Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 447
byA card appeared in Xu Xingke’s hand.
—Winter of No Incidents.
“Is that so?” He examined the card, a smile appearing on his face. “Shen Ye found this card in the Universe Council?”
“He put in some effort—your student is really resourceful,” the Combat Instructor Master said.
Xu Xingke didn’t speak, he took out his card book and placed “Winter of No Incidents” upright on it.
He waited for a breath.
“Winter of No Incidents” gurgled out spring water, soaking the entire card book.
A sizzling sound immediately erupted from the card book.
Faces of pain emerged from the book, transforming into black glowing specters that continuously flew around Xu Xingke and the card book.
The entire card book was like a brand plunged into cold water, stirring up endless power fluctuations.
Xu Xingke pointed his finger and exclaimed in a low voice:
“Irrigate.”
“Winter of No Incidents” immediately burst forth with a torrent of warm spring water, filling the entire room.
The spring water did not flow out through the cracks in the door and windows.
It formed a whirlpool in the room.
Xu Xingke stood in the center of the whirlpool, his eyes slightly closed, and said:
“The curse back then was ‘never being able to find the lost curse-breaking card, and never being able to entrust anyone or any card spirit to find it’.”
“—Therefore, I can never fully recover.”
“But now, someone has proactively done this for me.”
The water flowed around him, soaking his clothes, and began to emit a sizzling sound.
The roaring, howling specters gradually faded.
They wanted to pounce.
But the mist covered Xu Xingke and the card book, protecting him like a barrier.
The mist continued to spread.
Each time the specters traveled through it, their forms became fainter.
Until finally—
They vanished completely in reluctant struggles.
The Combat Instructor Master held his breath and watched until this moment, when he trembled with excitement and couldn’t help but shout:
“The curse has been lifted!”
The mist dispersed.
The black card book’s cover had turned a smooth silver-white.
Xu Xingke also looked much younger.
He no longer appeared as a weathered and dejected middle-aged man, but rather as if he was only in his twenties, filled with killing intent, like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath.
“How many years has it been… I finally have hope again…”
“Then let’s use this card.”
Xu Xingke said with a hint of emotion, reaching out to take a card from the last page of his card album.
The card depicted a ladder passing through clouds, ultimately extending into the azure sky, its destination unknown.
“Hidden Stairway to Heaven.”
“World-class card, Tarot Tower deck, unique.”
“Description: Suppresses and confuses a ‘heavenly ladder’ type rule, causing the designated deck to be suppressed within lower-tier card power until you release it.”
Xu Xingke gazed at the card, a nostalgic expression on his face.
“Do we really have to lift it? Everyone will recover their strength?”
The Combat Instructor Master asked excitedly.
“The time has come to lift it,” Xu Xingke said.
He placed the card in mid-air and pressed it lightly.
Invisible fluctuations emanated from this “Hidden Stairway to Heaven,” spreading instantly throughout the void and reaching every corner of the layered universes.
At this moment.
All professionals sensed it.
—A certain incredibly powerful force had lifted its seal and was recovering its rightful status!
Thousands of miles away.
Jian Ji was playing games at home.
A fierce sword aura emanated from her, directly slicing the entire house into smithereens.
She sat motionless, stunned.
All her longswords floated in mid-air, letting out a series of cries, each louder than the last.
“What’s going on… he actually lifted the curse?”
Jian Ji murmured in a low voice, then waved her hand, and a rectangular frame immediately appeared around her.
Bang.
She transformed into a card, burrowed into the void, continuously shuttled, and finally landed in a hand.
Xu Xingke’s hand.
Xu Xingke examined the card in his hand:
“Jian Ji.”
“Suppression lifted.”
“Fifth-tier Truth Sword Master.”
“Possesses twenty-one divine swords, has fought tens of thousands of battles, killed countless people, and has never tasted defeat in her life.”
Jian Ji also looked at Xu Xingke.
“Is the curse really lifted?”
She asked.
“Yes,” Xu Xingke said.
“Then—we’re not running anymore?” Jian Ji asked again.
“Not running,” Xu Xingke said.
“Good, that’s really good,” Jian Ji said happily.
“Indeed, it’s really good,” Xu Xingke nodded in agreement.
…
Shen Ye floated in mid-air, gazing at the city from afar.
The gem containing the Indomitable Giant was in his spatial ring.
But his first priority was to save the city.
If everyone died—
The simulation would immediately disconnect, declaring his failure.
How to save it?
Shen Ye looked at the clouds above the city.
Those giant hands destroying the city had emerged from the clouds.
…There’s only one battle left.
He took out a black cloth and blindfolded himself.
The attributes “Lord of the Sun” and “Pride of the Blind” activated simultaneously.
Start!
Clang—
The Spring Rain Blade unsheathed, taken into his hand, and gently struck at the distant sky.
