Gatekeeper Of All Realms Chapter 125

A three-meter-tall fat man!

Completely patched together from skin!

Seeing this thing at night would give you nightmares!

“May I ask your identity?”

Shen Ye took a step back guardedly and asked.

“I am a Nightmare Demon. After being killed by the King of Ghouls, Miktotikasiwa, I have slept in death for countless ages,” the giant fat man boomed.

“Why did Miktotikasiwa cut your skin into so many pieces?” Shen Ye asked.

“Haha,” the fat man sneered, “She was my enemy, and one of you inherited her bloodline—do you think I’d tell you?”

Shen Ye snapped his fingers: “Take him to warm up.”

The fat man looked bewildered, but the next second, a group of black skeletons suddenly appeared and dragged him into the depths of darkness.

“Hey, what are you doing?” The fat man couldn’t help but ask.

But no one answered.

The seconds ticked by.

A black skeleton appeared and said to Shen Ye, “Boring, it ended as soon as it started.”

“That fast? Bring him back,” Shen Ye said.

“Okay,” the black skeleton replied, then vanished.

The next moment.

The gray-black fat man reappeared, bowing and scraping:

“Big brother, actually, I don’t know what Miktotikasiwa made with me after she cut me up, since I was already dead by then.”

“If you really want to know, you’ll have to travel through time and ask her yourselves.”

Shen Ye and Big Skeleton exchanged glances.

—Who can travel through time!

If we could travel through time, why would we ask you?

“Is there no other way?” Shen Ye asked.

“Actually, there’s another way—I can feel that there’s some kind of seal of hers on my skin.”

“If you search slowly, piece by piece, you’ll eventually figure out what the sealing technique is, and then find a way to break the seal.”

“Of course, this requires patience and a bit of luck, and you also need to have the strength to break the seal.”

The fat man explained.

Shen Ye and Big Skeleton were speechless again.

If we had that kind of strength, why would we ask you?

“Off you go,” Shen Ye said.

The fat man’s body instantly disintegrated, turning back into sheets of “parchment” on the ground.

“It seems we’ll need a long time to unravel the secrets within.”

Big Skeleton sighed.

Just as Shen Ye was about to respond, a flash of inspiration hit him.

No!

There was actually another way!

Although he couldn’t truly travel through time, he could see what had happened to this item in the past.

The prerequisite was—

This item had to be a Dharma Realm object.

Did these “parchments” made by Miktotikasiwa count as Dharma Realm objects?

Let’s try!

Shen Ye stepped back two paces, his gaze once again falling on the “parchments.”

At the same time.

Two faint dragon patterns quietly appeared behind him, and an eye emerged above his head.

First Layer Dharma Realm’s “Moonlit Divine Sight,” activate!

Tiny characters of light gathered and appeared in mid-air:

“You have activated the Dharma Eye: Moonlit Divine Sight.”

“This allows you to perceive Dharma Realm objects. Under divine observation, the past of the current Dharma Realm object becomes clearly visible, but it will consume a large amount of your spiritual power.”

Almost instantly.

He saw an endless stream of light and shadow rise from the “parchments,” like a fast-rewinding movie, flowing backward along the river of time, tracing back to the distant past.

After a full seven or eight breaths.

The long, frantically rewinding scene finally slowed down.

Shen Ye saw a small human figure, glowing with a gray-white light, floating in mid-air.

The figure held a bone blade and was dissecting the Nightmare Demon.

In fact, she had already mostly finished the dissection and was meticulously sewing the demon’s skin.

—Needless to say, this was the legendary Mother of Gloom Skeletons, King of Ghouls, and Underworld Lord, Miktotikasiwa.

She was also the blood mother of Big Skeleton Feilun.

Just as Shen Ye was about to observe more closely, something he had never imagined happened.

Underworld Lord Miktotikasiwa suddenly stopped moving.

She slowly raised her head and looked in Shen Ye’s direction.

“Who?”

“Across the vast expanse of time, who dares to observe my actions at this moment with the divine eye technique of the Dharma Realm?”

Underworld Lord Miktotikasiwa spoke.

Shen Ye’s pupils constricted.

How was that possible!

It was clearly a historical event from countless years ago—

Why could this Underworld Lord perceive his gaze across such a long span of time?

Underworld Lord Miktotikasiwa pondered for a moment, then spoke:

“The span of time between you and me is too vast, so much so that even I cannot see the future.”

“But since you can observe my situation here, you must possess an extremely special Dharma Eye.”

“My only way to communicate with you is like this—”

Miktotikasiwa brandished the bone blade in her hand, cut off a piece of demon skin, and made a diamond-shaped mark on it.

