Chapter 733: Shark Palace Pointing Red (Added for Alliance Leader [General Passerby Wish Lamp])

Pei Ye knew that this farewell had another layer of meaning for her—it was a daughter bidding farewell to her mother.

She lingered on everything here, anxious to drive away the Prince of Yan's Mansion, and handed them over to the youth solemnly... because everything she saw here was permeated with her mother's gentle emotions.

She was composed of Mirage Blood and Scale Blood. Losing Mirage Blood meant bidding farewell to that half of the bloodline in her body, from then on losing all connection with her mother.

Pei Ye raised his hand and hugged her shoulder gently.

"People are not connected by blood." Pei Ye whispered, "Don't be sad."

Li Xizhou lowered her eyes and said nothing. Pei Ye continued softly: "Grandpa Yue and I had no blood relationship at all. It wasn't until the day he died that I knew his life story, but I never felt that I was getting further and further away from him.

"Because whatever I do, I will think of him. Some things he taught me, some things he never did or mentioned, but it's strange, as soon as I think about it, it's as if I can see how he would do it.

"Later, when I arrived in the Divine Capital, I found that not everyone liked Grandpa Yue. Zhu Zhezi was such a good person, but he didn't seem to like him much... but I don't seem to be able to change it." Pei Ye looked into the distance, "I think, perhaps when a person grows up following someone and thinking of someone, the taste on their body will be that person's. It can't be changed."

He paused: "Every time I think of this 'unchangeable,' I feel warm and safe in my heart. When those who dislike him also dislike you, and those who like him also like you, even if you can no longer find his traces, you can realize that kind of indelible connection between you and him."

"So 'blood' is not the connection between people; 'road' is." Pei Ye whispered, "You bid farewell to her shadow, but actually chose the same road as her. The connection between you is even closer... If one day you can no longer see her shadow, perhaps it means you have already walked in front of her."

After speaking, there was no sound for a long time. Pei Ye lowered his head and saw Li Xizhou leaning on his shoulder, looking at him quietly.

The tear stains at the corners of her eyes had been wiped away by the water.

"Do you often think about these things in your heart?" she said.

"Often."

Li Xizhou paused for a while: "You didn't kill Yongji in the Shark Palace; is it because you can't let it go in your heart?"

"..." Pei Ye didn't speak, looking at the flowing sky.

"I should have killed him." he said, "If I hadn't overused the God Name, it would have been fine. Only if he had the chance to kill me could I kill him."

"Because you thought in your heart that only then would you be on the same road as Yue Muzhou?"

Pei Ye trembled slightly and turned his head to meet the eyes close at hand. She looked at him quietly.

"... Yes."

As if illuminated by these eyes, Pei Ye exposed this softness for the first time. He lowered his eyes: "Grandpa Yue and I never had the name of master and apprentice. He never told me anything, and only taught me one sword... I think he didn't like taking apprentices; perhaps he treated me as family, but he might not have thought about 'being on the same road'."

"Since leaving Feng Huai, many people have asked me about my master, and I have always answered that I have no master." he whispered, "He was a lone ranger who didn't care about heaven or earth. Before, the Daoist Head didn't keep him, and last year I didn't keep him either. He didn't think about leaving any ties in the human world... I also didn't dare to claim to be his successor."

Pei Ye paused for a while: "The only entrustment he left me was to take revenge on the Prince of Yan's Mansion."

So he had indeed always valued this matter. Today, failing to kill Yongji, he didn't show it on his face, but he actually found it hard to accept in his heart.

Li Xizhou looked at him: "But Yue Muzhou didn't tell me that."

"... What?"

Li Xizhou said: "Yue Muzhou always told me that you are his beloved apprentice and successor."

Pei Ye looked at her in a daze. The woman's face was clean and earnest.

"Wh—when... in the Bright Moon Palace, he even said he would never do the thing of teaching apprentices." Pei Ye was stunned.

Li Xizhou smiled: "Then perhaps, it was different later... or he changed his mind for you."

She raised her head, as if recalling: "I have shown you the first letter we sent each other. Since then, we have contacted each other often. At that time, I was lonely, knowing he and my mother were old friends, so I felt close to him and loved to ask him many things. And every time we talked about his recent situation, he would always talk about you."

Pei Ye looked at her in a daze.

Li Xizhou laughed: "What are you dazed about?"

