Light Fortress
Chapter 354 - 45 Prayer Technique

Chapter 354: Chapter 45 Prayer Technique

The Stygian Essence enveloped the area like a rosy cloud.

Where this Extraordinary Essence congealed, shattered black spots appeared one after another.

Gu Shen finally understood why he felt such unease when he stared into the darkness earlier.

What Miao Jing is this?

This was simply a Demon Cave!

On this "Divine Temple Mountain," the collapsed order manifested as black spots scattered all over the mountain. One extra glance could make your scalp tingle, and if it were not for the "lantern," any common person who mistakenly wandered here might be shredded by a single misstep.

Gu Shen felt a lingering fear as he recalled Li Qingsui’s vigorous figure moving swiftly, not realizing at first... that the girl’s courage was so great.

He took a deep breath.

After calming his emotions, Gu Shen looked towards the distant mountain waterfall cave curtain, where, under the illumination of Chi Huo, a slender figure was faintly visible.

That slender figure seemed to make a hand-lifting "please" gesture and spoke softly, "Mr. Xiao Gu, please, don’t be polite."

Gu Shen stared at Li Qingci and shook his head, "I don’t understand... what you’re talking about."

Chi Huo’s ability to absorb disordered essence was Gu Shen’s biggest secret.

He didn’t know what the woman before him intended by inviting him here... Even if she had no ill will, he couldn’t possibly follow the conversation as she wished.

Li Qingci gave a laugh as if this response was what she anticipated.

She asked very patiently, "Mr. Xiao Gu... would you care to listen to a story?"

Gu Shen’s expression grew serious.

He felt that the way the woman in front of him spoke, her tone and choice of words, was like that of the ancients from centuries ago.

Was it due to her lineage, or some other reason?

Gu Shen found a cool large rock and seated himself, equally patient as he replied, "Goddess, please speak freely."

This address made Li Qingci shake her head helplessly.

"Qingzhong has been established for nearly twenty years. In these two decades, Changye District has enjoyed smooth winds and timely rains, peace in all directions. Whether it was the Judgement Institute, the command centers, the prisons... or the five major families charged with defending Snow Forbidden City, they all have felt an unprecedented ’safety’."

"But before Qingzhong was established, it was not like this."

The ethereal voice seemed to drift through the wilds.

"Mr. Xiao Gu, you visited Qingzhong during the day and met Master Qianye. Surely you also saw the Giant Statue Ruins, right?" asked Li Qingci suddenly.

"I did," Gu Shen nodded slowly.

The impression that the ruins left on him was too profound; despite the dense mist, one could still feel the majesty of the giant statues and one’s own insignificance.

"Six hundred years ago, before the five major families moved to Changye... the Giant Statue Ruins were already there," said Li Qingci softly.

"And the ’Divine Temple Mountain’ has existed for as many years as those ruins... In fact, you’ve seen it yourself, this Miao Jing has long been on the brink of collapse. Countless ancestors from the Li Family have sacrificed their hearts and lives to stabilize the ’Divine Temple Mountain’."

Gu Shen was taken aback.

Staring at the figure deep within the cave curtain, he suddenly thought of what Li Qingsui had said.

"My sister is the greatest, the most hardworking person in the entire world."

Looking towards the cave curtain again, he no longer saw it as a landscape painting.

But as a cage within a Demon Cave.

"This generation... The person responsible for guarding Divine Temple Mountain is me."

Li Qingci smiled slightly, "Rather than the title ’Goddess,’ I prefer ’Protector.’ Because what our Li Family has guarded through the generations is the ’Goddess,’ the ’Divine Son’... or perhaps, the ’Divine Embryo’."

"Divine Embryo..."

Gu Shen was somewhat bewildered.

He had never seen such a woman before... her manner of speaking was gentle and refined, as if she came from the distant past.

And the terms she used were also very unfamiliar.

"Master Qianye of Qingzhong, proficient in ’Astrology’... and the ’Prayer Technique’ passed down from ancient times by the Li Family, the two have their similarities in their ingenious ways, but there are also some differences. The former can only divine, while the latter has the power to ’turn the intangible into reality’."

Upon hearing this, Gu Shen was shocked.

Turn the intangible into reality?

Li Qingci smiled and said, "The ancestor who suppressed the Divine Temple Mountain Miao Jing initially used the ’Prayer Technique’ to make a great and noble wish. He prayed that this calamity-ridden mountain could restrain itself from the point of order collapse, could bear a ’Divine Embryo’, and at the moment of Miao Jing’s collapse, when Divine Temple Mountain could no longer sustain the Divine Power, the Divine Embryo could be born into the world, ensuring the safety of the Li Family amidst peril."

"And after that great and noble wish was made... the ’Extraordinary Essence’ in the wilds began to intertwine with each other, they still grew, they still would one day destroy the entire Divine Temple Mountain, but the day of their coming had been greatly delayed. It was exactly like what you saw."

Countless dark spots intertwined.

It was an extremely terrifying sight to behold, but actually, these dark spots interweaving with each other... instead formed a kind of miraculous ’balance’, which was an indescribable phenomenon.

It was the miracle of the Prayer Technique.

"I came to Divine Temple Mountain at the age of eleven, to begin my cultivation of the ’Prayer Technique’ with my father..." Li Qingci spoke softly, "After my father’s death, I stayed here alone. The Prayer Technique comes with a price, and I voluntarily used the Divine Temple as a cage, all to personally witness the noble wish of the ancestor’s Divine Embryo coming into the world."

Gu Shen broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead... even though he had come to accept that in this world, some people had the ability to use their immensely powerful Extraordinary Abilities to create ’Divine Miracles,’ he still could not accept the existence of the ’Prayer Technique’.

It was beyond his realm of comprehension.

What’s more important, this seemed to be the power passed down through generations of the Li Family.

This was a kind of Extraordinary Ability that could leave a legacy, which could be learned!

The ethereal voice in the mountain wilderness was like wind or fog.

"A few days ago, the ’Prayer Technique’ concerning the ’Divine Embryo’ finally revealed itself, guiding a certain image..."

"That’s why we happen to meet here today."

"These are the causes and effects."

Li Qingci said quietly, "The Prayer Technique and Divine Temple Mountain are the oldest secrets of the Li Family. Today, Qingci has opened her heart to Mr. Xiao Gu, which should sufficiently demonstrate her sincerity."

Gu Shen looked very complicated.

He opened his mouth to speak but then hesitated again.

Having arrived in Changye for only two days... he had already met in succession the young ’leaders’ of the five great families, and it had to be said, the attitude of the Divine Temple Guardian Li Qingci was the most sincere.

He was just an outsider who had never had the slightest contact with the Li Family, and today was the first time he had met Li Qingci.

"Why?"

Gu Shen heaved a sigh and slowly said, "Such an important matter... as a Divine Temple Guardian, you could have sent someone to observe and then make a decision slowly. You don’t even know what kind of person I am."

In the dimness, someone lit a lantern.

On the other side of the light, instead of a beautiful and picturesque water curtain, there was a barren cliff. A frail-looking woman in a gauze dress, pale and gaunt, raised her hand to light the lantern, illuminating her face.

That face... was very haggard.

In Gu Shen’s "Chi Huo" vision, it was the visage of a dying person, surrounded by countless strands of dark energy.

"The reason is very simple..."

Li Qingci smiled weakly and said, "Because Divine Temple Mountain can’t wait any longer."