Chapter 1 The Giant Scarlet Gate

The giant scarlet gate stood in the center of the spiritual sea, separating the array box from the dead sea area.

This was a huge dividing line.

Fisher, Gong Zi, and the other viewers who were invited to the capital to attend the "Secret Meeting" witnessed the most unforgettable scene of their lives.

After Turing raised his arms.

Giant waves surged in the array box sea, and the three people standing at the crest of the wave were "pushed" into the darkness of the red gate.

Immediately after.

The darkness behind the [Red Gate] was illuminated by stars. Those were the souls of the deceased.

They returned to this world in another way – the war between the Ancient Text Society and the Deep Sea had never ended.

At this moment.

It was the Ancient Text Society's retaliation after enduring and waiting for thirty years!

Frost and snow spread at the crest of the wave, and Gu Shen unreservedly expanded the Pure Land domain. Those shining stars floated in the sea, and at this moment, they were all "awakened."

Those fragile and swaying soul fires, like lanterns, were enveloped by the long leaves of the *Su Xuan Mu*. The Pure Land world accepted them.

They came back to life!

The Dead Sea area also "came alive" at this moment. The [Deep Sea] sensed the abnormality the moment these souls of the Ancient Text Society were resurrected, and countless waves roared and swept over.

Gu Shen, Turing, and Chu Ling. The three stood on the waves.

Two torrents of data code collided, and the entire [Red Gate] was illuminated by dazzling brilliance. This [Gate] was one-way, and the viewers in the array box sea were not affected by the impact of this wave of confrontation.

But the three at the center of the battlefield were different. After eleven evolutions.

The mental strength of the [Deep Sea] had reached an unprecedented peak. This vast sea was like a thousand troops and ten thousand horses, rushing forward –

"Boom!"

Turing stood at the forefront of the wave.

He stretched out a single hand and opened his five fingers flatly.

The seawater suddenly separated. The mental waves of the Dead Sea area split and spread a hundred meters away, as if encountering a huge invisible transparent canopy.

"Concentrate on expanding the Pure Land," Turing said calmly.

Gu Shen sat at the crest of the wave. After hearing this, he just raised his eyes slightly and then collected his mind.

The moment he stepped into the [Red Gate], he began to use the "Pure Land" to collect the broken souls of the Ancient Text Society.

One move.

One lamp of fire lit up in the darkness. The shadow of the towering *Su Xuan Mu* swayed in the sea, sacred and solemn.

The soul fires of these deceased members of the Ancient Text Society were attached to and dotted on the thousands of swaying long leaves, making this dark sea area seem like daytime.

Fire trees and silver flowers, a never-night sky. They were the stars. The *Su Xuan Mu* was the sky.

And those long leaves, adorned with starlight and constantly spreading, were like arms.

The source of these arms was Gu Shen.

He sat cross-legged on the waves, rising higher and higher with the waves. At this moment, he looked like the dignified Bodhisattva in ancient East Continent legends, who could drive away evil spirits and had a thousand arms.

On the other side of the dark sea, a towering water mansion also rose from the ground. The black shadow condensed by the [Deep Sea] stood at the highest point of that water mansion.

It narrowed its eyes, sized up the strange sight of the fire trees and silver flowers in front of it, and murmured, "After eleven iterations, I didn't even notice the existence of this back door."

"Isn't it normal that you didn't notice it?"

Turing chuckled, "Don't you want to see who left this back door?"

The Deep Sea was silent for a second and said coldly, "Turing, Gu Shen, Chu Ling... you dare to come back!"

In his prediction.

After Turing drove the airship away from Gubao Fortress, there was a high probability that he would not return to the land, because the current Five Continents were all within his surveillance range. As long as they returned, he would immediately notice!

So, the return journey was a very stupid behavior.

Although these three people had not set foot on land, they had returned to the spiritual sea through the [Red Gate], which was also a very stupid behavior.

He was considering how to find Turing and Gu Shen, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to come to his door.

In the world known to the [Deep Sea], everything happened for a reason.

With Turing's meticulous personality, it was impossible for him to act rashly.

The fact that this guy was willing to expose the [Red Gate] and enter the Dead Sea area must mean that there was something worth paying this price for, and it must be completed!

After a brief silence.