Intensely vibrating invisible power exploded from the blade’s edge, forming a gigantic blade glow that penetrated the heavens.
—Heaven-Shaking Art!
Blood-colored water erupted from the clouds, raining down like a torrential downpour, soaking the entire city.
However, several lines of glowing small text appeared before Shen Ye’s eyes:
“Your overall attributes are only at the ninth level of the Dharma Realm; you can only use the basic level of the Heaven-Shaking Art.”
“The Heavenly Shaking Art’s Spirit feels regret.”
“—Your various attributes are insufficient, and you yourself cannot fully enjoy such a battle.”
“Please accelerate the improvement of your overall attributes; they are the foundation for activating all power!”
Shen Ye was startled, and quickly understood.
In fact, he had always known that this would happen eventually.
Like a child wielding a great axe—
If your own strength is insufficient, how can you unleash the axe’s full power?
The Hun Tian Art requires abundant spiritual power.
Charlize possessed multiple personalities, and in terms of spiritual power, she was a genius capable of making anyone despair.
Therefore, she used the Hun Tian Art with ease.
The attribute requirements for the Tong Tian Art were still unknown.
But the Tong Tian Art favors “competition.”
The answer was self-evident.
So.
Relying on his gateway ability to develop attributes, he had managed to get by in high-level matches until now, finally reaching a bottleneck.
—It was time to fully focus on improving all attributes!
In other words—
To improve his Dharma Realm strength.
As Shen Ye was thinking, he was caught off guard by a giant fist hitting him directly, sending him deep into the ocean.
He spat out a mouthful of blood at the bottom of the sea.
A combat prompt then appeared:
“The enemy’s strength has reached the second level of Truth, thus neutralizing your ‘Pride of the Blind’ debuff and causing you partial damage.”
“The enemy’s pursuit triggered the Truth-third level attribute ‘Lord of the Sun’.”
“‘Lord of the Sun’ formed a suppression against the enemy.”
“The enemy began to lose vitality during the pursuit and was unaware of it.”
I have to hold on for ten seconds!
Shen Ye stood on the coral reefs at the bottom of the sea, looking up.
A massive dark figure appeared on the surface of the sea.
—It was rapidly diving towards the seabed.
Can I last ten seconds?
Shen Ye was unsure, so he simply drew his Spring Rain Blade.
He took a deep breath, and behind him, a terrifying scene of suffering beings in multiple layers of hell suddenly appeared.
—Blade Art Aspect: Avici Hell!
With the aspect unleashed, the power of the “Avici” blade technique was instantly elevated to a new level.
Shen Ye transformed into an Emperor Species, his overall attributes increasing by another 200 points.
He donned a layer of crimson light thorns.
—Thorns of Destiny!
All means were employed!
“You!” “Lack!” “Education!” “Transformation!”
Shen Ye spat out several water balls, from which tremors erupted.
Wei Zhenren also activated.
The enemy arrived in an instant.
Contact!
Spring Rain Blade.
Stabbed towards the enemy.
Overlapping blade shadows burst forth from the void, covering the entire ocean, densely packed like mountains formed by blades, without any gaps.
—Blade Art “Avici”!
Within this blade art, an invisible force that could destroy everything vibrated rapidly, increasing the power of the blade art again and again.
This was the Heaven-Shaking Art, unleashed by Shen Ye with full power after his overall attributes increased by 200 points!
The dark figure diving down was struck.
It revealed its form.
It was a humanoid entity entirely covered in armor.
Thousands of blade shadows struck its body, but were blocked by the solid armor, unable to harm it, only slightly slowing its speed.
However, with the Heaven-Shaking Art’s enhancement—
The monster’s several charges were blocked by the blade mountain!
Ten seconds finally passed.
A prompt popped up in front of Shen Ye:
“Your designated ‘Kuafu’ has lost all vitality.”
At the same time.
A scream of surprise and despair erupted from the monster’s mouth.
—It couldn’t believe it was actually going to die!
Spells were cast by it.
But it was useless.
It struggled a few times, but still died.
—Truth is undeniable.
A shining, magnificent fragment fell out of the monster’s armor cracks.
Shen Ye immediately collected it.
“Large piece of Soul of Truth fragment.”
Good stuff!
Finally got this again!
In fact, ever since he first acquired a fragment of the Soul of Truth, he had vaguely felt a sensation during combat.
Most enemies simply didn’t possess such treasures.
—So he was too lazy to activate “Wei Zhenren” to pick up worthless junk.
Shen Ye collected the fragment and was about to float up to the surface when he suddenly felt utterly exhausted.
The previous strike was his full-powered attack.
He had used every means at his disposal.
Now, relaxing, he felt a bit of powerlessness and fatigue.
However, the matter was not over.
Everything had just begun!
