Barrier of Light

What kind of "spell" is the wish spell?

The scene Li Qingci saw in her dream... Gu Shen felt both familiar and unfamiliar.

Listening to this description, it should be my own "four-season wilderness", but now the wilderness is completely empty. Where are the golden spikes and rivers?

This is...many years later?

"Can the wishing technique predict the future?" Gu Shen asked in a low voice.

"No……"

Li Qingci said softly: "It's not that I can't, but... I don't know. This is the magic of 'belief is existence'. To me, this is just an illusory dream. I believe that we will meet each other, and now, Sure enough we met."

Gu Shen remained silent.

"Mr. Gu... I can see that this dream is no stranger to you." Li Qingci smiled and noticed some clues from Gu Shen's expression, but she did not continue to ask, and stopped there.

She has always been a very measured person.

"Okay...this is the top of Shenci Mountain."

Li Qingci came to the ancient house and raised the [Lantern].

Countless dark black flowers rustled under the light and fire.

This scene feels a bit creepy.

The quiet and silent world on the top of the mountain.

In fact, if you don’t know...these black flowers carry the power of "ruin" and "desolation". When a person stands on the top of the mountain and looks out from a distance, this landscape also has a quiet beauty.

"A house can actually be built here..."

Gu Shen frowned. He knelt down and observed the wooden foundation supporting the ancient house.

I don’t know what kind of material this is, but it can survive unscathed under the "black flower" wrapper. It just looks slightly decayed. Maybe it has experienced decades of time?

"This is the 'house' of the first generation protector of the Li family."

Li Qingci paused and said: "It is also called... a shrine."

This is the origin of the name of Shenci Mountain!

Gu Shen's expression suddenly became serious.

In this way, this house was built for six hundred years, and time seems to have frozen here. The "slight decay" of these wooden materials seems insignificant in comparison to six hundred years.

"Huh……"

Because the mountain and earth boundary of the temple blocks all spiritual links.

Therefore, Gu Shen cannot connect to the deep water area.

He crouched down, a ray of light shone from the blazing brows, and slowly came to the vicinity of the house. The black flowers gave way to a path. He saw that the wooden foundation beams of the house were covered with talismans, and there were talismans written on them. An obscure "ancient text"!

Ancient prose!

"Celadon girl...are these ancient texts?"

Gu Shen tried hard to memorize the words on these talismans, and planned to wait until he left Shenci Mountain to contact Chu Ling before searching.

If I remember correctly.

The "Red Gate" in Lu Nanzhi's mind is also filled with similar ancient characters.

The Ancient Literature Society was established to study these symbols.

"I don't know either." Li Qingci shook her head, "These talismans are things left by our ancestors. Apart from him, I'm afraid no one else can interpret them."

She said solemnly: "The guardians of the past generations know that the temple cannot be destroyed. Because of these talismans, even the 'Black Flower' cannot corrode the ancient house. This is the guardian of the Li family. The final resting place, the pure place, and the prayer technique for hatching the divine fetus must also be performed in this place."

Gu Shen thought.

Although the wishing technique has various conditions, it is still more powerful than I know. But what Li Qingci said...even the place of activation is particular?

"Only praying in the 'shrine' will it be effective?" Gu Shen asked in confusion.

"If it is a big wish... you must make it in the 'shrine'." Li Qingci said: "If it is just some small, fragmented wishes, then you can make them without going to the shrine."

"Can I go in and take a look?"

Gu Shen asked cautiously.

"Okay...please come with me."

Li Qingci slowly stepped on the wooden steps and opened the door of the temple for Gu Shen. This ancient house had indeed gone through a long time... The wooden door creaked, which sounded a bit eerie.

The room was even darker.

After Li Qingci entered the door, she gently raised her hand. The ray of fire in the inner core of the [lantern] was divided into four directions and swept towards the four directions of southeast, northwest, and the room became brighter in an instant.

Inside the ancient house of the temple, there are four [bronze lamps] in the four corners.

The image of the bronze lamp is that of four miniature ancient men. They folded their sleeves with their hands, lowered them to the ground, and held a fire wick. At this moment, the dim candle flame was burning, and their large sleeves were swaying in the reflection, as if they came to life.

The four ancient people are all faceless people.

"It's a sealed object..."

Gu Shen stared at the bronze lamp for a long time, "A very strong sealed object."

