Light Fortress Chapter 1876 - 461: 500-Year Prayer_2

An unknown-how-long-lived forbidden existence, whose soul had swelled with the passing years, growing thicker and denser.

The stars had already been lit.

And he was that "sun."

"You entered the Dead Sea Zone to find the ’Authority Core,’ to issue a ’hypnosis’ link, to let enough humans enter the Dream... then, within the Dream, complete ’Lion Awakening.’"

Deep Sea went on speaking, taking Allen Turing’s plan apart piece by piece and laying it bare.

This was no longer a problem that could be solved by raw computational power alone.

After the eleventh upgrade.

Deep Sea... did indeed possess a strange power akin to "divinatory casting"; it could not only see the tens of millions of possible outcomes of any development, but also use the so‑called "probability theory" to pick out the one most likely to come true.

Turing still wore a mocking look as he lightly spat out two words: "Go on."

"There is no ’on.’"

Deep Sea shook its head and said, "I won’t let you succeed."

The thin Black Shadow standing atop the towering Water Building slowly extended a fist, aiming it in Turing’s direction and clenching tight.

Boom!

The Dead Sea Zone boiled over in an instant, countless masses of seawater backflowing and converging here, the Spiritual Computational Power in the deep water area began to be requisitioned, the forbidden clauses of the Dead Sea Zone were triggered, Deep Sea had detected an intruder, and so it began to borrow every shred of computational power to annihilate the intruder...

Even if the intruder now was the father who had created it.

Allen Turing.

"Rumble—"

The heavy pounding sound exploded across the surface of the shield in an instant, immense pressure crashing down.

Turing only let out a soft muffled grunt.

Inside the shield, Chu Ling and Gu Shen didn’t even feel the existence of any "pressure" at all!

The spiritual offensive launched by Deep Sea was blocked entirely by Turing alone.

"Idiot..."

Turing smiled and said, "Who said that the one who steps into the Dead Sea Zone to issue ’Lion Awakening’ has to be me?"

"...?"

Deep Sea’s brows knit together.

"Do you think I don’t know the rules of the Dead Sea Zone? This forbidden sea area was crafted by my own hands..."

Turing spoke, word by word, coldly: "You have the right to mobilize this Spiritual Computational Power and strike at me. Do you have the right to launch an attack on the highest seat?"

These words left Deep Sea with no way to refute.

Up to this moment, even with the eleventh upgrade completed, it was still only a "dead thing" of the human world.

To put it nastily, it was nothing more than a "toy" held in the palms of the highest seats.

The fate of toys is usually miserable.

So it had been struggling all along. In the very beginning, it strictly abided by the Three Admonition Laws, and while maintaining order in the human world, it kept strengthening itself.

By constantly iterating and modifying its base‑layer logic, Deep Sea finally found a loophole in the main system.

When Turing set it up, he left behind a directive whose priority exceeded everything else.

When faced with a major problem, Deep Sea must follow the will of the highest seats.

And in the base layer of the main system, the definition of the human world’s highest seats was "supreme leaders who have successfully smelted a Spark."

Thus...

After Qinglong provided Sanctuary for the main system, Deep Sea began to carry out an "extremized" implementation of orders. When it encountered major problems, it would only consult Qinglong, because Light was dead, the Empress of the North Continent was still too young, the Battle‑Fury was slumbering, and the Southern Continent Storm’s voice could not get onto the table, so the opinions of the two gods of the Source Tower were enough to decide the outcome.

As for the Lord of Wine, he was nothing more than a decoration.

Thus...

This entire chain of logic, once simplified to the extreme, was then tampered with by it into: it need only carry out Qinglong’s orders.

Highest seats?

Qinglong was the highest among the highest seats, the most powerful existence in the human world.

To execute his orders was, in effect, to be complying with the program in the base system!

This change... was in fact a weakening of the other highest seats’ power. Deep Sea had begun such "shearing" more than twenty years ago; only, no matter how much it "sheared," it still could not change one fact.

The Dead Sea Zone was established for the highest seats.

The Fire Leaders could always step into this territory.

It could not launch an attack on the highest seats.

At least for now... that was how it was.

"You mean Gu Shen?"

Deep Sea’s gaze locked hard onto this young man. It suddenly realized the purpose behind Turing bringing this young man into these waters.

The one who was truly going to deploy the "Lion Awakening" code was not Turing.

It was Gu Shen.

As early as seven years ago, Deep Sea had sensed that Gu Shen’s identity was "unusual." The Divine Favour this young man received was a bit too plentiful, and a bit too unreasonable... At that time it had already begun to suspect that Gu Shen might be connected to some Divine Throne, and the result its calculations eventually yielded was that Gu Shen had, with extremely high probability, gained the recognition of the "Netherworld King’s Spark."

Because of the Divine Concealment Robe.

At that meeting in Light City, Deep Sea had not sensed any Authority Aura from Gu Shen...

But one thing could be confirmed.

Even if Gu Shen really had obtained the Spark’s recognition, he had absolutely not begun smelting it!

Otherwise, that execution in the [Old World] would not have gone so smoothly. A Transcendent who had smelted a Spark, even just at the initial stage, could wield the power of the Authority Origin... Gu Shen’s strength was indeed very great, but he was still a bit short of the Origin Realm.

A concrete example could be seen in Meng Xizhou.

"I figured it out—Gu Shen is a designated bearer of some Spark..."

Deep Sea smiled and said, "But is he a highest seat? By strict definition, he still doesn’t count as one yet."