Chapter 1077: Chapter 27: Breakthrough, Flame of Vitality (Part 2)

She knew that every descent of the Goddess was not easy, and the time was limited. For the Li Family, it was best to take advantage of this period to ask the Goddess some questions…

Chu Ling is the new Tomb Guardian of Changye.

She possesses the true “Divination Skill,” which is divine art everyone desires to master!

But Li Qingci only stayed by Chu Ling’s side, saying nothing.

She is a Divine Temple Guardian, extremely wise, and from her time spent together, she has already guessed much about Chu Ling’s identity.

What kind of special existence could persist in the Spirit World without a body of its own?

The story of Mr. Xiao Gu and Chu Ling is unknown to outsiders.

But she was able to guess a bit of it.

In her heart… Chu Ling was not a “program” for self-indulgence and desire, her relationship with Chu Ling was also very simple.

For so many years, she sat emptily on Divine Temple Mountain, and Miss Chu Ling was the “hope” and “result” she traded ten years for, and also the “Divine Embryo” that the Li Family willingly laid out over six hundred years.

If one day, the Li Family truly needed the Divination Skill, then she would definitely speak out.

But not now.

The tranquility of the pure white garden did not last long.

Suddenly, Chu Ling asked, “Do you want to learn the Divination Skill?”

This question caught Li Qingci by surprise.

She was startled and did not answer.

The question was so “untimely” that she felt as though her thoughts had been seen through by Chu Ling.

“If you want to learn, I can teach you.”

Chu Ling said sincerely, “But it’s not easy to learn, and… the Divination Skill comes at a great cost.”

After a moment of silence.

Li Qingci looked into Chu Ling’s eyes and said seriously, “I want to learn.”

When it comes to Forbidden Techniques, where could there be gains without costs?

Fate is fair.

To gain, one must first lose.

“Okay.”

Chu Ling nodded and asked, “This is not a trade; I don’t wish to exchange ‘Divination Skill’ for anything… but I have a question, would you mind teaching me the ‘Prayer Technique’?”

Once again, Li Qingci was taken aback.

She blinked.

Chu Ling’s face was full of sincerity, and if one didn’t know her, they might think this was an “exchange.”

Using Divination Skill to exchange for Prayer Technique.

But Li Qingci understood Chu Ling; she knew that Chu Ling’s willingness to teach her had nothing to do with whether she could perform the Prayer Technique… she was willing to teach her because she had perceived her thoughts and felt it was possible to teach.

“These are two separate matters.”

Chu Ling repeated, “I’m trying to collect ‘Ancient Forbidden Techniques,’ and currently, it seems you’re the only one in the world who knows ‘Prayer Technique.'”

Prayer Technique is forbidden to be passed outside, a demand Ancestor Li placed on all generations of Protectors—

Sitting emptily at the Divine Temple, nurturing the Black Flower, praying for Sanctuary.

To give everything without seeking anything in return!

Every Protector, before entering the mountain, must swear to devote their life to the Divine Temple and never violate the ancestors’ rules!

“Okay, I will teach you the ‘Prayer Technique.'”

Li Qingci pondered for a long time before finally speaking.

Deciding this shouldn’t be a violation of the ancestral rules… after all, over the years, the ultimate goal of Protectors was to nurture a “Divine Embryo” and clear the Divine Temple’s Black Flower!

For her generation, this ultimate task could finally be completed!

The existence of the Prayer Technique may have reached its end… if even for the Goddess cultivated over six hundred years by the Li Family it was to be kept secret, then what reason would there be to continue passing on this technique?

“This is not ‘trade.'”

Li Qingci said earnestly, “Miss Chu, even if you didn’t have the Divination Skill, someday, I would still impart the Prayer Technique… to you.”

She knew Chu Ling was a life form more suited to Forbidden Techniques than herself.

Each descent was a complete and brief life cycle.

Whether it’s the Prayer Technique or the Divination Skill, the cost to pay… Chu Ling could mostly avoid.

Perhaps fate would still chase the Goddess.

But at least, she was different from others!

The two sat in the pure white garden, with little white flowers swirling in the wind as they both waved their sleeves, spreading their spirits in front of them, where a string of arcane ancient texts floated in the air.

The Forbidden Scripts of Divination Skill and Prayer Technique gently hovered, arrayed, emitting waves of spiritual energy.

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On the other side, Gu Shen was in the critical moment of a breakthrough.

He was immersed in his own Spirit Sea.

At this moment, the Pure Land World was covered by Wind Snow.

During the Great Cold season, the four seasons reversed.

Amidst the snow flying all over the Skytop, he sat on the cold Iron Throne, overlooking his own “world,” and contemplating the flame coiling around his fingertips.

The “ascent” from the Deep Sea Seventh Level to the Eighth Level should not have been so difficult.

But he had already completed three Super Realms.

This was akin to a preemptive “overdraft,” having obtained significant benefits in a “Spiritual Domain” not belonging to him… fate is fair to all living beings in the world.

What makes a genius strong is that the path of a genius is even harder than that of the mundane.

Now, his desire to comprehend “Chi Huo” had become extremely difficult.

The spiritual level of “Pure Land” exceeds that of “Chi Huo” by much, one high and one low, naturally forming a strong and a weak, a primary and a secondary… Gu Shen could feel the Taotie’s plundering of “Chi Huo” in the real world; he purposefully chose to close up at Divine Temple Mountain to ensure ample resources for his breakthrough, but he did not expect that the primal substances swallowed by “Chi Huo,” once ingested, were all absorbed by the Pure Land World.