Light Fortress
Chapter 388 - 70 Copper Human Lamp (Two in One)_2

Chapter 388: Chapter 70 Copper Human Lamp (Two in One)_2

"The use of these bronze lamps is just to light them?" Gu Shen frowned.

"These are boundary objects that can’t be moved," Li Qingci shook her head, "Black Flower entwines the ancient house, and once the Copper Human Lamp is moved, the ’balance’ inside the room might be broken."

She looked at Gu Shen and asked with a smile, "Have you noticed anything unusual?"

"These people... have lost their faces."

Gu Shen pointed at the bronze lamp and said seriously, "Were the Copper Human Lamps like this when you brought them back?"

"I’m not sure about that." Li Qingci also stared at the bronze lamp for a while, feeling a bit dizzy. She averted her gaze and softly said, "If one day, the ’Black Flower’ of the house can be cleared, then perhaps these bronze lamps could be taken to the outside world."

By then, this puzzle might find its answer.

"By the way."

Li Qingci came to the center of the ancient house.

She slowly sat down cross-legged, looked up earnestly and said, "For the daily ’Prayer,’ I always do it here... For some reason, using the Prayer Technique in the center of the four directions indeed has a ’half the effort, double the effect’ Spiritual Sense. I always feel that somehow, luck is added to me."

Is it the effect of the Copper Human Lamp?

Gu Shen saw that the spot where Li Qingci sat was exactly where the four Copper Human lamps bowed their heads.

Due to the ancient talismanic scripts and the Copper Human boundary, those disordered original essences outside the ancient house couldn’t enter this room, and even though Gu Shen released Chi Huo trying to sense, he could not detect anything unusual in the center of the room...

It might really be the elusive "luck" at play.

Or perhaps.

It was the ancestor of the Li Family, who was immensely powerful.

"If there really is a ’Divine Embryo,’ where would it incubate?"

Gu Shen suddenly thought of a question.

What does the ’Divine Embryo,’ which the Li Family has prayed for six hundred years and expended so much effort to incubate, actually look like?

Li Qingci shook her head, unable to answer the question.

Divine Embryo...

Does such a thing really exist?

"Perhaps it fell from the sky, or maybe, it grew from the flower bed." She sighed softly, "The top of the mountain is only so big; if there really comes a day... where else could the Divine Embryo emerge from?"

"If there really is a Divine Embryo, it surely can’t just burst out of a rock."

Gu Shen rubbed his temples, somewhat helplessly said, "Besides, I just checked, and there are no such rocks on Divine Temple Mountain..."

Li Qingci couldn’t help but laugh.

"People can’t be created out of thin air."

She stood up, pushed open the door of the ancient house, and looked at the dark clouds in the distance, softly saying, "No matter how powerful the Prayer Technique is, Mr. Xiao Gu, you were also born eighteen years ago... Cause and effect, cause and effect, how could a ’Divine Embryo’ possibly appear out of nowhere in this world?"

"It was in this position... Mr. Gu Changzhi stood for one night."

Li Qingci came to the front of the flower bed.

This was the spot on Divine Temple Mountain summit with the broadest view, easily displaying the entire "mountain realm" scene, with wisps of dark clouds swirling in the distance and the whole Divine Temple Mountain shrouded in darkness, resembling the underworld.

"He plucked a Black Flower."

Li Qingci squatted down, smiling and said, "Then the remaining flowers were pruned by my ’Prayer Technique’ into this flower bed. These flowers look very neat, right?"

Gu Shen nodded.

That these disorderly original essences could be guided by the "Prayer Technique" was already a very miraculous thing.

But to form a flower bed was also somewhat too incredible.

"They are a bit unusual."

Li Qingci thought for a moment and said, "When I used the Prayer Technique to guide the floral arrangement of the entire Divine Temple Mountain... I felt that this area, where Mr. Gu Changzhi once stood, exhibited something unusual."

"Unusual?"

"From these Black Flowers... I felt an overflowing emotion," Li Qingci lowered her voice, "It seems to be... fear."

Fear?

These Black Flowers, afraid of Gu Changzhi?

"Compared to the other Black Flowers, these flowers are remarkably well-behaved and obedient, easily forming this flower bed with just a trim of the Prayer Technique." Li Qingci reflected, "I guess... the flower that Mr. Gu Changzhi plucked was a sort of ’warning’ to them?"

