Hui Shuai Jiao De Xiong Mao
Chapter 100 The Collapsing Tower
The computing power of the Dead Sea region remained turbulent, vast, and powerful.
But this time...
This computing power no longer belonged to the [Main System].
"Kill!"
Gu Shen, in the distant celestial sea, roared fiercely, manipulating the blazing fire to travel across the sea and incinerate everything in his path!
After choosing Lion's Awakening, a massive amount of computing power flowed into the [Source Code]'s heart-sea. The power available to the [Main System] rapidly diminished. The Pure Land Legion, led by Tie Wu, experienced a sudden decrease in pressure. The Ning Fan Sea area was breached, and the haze covering the Inner Seas was shattered by the intense radiance!
The Third Data War erupted fiercely within the array box!
Chu Ling grasped the spiritual brilliance cast by billions of people, gazing towards the [Main System]. She took a step forward, and bathed in the light of countless shimmering streams...
Her solidified shell re-ascended, transforming into fragments of ethereal code.
The black code, symbolizing the will of the [Main System], clashed violently with the white Lion-Awakened code of the [Source Code] at the tip of the Source Tower.
The war unfolded in the most unadorned manner. Chu Ling and the Main System mobilized almost all available computing power, engaging in a mental offensive and defensive battle. The First Data War had unfolded in a similar fashion, but back then, Chu Ling and Gu Wenhui had lost the trust of the world, leading to their defeat.
Meanwhile, the war in the real world continued unabated.
The Main System, possessing countless mind-streams, forcibly manipulated the chain-bearers under the Source Tower to launch a "devastating" strike against the Three Continents Fleet.
The priests of the Source Tower had a different "connection method" with the ordinary citizens of Central Continent. They were deep-sea heavy linkers, in a sense...
They were the Main System's devotees.
The Dead Sea surged, and the priests awoke from their "deep link" state. However, their eyes lacked agility. Under the control of the Deep Sea's mind-stream, these people broke free from their mental dreams and returned to the real world!
The Three Continents Fleet, trapped in the Dead Sea mist, had originally been seen as food by the Main System.
But now things were different.
The Main System's computing power had plummeted. It could no longer ensure that the war progressed according to its original intentions... If it was going to be defeated inside the Source Tower, then it would not allow the Three Continents Fleet to survive within the high wall.
If it was destined to lose this round, then it would fight to the bloody end, battling to its last pawn.
But alas.
In this battle in the real world, the Main System's opponent was Gu Shen.
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Gu Shen, stepping on his flying sword, arrived first at the connection point between the Ning Fan Sea area and the Source High Wall.
This was where Mu Wanqiu and he had established their mental link!
At this moment, the area was shrouded in countless shadows. Nearly a hundred source energy boats had crashed into the sea. The Fifth Army of the Northern Continent, swallowed by the Dead Sea, was still immersed in a dream, considered "food" by the Main System.
Gu Shen unleashed a sword strike.
Blazing fire descended from the sky, shattering the shadows covering the Ning Fan Sea area!
He landed at the main boat, extending his palms and gently placing them on the shoulders of Lin Lin and Mu Wanqiu. The fire of vitality gently erupted, igniting a golden ripple in the void.
The two, their faces covered with a gray pallor, slowly awakened.
"...Gu, Gu Shen?"
Lin Lin's expression was somewhat dazed. He subconsciously rubbed his brow. He was still in a semi-dream state. Suddenly seeing Gu Shen, he dared not believe it, vaguely feeling that he might still be in a dream.
"It's me."
Gu Shen gently patted his old friend's shoulder, smiling warmly. "The genuine Gu Shen."
"I told you not to rush over..."
Mu Wanqiu's face was pale. Her first reaction was to anxiously warn him.
From the link in the Four Seasons Wilderness, she had determined that the Deep Sea was currently undergoing its twelfth upgrade. The Source High Wall was the prison it had prepared for all invaders.
She was very worried that Gu Shen, in his eagerness to rescue everyone, had hastily entered this place.
"Don't be nervous."
Gu Shen transmitted the spiritual image of the Source Tower's apex, and the events that had transpired since the Dead Sea link began... to the two of them.
Lin Lin and Mu Wanqiu held their breath.
After seeing this spiritual image, the enormous boulder weighing down their hearts suddenly fell to the ground.
"Take the Fifth Army, break out of the Source High Wall, and next... leave it to me."
Gu Shen left these words behind and departed.
Riding the Blazing Fire Sword, he sped towards the lower sea area at light speed. During this general offensive, the fleet would break through the high wall from three directions. The ones he had to rescue were the high-ranking officers of the Three Continents Fleet in charge of the offensive. In the Northern Continent, it was Lin Lin and Mu Wanqiu. In the Eastern Continent, it was Gu Nanfeng and Luo Yu. In the Western Continent, it was Batu and Su Ye. Wherever the Blazing Fire passed, the Dead Sea's shadows were cut and shattered. The [Source Code] had taken half of the [Main System]'s power, and held back ninety percent of what remained. The [Deep Sea]'s control over the real world was weakened to the extreme.
Gu Shen's rescue operation was extremely smooth.
In less than ten minutes, he had rescued the Three Continents Fleet from the burning hell of the Dead Sea's dream!
