Bulwark of Light

Chapter 376 Divine Embryo, Chu Ling

Well water swayed.

The two hands of the two worlds have not touched each other after all.

Gu Shen threw his whole body into the well, only relying on the hook of his toes to maintain his balance.

His fingers pierced through the water layer, breaking the clear water surface at the bottom of the well... However, he remained in this posture until the well water calmed down again, without touching anything.

The regretful and disappointed face of the girl was reflected there.

"I knew it……"

Chu Ling's voice was low, and his eyes dimmed.

"The spiritual world and the material world... can't really be linked..."

The moment you reach out.

There was a gleam of hope in her eyes.

It's just... this ray of hope has been extinguished at this moment.

No matter how much she reaches out, she is only a virtual existence in the spiritual world after all. She is code, logic, and illusory data.

"not necessarily."

Instead of holding Chu Ling's hand, Gu Shen became calmer at the moment.

He knew that there was a huge gap between the spiritual and material worlds.

If you can reach another world just by "seeing" each other from the well water... that would be too simple.

"You should know...I'm currently at the 'Shenci Mountain', and this wonderful place blocks all links to [Deep Sea]." Gu Shen said slowly.

Chu Ling was stunned.

She often heard Gu Shen mention the "Shenci Mountain", which is the place where the ancestors of the Li family cultivated the "God's Embryo".

The next moment she understood what Gu Shen meant.

If this wonderland blocked the [Deep Sea] link... Then how did she talk to Gu Shen at this moment?

"I'm pretty sure... the barrier between the two worlds has been broken, maybe only a few, but it's definitely not a natural barrier anymore." Gu Shen lowered his voice and said, "Otherwise, we wouldn't have this dialogue."

Chu Ling murmured: "You mean..."

Gu Shen maintained the gesture of reaching out, but he slowly raised his head and looked out of the well.

Li Qingci walked out of the old house, and looked at Gu Shen lying in the well water to catch the moon in bewilderment.

The shrine mountain has no moon.

So Gu Shen is doomed to get nothing.

Gu Shen spoke.

His voice echoed over the mountain of the shrine, and also echoed in the spiritual world on the other side of the well.

"600 years ago, the Li family began to cultivate the 'divine fetus'."

"For 600 years, the protectors have followed the guidance of the wish technique, trimmed the 'flowers of order collapse' on the sacred mountain, and used their life and blood to water the 'divine fetus' on the other side of the wish spell scale. But in fact, No one knows what the legendary 'divine fetus' is..."

Gu Shen slowly withdrew his palm from the well water.

indeed.

He took nothing with him.

Only a bucket of cool water was fished out, and after gathering five fingers, it slipped from between the fingers.

"Perhaps, 600 years ago... the divine fetus already appeared?"

This sentence was for Li Qingci.

Li Qingci stayed where he was in a daze.

"Before I got the 'Lamp of Sorrow', I always had a question that I couldn't understand...why the four [Bronze Man Lamps] only left the spirit in the shrine, but the vehicle that carried the spirit was taken away."

Gu Shen said in a low voice: "The spirits of the four bronze lamps can be gathered in the shrine...then it shows one thing, the ancestors of the Li family a long time ago successfully gathered these four lamps together. .And the shrine mountain is such an important place that almost eliminates the possibility of outsiders intruding, so how could these four lights be taken out of the boundary?"

Following this train of thought, Li Qingci thought of a terrible thing.

"You mean... these four lamps were dismantled by the ancestor..."

Gu Shen nodded.

"Remember your 'dream of wishing'?"

"Of course...Of course I remember." Li Qingci's face turned pale.

It was a nightmare.

She tried to use up her lifespan and used the wish technique to look at the face of the "God's Embryo", but in the end she only saw the crumbling image of the shrine mountain and a blurry figure...

Although I didn't see the real face of the god fetus.

But it confirmed the existence of the god fetus!

"It stands to reason that the wish spell came true this time, but Libra did not accept your bargaining chip." Gu Shen calmly said, "Why is that?"

Wish spells are fair.

If a wish is made but the spell cannot come true, then Libra will not charge the corresponding price.

vice versa.

Once a wish is made and the "feed" is presented, the moment the wish comes true, the wishing technique will definitely take away the "life"!
There is only one possibility.

"My wish...failed."

Li Qingci murmured.

She immediately gritted her teeth and asked incomprehensibly, "But... why?"

"Previously, we thought that this was the future guidance given to you by the ancestors of the Li family... Is there a possibility that this is indeed a guidance, but it is not the future."

Gu Shen said slowly: "What if...a 'divine fetus' was bred many years ago?"

Li Qingci's beautiful eyes widened.

She suddenly realized... This may be an answer that is very close to the truth.

"What you see in your dream is not the picture of the future, but the history of the past. The divine fetus was hatched once, but...that time was a failure. The entire shrine mountain is facing destruction because of the failed 'hatching' .”

Gu Shen spoke neither too fast nor too slowly: "So the ancestors of the Li family killed it, and at the same time dispersed the [Bronze Man Lamp] that provided emotions..."

