Shattered Porcelain (Second Update)

Gu Shen received a satisfactory answer.

He asked, "So you came looking for me because the scales of the Prayer Art pointed to me all those years ago, and you spent ten years meeting me... not only for the Shrine, for the Li family, but also for yourself."

"Yes. That was what I wanted to say that day."

Li Qingci revealed the last secret in her heart, and she seemed much more at ease. Smiling, she asked, "Now... I've finished. You must look down on me, right?"

Gu Shen shook his head.

"No. You haven't finished."

Li Qingci froze.

"The Prayer Art must have given you a dream. I remember you mentioning that dream before. Now, tell me—what did you see in it?"

The woman in the wicker chair fell into thought.

She murmured softly, as though she had returned to that Old Dream.

"I saw..."

"A vast, endless wilderness covered in golden ear-shaped flowers. A river ran through the distance, reflecting the shadows of sails..."

"At the center of the world stood an ancient tree, towering enough to hold up the sky."

Li Qingci revealed a dazed smile. "That place was a pure land."

"The scene you dreamed of..."

The next moment, Gu Shen calmly asked, "Was it like this?"

He ignited Blazing Fire.

In the next moment, firelight swirled and enveloped Shrine Mountain.

The scenery around them changed rapidly as countless flames and ice fragments danced through the air.

Li Qingci sat blankly in the wicker chair.

In a trance, she reached out and touched the long, luminous leaves hanging before her. Looking up, she found herself leaning against that ancient tree towering into the heavens.

A wind swept past.

Snow drifted across thousands of miles, and the Golden Light ear-shaped flowers sown in the distant fields fluttered