Barrier of Light

The well water swayed.

The two hands in the two worlds still haven't touched each other after all.

Gu Shen's entire body fell into the well, using only his toes to maintain balance.

His fingers passed through the water layer, disturbing the clear water at the bottom of the well... However, he maintained this position until the well water returned to calm, without touching anything.

The girl's regretful and disappointed face was reflected there.

"I knew it……"

Chu Ling's voice was low and his eyes became dim.

"The spiritual world and the material world...cannot be truly linked..."

The moment you reach out.

Her eyes lit up with hope.

But...this ray of hope has been extinguished at this moment.

No matter how much you stretch out your hand, she is only a virtual existence in the spiritual world. She is code, logic, and ethereal data.

"not necessarily."

Without 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 in the well water... that would be too simple.

"You should know... I am currently in the 'Shrine Mountain', and this wonderful realm blocks all links to the [Deep Sea]." Gu Shen spoke slowly.

Chu Ling was stunned.

She often heard Gu Shen mention the "Holy Temple Mountain", which was the place where Li's ancestors cultivated the "holy fetus".

The next moment she understood what Gu Shen meant.

If this wonderful realm blocked the link to the [Deep Sea]... then how was she talking 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 no longer a natural chasm." Gu Shen lowered his voice and said, "Otherwise, there wouldn't be our conversation this time."

Chu Ling murmured: "What do you mean..."

Gu Shen kept his hand, but slowly raised his head and looked out of the well.

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

There is no moon in the Temple Mountain.

So Gu Shen was destined to be unable to earn anything.

Gu Shen spoke.

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

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

"The guardians of the past six hundred years have followed the guidance of the wishing technique, pruning the 'Flower of Collapse of Order' on the sacred mountain, using their lifespan and blood to water the 'divine fetus' on the other side of the wishing technique's scale. But in reality No one knows what the legendary 'divine fetus' is..."

Gu Shen slowly pulled his palm away from the well water.

indeed.

He took nothing away.

Only a small amount of cool water was fished out. After gathering his fingers, it slipped from between his fingers.

"Perhaps, six hundred years ago... the divine fetus appeared?"

This sentence was meant for Li Qingci.

Li Qingci stayed where she was.

"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 their spirits in the shrine, but the vehicle carrying the spirits was taken away."

Gu Shen whispered: "The spirits of the four bronze lamps can be gathered together in the temple... then it shows one thing. The ancestors of the Li family a long time ago successfully gathered these four lamps. . And the Shenci Mountain is such an important place, almost eliminating the possibility of outsiders breaking in. How could these four lamps be taken out of the realm?"

Li Qingci followed this train of thought and thought of a very scary thing.

"You mean... these four lamps were dismantled by the ancestor... on his own initiative..."

Gu Shen nodded.

"Do you still remember your 'dream of prayer'?"

"Of course...of course I remember." Li Qingci looked a little pale.

It was a nightmare.

She tried to waste her life and used the wishing technique to see the face of the "divine fetus", but in the end she only saw the crumbling image of the temple mountain and a blurry figure...

Although I didn’t see the true face of the divine fetus.

But the existence of the divine fetus was confirmed!

"Logically speaking, this time the wish came true, but Libra did not accept your bargaining chip." Gu Shen said calmly: "Why is this?"

Wish spells are fair.

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

vice versa.

Once a wish is made and the "food" is presented, the moment the wish comes true, the wishing technique will definitely take away the "lifespan"!

There is only one possibility.

"My prayer...failed."

Li Qingci murmured.

She immediately gritted her teeth and asked incomprehensibly: "But... why is this?"

"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 for the future."

Gu Shen spoke slowly: "What if... the 'divine fetus' was cultivated many years ago?"

Li Qingci's beautiful eyes widened.

She suddenly realized...this might be an answer very close to the truth.

"What you see in your dream is not a picture of the future, but the past history. The Divine Fetus was hatched once, but... that time it failed. The entire Temple Mountain is facing destruction because of the failed 'hatching' .”

Gu Shen's words were neither hasty nor slow: "So the ancestors of the Li family killed it and at the same time dispersed the [Bronze Man Lamp] that provided emotions..."

"If that's the case, why continue to pray..."

Li Qingci paused mid-sentence.

Gu Shen smiled silently.

He knew that Li Qingci had guessed the answer.

He stood by the well and looked down.

[Ancestor of the Li family] tried to use the extraordinary power of the Shenci Mountain and ancient secrets to create a "perfect creature" to fight against the collapsing order. He created the "physical body" six hundred years ago, so he moved four bronze lamps to convey emotions to the "creatures"...but the final product was dark.

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

"The previous eras were all wrong...until this era is the right era."

Gu Shen spoke softly, "This mountain should have been completely devoid of life, but there are 'white flowers' growing there. Over the past thousands of years, the order has collapsed and black flowers have covered the mountain. Logically speaking... not even a ray of life should appear. These things The appearance of 'white flowers' is not a coincidence, they absorb the vitality emanating from the mountain, which means that this mountain is always pregnant with life."

"In... this well."

For six hundred years, the well has not dried up.

In the deserted environment of the mountains, compared to those little white flowers, compared to the ancient house covered with talismans... this well has the strongest vitality.

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

He tried hard to look towards the bottom of the well. His mental power penetrated the water, passed through the deep stone wall, and reached the boundless darkness. Even with the blessing of blazing fire, he could not see anything clearly... but he was extremely convinced in his heart. , the reason why Shenci Mountain can breed white flowers is in this well.

This is an unexplainable intuition!

"Chu Ling...try it and mentally connect to the surrounding environment."

Gu Shen did not 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. Shenci Mountain was silent all year round. As a protector, her spirit enveloped the entire mountain world, and she could take in all the wind and grass in her eyes. She was very sure that there was no third person here.

