Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 706

Chapter 689 Maria’s Stone Coffin

The large ship.

The good Duck has been kicked into the door of separation.

Young Shen Ye stood there, looking at Maria, and shook his head:

“It’s over.”

“You think you can definitely beat me?” Maria sneered.

She cast a spell, instantly gaining control over Shen Ye.

—Just like she controlled the good Duck just now.

Shen Ye sighed.

“Sighing in despair and regret for your fate?” Maria said, activating her spell.

Illusory figures formed behind her, shaping into a majestic building.

Phenomenon – Silent Church!

Her spell power instantly surged.

Shen Ye couldn’t move; a series of bone-cracking noises emanated from his body.

However.

Shen Ye spat out a mouthful of blood, his expression unchanged.

“You are strong, but you are not sensitive enough to changes in the situation, which is why you failed.”

He said faintly.

Maria’s eyes sharpened, and she shouted, “I am the lord of both sacred and 法界 powers, and you are just a new S-rank human, by what right—”

Her voice abruptly stopped.

Because she suddenly noticed something wasn’t right.

Her power was fading.

Not only that, her body was gradually becoming transparent, as if it could dissipate at any moment.

Shen Ye regained his mobility.

He took the silver ear soup passed to him by Seventh Uncle from the void, drank it all, and waited for his injuries to heal before saying:

“Once ‘now’ is determined, ‘past’ will be finalized, and ‘future’ will become clear.”

“I recall those were your exact words just now.”

Maria’s face turned pale; she involuntarily took a few steps back and whispered, “No…”

Shen Ye seemed not to hear, continuing:

“‘Now’ has been determined.”

“—That door will never open, and ‘future’ will be forever cut off from ‘now’ and ‘past’.”

“You should know what this means by now.”

Maria’s body trembled.

At this moment.

She finally reacted!

Yes.

The door of separation was the power of the 法界, and also the 法界’s final goodwill towards all beings.

The door.

It had been inherited and activated.

The future had already begun.

In fact.

From the perspective of truth, “future” determines “now” and “past.”

The future—

Only the good Duck and the 法界 existed.

This meant a terrifying and irresistible “now”—

Everyone else would “end” in the Era of Entropy!

This truth was so desperate that Maria momentarily forgot to attack.

Suddenly.

The large ship shook violently.

The hull began to tear.

The tables, chairs, walls, and even frescoes in the room entered a “stretching” state, potentially splitting into two identical objects at any moment.

—Although the two ships had merged, the power of the terms seemed unable to keep them peacefully coexisting forever.

They were about to separate!

Shen Ye’s aura suddenly changed.

Maria immediately sensed it and shrieked:

“You truly came!”

“Indeed, this is the final moment; I have finally arrived here to do something for all beings,” Shen Ye said.

His eyes radiated a deep blue, tinged with golden light, and behind him, sacred singing echoed.

—Summoned by Shen Ye, God descended upon him!

“I thought you would never descend here, at this moment!”

Maria’s tone carried a hint of resentment.

“Good things come to those who wait, like a treasured sword honed,” Shen Ye said in a serene and harmonious tone.

“I’m going to die here, which is not what you said when you asked me to work for you,” Maria said.

“You betrayed me,” Shen Ye said.

“I just wanted to go to the future we agreed upon,” Maria said.

She suddenly looked up.

A halo disappeared from above her head.

“You took away my sacred identity… are you really that bothered by it?”

Maria asked.

“Time’s up, Maria,” Shen Ye said.

He walked to the wall, placed his hand on it, and said:

“My power here is exhausted; from now on, it will never reappear.”

“And you no longer belong to the sacred, so you can trick many beings.”

“So—”

“This is the last chance I’m giving you to live.”

Before his words finished.

Threads of golden light emerged from Shen Ye’s hand, forming a long contract on the wall.

After doing this, the dignified aura on his body gradually faded.

He turned to look at the other party, his tone imbued with an undeniable sacred meaning:

“Maria, you have returned to your original identity as the Mother of the 法界. Now is the time for you to make a choice.”

“—Surrender to Shen Ye, and live.”

“Or perish in this Era of Entropy.”

After saying that.

The sacred aura on him disappeared.

A line of faint glowing text quietly appeared before his eyes:

“God has concluded this descent and has permanently entered the ranks of the unsummonable.”

Shen Ye looked at the words, a strange feeling surging in his heart.

—What exactly happened?

He looked at Maria.

