Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 424
byDeath star.
Yujing City.
Xirang High School.
Xiao Mengyu was eating in the cafeteria.
Her phone suddenly rang.
She picked it up, a look of surprise on her face, wiped her mouth with a tissue, and walked out.
“Mengyu, you haven’t finished eating yet? Why are you leaving?”
Her female friend couldn’t help but call out.
“I have something to do,” Xiao Mengyu said.
“Do you need help? I can come with you,” the girl said.
“No, thanks,” Xiao Mengyu replied.
She walked out of the cafeteria, her figure vanishing from the doorway in a flash.
On the other side of the campus.
On the rooftop of the teaching building.
A girl with pigtails was squatting on the railing, a lollipop in her mouth, observing the entire school.
Xiao Mengyu lightly landed behind her and said blandly,
“I didn’t expect you to look for me.”
The pigtailed girl said without turning her head, “You’re a sword cultivator, can you fight with peace of mind in a skirt?”
Xiao Mengyu lowered her head to look at her black dress, her tone turning cold:
“If you only came to comment on my attire, then I won’t accompany you.”
“Don’t be like that, there’s no real enmity between us, besides—”
The pigtailed girl snapped her fingers.
Ripples of spells spread.
Several girls’ conversations echoed in the void:
“Why did Xiao Mengyu leave?”
“Who knows? I heard her excellent swordsmanship is because she goes to hotels with those masters outside, exchanging for advanced skills.”
“Ah? Is that true? I heard that too.”
“I really didn’t expect her to be like that in private. Actually, this kind of power is not enviable at all.”
“Yes, tell others too, don’t let everyone be deceived by her appearance.”
The pigtailed girl snapped her fingers again.
The voices disappeared.
“Did you hear that? What your good sisters said about you after you left the cafeteria.”
The pigtailed girl said with a smile.
Xiao Mengyu remained silent.
“Seriously—you don’t have any reaction?” The pigtailed girl asked in surprise.
Xiao Mengyu still didn’t speak.
This time, the pigtailed girl became angry.
She jumped down from the railing, strode over to Xiao Mengyu, grabbed her collar, and shouted:
“How can you be so weak, letting others bully you like this? It’s infuriating!”
Xiao Mengyu carefully observed her stunningly beautiful face, her furious expression, and the anger reflected in her pearl-like eyes.
*Slap.*
Xiao Mengyu brushed her hand away and said softly:
“Song Yinchen, why do you care about my business?”
Song Yinchen strode to the railing, made a magic gesture with both hands, and huffed,
“I care! I just can’t stand it! This isn’t for you, it’s for my own peace of mind.”
—The spell was complete.
As waves of fluctuations came from the void, about to coalesce into a spell—
Song Yinchen’s hand was held down.
Immediately after.
The sound of a sword cleaving the air rose to the sky, instantly sweeping across the void and flying towards the cafeteria.
Flying Sword Technique!
The longsword arced through the cafeteria, whistling between several girls, and “thud” it was nailed to the wall.
The girls were stunned.
They saw the longsword pinning a phone to the wall.
Kunlun’s voice sounded from the phone:
“According to Xiao Mengyu’s request, her daily routine is hereby announced to be entirely within the campus. All her activity tracks are signed and approved by the principal, with Kunlun as a witness.”
“Given Ms. Xiao Mengyu’s strength and current status, if there are any further malicious discussions or slanders—”
“You will be expelled.”
*Clang.*
The longsword carried the phone out of the cafeteria and vanished in a flash.
At this moment.
The girls just noticed a faint scratch on their necks.
Their phones simultaneously rang with Kunlun’s voice:
“I’m delivering a message on behalf of Ms. Xiao Mengyu—’Don’t force me to kill’.”
After the message, all phone screens went black simultaneously.
The girls stared at each other blankly.
Only then did they finally extinguish their jealousy and malice, genuinely feeling the fear of death for the first time.
On the other side.
On the teaching building.
The Luoshen Sword flew back and was sheathed by Xiao Mengyu.
“I know that as long as I raise my sword, I can kill them all, and even anyone who supports them.”
“—But my sword isn’t for killing the weak.”
She looked down and stroked her sword, her gaze as pure as the clear sky:
“I’ve been thinking about how to resolve this matter, and conveniently, you showed up, so let’s deal with it.”
