Light Fortress
Chapter 445 - 95: Lamp of Sorrow (Long - ! Vote for Monthly Tickets!)_2

Chapter 445: Chapter 95: Lamp of Sorrow (Long Chapter! Vote for Monthly Tickets!)_2

Li Qingci weakly smiled and said, "Even if I cannot see clearly, it doesn’t matter. Even if it’s just a blurred face I saw, I can be certain... the Divine Embryo exists."

Indeed, she was a wise and fearless woman.

She actually used the Prayer Technique to confirm the information about the "Divine Embryo."

However... the cost was a bit too great. If the divination was successful, how much of her lifespan would she have to pay?

"However, the previous divinations... all failed... The scales did not accept my offering," Li Qingci said softly. "So I added weight little by little, and yesterday, the divination showed abnormalities."

"Did it work?" Gu Shen was startled.

"No... Judging by the outcome, this Prayer Technique should still be considered a failure, as my offering was not taken," Li Qingci shook her head and said, "But... in a sense, it might have been a success. Because I saw what I wanted to see."

Gu Shen was somewhat bewildered.

"After the Prayer Technique was initiated, those four Copper Human Lamps suddenly shook violently!"

"The whole Ancient Temple plunged into chaos... At that moment, I had the illusion that the entire Divine Temple Mountain was about to collapse!"

Li Qingci’s expression was serious. "In the midst of the chaos, I saw the four Copper Human Lamps show the expressions they originally had... they were... joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure."

As expected.

These four Copper Human Lamps had their own emotions.

"Then... I saw a vague figure standing outside the ancient house..."

Li Qingci rubbed her forehead, her voice filled with agony, "That seemed to be the Divine Embryo... ’He’ stood by the well, enveloped by a mist, and I finally saw ’His’ existence as I wished. But I got no information at all, just a humanoid mist. When I woke up again, I was in my current state."

After waking up, was everything just a dream?

Indeed, it was a nightmare, but were the tremors of the Copper Human Lamps a dream, and the chaos on Divine Temple Mountain as well?

"No, it’s not without gains," Mr. Gu comforted in a soothing voice. "At least you can be certain... the Divine Embryo does exist."

Li Qingci clutched her head with a hoarse voice, "Mr. Xiao Gu, I can’t understand... Why didn’t my ’Prayer’ cost me this time? Could this be some kind of hint of a gift?"

Gu Shen silently went to a corner of the ancient house.

Just like last time.

He forced himself to "stare" at the Copper Human Lamp in the corner, looking at the faceless person greeting him with a cupped-hand salute... Staring for dozens of seconds, the resistance in his heart grew stronger and deeper.

The Chi Huo between Gu Shen’s eyebrows, stimulated, emanated on its own.

"Boom—"

There was even an evident sound of burning within the ancient house.

"Did you... see something?"

Li Qingci held her breath, not daring to disturb. After a minute, when Gu Shen moved his gaze away, she carefully spoke up.

"I think... something is strange."

Gu Shen closed his eyes, the Chi Huo around his brow still swirling.

Because he was gazing at the [Copper Human Lamp], uncontrollably, tears began to flow from the corners of his eyes...

Gu Shen slowly asked, "Miss Qingci, do the Protectors of successive generations clean the Ancient Temple house?"

Li Qingci was startled, "Of course..."

Gu Shen asked again, "What about these four Copper Human Lamps?"

Li Qingci shook her head and said, "According to the rules left by our ancestors, these four lamps are the guardians of the mountain."

The Copper Human Lamps were the most precious seals of the Ancient Temple, possessing a powerful "deterrent" mentality that made people want to look away after only a second glance!

So, for all these years, no Protector had touched the lamps.

A slight misstep and the Ancient Temple could collapse; no one would risk tampering with this relic.

Yet over the years... not a speck of dust fell on these Copper Human Lamps.

They were just too clean.

A ludicrous thought suddenly surfaced in Gu Shen’s mind.

He abruptly reached out his hand.

"!!!"

Li Qingci’s pupils contracted, instinctively wanting to speak out to stop him.

But Gu Shen’s hand moved quickly. As he raised his hand, the barrier and the wonders of the ancient house erupted with an intention to "prevent." Meanwhile, the Chi Huo enveloped his forehead as he forcibly countered this intention, pressing his palm against the wooden wall in the corner.

The flame did not extinguish.

The ancient house remained quiet.

Li Qingci looked shocked as she watched one of the four Copper Human Lamps... Gu Shen’s hand completely penetrated it.

The palm went through the lamp, through the sleeves of the Copper Humans, their robes.

It also passed through that wisp of eerily burning flame.

"This..."

"How is this possible?!"

For years, the Protectors had served the "Ancient Temple," serving these four bronze lamps meticulously, with utmost caution, not daring to be negligent.

Yet this lamp turned out to be... merely an illusion?

Is it fake?!

As a Protector of the Li Family, Li Qingci could not accept this truth.

Gu Shen, with his hand penetrating the Copper Human Lamp and resting against the wooden wall, had tears streaming down his face.

The tears before were caused by the unbearable brightness of the lamp.

But now, the tears... were because a sense of "sorrow" that couldn’t be halted welled up from the depths of Gu Shen’s heart, affecting him at a spiritual level, surging like a vast ocean.

He withdrew his hand, sat down on the floor of the ancient house, and silently watched his palm. After pulling away from the bronze lamp, the overwhelming emotions gradually receded.