"Where have you been these past seven years?"

"We went to many places. We walked every street and alley in Nagano, saw every snow-capped mountain in the tundra, waited for the sunrise in Dongshan, watched the sunset in Xihai. Every corner of this world has our footprints."

"This world is vast."

"Indeed, it is vast. Starting from the setting sun in Xihai, it takes a whole year to return to the snowy mountains of the east where the sun rises."

"It seems you really went to many places."

On a park bench, an old man holding a large bunch of balloons couldn't help but sigh.

Suddenly, he changed the subject and looked at the young man beside him, asking with confusion, "But how did you recognize me?"

"How did you recognize me?"

The young man sitting next to the old man just smiled and didn't answer the question, but instead posed his own.

"Recognizing you isn't difficult."

The old man shook his head and replied gently, "Gu Shen, do you know? You have a unique aura about you… This aura in the mundane world is like a fire in a dark room. I'm not blind, I should be able to see such a big flame."

"I see."

The young man smiled wryly, reached out and touched his face, sincerely praising, "No wonder you are Mr. Turing. I fooled many people with this 'face'."

These seven years.

Gu Shen used his mental power to modify his facial data. He lived in the real world with a different face...

If he didn't want to reveal his identity, no one would be able to recognize him.

"You still haven't answered my question." Turing said with a smile, "How did you recognize me?"

"I don't have your sharp eyesight. I had to look a few more times to realize something was wrong."

Gu Shen said modestly, slowly saying, "Everything in the world is controlled by fate, and no one can escape… In other words, everyone has a thread of fate entangled around their head. But you are an exception. How can a plain old balloon seller in the park escape the control of 'fate'?"

"..."

Turing was silent for a moment.

The old man sighed and asked, "In these seven years, were you traveling, or cultivating?"

"Both traveling and cultivating."

Gu Shen said seriously, "Traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers is better than ten years of closed-door cultivation."

Not long ago, he and Chu Ling were strolling in Snow Forbidden City.

He felt a "subtle" touch in his heart.

At first glance, Gu Shen didn't think it was strange, until he carefully observed and found that the "balloon grandpa" in the park had a very special aura.

Even fusing a Fire Seed and becoming a god-seat couldn't escape the control of "fate."

After pondering for a moment, Gu Shen sent Chu Ling away and chose to come to this old man's side.

After a few simple conversations, neither side chose to continue acting, and thus, the previous conversation took place.

"The information just now only confirms that I am not an ordinary person."

Turing paused slightly and said, "How did you confirm that I am me?"

"Intuition."

Gu Shen smiled slightly and said, "My intuition is always accurate."

"Intuition?" Turing laughed dumbly, "Just intuition?"

"Not entirely."

Gu Shen added, sincerely, "You told me that we would meet again, so I have been waiting all these years, from seven years ago until now… You are never one to break your promise. Seven years is almost over, you should meet me."

"You brat..."

Turing laughed helplessly.

He said grumpily, "I'm not a good person either, just like you. What's breaking a promise? I've done it a lot."

"If you hadn't lived as 'Cui Zhongcheng,' perhaps you would have chosen to break your promise now?"

Gu Shen blinked and smiled slyly, "But you have been punctual for decades. Once some things become a habit, it's hard to change, like… the action of pushing up your glasses."

Turing was completely silent.

He stopped his arm that was already halfway raised. If it hadn't been for what Gu Shen said...

He would have almost completed the subconscious action of reaching out to push up his glasses.

Gu Shen was right, during the years he lived as "Cui Zhongcheng," he developed many "bad habits" that didn't belong to him.

Pushing up his glasses was one, being punctual and never breaking a promise was another.

"Actually, I wanted to meet you sooner."

Turing chuckled softly, "But you slipped away fast enough. It's not easy to meet you."

"If you had released the news earlier, I guarantee I wouldn't have gone anywhere."

Gu Shen said solemnly, "How could a date be more important than seeing you?"

Turing remained noncommittal and just mocked with a smile, "Smooth-tongued, saying human words to humans and ghost words to ghosts. Why are you still the same as before even at this stage?"

"I've always been like this."

Gu Shen said gently, "Senior, but on this matter alone, you don't seem to have the right to say that about me..."

He had traveled in the mortal world for seven years.

Hadn't Turing done the same?

For nearly a thousand years, Turing had been walking and living on this land as a "tourist." He had a thousand different faces, and no one could tell which face was the real Turing.

"Alright, let's get down to business."

Turing coughed lightly with a clenched fist and said seriously, "That day is approaching."

