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Pei Ye was quiet for a moment, then turned around and realized that Li Xizhou seemed to have been silent for a while.

"What's wrong, Your Highness?" He thought the metaphor of his own stage spinning in circles was quite interesting.

"Nothing." Li Xizhou stood up and glanced at him from under his golden face. "You don't even know how you won. I thought you were very powerful, but now it seems you are just an idiot."

"..." Pei Ye was puzzled. "I'm telling you something from my heart, why are you attacking me?"

He tilted his head back and watched her with a frown, but Li Xizhou just flicked her skirt and left.

The night passed like this, and the lights in Guo You's side hall were on all night.

Pei Ye took the medicine and went to sleep. In his dream, he was still in the state of mind, cutting down purple bamboo with perseverance.

After what Black Cat said, he looked at these bamboos as if they were a treasure house. The Immortal King had come to the world twice and rode on his body. Now he could count it as a return. Especially since he couldn't move too much these days, he had been working hard on this.

However, it seems that it will take another half month to cut out a piece to make the "Da Jiao Zhao". No matter what the mechanism of [Mercury Hua Fu Cha] is, this thing will definitely have an impact on Yu Sicheng, and it may even be one of the factors that determine the outcome of the battle.

The "small edict" that day made him stunned for a moment. It was obvious that the eunuch who had lived in the deep palace for a long time was not as calm as his face.

When he woke up the next day, the bed was already brightly lit. Pei Ye washed up and went out to stretch his muscles. The wounds on his body had healed about 60% to 70%. After arriving at another side hall, he saw three newly written volumes on the desk. The scent of ink mixed with porridge had a unique smell.

Qu Xin was drinking porridge while Li Xizhou was sitting at the table reading something. This prince usually slept until dawn, but today he suddenly got up quite early.

Pei Ye filled a bowl of porridge and sat down at the table with it: "How is it?"

Li Xizhou read very seriously. After a while, he finished reading the page in his hand and then raised his head: "I haven't finished it yet. Go and do your own thing, or help me read the third volume."

“……” Pei Ye glanced at the obscure words and shook his head.

"Then go and continue looking at the pictures."

Pei Ye ate his porridge and asked, "When will you get a result?"

"I'll call you after noon when I'm done." Li Xizhou said as he picked up his pen and wrote two lines, muttering to himself, "The ink in the hall is almost gone."

Pei Ye picked up two more buns and went out. He returned to his room and lay cross-legged on the bed, continuing to look at the blueprint. He counted the days with his fingers. Today seemed to be the third day. Tomorrow night was the private banquet he had mentioned. He would probably be able to meet Yong Ji and Yu Sicheng then and verify some ideas through observation.

It took almost half the day before Li Xianfang came to call him over.

As soon as he entered the hall, Pei Ye didn't even catch a glimpse of the woman's figure. The most eye-catching thing on the ground was the white made up of a large amount of paper. When he came in the morning, Pei Ye had already noticed that Li Xizhou's desk was a bit messy. Now he truly understood what it meant to have a carpet of paper and ink.

"...I don't have time." Pei Ye didn't think there would be any enjoyment.

"Yes." Li Xizhou said, "In short, this book "Finding the Ferry in Luochuan" is a book of methods written by the Guo family for generations in order to enter the spiritual realm and follow the Lord of the Water Realm. It contains their understanding of the spiritual realm since ancient times, the way to get along with it, the channels to enter, the list of potential dangers, etc. In short, it allows people to contact that legendary world with some rigorous or harsh methods. It is indeed a precious secret book."

This first sentence surprised Pei Ye: "Do they know where the spiritual realm comes from?"

"It should be said that they have a theory that has been passed down for hundreds of years." Li Xizhou corrected, and then held up three fingers. "Regarding the spiritual realm itself, I have summarized three true laws from this book that are not stated explicitly but tacitly accepted by the Guo family. All their attempts at the spiritual realm are actually based on these three."

"oh?"

"First, the Spirit Realm has its owner." Li Xizhou retracted a finger and said, "You can probably infer it even if I don't tell you, because this is the reason and support for their pursuit of the traces of the Goddess of Luo River. They believe that the Spirit Realm is not a wilderness in the water created by heaven and earth, but has a master. Even the Spirit Realm itself is the residence of this being, an extension of his will, or a garden dug by his own hands."

