Light Fortress Chapter 1898 - 3: Chu Ling and the Lord of Love

This is an unavoidable step in which the Gospel Box fragment selects its leader.

But the Divine Infant... is different.

A leader by birth.

The Divine Infant is, from the moment of birth, the optimal candidate for the Fire Seed.

From this point of view, the level of life of the Divine Infant is in fact higher than that of the other Divine Thrones.

Yet Gu Shen never thought of himself as the Divine Infant.

He never felt that he was someone who had lived on from a pre‑ancient civilization to the present... he had his own vivid memories.

Growing up on Wulaoshan in Qinghe District, every minute and every second of these more than twenty years belonged to the life of him, Gu Shen.

Even if his body changed, these memories would not.

So at this moment Gu Shen’s tone was very humble.

"Senior."

The golden gauze curtain fluttered in the wind.

The woman on the Throne looked at the two figures—one large, one small—floating over, and said with a soft smile, "Gu Shen, we meet again."

The reason she smiled was that, the last time they met, Gu Shen had not looked like this.

"...Ha."

Gu Shen laughed twice together with the Lord of Love.

He more or less understood why the other was laughing.

Meeting again after some time, only to find that he had suddenly become an infant—this was indeed rather amusing.

"This time, have you also come to try drawing the sword?"

The Lord of Love looked at Gu Shen and asked the same question as last time.

"Yes."

Gu Shen spoke in a low voice, then slowly added, "...Not entirely."

"Oh?"

The Lord of Love looked toward Gu Shen with a smile.

The golden radiance flickering behind the gauze curtain showed that she in fact already knew Gu Shen’s true purpose in coming.

She simply did not take the initiative to mention it.

The Lord of Love left the right to speak to Gu Shen; she could see that the current Gu Shen had already fused the Netherworld Fire and could be considered a powerful being who held an origin.

"I hope that Senior... can save her."

Gu Shen lowered his posture as much as possible.

Using Spiritual Control, he guided Chu Ling and sent her before the Throne. This time... he finally saw clearly the face of the Lord of Love spoken of in rumors.

She was shrouded in golden gauze.

Between life and death, the Lord of Love’s face was sometimes a skull and sometimes covered with flesh.

When flesh was present, the woman on the Throne was full and jade‑like, her features seeming to overflow with holy radiance...

It was indeed a face very similar to Chu Ling’s, even the temperament was quite alike.

But Gu Shen and Chu Ling were far too close.

He still recognized the difference between the two at a glance. The woman on the Throne, in her gaze and brows, exuded "mercy" and "universal love."

Whereas Chu Ling’s brows and eyes were much colder and more desolate.

The Lord of Love was like a bright, clear full moon, shedding gentle light.

While Chu Ling was more like an icy snow mountain, wreathed in piercing frost and snow.

"Interesting."

The Lord of Love looked at the woman suspended before the Throne, and her gaze softened greatly.

A moment later.

She spoke gently: "Many years ago, Turing told me that he wanted to use me as a physical prototype... to fabricate a life. I didn’t expect that he would actually succeed."

Gu Shen: "???"

He had never expected that the Lord of Love actually knew of this matter!

But then again, Turing had entered the golden illusion and had even tried to draw the sword...

The two of them must have communicated.

It was just—was this the kind of thing one could simply talk about?

When he fabricated Chu Ling, had Turing actually sought the Lord of Love’s consent?

"So this is the life fabricated using me as a prototype? She really is beautiful."

The Lord of Love smiled and said, "It was worth it, then, that I gifted him a wisp of Spiritual Fragments for forging the Array Box."

Gu Shen was stunned.

Where did the creation of the [Source Code] begin?

With the Array Box.

And the origin of the Array Box? No one knew.

Now Gu Shen understood: the Lord of Love had given a wisp of her own Spirit to Turing; that Spirit was Chu Ling’s prototype. Using ancient script, Turing wove it into the [Source Code]. In order to make this life truly wake, he cast the Dead Sea Ancient Scroll into it, and after a long process of iteration, a Divine Miracle of life was thus born.

Chu Ling resembled the Lord of Love greatly.

Because... from the perspective of the continuation of life,

she was the "descendant" of the Lord of Love.

"Poor little girl, her body is on the verge of shattering."

Within the illusion, the Lord of Love extended a fingertip and touched that skin like cracked porcelain.

Crack.

A soft, continuous sound of breaking rang out.

Gu Shen could not bear to look.

After the Array Box shattered, this physical body condensed by Divine Temple Mountain, once destroyed, would never be reborn.

Twenty‑three days for the cicada’s life, so it was for Chu Ling as well.

Life and death have always been cruel matters.

"In the outside world, not much time should have passed, right? I truly did not expect that you’ve already fused the ’Netherworld Fire’..."

The Lord of Love’s eyes were full of pity. She looked at Gu Shen and said softly, "To be the Netherworld King, yet unable to save the one you love... you must be in great pain now, mustn’t you?"

"Senior, do you have a way?"

Gu Shen clenched his teeth tightly and said in a low voice, "If you can rescue her, Gu Shen is willing to go through boiling cauldrons and blazing flames, without the slightest hesitation!"

"There’s no need to go through boiling cauldrons and blazing flames."

The Lord of Love’s fingertip lightly brushed past Chu Ling’s cheek, and those fragments of porcelain thereupon broke apart. Once the flesh was shattered, the soul ought to dissipate with it.

But...

At this moment the body turned into feather‑like light.

After it shattered,

there was still a cluster of lustrous radiance, curled up like an infant.

That was the "Spirit" nurtured within Divine Temple Mountain, Chu Ling’s final consciousness, which, due to the violent impact of the Red Gate, had fallen into a self‑protective sleep.

"With me, she is safe."

The Lord of Love said calmly, "Her Spirit was born in the Chaos and void. If you truly wish to ’revive’ her, you must either find a second expanse of Chaos and void, or allow her to possess a body that truly belongs to herself."

The former was what Turing had spoken of.

Using the Dead Sea Ancient Scroll to reshape a second Deep Sea!

As for the latter...

Gu Shen was taken aback for a moment.

The Lord of Love pointed at her own chest with her fingertip. The golden gauze tore, and that cluster of lustrous radiance actually merged directly into the Lord of Love’s chest.

The woman on the Throne spoke softly.

"Since this little girl’s Spirit was born of me,"

the Lord of Love looked at Gu Shen and enunciated each word: "then this Silent Annihilation Ku‑body of mine can be considered as belonging to her as well."