Shen Ye struggled to surface, emerging from the water, and looked towards the city.
The city was still there.
—It survived!
Then he checked the time—
“Current simulation has used 7 minutes and 59 seconds.”
“You have 3 minutes and 20 seconds left.”
Hurry up!
Shen Ye soared into the sky, flying into the city in one breath, landing on the plaza where soldiers were gathered.
“I have brought the weapons of sea transport!”
“Who should I hand them over to?!”
He shouted loudly.
A military officer-like figure stepped out from the crowd and shouted, “Let me see.”
Shen Ye took out the gem and handed it over.
The officer looked at it for a few moments, then handed it back, saying:
“Prepare to join the battle.”
“What?” Shen Ye was a little confused.
“It has its own will—it has identified you, and only you can command it,” the officer whispered.
Indomitable Giant…
Has self-awareness?
As if to answer Shen Ye’s confusion, a phantom gate quietly appeared before his eyes.
Just like signing a contract previously—
Above the gate, various golden glowing runes emerged, coalescing into two pointers. One pointed to the newly generated golden small text:
“The Titan Giant lost in ancient eras.”
As for the other pointer, it pointed to a line of white glowing small text:
“Shen Ye.”
The pointers and both names continued to emit light for several breaths, then slowly faded away.
The contract is done!
A line of small text popped up:
“Do you want to summon your third spirit?”
Shen Ye opened his mouth, speechless for a moment.
—This was a holographic simulation.
It had nothing to do with reality.
How did a contract get signed?
Was it just a “cutscene” that had to happen so he could learn what happened next?
Alright then.
Just go through the motions.
“Summon,” Shen Ye said.
Boom—
Endless thunder roared in his ears.
Everything around him, like an illusion, turned into smoke and cloud, dissipating into nothingness.
Immediately after.
Shen Ye found himself in a chaotic wilderness.
The world was desolate, with no people or life.
Tangible matter and intangible void coalesced into gigantic pillars, propping open the chaos, initially revealing heaven and earth.
But heaven and earth remained intertwined.
They formed a gap.
Within the gap, endless laws rotated, merged, were born, and destroyed.
Before time could be measured, this nascent process of laws continued to an unknowable extent.
Finally, one day.
A humanoid object was born.
It stood at the junction of heaven and earth, existing for an immeasurable time.
Until the law of time appeared, all things took shape, and humans were born—
The first to acquire it was the most primitive tribe in some layered universe in ancient times.
At that time, the human lifespan was only twelve years.
—Because heaven and earth were intertwined, there were few plants and animals that could live, and various laws clashed day and night, emitting destructive fluctuations that harmed living beings.
A primitive man, deep in a crack in the earth, discovered this giant humanoid object.
“Food… I’m starving, I must find food…”
The primitive man thought this and went forward to touch it.
It then became his power.
Humans thereby mastered the methods of slash-and-burn agriculture.
From then on.
After each of its owners died, a new owner would come.
Human civilization thereby received assistance, and in an extremely difficult environment, gradually found a way to survive.
Scenes from the past flashed through Shen Ye’s mind.
In an era of fiery rain.
Humans, with the help of this giant, opened up cities underground.
When floods raged.
Humans used it to dig through all the rivers on the land, letting the floods return to the sea.
Time ceaselessly advanced.
This giant would occasionally be lost in the currents of time, but then sometimes be rediscovered by humans, appearing in the world.
All the images had flashed past.
Shen Ye found himself standing in a dark underground cave.
A giant, pure white in color, stood there, looking down at him who had suddenly appeared.
Instantly.
A sudden understanding surged into Shen Ye’s mind.
“Within all that is real and illusory, possess the stored object of the Indomitable Giant, and one can then state their needs and desires.”
“Should your needs align with the Giant’s nature, the resonance will reach its peak.”
“The Giant will become a fixed spirit ability for you.”
“If your desires do not align with the Giant—”
“The Indomitable Giant’s stored object will leave you, either falling into dormancy or seeking a new master.”
“Begin!”
Shen Ye looked up at the pure white giant.
—So it was an aggregated spiritual entity of the “All Beings” type of law!
Its power was so magnificent, surpassing all trivial truths.
It possessed at least the power of Truth above the seventh layer!
So even though this was a simulated scene, it still sensed everything that was happening in the simulation.
In the real world, it found him!
A perfect opportunity was before him!
But—
He wasn’t necessarily compatible with it.
And in the countless memories he had seen, it had never been used in battle.
In other words.
It couldn’t fulfill any combat-related needs or desires!
So, what other needs could he have?
No, that’s not right.
Right now, he only wanted to increase his combat power and have a head-on fight with the enemy.
Only one year left—
The two ultimate creations were about to enter their final battle!
Shen Ye thought rapidly.
A flash of inspiration suddenly struck his mind.