Maria, however, was looking at the contract on the wall, her expression gradually turning to despair:

“Old one… are your powers truly… exhausted?”

Boom—

The ship shook violently again.

In the secret room.

Every object had split into two, and even the walls had stretched to twice their length.

The two ships were about to completely separate!

But on one wall alone, there was that glowing contract.

—It was Shen Ye’s ship!

Shen Ye sighed and said:

“God’s last good intention; you decide.”

“The door has severed the future; I can only die here,” Maria said.

“But all my subordinate objects will be taken to the future,” Shen Ye said.

—Such as the nightmare world.

And the seven true creations.

Maria lowered her head, looking at her gradually ethereal body.

A moment later.

She finally took a step, walked to the wall, and placed her hand on the blank space beneath the contract.

Seeing this, Shen Ye also placed his handprint.

The contract, filled with golden light, erupted with brilliant radiance from the wall.

The contract was sealed!

“You have signed a perfect sacred contract with Maria, Mother of the 法界. You cannot betray each other until eternity or endless oblivion.”

The faint glowing text flashed rapidly, then quietly disappeared.

“Now.”

Maria said succinctly.

The entire wall instantly erupted with countless intricate lines, outlining a Gothic black cathedral.

She stepped through the wall, immediately standing before the church, then looked back at Shen Ye.

Shen Ye understood, and also took a step.

In the next instant.

He found himself standing before the church as well.

“Follow me.”

Maria said.

—After the contract was signed, her body solidified again.

Perhaps because of this—

She didn’t say anything further along the way, as if she had accepted everything in the contract.

Shen Ye followed her into the church, through the hall, turned behind the enormous cross, opened a secret passage, and walked down the steps.

Before long.

The two arrived at a very narrow, dark room.

The room was filled with various holy relics, exuding immense divine power.

Surrounded by these holy relics, and in the center of the room—

An open stone coffin appeared before Shen Ye.

The stone coffin was empty.

“Lie down.”

Maria said expressionlessly. “Why?” Shen Ye asked with a shrug.

“This sarcophagus is the fundamental manifestation of all power, co-originating with the 法界. Only by entering it can you see the truth,” Maria explained Maria.

Shen Ye glanced at her, then looked towards the void.

“It’s alright, this room still retains God’s power, so it can temporarily block prying,” Maria said.

“???” Shen Ye.

Seeing his confusion, Maria added:

“This place is safe, the only safe place—but you must remember, after closing your eyes, immediately step back and reopen your eyes, returning here.”

The atmosphere changed.

As the former Virgin Mary spoke, an indescribable eeriness and grotesqueness emerged from the darkness.

Shen Ye gently stroked the stone coffin, looking at the line of faint glowing text above it:

“Fruit.”

“Description: The entropy solver, the fruit of billions of twisted sacred trees.”

The information was concise.

It made one wonder, yet provided no useful intelligence.

Shen Ye quickly made a decision.

—God had left him a message before leaving:

“Maria is the only loophole; now that loophole is yours.”

It seemed he had to try.

Alright.

Try it then!

Shen Ye lay inside the stone coffin and closed his eyes.

In an instant.

It was as if countless icy liquids surged up, immersing Shen Ye, gradually drowning him, sinking him into an unseen abyss.

Shen Ye found he could now “see” his surroundings.

He was suspended from a thick branch, swaying gently with the gray, decaying mist.

He immediately understood.

No—

It wasn’t him hanging, but the stone coffin.

At this moment.

He was observing his surroundings from the perspective of the stone coffin.

With just one glance, Shen Ye was stunned.

Looking out.

The boundless earth was entirely paved with twisted black corpses.

The entire world was bleak, with no living things in sight.

Only this tree—

This tree was also composed of corpses of various sizes and forms.

These corpses had no heads.

Their limbs and even tails were tightly intertwined, forming the tree’s trunk and its flourishing long branches.

There were countless fruits on the tree.

Those fruits were rotten and decayed black coffins.

Some coffins were completely broken, some were intact but empty.

A few coffins were tightly sealed.

Faintly, billions of cries and howls could be heard emanating from within the coffins.

The stone coffin was one of them!

Infinite power—

A power more profound and immense than the 法界, all converged on this tree, emanating wisps of mist towards the endless dark corpse-land.

Shen Ye was accustomed to all sorts of situations, but at this moment, he unhesitatingly stepped back and opened his eyes.

All visions vanished.

He found himself still lying in the stone coffin in the secret room of the grand cathedral.