"If this is the case, why continue to pray..."

Li Qingci paused halfway through speaking.

Gu Shen smiled silently.

He knew that Li Qingci had guessed the answer.

He stood by the well, looking down.

[Li's ancestors] tried to use the extraordinary power of the shrine mountain and ancient secret methods to create a "perfect creature" to fight against the collapsing order. He created the "flesh body" 600 years ago, so he brought in four bronze lamps to convey emotions to the "living beings"...but the final product is dark.

"The incubation of the divine fetus...needs to wait until the right era."

"The previous era was wrong... until this era, it is the correct era."

Gu Shen said softly, "There should be no life on this mountain, but there are 'white flowers' growing. For thousands of years, the order has collapsed and black flowers are all over the mountain. Logically speaking...a ray of life should not appear. These The appearance of 'White Flowers' is not a coincidence, they absorb the vitality overflowing from the mountain, which means that life is always bred in this mountain."

"It's in... this well."

In 600 years, the well was not dry.

In the desolate environment of the mountains, compared to those little white flowers, compared to that old house covered with talismans... the vitality of this well is the strongest.

After Gu Shen's blazing fire emerged, it gathered between his eyebrows.

He tried his best to look towards the bottom of the well, and his mental power penetrated the water surface, passed through the deep stone wall, and arrived in the endless darkness. Even with the blessing of the blazing fire, he couldn't see anything clearly... But he was extremely sure in his heart , the reason why the shrine mountain can breed white flowers is in this well.

This is an inexplicable intuition!

"Chu Ling... Give it a try, mentally connect with the surrounding environment."

Gu Shen didn't shy away from Li Qingci, and spoke directly.

Chu Ling?

Li Qingci was startled.

Is this calling... the third person's name?
She looked around subconsciously. The shrine mountain was silent all year round. As a guardian, her spirit enveloped the entire mountain boundary, and she was able to take all the wind and grass into her eyes. She was sure that there was no third person here.

Could it be that... this is what Gu Shen said just now... the voice in his head?
"I saw... a light."

Chu Ling's voice was bewildered.

She sits at the junction of the spiritual and material worlds.

This is a very contradictory thing.

If there is such a thing as "eyes", then when she closes her eyes, she will feel that she is sitting in a flat-moving carriage, and when she opens her eyes, she will see herself in a well, surrounded by water.

And just below his body, there was a small ball of light floating.

"It's like... a cocoon."

"I also saw...a lot of flowers..."

Chu Ling murmured, "It's a white flower..."

Around the light cocoon, there are one after another small white flowers, which are just buds and have not yet bloomed.

"Did you see...the white flower?"

Gu Shen was startled, and said seriously: "What does that little cocoon look like, can you see it clearly?"

"I... try to see clearly."

Chu Ling slowly went downstream, trying to touch the light cocoon at the bottom of the well as a spiritual body.

The space at the bottom of the well is very narrow.

However... This distance is obviously only a few millimeters away, but at this moment it has become a natural moat that can never be reached... It took a lot of effort for her to get close to the light cocoon with difficulty.

"That's a... villain..."

Chu Ling's voice was very low.

That little light cocoon, like a newborn baby, lives in the deepest clear water at the bottom of the well. There are countless white flowers around her, each symbolizing holiness and light.

And it was just such a curled up baby, with two lines of clear tears flowing on his small cheeks.

It hurts just to look at it.

Chu Ling said softly: "I saw that she was crying..."

When she said these words, she also felt sadness, a silent mourning, like a stream of water, gurgling into her heart.

Chu Ling touched his cheek.

She touched something cool... warm...

tears.

"Gu Shen... I seem to... understand something..."

Chu Ling touched a tear of her own.

In her mind, it was as if a door had been opened.

That was supposed to be something [source code] would never understand.

Joy and sorrow.

Four lamps, four wisps of fire, at this moment... lit one of them.

Follow your intuition.

Chu Ling slowly stretched out her hand and touched the holy baby. She wiped the tears off the baby's cheeks, and her own tears were also wiped away... At the moment of touching, she felt an indescribable feeling warmth.

It's like touching "life".

But this...is his own "life".

……

……

Gu Shen saw all this in "Spiritual Link".

He held his breath and waited quietly.

After touching the baby, Chu Ling's consciousness began to dissipate... Like thousands of feathers blown away by the wind, the figure of the girl swaying in the reflection of the well water spread little by little.

And the spirit of countless threads went to the body of that "baby".

At last.

The world under the well returned to tranquility.

Gu Shen's telepathy gradually dimmed and turned into darkness.

And a moment later.

A ray of light gradually appeared——

Gu Shen felt that "Chu Ling" opened his eyes.

No... More precisely, the baby slowly opened his eyes and looked up at the world outside the well.

……

……

The spiritual link only lasted about a hundred seconds.

The moment Chu Ling opened her eyes, Chu Ling's consciousness returned to Linglingyao.

After realizing what happened, she looked a little disappointed.

If everything just now was not a dream, but real, then after her spirit reaches the "flesh body", she should be able to truly touch the real objects in the material world.