Gu Shen's expression also became solemn.

That day…

Naturally, it was the day when the "Super Giant Origin Storm" would descend.

"Saying that I owe Chu Ling and taking her to travel around the mortal world is just for show, but I know… this journey is not just traveling."

Turing said meaningfully, "Eleven of the twelve Fire Seeds have returned to their positions. The last remaining 'Fire Seed of Love' has been dormant for nearly a thousand years. To truly awaken it, it needs to experience the 'joys, sorrows, and angers' of the mortal world."

Yes.

He revealed the deeper meaning of Gu Shen and Chu Ling's journey through the mortal world.

These seven years were also a journey, cultivation, and an awakening of the last Fire Seed of Love.

"In these seven years, I went to many places, and I saw your efforts."

Turing looked at Gu Shen and said, word by word, "Five years ago, Nagano took the lead in building an unprecedented giant underground city. Then the owners of the twelve Fire Seeds left their dojos and selected bases in the five continents, using the power of the Fire Seeds to transform them into 'lands of miracles'. The five continents used great power to build twelve super underground cities around the twelve Fire Seeds."

Gu Shen remained silent, just listening with a smile.

This matter… was handled by Li Qingsui and Mu Qingyang.

Building underground cities to accommodate civilians, so that when that day comes, the people of the five continents can hide underground to avoid the storm's erosion.

With the existence of starships, the previously somewhat crude underground environment can be simulated and replicated through mental technology.

This technology was already quite mature.

This was the strategy of "avoidance."

"In addition to that, you used Black Silver to reinforce the walls of the North Continent, and built hundreds of reinforced ancient inscription arrays around the Great Wall of the North Continent with starships…"

The defensive fortifications of the North Continent were supervised and promoted by Lin Chou and Lin Lin of the Central City.

This was the strategy of "resistance."

"I saw everything you did."

Turing said slowly, "You did well, but… it's not enough."

"A thousand years ago, the walls of the starship era were thicker than the Great Wall of the North Continent."

"Their starships could submerge to the very bottom of the Ice Sea."

"But they eventually perished."

Turing stared into Gu Shen's eyes, and he raised a question that struck the soul: "Do you know why?"

"Why?"

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.

"Because the essence of the Origin Storm disaster… is not just the Origin Storm."

Turing said softly, "That's why, even though the power of the starship civilization was at its peak, and everyone was incredibly united, they eventually decided to launch the 'God Hunter' and let the God Hunter face the super giant storm alone."

These words were a subtle reminder.

Gu Shen smiled and directly pointed it out: "Are you saying that the Origin Storm is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster controlled by 'will'? Although this disaster eliminates a race, to resist it, someone will ultimately need to step forward?"

"..."

Turing said calmly, "Do you believe in higher civilizations?"

"Should I believe?"

Gu Shen asked calmly, looking at Turing with a smile.

"I'll ask another question… do you believe in life forms that are higher than humans?"

Turing held out a hand and gestured gently, drawing a horizontal line, then raising it slightly above the original height and drawing a new horizontal line.

"Mundane, Transcendent, Fire Seed Leader."

He said slowly, "This is the well-known level division of 'life tiers'… but is there a more perfect life form after the Fire Seed Leader?"

"Creatures on paper cannot imagine the world outside the paper. Because everything in this piece of paper is trapped in a plane."

Turing looked directly into Gu Shen's eyes: "You should understand what I mean."

"I am a fool."

Gu Shen shook his head and said lightly, "I don't understand what you mean by telling me these things."

How could he not understand the meaning of these words?

He understood the meaning of these words… better than anyone else!

The person who understood Turing the most was not Gu Changzhi, not Bai Shu, not Zhou Jiren.

It was Gu Shen.

He was the "hope" that Turing had been looking forward to for nearly a thousand years.

What kind of person was Turing?

A person who had lived for nearly a thousand years.

A person who had countless opportunities to touch the Fire Seed, but firmly refused.

A person who spent his whole life creating the "ultimate life form."

A person who guarded the Time Dojo, only receiving the Iron Dome Emperor and Gu Changzhi in six hundred years.

Those who could gain Turing's approval were all unparalleled powerhouses among unparalleled powerhouses… Back then, Mr. Tianshui was willing to assist Qing Long, he must have been attracted by Qing Long's top-tier talent. But judging from the final result, Turing clearly believed that Qing Long could not be compared with Gu Changzhi.

Therefore, until the very end of her life, Qing Long only knew about the existence of the "Time Dojo."

Why did Turing do this?

What was he waiting for?

