Barrier of Light

Li Qingsui came to Shenci Mountain.

This place was already lonely, but after Li Qingci passed away, it became even more deserted and lonely.

The Temple Mountain ushered in a ray of light. The dark clouds no longer shrouded the dome of the disaster area, but a ray of skylight emerged.

When the last guardian of the Temple Mountain died, the place finally ushered in the light.

However, the crisis in the temple has not been completely resolved. There are still countless black flowers blooming in the mountains and fields.

"They're all gone... gone..."

Li Qingsui squatted on the top of the mountain, hugging her knees, looking at the flower bed left by her sister, and murmured softly.

When she returned to the temple, she was no longer the head of the Li family who held the power of life and death in the outside world.

At this moment, she looked like just an ordinary little girl.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

It would be another two years before she turned eighteen.

In the traditional custom of the Nagano Lee family, during the coming-of-age ceremony, one usually invites one's most important and cherished "relatives" and "teachers" to be present. Li Qingsui thought about the joyful scene of her coming-of-age ceremony a long time ago. She thought that if it was not convenient for her sister to leave Shenci Mountain at that time, then her coming-of-age ceremony would be held in the mountain, and the direct descendants of the Li family and the Presbyterian Church would be held there. Everyone called over.

Of course, Gu Shen will also be present.

But later, she seemed to grow up overnight.

Those unrealistic fantasies never came to her dreams again.

The wind blew quietly, and everything on the top of the mountain was silent.

Li Qingsui enjoyed this rare silence to herself, but she didn't feel relaxed.

She stretched out her fingers and gently touched the small white flower on the edge of the flower bed.

After my sister left, the flowers in this garden were still growing happily. Maybe my sister was right. After the light came, the shrine no longer needed the so-called protector.

But apart from Gu Shen, who else has the ability to erase this mountain of black flowers?

The guy my sister spent ten years of her life waiting for is already dead.

There is no one here anymore.

Thinking of this.

"Wow..."

A strange sound suddenly came from the well in front of the ancient house on the top of the temple. Li Qingsui suddenly looked back. She saw dozens of golden threads whizzing past in the void. The neatly folded goddess costumes placed in front of the ancient house were pulled by the golden threads. Sweeping towards the ancient well, she couldn't help but exclaimed. In the mist, a slim figure stunned the heavens. She slowly stood up while supporting the ancient well.

That figure is so beautiful that people dare not look at it more.

Li Qingsui quickly turned around, fearing that she had blasphemed the goddess in the mist.

After a while, the sound of people wearing robes behind them ended.

A voice with a cold tone but a gentle tone sounded immediately.

"Qingsui, you have come to the shrine."

Li Qingsui hummed in a low voice. She actually forgot that besides her sister and Gu Shen, there was a third person on this mountain.

However... Miss Chu Ling should not be considered a "person".

"Sister Goddess, is today the day you come into the world?"

Li Qingsui looked back and looked at the red and white goddess costume, and couldn't help but feel swayed. No matter how many times she looked at it, she would always feel that Chu Ling had a transcendent beauty, which was not a temperament that ordinary people could possess.

The word "goddess" is very appropriate.

"Not really."

Chu Ling also came to the flower garden. She squatted next to Li Qingsui, stretched out her hand to touch the white flowers that were shaking her head, and said: "I can be 'born' a long time ago, but I have been waiting for him. I want to wait for him." Come back from Sangzhou Cave and do the 'incarnation' again, so that we can meet each other exactly."

He... Gu Shen.

Li Qingsui's heartstrings trembled.

Li Qingsui didn't know the secret of the Ancient Literature Society, nor did he know that Chu Ling and Gu Shen had a deeper and more private spiritual connection.

She hesitated again and again and asked cautiously: "What about Sangzhou Cave..."

"I already know."

Chu Ling's answer was very calm.

She lowered her eyebrows, thought for a while, and said, "Gu Shen is dead."

Li Qingsui looked at the goddess in front of him and felt a little strange.

She knew about the relationship between the goddess sister and Gu Shen...

There are countless people in this world who are saddened by Gu Shen's death, but at this moment, the goddess sister doesn't seem to have much sadness or pain on her face?

"You seem surprised?"

Chu Ling smiled softly and asked in a hoarse voice: "Because I didn't show sadness, sadness?"

"……yes."

Li Qingsui stared blankly at the goddess who stood up again.

The flower garden on the top of the mountain was very quiet. At this moment, Li Qingsui thought of herself when she attended her sister's funeral. She had lost the most important person in her life, but she did not shed a single tear.

Perhaps she looked like this in the eyes of the elders of the Li family at that time.

Sadness, sadness, pain... Emotions such as these do not necessarily have to be shown on the face.

