Light Barrier Novel Chapter 94

After Madam left, the clinic closed early as an exception.

Gu Shen returned ho and fed Orange. Chu Ling was still offline.

He connected to Deep Sea alone.

This ti, as Gu Shen had expected, after summoning the Blazing Fire in the real world, the trial of maintaining stability on the first level of the Deep Waters no longer posed any difficulty.

Perhaps it was because his ntal power was several tis stronger than before, but his ntal space was unusually stable. The Blazing Fire, which had previously struggled to maintain its form, was now dancing energetically in his palm, blooming and retracting, playfully changing shapes.

Thanks to the assassination attempt by the Eternal Foundation and the life-and-death battle with Qu Shui, summoning the Blazing Fire and maintaining its stability was now as simple as eating and drinking to Gu Shen.

Rather than calling it a gradual buildup, it was more like a reconstruction after destruction.

The cultivation of transcendental power is indeed a slow process, but it doesn’t an I can’t reach the sky in a single step, Gu Shen mused while his consciousness imrsed in the Deep Waters. Deep Sea rely helps transcendents understand their power… It’s like a baby growing up and learning to run and jump. Once these basic movents are mastered, they can be combined and integrated. For those with high talent, once they learn to run, it won’t take long before they can run fast.

When transcendental power just awakened, trancendents were like babies. To learn to walk, they needed to crawl on the ground first.

Even the most talented people needed to go through this process.

After learning to walk, running and jumping would quickly follow. After mastering the basics of their power, transcendents could branch out and develop in various directions.

The first three levels… is probably just the most basic stage of mastery.

Gu Shen made up his mind. “Deep Sea, I want to enter the second level.”

After a few seconds of silence, the simulated lights transmitted a ssage. “Serial number V340011250001, access granted. Entry to the second level is permitted.”

The scene in front of him suddenly changed.

The Blazing Fire suddenly spread out and turned into endless fluorescence. In the dispersing flas, Gu Shen felt the fluctuations of his consciousness. He seed to have returned to the dream of removing the imprint from Madam during the day.

ntal power was intangible.

But it truly existed.

The trial of the Second Level of Deep Sea… is related to the ‘minute’ control of the mind. If the first level is to help

summon and stabilize the Blazing Fire, then the second level should be reminding

to use the Blazing Fire to perform hypnosis.”

From the looks of it, my Blazing Fire is really a ntal-type ability.

This second level… doesn’t seem that difficult.

Gu Shen smiled.

He imrsed himself in the Transcendent Trials.

…

In the virtual world was a vast sea, and every thread of consciousness was an electric current in the water. Billions of threads of consciousness wandered in the Void. No one could prove that this world truly existed, but likewise…

No one could prove that it was false either.

This was the Deep Waters of Deep Sea.

The ntal power of transcendents intertwined with this vast virtual space, and supported by computational power beyond human comprehension, it developed and advanced at incredible speed. Perhaps this was a brand new world. Now, at the beginning of this explosion, billions of threads of consciousness were spreading like snakes toward the depths of Deep Sea, creating independent ntal spaces.

The first three levels of the Deep Waters were trial areas for transcendents to familiarize themselves with their powers. Almost everyone spent ti to reach the fourth level. From this point on, souls could interact with each other, and countless ntal serpents entangled with each other.

Of course, all of this happened under the watchful eye of Deep Sea.

It could accommodate everything.

And it monitored everything as well.

It had no physical form, yet it existed everywhere, so it didn’t need ‘eyes’. Every tread of transcendental consciousness that ca to the Deep Waters was its eye in a sense.

However, nothing was perfect, and there were always exceptions. Even in the myths widely believed in by the West Continent, the omnipotent ‘God of Creation’ had made the mistake of creating Lilith.

In the Deep Waters, there were ntal spaces that were not monitored by Deep Sea.

As long as there was a secret key with high enough authority to lock the door, then the disappearance of one or two rooms among the billions of ntal edifices was… nothing.

…

Symbols densely covered a scarlet door.

Every symbol on this door was an obscure ancient character. Even with the highest authority in Deep Sea, it could not be deciphered because it had never been manually entered into the database… The only proof of the existence of this ancient script existed only in the minds of a few people.

At every mont, countless scanning programs swept across the surface of the blood-red door. But under the cover of the ancient script, what Deep Sea saw… was ‘nothingness’, ‘itself’.

This ntal space, represented by the door, floated incongruously in the Deep Waters like a sinking solitary island.

Behind the door were the ‘drowned ones’ descending with the island. Thanks to the ancient door remaining undamaged, the interior still retained a relatively intact ntal space.

The consciousness of the drowned ones would not be subrged, and they could still survive in a relatively ‘dignified’ manner.

