Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 433

In the darkness.

A line of faint glowing text appeared:

“The future has changed.”

The line of text lingered for a long time.

But no one ever saw it.

In the endless silence, it was as if someone was whispering in his ear:

“You’ve worked hard.”

“The future has arrived, and this is everything you’ve changed.”

“Wake up, no need to sleep anymore.”

The voice gradually faded.

Shen Ye took a long, deep breath and suddenly opened his eyes.

A white ceiling.

Two single beds, a simple table, and his own sweatpants hanging on the clothes rack outside.

This was the dormitory.

His dormitory, shared with Nangong Sirui.

A line of small text appeared before his eyes.

“The future has changed.”

As Shen Ye looked at it, it gradually disappeared.

“You’re awake?”

A voice sounded.

Shen Ye looked in the direction of the voice and saw Xu Xingke.

Xu Xingke stood in the room, a cigarette in his mouth, squinting at the wall outside the window.

“Teacher.”

Shen Ye called out.

“I heard you messed up during your morning exercise and fainted on the field, so I came to check on you specifically.”

Xu Xingke exhaled a smoke ring, the swirling smoke obscuring his expression:

“Are you okay?”

Shen Ye was stunned.

Lines of bullet comments suddenly appeared before his eyes:

“He has a way of knowing past events.”

“—He knows that the world has changed, and a change of this magnitude must have involved earth-shattering events in the past.”

“The more people who know about what you experienced in the past, the more dangerous it becomes.”

“For this reason, he chose not to know anything.”

“But he still decided to come and check on your situation.”

Bullet comments.

This was Qia Luqituolike speaking to him.

Shen Ye said:

“I’m fine, Teacher, everything is well.”

“Are you sure?” Xu Xingke asked.

“Absolutely! If there are any issues later, I’ll communicate with you again,” Shen Ye said.

“That’s good. Are you still going to the team battle this afternoon, or will you rest for half a day?”

Team battle—

What was that?

“No, I’ll still go,” Shen Ye said.

“Don’t go,” Xu Xingke said.

“Huh? Why?” Shen Ye asked.

“It’s too dangerous, very few people come back alive. I suggest you get rid of that spot and exchange it for suitable cultivation resources,” Xu Xingke said.

“Understood,” Shen Ye nodded.

—Teacher would never harm him.

He had to listen to his advice.

Seeing that Shen Ye had taken his advice, Xu Xingke breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the dormitory.

The door closed.

Shen Ye leaned against the headboard, closed his eyes, and a slight look of pain appeared on his face.

A large number of memory fragments surged wildly, causing his head to start aching again.

—Every time he used the chessboard of the Lord of Penglai Mountain, this would happen.

However, this time it wasn’t about receiving someone else’s memories, but recalling things that had happened to himself.

Several lines of bullet comments appeared again:

“In the past era, your appearance and identity were distorted by powerful laws.”

“People will only remember Fu Wangchen, they won’t know there was a ‘you’.”

“This is a gift from the ‘Multiverse’.”

“It has arranged everything for you, sending you back to this moment.”

Shen Ye remembered something and quickly asked, “Has the ultimate power of the Fifth Epoch been activated?”

“You released the three arts to activate it, have you forgotten even that?” Qia Luqituolike retorted.

“—I don’t know what this ultimate power is,” Shen Ye spread his hands.

Three lines of bullet comments floated by:

“You will know soon enough, after all, it was activated by you, and it has an intricate sense of connection with you.”

“This time, observing and tracking the event consumed a lot of my power, I need to rest for a while.”

“See you later.”

After Qia Luqituolike finished speaking, she fell silent.

—She withdrew her gaze.

The dormitory returned to quiet again.

Shen Ye sighed.

He lay back down on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

The Fifth Epoch had finally given birth to its ultimate power.

—He wondered if it would have any major impact on reality.

As for the past era—

He remembered.

Everything that happened in that era, until the final Epoch Seal.

The Super Fu Wangchen completed the seal.

And himself—

He used his power to activate the three arts, allowing the Fifth Epoch to generate its due ultimate power!

But the jade pendant was stolen.

Wait.

The jade pendant!

Could that bloodied figure be the Lord of the Guanghan Palace?

Although the blood obscured his face, based on his physique and voice, it should have been him.

No wonder the jade pendant was in his hands.

He possessed the Art of Hun Tian, and also learned the Art of Han Tian.

Didn’t this prove that the Endbringer of all Epochs also mastered these two arts?

Only the Art of Tong Tian was left!