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"I'm also curious as to why I didn't even shed a single tear."

"I'm actually sad."

"But...I can't make a sad expression."

"Maybe it's because there's nothing else I can do now..."

"It's not easy to come to the human world. I only have a few days of light, so I can't waste my time on such things as sadness."

Chu Ling took out the Yama umbrella placed next to the ancient house of the temple. After opening and closing it twice, he hung it on his waist as a sword. He also picked a few black flowers and stuck them in his hair.

After doing this, she stood in front of the steps at the top of the mountain.

Chu Ling looked back at the little girl who had grown up a little but not yet fully grown up, and said with soft eyebrows: "Regarding Gu Shen's death, I want to do something... while I am still 'alive' now."

…

…

When Chu Ling left Shenci Mountain, the first place he went to was the Qing Tomb.

She is the current tomb keeper, and the formations in Qingzhong Cemetery will naturally not stop her in any way.

At this moment, Bai Shu, who was in charge of the inner mausoleum, also removed the glow of the golden divine realm and met Chu Ling's true form.

Chu Ling slowly entered the inner mausoleum. She saw a figure sitting in the golden divine realm, facing the wall. It was none other than Song Ci.

Song Ci has disappeared from the world's sight for a long time.

Only few people know.

Most of the crows are actually meditating in the golden divine realm under Nagano Touzhan.

At this moment, a ray of the triple divine light actually separated and enveloped Song Ci... The apostle's blessing light that originally emitted from this [Immortal] also dissipated most of it under the warmth of the Dou Zhan God Realm, but Some iron laws cannot be changed. Once you touch a certain fire and sign a contract with it, you will never be accepted by another fire for life.

In other words.

No matter how much Bai Shu tried his best to cultivate Song Ci, Song Ci would never be able to become an apostle of Dou Zhan, and he would not be able to carry the God of Dou Zhan.

This wisp of fighting divine light lingering around his body cannot be taken out of Nagano, and it may not even be taken out of the cemetery.

"You're here."

At the end of the Golden God Realm, there is a figure with three clones constantly overlapping and changing, sometimes old, sometimes young.

"Mr. Bai Zhu, you should know why I am here."

Chu Ling raised his head.

"I know. You want to ask me... is Gu Shen dead?"

Bai Zhu smiled: "You are not the first person to face the throne of God over this matter."

Chu Ling raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.

You're not the first?

It is true that there are countless people in this world who want to know the truth about "Gu Shen's death"...but there are only a few people who can truly meet the throne of God.

Who else but yourself?

She looked towards the direction where Song Ci was retreating. The crow's meditative figure was like a dry stone. His body was stained with layers of gold dust, and it didn't look like he had moved recently.

"not him."

Bai Shu said lightly: "Song Yingji has been in samadhi in the divine realm for a hundred days. For a whole hundred days, he has not heard a single noise from the outside world. He is unaware of everything happening outside... This matter is no exception. .”

"It's a silly boy from Central City."

Before Chu Ling could speak, Bai Shu gave the answer.

Central City?

Because of Gu Shen's death, no matter the cost, there is only one person who has the ability and status to interview the queen in the attic...

Lin Lin.

"So is Gu Shen dead?"

Chu Ling stood in the divine realm surrounded by golden clouds. She didn't say any other nonsense and went straight to the point.

Bai Shu's answer was also very straightforward.

"No."

Two words.

These two words made the gloom lingering in Chu Ling's heart instantly dissipate.

"He is the future Pluto. How could Pluto fall so easily?"

Bai Shu chuckled and said, "With Lin Lei and I staring at the Sangzhou Cave, if Gu Shen dies now... how can we carry out the 'God-defeating' plan in the future?"

This plan is no secret to Chu Ling.

Bai Shu knew that Chu Ling knew all this.

When he spoke to Gu Shen, he had no intention of keeping anything secret from Chu Ling.

Because... Chu Ling is also part of the plan.

"..."

Chu Ling narrowed her eyes and chewed on what Bai Zhu had just said. The more she listened, the more she felt that it had a second meaning.

After she came to the world, she regained the power to activate divination, but every cause and effect of "Gu Shen's death" was obscured by tons of fog, making it impossible to see clearly.

Obviously, this accident was related to "Tinder" from beginning to end.

It is possible that more than one god intervened.

"Gu Shen is not dead, but everyone thinks he is. The Gu clan even took out the 'Blood Tablet' to verify his dissipated spirit in front of the five major families and three major offices..."

Chu Ling frowned as she recalled the information circulating in the outside world at the moment.

All this information proved that Gu Shen was indeed dead.

And these news...

It was what Bai Shu and Lin Lei released.

They hope Wuzhou thinks so. If everyone thinks that Gu Shen dies, then this is the best ending.

