"Then clearly, the channel in Jade Hail Garden twenty-three years ago was the only link between the Mirage Realm and the Goddess of the Luo River Palace," Pei Ye said. "If the Goddess of the Luo River Palace has any weak point, it can only be where it meets the Mirage Realm. As 'Luo River' put it, 'The Mirage Realm's passages take water as their marriage broker and scales as their messengers; only where contact is made does the water gate open.' I think the key lies in those words."
"I traced this waterway to its source." Pei Ye turned his head and pointed it out to the woman. "Look, downstream it joins Taiye Pool, then connects to the transport canal outside Palace City, then to the Wei River outside the Divine Capital. From there, it travels through the Eight Waters, reaching both north and south. In other words, the Mirage Realm really is one whole, and here it touches the Goddess of the Luo River Palace."
"If the Goddess of the Luo River Palace has a hidden 'door,' then it's probably the curtain of water you reach by heading upstream from here."
"I understand what you mean." Li Xizhou thought for a moment. "Where two bodies of water touch, there must be a point of contact, so in theory, there is a possibility of entering the Goddess of the Luo River Palace from here. If the other water curtains are fundamentally impassable, then here, Mother has actually shut the door herself, built a wall, and sealed it off using her own methods and power."
"Exactly," Pei Ye said. "So I think, if I were Yu Sicheng, there would be two things I absolutely had to do."
"First, rewrite my own body. Whatever else happens, a body rejected by goddess