He lowered his head, raised his wrist, and turned the pages.
Then he froze slightly.
"Look. I found it," he suddenly said softly, deep in the night, with the rain roaring like a waterfall.
Black Cat was arranging tonight's lamplight inside the cabin. He turned his head. "What?"
Pei Ye gazed quietly down at his wrist and said nothing more.
It was an exceedingly fine, delicate, dreamlike ribbon, extending from his wrist into the dark, rainy night, then falling toward the lake.
It was clear and cold, flowing gently and unhurriedly, like a tiny Milky Way. Even as thin as it was, Pei Ye recognized its familiar texture.
Blood.
Pei Ye, did you truly have no connection within the Spirit Realm?
On the morning after the night of the assassination, the woman had already shared her blood with him.
"This way, we'll have a ribbon connecting us." She had lowered her hand to clasp his wrist. Her quiet voice from that moment seemed to sound beside his ear. "Let's go."
Long before the seven-day Feast, this connection had already been established.
So after the Spirit Realm closed, you were the only person in the entire world who could still enter it.
You simply had to pursue it a little faster than the Spirit Realm faded away.
Chapter 714: Burning Rhinoceros Horn
When the road ended and dreams lay far away, the Spirit appeared.
Seeking the Crossing on the Luo River said that the Spirit Realm chose people in the mortal world who had reached the end of their road.
But did the dead end reached while searching for the Spirit Realm itself fall within this gentle rule too?
This had nothing to do with the Boundary Marker. It had been reflected on a greater scale. And so Pei Ye remained