“Find this piece of demon skin. I will leave a special curse mark on it, which only my blood descendants can break.”

“In fact, if the future has nothing to do with my bloodline, then I have no interest in telling you anything more.”

As she spoke, she cast a spell on the demon skin.

Shen Ye immediately looked down and indeed found a piece of demon skin with a diamond-shaped mark.

“Big Skeleton, come on, this piece of demon skin is for a routine blood test. Check your physical condition.”

“How do you know that?” Big Skeleton asked curiously.

—It couldn’t see any anomalies.

“Don’t ask so many questions, I just know,” Shen Ye said.

Big Skeleton placed its palm on the demon skin.

In an instant.

All the demon skins floated into the air, forming a wall.

“What’s going on?”

Big Skeleton asked in surprise.

Shen Ye stepped back, examining the wall while also looking towards the phantom of history.

Miktotikasiwa had casting spells on each demon skin, then met Shen Ye’s gaze again.

“I have hidden the secrets of this world within the demon skins. If you are my blood descendant, you can activate the demon skins. At this point, you have two choices.”

“One is to directly absorb the power I have left behind, immediately rising to the fifth layer of the Dharma Realm, becoming invincible, and reclaiming imperial power.”

“The second is to search for the true enemy of our undead race, the one who will surely kill me in the future—you must uncover the truth of the matter and then find a way to kill it.”

“This is the only thing I can do for you, child.”

Shen Ye withdrew his gaze and looked at the demon skins.

All the demon skins had divided into two piles, one forming the undead number “1” and the other forming the number “2.”

“What’s going on?” Big Skeleton asked.

“I want to ask, what kind of existence was your mother back then?” Shen Ye said.

“She… she killed all my lazy siblings.”

“Are you the most hardworking?”

“No, I was the last one, and she was already severely injured when I was born.”

Shen Ye pondered for a moment, then said:

“Listen to me, go touch that ‘2’.”

“Why?” Big Skeleton was confused.

“To survive.”

“So mysterious…”

Big Skeleton reached out and touched the number “2.”

In an instant.

All the layers of light and shadow from the past era vanished.

All the demon skins unfolded again, releasing endless undead runes, which instantly pierced through the void and condensed into the form of Miktotikasiwa.

“Mother!”

Big Skeleton knelt down.

Shen Ye looked at Miktotikasiwa, then at the undead runes releasing their power one by one, and immediately understood.

This was just a pre-arranged light and shadow spell, not Miktotikasiwa’s rebirth.

Could it be…

Miktotikasiwa floated in mid-air, looking down, and softly said:

“A wise choice.”

“—My descendant must not be a lazy, unmotivated good-for-nothing who only thinks about inheriting power.”

“If you had chosen 1, the spell I hid in the demon skin would have activated and killed you directly.”

“But since you chose 2…”

“Then come to hell.”

“—Only in hell, when you know the truth, will you be safe.”

“My blood child, since you have chosen revenge, then come to the depths of hell, seek the truth and the enemy’s weakness, and let its skull crown you—”

“Only then can you be considered a true Skeleton King!”

With that said.

The deity vanished.

All the demon skins reassembled, squirming rapidly, then suddenly opened.

On this demon skin lay a dazzling golden gem, in which streaks of liquid seemed to flow ceaselessly.

Nightmare Crystal!

A line of tiny glowing characters quietly appeared beside the Nightmare Crystal:

“???”

“Undead Race Legacy Crystal.”

“Using it grants special spells left by the Undead Deity.”

“Please be cautious, this crystal can only be used by the undead, because only the undead can construct a relatively safe path directly to the depths of hell.”

Shen Ye and Big Skeleton both looked at the glowing Nightmare Crystal, speechless for a moment.

After a long while.

“Hey, are you really going?” Shen Ye asked.

“I’m not sure… Although I’m an undead, going to hell while alive still carries great risks… unless you can help me,” Big Skeleton said.

“How can I help you?” Shen Ye asked.

“If things go south, we need to withdraw immediately, brother. In such a situation, only your Two Realms Gate technique can pull me out,” Big Skeleton said.

Just as Shen Ye was about to speak, a scene from not long ago suddenly flashed through his mind.

“Explore the secrets of this world—your friends will help you, but only if you help them first.”

“If you know the true secret of this world, there might still be a glimmer of hope!”

“…to save me, or to save your world.”

So.

That voice already knew everything?

Damn it, if it knew, why didn’t it directly tell me?

“Hell… it has to be hell…”

Shen Ye muttered.

He had realized.

Perhaps that voice also dared not speak that “secret” openly.

Underworld Lord Miktotikasiwa said that only hell was safe.

It seems…

If he wanted to know the secret of this world, he really had to go to hell!