"I left thirteen seats in the Dead Sea District. You clearly understood the meaning of the thirteen seats, and you also sat in the highest position…"

Turing asked seriously, "Since you know that you hold the highest authority of the 'Gospel Box,' why don't you recycle the Fire Seeds? Why did you choose to give them away?"

He had already given very obvious hints.

In the Time Dojo.

He even told Gu Shen meaningfully… why not fuse those three Fire Seeds together?

"Why give away the Fire Seeds… good question."

Gu Shen smiled and said, "Perhaps it's because my surname is Gu, the Gu of Gu Changzhi? Or perhaps I had a mental breakdown. After being a dark underworld king for so long, I wanted to be magnanimous for once, to be a sun… Just kidding. Does giving away the Fire Seeds need a reason? I think they are more suitable for the Fire Seeds than I am, so I gave them away. It's that simple."

As soon as he said this.

Turing fell into silence, because he knew that Gu Shen already knew everything.

"In these years, I have traveled very far and gone to many places. I went to every place where Mr. Gu Changzhi left his footprints."

Gu Shen said lightly, "I have always been curious as to why he chose to burn himself out so early. Following the path he took, I walked it again. This time I understood the answer… The reason why he did this was because he hoped that the human world could have complete hope. The last place he arrived at before 'burning himself out' was the Time Dojo. There, he met you."

"I have no way of knowing what happened in your conversation at that time… but one thing I can be sure of is that Mr. Gu Changzhi knew and confirmed the truth behind the 'Super Giant Origin Storm'."

Gu Shen tilted his head slightly and looked at Turing.

"Whether it's the God Hunter or the others in the starship civilization, they all suspect that there is a power in this world that is stronger than the god-seats."

"Perhaps it's because they want to see the upper limit of this civilization."

"And so, there is the Super Giant Origin Storm."

"Rather than saying that this is selecting a civilization in the river of time."

"It's better to say… that this is selecting the strongest person in this civilization."

"Let me guess, the qualification to pass this trial is to 'survive' in the storm. As long as you can 'survive,' it means you passed the test."

Gu Shen said softly, "Am I right?"

Turing remained silent.

"The so-called ancient texts cannot be understood by humans… not because they are texts left over from the last era, but because they have always been 'texts' from higher dimensions."

Gu Shen said slowly, "The Lord of Melting Iron only had a smattering of knowledge, and the Time Dojo created by the starship civilization was simply a semi-finished product. In this situation, it's still possible to give birth to a 'longevity being' like you with infinite life. I can only say… your existence is more legendary than anyone in the starship civilization."

"You are a 'traveler.' You have appeared in every place in this world."

"Then… is it possible that you don't belong to this world at all?"

Gu Shen looked at Turing, the smile in his eyes was very casual: "Senior, I'm just casually saying my guess."

"..."

At this point in the conversation, Turing's forehead was already sweating.

Gu Shen's words were just guesses.

But… Gu Shen was completely right.

He was indeed not a "life" born in this world. The reason why his starship encountered misfortune, and the reason why the life that could hardly be exhausted in tens of thousands of years was transferred to him, was actually the inevitability of fate.

"You… you're right."

After a long time, a long sigh.

Turing said in a hoarse voice, "But my identity and position are not what you imagine. In any case, I have received the grace of this world, and I bear the lives of countless people on that starship, so I must be responsible for the fate of the human race in this world."

Gu Shen shook his head and said, "I know, I know that you have always been on the side of humanity, so… I am still using honorifics to this day."

From the moment they met until now, he had been addressing Turing as "you" with respect.

Turing said seriously, "Super Giant Storms are never something that a group can overcome. This disaster is designed for the most brilliant and dazzling individual in a civilization. I see a great possibility of success in you. I hope someone can pass this 'tribulation,' so I deliberately came to see you today."

Gu Shen said with a smile, "Just like when you met Gu Changzhi and the Iron Dome Emperor?"

"…Yes, but also no."

Turing hesitated: "You and them are not quite the same."

Gu Shen had gathered all the Fire Seeds.

Moreover, neither Gu Changzhi nor the Iron Dome had seen that Turing was not an existence of this world.

Speaking of this.

He was a little puzzled, how did Gu Shen see it?

"Now I can answer your previous question, I… believe in the existence of higher life forms."

Gu Shen reached out and pointed around.

Everyone here had a thread of fate entwined above their heads.

He said softly, "In my eyes, this is called [Fate]."

Fate…

Turing paused for a second, recalling the [Thread of Fate] that Gu Shen had mentioned earlier.