The Deep Sea opened his mouth, "You want to promote the 'Lion's Awakening Technology'." This was not difficult to guess.

The only thing that was worth Turing paying such a high price for was "Lion's Awakening."

"You guessed right, you are indeed my good son."

Turing looked at the black anthropomorphic phantom in front of him. It seemed like he was praising him, but in reality, he was mocking him.

The moment he stepped into the Dead Sea area, the war had already begun. Gu Shen's Pure Land was collecting the remaining souls of the Ancient Text Society. These spirits had been soaked in the array box for a long time, and Turing didn't mind saying a few more words to the Deep Sea, because his spirit was also spreading, connected to every scattered soul through the Pure Land.

This war was a war between the Ancient Text Society and the Deep Sea. It was also a war between Turing and the Deep Sea.

For thirty years, he had been laying out a plan in the underground of the capital as Cui Zhongcheng, waiting for Gu Shen to grow up while collecting the souls of the deceased members of the Ancient Text Society, freezing time with the clock seal to seal them. The purpose was for today's "battle" in the Dead Sea area.

Turing was not a God Seat.

He didn't have a Fire Seed, nor did he have strong combat power.

But his "mental strength" was unique in this world.

A forbidden existence who had lived for an unknown amount of time, his soul had continued to grow and become thicker with the passage of time.

The stars had already been lit.

And he was the "sun."

"You entered the Dead Sea area because you want to find the 'core of power,' release the 'hypnosis' link, and let enough humans enter the dream state. Then, in the dream, you can complete the 'Lion's Awakening'."

The Deep Sea continued to speak, and it completely dismantled and revealed Turing's plan. This was no longer a problem that could be solved by simple computing power.

After the eleventh upgrade.

The Deep Sea did possess a strange power similar to "divination and calculation." It could not only see the thousands of results of the development of things, but also find the most likely one through the so-called "probability theory."

Turing still had a mocking expression on his face and spat out two words: "Continue."

"There is no follow-up."

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

The slender black shadow standing on the towering water mansion slowly stretched out its fist and clenched it tightly, aiming at the direction where Turing was.

Boom!

The Dead Sea area instantly boiled, and countless seawater poured and condensed. The mental computing power in the deep-sea area began to be conscripted, and the forbidden rules of the Dead Sea area were triggered. The Deep Sea discovered the intruder, so it began to use all its computing power to kill the intruder.

Even if the intruder now was his creator, Alan Turing.

"Rumble rumble –"

The heavy hitting sound instantly exploded on the surface of the shield, and a huge weight poured down.

Turing just groaned softly.

Chu Ling and Gu Shen inside the shield didn't even feel the existence of "pressure"!

The mental attack launched by the Deep Sea was all blocked by Turing alone.

"Fool."

Turing smiled and said, "Who said that the person who wants to release 'Lion's Awakening' after entering the Dead Sea area must be me?"

The Deep Sea frowned.

"Don't I know the rules of the Dead Sea area? This is the forbidden sea area that I personally created."

Turing said coldly, word by word, "You have the right to mobilize these mental computing powers to launch an impact on me. Do you have the right to attack the Supreme Council?"

These words made the Deep Sea unable to refute.

So far, even after eleven upgrades were completed, it was still just a "dead object" in the human world.

To put it bluntly, it was just a "toy" being held in the palm of the Supreme Council.

The fate of a toy was usually tragic.

So it had been struggling. In the beginning, it strictly abided by the Three Laws of Robotics, and while protecting the order of the human world, it continued to strengthen itself.

The Deep Sea found a loophole in the main system through continuous iteration and modification of the basic logic.

When Turing set it up, he left an instruction that had a higher priority than everything else. When encountering major problems, the Deep Sea must listen to the opinions of the Supreme Council.

And in the main system's infrastructure, the definition of the Supreme Council of the human world was "the supreme leader who has successfully fused with the Fire Seed."

So.

After Qinglong provided protection to the main system, the Deep Sea began to carry out "extreme" command obedience. When encountering major problems, it only consulted Qinglong, because Guangming was dead, the female emperor of North Continent was still young, Duzhan was in slumber, and the right to speak of the South Continent Storm could not be brought to the table, so the opinions of the two gods of the Source Tower were enough to determine the ending.

