Her "maturation" was not just physical.
It also included her soul.
In that moment... she truly possessed a soul for the first time.
The Spiritual Link of the Well Water World lasted nearly an hour.
Chu Ling returned to compartment 001.
When she woke up, she lay on a bench, tears streaming down her cheeks... a faint sadness lingering in her heart.
At the bottom layer of the deep water area, while reading those materials.
She had felt a brief flicker of emotion.
And just now in the "Well Water World," such emotions came tenfold, a hundredfold more intensely than before.
She calmly accepted what it took to become a "person"... she finally shed the first tear of her "life," even if it was in the virtual Spiritual World.
At this moment, deep in her heart, she actually felt joyful.
Gu Shen also appeared in the compartment.
He looked at Chu Ling, quietly staying by her side, not speaking.
Although he could not feel what she felt during the establishment of the Spiritual Link, Gu Shen had been watching the world Chu Ling saw, always by her side... He knew Chu Ling needed some time to process the complex emotions sent by the Copper Human Lamp.
Chu Ling slowly sat up, her long hair falling down, and with the back of her pale hand, she wiped the tears from her cheeks, whispering softly, "Meeting you, has really been a very fortunate, very fortunate thing."
Gu Shen couldn’t help but shake his head.
He smiled and said, "You stole my line, what should I say now?"
Chu Ling broke into a smile through her tears.
Soon, the young girl thought of something very important, her expression turned anxious, and nervously she said, "I’m sorry..."
Gu Shen was slightly startled.
Why would Chu Ling apologize to him?
He did not understand.
"I am still trapped in that well... Earlier, I saw the world through your eyes, that well was pitch black, empty, with nothing in it."
Chu Ling’s voice grew softer, and her confidence waned.
"Does this mean... I wasn’t born successfully?"
She seemed like a child who had done something wrong.
After receiving the emotions from the Copper Human Lamp... she indeed became a child.
Li Qingsui and Li Qingci, the two sisters, ran into big trouble due to the Divine Embryo.
And she had witnessed firsthand Gu Shen’s trips to the Snowfield and Xiyin to harvest the Copper Human Lamp twice... both times quite perilous.
Someone was silently making sacrifices for her.
She still let these people down.
Was it because she just received the emotions from the Copper Human Lamp, displaying the most basic human nature?
Man’s nature at birth is good.
And guilt is a manifestation of "goodness."
Gu Shen thought to himself.
He looked at the girl before him, it was clear... the omnipotent "source code" of the deep water area, in terms of being human, still lacked experience.
There was not much he could teach Chu Ling.
There was still one thing.
Gu Shen deliberately put on a serious expression, seriously saying, "From an anthropological perspective, it seems you should be considered a birth failure... after all, no one can be pregnant for six hundred years."
Her expression became bewildered, nervously saying, "You have a point, am I experiencing a difficult birth now..."
Gu Shen couldn’t help but laugh.
"Relax, everything is normal," he said soothingly, no longer joking, "Don’t worry about the outside world... If Divine Temple Mountain can wait six hundred years for this pregnancy, can it not wait just a few more days for the birth?"
A few days... was just a vague term.
In fact, Gu Shen was also unsure.
He did not know how long Chu Ling would need to process these emotions and complete the birth... but by now, that no longer mattered.
Because the biggest problem had been solved.
The six hundred years’ awaited Divine Embryo of the Li Family was real, and that person was Chu Ling.
No matter how long, he could wait.
"I now feel... like my spirit has split into two parts,"
Chu Ling rubbed her head, chuckling bitterly, "I feel like I could really go to sleep, and if I want to, I can return to that world at the bottom of the well anytime."
An invisible Spiritual Link.
Through the Copper Human Lamp, the Divine Embryo was merged with Chu Ling.
In that world, independent of spirit and matter, the Divine Embryo that the Li Family had prayed for six hundred years, the "Lady Divine," was being incubated.
No one could provide a definite answer, this was an unknown and unanswered question.
Gu Shen slowly woke from the Spiritual Link.
He noticed, Li Qingci had been waiting by his side for a long time.
While he was engaging in the Spiritual Link, she didn’t dare make a sound, for fear of disturbing him.
The strong winds at Divine Temple Mountain gradually ceased.
The summit was silent.
Li Qingci’s heart, however, was not calm.
She expectantly looked at Gu Shen.
Gu Shen hesitated for a moment, then seriously said, "Two pieces of news—"
"The good news is, the Divine Embryo exists, and it is incubating."
Before he could finish.
Li Qingci interrupted by asking, "The bad news is... we have to wait a bit longer?"
Gu Shen slowly nodded.
The Li Family would need to wait a bit longer.
No matter what... this was a difficult message to deliver.
But Li Qingci didn’t show the disappointment Gu Shen expected, not even a bit, instead, she breathed a sigh of relief, finally relaxing.
Her eyes full of resolute light, Li Qingci went to the edge of the well, seriously speaking down, "We can wait however long... When I speak , can Lady Divine hear me?"
He gently smiled and said, "She heard... she asked me to bring you a message."
"Li Qingci, thank you."