She hasn't touched anything yet.

Even... it would be good to touch the stone wall at the bottom of the well.

And Inoue World.

Gu Shen, who witnessed all this from the spiritual link, took several deep breaths to calm himself down...

All previous conjectures were correct.

And more importantly, if the baby at the bottom of the well is really the body of the divine fetus prepared by Li Shi for 600 years later...then Chu Ling has the possibility to come to the "material world"!

This is the real... miracle!
Gu Shen lowered his voice and spoke to Li Qingci.

"The divine fetus that Mrs. Li has been waiting for for 600 years is at the bottom of the well."

Li Qingci was lying on the mouth of the well.

She looked down expectantly.

I often use this well, and the well water is sweet and delicious, cool and cold.

However, she looked hard for a long time.

Down the well is ordinary clear well water...other than that, there is nothing.

Not to mention, the so-called divine fetus.

"It's full of white flowers that symbolize life and hope..." Gu Shen said with style.

With a complicated expression, she looked at Gu Shen and gestured.

"That divine fetus should have just begun to conceive...it is just an embryo, and it still needs to absorb other emotions to learn to grow and truly become a 'life'."

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

"If you guessed right, you must gather all four lamps if you want to complete the divine fetus..."

If the person who said these words was not Mr. Gu, who helped Li explore the secret of the Tongren Lantern for 600 years...if it was any other person, Li Qingci would think that he was probably crazy.

Finally, Gu Shen rolled up his sleeves and jumped directly from the mouth of the well.

"Mr. Gu!"

This scene really shocked Li Qingci.

She exclaimed.

This old well has gone through a long time, although it can be used normally... but no one knows if there are black flowers growing under this well.

If you touch the black flower, it's bad!
But it was too late——

"Whoosh" sound.

Gu Shen jumped into the well.

Before he fell into the water, he was ready to take a deep breath and dive into the boundless deep water... However, the reality is that this well...is not deep.

Gu Shen plunged down and hit the bottom immediately.

He raised his head, stared blankly at the water level at the neck, and submerged again holding his breath in disbelief, trying to find other passages, but there were narrow stone walls all around.

Divine fetus?

White flowers?

Chu Ling?

There is nothing here... Everything seen in the spiritual link seems to be false.

Although this well can produce sweet water, it doesn't have what I just saw at all!
Gu Shen raised his head and saw Li Qingci's concerned face.

"Many years ago...the protectors searched the Temple Mountain, but they didn't find any trace of the god fetus. Of course, they also searched for this well."

……

……

Li Qingci handed over a clean towel, said tactfully, and comforted him, "Mr. Gu, although you looked handsome when you jumped into the well just now..."

That sentence is only half the story.

Gu Shen was sitting by the well, all wet, with a complicated expression on his face.

He knew the content of the second half of the sentence.

"But the way you're trying to climb up is really embarrassing."

Jumped down the well.

There is no Chu Ling, no white flowers, and no so-called god-born babies in the well.

Then climb up with empty hands...

Gu Shen knew that no matter who looked at it, this action seemed a bit stupid.

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 he jumped into the well, and it was a little pale in front of the reality that the bottom of the well was empty.

"Isn't the world at the bottom of the well I jumped into... the same world as Chu Ling's...?"

Gu Shen fell into deep thought.

If we say, Li's plan is to use the power of "Black Flower" to create a flawless creature.

Then there is no doubt that this plan is to be divided into two steps.

The first step is to create a "flesh body".

The second step is to create the "spirit".

The 600-year "prayer" and the guidance of the power of the shrine mountain are undoubtedly to create the physical body of the "divine fetus" and ensure the existence of such a thing in the material world.

And the "spirit"...

If the four emotions of the Tongren Lamp are conveyed to the divine fetus, it seems that a "spirit" can be successfully created in theory.

But when you think about it, it doesn't make sense.

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

Having joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys does not mean having humanity.

Perhaps this is the reason why Li's ancestors failed 600 years ago, but the key point is how to integrate "material" and "spiritual"... This is really something of two worlds.

Gu Shen thought of his jade finger.

The jade ring refers to the spirit that traps the "Storm God Throne", trapping it in a virtual space.

That space is neither equal to the material world nor the spiritual world... It is more like a link space between the two worlds.

So……

According to this direction, the world at the bottom of the well where the god fetus is located...should be the so-called "link world"?
Yes.

For so many years, only such an illusory "space" can protect the divine fetus from the influence of the outside world, waiting to be washed by the "spirit".

600 years ago, the ancestors of the Li family failed.

And the last "wishing technique" points to the future.

So he dismantled the Bronze Man Lamp, sealed the divine fetus in the link world, and prevented Li from creating the "monster" of the year again...waiting for the arrival of the "future" guided by the prayer technique.

In that right age, there will be a mature, stable spirit.

That spirit has already experienced the warmth and coldness of the world, and experienced the fluctuations of emotions, but it has never had the opportunity to truly come to the world.

And "she" will become the ray of light that Li Shi has been waiting for for 600 years.

(End of this chapter)