"Did Changyuan make this?" Gu Yan asked in shock.
"Cough cough, nonsense! Didn't you just see it? How could it be fake?" Gu Li said irritably.
Gu Yan looked solemn, turned to Ping'er, squinted, and asked, "Who exactly are you? What is your relationship with Chang Yuan?"
Ping'er chuckled, "Me? I come from a place you'd never guess!" With that, she looked up at the sky.
Gu Yan, seeing her gazing at the sky, was taken aback. "Could it be—"
Heavenly Palace?
Gu Yan wondered to himself, "Legend has it that the Heavenly Palace is the realm of immortals, inhabited by many powerful beings. Could this Ping'er be a member of the Heavenly Clan of the Heavenly Palace?"
Before Gu Yan could ask, Ping'er smiled and looked at him, saying, "The darkness you fear is about to descend..."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yan's expression immediately changed. "You, are you telling the truth?!"
Gu Li didn't speak because of his injuries, but stared at Ping'er with wide eyes, looking surprised.
Ping'er said, "I told you before that if you beat me, I would tell you when darkness will fall, but unfortunately you lost!"
Gu Li looked at Gu Yan with a mocking smile, as if to say: I never thought you would lose to a little girl!
Gu Yan frowned and said, "I underestimated you, which is why I let my guard down."
Ping'er chuckled and said with an air of dominance, "In the first bet, we're betting on the incantation to activate the Reincarnation Compass. As you just saw, I activated the single-direction Reincarnation Array without needing a second person or any incantation..."
"Actually, magic arrays are useless to me. Because in the face of absolute power, even divine artifacts must humble themselves and obediently obey my commands!"
Gu Yan looked at Ping'er with a serious expression and said, "I finally realize that it wasn't that I underestimated you, but that I overestimated myself and made an enemy of you!"
Ping'er smiled slightly and continued, "I can make you stronger, and I can also return the Reincarnation Compass you were guarding to you. But before that, I'd like to ask you, do you think your current abilities are sufficient to protect Thousand Absolute Mountain?"
"I..." Gu Yan was speechless. If he couldn't even defeat that little girl Ping'er, how could he possibly protect Thousand Absolute Mountain?
Having experienced the ancient war, Gu Yan knew all too well how terrifying the arrival of darkness could be!
Looking at Ping'er's smiling face, Gu Yan asked, "If you know a way, please tell me..."
"A solution?" Ping'er thought about it seriously for a moment, then looked at Gu Yan and shrugged. "If you can fight against ten thousand men, that's fine!"
Gu Yan looked at Ping'er with a face full of despair and said, "You might as well let me kill myself, it would be much more painless!"
Ping'er covered her mouth and chuckled, waving her hand and saying, "Just kidding, don't take it seriously! Besides, if you had that ability, darkness wouldn't have descended upon this world; you would have run away in fear long ago!"
Gu Yan rolled her eyes at Ping'er but said nothing.
Ping'er cleared her throat and said with a serious expression, "Ahem, if you want to deal with the darkness, you must make your own light shine brightly! And this mountain beneath our feet..."
Ping'er stamped her foot on the ground and said, "It is what blocks your light. What you need to do now is to abandon this—Thousand Absolute Mountain!"
Gu Yan was taken aback. "Abandon Thousand Absolute Mountain?"
Looking at everything in Thousand Absolute Mountain, Gu Yan's gaze darkened. "Thousand Absolute Mountain holds everything for me. If I were to abandon Thousand Absolute Mountain... what would be the point of me becoming stronger?"
What's the point of him becoming stronger if he loses his home?
"Meaning? If you become stronger, you can protect this world! But if you don't become stronger, you can only protect yourself in the face of darkness!" Ping'er said in a wise and old-fashioned tone, "Don't think you're so great, every one of your enemies is just as powerful as you!"
Gu Li was also startled when he heard this, and looked at Ping'er with a surprised expression. "This, this can't be right? Actually, we have dealt with the dark forces before."
“I know you participated in that war, but don’t be fooled by the fact that only a thousand years have passed. A thousand years is enough to change a world and countless people!” Ping’er said. “Trees in the human world change every year, how do you know that the dark world does too?”
Gu Yan was shocked. Yes, the human world is different from that dark world. It seems that the dark world is different from what it was a thousand years ago!
"Darkness descended only to obtain the artifact and your life! If neither you nor the artifact were here, they wouldn't need to cause such devastation to the world!" Ping'er said.
Gu Yan pursed her lips and said, "But if we leave, and Xiao Li comes back and doesn't see me, then he..."
“You don’t need to worry about Gu Liyan. I will give him a good opportunity. Besides, his future is promising, far better than yours or mine!” Ping’er said solemnly.
Hearing Ping'er's words, Gu Yan and Gu Li exchanged glances. Gu Li nodded to Gu Yan, and Gu Yan, after careful consideration, nodded again and said to Ping'er:
"You were able to activate the Cycle Compass all by yourself, which clearly shows that your strength far surpasses mine, so I believe you! Tell me, what should we do now?"
Ping'er's lips curled up slightly. "I'll take you to a place, a paradise for the strong, where you can become stronger in the shortest amount of time..."
Gu Li inappropriately raised his hand and said, "Wait! You mean him? What about me? Oh..."
Gu Li cried out in pain, looking pitiful, and said irritably, "That little brat, he hit me so hard!"
Seeing Gu Li's pained expression, Ping'er chuckled and said, "Sorry, my magic array can only take one person back at a time. You'll have to find a place to recover on your own!"
Gu Li froze, then hurriedly said, "Hey, hey, hey, I'm injured! You can't leave me here alone!"
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