Shen Ye’s heart tightened.

However, there was still a question here—

A white horse is not a horse.

He still hadn’t found the truth behind this statement.

Did it refer to a certain method of that monster?

Shen Ye sighed.

Countless thoughts surfaced in his mind.

The Saintly Venerable was a cosmic monster, belonging to the Cosmic Council, yet he had trapped half of the Penglai Mountain Lord’s soul within a heart devil form.

That half-soul was seized by the Endbringer of all Epochs.

—The Saintly Venerable must be serving it!

The Cosmic Council no longer cared about the Saintly Venerable’s mission.

But the Saintly Venerable had been persistently pursuing the Art of Tong Tian!

This was for its true master!

Shen Ye’s heart suddenly cleared.

Everything made sense.

Currently.

He had been infused with the Art of Tong Tian once.

And in the past era, he had experienced the peak power of the three arts and integrated them.

—Only he knew how to cultivate the Art of Tong Tian!

He absolutely must not expose it.

It was probably because this matter was extremely crucial that the Multiverse intervened to obscure his traces in the past era.

He absolutely must not expose the fact that he was cultivating the Art of Tong Tian.

As for that hint—

“The future has changed.”

—Had everything on the Death Planet changed too?

A broadcast suddenly sounded outside the window:

“Attention all grades and classes.”

“Nebula High School from Human Resistance Army Alliance Planet M-113 will be visiting.”

“Students, please keep your classrooms tidy, maintain personal hygiene, and be polite to others.”

“…”

It seemed truly different.

Shen Ye listened distractedly to the broadcast, then thought back to that moment.

At that time—

After sealing the “Endbringer of all Epochs,” that era seemed to exert a kind of repulsion towards him.

—Because everything had already linked with the laws of destiny, forming a perfect causality.

His continued presence there was superfluous.

A powerful surge of the Law Realm descended.

They seemed to have a common will, drawing him into the Law Realm and carrying him through the blank world towards an infinite destination.

He gradually lost consciousness.

When he woke up again.

He was in this moment.

Countless inexplicable pieces of information gathered into a massive black mist, as if tangible, turning into an unknowable void in his mind.

Along with it came lines of faint glowing text:

“Your current world memories have been supplemented.”

“Current world memories are temporarily obscured and need to be gradually restored.”

“Memory restoration cannot be achieved in one go. This is because you have undergone a large number of massive memory loads and extremely strenuous battles. From now on, your brain must be protected.”

“Furthermore:”

“Seeing specific things will promote memory restoration.”

All the small characters floated for a moment, then disappeared.

—Alright.

In short, he hadn’t lost his memory.

Shen Ye lay on the bed and rested for a while, gradually remembering some things.

Nowadays, there was no such thing as “university.”

“High school” was the highest educational institution.

Xirang was a high school that trained professionals, and it was the strongest among the three major high schools in the world.

Jialan High School was still destroyed.

Guixu High School still existed.

Other changes…

It seemed that interstellar travel had become very common.

Clang!

The dormitory door suddenly opened.

Guo Yunye excitedly came in with a lunchbox.

“Brother Ye, I brought you breakfast from the cafeteria—by the way, are you feeling better?”

“I’m fine, thanks. Go to class quickly,” Shen Ye said with a smile.

Guo Yunye responded and ran off.

—Class was about to start.

After he left, Shen Ye looked at the table.

He saw that Guo Yunye had brought a full lunchbox of porridge, thoughtfully adding some pickled vegetables and a braised egg.

…He was hungry.

Before, he had been eating roasted elixirs.

They were really tasteless.

It had been a long time since he had eaten normal human food.

Shen Ye got up, sat by the window, first ate a bite of pickled vegetables, then broke off a piece of steamed bun and chewed it, finally washing it down with the porridge.

So delicious!

This extremely ordinary food actually brought a touch of emotion to his heart.

—Even if it was just to eat these ordinary and normal meals, everything he had done was worth it!

His phone suddenly rang.

He picked it up and saw it was a call from home.

“Hello? Dad.”

“Hahaha, it’s your uncle, Shen Ye.”

“Uncle?”

Shen Ye was surprised.

The number was correct, so why was it his uncle?

“I’m with your dad,” his uncle said.

“What! You’re together?” Shen Ye was truly shocked this time.

“That’s right, we’re in Yujing,” his uncle apparently didn’t follow the young man’s thoughts, “Your grandpa is here too, let’s have lunch together. See what good things your uncle brought you.”

“…Okay.”

“I’ll send you the restaurant address later.”

