Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 646
by“Fifteenth hour, currently.”
“You must survive for 24 hours.”
The small, faintly glowing text flashed and disappeared.
Jiu stood in the darkness, quietly sensing the changes around him.
—This is the Land of Truth.
He was in an underground cave, meticulously searching for traces of the Truth’s creations.
“No.”
Cassandra, the little girl transformed from the Spirit Catching Net, shook her head.
“Indeed, we found nothing,” Susu also said.
Jiu was somewhat surprised.
The Spirit Catching Net and the Parasitic Empress were best at tracking.
But after entering the depths of the Land of Truth, both of them claimed they couldn’t find any other Truth creations.
How could this be?
“That monster that awakened from the depths of the Land of Truth – it’s collecting all the Truth creations.”
Cassandra said.
“It’s dead,” Chatterley said.
“It was indeed killed by the Nest, but before that, it had been collecting Truth creations, and even I almost fell victim,” Cassandra said.
“—So, there are no other Truth creations to be found now?”
Jiu asked.
The several great Truth creations fell silent together.
It wasn’t that they were hiding and therefore couldn’t be found.
It was that they had all vanished.
“It’s a pity that monster died too quickly, leaving no clues,” the Chaos Boat sighed.
Suddenly.
Bai Di appeared abruptly, punching into the void at the cave entrance.
Boom—
A figure that had just streaked in was sent flying.
—It was a Modifier!
“Hurry, this place isn’t safe anymore.”
Bai Di said in a deep voice.
Jiu immediately strode into the depths of the cave, muttering, “Door.”
The Gate of Forbidden Lands silently floated on the rock wall.
The door opened.
Jiu went in first, followed by Bai Di.
The two, along with the door, vanished.
The next second.
Seven or eight Modifiers appeared in the cave simultaneously.
They looked around, trying to find Jiu’s whereabouts, but couldn’t sense the presence of the Gate of Forbidden Lands.
Even so, Jiu frowned.
“The pursuers are getting more numerous…”
He mumbled to himself.
With his strength, a head-on fight with a Modifier wouldn’t be an issue.
But this was a group.
And their numbers were constantly increasing.
“Don’t worry, they can’t see through your door.”
Bai Di said.
“I’m worried about something else,” Jiu said.
“What?” Bai Di asked.
“If they can’t find me, will they just erase this parallel world?” Jiu asked.
Bai Di didn’t respond.
That was a very real possibility.
If the entire parallel world were to be destroyed, then it would be over.
Jiu pondered for a few breaths, placed his hand on the door, and pushed hard—
Faint glowing text immediately appeared:
“You have set the current obstacle as ‘distance to the deepest part of the Land of Truth’.”
“When you cross the door, you cross this obstacle.”
Jiu stepped across, dropping from the damp, shadowy rock wall to a place known to no one.
This was the deepest part of the Land of Truth.
Black mist permeated the surroundings.
However, when Jiu descended, the black mist parted to both sides, clearing a path.
Faint glowing text appeared shortly after:
“You possess ancient high-dimensional lord’s childhood playthings, allowing passage from this place.”
Passage—
Tch.
Although I can pass, I haven’t collected enough Truth creations yet.
Without solid identification, I have no identity.
Can an undocumented person enter?
“Since I can’t find any other Truth creations, I’ll have to make do with what I have and gather seven creations first.”
Jiu pressed his hand against the air, and with a low cry:
“It’s decided, come out!”
Bang!
Bang!
Two consecutive sounds.
He saw a bronze man and a cat-dog appear before him.
That’s right!
They came from the Land of Truth, so they should also count as Truth creations!
Upon seeing Jiu, the cat-dog excitedly hopped and bounded, while the bronze man presented a notebook with both hands.
Jiu took it and looked.
On the notebook, a line of large characters read:
“ ‘The Lonely Hours of the Bronze Man and the Cat-Dog.’ ”
Jiu couldn’t help but blush a little.
Too busy.
He hadn’t really taken good care of these two.