Song Yinchen looked at her, finally smiling and nodding slightly, but immediately felt her attitude was wrong, quickly crossed her arms, lifted her chin, and coughed lightly:
“That’s more like it, barely acceptable in my eyes.”
“Now you can tell me,” Xiao Mengyu said calmly, “what exactly did you come to see me for?”
“Do you know Tantai Mingyue?” Song Yinchen asked.
“No, who is she?” Xiao Mengyu asked.
“Oh, you really are—never mind, I’ll tell you in detail.”
Song Yinchen had already extracted everything that happened to Shen Ye during this period from Tantai Mingyue.
This time, she rattled off everything that had happened in one go.
Xiao Mengyu listened, then mused:
“I’ll go ask Teacher Xu. He’s in charge of bringing that Saintly Venerable here. I’ll use my terms to reduce its strength, and we can kill it together?”
“No, that won’t work,” Song Yinchen quickly waved her hand, “It represents the interests of the Universal Alliance. If we can’t kill it in one go and the news leaks, then the Death Star will be finished.”
“Then what do you mean?” Xiao Mengyu asked in surprise.
“I’m worried about Shen Ye getting into trouble alone in the high-level universe, so I wanted to ask you to go with me to find him,” Song Yinchen said.
Xiao Mengyu shook her head, turned, and walked away, saying:
“He’s much stronger than me, he can definitely take care of himself. If we go, we might just be a burden.”
“No, that’s not it,” Song Yinchen, seeing her about to leave, had no choice but to speak her mind: “Look how quickly he’s brought back a goddess-like girl. If we let him continue to roam the universe—”
She didn’t finish her sentence.
But the meaning was clear.
Xiao Mengyu almost immediately stopped.
Perhaps feeling that her change in attitude was too obvious, too embarrassing, her voice became somewhat muddled:
“Do you have a way to find him?”
“Yes! I’ve been researching this, and I’ve succeeded!” Saying this, Song Yinchen proudly puffed out her chest.
Xiao Mengyu didn’t believe it, turned to look at her, and asked hesitantly:
“Why don’t you go yourself and drag me along?”
Song Yinchen clasped her hands together, forming a complex and eerie spell seal, and yelled:
“Come out!”
A tall and ferocious Emperor Species body appeared before them.
Song Yinchen took off her pigtail ties, letting her long hair fall over her shoulders, and said seriously:
“The space inside is a bit small, just enough for the two of us.”
“What are you saying—” Xiao Mengyu couldn’t help but say.
“Listen to me, I can make blood for this shell, and I can exist as its soul, but then I won’t be able to control its body.”
Song Yinchen’s expression became serious, and she finally said:
“Xiao Mengyu, your swordsmanship is very strong, and you have such ridiculous terms—”
“You control this powerful body.”
“With our cooperation, we can travel through the vast universe.”
Xiao Mengyu was stunned.
She hesitated, first looking at the three-meter-tall humanoid insect body, then at the serious Song Yinchen, and couldn’t help but ask:
“This bug is only three meters tall, how are we going to cooperate?”
“You’re on the bottom, I’m on the top, I’ll sit on your shoulders,” Song Yinchen said with wide, innocent eyes.
“Farewell.” Xiao Mengyu turned to leave.
“No—don’t go, I need to control the monster’s brain, so I’ll be on top, don’t mind!” Song Yinchen quickly pulled her.
“I don’t want to be a monster!” Xiao Mengyu shook her hand and walked away, seemingly about to leap into the air—
“But I used this monster to find Shen Ye!”
Song Yinchen shouted.
Xiao Mengyu’s body stiffened. She had been about to leap into the sky, but withdrew her strength, lightly bouncing in place and stepping onto the other side of the railing.
She nonchalantly held her sword, looked into the distance, and said to Song Yinchen with her back:
“What exactly happened?”
“There’s a Swarm Heart—I joined it! Shen Ye is also in it, we can find him through the Swarm Heart,” Song Yinchen said.
“Swarm Heart?”
“Yes, all the strongest Emperor Species are in it.”
“Then how did you get in?”
“The universe is very fond of me, and the bugs have all sensed that I will definitely become a great figure in the future.”
“How do you know Shen Ye is in it?” Xiao Mengyu asked in detail.
“He has the blood of an Emperor Species, and that blood comes from the refined insect body next to me, so I can sense his connection to the insect body,” Song Yinchen said.
Perhaps afraid that the other party would not believe her, she voluntarily explained the method of refining the insect body.