"Besides Lin Lin, there was someone else who saw the throne... was it Gu Nanfeng? Is the blood tablet a forgery?"

Chu Ling's eyes suddenly lit up.

Under the intervention of the divine power of [Backflow], Bai Zhu's image at this moment transformed into an immature boy.

"good."

There was a faint smile on his face, "But it cannot be said to be forged. After all, the blood that Xiao Gu left in this cemetery can be extracted at will in the [Backflow] Divine Realm, so what the five families saw, that It is indeed his blood. But there has never been such a thing as a 'blood tablet'. Gu Shen did not leave any of these in the Gu Clan. You should know this better than me."

[Source Code] However, the spiritual link with the host is maintained 24 hours a day.

But Chu Ling's way of thinking is to calculate probabilities.

After Gu Shen entered a disaster situation that blocked the spiritual link, the [Source Code] would lose the link... She thought that the "Blood Tablet" might have been left at that time, but thinking about it carefully, it was indeed a loophole that the world could not Found a loophole that she could easily exploit.

"Why?"

Chu Ling was a little confused: "You want everyone to think 'Gu Shen is dead'... What are the benefits of this?"

Bai Zhu did not answer this question directly.

Instead, he asked a rhetorical question.

"If everyone thinks Gu Shen is alive, then...what good will it do to Dongzhou?"

Chu Ling was stunned for a moment.

As the [source code] left behind by Mr. Turing, her mission is to help Gu Shen survive, so all the choices, all arrangements, and all plans she makes... are all to make Gu Shen live longer and better. long term to become stronger in the future.

It was just Bai Shu's words that woke her up.

The situation in the Five Continents has become increasingly tense, and Pluto's identity can no longer be concealed.

As long as Gu Shen is "alive", he will attract a lot of attention, the four divine envoys, the blessed son, and then the top titles of the major powers in the five continents, the apostle!

For Pluto, "being alive" is not a good thing.

"You see, sometimes 'death' is not a bad thing." Seeing Chu Ling fall into silence, Bai Shu knew that she had understood, so he smiled slightly: "Gu Shen needs time too much. But as long as he lives, he will live." In the public eye, he won't have time... The Tower of Source, City of Light, and Church of Storms are all staring at him. By then, there will be endless pressure and murderous intentions coming towards him, and these murderous intentions will accumulate. If there is too much, it will crush him, and the day when Pluto's fire appears in the world is the moment when the divine war breaks out. How long do you think it will take for Gu Shen to be alive and able to bear the weight of this fire?"

"So, you arranged for him to die in the 'fire' that broke out in Tan Yao?"

Chu Ling still couldn't understand.

How did Gu Shen end up buried under Tan Yao?

"No, I didn't arrange this."

Bai Shu said calmly: "You must understand that I am just a martial artist, and I only want to be a martial artist. Others are planning these things. What I do can only be regarded as cooperation at best. The one who took over the fire from Gu Changzhi One day, I knew what my mission was, and I am waiting for the real divine battle to begin. When the time comes, I will be able to fight heartily, not for the common people, but only for myself."

From beginning to end, he was pure.

More than twenty years ago.

Bai Shu resolutely chose "fighting fire". Even if he failed, he never turned to other fire powers.

Now, mingling with Douzhan's fire in the cemetery, his temperament has become sharper and more unstoppable!

"but……"

"One thing I can tell you clearly is that since you have come to this world, just 'live' well, cherish this few time, and don't try to explore the real truth."

Bai Shu looked at Chu Ling and gave a serious warning: "The cause and effect involved in Sangzhou Cave is too long, even I can't see it clearly. With your current divination ability, even if all the life of this body is exhausted, You can’t see through the slightest bit of haze...you won’t get anything.”

Chu Ling was silent for a moment and said, "Thanks for the reminder."

She turned around and was about to leave the Golden God Realm.

Bai Shu suddenly said: "If someone asks, do you know what to say?"

There was no sadness or joy on the face of the woman in the red and white goddess costume. It was like this the moment she came into the world, and it was the same when she learned that Gu Shen was still alive...

This reaction made Baizhu feel at ease.

If someone asks, the answer actually doesn't matter.

The important thing is the expression of the person involved and the subtle fluctuations in the spirit. Chu Ling did a good job at this point. She is like a machine without emotions.

The reason why Baizhu used "silly boy" instead of Lin Lin when he mentioned it before.

It's because Lin Lin did this very poorly.

Because the two behaved differently, the answers they got were also different.

Bai Shu chose to tell Chu Ling the truth.

On the other hand... the queen gave her brother a white lie.

"Don't worry."

At the end of the divine realm, Chu Ling paused and said expressionlessly: "Lying is a required course for AI."