Light Fortress
Chapter 477 - 106: Divine Embryo, Chu Ling

Chapter 477: Chapter 106: Divine Embryo, Chu Ling

The hands of two worlds never quite touched each other.

Gu Shen’s entire body leaned into the well, using only the tips of his toes to hook backwards and maintain balance.

His fingers pierced through the layers of water, disrupting the clear surface below... Yet, maintaining this pose until the water calmed again, he touched nothing at all.

There, reflected the regretful and disappointed face of the girl.

"I knew it..."

Chu Ling’s voice was soft, her eyes dimming.

"The Spirit Realm and the Material Realm... they cannot truly connect..."

The moment she reached out her hand.

A glimmer of hope had sparked in her eyes.

But now... that thread of hope had extinguished.

No matter how much she extended her hand, she was merely a virtual existence in the Spiritual World, made of code, logic, and ethereal data.

"Not necessarily."

Gu Shen, not having held Chu Ling’s hand, now seemed even more composed.

He knew that a vast divide existed between the worlds of spirit and matter.

If merely "seeing" each other through the well water was enough to reach another world... then it would be far too simple.

"You should know... I am now at ’Divine Temple Mountain’, and this wondrous realm blocks all links from the ’Deep Sea’," Gu Shen said slowly.

Chu Ling blinked in surprise.

She often heard Gu Shen mention "Divine Temple Mountain" where the Li Family ancestors cultivated the "Divine Embryo."

The next moment, she understood Gu Shen’s implication.

If this wondrous realm blocked the links from the ’Deep Sea’... how then was she speaking with Gu Shen now?

"I am quite sure... the barrier between the two worlds has been broken, maybe just partially, but it is no longer an insurmountable chasm," Gu Shen stated quietly, adding, "Otherwise, we wouldn’t be having this conversation."

Chu Ling muttered, "You mean..."

Gu Shen maintained his reaching posture, but slowly raised his head and looked outside the well.

Li Qingci walked out of the ancient house, staring blankly at Gu Shen who lay over the well trying to scoop up the moon.

There is no moon on Divine Temple Mountain.

Thus, Gu Shen was destined to scoop up nothing.

Gu Shen spoke.

His voice echoed over the heavens of Divine Temple Mountain and transmitted into the Spiritual World on the other side of the well.

"Six hundred years ago, the Li Family began cultivating the ’Divine Embryo’."

"For six hundred years, the Protectors followed the guidance of the Prayer Technique, trimming the ’Order Collapse Flower’ on Divine Mountain, irrigating the scales of Prayer Technique with their lifespans and blood. Yet, in reality, no one knows what the mythical ’Divine Embryo’ is..."

Gu Shen slowly withdrew his hand from the water.

Indeed.

He brought nothing back with him.

Just a handful of cool water, which after clenching his fingers, slipped through the gaps.

"Perhaps, six hundred years ago... the Divine Embryo had already appeared?"

This statement was meant for Li Qingci to hear.

Li Qingci remained still, stunned.

"Before I acquired the ’Lamp of Sorrow’, I always had a question I couldn’t understand... why only the spirits of the four ’Copper Human Lamps’ remained in the temple, while the vessels carrying those spirits were taken away," Gu Shen spoke softly.

The spirits of the four Copper Human Lamps being able to gather within the temple... indicated one thing; the Li Family ancestors had managed to assemble these four lamps long ago. And in a place as significant as Divine Temple Mountain, which nearly eliminates the possibility of outsiders intruding, how could these four lamps be taken out of the region?"

Following this line of thought, Li Qingci contemplated a terrifying possibility.

"You mean... these four lamps were deliberately dismantled by the ancestors..."

Gu Shen nodded.

"Do you remember your ’Prayer Dream’?"

"Of course... of course, I remember," Li Qingci’s complexion turned pale.

That was a nightmare.

She tried to spend her lifespan using the Prayer Technique to view the face of the ’Divine Embryo’, but only saw the crumbling scene of Divine Temple Mountain, and a vague figure...

Although she did not see the true face of the Divine Embryo.

It confirmed the existence of the Divine Embryo!

"Logically, the Prayer Technique became true this time, but the scales did not take your stake," Gu Shen calmly stated. "Why is this?"

The Prayer Technique is fair.

If a wish is made and the technique cannot be realized, the scales will not take the corresponding price.

Conversely, it is the same.

Once a wish is made and "fodder" presented, the moment the wish comes true, the Prayer Technique will surely take the "lifespan"!

There is only one possibility.

"My wish... failed."

Li Qingci muttered.

She clenched her teeth, unable to understand as she asked, "But... why?"

"Previously, we thought this was a future guide given by the Li Family ancestors... Is there a possibility that it indeed was a guide, but not of the future?"

Gu Shen spoke slowly, "What if... the ’Divine Embryo’ had been cultivated many years ago?"

Li Qingci’s eyes widened.

She suddenly realized... this might be a very plausible answer.

"What you saw in your dream wasn’t a future scene, but a past one. The Divine Embryo had once been incubated, but... that attempt failed miserably. The whole Divine Temple Mountain faced destruction because of the failed ’incubation’."

Gu Shen spoke steadily, "Thus, the Li ancestors killed it, and also dispersed the emotion-supplying ’Copper Human Lamps’..."

"If that’s the case, why continue with the prayers..."