually eased, and the pain still remained in his body, but he already felt unprecedentedly that this body had become stronger.

"Ninth Life." He stood up and smiled at the woman beside him.

It was impossible to wander through the entire Mirage Realm. If viewed as a country, then the two at least roughly finished wandering the capital. When the two returned to the head of the Mirage Dragon, everything was still quiet.

The Shark Palace looked like an exquisite and beautiful giant jellyfish from afar, as if floating, and the old Mirage Dragon horns grew on both sides, cold and hard like iron.

"Is this going to be left here forever? Are you not taking it back?"

Having seen the gorgeousness and colorfulness of the Mirage Realm, the vastness here made people's hearts rest. The two sat side by side on a low horn branch. Small fish swam past their faces, and the lush branches overhead seemed like a giant lid covering the sky.

Seeing Pei Ye looked down at the Shark Palace below.

"Who carries their house on their back every day? A snail?" Li Xizhou swung her small legs, "Listen to me, this Shark Palace just set up the frame. No one lives like this. Outside, grass and trees must be planted, inside must be paved with jade, and then strange stones must be used to make walls. Different rooms must use different stone materials..."

She pointed: "Look, on that small window, I want to use water bubbles to string into curtains, letting small sparrow fish hatch inside, so they take it as home. Everyone goes out together during the day, and at night when I lie down, they return one after another."

"Do fish have homes?" Seeing Pei Ye doubted.

Li Xizhou glanced at him.

"Anyway, I've told you all my ideas. Don't mess around; you must follow what I say."

"Okay."

"Mm." Li Xizhou looked at this Shark Palace for a long, quiet time, and then cast her gaze toward the gorgeous, boundless distance, "Then I will leave it to you."

Seeing Pei Ye also accompanied her in silence for a while, whispering: "I think, we can call Luo Weiyou over to live... and that little shark person of yours. Otherwise, it's empty and doesn't look good."

"Are you annoying? This is my Shark Palace." Li Xizhou said softly.

Seeing Pei Ye didn't speak. He turned his head to look at the woman beside him. She was still in the appearance of loose hair and white clothes. She had been holding his hand and introducing everything she saw along the way, but now she sat quietly, her eyes full of deep and gentle attachment.

Actually, it was more than just her Shark Palace; this was her Spirit Realm.

Here were the fish, shrimp, and rhinoceros that were intimate with her, the stones and flowers she liked. Countless small fish would bring jade to help her decorate the Shark Palace, and the most poisonous scale demons would become tame in front of her.

This was where her mother came from, and it was also everything she left for her. When it rained, perhaps she could still see that old shadow of childhood.

She searched for it for seventeen years, only to possess it for a short nine days.

"Okay, then leave it all to you. Not a single small fish is allowed to enter." Seeing Pei Ye said.

Li Xizhou smiled: "Small fish can still enter."

She looked into the distance silently again. After a long time, she suddenly whispered: "After kicking the swing, looking back, the words scattered in the east wind."

Seeing Pei Ye looked at her in a daze. She lowered her head, and a swaying Luo God wood peach grew on her wrist. She reached out and handed it to the youth.

"The last portion of Mirage Blood, take it."

"... It doesn't matter if you keep it, you can always come back to see."

"If I want to come in, isn't it the same if you open the door for me." Li Xizhou smiled at him and looked into the distance again, "... I don't think I will come in again."

She whispered: "I was born on the shore, just like my mother was born in the water. We have two paths to choose from, but when one is chosen, we should bid farewell to the other path. Every time I think of my mother's final fragility, I feel very sad, but I think, that night by the Luo River, when she decided to spend her life on the shore with Li Yao, she must have thought of this ending too."

"At that time, she didn't hesitate, so she must not have regretted it when she passed away."

"..."

"I can't always imagine that I actually belong here, let alone keep leaving myself a way out." She lowered her head, "Take it, Seeing Pei Ye."

Seeing Pei Ye picked it, and then felt the woman beside him gently lean her head on his shoulder.

He turned his head to look, and two teardrops flowed from the corners of the woman's eyes. ===== CHAPTER 733 =====