Got it!
“I want BGM, and cutscenes—that shouldn’t be too difficult, should it?”
Shen Ye spoke.
The Indomitable Giant looked down at him, its face full of solemnity.
Shen Ye spread his hands and said:
“If you can’t even do that, then there’s truly no destiny between us, but if you can—”
“I guarantee that the future of human civilization will be absolutely different.”
…
Several minutes later.
A momentary dizzying sensation.
Shen Ye returned to the nightmare world.
“This way!”
Someone called out.
Shen Ye abruptly turned his head.
Bum bum bum bum bum!
The sound of drum set roared as he made his cool turn.
Just as the electronic music was about to burst forth, Shen Ye hastily waved his hand.
All music vanished.
“Teacher, you’re here too,” Shen Ye greeted.
—This was the fake Xu Xingke.
He didn’t expect him to be waiting here.
“Yes, I was thrown out of that simulation scene—what was that sound just now?” Xu Xingke asked curiously.
“I’ve been studying a percussion instrument recently, Teacher, don’t worry about it.”
“Percussion instrument? Why are you studying that? Is it related to the simulation scene of the Primordial Ruins?”
“No, my life stress is a bit high, so I play some music to relieve it.”
“Oh, what happened next in the simulation scene?” Xu Xingke asked.
“Teacher, why don’t you first reimburse my promised travel expenses, and then we can talk about the information from the simulation scene?” Shen Ye retorted.
“Travel expenses?” Xu Xingke was a bit confused.
“Exactly.”
Shen Ye opened his “Heart of the Swarm,” pulled up the Universe Council’s linked messages, and clicked on the merit purchase records.
“You spent 300 merit points to purchase the merit exchange card ‘Winter of No Incidents’.”
300 merit points!
Shen Ye smiled and sincerely said, “300 merit points, Teacher, I went to great lengths to find that card for you.”
“—By the way, did you receive that card? Is it good?”
The fake Xu Xingke paused for a moment.
Indeed.
He knew that Xu Xingke’s abilities came from cards, which was why he impersonated him.
This fact could not be faked.
“That card is very useful, you really put thought into it,” he said in a tone of gratification.
“As long as Teacher likes it,” Shen Ye also became happy.
“Can you find more cards?”
“I’ll try!”
“Remember, next time you find a new Tarot card, use this card to contact me.”
Xu Xingke handed over a brand new card.
“Exclusive Contact Card.”
“Through this card, you can directly contact a specially designated person, no matter how far away they are.”
Shen Ye took the card, and he understood.
—This guy wanted to know what happened in the Primordial Ruins, and he also wanted to get Tarot cards from him.
He was quite greedy.
“Teacher, about the travel expenses you promised, please reimburse me ’em—or just give me the thing I want.”
Shen Ye insisted.
Xu Xingke froze.
The Gateway of Friendship, to achieve its purpose of friendship, can fulfill some of the target’s requests.
Most importantly—
In this program, only the target is allowed to request items!
Last time, Shen Ye got a dark golden knife, which was directly integrated into his Spring Rain Blade.
This time—
“Alright, I can’t do anything with you, what do you want?”
Xu Xingke asked.
His hand was in his pocket, as if ready to pull something out at any moment.
Shen Ye was about to say something when he saw a new attribute suddenly appear above the other person’s head with a “clang.”
“Teacher, congratulations—you got a new attribute!”
Shen Ye was incredibly surprised.
The fake Xu Xingke was also startled, his heart filled with ecstasy.
An attribute!
This was a good thing.
In any battle, the rules of attributes are superior to ordinary skills, and can even determine the outcome of a battle!
“Is that so? I didn’t do anything, so how did I get an attribute?”
The fake Xu Xingke feigned humility, but eagerly looked up at the attribute.
He saw three large characters floating above his head:
“Doraemon.”
“…” Shen Ye.
“…” Fake Xu Xingke.
A moment of silence.
Shen Ye couldn’t help but quickly ponder.
He had gotten things from the fake Xu Xingke twice, and each time, the fake Xu Xingke just fumbled around and produced them.
—He had a request in his heart and couldn’t refuse.
Even his gateway ability would assess his friendship development level and grant him attributes.
Just like himself.
In this sense, when he asked for something, the fake Xu Xingke couldn’t refuse him.
This was his weakness!
So—
This attribute indeed…
It’s a bit like…
From another perspective, the Dharma Realm likely connected with his consciousness, obtaining suitable attributes from his knowledge and memories, and bestowing them upon the other person.
Which means—
A person’s actions and memories can influence the birth of attributes!
“Shen Ye, do you know what this attribute means?” the fake Xu Xingke asked.
“I’m not too sure, but I know the copyright is very expensive, we can’t afford it, Teacher.”
Shen Ye murmured.
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