Barrier of Light

The mountain boundary of the temple is shrouded in mist.

Li Qingci sat quietly on the top of the mountain.

Today, she did not bend down at her desk to dismantle ancient texts, nor did she get up to cultivate the flower garden. She just sat quietly, watching the waterfall below her fly rapidly, plummeting a thousand feet, splashing with continuous echoes, and the snow-white waves wet her white clothes.

Yes.

That day, she mustered up the courage and said nothing to Gu Shen...it was that her time was running out.

As the guardian of Li's shrine.

She already had a premonition.

My life, which is not long, is coming to an end soon.

And these days, she no longer struggles.

If time is running out.

Then cherish the moment.

Do what you want to do and say what you want to say.

When the Frozen Lake mission was over and Gu Shen came back, she would tell Mr. Gu the news... Li's shrine gave birth to a goddess, and the black flowers in the future would one day be eliminated.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid I can't see it.

"Uh-huh!"

The fog at the 447 Highway Link Temple suddenly broke——

Mr. Xiao Gu is here?

Li Qingci raised her slender eyebrows and subconsciously stood up, ready to greet him.

However, what broke through the fog was a Phantom, driving towards the temple at extremely fast speed!

"Qingsui?"

The moment she saw Phantom, Li Qingci's expression became panicked.

The Phantom stopped in front of the Temple Mountain.

Without waiting for Uncle Gao to pull up the car seat, Li Qingsui opened the car door herself, holding her undergarment and trotting all the way to the top of the mountain...

Gu Shen got down from the passenger seat.

He looked at the back of Li Qingsui climbing the mountain, sighed, and said, "Uncle Gao...shouldn't I tell her the news?"

"It's useless, the lady will know sooner or later."

Gao Tian lowered his head, lit the cigarette, and blew out a puff of mist, "Besides, we don't have the right to hide this kind of thing from her. If we wait until it's too late to tell her, she will hate you forever."

"..."

Gu Shen looked silent.

Chu Ling told him that Li Qingci did not have much time left...

Now that he knows, he must do something.

In the past few days, he urged Tsukauki to complete the disassembly of part of the "Immortality Technique" and prepared to take the disassembled "True Solution to Immortality" and head straight to the shrine mountain world.

After just thinking about it, he still went to the Li clan hall and contacted Uncle Gao.

After the frozen lake mission ended, Li Qingsui did himself a big favor——

He really couldn't bear to hide such an important secret.

So... the current scene emerged. Li Qingsui was handling the internal affairs of the Presbyterian Church at the time. After learning the news, he left the scene directly, then angrily picked up his skirt and rushed to the top of the temple to demand punishment.

Gu Shen was not in a hurry to climb the mountain.

These two sisters, one stands in the light, the other is immersed in the darkness... They are more like a pair of twins, neither one can live without the other, and the fateful bond between them is thicker than blood.

Without Li Qingci's sacrifice, it would have been difficult for Qingsui to ascend to the position of family head so smoothly.

Li Qingci is willing to be her sister's shadow and willing to devote her life to the clan.

That time and time again, the wishing chips of the Libra of Destiny were piled up.

Not just her longevity.

This is Li's hope.

It's just...the most ruthless thing in the world is separation between life and death.

The guardians of the past generations are destined to have a short life.

Li Qingci, who was standing on the top of the mountain, looked at her sister with a complicated expression, and then looked at Gu Shen in the distance.

she knows.

Mr. Xiao Gu probably guessed what he was going to say.

Then...he told Qingsui all this.

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After Qingsui climbed to the top of the mountain, soft "rays of light" rose from the flower beds in all directions.

Li Qingci opened the formation pattern.

Gu Shen sat at the foot of the mountain very wisely. He had not been in a hurry to climb the mountain before, that was why...

He and Uncle Gao leaned on the left and right sides of the hood of the Phantom's front car.

"The lady has helped you a lot."

Uncle Gao silently lit the cigarette and said in a dull voice: "You shouldn't treat her like this... at least, you should tell her good news."

When around the lady, he never smoked.

But today... is an exception.

Gu Shen could only lower his eyes helplessly, he was speechless.

Uncle Gao is right.

Of course he also knows this.

It's just that... there is some information that cannot be concealed. One more day of hiding it means one more day of mistakes.

"Actually, there is good news."

Gu Shen held the car hood with both hands and said softly: "Since I came to the temple, it means that I have a solution..."

"Um?"

Uncle Gao's fingers holding the cigarette butt trembled slightly.

He frowned and looked at Gu Shen in surprise.

This kid...didn't he drink too much? Do you know what you are talking about?

Gu Shen turned around and asked calmly: "I'll wait until the two above finish arguing before I go up... Do you want to come with me?"

"I……"

Uncle Gao obviously wanted to go up with him, but he glanced at the movement on the top of the mountain and shook his head: "I still won't go."