"Lo Shen?"

"Hmm...seems to be true but not true."

"What's the meaning?"

"The Guo family never saw the face of the master they wanted to serve, but in the tone of "Searching for the Ferry in Luochuan", this 'master' is more like an ancient, distant, huge, but no longer touchable god. The Guo family would always mention this existence from time to time in their records, placing this existence on a high pedestal, but never really wrote down the methods and analysis of contacting it, as if it was just a background." Li Xizhou said, "And the two words 'Luo Shen' were mentioned very frequently in a yearning tone, becoming the core image that the entire secret book points to."

"..." Pei Ye thought for a while, "This is quite interesting, isn't it just like... When Zhuge Liang talked to Liu Chan, he always had to mention 'First Lord' and 'Zhaolie' at the beginning."

"You are truly an expert on the Three Kingdoms." Li Xizhou said with a faint smile, "Indeed, it was so difficult for our ancestors to start their business. At that time, the suburbs were filled with noble glory, which has now turned into beautiful jade underground. Now, you are born again with this blood... Newborn god, we have been waiting for you for a thousand years."

Her tone was sarcastic and lazy, as if she had come across a joke that she liked very rarely and had to add a sentence, and then said: "So, the image of 'Lotus Goddess' is fresh and grows in the present, like the prince of an ancient king, carrying the hope of this era... This part actually made me think a lot about my mother."

Pei Ye nodded slowly, and many things also came to his mind.

"Secondly, the spiritual realm changes with the times, and its form is not fixed." Li Xizhou continued, "'Finding the Ferry in Luochuan' states that the spiritual realm is not a cast iron object, but flowing water. It may change at any moment, just like trees growing on a mountain, or water flooding the land."

Pei Ye raised his head slightly: "This is very important, what are the details?"

"Regarding the extension of this true law, I have found two aspects that have been preserved from the verification of the Guo family for generations." Li Xizhou said, "First, the boundaries of the spiritual realm can be expanded and extended."

Pei Ye slowly opened his eyes, and a chuckle escaped from his lips in an instant.

Li Xizhou also seemed to smile and continued, "Secondly, the content of the spiritual realm will change... or be updated."

Pei Ye simply clapped his hands lightly.

He tilted his head to glance at Guo You who was in a daze again, and thought that there were really many hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the palace. Although this old man came here by following the map, perhaps some other old men and women had the same ups and downs of their lives and stories.

These two sentences answered so many of his questions.

He turned around and saw Li Xizhou was just putting away his third finger.

"Third, the spiritual realm is rooted in water, or in other words, it is born only in water."

"...Impossible." Pei Ye's expression suddenly restrained and he blurted out with a frown.

“That’s what the book says.”

"Unless pouring a basin of water on the ground counts."

Li Xizhou shook his head: "The size of the water area is the size of the spiritual realm. In "Finding a Ferry in Luochuan", they call the lakes and rivers containing the spiritual realm "Spiritual Abyss" and believe that only water where living things can survive can carry the extension of the spiritual realm."

"But I have been to the Fantasy Tower." Pei Ye reminded her, "and many people have been there. Two days ago, I entered the Spirit Realm from the South Pond and climbed up to a garden. It was there that I saw the afterimages of the late queen, Zi Liang, and Guo You. Even the thorn of the bright moon twenty-three years ago, if the assassin had not suddenly appeared in the palace, Grandpa Yue would never have been too late..."

"Do you still remember where the Huanlou is?" Li Xizhou interrupted.

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"Behind Xunfang Garden, Cui Zhaoye said that was once Qujiang Pond—"

“…”

Li Xizhou looked at him.

Pei Ye pursed his lips: "I see. You mean, the spiritual realm spreads along the water system, but when the water system dries up, it will not disappear, but still remain there..."

"Continue to record the images of the human world." Li Xizhou continued.

"Um?"

"I think that the spiritual realm is a reflection of the human world, bearing traces of the past, but... maybe it will be constantly updated, filling it with more exciting content that happened on the same land." Li Xizhou closed the book on the desk and said with some imagination.