“No, their power is too weak; they can’t support the name ‘powerful Truth creation’.”
Chatterley reminded.
Yes.
“The First Card of the Exile Emperor” requires obtaining seven “powerful Truth creations.”
The cat-dog and the bronze man were not strong enough.
Even Uncle Seven was barely qualified.
This was trouble.
Jiu was pondering a solution when he saw Bai Di appear silently, placing one hand on the bronze man and lifting the cat and dog with the other, saying:
“I do have a spell that can place my power on them, temporarily boosting their strength.”
“But there’s a problem.”
“What?” Jiu asked.
“When my spell takes effect, they can only be considered a single entity,” Bai Di said.
“So that means, with them two, you can be considered one type of ‘powerful Truth creation’?”
“Correct.”
Alright.
Now only one last Truth creation remained!
Jiu was struggling to figure out where to find another creation, when he suddenly noticed more and more Modifiers appearing silently in the surrounding mist.
“Got you.”
One of the Modifiers spoke.
The other Modifiers gathered around—
But the mist seemed to become some kind of barrier, preventing them from approaching Jiu.
Jiu’s heart stirred.
“What is your identity, that you dare to offend me?”
She spoke, and simultaneously displayed the skull baby pendant on her bag.
—The childhood toy of a high-dimensional lord of old!
“No offense intended, but for ages, the Myriad Worlds has not permitted any outsiders to enter. Please provide further proof of your identity.”
A Modifier spoke.
Further proof of identity—
In other words, it was time to draw that strange card.
But there was still one Truth creation missing to form “The Exile Emperor’s First Card”!
What to do?
Jiu was about to try to stall, when he saw a path silently appearing in the mist.
Faint light shimmered into small characters:
“Only with proof of the old high-dimensional lord’s identity can one pass through here.”
—The proof is the skull baby!
Rather than wasting time here with these Modifiers, being scrutinized by them—
Why not try this path!
These Modifiers shouldn’t have the identity proof of the old high-dimensional lord!
“You think you’re worthy of checking my identity?”
Jiu sneered, and strode deep into the mist.
The Modifiers indeed couldn’t enter.
They gathered outside the mist, saying:
“Please prove your identity, otherwise you will be regarded as an enemy.”
“Please provide immediate proof—”
Jiu delved deeper into the mist, leaving the voices of the Modifiers behind.
—This was the only way to escape!
But what lay deep within the mist?
If there were Truth creations, that would be even better!
She sped through the mist.
In a short while.
The surrounding mist churned and shifted, manifesting various scenes.
All the scenes grew increasingly clear, increasingly real.
A group of figures was obscured by black light and shadow, their appearances and forms completely indiscernible—
She stood among these shadows, as if she were one of them.
The runes for a large-scale spatial transfer spell spun continuously, without stopping.
—Is this a transfer?
What exactly is going on?
“Careful, this might be a buried memory fragment. You’ve passed through the mist and arrived within this memory.”
Chatterley said.
Memory.
If all the worlds of truth were things abandoned by the old high-dimensional lord—
Then this should be her memory, right?
The light gradually brightened.
Jiu also saw the dark figures around her.
—They were all humanoid beings, each emanating an extremely terrifying aura, far stronger than the so-called Modifiers!
What’s going on?
How did I end up among these guys?
Jiu couldn’t help but feel a little nervous.
If she had to fight these guys, she’d rather retreat; the probability of survival would be slightly higher.
“Prepare.”
A monster said in a deep voice.
Its tone was very strange, but Shen Ye inexplicably understood its meaning.
Another monster shouted:
“Three,”
“Two,”
“One!”
“Arriving at the battlefield!”
The fluctuations of the spatial spell spread, and the entire world suddenly became incredibly clear.
Jiu found herself on an incredibly grand and vast battlefield.
The ground was littered with the corpses of humans and monsters.
Blood soaked the earth.
It seemed this war had been going on for an unknown amount of time.
“Greet the enemy—”
A monster roared loudly beside her, making Jiu’s ears ache.
Enemy?
