Light Fortress-Chapter 1426 - 185: Deuslayer_2
Gu Shen’s expression grew heavy; even without Chu Ling’s reminder, he clearly remembered this number!
Lu Nanzhi had told him... During the most difficult period of searching for the [Key], in the meeting room of the Ancient Literature Society, there were a few special faces with numbers that needed to be memorized—
032, now it can basically be determined to be his teacher, Zhou Jiren.
073, the Fortress Guardian of the Beizhou Gubao Fortress, Lin Lin.
One of them is 064!
According to Lu Nanzhi’s speculation, this is a professor from the Central Continent Academy. Because the number is so old, the qualification must be very deep. Gu Shen previously suspected it to be Master Ian, who was living in seclusion in the small town of Linz, but later this speculation was overthrown by himself because Ian’s qualification was too deep. If he had a special number, it would probably be at the level of 002, 003.
Now that Red Dragon has proactively revealed the number, the truth behind the scenes is finally coming to light.
"What, still don’t believe it?"
Seeing that Gu Shen remained silent, Red Dragon stretched out two fingers and pointed at his forehead, "I have stored a portion of the ’meeting content’ in the form of image data. If needed, I can provide further proof..."
"No need."
Gu Shen shook his head decisively, looking at the ace priest of the Source Tower before him with a complicated expression.
"I just feel... it’s a bit absurd."
"Absurd?"
Red Dragon paused, immediately understanding Gu Shen’s meaning: "To become the ’First Divine Envoy’ of the Source Tower, Mr. Tianshui gave me a lot of help, and staying at the fourth order was also his idea."
Once a breakthrough is made and a title achieved... Red Dragon would not remain as "free" as he is now.
Handling affairs across continents is basically impossible!
"Tianshui... Tianshui..."
Gu Shen recently heard the name of this Upper City exalted figure more than once.
Among the Seven Gods, the Sky Divine Throne of the Source Tower is the most mysterious!
Because he has held the position of Divine Throne for nearly a century.
In the secular world, even those who live long lives only reach eighty or ninety years old.
In this century, the Five Continents have undergone great changes, and time has caused much upheaval... The Seven Gods’ Seats have changed hands more than once, yet only the "Sky" remains firmly seated, seemingly truly distant from the birth, old age, sickness, and death of the world.
To sit on the Divine Throne is not to be a God.
The flame of life burns forever, but life has an end.
High Order Transcendents can live decades longer than ordinary people, and powerful figures with titles like Mr. Gu, if they do not engage in disputes or battles in their later years and nurture their later years with peace, living to one hundred and twenty or thirty is not a big problem.
But once they go to war, things become different.
Gu Qilin in his later years must support the Gu family and is destined not to live that long.
Every time they use Extraordinary Essence to break the rules of the material world, a "price" must be paid...
Destiny’s scales are balanced!
The stronger the Transcendent, the more easily they are entangled by calamity!
The Divine Throne... even more so.
Yet the combat strength of the Sky, after a hundred years, remains unfathomable, and among the Seven Gods, no one dares to engage them head-on.
It seems they are not worried about the erosion of worldly rules.
If the Divine Throne accomplishes these, it belongs to a "Divine Miracle".
Then for Mr. Tianshui, who supports the crown of the Sky and is still alive now... it is an incomprehensible, rule-breaking "exception".
He is older than the Sky Divine Throne is.
He has lived for at least one hundred and thirty years!
The specific number, no one knows.
Compared to Tianshui’s age, whether Gu Qilin or Zhou Jiren, they can only be considered "youngsters", off by two or three generations.
"Forgive my rudeness."
Gu Shen rubbed his brow, puzzled by it all.
"Mr. Tianshui is the supporter of the Sky Divine Throne. He has cultivated countless priests, personally elevated the Upper City to the pinnacle of the Five Continents, and helped the Source Tower become humanity’s first power. Why would he do all this..."
Red Dragon laughed easily.
He gazed into Gu Shen’s eyes, "You are the [Key]. The reason Mr. Tianshui does all of this, you don’t know?"
"..."
Gu Shen was left speechless.
"Key..."
To him, the [Key] was just an identity. At the very beginning, he thought it was because he had to open the [Red Door] and link to the meeting room that he was given such a title.
Later, every member of the Ancient Literature Society he met called him this.
Because they also did not know what the [Key] was...
When Turing left, he only told the embers of the Ancient Literature Society that finding the [Key] was equivalent to finding hope.
Everyone was looking for the [Key].
Everyone believed the [Key] was hope—
But no one could tell Gu Shen what the [Key] actually was.
"..."
Red Dragon looked up; the skies over Sangzhou Cave, which had just cleared up, had become overcast again, with clouds scattering rapidly, gathering even faster. The thick volcanic ash piled up under the false Heavenly Curtain, and the cold wind brought a suffocating chill.
The Source Essence Breath from the southern tip of the Ice Sea was pouring intensely towards Sangzhou Cave.
Located at the southernmost tip, the South Cave naturally bears the brunt.
"Mr. Tianshui does all this for one thing only."
Red Dragon exhaled slowly, maintaining a calm tone, and spoke two words from his lips.
"Deicide." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
A scarlet lightning flashed across the overcast Skytop.
Gu Shen was momentarily lost.
The rain came all of a sudden, the trampled mud of the beast tide became muddy in the rain curtain, neither of them used their domain to avoid the rain, the Source Essence emitted by the domain evaporated the raindrops, it was unclear whether it was mist or rain thread, permeating the vision between the two of them.