“…Okay.”

“Be on time.”

The call ended.

A few minutes later.

Ding!

An address was sent over.

Fahai Hotel.

No. 176 Renmin Road, Chengnan.

Shen Ye was a little speechless.

No—

His uncle and grandpa had always disliked his parents.

So how did they end up having a meal together?

Shen Ye was in a daze for a while, then dialed his mother’s number again.

“Hello?”

“Mom, what exactly is going on with Uncle’s family?”

His mother’s voice came through the receiver.

As Shen Ye listened, he slowly frowned.

A portion of his memory had resurfaced.

—The family relations were still the same as before.

However, ever since he got into Xirang High School, Grandpa and Uncle had been frequently visiting his home recently, acting humble and trying to win over his parents.

—His parents also found it difficult to turn away their elders.

Somehow it had ended up like this.

Eating…

Adult meals always had a purpose.

What was the purpose of this meal?

Shen Ye decided to wash his face and brush his teeth, then go to the hotel to find out.

But before that—

Having eaten his fill and not needing to go to class, he simply returned to his single bed, wrapped himself in the quilt, turned over, and went back to sleep.

He slept until almost 11:30 AM.

His alarm clock rang.

Shen Ye opened his eyes, taking a while to accept the fact that he was still a high school student.

Those thrilling adventures and battles seemed like dreams, all whistling away with the wind.

He sat up and stretched—

So comfortable.

He quickly got ready, left school, took a taxi, and soon arrived at Fahai Hotel.

As soon as he entered the private room, he saw his parents sitting there.

Next to them were several middle-aged people of similar age, and a teenager about his age.

There was also an old man.

Oh, he hadn’t seen this old man in so long, it seemed like the person he remembered from childhood—

Grandpa!

Who was also the current head of the Shen family.

“Shen Ye is here, come quickly and sit.”

Uncle enthusiastically waved to Shen Ye.

“Okay!” Shen Ye enthusiastically responded,绕ing the round table, walking to the other side, and sitting next to his mother.

Uncle pulled the young man beside him and introduced:

“Shen Ye, this is your cousin, Shen Changliu—he’s in second year at Xirang High School.”

“Shen Changliu? Hello, hello.” Shen Ye nodded his greeting to the young man.

The young man also nodded and said:

“We’ll look out for each other in the future.”

“By the way,” Uncle changed the subject, “I heard you’ve been selected for this afternoon’s team battle, but you’re only in your first year, and your strength is still too weak—”

“Why not give the spot to Shen Changliu?”

Team battle.

That word again.

What exactly did it mean?

Shen Ye froze for a few seconds, then a memory suddenly surfaced in his mind.

For the past six months.

Strange buildings would often appear on the Death Planet.

No one knew how these buildings appeared, nor who their owners were.

Brute force could not destroy the buildings.

Some psychics skilled in divination gave the buildings a name.

—Primal Ruins.

After these ruins appeared, a “team battle” list would often be posted on their outer walls.

Those on the list could enter these Primal Ruins.

Inside the ruins was another world.

Filled with countless opportunities and treasures.

—Of course, there were also incredibly powerful and vicious monsters.

Everyone wanted to go in.

As long as they gained something inside, they could immediately suppress those of the same level, or even directly increase their strength by one level!

And the most crucial point:

If the person who obtained the spot couldn’t participate, they could transfer the spot to someone else.

Yesterday.

A magnificent Primal Ruin quietly appeared in the suburbs of Yujing City.

Shen Ye’s name was on the team battle list.

This was why Uncle came to his door.

Shen Ye looked around and saw everyone staring at him.

Among them were some unfamiliar faces.

All relatives he usually didn’t interact with much.

“Have you ordered the dishes?”

Shen Ye asked with a smile.

“Not yet,” his father said.

“By the way, about what we just discussed, there should be no problem, right? It’s only natural for family to help each other,” Uncle said.

“Let’s order first, I’m hungry,” Shen Ye said.

Uncle gestured: “Waiter!”

While everyone was busy ordering, Shen Ye pulled out his card and looked down at it.

The team battle information had already been released.

At Xirang High School, only he had been selected.

There were also people from other planets on the list.

A total of six people.

All strangers to him.

Lines of dense information appeared on the card one after another.

All trade requests.

Everyone wanted the spot he held.

Shen Ye closed his eyes slightly.

—Some more memories had resurfaced.

The structure of the Multiverse seemed to have completely changed.

It had transformed from a “ladder-like” layered structure to its current “onion-like” circular structure.