Xiao Mengyu listened carefully, asking questions from time to time.
Finally—
She nodded, indicating that she accepted the other party’s explanation.
“…So what do we do now?”
Xiao Mengyu asked.
Actually, she hadn’t quite understood earlier.
As a sword cultivator, why should she understand this kind of magic?
But Song Yinchen’s attitude was sincere.
That was the key.
Song Yinchen spoke: “Come, let’s merge and enter this insect body, then cooperate to at least allow it to move and fight freely.”
“And then?”
“Go find Shen Ye! As bugs!”
“Can we cross the universe?” Xiao Mengyu was still a bit worried.
“Of course,” Song Yinchen waved her hand, her eyes sparkling, “Emperor Species can travel between various cosmic layers, and I’m good friends with the universe, and you have that kind of sword technique!”
“Can sword techniques help?”
“Dummy, you treat all this bug’s claws as swords! And your terms can be used too!”
“That’s a good idea—but if we find Shen Ye, how do we share?”
“Share! Sister, what you’re saying, haha, he’s a person… Fine, you take the day, I’ll take the night?” Song Yinchen seemed a little shy.
“Fine, I’ll watch him during the day, and you’ll be responsible for his safety at night,” Xiao Mengyu said woodenly.
“Huh? You mean ‘sharing’ in that sense?” Song Yinchen was stunned.
“What else did you think I meant?”
Xiao Mengyu’s words were like her sword.
“…You’re not being kind…” Song Yinchen puffed out her cheeks.
“Where am I not kind?”
Song Yinchen stopped talking.
I’ll endure it.
For the sake of seeing Brother Shen Ye, a few words don’t matter.
Hmm.
For my brother, I can bear it.
……
……
……
Damn Xiao Mengyu!
I hate you!
……
On the other side.
Shen Ye was meditating in the third layer of the ruins.
—The formless heavenly demon, which had remained for tens of thousands of years, had disappeared.
The formless heavenly demon possessed everything of his, such as skills, terms, and even equipment.
But Shen Ye had forgotten the Dao Scripture, so it immediately ceased to exist.
So at this moment—
Shen Ye began to cultivate the Too High Emotionless Ascension Scripture again!
He entered a state of self-forgetfulness, fully operating the Dao technique, smoothly passing through each barrier.
Several sounds came from upstairs.
A figure suddenly dropped from the stairs.
A large skeleton.
At this time, Shen Ye no longer had the heavenly demon and was eager to know the situation upstairs.
It just so happened that the large skeleton could revive itself after death, so it proactively undertook this task.
“I went to check, that guy should be sealed in the sea of dharma now, there’s nothing upstairs.”
The great skeleton said, crossing its arms.
“Okay, I have a question now, Failun, can you help me with it?” Shen Ye said.
“What question?”
“It’s this—”
Shen Ye activated his Dao technique, and immediately, brilliant purple light surged from his body.
He was like the wick of a candle, and the purple light spread around him, like the fiery glow filling the void.
“Has the refined spiritual energy changed again?” the great skeleton asked in surprise.
“Yes.”
Shen Ye stood up, quietly feeling the power on his body, and said:
“The first time I cultivated the ‘Too High Emotionless Ascension Scripture’, I successfully refined my spiritual energy, transforming it into ‘Flame Spirit Divine Light’.”
“The second time I cultivated it again, the spiritual energy was refined into ‘Nine Heavens Profound Light’.”
“This is the third time I’m cultivating it again, and the spiritual energy is different from the previous two times, having been refined into this purple ‘Heaven-Connecting Spiritual Light’.”
“—I have a feeling in the dark that this ‘Heaven-Connecting Spiritual Light’ is what the Dao Scripture refers to as ‘successful refinement’.”
“Is the power getting stronger and stronger?” the great skeleton asked.
Shen Ye didn’t speak, he just stretched out his hand and pointed at the great skeleton from a distance.
*Boom—*
A surging force of undead suddenly erupted from the great skeleton.
“My strength… has it increased so much?”
It felt the change in its power in surprise.
“This spiritual light can now bestow power upon nearby companions,” Shen Ye said.
“That’s fantastic! If I could get some super powerful cosmic monster corpses, eat them, and then transform into them, plus this spiritual light—”
“Even I would be afraid of that level of power!”
The great skeleton said with high spirits.
Shen Ye nodded thoughtfully.
Actually, he now understood one thing.
