Light Fortress
Chapter 479 - 106: Divine Embryo, Chu Ling_3

Chapter 479: Chapter 106: Divine Embryo, Chu Ling_3

The moment Chu Ling opened her eyes, consciousness returned to triple-zero-one.

After realizing what had happened, her expression was somewhat disappointed.

If everything that had just occurred wasn’t a dream but reality, then after her spirit reached the "flesh," she should have been able to truly touch the material objects of the material realm.

She hadn’t touched anything yet.

Even... touching the stone walls at the bottom of the well would have been good.

And as for the world above the well.

Having witnessed all this through Spiritual Link, Gu Shen took several deep breaths before he managed to calm himself down...

His previous guesses were all correct.

What’s more important was that if the infant at the bottom of the well was truly the Divine Embryo prepared by the Li Family for six hundred years later... then Chu Ling might have the potential to come to the "material realm!"

This was the real... Divine Miracle!

Gu Shen lowered his voice and spoke to Li Qingci.

"The Divine Embryo the Li Family has been waiting for six hundred years is at the bottom of the well," he intoned with an air of certainty.

Li Qingci lay prone over the edge of the well.

She looked down eagerly, filled with anticipation.

This well was frequently used by her; its water was sweet and refreshing, cool and sharp.

However, she looked hard for a long time.

Beneath the well was just ordinary clear water... nothing else.

Let alone the so-called Divine Embryo.

"It’s also covered in white flowers that symbolize life and hope..." Gu Shen said with a flourish.

Her expression complex, she watched Gu Shen gesture.

"That Divine Embryo must have just started to be nurtured... It’s merely an embryo right now and still needs to absorb other emotions to learn and grow, to truly become a ’living being.’"

"The Lamp of Sorrow made her feel sadness..."

"If I’m not mistaken, to complete the Divine Embryo, you must gather all four lamps..."

If the person saying all this weren’t Mr. Xiao Gu, who had helped the Li Family unravel the secret of the Copper Human Lamp over six hundred years... Li Qingci probably would have thought he was most likely insane if it were anyone else.

Finally, Gu Shen rolled up his sleeves and jumped straight down from the edge of the well.

"Mr. Xiao Gu!"

Li Qingci was truly startled by this scene.

She exclaimed in alarm.

This old well, despite its use throughout the long years... no one knew whether Black Flowers grew at its bottom.

If he touched the Black Flowers, that would be bad!

But it was already too late—

With a "whoosh,"

Gu Shen jumped into the well.

He had taken a deep breath before the fall, ready to plunge into the boundless depths... but the reality was that this well... wasn’t deep at all.

Gu Shen dove in, only to immediately hit the bottom.

He looked up, staring at the water level around his neck, then held his breath to dive again, searching for any other passage, but he was surrounded by narrow stone walls.

Divine Embryo?

White flowers?

Chu Ling?

There was nothing here... Everything seen through the Spiritual Link seemed to be an illusion.

The well could produce sweet water, but it simply did not contain the things he had just seen!

Gu Shen looked up to see the concerned face of Li Qingci.

"Many years ago... the Protectors searched all over Divine Temple Mountain and couldn’t find a trace of the Divine Embryo. Of course, they searched this well too."

...

...

Li Qingci offered him a clean towel and spoke tactfully, trying to console him, "Mr. Xiao Gu, even though you looked very handsome jumping into the well just now..."

She only spoke half the sentence.

Sitting wet at the edge of the well, Gu Shen had a complex expression.

He knew what the other half of the sentence was.

"But you looked really awkward trying to climb back up."

He had jumped into the well.

There was no Chu Ling in the well, no white flowers, and certainly no so-called Divine Embryo infant.

Then, with empty hands, he climbed back up...

Gu Shen knew that to anyone watching, the act seemed somewhat foolish.

It was difficult for him to explain to Li Qingci the reason for jumping into the well; in fact, he had already explained it before jumping, but in the face of the reality of the empty well, it seemed rather feeble.

"Could the world at the bottom of the well that I jumped into... and the one where Chu Ling is... not be the same world?"

Gu Shen was lost in thought.

If the Li Family’s plan was to use the power of the Black Flower to create a flawless living being,

then undoubtedly, the plan had to be carried out in two steps.

The first step, to create a "flesh."

The second step, to create a "spirit."

The six hundred years of "Prayer" and the guiding power of Divine Temple Mountain were unquestionably for the creation of the Divine Embryo’s flesh, ensuring the existence of such a thing in the material realm.

As for "spirit"...

If the emotions from the four Copper Human Lamps were transmitted to the Divine Embryo, theoretically, it seemed likely to successfully create a "spirit."

But upon closer thought, this didn’t seem reasonable.

Because its thinking, its consciousness... seemed all to be lacking.

Having joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness didn’t equate to having humanity.

Perhaps this is why the Ancestor Li failed six hundred years ago, but the key point was, how to fuse "material" and "spirit" together... these were truly things of two different worlds.

Gu Shen thought of his jade thumb ring.

The jade thumb ring trapped the spirit of the Storm God’s Throne into a virtual space.

That space neither equaled the material realm nor the Spirit Realm... it was more like a Linking Realm between the two worlds.

So...

Following this logic, the world at the bottom of the well where the Divine Embryo resided... could that be the so-called "Linking Realm"?

That’s it.

Only such a vague "space" could have protected the Divine Embryo from the outside world over the years, waiting to receive the cleansing of the "spirit."

Six hundred years ago, Ancestor Li had failed.

And the last "Prayer Technique" was directed toward the future.

So, he took apart the Copper Human Lamp and sealed the Divine Embryo within the Linking Realm, to prevent the Li Family from creating the same "monster" as before... waiting for the "future" indicated by the Prayer Technique to arrive.

In that correct era, there would be a mature, stable spirit.

That spirit had already experienced the warmth and chill of the world, felt the fluctuations of emotions but had never had the chance to truly descend to the human realm.

And "she" would become the glimmer of light the Li Family had been waiting for over six hundred years.