Bulwark of Light

Chapter 759 Look, Pure Land (first change, ask for a monthly pass!)

The pattern on the top of the shrine gradually dissipated.

Flowing clouds.

The two sisters have finished talking... Li Qingci stood calmly in front of the waterfall, looking at the landscape of the shrine that looked like ink painting in front of him, while Li Qingsui was sitting in the flowerbed with his back on his back, obviously still sullen.

Gu Shen climbed to the top of the mountain, saw this scene, and said, "Miss Qingci, I'm sorry."

"You don't have to say sorry to me..."

Li Qingci lowered his eyes and smiled, and said: "This matter, Qingci was going to talk about, today and tomorrow, it's all the same..."

"Sister, what is today and tomorrow? If Gu Shen doesn't tell me, how long are you going to keep it a secret?"

With her back on her back, Qingsui raised her voice and said aggrievedly: "You never even thought about telling me!"

Li Qingci could only remain silent.

"The surname is Gu..."

Qingsui's shoulders trembled slightly, and he resisted not turning around, and said in a hoarse voice: "You told me through voice transmission earlier that there is a solution, but you actually said... what is the solution?!"

"Longevity."

Without waiting for Gu Shen to speak.

Li Qingci turned around and looked at his sister: "Little Mr. Gu gave me a choice a long time ago. He has some blueprints for the longevity technique. If I want to live, I can practice this forbidden technique."

Longevity? !

Li Qingsui was stunned, she suddenly turned around, with tears in her eyes, and wiped her cheek vigorously.

"Yes."

Gu Shen slowly came to the table on the top of the shrine, he took out the part of the blueprint from his arms, put it on the table, and gently pressed it with a thick book.

He calmly said: "The 'wedge' of the longevity technique has been dismantled."

He put those words down the hill.

I told Li Qingsui again... the effect and price of the longevity technique.

Li Qingsui sat blankly in the flower garden, the cold wind blowing her messy hair, she is the head of the Li family, but she is too young, and her hands are not stained with much blood yet...

I want to be a character like "Li Chahu".

She still needs many more years.

Now the Longevity Technique is in front of you——

The "bloody" and "cruel" price has become a problem that cannot be ignored.

In fact, for many people, these costs are nothing at all.

If it was for a hero like "Gu Lushen" to make the decision, then he wouldn't even hesitate for a second. Sacrifice others and fulfill himself. As long as he is ruthless enough, he can achieve all kinds of benefits without any harm. Why hesitate?
But Li Qingsui was just a 16-year-old girl.

She grew up under the care of her elders and loved by everyone. Although she is a bit stubborn, her heart is kind.

"Is there such a magic in this world..."

Li Qingsui was greatly shocked.

"Have."

Gu Shendao: "Everything in this world requires a price. I need to make it clear to you...even if it is one-twentieth life transformation, there is a price to pay. The caster needs to accept the sacrificer's soul." ', the longer you live, the larger the memory in your soul."

"So...if you use the 'Longevity Technique', my sister's soul will also become turbid..."

Li Qingsui's reaction speed was very fast.

She murmured, "What if it's...a baby sacrifice?"

"..."

Gu Shen fell silent.

"Qingsui!"

A cold voice resounded in the flower garden. Li Qingci, who had been watching the waterfall quietly before, had all the smiles on his face disappeared at this moment.

She walked quickly to her sister, then squatted down.

The two looked at each other.

Li Qingsui knew that he had said something wrong, and his expression was a little flustered. He quickly lowered his head and wiped away the tears on his face with his sleeve.

"Sister... I don't want you to die..."

Li Qingci looked at the haggard face.

She wiped her sister's tears with her fingertips.

"Mr. Gu."

While wiping, Li Qingci said softly: "Actually, I am very grateful to you for telling her about this... Otherwise, I don't know when I will be able to say it..."

Gu Shen just stood in front of the table without saying a word.

"It's just that this is my life."

Li Qingci smiled and said, "You guys worry about me, think about me... I can understand it all. I should be the one who finally decides whether or not I want to live and how I want to live, right?"

Li Qingsui raised his head and looked at his sister blankly.

"I want to live, but I don't want to live this way."

Li Qingci said leisurely: "I am not a saint with the heart of saving the world, and the things I did on Shenci Mountain are not great. The word 'willing' is probably what has supported me to this day. There are still people in this world. Things are more important than life, when I pay the price countless times, that's what I think."