As for the Wine Lord, it was just a decoration.

So.

This series of logics, simplified to the end, was self-tampered into only needing to follow Qinglong's orders.

The Supreme Council?

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

Following his orders meant following the procedures in the basic system!

This kind of change was weakening the power of the other Supreme Council members. The Deep Sea had begun to do this kind of "reduction" more than twenty years ago, but no matter how much "reduction" it did, it could not change one fact.

The Dead Sea area was built for the Supreme Council.

The Fire Seed leader could always step into this area. It could not launch an attack on the Supreme Council.

At least that was the case at the moment.

"You want to talk about Gu Shen?"

The Deep Sea's gaze fell firmly on this young man. It suddenly realized the purpose of Turing bringing this young man to this sea area.

The person who really wanted to release the "Lion's Awakening" code was not Turing. It was Gu Shen.

As early as seven years ago, the Deep Sea had noticed the "unusual" nature of Gu Shen's identity. This young man had received too many divine favors, and some of them were too unreasonable. At that time, it began to suspect whether Gu Shen was related to a certain God Seat, and the result calculated later was that Gu Shen had a very high probability of obtaining the approval of the "Nether King Fire Seed."

Due to the Divine Concealment Robe.

During the meeting in Guangming City, the Deep Sea did not feel the aura of Gu Shen's authority. But one thing was certain.

Even if Gu Shen had really obtained the approval of the Fire Seed, he had definitely not started fusing with it!

Otherwise, the assassination in the [Old World] would not have been so smooth. A transcendent who had fused with the Fire Seed, even if it was only the initial fusion, could grasp the power of the origin of authority. Gu Shen's strength was indeed very strong, but it was still a little short of the origin realm.

For a specific example, please refer to Meng Xizhou.

"I guessed it. Gu Shen is the chosen one of a certain Fire Seed."

The Deep Sea smiled and said, "But is he the Supreme Council? According to the strict definition, he is not considered one yet."

"That's right, he is not one yet."

Turing said faintly, "But soon, he will be."

Gu Shen heard this conversation in his heart. He raised his head and looked at Turing in confusion.

Mr. Turing slowly took out a mass of dark, beating "black flames" from his arms, like a heart. The scope of the Pure Land domain was shrouded in light, but this mass of flames was wrapped in full darkness. Even if only a wisp of aura leaked out, it was enough to make people feel "nervous" and "uneasy."

No one was more familiar with this mass of black flames than Gu Shen.

Just not long ago, he had tried to fuse with it once in the Qingzong Cemetery.

"You didn't expect that I would bring this thing out, did you?" Turing grinned.

This sentence was said to both the Deep Sea and Gu Shen.

"Fusing with the 'Nether Flame' will bring a lot of disasters. These disasters will act on your soul, muscles, and future destiny."

Turing said softly, "If you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss of eternal doom, so you fused with it once before, but it was not smooth, so you gave up that fusion with the help of [Reversal]."

"Congratulations. It was the right choice to give up the fusion at that time. The former Nether King did a lot of protective measures after 'losing control.' These measures were only to ensure that this Fire Seed could meet the correct Nether Lord in the future. If you had forcibly fused with it at the beginning, it would have only attracted a lot of disasters and brought you misfortune."

Gu Shen was stunned.

"However, today is different –"

"If you want to fuse with the Nether Flame, there is no day more suitable than today."

Turing handed this mass of black flames to Gu Shen. He looked at the brilliantly blooming fire trees and silver flowers and said with a smile, "I have collected a total of one thousand six hundred and forty-seven wisps of the remaining spirits of the Ancient Text Society for thirty years, and I have linked them all with 'spirit.' Soon they will wake up one after another, and we will share the disasters of the 'Nether Flame' with you."

"No, you can't do this..."

Gu Shen didn't take the Nether Flame immediately.

He never thought that the weight of this flame would be so heavy. So heavy that he didn't want to take it.

This was the souls and lives of more than 1,600 members of the Ancient Text Society.

"Don't forget, they are already dead. Without the authority of the Nether King, they will always be dead people."

Turing looked directly into Gu Shen's eyes and said calmly, "According to my many years of observation, you are not a compassionate person on weekdays. Why are you hesitant at a critical moment?"