Unfortunately, he didn't have Gu Shen's "Blazing Fire Vision," otherwise, he would have seen that apart from him, there was one other unique exception here.

Gu Shen was also not entangled by the Thread of Fate.

This was the reason why he saw that Mr. Turing was different from the others.

Not being entangled by Fate.

This was a higher life form beyond the god-seats.

"Mr. Turing, these seven years… my Heart Stream Power has filled the entire Time Dojo. It turns out that cultivating Heart Stream Power to the extreme will really produce a qualitative change."

Gu Shen held out two fingers and pointed to his eyes: "Unknowingly, I can already directly look at [Fate]. I have seen many interesting things. It turns out that the North Continent's Divination Triad, the Forbidden Book Building of Red Lake, those are all things left behind by higher civilizations… They are all products of fate, but unfortunately, in a sense, they are all incomplete. But, the Blazing Fire is complete."

"So, the 'guess' I just said is not a 'guess,' I know that is the 'truth.'"

Gu Shen smiled slightly: "This is the 'truth' I saw."

"Gu Shen…"

Turing's expression was very complicated.

He said softly, "Your current life tier has already surpassed the god-seats, coupled with the unprecedented twelve Fire Seeds. As long as you are willing, you have a great opportunity to tear through the walls of this world, break through the ceiling, and leave here."

"Through [Fate], I have seen many, many things."

Gu Shen said softly, "Some things, humans cannot do now, but soon, they will be able to do it. One day, everyone can sit on starships and go to the top of the sky together, and leave here together…"

"But before that day, the Super Giant Storm will descend."

Turing said, "At least one person has to survive, right?"

"I don't want to live alone."

Gu Shen shook his head: "If that person who lives alone is me, then I would rather die. So… I refuse to fuse the twelve Fire Seeds. If we live, then we all live together. I live, Chu Ling lives, the twelve god-seats, the billions of people in the five continents live together."

Gu Shen said blankly: "In my opinion, since the highest thing above this ceiling is called [Fate], then if [Fate] declares war on humanity, humanity should fire artillery and bombard it."

Turing sighed long: "Fighting against Fate, humans will die. The Origin Storm is invincible, even if you go with the twelve god-seats… in the end, you may be the only one who survives."

"But humans are such fools."

Gu Shen grinned and smiled: "Humans can die standing, but cannot live kneeling."

"..." Turing wanted to say something more.

Suddenly, Gu Shen stood up beside him, and this figure gave him an unprecedented sense of "majesty."

Seven years apart.

Gu Shen had grown taller, no… to be precise, Gu Shen had not grown taller, but had completely changed his "appearance."

Standing in the River of Time, on par with Fate.

This was the real way to break the confinement of the Divine Infant.

The current Gu Shen had transcended the god-seats and evolved into another kind of life that could not be described. "Time" had stopped on his body. He could be a child, an old man, a youth… In the end, Gu Shen chose to stop his appearance and bones at the age when he first met Chu Ling. His spirit was like a boundless deep sea, and like the most brilliant light and fire in the world.

Before, when Turing stared at Gu Shen, he only thought that the flames between Gu Shen's eyebrows were too blazing.

This time he realized.

There were too many things contained in the firelight between Gu Shen's eyebrows.

In it, he saw the spiritual brilliance of billions of people, each of whom had cast a piece of their own spiritual debris into this eyebrow fire… one piece, two pieces, insignificant, but when billions of pieces of spiritual debris gathered together, they became an unstoppable torrent.

Turing murmured: "Twelfth upgrade…"

"Perhaps it's the thirteenth?"

Gu Shen smiled and said: "The war drums in the distance are about to sound, I can't have done nothing in these seven years, can I? Compared to closing myself off for cultivation in the Time Dojo, I have more important things to do outside."

Chu Ling had completely taken over [Deep Sea]. She had collected the spiritual power of every citizen in the entire five continents, and used seven years to gather everyone's power to carry out a spiritual upgrade.

And after this…

She chose to merge her spirit into Gu Shen's spirit.

Back then, the main system was only encircling a part of the Central Continent, and it almost completed the twelfth upgrade.

Now the entire five continents, after seven years of integration, was at a critical juncture for the thirteenth upgrade.

Turing looked dazed.

"So… Chu Ling's departure was to carry out the thirteenth upgrade?"

"Whether she leaves or not is not important. Because I am her eyes, and she is my eyes."

Gu Shen did not answer this question, he smiled slightly, and asked: "Didn't you realize that I am not afraid of the descent of the Super Giant Origin Storm at all?"

Of course, Turing realized it.