The Unformed Layer was the core layer of the Multiverse.

And the Death Planet was the innermost core world of the Unformed Layer.

All outsiders here only possessed a cultivation of Law Realm Eight-fold.

Only native professionals could reach Ninth-fold.

This led to a result:

No one dared to act recklessly on the Death Planet.

The memory suddenly broke off.

Shen Ye opened his eyes, a little regretful.

Only a little bit of memory had resurfaced, no more could at the moment.

—His head felt like it was being pricked by needles.

It needed to recover slowly.

“Shen Ye, what about the spot? We’re all family, I hope you can help your own people,” Uncle said again.

“Sure,” Shen Ye smiled.

Teacher said the team battle was extremely dangerous, and advised him to sell the spot.

He hadn’t even recovered his memory yet.

Many things were still unclear.

He didn’t even know what was happening with the Saintly Venerable, or what had become of the Endbringer of all Epochs.

To lie low for a few days was reasonable.

As Shen Ye’s words fell.

The solidified air suddenly changed, and the atmosphere at the dinner table immediately became lively.

“Hahaha, as expected of our Shen family, so generous!”

Uncle happily took out a small box and handed it over.

Shen Ye opened it and saw a gold bar inside.

A greeting gift?

Was it to ease the relationship between the two families?

“Uncle, there’s no need for this,” Shen Ye said, placing the box on the table.

“Take it,” Uncle said grandly, “The spot is for your brother, we can’t let you suffer a loss, can we?”

“Suffer a loss…” Shen Ye slowly understood.

One gold bar?

To buy a spot to enter the Primal Ruins?

He looked down at the card in his hand.

As the time for the team battle approached, more and more trade requests appeared on it.

Shen Ye even saw powerhouses of the Three-Eyed Race.

Their offer was “a legendary psychic combat technique, a private resort planet, and two mining planets.”

Then he looked at the gold bar on the dinner table.

Shen Ye said, “Uncle, friendship is friendship, but if you want this spot in my hand, shouldn’t cousin show some sincerity?”

“Child, don’t be so greedy,” the old man spoke, “We’re all relatives, what’s more important than kinship?”

Kinship?

Good!

Shen Ye smiled and glanced at Shen Changliu.

He was probably at the third level of the Law Realm.

That’s right.

He had suddenly arrived at this moment, recovering his nine-level strength in the Law Realm, but had not yet revealed it.

Before returning—

He had just entered Xirang, and until now, he should have only been at the second level of the Law Realm.

But that didn’t matter.

“Are you sure, cousin, that you want to go in?” Shen Ye asked.

From Grandpa to Uncle, then to cousin, all revealed unnatural expressions.

Law Realm Three-fold!

You tell me you want to enter the Primal Ruins?

Seeking death!

Shen Ye said, “I can ask my teacher to be a witness. If cousin really enters that Primal Ruin, I’ll give a discount, the spot will be sold to you cheaper.”

“If you’re going to sell it off—”

“Why wouldn’t I sell it myself?”

A moment of silence.

The door to the private room suddenly opened.

A waiter brought a dish to the table.

Uncle turned the table, letting the dish stop in front of Shen Ye and his parents.

“Try this dish. I specifically asked the chef here to make it.”

Uncle said with a forced smile.

Shen Mu, Zhao Xiaochang, unconsciously glanced at the dish and suddenly shrieked.

Her eyes were red, and she gripped Shen Fu’s hands tightly.

“Old Shen… this is…”

Shen Shian’s expression was grim, and he whispered, “Big Brother, this is ours—”

Uncle said with a sneer:

“That’s right, it’s that dog your family raised. I heard it was a certain breed, with delicious meat, so I brought it for the kitchen to prepare, for the two children to nourish themselves.”

Before he finished speaking.

A fist enlarged in front of him.

Thud—

Shen Ye punched Uncle, sending him flying through the wall and landing in the street outside.

“Presumptuous!”

Grandpa roared and pounced after him.

What greeted him was a hand.

That hand, using some unknown method, patted him, and he lost all his strength, falling to the ground.

Shen Ye stood before the two of them, drawing his Spring Rain Blade.

“This time you ate my family’s dog, next time you’ll eat my parents?”

He didn’t seem angry at all, even a nonchalant smile hung on his face.

The blade fell.

Uncle’s hands were severed.

The intense pain caused him to roll around on the ground, wailing uncontrollably.

“This time I cut off your hands and crippled your meridians, making you an ordinary person.”

“Do you think that’s the end of it?”

