Black flowers blanketed Shrine Mountain, swaying in the wind.
Gu Shen reached out and pinched a black flower petal between his fingers, rubbing it with his thumb.
Sizzle!
Under the searing blaze of Blazing Fire, the black flower was burned away completely, turning into source matter that Blazing Fire devoured in full.
Without the black flowers covering the mountain that Mr. Gu Changzhi had left behind, he could never have accumulated so much Transcendent Source Matter so quickly during the early stages of his extraordinary cultivation.
To everyone else, Shrine Mountain was a disaster.
Yet for Gu Shen, it was a blessing.
If Mr. Gu Changzhi had uprooted it back then... what would he be like now?
"Mr. Gu Changzhi saw the future?"
Chu Ling found that speculation rather unbelievable.
Still, the arrangements surrounding the Three Letters...
Could only be called a miracle!
If he had not seen the future, how could he have laid out such a plan?
"So Mr. Gu Changzhi already knew back then that a Divine Embryo existed within Shrine Mountain?"
"I guessed he did."
Gu Shen sighed. "Don't forget that Master Chino, who was proficient in the Divination Technique, came from the Old World. So Mr. Gu Changzhi may truly have seen fragments of the future... Back then, those things seemed unremarkable. Looking back now, they were all cause and effect."
"Perhaps I'm overthinking it."
"But I wanted to see whether Shrine Mountain held any other 'foreshadowing' Mr. Gu Changzhi left behind."
Every coincidence in this world was destined.
The Third Letter left on him was one such case.
So were these black flowers on Shrine Mountain.
Gu Shen spread out his mental power. Blocked by these Order Ruin Flowers, he could not envelop the entire Shrine Mountain Territory at once.
So he simply walked