Whether it was the God Hunter, or the Iron Dome, Gu Changzhi…

When faced with the Super Giant Storm, they would feel nervous, feel fear, this was inevitable.

But Gu Shen was different from them.

He suddenly realized something… Gu Shen had spent seven years traveling every corner of the five continents.

And Gu Shen had just said that there were more important things to do than closing himself off in the Time Dojo.

"Creator…"

Turing spat out these three words.

He understood what Gu Shen and Chu Ling had been doing in these seven years.

Above the ground, a faint red glow was burning. The moment Gu Shen stood up, an invisible force spread rapidly, centered on Nagano, where the two were, and swept further afield.

Jiangbei, Dongzhou, the entire five continents, and even the Ice Sea.

Every inch of land that Gu Shen had traveled in these seven years was wrapped and shrouded by this invisible force.

This was Gu Shen's [Creator] Domain, a more perfect and complete independent world than [Pure Land].

"Because I stand on the shoulders of giants, I am taller than the giants of the past."

"After completing the highest level of life evolution… I even began to look forward to the descent of this storm."

Gu Shen looked to the north with his hands behind his back, his gaze passing over countless Threads of Fate.

Outside the giant wall of the North Continent, countless chaotic origins were mixed together.

From the moment he could see [Fate], he could see the countdown hanging over the heads of all humans.

"I gave up fusing the Fire Seeds, not just because I didn't want to live alone."

"But also… because I have full confidence that even so, I can lead humans and win this battle."

……

……

In the void, there was a violent tremor.

"Hiss!"

A wisp of snow-white origin aura shattered space like a sharp knife, followed by tens of thousands of wisps of snow-white chaotic aura colliding like a flood. The land suspended in the void was instantly shattered, and this storm shattered the space, expanding at an extremely fast speed, and in an instant, it turned into a dazzling "ball of light."

The probes wandering outside the Umbrella Defense Line captured the anomaly at the first time.

It took less than 0.1 seconds for this anomaly to be transmitted to the Great Wall, and then to the Starship.

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

The "alarm signal" that humans had been waiting for for seven years sounded at this moment.

A large number of Origin Energy Crafts rose into the sky, and the Starship that had been sleeping on the ground also woke up.

The Giant Wall Defense Line had been widened and thickened several times in these seven years.

Brilliant flames broke through the clouds, the space outside the Giant Wall condensed and shattered, and the Starship stood in front of the Origin Energy Crafts.

One by one, Origins and Apostles left the defense line, and they stood in front of the Starship.

Rust Bone, Silver Fox, White Lizard, Arju, Song Ci, Shen Li…

Just as they were waiting in battle, preparing to welcome the Origin Storm.

The void trembled.

A figure, with a woman, crossed thousands of mountains and rivers and walked out of the Space Portal.

"Everyone… long time no see."

Gu Shen spoke softly, his voice falling into the heart of everyone on the Giant Wall Defense Line, giving people a great sense of security.

After he tore through the Space Portal, figures walked out slowly one after another.

Gu Nanfeng, Meng Xizhou, Mu Wanqiu, Red Dragon, Bai Shu, Lin Lei, Traveler, Xie Zheng, Luo Er, Gu Xiaoman.

Finally, it was Bai Xiu.

The Giant Wall became even more "majestic" because of the arrival of these people.

An insurmountable Guang Ming Bi Lei (Barrier of Light) condensed at this moment, rising from the ground.

On the day the Super Giant Storm descended… the whole world became extremely silent.

The wind howled.

The white light on the Tian Ding (sky dome) suddenly became extremely large, like a sun.

Gu Shen looked at the sun without expression.

He held out a hand.

"Zheng!"

Ten thousand miles away, the Tundra Sword moved.

The scabbard fell apart, disintegrated in an instant, countless stone chips were shattered, and a Fire Seed sword shape crossed countless distances and instantly swept into Gu Shen's palm.

Gu Shen grasped the long sword and rushed out first, the tip of the sword piercing into the snow-white light that was almost collapsing the entire Tian Ding.

Then it was the twelve god-seats.

Following closely behind were the Apostles, Origins, Starships, Origin Energy Crafts, and the Traveler race, the Four Legions, the Five Great Families, the Guang Ming (Light) Temple…

New Calendar 660.

The Super Giant Storm arrived at the edge of the North Continent.

Humans, fought with [Fate].

……

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(ps: I didn't write a leave note last night because I stayed up all night, basically didn't close my eyes, deleting and subtracting, revised many versions. Also, the next chapter is the final chapter.)

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