Shen Ye raised his blade again, then suddenly paused.

He sighed and pulled out his card.

Xu Xingke’s communication came through.

“Kunlun said you’re causing trouble, what’s going on?” Xu Xingke asked.

Shen Ye explained the situation.

Xu Xingke pondered for a moment, then instructed, “Unless absolutely necessary, don’t kill an entire family at will, understand?”

“Yes, Teacher.”

The communication ended.

Shen Ye no longer stared at Uncle, who was rolling on the ground, and instead looked towards Grandpa.

“You’re crippled too,” he said.

Grandpa couldn’t move at all, his expression blank.

“Shen Changliu was hit by my palm just now, he’s also crippled,” Shen Ye continued.

Uncle stopped wailing and cried out, “What! How dare you—”

Shen Ye interrupted him: “Before sunset today, all of the Shen family’s property will be transferred to my parents. You can keep a bit of your retirement fund and find a small island to stay on yourselves.”

“If it’s not done by sunset.”

“I’ll kill your entire family.”

After speaking, he gracefully walked back into the hotel and left with his parents.

It took some time to accompany his parents to find the dog’s remains and bury it.

—After he went away to school, his parents were very lonely, so they adopted a cute and憨 thick big dog.

He hadn’t expected his uncle to use it for such a threatening act.

His mother was very sad.

His father, however, was astonished by Shen Ye’s strength.

“I’m currently at the ninth level.”

Shen Ye, to reassure his parents, stated his true strength.

His parents’ emotions finally improved.

“Don’t worry, even with my strength, entering the Primal Ruins is impossible. I’ll sell the spot quickly.”

This statement further put his parents at ease.

The three found a new place, ate dinner, and Shen Ye chatted with them for a while.

It was two o’clock in the afternoon.

“I’m going to school, Mom and Dad,” Shen Ye said.

“Seeing you so promising and having Xu Xingke as your master, we’re relieved,” his mother said with satisfaction, hugging him.

“We’re going back too. Contact us anytime if anything happens,” his father said.

“Don’t worry,” Shen Ye smiled.

He saw his parents off on the shuttle sent by the corporation, watching it gradually depart.

Ding.

A sound came from the card.

Opening it.

The transaction was successful.

It wasn’t sold to people from other planets.

Instead, the spot was given to an internal member of the Tower of Tarot on the Death Planet.

Jian Ji took the spot.

The price was that she would personally protect his parents for a period of time.

Both sides were his own people.

—Shen Ye felt this was the most correct approach.

As for money and such, he possessed the resources of the entire Penglai Immortal Mountain, and for now, didn’t care.

The time finally arrived.

Heavy illusions suddenly appeared, outlining a structure that reached directly to the sky, and luminous, shimmering, mesmerizing prompts appeared before Shen Ye’s eyes:

“You have achieved supreme glory and can enter this team battle!”

“Your spot has been given away.”

“Current team battle members: 6/6.”

“Everyone, enter the Primal Ruins!”

“—Gear obtained by fighting, one-shot kills for 999!”

Shen Ye looked at the last sentence and fell into deep thought.

How could there be such a familiar prompt?

This felt a bit off.

He simply activated “Fate’s Tool.”

Lines of profiling immediately appeared:

“That person who activated the ultimate power of the Epoch,”

“Everything began with you. Your three arts have merged with the power of the Fifth Epoch, creating intricate connections between them,”

“The Multiverse has seen hope and decided to absorb your wisdom, hoping this ultimate power can transcend new epochs,”

“If you wish, you can know the answer.”

“Within the ultimate power of the Fifth Epoch, this is a privilege granted to you by the Multiverse!”

My wisdom?

What wisdom do I have?

Shen Ye couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head.

But—

Wait a minute!

Privilege…

What did that mean?

My wisdom… and privilege…

Could he cut in line?

Shen Ye’s heart stirred. He twisted his spatial ring, took out a large piece of gold, and placed it before the heavy illusion.

Waited for a few breaths.

No reaction at all.

Shen Ye couldn’t help but sigh.

My wisdom—why isn’t it working?

The next moment.

He felt his hand lighten, and the lump of gold suddenly disappeared.

A line of small characters appeared before his eyes:

“You have made a deposit.”

Immediately afterwards.

On the illusion of the Primal Ruins, lines of new prompts quickly popped up:

“Welcome!”

“Distinguished VIP member!”

“Please enter the unparalleled Primal Ruins and begin your grand heroic adventure!”

“This is your exclusive privilege!”