Light Fortress
Chapter 478 - 106: Divine Embryo, Chu Ling_2

Chapter 478: Chapter 106: Divine Embryo, Chu Ling_2

Li Qingci stopped mid-sentence.

Gu Shen silently smiled.

He knew Li Qingci had guessed the answer.

He stood by the well, looking down.

The Ancestor Li had tried to harness the Extraordinary Power of Divine Temple Mountain, along with ancient secret techniques, to create a "perfect creature" to combat the collapsing order. Six hundred years ago, he had created "flesh," then brought in four Copper Human Lamps to transfer emotions to the "creature"... but the final product turned out to be dark.

"The hatching of the Divine Embryo... needs to wait for the right era."

"Previous eras were wrong... Only this era is the right one."

Gu Shen spoke softly, "This mountain should have been devoid of life, but ’White Flowers’ grow here. Over the centuries, as order collapsed and Black Flowers covered the mountain, logic would dictate... that not a trace of life should be present. The emergence of these ’White Flowers’ is no coincidence, they have drawn the life force dispersing from the mountain, which means, life has always been gestating within this mountain."

"Right... in this well."

Six hundred years, and the well had not dried up.

In the barren environment of the mountain, compared to those small white flowers, compared to the ancient house plastered with talismans... the life force of this well was the strongest.

After Gu Shen’s Chi Huo appeared, it concentrated at his brow.

He strained to look into the well’s depths; his spiritual power pierced the water surface, went through the deep stone walls, and reached into the boundless blackness. Even with Chi Huo’s enhancement, he could see nothing... but he was absolutely certain that the reason why Divine Temple Mountain could nurture White Flowers lay in this well.

This was an inexplicable intuition!

"Chu Ling... try it, link spiritually to the surrounding environment," he said without hiding anything from Li Qingci.

Chu Ling?

Li Qingci was stunned.

Was this calling out... a third person’s name?

She instinctively looked around; Divine Temple Mountain was eternally silent. As a Protector, her spirit enveloped the entire mountain realm, capable of perceiving every movement of wind over grass, and she was certain there was no third person here.

Could it be... what Gu Shen was just talking about... the voice in his mind?

"I see... a mass of light," Chu Ling’s voice carried a bewildered tone.

She sat at the juncture between the spiritual and the material worlds.

This was a very contradictory thing.

If there really were "eyes" like things, then closing them, she would feel herself sitting inside the smoothly moving 001 carriage; opening them, she would see herself in the well, wrapped by flowing water.

And right beneath her, there floated a tiny mass of light.

"It looks like... a cocoon."

"I also see... many flowers..." Chu Ling murmured, "They are white flowers..."

Surrounding that light cocoon, numerous pristine little blossoms grew, still buds, not yet blooming.

"You see... White Flowers?"

Gu Shen was taken aback, asking seriously, "What does that little cocoon look like, can you see clearly?"

"I... will try to see more clearly."

Chu Ling moved slowly downward, attempting, in her spiritual body form, to touch the light cocoon at the well’s bottom.

The space at the well’s bottom was very narrow.

Yet... what clearly was just a millimeter away, at this moment, turned into a chasm that could never be bridged... She expended a great deal of effort, barely managing to get a bit closer to the light cocoon.

"That is a... little person..."

Chu Ling’s voice was low.

The tiny light cocoon, like a newborn baby, nestled in the purest water at the well’s deepest part, surrounded by countless White Flowers, each one symbolizing purity and light.

And yet, this curled-up infant, its tiny cheeks streaked with clear tears.

It was a sight that would compel anyone to feel a pang of heartache.

Chu Ling softly said, "I see, she is crying..."

As she spoke, she too felt sadness, a silent sorrow flowing into her heart like water.

Chu Ling touched her own cheek.

She felt coolness... warmth...

Tears.

"Gu Shen... I think... I understand something now..."

Chu Ling had touched her own tear.

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

That was supposed to be something the "source code" could never understand.

Emotions.

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

Following her heart’s intuition.

Chu Ling slowly reached out, touching the sacred infant. She wiped the tears from its cheeks, her own tears wiped away alongside... In that moment of contact, she felt an ineffable warmth.

It was like touching "life."

But this... was her own "life."

...

...

Through the "spiritual link," Gu Shen saw all this.

He held his breath, quietly waiting.

After touching the infant, Chu Ling’s consciousness began to dissolve... like countless feathers scattered by the wind, the figure of the young girl reflected in the well water gradually dispersing.

And the myriad strands of spirit, all heading toward the body of that "infant."

At last.

The world beneath the well returned to tranquility.

Gu Shen’s spiritual sense, slowly dimmed, sinking into darkness.

And moments later.

A streak of light slowly emerged—

Gu Shen sensed that "Chu Ling" had opened her eyes.

No... more accurately, the infant slowly opened its eyes, looking up toward the world outside the well.

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The spiritual link lasted only about a hundred seconds.