Light Fortress Chapter 1869 - 459: Beneath the Mask

Lu Nanzhi cast her gaze toward Gu Shen.

It wasn’t just her.

Gu Shen sensed more than one gaze... falling upon him.

For years, the Ancient Literature Society had been searching for the "Key." Gu Shen’s appearance gave them hope, and everyone believed that Gu Shen was that "Key."

But actually.

The "Key" is not a person.

Opening the "Red Gate" to the deepest part of the Deep Sea, releasing the Lion Awakening technology, freeing humanity...

This was never something one person could accomplish.

Suddenly, Gu Shen felt a warmth in the palm of his hand. Even though this was the Spiritual Sea Domain, he still truly felt the "temperature."

This warmth came from Chu Ling.

Gu Shen looked to his side.

The woman in a snow-white long dress proactively held his hand. Nearly ten years had passed, yet Chu Ling’s appearance hadn’t changed at all. She was as pure and holy as the flowers of Divine Temple Mountain, just as she was when they first met back at Lingling Yao.

Lion Awakening.

Today, at this very moment.

Lu Nanzhi took a deep breath and summoned the "Red Gate" left behind by her father. For thirty years, she had kept the secret of the "Red Gate" in the deepest part of her heart. Every secret meeting of the Ancient Literature Society was rerouted through the "Red Gate"... She viewed this responsibility as more important than anything else.

At this moment, she no longer had to hide it.

"Swish..."

The entire Array Box Spiritual Sea Domain began to tremble. Every participant felt a tremor and a shake deep within their soul.

The ocean water shattered, as though a giant hand was stirring the void—

Rumble!

Millions of strands of crimson coalesced at the end of the Array Box Sea Area. It was a Gate of Heaven, intricately carved with complex and obscure ancient script.

Gu Shen had once seen the Red Gate in Lu Nanzhi’s Spirit Sea.

Back then, the gate was only slightly taller than himself.

But at this moment.

The gate was taller than the sky.

"Key... It’s time for you to ’unlock the gate’ now."

Turing spoke with a smile.

He clapped Gu Shen on the shoulder twice, indicating that he could proceed... Gu Shen and Chu Ling exchanged a glance, and hand in hand, they gradually moved forward. The seawater parted on its own to make way, and beneath the towering Gate of Heaven, their black and white figures seemed as insignificant as ants.

But this is the Spiritual World.

As long as the faith is strong enough, even ants can shake a tree.

"Hiss."

A wisp of flame ignited at the center of Gu Shen’s brow.

Gu Shen slowly extended his hand, pressing it against the Red Gate.

The moment his palm touched the Red Gate—

The entire boiling and clamorous sea area suddenly fell silent, as if the sound of the entire world had been stripped away in an instant.

All that was left was the dull, decayed sound of the door being pushed open.

Boom—Long.

...

...

What would the world look like when all the sounds in the world extinguish?

Extreme silence.

The void was filled with an air of "deathly silence" and "desolation."

At this moment, the pinnacle of the Source Tower was just like this.

After the Divine War began, the Sky Divine Domain did not descend into chaos... Contrarily, thousands of snow-white broken swords pierced into the clouds of the Sky Divine Domain, laying down a layer of frost. The fragmented "Reverse Flow" Divine Domain laid down another layer of gold atop the clouds, forming a temporary "balance" with the three Divine Domains layered together.

In the center of the Sky Divine Domain stood a hard and slender ice block.

Qinglong was encapsulated within this solid block of ice... To be precise, he was wrapped by the clouds while the ice block wrapped around the clouds.

The Empress’s "Furnace" field continually imposed wind and snow.

Meanwhile, Qinglong’s "Cloud Mirror" constantly clashed with it, neutralizing it.

If there were only one field, this block of ice wouldn’t take long to melt. Lin Lei’s time ascending to the Divine Throne was still too short; it had only been a little over twenty years since she completely took over the power to melt the origin.

However, Qinglong had spent nearly a hundred years nurturing and resting at the pinnacle of the Source Tower.

There is actually a noticeable gap between the "Furnace" and the "Cloud Mirror," but the Empress alone could not seal Qinglong...

Yet, there was also Bai Shu.

The "Reverse Flow" Divine Domain constantly activated, and just as the "Furnace" was about to melt, it pulled the timeline back to the moment when the ice forces were at their strongest, returning both the "Furnace" and the "Cloud Mirror" to the start of this battle of attrition... This approach was, in fact, Bai Shu forcibly extending the battle line, consuming his Divine Power to create a longer freezing time for Lin Lei’s "Furnace."

This is the reason for the silence at the pinnacle of the Source Tower.

Qinglong was sealed in ice.

As for accomplishing this "Divine Miracle," the two Divine Thrones who dragged the battle into a stalemate sat down cross-legged.

Lin Lei was covered head to toe in blue frost.

On the other side, Bai Shu’s form began to blur.

As the Divine War continued to this point, he could no longer maintain his peak "youthful state," so his body uncontrollably began to change.

At times aging.

At times becoming young again.

But fortunately, the battle situation is now stable. As long as Bai Shu can ensure that the "Reverse Flow" Divine Domain activates on time, then it doesn’t matter what form he is in at the time of activation.

The Sky Divine Domain seems silent.

But actually... it’s not.

Beneath the frozen frost, Lin Lei and Bai Shu were communicating mentally.

The two were silently calculating the time.

This Divine War had dragged into a "war of attrition"... Everything was smooth, but what they had to do next was ensure the clarity of their consciousness and keep Qinglong sealed within the "Furnace" Divine Domain for as long as possible.