Pei Ye is far from being able to summarize the rules from a book that has been hundreds of years old and has complicated language, and then immediately make unexpected but very reasonable inferences.

But he looked at the girl and thought that if Wei Qingju was the Goddess of Luo River, then she was the daughter of the Goddess of Luo River. Talking about these things might be like discussing family matters. Many things could probably be answered by innate intuition.

So he decided to trust her unconditionally, even though the three volumes had obviously not been fully read, even though the three "true laws" were only inferences and none of them had been verified, and even though she obviously still had too many details to study.

He drank the tea brought by Li Xianfang and said, "Since the spiritual realm is in this shape, the most important thing is how do people enter it?"

If we want to focus our attention on Yu Sicheng, this is one thing that must be made clear.

Yu Sicheng must have known these things a long time ago. What "Searching for the Ferry in Luochuan" brings is to find out the difficulties he faces and then infer the path he can take.

Li Xizhou also said in a serious tone: "Traveling freely in the spiritual realm has always been the dream of the Guo family for generations, but in fact, until the end of writing this book, they have not been able to fulfill this long-cherished wish... or rather, this is something that is impossible to accomplish."

"Um?"

"When a person enters the water, it's like a fish entering the shore. The spiritual realm is probably the underwater place where even practitioners cannot escape." Li Xizhou lowered his eyes and said, "This book records many attempts with heavy casualties. In the end, they summed up a set of rules that can be roughly adopted and followed. This is exactly what Yu Sicheng and his team have been using over the years."

She held up another piece of paper and said, "The greatest achievement of 'Searching for the Ferry in Luochuan' is that it defines the existence of 'landmarks'."

"Boundary marker?"

"The book says, 'In general, all spiritual realms are anchored by boundary markers, like nailing yarn to wood to prevent it from being blown away by the wind.' They believe that 'boundary markers' are like boundary markers in the human world, and are symbols of entering the spiritual realm. We have said before that the spiritual realm will expand and extend, but it is obvious that it will not spread just by touching the water, otherwise after thousands of years, all the water in the world would have been spiritual abysses." Li Xizhou said, "'Finding the Ferry in Luochuan' says that it is the movement of the 'boundary markers' that leads and drives the expansion of the spiritual realm. At the same time, they are also the guardians of the spiritual realm."

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment, frowned and asked: "What on earth is it?"

"It may not be a certain entity, but it does exist in a visible form, probably a manifestation of the power of the spiritual realm itself. It can travel back and forth between the two realms, or it can be said that it stands there by itself, and is the only bridge between the human realm and the spiritual realm. It will not actively attack anything, nor is it afraid of being destroyed. It only tells you that you have arrived in the spiritual realm. When you see it, outsiders will be unable to move forward." Li Xizhou said slowly, "Because of this, only those who see it are qualified to see the spiritual realm; only those who are accepted by it can set foot in it."

Pei Ye immediately thought of the Luoshen peach.

He was stunned for a moment: "Then, what does it mean to be 'accepted'?"

"'Finding the Ferry in Luochuan' says that either it 'recognizes' you and guides you, or you take the initiative to 'rewrite' yourself." Li Xizhou frowned slightly, "Actually, I don't understand everything here."

A large fog in Pei Ye's mind was suddenly dispelled.

"I understand."

"Um?"

"Jiang Yan and Liu Gong were 'recognized' by accident." Pei Ye said, "When we take the mermaid pearl powder, we are 'rewriting' ourselves."

“…”

"I don't think this is a good idea to find right from the start." Pei Ye said, "The human body cannot coexist with the spiritual realm. Not to mention entering, one can't even see it, so it needs to be rewritten. Mermaids can enter and exit the spiritual realm, and their scales and humans appear harmoniously on the same body, so the mermaid pearls they produce can be taken by people without any rejection, gaining a moment of magical powers, and returning to their mortal bodies after digestion."

"But it wasn't like this twenty-three years ago," he said. "At that time, they hadn't discovered the mermaids yet. In order to enter the spiritual realm, they could only forcibly transform their bodies and feed and bury something unknown... perhaps the 'boundary marker' itself into their mortal bodies. Many people died, but those who survived became [Blue Wind Envoys]."