"but,"

Gao Tian frowned and asked: "What kind of medicine are you selling in the gourd? You know that Miss Celadon's current situation is that her life span has been exhausted, right? This is fate, life and death, and an iron law!"

"yes."

Gu Shen said calmly: "Destiny, life and death, and the iron law. How do you know if you don't try it? These things...can't be rewritten?"

"I hold the legendary 'immortality technique' in my hand. Although it is only a part of it, it can also 'change fate against the will of heaven'."

Gu Shen said seriously: "The reason why I called Qingsui here today is to let you Li family prepare in advance... Although this technique is called 'immortality', it is actually a magic technique. Its price is very real and very It is cruel and requires the sacrifice of living souls, and the caster can exchange for one-twentieth of his lifespan."

"???"

Gao Tian was stunned, and the cigarette butts and butts in his hand fell to the ground.

Mars is scattered.

"I only got the incomplete part of the True Solution to Immortality." Gu Shen said seriously: "Perhaps as the dismantling progress progresses, its cost will become smaller and smaller, and its conversion efficiency will also become higher... But at least for now, it It’s like this.”

Immortality Technique...

As the top title in Nagano, Gao Tian still knows a thing or two about ancient texts and forbidden spells.

Whether it is the "praying technique" practiced by Miss Celadon or the "divination technique" practiced by Master Qianye in the cemetery... they are essentially exchanging fates through the taboo power contained in ancient texts.

It seems.

This is like a different kind of extraordinary ability.

But in fact... taboo spells all require a price, either blood, flesh, or soul.

The scales of fate are fair.

But fairness means cruelty.

The small life of human beings can never carry huge desires.

Therefore, there is a magic method in the legend that breaks through the taboo exchange rules.

Immortality.

Even the gods who smelt fire cannot guarantee that they can live forever. "They" may be able to live longer, or they may be able to maintain their youthful appearance forever, but they will eventually die.

If a person... has "immortality", then what else can he not have?

"You shouldn't tell me this kind of thing..."

Gao Tian squatted down.

He was wearing a clean suit, a neat tie, and white gloves... He was famous for being mysophobic, but at this moment he actually picked up the cigarette butts on the ground and took another last puff.

"The art of immortality... is a secret that even the gods covet..."

"Perhaps it is not as useful as the legend says," Gu Shen said with a smile: "If the longevity technique was really that good, with the power of the Seven Gods, they would have grabbed it in their palms long ago."

This is the truth.

Uncle Gao clapped his hands and said with a complicated expression, "You probably didn't tell anyone else about this news, right?"

"certainly."

Gu Shen smiled, "Who do you think I am? Who do you think you are?"

Since we want to save Li Qingci.

Then Li must take action...

Then Li Qingsui will know, and Uncle Gao will know. Gu Shen has nothing to hide. Sooner or later, both of them will be part of the "plan", so they would have been worried if they had told him earlier.

"call……"

Gao Tian imitated Gu Shen's posture, supported the car hood with both hands, leaned back slightly, and murmured: "If I were a young lady, as long as I can let the celadon girl live... no matter how cruel the price is, I can accept it. So. Li's power can still find many 'dying people'. If I guess correctly, the price the caster has to pay is to absorb the lives and be compatible with the souls of these people, right?"

"……yes."

It's worthy of a title from the spiritual system. I guessed it very accurately.

Gu Shen nodded.

In fact, this part of the cost is not difficult to guess.

Once you gain life, you are destined to bear the corresponding "weight". The soul is the biggest weight of this transaction.

"This is very dangerous. Even if Li Shi desperately searches for those young 'death-row prisoners' within the Dongzhou area, according to the life span of 20 to 1, sacrificing one of them will only give Miss Celadon three to four years of life at most. ." Gao Tian said quietly: "The price is to absorb a 'twenty years' memory. Miss Celadon's life will be extended, but her soul will no longer be pure."

"This is the price of immortality."

Gu Shen said calmly: "Ian, the great scholar of Central Continent, relied on the 'immortality technique' to live to the age of 121."

"Is that so?"

Uncle Gao said calmly: "So you went to Central Continent to do this..."

He had no intention of exploring more secrets.

Gao Tian is the most "free" title in Nagano, bar none.

He is not subject to the will of any power.

Staying in Li's family is entirely voluntary.

On the one hand, it was to repay the kindness of the previous head of the family, Li Qihu. On the other hand, he regarded Li Qingsui as the most important part of his life. The meaning of staying in the Li family was to be able to witness with his own eyes this little girl grow up peacefully and eventually become a The new head of the Li family.

Nothing else matters.

Immortality? Ian?

He just heard these things and didn't care.

"Actually, the price of immortality may not be that serious..."