The reason why the people of the nightmare world infused the great skeleton with power, and even why the Underworld Lord Mictlantecuhtli chose the great skeleton as his successor—
It was because it possessed this talent.
—It could transform into whatever it ate.
This was actually an extremely rare and precious talent.
It was just that the great skeleton had been unlucky and hadn’t been able to fully unleash this ability.
It seemed he needed to pay more attention and find monster bodies for it to consume.
“Is this spiritual light different from before?”
The great skeleton asked.
“‘Heaven-Connecting Spiritual Light’ can increase base attributes, attack power, and defense by 7 times, and also boost one of its followers by the same multiple of strength,” Shen Ye said.
“That’s insane,” the great skeleton gasped, “I think this ‘Heaven-Connecting Spiritual Light’ alone can be called a heaven-reaching technique.”
“But why is all this? What’s the principle behind it?” Shen Ye asked in confusion.
“Actually, some cultivation methods require specific people to practice them—for example, I know a Rage Hammer technique that can only be successfully cultivated by someone with an explosive temper,” the great skeleton said.
“You mean, this Dao Scripture must also be cultivated three times?” Shen Ye asked.
“Probably,” the great skeleton said.
“But who would be so foolish as to continuously disperse their cultivation after achieving it?” Shen Ye sighed.
“That’s why nobody has discovered the method to cultivate the ‘Heaven-Connecting Spiritual Light’ for so many years,” the great skeleton said.
True.
If it requires an extremely easily angered person to master a hammer technique—
What kind of person does the Too High Emotionless Ascension Scripture require?
Continuously dispersing cultivation and re-cultivating.
And each time, better than the last.
What kind of person would do this?
And what kind of cultivation method is this?
Shen Ye pondered for a long time, then suddenly had an answer in his heart.
…Competition.
It wouldn’t be about competing, would it?
Ah, damn it.
It better not be that answer.
Let’s try again!
For example—
Shen Ye sat cross-legged again, silently operating the Dao technique, refining the heart devil, and transforming the heavenly demon.
This time.
He simply tried his best to comprehend the Dao Scripture, and find a way to maintain perfection during the process of transforming the heavenly demon.
—Not a single mistake could be made!
Several hours passed.
Suddenly.
An invisible being walked out of the void.
The Original Formless Heavenly Demon!
The Formless Heavenly Demon was condensed again!
Shen Ye sensed a slight change, but the demon itself seemed unchanged.
So the answer wasn’t about “competition”!
No need to compete!
Shen Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, several lines of small text appeared in the void:
“Your dedicated effort to condense the Formless Heavenly Demon is very impressive, which has gained the favor of the Heaven-Connecting Technique.”
“Your attitude and actions during this process of condensing the Heavenly Demon, striving to surpass previous achievements, have made the Heaven-Connecting Technique decide to help you.”
“Congratulations!”
“Under the blessing of the Heaven-Connecting Technique, this re-cultivation has produced an excellent creation.”
“You have condensed an ‘Original Formless Heavenly Demon Saint King’!”
“The stealth ability of this creation has been elevated to a higher level, and it will not be detected by any Creator-level beings.”
Shen Ye was stunned.
For a long time, he felt no joy in his heart.
It’s over!
The secret to cultivating the Heaven-Connecting Technique truly was “to compete”!
Who would have thought?
No wonder no one had cultivated the Heaven-Connecting Technique for so many years.
—Because they weren’t competitive enough, the Heaven-Connecting Technique didn’t deign to acknowledge them!
Shen Ye sighed with a complex expression, simply sat on the ground, and continued to cultivate the Too High Emotionless Ascension Scripture.
The Path to Heaven required him to master this Dao Scripture.
Since it was quiet around, it was a good time to resume cultivation!
The vertical eye on his hand suddenly opened.
—A message from the Swarm Heart.
Shen Ye sensed it slightly, and a dull voice sounded in the vertical eye:
“Where are you?”
Hmm?
There’s a bug asking where I am?
What does this mean?
Shen Ye followed the vertical eye connection to the Dharma Realm and immediately found the mental imprint left by the other party in the Swarm Heart.
—This was a Level 7 Emperor Species.
It had joined the Swarm Heart a little earlier than him, and he recognized the voice; it seemed to have spoken up for him before.
Logically, this was a good bug to befriend.
But his current location was the Penglai ruins.
This couldn’t be exposed.
Nevermind.
Let’s play dead for now.
I’ll reply later.
