Light Fortress-Chapter 1502 - 213: He’s Still Alive (Part 2)

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Chu Ling left Divine Temple Mountain, and the first place she went was Qingzhong.

She is the current Tomb Guardian, so the array patterns inside Qingzhong Cemetery naturally would not impede her.

At this moment, Bai Shu, sitting within the inner tomb, also withdrew the golden divine domain’s light to meet Chu Ling in her true form.

Chu Ling stepped into the inner tomb slowly. In the golden divine domain, she saw a figure sitting stiffly against the wall. It was none other than Song Ci.

Song Ci had disappeared from the world’s view for a long time.

Only a few people knew.

The Crow of Da Du was actually meditating in the golden divine domain under the Battle God of Changye.

At this moment, a wisp of triple divine light split off and enveloped Song Ci... The apostle’s blessing light that once radiated from this "Undead" had mostly dissipated under the nourishment of the Battle God Domain. However, some iron laws could not be changed—once one has touched a certain fire seed and formed a contract with it, they can never be accepted by a second fire seed for life.

In other words.

No matter how much Bai Shu devoted to cultivating Song Ci, Song Ci could never become a Battle Apostle, nor could he bear the Battle God’s descent.

The wisp of Battle Divine Light surrounding him now could not be taken out of Changye, perhaps not even out of the cemetery.

"You have arrived."

At the end of the golden divine domain, there was a figure constantly overlapping and changing the triple avatar, sometimes old, sometimes young.

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

Chu Ling raised her head.

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

Bai Shu chuckled: "You are not the first to face the Divine Throne for this matter."

Chu Ling raised an eyebrow, a bit surprised.

Was she really not the first?

Indeed, countless people in this world wanted to know the truth about "Gu Shen’s death"... but only a few truly had the ability to meet the Divine Throne.

Apart from herself, who else?

She looked in the direction where Song Ci was in seclusion; the Crow’s meditative figure resembled a withered stone, covered with layers of golden dust, looking as if it hadn’t moved recently.

"Not him."

Bai Shu said lightly: "Song Yingji has been in meditation within the divine domain for a hundred days, a full hundred days, without hearing a single noise from the outside world, unaware of anything happening outside... this matter included."

"It’s a foolish kid from Central City."

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

Central City?

Because of Gu Shen’s death, there was only one person who would spare no cost and have the ability and status to meet the Empress in the attic.

Lin Lin.

"So, is Gu Shen dead?"

Chu Ling stood amidst the swirling golden divine radiance in the divine domain, without extra words, she got straight to the point.

And Bai Shu’s answer was also very straightforward.

"No."

Two words.

These two words instantly dispelled the shadow hanging over Chu Ling’s heart.

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

Bai Shu said with a light laugh: "With Lin Lei and me, two Divine Thrones watching over Sangzhou Cave, if Gu Shen died now... how could the future ’Deity-Bane’ plan proceed?"

This plan was not a secret to Chu Ling.

Bai Shu knew Chu Ling knew everything.

When he spoke to Gu Shen, he never intended to keep things from Chu Ling.

Because... Chu Ling was also a part of the plan.

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Chu Ling squinted her eyes. She repeatedly chewed on Bai Shu’s words, the more she listened, the more she felt there seemed to be a second layer of meaning.

After descending into the world, she regained the right to activate the Divination Skill, but every causal link of "Gu Shen’s death" was obscured by tons of fog, completely invisible.

It was evident this accident was related to the "fire seed" throughout.

It was very likely more than one divine seat had intervened.

"Gu Shen is not dead, but everyone thinks he is. The Gu Family Ancestral Hall even took out the ’Blood Monument,’ verifying its dissipated spirit in front of the big clans and three institutes..."

Chu Ling furrowed her brows as she recalled the information spreading in the outside world.

This information all proved Gu Shen was indeed dead.

And this news...

Was precisely released by Bai Shu and Lin Lin.

They hoped the Five Continents would think so, if everyone believed Gu Shen was dead, then it would be the best outcome.

"Besides Lin Lin, did anyone else meet the Divine Throne... was it Gu Nanfeng? Was the Blood Monument a forgery?"

Chu Ling’s gaze suddenly brightened with a gleam.

Under the intervention of Reverse Flow Divine Power, Bai Shu’s image at this moment transformed into a young child.

"Correct."

With a gentle smile on his face, he said, "But it’s not to be called a forgery. After all, the blood left by Xiao Gu in this cemetery can be freely extracted in the Reverse Flow Divine Domain, so what the big clans saw, it was indeed his blood. It’s just that the ’Blood Monument’ never existed, Gu Shen never left these in the Gu Family Ancestral Hall, which you should know better than I." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

The Source Code maintained a Spiritual Link with its host 24/7.

However, Chu Ling’s way of thinking was to calculate probabilities.

When Gu Shen entered the Disaster Realm, which shielded spiritual links, the Source Code would lose the link... she thought the "Blood Monument" might have been left at that time, but on careful thought, it was indeed a loophole, one that the world wouldn’t discover but she could easily pierce through.

"Why?"

Chu Ling was somewhat puzzled: "You hope everyone believes ’Gu Shen is dead’... what is the benefit of this?"