Gu Shen could feel Blazing Fire's repulsion towards the lamp holder. As he got closer, he would have the uncontrollable thought of "walking further away" in his mind.

Obviously...the temple's ability to resist black spot erosion is also related to these bronze lamps!

Four bronze lamps, each suppressing a direction, formed an invisible realm.

In the great wonderful realm, connect the small wonderful realm.

This ancient house is actually a world of its own, with its own "rules", so it can resist the "collapse of order" outside!

However, this sealed object seems incomplete.

Gu Shen could vaguely feel intuitively...these four bronze lamps should have their true faces. When they find their own faces, then this set of sealed objects will be considered a complete return to perfection!

"The purpose of using these bronze lamps is just to light them?" Gu Shen frowned.

"This is an enchanted object and cannot be moved." Li Qingci shook her head, "The black flowers surround the ancient house. Once the [Bronze Man Lamp] is moved, the 'balance' in the house may be broken."

She looked at Gu Shen, smiled and asked, "Did you see anything unusual?"

"These people...have lost their faces."

Gu Shen pointed at the bronze lamp and said seriously: "The bronze lamp... was it like this when you got it back?"

"I don't know about this." Li Qingci also stared at the bronze lamp for a while, feeling a little dizzy. She pulled her gaze away and said softly: "If one day, we can clean up the 'black flowers' in the house, Then maybe we can bring these bronze lamps to the outside world.”

By then, the answer to this puzzle may be found.

"correct."

Li Qingci came to the center of the ancient house.

She slowly sat down cross-legged, raised her head and said seriously: "I will always be here to 'pray' on weekdays... I don't know why, but using the prayer technique in the center of the four directions does have the spiritual feeling of 'doing twice the result with half the effort'. I always feel that there is some luck in my life."

Is it the function of the copper lamp?

Gu Shen saw that the seat where Li Qingci was sitting was where four bronze figures kowtowed.

Because of the ancient inscriptions on the talisman and the barrier of the Bronze Man, the disordered sources outside the ancient house were unable to enter the house. Even if Gu Shen released blazing fire and tried his best to sense, he could not sense anything strange in the central place. …

It may really be the illusory "luck" at work.

Or maybe.

It was the ancestor of the Li family who had great supernatural powers.

"If there really is a 'divine fetus', where should it be hatched?"

Gu Shen suddenly thought of a question.

What is the "divine fetus" that Li has prayed for for six hundred years and spent so much effort to hatch?

Li Qingci shook her head, unable to answer this question.

Divine fetus...

Is there really such a thing?

"Maybe it fell from the sky, or maybe it grew out of the flowerbed." She sighed softly and said: "The top of the mountain is only this big. If that day comes...where else can the divine fetus come out from? ?”

"If there is a divine fetus, it cannot be bursting out of a stone."

Gu Shen rubbed his brows and said helplessly: "Besides, I just looked and there is no such stone on the top of Shenci Mountain..."

Li Qingci couldn't help but laugh.

"Human beings cannot be created out of thin air."

She stood up, pushed open the door of the ancient house, looked at the dark clouds in the distance, and said softly: "No matter how powerful the wishing technique is, Mr. Gu, you were born eighteen years ago... Cause and effect, in this world How is it possible to conjure a 'divine fetus' out of thin air?"

"It was at this location...Mr. Gu Changzhi stood all night."

Li Qingci came to the flower garden.

This is the place with the widest view on the top of Shenci Mountain. You can easily see the entire "mountain world". There are wisps of clouds lingering in the distance, and the entire Shenci Mountain is dark, like the underworld.

"He plucked a black flower."

Li Qingci squatted down and said with a smile: "Then I used the 'Prayer Technique' to trim the remaining flowers into this flower bed. These flowers look very neat, right?"

Gu Shen nodded.

It is already a very miraculous thing that these disordered sources can be guided by the "Prayer Technique".

But forming a flower garden is a bit unbelievable.

"There's something unusual about them."

Li Qingci thought for a while and said: "When I was using the prayer technique to guide the flowers in the entire Shenci Mountain...I felt something strange happened in this area, the square inch where Mr. Gu Changzhi once stood."

"Weird?"

"I... felt overflowing emotions from these black flowers." Li Qingci lowered her voice and said, "It seems to be... fear."

fear?

Are these black spots afraid of Gu Changzhi?

"Compared with other black flowers, these flowers are extremely well-behaved and obedient. They can be pruned casually using the prayer technique to form this flower bed." Li Qingci sighed with emotion: "I guess... the one picked by Mr. Gu Changzhi Flowers as a kind of 'warning' to them?"

