Light Fortress Chapter 2006 - 56: I’ve Come to Take You Home (Part 2)
Previously on Light Fortress...
Alf stared at the Door of Light, which symbolized hope and miracles, dazed. He dared not move forward any longer; Turing’s "death" was the best example.
"No, I cannot just leave like this..."
Alf spoke calmly: "Gu Shen, regardless of whether what you said is true or not, I must ’live’ now. I need to preserve this starship for the master and follow the master’s footprints."
He stopped moving forward.
The flames spewed from the starship’s tail changed direction, and the starship began to retreat.
"Look, this is indeed the wise choice."
The Origin Will whispered, "Killing me is useless. Taking things that don’t belong to the real world outside — that’s something I cannot do, nor can anyone else."
"..."
Gu Shen stopped wasting words and came before the Origin Will, placing a hand at its Skytop position.
Chi Huo surged and poured from his palm!
This matter, the Origin Will’s words do not count! Gu Shen didn’t want to listen to or believe any word spewed from this guy’s mouth!
Whether he can bring someone out still needs to be tried himself to count!
"Ahhhh..."
Painful shrieks echoed in the silver-white world.
As Gu Shen said, once he met the Origin Will of this Dream World, he would definitely use Chi Huo to melt the latter completely!
A sky-burning fire engulfed the Origin Will!
The "human form" pierced by a long sword endured the most extreme torment in the world, hoarsely asking, "Before I die... I’m eager to know, what is the answer you’ve deduced? Have you truly deciphered the mystery of Extinguishing Candle?"
Gu Shen stared calmly at the withered figure before him.
"The master of Extinguishing Candle is indeed the Traveler Himself."
He lowered his gaze and slowly said:
"The traveller and the Netherworld King made a bet, binding their souls together... If one party breaks the oath, they are stripped of the fire seed and eternally fall into purgatory."
"This bet is one of mutual loss, for both the traveller and the Netherworld King eventually broke the oath."
"The traveller, however, managed to extract a strand of his own spirit, using the technique of ’Divine’, to evade the cruel punishment of the oath-breaking."
The traveller’s spirit became Xing Yun.
Escaping the oath-breaking matter, the Traveler God Seat actually only succeeded halfway. He managed to ’live’, yet failed to escape the ’calamity’ within the Netherworld King’s bet.
Xing Yun’s early life was full of hardships, constantly tormented by disasters!
"Actually, I’m curious why the traveller can accomplish ’oath-breaking’..."
"This contract binds the soul and body together, what means could perfectly separate spirit and flesh?"
Gu Shen said lightly, "Until I personally saw the stone tablet and completed the Ancient Text Comprehension. Only then did I realize... such a thing, Extinguishing Candle could achieve."
Extinguishing Candle pinned the real body of the Traveler God Seat firmly to the stone tablet!
And taking advantage of this opportunity, the traveller just so happened to extract his ’spirit’!
"That’s why, when I proposed to the Black Snow Mountain Giant that I would set out to kill the ’master of Extinguishing Candle’, that big guy suddenly became extremely furious."
"Because it knew that the master of Extinguishing Candle is indeed the Traveler God Seat!"
Gu Shen raised his eyebrow: "It was because of believing in the Netherworld King and making the bet when young that the Traveler God Seat ended up so miserable... Now, as the successor Netherworld King pays a visit again, discussing sensitive topics, the Black Snow Mountain Giant naturally becomes extremely angry, deciding to wage war immediately."
A subtle change emerged in the eyes of the Origin Will as it looked at Gu Shen.
"Holding Extinguishing Candle, never having entered the Five Continents, yet able to wound the traveller... These conditions are only fulfilled by the Traveler God Seat Himself."
Gu Shen laughed openly, "And if I’m not mistaken, the previous Netherworld King cooperated with the traveller because he recognized the traveller’s ’combat prowess’. The previous Netherworld King eagerly wished to lead the Undead Army back to the Five Continents for a groundbreaking reform... The greatest resistance he faced at the initial stages was Qinglong."
"Collaborating with the Traveler God Seat would provide several extra chances of success when facing Qinglong!"
Extinguishing Candle... inherently counteracting Qinglong!
"Therefore, the mystery of Extinguishing Candle can be resolved here."
Gu Shen said, "Regarding its whereabouts... I think it won’t be hard to find, as long as we find the memory of the Traveler God’s self-seal within the Spirit Sea of Tomb Ghost to locate ’Extinguishing Candle.’
"Heh..."
The Origin Will neither nodded nor shook its head concerning Gu Shen’s statements.
Due to the great distance and lack of evidence, everything could only be called "speculation."
It continued to smile and asked, "Then have you considered why you were able to comprehend the Ancient Text on the stone tablet so effortlessly?"
Gu Shen froze.
Just moments ago, he realized a very serious matter.
Everything in this Dream World is false, all fabricated by the Origin Will based on the "memories" of the outsiders.
Since all the data in this world originates from outsiders’ cognition, the "portal" ancient text on the stone tablet should not have been comprehended by Gu Shen.
It’s simple.
Zhou Jiren, Luo Er, Zhong Wei, as well as Rust Bone... none have seen this stone tablet!
Even if they had.
They also didn’t know the content of the ancient text on the stone tablet!
Gu Shen completed the comprehension... it must be because a certain "outsider" had accomplished the comprehension before Gu Shen arrived and left an imprint in this Dream World.