Eleven clusters of eerie flame burned silently within the spheres, each a completely different color!
Some were crimson as blood, some black as ink, some pallid as frost, some an uncanny violet, and some green as ghostfire...
They corresponded to—
The seven emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, and desire!
The six desires: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and thought!
Every flicker of emotion and every stirring of desire among living beings gave the lamp another measure of fuel!
Only the last two spheres remained dim and lifeless.
They represented the final two portions of authority this Immortal King Artifact had yet to unlock!
"Once I light the last two..."
"I can refine this lamp completely and ascend once more to the Immortal King's throne!"
A look of ruthless certainty and madness surfaced on Gu Ming's ashen face!
Then...
He slowly closed his eyes. His withered lips moved as he began chanting ancient, arcane incantations that seemed to predate Primordial Chaos itself!
"When the seven emotions rise, the sea of desire surges!"
"Joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, desire—burn as seven flames before the lamp!"
"Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and thought—boil into six bowls of oil within it!"
"Let a mortal thought stir, and the Soul Lamp comes of its own accord..."
"All beings are kindling; all Daos are firewood..."
Hum! Hum! Hum!
One line of the incantation after another left his lips.
Strangely...
The power contained in those words surpassed the laws of the entire Great Desolate Realm!
It was the power of the laws of the Immortal Dao!
With every syllable of the incantation, the laws of heaven and earth throughout the Great Desolate Realm trembled!
As though—
Before that Immortal Dao incantation, the laws of the Great Desolate Realm were a shallow stream gazing up