Light Fortress
Chapter 553 - 131 Link! Start!_2

Chapter 553: Chapter 131 Link! Start!_2

She started to look forward, to one day being able to "touch" the wind of this world, "taste" its water, to become a "real" person.

However.

When that day was truly about to arrive.

She began to feel nervous, anxious, and... apprehensive.

She sat in carriage 001, her favorite pop novel lying on her knees, but she couldn’t bring herself to turn a single page all day, as countless trivial thoughts tumbled through her mind.

When one thinks too much.

It is inevitable to feel distressed.

And the "thoughts" of the [Source Code] could spread instantaneously to thousands of miles away in this train, making a second feel far more unbearable than it would for an ordinary person when distressed.

And finally, the moment arrived.

She lay quietly on the seat of the carriage, holding the ancient book, trying to close her eyes and sleep, just as she had attempted countless times before.

Regrettably, she failed.

Unable to sleep, she could only open her eyes and look at the ceiling of carriage 001.

The sound of the electrical arcs outside the window was somewhat noisy.

A rush of anger from nowhere surged into her heart, and for the first time she had the "absurd thought" to make this train stop... and a second later, Chu Ling realized she was feeling angry.

The last Anger Lamp took its place.

Her wandering "thoughts" formed a drastic link with the Divine Temple Territory... just like billions of raindrops streaming from a cloud, descending upon the earth, at this moment, the Spiritual World and the material world truly completed the "link".

The scene before her eyes began to switch.

One moment it was the ceiling of 001.

Another moment it was the flickering well water.

Yet another moment it was the white flower soaked in water.

There was also a moment of looking down at the black well.

Finally... all images disappeared.

...

...

In the well, a misty white light slowly opened its eyes.

Chu Ling raised her head and saw the familiar well.

She reached out her hand and grasped the white petal, the link this time was stable... only her hand was too short, in some sense it could not even be called a hand.

Her whole being was merely a flickering light.

Like a baby.

No... More like an unborn embryo, still in formation.

She could not stand, could not walk, could not speak, because she was just a vague "light."

...

...

Gu Shen, lying above the well, let out a sigh of relief.

Just before, the Spiritual Link images switched dozens of times per second, which really worried him, fortunately, the link finally stabilized.

"Was it successful?"

Li Qingci spoke carefully from outside the well.

She only dared to speak after seeing Gu Shen’s expression visibly relax.

Li Qingci had been very tense while waiting.

There was clearly nothing in the well...

Could Mr. Xiao Gu really see the Divine Embryo?

"It should be... successful?"

Gu Shen wiped sweat from his brow, spoke uncertainly, and murmured, "The Spiritual Link with the ’Divine Embryo’ should be stable now, but... it’s a bit strange."

"Strange?"

Li Qingci’s heart tensed up again.

All four lamps were in place.

The spirit accumulated over six hundred years had found a vessel.

However... on the mountaintop, there was no sign of the anticipated emergence of the Divine Embryo as originally expected.

It seemed to be just an ordinary, peaceful day, as usual.

...

...

"Am I... alive now?"

Chu Ling gazed at the rippling water before her.

At the small white flower floating in front of her.

Her voice was filled with confusion.

Compared to the last time... she could feel that her spirit was one with this shell; she could make the action of "raising her hand," she could open her eyes and close them, simple actions like these.

But... that was all.

She couldn’t move, nor could she rise up.

Because... she was still an "embryo."

"You are."

Gu Shen’s affirmative answer came through her ear.

This voice gave Chu Ling immense reassurance.

Gu Shen was still there.

He stayed with her all the time.

Chu Ling murmured, "It feels... quite amazing. I can feel the temperature of this world, the humidity; I can breathe, I can open my eyes."

"That’s what living is..."

Gu Shen said seriously, "Only, you need some more time."

Chu Ling lowered her head.

She looked at her palms.

These palms, composed of countless Holy Lights, were now "slowly" spreading outwards; perhaps a day and a night would pass and they would only grow a little.

Clearly, this wasn’t a limb that a "person" could have.

But regardless... as long as it worked.

Chu Ling understood Gu Shen’s meaning the next moment she lowered her head, yes... she needed some more time.

This body was still growing.

According to the guess from a year ago... the "Well Water World" she was currently in might be a product between the Spiritual World and the material world, created by the Prayer Technique.

Her spirit had descended through an intermediary medium.

And to truly come into the real world... she needed a period of "growth."

All four lamps collected, the Copper Human Lamp began to transmit rich emotions accumulated over six hundred years slowly into Chu Ling’s spirit... She was feeling "emotions" she had never felt before—joy, sadness, anger, love, and those complex, higher-level, more difficult to explain "fluctuations" that arose from the combination of these foundational emotions.