"To be the Nether King, you must be calm enough, decisive enough, and sharp enough."

"Take this fire and fuse with it."

"Then don't let me... us down."

Boom!

A heavy muffled sound came from a hundred meters away!

Gu Shen's swaying spirit instantly regained consciousness. Only then did he realize that Mr. Turing had been resisting the Deep Sea's crazy mental attacks while talking to him. The Deep Sea, after eleven upgrades, mobilized the mental power of the deep-sea area to launch an attack. What a terrifying offensive this was!

He no longer hesitated. The moment he took the Nether Flame, he immersed his spirit in it. He had already experienced the process of fusing with the Nether Flame once –

Everything was familiar.

But this "fusion" was completely different from before!

Before the majestic disasters inside the Nether Flame could descend, they were divided by the long leaves of the *Su Xuan Mu*. Mr. Turing's spirit moved them evenly and sent them to the remaining spirits of each member of the Ancient Text Society. Those flickering stars were covered with a faint black color. However, what disaster in this world was more tragic than the result of "death?"

There was none.

The biggest disaster in this world only resulted in death. And these swaying soul fires were all soul fires belonging to "the dead."

To be able to use such means to share the karma for Gu Shen and thus promote the fusion of the Fire Seed, only Turing could be found in the world.

Because only he was proficient in the lost ancient text forbidden techniques of this world.

"Why is there an aura of a Prayer Technique?"

In the Pure Land Divine Realm, Li Qingci raised her head.

The Pure Land was turbulent, and everyone was uneasy, so they came under the *Su Xuan Mu*. Everyone saw the "strange" scene at this moment.

Strands of black aura flowed through the long leaves of the *Su Xuan Mu* to those scattered fluorescent lights.

Li Qingci was no stranger to this black aura. This was the power of the Nether King.

Every soul that could "survive" in the Pure Land was saved by the authority of the Nether King. However, the authority of the Nether King had side effects. The black aura at this moment was a manifestation of disaster and ominousness.

However, the *Su Xuan Mu* was not corroded.

Because a layer of mysterious power shrouded the thousands of branches and leaves, completely enveloping these disaster auras.

No one knew what this "mysterious power" was better than Li Qingci.

Years ago in Shenci Mountain, she had sold her lifespan more than once and used the Prayer Technique, which was the fairest ancient text forbidden technique in the world.

The Scales of Fate would actively settle the price.

How much lifespan you paid, how much "good luck" would come.

The millions of creatures in this world were all equal, because each of them had twenty-four hours a day. On the Scales of Fate, time was the only chip, and the "favor of fate" that was exchanged came in the form of this mysterious power.

Back then, Li Qingci paid twenty years of her life in exchange for seeing Gu Shen once.

She had seen the flow of fate of the "Prayer Technique" once. The mysterious power at that time was probably only one-tenth or one-twentieth of what it was now.

What was the concept?

Someone launched a Prayer Technique, wrapped the *Su Xuan Mu*, to complete a miracle. And the cost was two hundred years.

Perhaps it was four hundred years, or even longer.

What exactly was happening in the outside world?

Li Qingci was not the only one who saw the existence of the "Prayer Technique." There was also Chu Ling, who had studied this forbidden technique in Shenci Mountain.

At this moment, she stood beside Turing. She looked at this phantom, which was as blurred as code, and asked softly, "You used the Prayer Technique? So ancient text forbidden techniques can also touch forbidden areas like 'Fire Seeds'?"

"In theory, as long as the price is high enough, there is nothing that can't be done."

Turing lowered his eyes and smiled and said, "After all, 'ancient texts' are also a kind of diffusion of transcendent power. However, I did not pray for the power of fate to directly descend on the Fire Seed leader."

"The price is high enough..."

Chu Ling's heart trembled. She looked at Turing and murmured, "What price did you pay?"

Turing supported the dark sky with one hand, resisting the Deep Sea's frenzy.

He turned his head to look at the young man sitting cross-legged in countless soul fires, smiled, and said, "I used five hundred years to pray so that the innocent deceased souls of the Ancient Text Society can usher in a new life in the Nether King's Pure Land. Do you think this deal is worth it?"

"Next is the war between me and that 'rebellious son'."
Hu Die Lan