Chapter 1864: Chapter 456: I Am Myself_2
"..."
Gu Shen knew that the birth of a Divine Throne was never easy.
"The existence of the Divine Infant is a secret, but it’s not just a secret between Gu Changzhi and me. The former Netherworld King was also in the know."
"That guy and Gu Changzhi both thought about leaving the ’Spark’ to you... Due to the special nature of Chi Huo, theoretically, if the Divine Infant were to grow up, it would become the ultimate leader, born to wield authority. Compared to Chi Huo, the level of the Gospel Box Fragment might be slightly inferior. Therefore, no Spark would reject the Divine Infant."
Gu Shen pursed his lips.
"So... the Divine Infant is an absolute leader capable of merging with the Spark?"
"That’s correct."
Turing lowered his head and said, "As for the issue of the Divine Infant, how Gu Changzhi and the former Netherworld King resolved it, I don’t know... But what I do know is that the [Truth] fell into your hands. From the moment you held the Ruler of Truth, the rights to the Netherworld Fire were settled, and the wheels of fate began to turn. You, me, all of us are just one of its links."
"The former Netherworld King..."
Gu Shen murmured, "My impression of him is terrible..."
A Divine Throne that killed indiscriminately, colluded with the Traveler Clan in betrayal, and ambushed and killed countless innocent Transcendents.
When the Light Temple initiated the Holy Judgment War back in the day, it was indeed a thing that pleased everyone’s heart.
"Most people hated him, loathed him."
"But the former Netherworld King... before he ’lost control’, was actually a very rational guy."
Turing paused, "That’s also why you found his Netherworld Palace Disaster Realm at Frost Iron Mountain. Given Gu Changzhi’s character, agreeing to have the Netherworld King build the Land of Divine Miracles in the East Continent shows that this guy wasn’t the all-bad legend; he wasn’t a completely ’bad seed’. "
Indeed.
The colors of this world are still divided into black and white.
Human nature is complex; how can a simple notion of ’good and bad’ be used to differentiate it?
A person like the Netherworld King is complex and had the courage to seize the dirtiest and most dark Spark among the Seven Gods, which is also a kind of boldness, isn’t it?
Gu Shen furrowed his brow and asked, "So... before losing control, what did the former Netherworld King want to do?"
Turing’s expression was momentarily lost.
He fell into reminiscing.
After a moment, Turing chuckled emptily and said, "That guy always hoped to create a perfect ’Pure Land’, where each departed soul could have its own Soul Comforting Village."
The waves in the Array Box Sea Area suddenly became quiet.
Only Turing’s soft whisper remained.
"It’s a shame this dream is too grand. Just by relying on the Netherworld King’s Spark alone, it couldn’t be achieved... So he was always searching for something that could turn this Divine Miracle into reality."
Gu Shen fell silent.
He had already vaguely guessed what the Netherworld King was searching for.
"That thing... is the Whispering Tree?"
"That’s right."
Turing said, "What the former Netherworld King was searching for... was the ’Whispering Tree’. This thing only exists in the legendary ’Oasis’, enduring the baptism of Source Material without collapse, and no matter how the Storm ravages, it would not be destroyed."
Just hearing this, Gu Shen found it absurd.
He subconsciously murmured, "It’s impossible to be destroyed by a Source Material Storm; how could such a thing exist?"
If there were really a Whispering Tree,
Then wouldn’t the place where the Whispering Tree reside be equivalent to an oasis!
"Yes... how could such a thing exist?"
At this point, Turing laughed, "Anyway, it can’t be found in the real world."
Turing looked behind Gu Shen.
And Gu Shen tacitly summoned his own [Pure Land].
He turned around, examining the massive Sky-reaching Tree behind him.
Countless life-containing long leaves floated amidst the snow-laden Divine Miracle Realm.
The legendary "Whispering Tree" had now been found.
Not in the real world, but in the Spiritual World.
How the Netherworld King found the "Whispering Tree", the answer was evident.
"It was ’Truth’... he used ’Truth’."
Turing calmly said, "Since the ’Whispering Tree’ couldn’t be found in the real world, why not ’create’ a Whispering Tree."
"The former Netherworld King consumed a vast amount of spiritual power, attempting to use [Truth] to create the ’Whispering Tree’..."
"He failed, but he also succeeded."
Turing looked at Gu Shen.
"The Ruler of Truth consumed too much of his spirit... A great deal of ominousness and disaster descended, and before the former Netherworld King saw the Whispering Tree sky-reaching, he had already lost control..."
This is why the Netherworld King had to flee to the [Old World].
Because by then, his consciousness was already out of control.
The last bit of clarity prompted him to choose to escape.
In the end, he failed to escape the fate of "losing control", the mighty Netherworld King died outside the void of the giant wall, unknown to anyone, what a desolate fate.
But the meaning of success was also quite obvious.
"A Divine Throne focused all his life’s energy and effort, even sinking his own spirit into losing control... He paid such an enormous price that in the end, the legendary ’Whispering Tree’ indeed appeared in this world, albeit only as a projection in the Spiritual World, but it ’exists’ nonetheless."
Turing gently caressed the long leaf of the Whispering Tree swaying in the void.
"At the very beginning... it was just a seed."
Speaking here.
The rest of the story, Gu Shen already knew.
Mr. Gu Changzhi encountered the out-of-control Netherworld King upon his return to the Five Continents, and ended the Netherworld King’s life...
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