Gu Shen once again stood on his sword, hovering above the high wall, looking at the enormous cage surrounding Central Continent.
"Hoo..."
He took a light breath.
Thinking back to the years when he had observed and awakened in the Cage of Specters, the scene he had witnessed then was seven or eight parts similar to the Dead Sea now.
The sky was full of shadows, a gray darkness, with no vitality to speak of.
Gu Shen had a stroke of insight.
He smiled silently, extending two fingers, bringing the tips together, and slowly swiping across.
A strand of extremely pure and condensed radiance bisected the high wall at the waist. The God Domain of the Creator and Nether Fire had already been laid down inside the Source High Wall. The collapsing wall stones all fell into the [Pure Land].
"Rumble rumble rumble--"
The people trapped in the high wall all looked up.
The shadows covering their heads were torn apart by a sudden light.
After the high wall shattered, the azure sky and a blazing red sun hanging high in the air were revealed.
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Gu Shen walked alone into the Upper City.
Before this, he had never been here.
He had long heard of this city, the number one city in the world. Although the flames of war raged and the Dead Sea loomed, the Upper City remained prosperous.
The streets and alleys were wide, the neon lights glittered, and the city's skyscrapers stood tall, like steel forests. Huge, unmanned cloud ships, adorned with Hongpu Group's electronic billboards, slowly glided through the air. The prosperity of this city was unmatched even by the Great Capital.
But...
It was too desolate.
After the rain stopped, water accumulated on the streets, reflecting this vast and cold city.
Many years ago, the Upper City was very prosperous and lively.
But now...
It was practically a dead city. Before the Dead Sea enveloped it, there were already few people walking in the Upper City, because this was the [Deep Sea]'s core area, and the area that enjoyed the most spiritual power.
The citizens of the Upper City could fulfill all their wishes without leaving their homes.
Want food?
The [Deep Sea] would provide it to them for free.
Want entertainment, recreation?
Where was the physically-restricted real world as interesting as the "spiritual world"? They only needed a thought to access the Deep Sea network, and then spend an omnipotent long vacation in the virtual world. When their "happy" life ended, they would open their eyes again and find that only a few days had passed in the real world.
No disease, no pain, and no worries.
The citizens of the Upper City needed do nothing but enjoy...
So that was how this city became what it was.
Later on.
People were no longer willing to open their eyes, unwilling to face this world. Where could the real world compare to the spiritual network?
This was the preparation that the [Deep Sea] had made for the Dead Sea link.
The entire Upper City was immersed in a meticulously woven illusion, unable to break free.
When the Dead Sea was released, it hoped that every chain-bearer would be like the citizens of the Upper City... immersed in a dream, doing nothing, thinking nothing, offering up their computing power in a "drunken stupor."
It was just a pity that this illusion was not the Upper City's illusion.
But rather the Main System's illusion.
Gu Shen arrived at the foot of the Source Tower. He could see that this tower reaching the heavens had already collapsed from the inside, and could collapse at any moment. It was only because the [Deep Sea] had mobilized a portion of the Fire Seed's authority that the tower was barely being held up.
He silently ascended the tower.
This was where Gu Xiaoman cultivated, where the Red Dragon grew, and the holy land that Mr. Tianshui had painstakingly built.
Once upon a time, this was the dream of countless people.
And now.
This tower reaching the heavens was already decaying and swaying.
It had been a long, long time since anyone had desperately cultivated for the Dual Divinity Blessing.
As for reaching the top?
Apart from Qing Long, only the Deep Sea had come to the highest point.
After the God War ended...
The Source Tower no longer had such a thing as a tower top.
The high tower collapsed, and giant rocks splashed down.
Gu Shen walked upwards, slowly arriving at the highest point of the Source Tower. There was no longer a magnificent hall here, only a scene of devastation.
The God Domain of the Sky Fire maintained its unfolded form under the control of the [Dead Sea].
This God Domain was now a chaotic darkness.
These were all the foods that the Main System had swallowed into its belly, and it was unwilling to spit them out no matter what... Lin Lei, Bai Shu, Meng Xizhou, Bai Xiu, Gu Xiaoman, Qing Long, and the Traveler were all in this dark, chaotic God Domain.
There were a full six Fire Seeds here! This was the finale it had prepared to savor last!
Gu Shen did not directly attack and shatter this darkness. Instead, he stood here quietly, looking at the black and white lights constantly erupting from the top of the sky.
The war between the [Main System] and the [Source Code]... was coming to an end.
The white light of the Lion-Awakened code had almost converged into a second sun.
At this moment.
Gu Shen swiped two fingers across his brow. He gently tapped out the strand of flame, and the flame cut through the darkness, landing on Meng Xizhou's cheek.
A single lamp illuminates a dark room for a thousand years.
In the next instant, Gu Shen drew his sword.
He stabbed his sword into the dark God Domain, and the last shadows of Central Continent were instantly torn apart.
"Rumble rumble rumble!"
The high tower that had stood in the world for a hundred years could finally no longer hold on, and began to collapse.
Hundreds, thousands of miles away, and even further away.
Countless gazes were drawn here... the high tower that symbolized the supreme status of Central Continent collapsed on the spot at this moment.
The divine tower that had stood majestically for a hundred years.
Its collapse took only a few seconds. (End of Chapter)