"He, what did he say about me?"

"You didn't have much to say at that age." Li Xizhou laughed, "Nothing more than praising some chewed-up sentences."

"What?"

"Let me think, saying your character is first-class, your appearance is upright, you value righteousness more than life, and you will be a top-notch friend..." Li Xizhou pretended to think, "Anyway, he didn't reveal that you wet the bed..."

"You should have just transmitted it to me via 【Knowing Intent】."

"But 【Knowing Intent】 is not easy to flip up now."

"Why?"

Pei Ye frowned at the woman, and the woman looked at him with a smile.

Two breaths later, Pei Ye's face turned red bit by bit.

He turned his head away.

A line of words appeared on 【Knowing Intent】.

【Xizhou, I entrust Pei Ye to you. He is my only family and beloved apprentice. I have been alone for more than fifty years, and I will leave nothing behind after I die, only this child. For eighteen years, I have only had him in my life, and he has only had me in his life. After I die, he will have nothing left. Yue Muzhou bows in thanks.】

"This is the last sentence he transmitted to me." Li Xizhou looked at the stunned youth and said warmly, "I think, no matter whether you kill Yongji or not, or even if you can't take revenge for him, it won't affect your position in his heart."

Pei Ye was caught off guard seeing this passage, his nose and eyes sour at the same time. He looked at the woman fixedly.

Li Xizhou tilted her head, smiling to herself: "I really flipped through many pages."

Pei Ye was feeling sentimental, and hearing this, his ear tips turned red again, glaring at her in shame: "Don't mention it anymore."

Li Xizhou smiled and pursed her lips without speaking.

The two were quiet. After a while, she whispered: "Why did you send me so many words? Paragraph by paragraph."

"..."

"Mm? Speak."

Pei Ye looked into the distance without expression, saying indifferently: "I suspect you actually saw it, but just didn't reply."

"If I saw it, I would definitely reply." Li Xizhou smiled warmly.

"Mm... anyway, what I said wasn't all from the heart, don't look at it." Pei Ye turned his head.

Li Xizhou waited leisurely: "When I have time, I will read it carefully word by word."

Pei Ye glared at her again, and Li Xizhou only smiled.

The two became quiet, only water brushing past their temples. After a long time, Li Xizhou lowered her head and gently grabbed his wrist: "Pei Ye, I won't laugh at you."

"..."

"I have long known that although everyone calls you a killing star, you are actually sensitive and soft in your heart." Li Xizhou whispered, holding his wrist gently, "I am very happy to see you tell me so many words; I will always cherish them. Yue Muzhou said that you would definitely become a close friend with me, and I have always believed it."

Pei Ye felt a sudden numbness in his heart again. He turned his head away sullenly: "Sometimes you look like a liar, sometimes you look sincere, making people unable to distinguish between true and false. That is also your specialty."

Li Xizhou opened her apricot eyes wide, looking quite wronged: "I have never lied to you."

Pei Ye turned back, meeting her beautiful eyes, and his heart jumped slightly again: "You look like you love to lie."

"... What is called 'looking like you love to lie'." She laughed, "What kind of look is loving to lie?"

"... Just like you." Pei Ye said sullenly, "As if everything can be seen through by you."

After he finished speaking, the woman was quiet. Pei Ye looked at these eyes close at hand, gorgeous and light, ripples flashing in them. She whispered: "I can also be very obedient."

Pei Ye lost his breath.

He pursed his lips and said hoarsely: "... I'm a little angry again now."

Li Xizhou was stunned: "What?"

Before she could react, Pei Ye's head had already pressed down, pushing her against the tree behind, and covered her lips.

Only then did Li Xizhou remember that he was referring to the sentence "If you are still angry, I will let you kiss me again," and for a moment she was both angry and amused.

She pushed the youth's shoulder lightly, but still didn't block him from pressing down, so she had no choice but to grab his clothes.

The youth said he was angry, but there was no meaning of being truly angry. His breath was close at hand. He kissed and bit tentatively, deepening it gently and slowly.

The Mirage Realm was peaceful, and the tree was dark and quiet. He tasted the woman's lips clumsily and earnestly.

Li Xizhou then understood him more deeply. Although the youth was clumsy and raw in feelings... he had never been timid. 【7

He had always been daring and audacious, and it was the same in all matters.