Light Fortress
Chapter 446 - 95: Lamp of Sorrow (Long - ! Vote for Monthly Tickets!)_3

Chapter 446: Chapter 95: Lamp of Sorrow (Long Chapter! Vote for Monthly Tickets!)_3

Four bronze lamps.

Symbolizing... happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy.

The one just now must have been sorrow.

Immediately thereafter, he reached out to touch the second bronze lamp... which was still an illusion.

Gu Shen couldn’t help but touch the second lamp.

His body began to tremble, his chest seemingly ignited with raging anger.

Gu Shen quickly withdrew his hand, and in his heart he chanted the words "control anger" dozens of times, then he looked towards the lamps in the other two corners... and also towards Li Qingci, asking, "If you don’t mind, we should perhaps try the other two lamps as well..."

Li Qingci’s expression was complex.

Actually, she already had a rough idea.

Picking any two at random had yielded such results... the remaining two lamps were likely also illusions.

After all these years, had not one Protector realized... the Copper Human Lamps placed in the Divine Temple Mountain, thought to be supreme seals, were actually just virtual projections!

Seeing that Li Qingci offered no objections, Gu Shen reached out and touched the third lamp, his eyebrows lifting as he said cheerfully, "This one... is happiness."

On the other side, Li Qingci also gave it a try.

With her back turned to Gu Shen, she forcibly resisted the "repulsion" thoughts, reached through the copper human lamp, and touched the wooden hut’s wall. Her figure suddenly halted as if she had touched an electric shock, and she jerked her hand back.

The fourth lamp... was also an illusion.

Gu Shen found Li Qingci’s reaction curious.

Happiness, anger, sorrow, joy... this fourth lamp should be "joy," but Gu Shen didn’t quite understand how, if they represented the same range of emotions, happiness and joy could be distinguished from each other?

Her delicate fingers recoiled as if shocked by electricity.

Li Qingci stared at her own bare hands, speaking softly, "Happiness, anger, sorrow, fear, love, disgust, desire, these seven are intrinsic... the ’joy’ contained in this fourth lamp is actually ’desire’ and ’love.’

Gu Shen was taken aback.

The fourth lamp... desire and love?

No wonder Li Qingci’s reaction upon touching it was so intense; the emotions in those four lamps were indeed too intense. Once one touched the illusion, one couldn’t help but resonate with them involuntarily.

After taking two deep breaths forcefully.

Li Qingci regained her composure.

She slowly turned around, looked at Gu Shen, and with a sorrowful voice, said, "Mr. Xiao Gu... are these... all fake..."

All these years, only four shadows of light were placed in the sanctuary.

This... is indeed a joke.

"No."

Gu Shen shook his head, narrowing his eyes as he looked again at the four lamps, murmuring, "I don’t think they are fake. On the contrary... I think they are real."

Li Qingci was somewhat puzzled.

"The flames that light these four lamps are normal flames... If the lamps did not exist, or could not carry the flame, or support the ancient house, then the Protectors over the generations would have noticed clues." Gu Shen slowly said, "But they function normally; in other words, even if only illusions remain, they still form an entire complete ’Miniature Realm,’ enabling the sanctuary to stand amidst the Black Flower for a hundred years."

"The reason I became suspicious... was because of the emotions you mentioned."

"All Cultivators, no matter how powerful, have to ensure the coordination, unification of spirit and material... This, even the ’Divine Throne,’ cannot avoid."

Li Qingci listened and slowly nodded.

"Hold on!"

All of a sudden, she realized something, murmuring, "... Could it be that these four lamps are purely... spirit?"

Gu Shen smiled with satisfaction, "Yes. These four lamps are indeed purely ’spirit.’"

They carried material.

Yet they transcended material.

"This actually indirectly confirms that the warning left by Ancestor Li was correct... These four lamps’ spirit can only be preserved in a ’Miniature Realm’ such as this, so we were actually destined from the start to not be able to take these four lamps away."

Gu Shen shrugged, saying, "Who can take pure spirit away?"

Saying this, he furrowed his brows.

No... something wasn’t right.

Li Qingci spoke quietly, "Spirit and material should originally be unified."

If these four lamps retained their spirit atop Divine Temple Mountain... then what about their physical world counterparts!

"If outside of the Miniature Realm, there exists a corporeal body of the Copper Human Lamps... then finding that body and placing it back inside the house..." The final missing link found its completion here as Gu Shen murmured, "Perhaps, this seal will truly be complete."

Without spirit,

the Copper Human Lamps were just scrap metal.

"Exactly..."

Li Qingci’s expression had not yet completely recovered from the shock, when she remembered something else.

She moistened her extremely dry lips, her voice a bit hoarse, "Have you ever thought about why the ancestor placed these four copper human lamps here?"

"Happiness... anger... sorrow... joy..."

These are actually the four most fundamental human emotions.

And all humans, from birth, have the capacity to perceive happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy.

Of course... there are exceptions.

Gu Shen thought of the most probable explanation, "This is for... incubating the Divine Embryo?"

Li Qingci slowly nodded.

"I am thinking that the scenes we just saw... are likely a reminder left for future generations by the ancestor. The reason I did not pay a price is that the price had already been paid by predecessors." She gave a pale smile and continued, "Previous Protectors used the Prayer Technique to send this important reminder to the ’correct era,’ which is... the era for incubating the Divine Embryo."