Gao Tian lowered his eyebrows and said, "It would be nice if Li was more 'cruel'. The biggest disadvantage of the longevity technique is that it needs to be compatible with the soul... The celadon girl practices the 'wishing technique', and her spiritual power will be stronger than that of ordinary people." She is powerful, but if she just wants to use this method to survive, sooner or later her consciousness will be confused and she will not be able to tell which one is her true self."

"so……"

"Just find a newborn baby and sacrifice it directly."

Uncle Gao slowly looked at Gu Shen and said in a calm tone: "As long as you pass the test of conscience, the Immortality Technique can... provide 'immortality' to the caster at the minimum cost."

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At the foot of the temple.

The two looked at each other, and there was silence.

"Mr. Xiao Gu, with your intelligence... I'm afraid you wouldn't have thought of this, right?"

Uncle Gao smiled softly.

At the minimum cost, achieve maximum utilization of the longevity technique——

Of course Gu Shen had thought about this.

When he finally killed "Ian", he actually realized this.

This old guy, who has lived for 121 years, looks crazy, but in fact he still has the last bit of humanity left.

At least he didn’t sacrifice the baby…

But who can say for sure?

In these long one hundred and twenty-one years, no one knows whether Ian has done anything beyond the lower limit, but what Gu Shen knows is... Ian chose "Hooper" as a sacrifice.

If he had chosen to absorb the life of the baby, perhaps he would not have taken a fancy to this disciple again.

No matter how young you are, you will never be younger than a baby.

No matter how pure the soul is, it cannot be purer than a baby.

"The Lee family has many enemies."

Gao Tian said lightly: "Not just the Li family, Nagano, Jiangbei, the entire Dongzhou... all have a common enemy."

"Although I don't care what happens in Nagano, I know that Dongzhou is forming an alliance with Central City. Envoys from the two continents have recently begun close talks. The source energy boats of the Hokkaido Fortress can legally sail into the tundra border...this series of things , enough to prove that the closer the relationship between us and the Lin family, the closer the enemy will be."

Gu Shen did not nod or shake his head, but asked calmly: "So?"

"So if there is a need, I can be the 'evil man'." Gao Tian looked at Gu Shen, "The Tower of the Source of Central Continent, the Guangming City of Xizhou, and the Holy City of Nanzhou. These places are heavily guarded, but other places cannot stop them. Stay with me... I heard that during the Red War, the Church of Light plundered many innocent children on the border of Beizhou. Since this kind of evil behavior has always been done by people, then Dongzhou can also repeat it."

"..."

Gu Shen looked at Li's housekeeper in silence.

All of a sudden.

He couldn't tell whether what Gao Tian said was serious or a joke.

"Miss Celadon needs fresh life, and Mrs. Li can bring her fresh life... Of course, these are all plundered from the 'enemy'. Perhaps Dongzhou should never have flaunted himself to be so noble. The reason why Mr. Gu Changzhi died is because he regarded himself as the sun of 'justice'."

Uncle Gao asked word for word: "Do you agree with what I just said?"

"I……"

Gu Shen shook his head.

"It's hard to agree."

Gao Tian looked at the young man in front of him quietly.

"Being mean is the passport of the mean, and being noble is the epitaph of the noble."

Gu Shen said calmly: "I never deny this, and I even agree with it. But the reason why Mr. Gu Changzhi died is not because he is the sun. He is too noble and he has made contributions, so he deserves to die... He So die, just because everyone will die, and everyone has the right to choose their own way of death."

"What I did was just announce the 'immortality technique' to the Li family. No matter what measures you take, I will not stop you. You can plan a 'sacrifice' in other continents. But if it is possible , I hope Mr. Li will set his sights on the 'damned person', and at least not plunder babies..."

"the reason is simple."

Gu Shen said: "The meaning of living is not just living. Everything that Celadon Girl has dedicated her life to... is not for these. She wants to see the light outside the temple mountain just because she has hope and wants to see how clean the outside is. world."

"..."

Gao Tian looked at Gu Shen, who shook his head and showed a complicated smile.

The formations on the top of the mountain dissipated.

This means... the conversation between Celadon Aoiho and Celadon Aoi is over.

Uncle Gao walked towards Gu Shen.

"It is said outside that you are the 'absolute hub' for the future convergence of the two continents, and that you are qualified to control the destiny of millions of people. If given a spark, you may become the next Gu Changzhi..."

He patted the young man's shoulder and said with a pleased smile: "But I don't think so. How are you and Gu Changzhi similar? If I had just said this to him, he would have punched me without hesitation. , beat me to the ground...Oh, sorry, you can't beat me now."

Gu Shen was startled.

"Miss, they are waiting for you, hurry up the mountain."

Gao Tian crushed the cigarette ashes hard with the soles of his shoes, shook his clothes, and dusted off the dust.

He said in a relaxed tone: "Just pretend that you have never told me about this matter. I will forget the conversation just now... completely."

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