Shen Ye directly pretended not to see it.
—Anyway, there’s no “read” indicator in the Swarm Heart, so the other party wouldn’t know if he saw it or not.
He was about to continue cultivating the Too High Emotionless Ascension Scripture when he suddenly saw several lines of small text pop up:
“Cultivating the refined spiritual light three times, this is the first effort;”
“Regathering the formless heavenly demon three times, this is the second effort;”
“You need to make another effort (compete) in other aspects—”
“The will of the Heaven-Connecting Technique has noticed you, you must earn its blessing!”
—This was a reminder from his abilities!
The Heaven-Connecting Technique wanted him to compete again!
Shen Ye opened his eyes, no longer in the mood to continue cultivating the Dao Scripture.
The Path to Heaven required him to master the Dao Scripture, so naturally, anyone would cultivate it with all their might.
However—
He had re-cultivated several times and still hadn’t fully grasped it.
This by all accounts was a failure.
Unexpectedly, he became more and more powerful with each cultivation, even attracting the attention of the Heaven-Connecting Technique’s will.
Given this, the will of the Heaven-Connecting Technique was certainly more important.
To compete in other aspects…
How should he do it?
Shen Ye thought for a long time but had no inspiration, so he simply wiped his ring and took out the new魔化宝石 (Demonized Gemstone).
One thing had to be done immediately.
—To inform the Penglai Mountain Lord about the seal leakage.
This would help her adjust her plans in time.
Shen Ye exerted force with his hand.
*Crack.*
The Demonized Gemstone shattered.
In an instant.
He vanished from where he stood.
Tens of thousands of years ago.
Penglai Mountain.
On Tianmen Peak, a cave dwelling.
Shen Ye opened his eyes.
A tide of unfamiliar memories flooded into his mind.
At the same time.
A peerless woman suddenly appeared opposite him.
—The Penglai Mountain Lord!
“You’ve been coming a bit frequently,” she observed Shen Ye, her expression gradually turning serious.
“I mostly have something to tell you,” Shen Ye said.
He directly told her about the events on the fifth floor of the sacred ruins.
The Penglai Mountain Lord’s expression remained unchanged.
“Did you already know?” Shen Ye asked tentatively.
“That rift can accommodate it releasing one-thousandth of its will and power—in the past few centuries, many strong individuals have tried the fifth level, and none were a match for even one-thousandth of its power.”
The Penglai Mountain Lord said blandly.
Shen Ye’s heart tightened.
—The Immortal Kingdom powerhouses of this era already knew about this!
“Why not try the three techniques?” Shen Ye asked again.
“According to ancient records, the three techniques are actually the keys to unlocking the seal, so they cannot be used—besides, we don’t even have all three techniques. At least the Heaven-Connecting Technique has never been mastered,” the Penglai Mountain Lord said.
Shen Ye sighed silently.
Heaven-Connecting Technique—
You’re not working hard enough, how can you practice the Heaven-Connecting Technique?
You need to compete!
But how to compete?
“The content of the ancient books, you’ve misunderstood.”
Shen Ye took the words, continuing, “Actually, it’s when the monster uses the three techniques from within the seal that the seal will be unleashed—attacking it from the outside with the three techniques won’t cause problems.”
These were the original words of the Fourth Epoch Creator, Chalukito Rick.
Wait a minute.
Who spoke falsely?
—Was it the Creator, or the ancient texts inherited by the Immortal Kingdom?
“Can I look at your ancient books?”
Shen Ye said.
The Penglai Mountain Lord took out a jade slip and placed it in front of Shen Ye.
Shen Ye subconsciously prepared to use “Tool of Fate” to try and decipher it.
But as soon as he activated the term, the void suddenly vibrated.
A vast will descended upon him, spreading into the void, forming lines of small text in mid-air:
“The will of the Heaven-Connecting Technique has connected to the Gate of Heaven-Connecting and communicated with you as follows:”
“Your mythical term will certainly discover that ancient records have been tampered with.”
“The inability to use the three techniques to attack that which leaked from the seal marks the beginning of the Immortal Kingdom’s decline.”
“Go forth.”
“Race against that monster in a battle against time.”
“Between you and it, who will be the first to gain the true Earth-Shaking Technique inheritance?”
“If you defeat it—”
“The will of the Heaven-Connecting Technique will fully bless you, aiding you in cultivating the Heaven-Connecting Saint Art!”
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