Maria stood nearby.

Shen Ye sat up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and it took him a while to calm his mind.

“What was that?”

He asked.

“The real world,” Maria said.

She further explained: “In your human terms, you can understand it as the outside being the true world, and everything we are in are ‘experimental sites’ carefully constructed by them.”

“What are ‘they’?” Shen Ye asked again.

“I don’t know,” Maria said.

“What is their purpose?” Shen Ye pressed.

“They are trapped—the Era of Entropy, you know, they can’t even die—they yearn to go to the future,” Maria said.

“Wait!”

Shen Ye was about to say something, but Maria waved her hand, cutting him off:

“You cut off the future, so this tree and the entire world still remain here.”

“What about God? And those other powerful beings, like the Lord of Higher Dimensions, the Apocalypse?” Shen Ye asked.

Maria stated directly:

“The powerful beings you met were not their true selves.”

“Those were just their wills and consciousnesses, as well as their residual, minuscule powers, lingering in history.”

“Then where are their true selves?” Shen Ye asked.

“Unclear.”

“God wasn’t real either?”

Speaking of God, Maria finally spoke more:

“The monster outside collected a drop of God’s blood and used it to materialize this sacred being.”

“But I have interacted with God, so I know—”

“God truly exists.”

“Even though it was materialized from blood, it possessed his divine will.”

“God entered this play—using the power of a single drop of blood, he deceived those beings amidst countless historical fragments, and made a plan.”

“At the last moment, he chose to side with you.”

Shen Ye digested the information for a while, then said:

“So you wanted to run.”

“Yes,” Maria admitted generously, “the fragments of history were not caused by a conflict between two powerful beings, but because the monsters outside couldn’t create a truly dominant history; they could only generate these historical fragments.”

“Then what about us? What are we?” Shen Ye asked.

“All beings reproduce easily, and all things can be created at will—you are not fake, there’s no need to doubt that,” Maria said.

“They created countless vast world systems like this, just to let all beings find a path to the future.”

The words stopped.

Maria looked at Shen Ye.

Shen Ye was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized the profound meaning of her words.

A path to the future.

He had cut it off.

If at that time—

Maria spoke directly:

“If you had opened the door then, connecting the future and the present, then they would all have awakened—”

“The entire world outside would awaken.”

“These terrifying entities, they are not S-rank, nor SSS-rank; who knows what rank they are.”

“They can even simulate the powers of those past strong individuals.”

“God’s blood was the only loophole in endless history.”

“Back to those monsters—once they detect the appearance of a future, they will inevitably control you, and then all pass through the door, escaping the Era of Entropy and going to the future.”

“Not bad, for a moment I thought it was over, but it was actually God personally intervening and kicking the duck through.”

“Only God could do that without being detected.”

“Next, you chose to sever ‘now’ from ‘future’.”

“So we are still alive.”

“Does God truly no longer exist?” Shen Ye asked.

“When kicking the duck, that drop of blood exerted its power, concealing everything, so the power of the blood was completely consumed.”

“Without the blood, God’s will did not remain in our world.”

Maria said.

Suddenly.

A door opened.

Another Shen Ye stood, covered in blood, his wounds shocking.

“Almost got taken out by that Soul Orb—can’t stay on the ship anymore, we have to run.”

He said.

The two Shen Yes looked at each other, then both looked at Maria.

“Looking at me is useless; that door of separation absolutely cannot be opened again—I told you, God is no longer in our world.”

Maria shook her head.

—Now, that door cannot be opened again.

If opened, they would be discovered.

The power of those monsters surpassed SSS-rank; they would instantly detect the path to the future and directly change the entire battle situation.

—It would be effortless.

“Unfortunately, we lost God.”

Shen Ye said.

Maria seemed calm, but her face was already as pale as paper, and she stammered:

“God descended his true will because of that drop of blood.”

“Other than God, everything you saw, and all the powerful beings you summoned, were mimicked by those monsters outside.”

“They are deducing methods to reach the future in countless experimental worlds.”

“—So what do we do now?”

Shen Ye thought for a moment, then shook his head:

“It’s not like that.”

“Why wouldn’t it be? I observed endless time to discover this truth, and only then was I accepted by God,” Maria sneered.

“At least there is one power, one will of an existence, that they do not control,” Shen Ye said.

“Who?”

“The Apocalypse.”

Shen Ye raised his hand.

Surging dark flames rose from his hand.

(End of this chapter)