She looked around, but saw no enemies.
Looking at the monsters standing around her, they all looked up at the distant sky.
Every monster raised its weapon, looking nervous. The next second.
Something unimaginable happened.
An extremely fiery stream of light streaked across the sky, flying towards the distant horizon.
One could clearly see that within the stream of light, there seemed to be a human figure—
The figure merely flashed before leaving this world, directly jumping through space and vanishing without a trace.
However, the monsters on the ground roared in unison:
“Hold the line!”
Before the words had settled.
The world was illuminated as white as day by the light.
Jiu then saw the long, fiery afterglow left in the void by the departing stream of light, like an boundless tide, spilling down from the sky.
That was—
“Sword.”
She uttered one word, lost in thought.
Almost simultaneously, faint glowing text quickly appeared before her eyes:
“The sword has arrived.”
“All your arts and spells are in a state of being broken and cannot be cast.”
…This works too?
Endless sword energy swept across the entire world.
Jiu forced herself to look up, staring intently at this unparalleled sword move.
She had to see it!
Only by witnessing such swordsmanship could she broaden her horizons!
But then, the fiery light descended like a waterfall, falling into a dense, sky-obscuring rain of sword shadows that began to bombard the entire world.
Layer upon layer of spells, beyond Jiu’s comprehension, soared into the sky.
The power of these spells was unlike anything Jiu had ever seen; any one of them, if unleashed upon the Myriad Worlds—
The entire Myriad Worlds would be destroyed!
Yet, before these boundless, terrifying spells, the sword beams poured down like a torrential rain.
All arts, all spells, were extinguished by the sword beams.
“Hold on!”
The monster leader roared.
It was no use.
Wherever the sword beams descended, everything was cut down clean.
A monster beside Shen Ye took out a giant shield, but it was shattered into dust after being struck by the rain of sword beams with a “dinging-donging-dinging” sound for a mere second.
The monster was wiped clean of all flesh and blood by the sword energy, not even a soul remaining.
The entire world continually sank.
—This was because layers of defensive runes laid on the surface were being continuously eroded.
Before these ubiquitous, indestructible, and unstoppable sword beams, all living beings were left with only one emotion.
Despair.
Everything on the earth was slain by the endless rain of swords, until—
After about three breaths.
The sword light instantly vanished, taking with it all the screams, clashes, roars, and tremors of the entire world.
It was as if death had flown away, taking all vitality and life with it.
Silence.
Silence.
Silence.
In this near-eternal silence, Jiu looked around in a daze.
Not a single living thing.
—She was still alive, probably because this was just a memory?
As she was thinking, a cold female voice suddenly rang in her ears:
“Clearly it was a world at the very edge of the battlefield, merely grazed by that sword—”
“And it was completely destroyed.”
“I left this memory to select strong individuals.”
“Whoever survives will pass.”
“Begin now.”
As the words faded.
Jiu felt an extremely ominous premonition.
Begin?
Wait, what do you mean by “begin”?
Before she could think further, a line of faintly glowing text quietly appeared mid-air:
“This memory is about to transform into real history.”
—Big sister, you’re serious!
Jiu couldn’t help but swallow, and started frantically thinking about how she could survive.
So many unheard-of spells.
So many incredibly powerful monsters.
None of them made it through.
Me?
Damn it!
Quick, think! Is there any way to survive this sword?
“Swordplay…”
Jiu lowered her eyes slightly, countless thoughts flashing through her mind.
Suddenly.
She found that the entire world had returned to its original state.
Monsters were everywhere.
“Greet the enemy—”
The monster roared loudly again, making Jiu’s ears ache.
The monsters had re-entered a state of alert, waiting for that sword to pass through this world.
—That sword art was about to descend again!
What to do?
A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Jiu.
“Swordplay…”
She uttered two words.
Destruction cannot destroy destruction.
And—
The Grim Reaper of all worlds, controls the power of destruction.
Its manifestation is swordplay.
Swordplay.
—Xiao Mengyu’s inheritance was precisely swordplay!