"It's just that I don't want to absorb other lives to become my last sustenance... Even if you tell me that he deserves to die. Since he deserves to die, then let the law execute him."

"When I put this life on the scale of fate, I never thought about going back on my word."

Li Qingci smiled and said: "Probably I'm such a 'stubborn' person, so... Xiao Gu, look, I didn't disassemble the part of the blueprint you left me. No, all I know is that the life extended by the longevity technique is not the life that Qingci wants."

Gu Shen'an quietly looked at the woman in white in front of her.

Among the white flowers, the petals are lingering.

Li Qingsui burst into tears.

……

……

The phantom left the top of the shrine hill.

The silence was restored here, only Gu Shen and Li Qingci were left.

The Frozen Lake mission is over, and there are no other trivial matters. Gu Shen will continue to retreat here. His vitality fire needs to absorb source quality. After experiencing the battle in the tundra, his "field embryo" can go further.

Li Qingci put the stack of blueprints on the true solution of longevity to the bottom of the desk.

Gu Shen stood among thousands of white flowers.

He asked softly: "Girl Qingci, what you really want to say to me is not what you just said?"

Li Qingci paused slightly as he sorted out the books.

"..."

silence.

Only silence remains.

After the "farce" just ended, Li Qingci became a lot haggard all of a sudden, Qingsui left Shenci Mountain, wondering what she was thinking and whether she would come back.

The lake of her heart that was originally peaceful now has many ripples.

Li Qingci's voice was hoarse: "Mr. Gu, all I want to say...that's all."

"If you are really determined to die..."

Gu Shen said: "Then you should find a new guardian for the shrine."

"There is a goddess in the shrine."

Li Qingci shook her head and said, "She is stronger than any protector."

"But she is not a guardian after all."

Gu Shen continued: "You know this better than anyone else."

"The shrine no longer needs guardians."

Li Qingci said: "The divine fetus has hatched, and you have promised me that you will remove the black spots on this mountain... One day, the black flowers will be gone, the white flowers will be in full bloom, and the whole mountain will be clear again."

"So...does 'Guardian' still make sense?"

She looked at Gu Shen and said seriously: "Stepping into this mountain boundary is equivalent to losing the light. I will sever the inheritance of the 'Guardian'... This is a good thing."

"Yeah, that's a good thing."

Gu Shen said lightly: "It's just that you said it yourself just now, becoming a 'guardian' is not a lucky thing...then why are you willing to die like this, how can you be willing to fall like this, you are only a little bit , you can see the light from beyond the mountain.”

"I……"

"I've already said it."

Li Qingci bowed her head again, and her voice was unhearable: "I decided...that's the end."

"In this case, just lie to Qingsui."

Gu Shen said leisurely: "You don't think of me as her, do you?"

Li Qingci raised his head in a daze.

"I know you have kind thoughts in your heart, and there is a high probability that you are unwilling to accept the longevity technique, so I didn't expect this technique...to make you compromise."

Gu Shen said slowly: "It's just that when a person is 'on the verge of death', he always has to grab a straw to save his life. With your obsession with your sister and Li Shi, if only this straw is left, most likely you will die. You will still try to grab it, right?"

When closed last year.

He put the blueprint of longevity technique in front of Li Qingci.

that time.

The celadon girl probably guessed that her life was not long, so she struggled and entangled several times, and finally dismantled a part and gave up a part...

The reason for giving up, of course, is not simply "the progress is too slow".

"The scale of fate...receive Yangshou."

"The golden thread for divination...receive the flesh."

"Any forbidden technique in ancient Chinese language must pay something..." Li Qingci said with a self-deprecating smile, "It's just that in my opinion, the most 'cost-effective' forbidden technique of longevity costs the most. It will charge me" Spirit'."

"Mr. Gu, of course I want to live."

She sat back on the rattan chair on the top of the mountain, and behind her was the dry well that Chu Ling's divine fetus kept. The rattan chair swayed in the wind, and she was like a piece of dead wood. It's been two years, but "living" is more than just opening my eyes and breathing, I hope I can realize my own value, and understand the meaning of what I have paid so much. To be selfish, I live for "myself". I have no choice in this matter, but at least in this matter, I have the right to make my own choice."

Li Qingci looked at Gu Shen.

She seldom speaks so long.