Could it be that... this is what Gu Shen just said... the voice in his head?

"I saw...a ball of light."

Chu Ling's voice was filled with confusion.

She sits at the interface between the spiritual and material worlds.

This is a very contradictory thing.

If there really is such a thing as "eyes", then when she closes her eyes, she will feel like she is sitting in a slowly moving car. When she opens her eyes, she will see that she is in a well, surrounded by water.

And just below him, there was a small group of light suspended.

"It was like... a cocoon."

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

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

Around the cocoon of light, small white flowers grew one after another, but they were just buds, not yet in full bloom.

"Did you see...white flowers?"

Gu Shen was stunned and said seriously: "What does that little cocoon look like? Can you see clearly?"

"I...try to see clearly."

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

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

However... this distance, which was only a few centimeters away, turned into a chasm that could never be reached... She spent a lot of effort to get closer to the light cocoon with difficulty.

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

Chu Ling's voice was very low.

That small cocoon of light is like a newborn baby, dwelling in the pure water at the deepest part of the well. She is surrounded by countless white flowers, each symbolizing holiness and light.

But it was such a curled-up baby, with two lines of clear tears flowing on its small cheeks.

Just one look at it will make you feel distressed.

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

When she said this, she also felt sad, a silent sorrow flowing into her heart like water.

Chu Ling touched her cheek.

She touched something cool... something 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 is something that [source code] should never be able to understand.

Joy, anger, sorrow and joy.

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

Follow your gut instinct.

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

It's like touching "life".

But... this is my own "life".

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Gu Shen saw all this in the "spiritual link".

He held his breath and waited.

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 all the strands of spirit went to the body of that "baby".

at last.

The world beneath the well has returned to tranquility.

Gu Shen's mental perception slowly dimmed and turned into darkness.

And a moment later.

A glimmer of light slowly appeared——

Gu Shen felt "Chu Ling" open his eyes.

No... to be more precise, the baby slowly opened his eyes and looked up at the world outside the well.

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The spiritual link only lasted about a hundred seconds.

The moment he opened his eyes, Chu Ling's consciousness returned to zero.

She looked a little disappointed when she realized what had happened.

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

She hasn't touched anything yet.

Even... touching the stone wall at the bottom of the well would be good.

And the world of Inoue.

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

All previous guesses were correct.

And more importantly, if the baby under the well is really the divine body prepared by Li for six hundred years later...then Chu Ling has the possibility of coming to the "material world"!

This is the real...miracle!

Gu Shen lowered his voice and spoke to Li Qingci.

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

Li Qingci lay at the mouth of the well.

She looked down expectantly.

I use this well frequently, and the water from the well is sweet, refreshing, and cold.

However, she looked hard for a long time.

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

Not to mention, the so-called divine fetus.

"There are also white flowers blooming there, symbolizing life and hope..." Gu Shen said with style.

She looked at Gu Shen's gestures with a complicated expression.

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

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

"If your guess is correct, if you want to complete the divine fetus, you must gather four lights..."

If the person who said these words was not Mr. Xiao Gu, who helped Li uncover the secret of the bronze lantern for six hundred years... if it were any other person, Li Qingci would have thought that he was probably crazy.

Finally, Gu Shen rolled up his sleeves and jumped directly from the wellhead.

"Mr. Xiao 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 whether there are black flowers growing under this well.

If you touch the black flower, it will be bad!

But it's too late——

There was a "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 endless depths... However, the reality was that this well... was not deep.

Gu Shen plunged in suddenly and immediately hit the bottom.

He raised his head, stared blankly at the water level at his neck, and once again dived with breathless disbelief, trying to find other passages, but he was surrounded by narrow stone walls.

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 does not contain what I just saw!

Gu Shen raised his head and saw Li Qingci's concerned face.

"Many years ago...the guardians searched all over the Temple Mountain, but could not find any trace of the Divine Fetus. Of course, they also looked for this well."

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Li Qingci handed over a clean towel and spoke politely, comforting: "Mr. Gu, although you looked very handsome when you jumped into the well just now..."

This sentence is only half the story.

Gu Shen sat wet by the well with a complicated expression.

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

"But you look really embarrassed trying to climb up."

Jumped down the well.

There is no Chu Ling, no white flowers, and no so-called divine baby in the well.

Then I climbed 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 the reason for jumping into the well to Li Qingci. In fact, he had already explained it before jumping into the well. It was really pale in front of the reality that there was nothing at the bottom of the well.

"Isn't the world at the bottom of the well that I jumped into... the same world that Chu Ling is in...?"

Gu Shen fell into deep thought.

If we say that Li's plan is to use the power of the "black flower" to create a flawless creature.

So there is no doubt that this plan will be divided into two steps.

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

The second step is to create "spirit".

The six hundred years of "prayer" and the guidance of the power of the Temple 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 "spirit"...

If the four emotions of the Bronze Man Lamp are conveyed to the Divine Fetus, theoretically it seems that a "spirit" can be successfully created.

But if you think about it carefully, this is not reasonable.

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

Having joy, anger, sorrow and joy is not the same as having human nature.

Perhaps this is the reason why Li's ancestors failed six hundred years ago, but the key point is how to integrate "material" and "spiritual"... These are truly two worlds.

Gu Shen thought of his jade ring.

The jade finger trapped the spirit of the "Throne of Storms", trapping it in a virtual space.

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

So……

According to this direction, the world below the well where the divine 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".

Six hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Li family failed.

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

So he dismantled the Tongren lamp and sealed the divine fetus in the link world to prevent Li from creating the "monster" of the past again...waiting for the arrival of the "future" guided by the wishing technique.

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

That spirit has experienced the warmth and coldness of the world, and has 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 has been waiting for for six hundred years.