And they really understood.

"Mr. Xiao Gu... I hope that one day, you can become someone like Mr. Gu Changzhi."

Li Qingci suddenly said such a thing.

Gu Shen was somewhat taken aback.

He paused, then earnestly said, "If Mr. Gu Changzhi is a mountain, then I am... currently nothing but a grain of sand."

"People do not recognize the towering tree until it reaches the clouds,"

Li Qingci gestured with her hand and earnestly said, "Mr. Gu Changzhi, a long time ago... also started from a tiny grain of sand."

After a slight pause.

She said something Gu Shen hadn’t expected: "For the Protector of the Li Family... Divine Temple Mountain is already vast, so vast that its edges cannot be seen."

So many years, so many guardians, so many sacrifices...

"For Mr. Gu Changzhi, maybe Divine Temple Mountain is just a mountain."

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

Of course, he understood what Li Qingci meant...

As vast as Divine Temple Mountain was, it was ultimately just a mystical place.

Beyond Divine Temple Mountain, there were even higher mountains.

For those who held the "flame" of the Divine Throne, what they needed to see was not just a mountain, but the far beyond.

However, the journey had to be taken one step at a time.

For Gu Shen,

the mountain before him was already high enough.

"From now on... I will come once about every week,"

Gu Shen said seriously, "I want to start from the mountaintop, clearing these Black Flowers..."

Li Qingci thought for a moment, "So you want to first ensure the safety of the Divine Temple?"

"Exactly."

Gu Shen nodded and said, "The Divine Temple is of utmost importance. This place has been fervently protected by the Ancestor Li six hundred years ago. Perhaps after the Black Flowers on the mountaintop are cleared, we can find some truths from six hundred years ago from the Copper Human Lamp."

"I agree."

This was indeed the most correct course of action.

Li Qingci slowly bowed, her voice solemn, "Qingci... thanks Mr. Xiao Gu once again."

...

...

At the foot of Divine Temple Mountain.

Li Qingsui sat in the back seat of the car with her arms crossed, nodding off slightly, her little head bobbing back and forth like a pecking chick.

With a "bang,"

the sound of the car door roused her from her drowsy state.

Li Qingsui rubbed her eyes and muttered, "Why did it take so long..."

The trip to Divine Temple Mountain this time, including catching up and climbing, had taken a couple of hours.

It was indeed a long time.

Outside Divine Temple Mountain, it must be almost evening by now.

Uncle Gao quietly drove the car.

"Is a long time not good? We’re paid to work here, the longer the work time, the harder we work!"

Gu Shen coughed and said seriously, "Actually, I climbed to the mountaintop and had a look at your family’s ancestral house."

"You went to the Divine Temple?"

Li Qingsui suddenly became tense, "Why would my sister take you there?"

"Rare,"

Gu Shen pursed his lips and said, "The place is bare, I wouldn’t want to go in again even if you asked me to."

Hearing this, Li Qingsui became displeased.

"Bah! Bare it may be for you!"

"Do you know how precious that Copper Human Lamp is, can you afford it if you damage it!"

She lunged over, fists and claws ready to strike, but Gu Shen turned and held her off with two fingers to her forehead.

"How can the future head of the Li Family behave like this?"

Gu Shen, somewhat exasperated, said, "Look at your sister, then look at yourself!"

These words were very familiar.

Li Qingsui had heard them countless times from her childhood.

After her sister went to Divine Temple Mountain, she never heard them again... and from that day forward, she stood in the light, becoming the future heir of the Li Family.

From then on,

she began to rein in her true self, acting the part of a proper Li Family Master.

So, on her first day in Snow Forbidden City, in front of Gong Zi and Mu Nan, she displayed an exceedingly "polite" and "elegant" demeanor...

Thanks to Uncle Gao’s company,

Gong Zi and Mu Nan treated her with utmost respect; after all, this young girl was the Young Master of the Li Family.

In reality, she was just a sixteen-year-old girl.

"That’s just how I am! Got a problem with that?!"

Li Qingsui was still all fists and claws, "Careful, or I might curse you with the Prayer Technique to have a lifetime of..."

Gu Shen simply said, "I have a way to liberate the Copper Human Lamp from the Divine Temple."

Uncle Gao: "???"

Li Qingsui: "I wish you a lifetime of worry-free prosperity, smooth sailing, and soaring success!"