After becoming a protector, she willingly became the shadow behind Mrs. Li. Since then, she has worked so hard, walking between the mountain roads of the shrine, pruning black flowers, and practicing prayers.

Long ago, she wanted to speak, but no one listened.

later.

Someone was willing to listen, but she didn't want to talk anymore.

"From the first day my father brought me here, I knew ... I couldn't leave."

"The only good thing is that if I stay here, Qingsui can enjoy the sunshine outside. At least my 'pay'...is valuable and meaningful."

Her voice was as calm as the stagnant water in the dry well behind her that hadn't fluctuated for decades: "I know the ending of every generation of guardians of the Shrine Mountain. None of them lived past the age of 30, and I probably couldn't, but I I want to live...not only do I want to live, I also want to tear through the fog of this black mountain and let the sunshine outside shine in."

"So when my father taught me how to swap with the 'Libras of Destiny'."

"What I think in my heart is not only how to make the Li family better, but also how to make the shrine better..."

"More importantly... if I am willing to pay enough, can this scale give me direction?"

Li Qingci smiled softly.

She sat under the eaves of the ancient house of the shrine, part of the dark clouds on the top of the mountain dissipated, so half of the white clothes were illuminated by the faint soft light, and the other half was soaked in the shadow like ink.

all the time.

Many people in the Li family felt that this soft and weak protector was a fragile little white flower that would shatter when touched.

But actually.

Li Qingci lives in Shenci Mountain, and she gets along with countless flowers of ruined order every day.

How could such a person be vulnerable?

"If you want to hear a 'true' story, the story goes something like this—"

Li Qingci said frankly: "A little girl who looks innocent, but not naive, came to Shenci Mountain and desperately wanted to survive. Fortunately, the scale of fate gave her a clear guide... a lot Years later, she has done everything according to the guidance of the scale. Now she is dying, she doesn't want to live by the 'longevity technique', she wants to have a try, and live by the guidance of the scale..."

Gu Shen looked at this pale and helpless face.

"Did this story disappoint you?"

Li Qingci smiled and asked: "The reason why I did this is because I think... I should be able to 'live' without the longevity technique. This is what I want to tell you, no one knows what the real me is It looks like I'm actually not a good person."

"There is no standard in this world that can define good or bad."

Gu Shen got a satisfactory answer.

He asked: "So you want to find me because the scale of the wishing technique pointed to me back then, and you spent ten years meeting me...not only for the shrine, Mrs. Li, but also for yourself."

"Yes...that's what I wanted to say that day."

Li Qingci uttered the last secret in her heart, and she became calmer. She smiled and asked, "Now... I'm done, you must be looking down on me, right?"

Gu Shen shook his head.

"No, you haven't finished yet."

Li Qingci was startled.

"The wishing technique must have given you a dream. I still remember you mentioned that dream. Now you can tell me what you saw in that dream."

The woman on the rattan chair was lost in thought.

She whispered softly, as if returning to that old dream.

"I saw……"

"The huge and boundless wilderness is full of golden spikes, and there is a river running through it in the distance, reflecting the shadow of the sails..."

"In the center of the world stands a towering ancient tree supporting the sky..."

Li Qingci showed a dazed smile: "There is a piece of pure land."

"The scene you dreamed about..."

The next moment, Gu Shen calmly asked, "Is that so?"

He lit a blazing fire.

The next moment, the flames lingered and enveloped the shrine mountain.

The scene around the two of them changed rapidly, with countless flames and ice flakes flying.

Li Qingci sat on the rattan chair, dazed.

She stretched out her hand in a trance, stroking the long leaves hanging down in front of her, and looked up, she was now leaning against the towering ancient tree supporting the sky.

Wind blows.

Thousands of miles away, the golden spikes of flowers sown in the distant wheat fields fluttered along with it.

"Look."

Someone beside her whispered: "This is the pure land."

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(PS: This chapter is a foreshadowing that has been buried for a long time. When Li Qingci and Gu Shen met for the first time, they were thinking about the appearance of this scene... Girl Qingci is a very good person, of course she should not just die like this. God In the most barren years of Cishan Mountain, there were only black flowers and celadon in the mountains and plains. It stands to reason that she is the most stubborn little white flower, but little white flower does not mean "kindness without bottom line". In my heart, celadon is A character with strength and soul, her struggle against her destiny is silent but powerful.)
(End of this chapter)