And they really understood it.

"Mr. Xiao Gu... I hope that one day you can become like Mr. Gu Changzhi."

Li Qingci suddenly said this.

Gu Shen made some mistakes that he couldn't guard against.

He was stunned, and then said sincerely: "If Mr. Gu Changzhi is a mountain, then I... am just a grain of sand now."

"At that time, people didn't know the Lingyun tree. They waited until Lingyun became a master."

Li Qingci stretched out her hand and gestured, and said seriously: "Mr. Gu Changzhi also started from a small grain of sand a long time ago."

After a slight pause.

She said something that Gu Shen didn't expect: "For Li's protectors... the Shenci Mountain is already very big, so big that you can't even see the edge."

How many years, how many guards, how many victims...

"For Mr. Gu Changzhi, perhaps Shenci Mountain is just a mountain."

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

Of course he understood what Li Qingci meant...

No matter how big the Temple Mountain is, it is still just a wonderful place.

Outside the temple mountain, there are higher mountains.

For the god who holds the "fire", what they want to see is not a mountain, but a farther distance.

However, the road must be walked step by step.

For Gu Shen.

The mountain in front of me is already high enough.

"From now on... I will come once a week or so."

Gu Shen said seriously: "I want to start from the top of the mountain and clean up these black flowers..."

Li Qingci thought for a while: "Do you want to ensure the safety of the temple first?"

"good."

Gu Shen nodded and said: "The shrine is the top priority. This is the place where the ancestors of the Li family gave their full protection six hundred years ago. Perhaps after the black flowers on the top of the mountain are cleared away, we can find the six hundred year old statue from the [Bronze Man Lamp]. Some truths about the past.”

"I agree."

This is indeed the most correct way of thinking.

Li Qingci saluted slowly and said in a deep voice: "Celadon...I would like to thank Mr. Xiao Gu again."

…

…

At the foot of the temple.

Li Qingsui crossed her arms, sat in the back seat of the car, closed her eyes and rested her mind, dozing off slightly, her little head shaking back and forth like a chicken pecking at rice.

"Bang" sound.

The muffled sound of the car door woke her up.

Li Qingsui rubbed his eyes and muttered: "Why have you been gone for so long..."

The climb to Shenci Mountain this time, including reminiscing about old times and climbing, took two or three hours.

It's indeed long enough.

It should be almost evening outside the temple mountain.

Uncle Gao drove silently.

"Isn't it good for a long time... We are paid to do things, the longer we work, the harder we work!"

Gu Shen coughed and said seriously: "Actually, I climbed to the top of the mountain and took a look at your ancestral house."

"Did you go to the shrine?"

Li Qingsui suddenly became nervous: "Why would sister take you to a place like that?"

"Rare."

Gu Shen curled his lips and said, "My family is surrounded by walls, and I wouldn't even want to let me in again."

Li Qingsui was unhappy when he heard this.

"Bah! You only have four walls!"

"Do you know how precious the [Bronze Man Lamp] is? If it breaks, can you afford to pay for it?"

She bared her teeth and claws and lunged at her fiercely, but Gu Shen looked back and put two fingers on her forehead.

"Why is the future head of the Li family like this?"

Gu Shen had a headache and said, "Look at your sister, then look at you!"

This sentence is very familiar.

Li Qingsui has listened to it countless times since she was a child.

Later, her sister went to Shenci Mountain, and she never heard of it again... And after that day, she stood under the light and became the future successor of the Li family.

From now on.

She began to learn to restrain her true side and play the role of a qualified head of the Li family.

So when she met Gu Shenzhi in the Snow Forbidden City on the first day, she showed a very "polite" and "elegant" manner in front of Gong Zi and Mu Nan...

Because of Uncle Gao's company.

Gong Zi and Mu Nan were both respectful and polite to her. The girl in front of them was the young master of the Li family after all.

In fact, this is just a sixteen-year-old yellow-haired girl.

"This is what I am like! Are you not convinced?!"

Li Qingsui still showed his teeth and claws, "Be careful, I will use the wishing technique to curse your lower half..."

Gu Shen said calmly: "I have a way to free the [Bronze Rendeng] from the temple."

Uncle Gao: "???"

Li Qingsui: "I wish you good food and clothing, good luck, prosperity, and prosperity for the rest of your life!"