Equivalent exchange.

This is the reason why the "Prayer Art" can come true.

There is no free gift in this world... and if you put a wish on one side of the scale, you are destined to put an equivalent sacrifice on the other.

"Ten years..."

Gu Shen looked at Li Qingci in the stone cave in the distance with a complicated expression.

How many decades can there be in a person's life? Is it really worth it to exchange it for a meeting?

He felt a little unbearable.

"Mr. Gu..." As if seeing Gu Shen's thoughts at the moment, Li Qingci said seriously, "If it only takes ten years to wait for you, I think it's worth it."

Mount Shenci has countless Dharma Protectors.

They have given decade after decade.

Only to wait until today.

In this dark abyss, the offerings placed on the scale by the Li family's guardians are countless... countless lives that died young, countless heroic souls who dedicated themselves to nothingness.

"Perhaps, in this era... Mount Shenci may not be able to hatch a divine fetus..." Gu Shen couldn't bear it, and he reminded, "Or perhaps, all of this is fake."

"But what Qingci has given is real." Li Qingci smiled and said, "I have been here, I have contributed, and that's enough. If I am destined to return to nothingness, why should I look back at the past?"

The person who can use the "Prayer Art" must be so innocent.

Hearing this.

The deepest string in Gu Shen's heart was suddenly touched.

"These flowers... I will try to clear them, and do my best."

He took a deep breath and said slowly, "But I can't guarantee how much I can help Mount Shenci."

Hearing this, Li Qingci was stunned for a moment, and then quickly suppressed the joy in her heart and said sincerely, "Thank you."

She held her breath and watched carefully.

Among the distant mountain walls.

The boy slowly put down the extinguished Lantern, came to a cliff full of black, a wisp of blazing fire lingered, first rising from the center of his brow, then swept out to reach his arm, and finally gathered in his palm.

Gu Shen picked off several black flowers.

Just like when he was clearing the "black spots" on Yuandan Street... the blazing fire burst out with a strong "devouring intent", but this time, his control was much stronger, and there would never be a scene of "transcendental loss of control" again.

The flames bounced in his palm, eagerly asking Gu Shen's wishes.

If Gu Shen doesn't nod.

Then even if the "black flower" is held in his hand, the blazing fire will not devour it.

Gu Shen looked solemn, carefully examining the flowers in his palm... These black spots are just strangely shaped, grown into the shape of flowers, but in reality, they are just disorderly coagulations after the "collapse of order."

In other words.

This is the "black spot" and can be completely devoured by the blazing fire.

He conveyed his will: "Eat."

After receiving Gu Shen's permission... the wisp of flame no longer hesitated and began to devour it frantically!

This scene stunned Li Qingci.

On that pale and haggard face, a hint of excited blush faintly appeared. These ineradicable flowers of annihilation could actually be eliminated?!

For the past half a year, the Li family has been using the "Prayer Art" to fight against the curses and disasters of Mount Shenci.

The "Dharma Protectors" who guard the mountain here often only pass on one sentence to their descendants.

"Hope comes after despair."

The Prayer Art brings hope, but only ethereal hope is not enough to support people to move forward... Li Qingci had already made the worst plan, and she could accept all the consequences.

If Gu Shen was unable to do anything about the "black flowers"... she would have spent ten years and found the wrong person.

She still has no regrets.

The facts proved that what those Dharma Protector predecessors left behind was correct.

After despair, she saw hope.

In just a few dozen seconds, the "flower bushes" entangled with a large area of darkness and gloom where Gu Shen was standing were cleared... revealing the original green stone cliffs of Mount Shenci.

Under the "black spot erosion" that lasted for hundreds of years, this wondrous realm was already riddled with holes.

The exposed boulders exuded an aura of decay and death.

The blazing fire in Gu Shen's brow happily roamed in this land of silence. For it... this "forbidden land of death" that ordinary people would die if they touched it was a "pure blessed land".

"The speed of absorbing source matter... is much faster than when I was performing tasks in Dadu before."

Gu Shen also felt a faint shock in his heart.

The source matter he had collected in Dadu for several months of missions, even with the private collection of the believers of the Eternal Foundation at the end, was only slightly more than the blazing fire's devouring in this moment!

The blazing fire is a small baby.

Its growth requires a large amount of source matter...

The "wilderness" that Gu Shen had just condensed even needed a massive amount of transcendental source matter to nourish it. This transcendental source matter was originally a sea eye that could not be filled...

He originally thought that if there was not enough source matter.

Then he would go to Qingzhong and discuss with the tomb keeper to absorb a portion of the "source matter" to carry out his own transcendental cultivation... There would be some risks in doing so.

Although Qingzhong is a miracle place in East Continent, accumulating sea-like source matter, the Eye of Wind is always monitoring the transcendental aura outside the tomb. Once someone tries to "steal" source matter, it will be discovered by the Third Institute at the first time.

But now, these wildflowers of Mount Shenci directly solved Gu Shen's biggest problem.

The blazing fire roams in the flower bushes.

This large area of entangled dark gloom rippled with "fear", but unfortunately they have become "food" at this moment. The blazing fire opened its bloody mouth, sweeping away the black spots wherever it passed!

This scene looks a bit ridiculous...

The black flowers all over the mountains and plains swayed in panic, avoiding the flower-eating boy.

In front of Gu Shen, a large mountain wall was cleared.

The suffocating darkness that originally filled the surrounding space has now been slightly relieved, no longer oppressive.

"... Hiccup!"

That wisp of small flame, with a full belly, happily went home, and slowly swayed back to Gu Shen's brow.

Gu Shen used his mind to ask it to go to the opposite side to eat a little more.

The blazing fire was unmoved, and lay down lazily... Finally, the small flame made a gesture, it shook its head at Gu Shen, indicating that it was really full and could not eat anymore.

About half an hour passed... The stone wall in front of him was eaten fairly clean, but...

He raised his head.

In front of him was an endless mountain, a sea of flowers.

This side of the stone wall, in comparison, was really small, so small that it was a bit pitiful.

After trying to make it work hard two more times, the blazing fire was completely lying flat, Gu Shen was a little embarrassed, he looked at Li Qingci.

"... I tried my best."

Li Qingci fell into silence.

Just now, in the process of observing the blazing fire devouring the black spots, she had already discovered the problem.

Perhaps it was because the young man in front of her was not strong enough.

At this rate... the black spots on Mount Shenci might one day be cleared.

But she was afraid that she would not be able to wait.