Bulwark of Light

Chapter 338 The heart is filled with bright light
Between the dry walls of the shrine mountain, there is still a cloud of shadows, and it is necessary to light the [lantern] to break through the miasma.

This time Gu Shen came alone, without letting Li Qingsui guide him.

He carried the [lantern] and stood among the waterfalls and springs halfway up the mountain. He swept away the mist with a blazing fire, and saw the dry and thin woman's figure in the distance.

"Mr. Gu Shen, you are here again."

Li Qingci turned his back to Gu Shen, carrying a small wooden pot.

She seems to be watering the flowers.

It is completely different from the flowers of order and ruin that bloom all over the shrine mountain.

Between the mountain walls, a very small, snow-white flower grew. This small white flower... formed a sharp contrast with the pitch-black demon flowers in all directions.

"I didn't expect...your talent is so good."

Li Qingci turned around, and she fixed her eyes on Gu Shen... She stared deeply at the flickering little flame between her eyebrows.

After a while, I couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's only been a few days, and you have absorbed all those extraordinary source qualities?"

Gu Shen put down the [lantern].

He just smiled, and didn't tell Li Qingci about the existence of the Four Seasons Wilderness in his mind.

In fact, the consumption rate of blazing fire transforming source matter is limited, at least for now... Most of the source matter absorbed this time is used to cultivate the "spiritual world". After the hole was filled, there was no news, as if it had never been sown.

Iron Five worked very hard.

Gu Shen... also worked very hard.

It's just that at the moment, if you want to germinate, you have to wait a long, long time.

"I'm here to eat some flowers...By the way, I brought some things."

Gu Shen didn't speak yet.

Li Qingci immediately smiled and said, "Is it the goods at the entrance of the Temple Mountain?"

Gu Shen was startled.

"After all, I am the protector of the Temple Mountain... I can't just sit here." Li Qingci said softly, "Every word and every word in this wonderful place cannot escape my perception."

It turned out to be the case.

Gu Shen smiled... That would save trouble, and Li Qingci could see these goods here, so he felt more at ease.

It's just that his expression suddenly became a little subtle.

Then last time, the chat between myself and Li Qingsui in the car was also overheard?

At that time, I hadn't recovered my spiritual connection, that is, I hadn't left the Wonderland of Shenci Mountain...

"Mr. Gu, are you worried?" Li Qingci still smiled gently: "You can rest assured that you put these things in the shrine mountain. No one will come and go here normally, and I will take care of them for you."

"Thank you very much then."

Gu Shen saluted.

He stared at the little white flower on the mountain wall, and asked earnestly: "I have a question...the order of the shrine mountain is broken, and everything is dead. How can there be life?"

Li Qingci knelt down and gently stroked the fragile little white flower with his fingers.

Her voice swayed in the faint mountain wind.

"Mr. Gu is right..."

"The order is broken, the black flowers are all over the mountain, and the shrine mountain has long ceased to have vitality. There is no spring, summer, autumn and winter here, only 600 years of darkness and eternal silence."

"It's just that if there are shadows in this world, there is light, isn't it?"

Gu Shen fell into deep thought.

He always felt... Li Qingci's words were the opposite.

This sentence should be: Where there is light, there is shadow.

"You must think...my words are reversed." Li Qingci said with a smile: "Actually, there is no such thing. This is the original words in Li's prayer secret book. There is black and white in the world, and everything has life and death. The Shrine Mountain is shrouded in billions of shadows, and a little light is always needed to cast such a huge shadow."

If hope is never seen.

Then people will not feel hopeless.

Just because I saw a little bit of light.

People will feel that the darkness in front of them is too huge and depressing, making people unable to parry and resist.

"So this flower...is the only light?"

Gu Shen just felt a little thought, but still didn't fully understand, frowned and said: "But when I came last time... I didn't see this flower."

"Because it wasn't born the last time you came."

There was a touch of sadness in Li Qingci's eyes.

She stroked the petals and said softly: "And soon, it will wither again."

"The task of the guardian is actually very boring."

Li Qingci stretched his body, looked into the distance, and said with a soft smile: "Because the 'collapse of order' is unstoppable, so every day... the protectors must use the 'wish technique' to guide the growth of black flowers and continue the development of the temple mountain." Longevity. We are like the pruners of the shrine mountain, trying to make the mountain last as long as possible. And in the process, we will see these little white flowers from time to time."

"No one knows why these flowers grow and germinate on the Temple Mountain, and no one knows...how long these flowers can live."

Li Qingci raised his head and asked with a smile: "The long ones can live for three or four days, and the short ones will wither in about one night. Maybe it's something left by our ancestors, but I'm curious, such flowers...really Can it count as light?"

"Actually, think about it, all the guardians of the Li family for 600 years are the same as these flowers."

"Come here to guard the shrine and stay with the black flowers all day long. They must have a short lifespan. Even if some of them can live longer, they will only last three to forty years, less than half a year."

"When the Dao protector died, the people of the same age outside the shrine mountain had not turned white and were still in their prime."

Li Qingci said slowly: "It's just that, for us, it doesn't make any difference whether it blooms for one night or three days on the Temple Mountain. They are all the same...short."

Gu Shen fell silent.

This white flower blooming between the cliffs should have been a ray of hope.

But here is full of "black spots", disordered extraordinary source quality, sucking up the nutrients in the mountain wall... It is very difficult for Bai Hua to survive a day.

"Girl Celadon, do you yearn for the light beyond the mountain?" Gu Shen took a deep breath and asked seriously.

Li Qingsui once told himself that his greatest wish was to realize the wishing technique, restore the shrine mountain, and then take his sister to see the outside world.

"of course."

Li Qingci's answer was beyond Gu Shen's expectation.

She calmly said: "However... I would rather be a white flower that only blooms overnight in Shenci Mountain."

"My father once said..."

"Black, symbolizes disillusionment, death, evil thoughts, and disorder."

"White, symbolizes dawn, life, hope, tranquility."

Li Qingci shook his head and said with a bright smile: "If this fleeting splendor can be regarded as a ray of light in Shenci Mountain...then I am willing to be a ray of light, and I only hope that one day these white flowers will bloom more Some, if they bloom for a longer period of time, they will bloom all over the mountains and plains, and on that day, they will be able to break through the shadow that has remained unchanged for 600 years, and they will be able to reflect the shrine mountain like daytime."

In this world, there are people living in endless nights.

There is a bright light in my heart.

At this moment, Gu Shen was very sure... Li Qingci was such a person. She came here and volunteered to be the protector of the shrine mountain, and she had already made up her mind to dedicate everything.

She doesn't need anyone to save her.

She herself is the savior.

(End of this chapter)