It was a small eting room with only a long table and a hanging lamp. The dim, blood-red light in the eting room was flickering, reminding every drowned one who had awakened that… it was a precarious mont.

“Everyone…” A hoarse voice sounded. “Deep Sea is evolving faster and faster. After a new round of upgrades, self-repair will comnce again. If we can’t find the ‘secret key’ left behind by Mr. Turing, we won’t be able to keep this door.”

The first drowned one woke up. A red light swirled at the edge of the table in the eting room, gradually condensing into a tall virtual figure. But this tall figure did not represent anything concrete.

In the ntal world, all images were illusory.

The second drowned one also woke up.

His figure was slender, resembling that of a seven or eight-year-old child. It was clearly a false image. His voice was not serious and instead carried a relaxed tone. “Zero-Three, don’t be so anxious. Finding the key isn’t sothing that can be done overnight. At least this door is still safe for now, right?”

Zero-Three’s expression beca even more despondent as he sighed. “But… it’s been ten years already, and the hope of finding the key is dwindling…”

One after another, the dormant consciousnesses in the eting room woke up and expanded.

The space inside the door was very small. Putting aside the vacant chief position, the long table in the eting room could accommodate about ten people, five on each side.

There were a total of six people condensing their consciousness in the eting room.

“Who initiated this eting?” the tall figure of Zero-Three asked in a deep voice. “I still have sothing very important to do. I only have ten minutes in the real world.”

“I initiated it. Ten minutes will suffice.”

The speaker was the only female in the eting room. She was a petite girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old. She looked thin and small, but her voice was exceptionally calm. “Regarding the Act… we can’t delay any longer. We need soone to stand up and prevent all of this from happening. If the East Continent passes the Act, the possibility of us finding the key will dwindle even more. The full awakening of transcendental essence will accelerate Deep Sea’s evolution, and Zero-Three’s concerns will beco reality. Without the key, this door will soon be discovered.”

“The Five Continents’ parliants are relatively independent. I’m currently in the West Continent. Sorry, I can’t help you.”

The young man’s voice in the corner of the eting room was regretful. As blood-colored swirls condensed, his consciousness took shape. A naplate representing his identity appeared on his chest, engraved with the three numbers 957.

“Central Continent, sorry,” an old man with the code na 064 said succinctly.

The girl’s gaze landed on the tall man, 073, and the jovial young man, 031.

“I’m not in the East Continent, but if I have the ans to try… The East Continent Parliant might delay the enactnt of the Act,” Zero-Three said. “What about you? From what I know… you’re in the East Continent.”

The young man shrugged and said indifferently, “Regarding stopping the Awakening Act… I’m afraid I can’t help. This matter has garnered too much attention. Even if I were a mber of the Parliant, there would be a limit to what I could do. Besides, I’m not.”

Zero-Three frowned. “If I rember correctly, you have significant influence in the East Continent.”

“Unless Gu Changzhi wakes up, who can single-handedly decide whether to enact the Act or not?” the young man said calmly. “But I’ve found another solution. Let’s just say… there’s no need for you to worry anymore. I’ve found the key.”

Zero-Three was stunned.

“Aha… I can understand your current emotions. It’s probably a mix of shock, doubt, and a little disbelief.

“In the new world, the key of hope still exists… After all, this is just a sentence left by Turing before he died.”

The young man smiled. “It’s just a fleeting remark. No one can be certain there’s really a key that can surpass the omnipotent authority of Deep Sea, break all shackles and restraints, and lead us toward the light. Over the years, we have been struggling in pain, striving to find the key with all our might. But sotis, all we need is just a little bit of…

“Luck.”

Even though ti was limited, everyone endured this fellow’s verbose and self-satisfied boasting.

“Not long ago, I stumbled upon the key, and he passed my verification.” The young man suddenly stopped smiling and beca grave. He looked at the girl and said, “Of course, the most important verifier here is you. I’ve already sent the key to the city where you are.”

The girl fell silent.

She furrowed her brows, trying her best to recall the details of these days.

Then she shook her head.

“I’ve encountered so trouble lately…” she said with difficulty. “I didn’t sense the existence of the suspected key, and there’s no sign of the red door opening.”

The young man fell into contemplation.

“Although I don’t know what thod you used to verify it, it’s obvious that the red door didn’t respond… It’s not the key.” Zero-Three was a little disappointed. He looked at the young man and shook his head. “The matter of finding the wrong key has happened more than once. I hope you’ll be more careful.”

“We’re running out of ti. Let’s end this eting here,”

Zero-Three said, “Finally, according to the rules… in order to prevent the worst outco, please look into my eyes. I will seal the mories of this eting to prevent anyone from being spied upon. If this door is breached, the only thing that can remain in the Deep Waters is useless code nas.”