She became the master of the Great Calamity of Destruction!
Jiu’s mind stirred.
In the void.
Lines of faint glowing text immediately appeared:
“You have activated ‘Passionate Comrade’.”
“You have exchanged your ‘twenty-five memorized websites’ for Xiao Mengyu’s ‘Sword Art Inheritance’.”
“This exchange is successful!”
“Xiao Mengyu lent her sword too!”
All the small characters flashed away.
Immediately after.
A sword appeared in Jiu’s hand.
Luoshen Sword!
“Come, whether I live or die, depends on this one move.”
She took a deep breath, and desperately activated the sword technique.
In unison, all the monsters in the world roared:
“Hold the line!”
Before the words had settled.
Light.
Swept across the sky.
That stream of light swept past quickly, as if pursuing something.
Its aftermath rippled through the void, manifesting an endless, surging tide in the empty space, like a ten-thousand-foot high mountain of the sea, appearing against the sky.
It’s here!
Jiu raised her longsword and softly chanted:
“Secret Sword · Shadow Painting.”
In an instant.
She activated “Transforming Empress,” boosting her strength to 130%—
Rumble rumble rumble!
A thunderous sword cry resounded from the Luoshen Sword.
Streaks of black sword shadows erupted from the chilling blade, weaving ghost-like through the void, meeting the rain of swords descending from the sky.
Buzz—buzz—buzz—
The black sword shadows clashed with the fiery sword light in mid-air.
In an instant.
All the sword shadows dissipated into nothingness.
The fiery sword light continued to descend.
Jiu, however, was not disheartened and once again increased the speed of her sword technique.
“Again!!!”
She shouted with all her might.
The longsword whirred, once again bursting forth with layers of black sword shadows.
But this time—
The sword shadows no longer rushed into the sky, but instead revolved only around Jiu, forming a tower of sword shadows.
Jiu was taking a gamble.
She was betting that—
“Such a powerful being, wouldn’t they sense their own swordsmanship?”
“No.”
“He must sense that his inheritor is here dying!”
Buzz buzz buzz buzz—
The sound of swords ringing reached the sky.
In a flash.
Jiu suddenly opened her eyes wide, watching the searing sword light pierce down.
The sword tip was only a hair’s breadth from her pupil, yet it abruptly went from rapid motion to stillness.
The entire world was undergoing a cleansing rain of swords.
But around Jiu, all the blazing sword lights had stopped.
Immediately after.
That cold female voice echoed from the void:
“So that’s how it is.”
This voice seemed to carry magic.
In this voice, all of Jiu’s strength vanished, and she transformed back into a man.
She reverted to Shen Ye.
The voice continued:
“Using his power to counter him, that is indeed a valid approach.”
“You did well.”
“This is your reward, after all, you don’t even have a basic identity yet, and I approve of your actions.”
Shen Ye was stunned.
No…
The Sequence said, “The High-Dimensional Lord abandoned all her authority.”
She…
She hadn’t abandoned anything.
Even with only a memory left, she was still thinking of ways to deal with her enemies.
Everything he did was adopted by her!
She hadn’t given up!!!
Shen Ye’s heart was like a surging tide, yet he struggled to show no trace of flaw on his face.
The world transformed into light and shadow, light and shadow receded into mist, and the mist dissipated.
Shen Ye lowered his head.
He saw a card in his hand.
—This was given to him by the other party for adopting his strategy.
Shen Ye stared at the card in his hand.
“Strange Sovereign.”
That was the name of the card.
He didn’t know its use yet, but he could sense that the power it exuded belonged to the side of truth, and it seemed to have already surpassed the twenty-first order, reaching an unknown high level.
The crisis seemed to be averted.
Shen Ye looked around.
All the Modifiers surrounding the area were kneeling on one knee, gazing at the card in his hand with reverence.
“Damn it.”
Shen Ye uttered two words.
—Damn it all!
He just wanted to escape!
He didn’t want to help the High-Dimensional Lord deal with the Reaper at all!
(End of this chapter)
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