Gatekeeper Of All Realms Chapter 63

Tonight.

The welcome banquet commenced grandly at Cloud Mountain Port.

Newcomers from various organizations will make their debut, becoming known to the public.

“Sounds a bit like a debut show.”

Shen Ye said.

“You could say that. The newcomers from the aristocratic families and the three major organizations begin their true journey from this banquet. Hurry up!” Manager Qian’s voice came through the phone.

Shen Ye put down his phone and twisted the throttle.

The Ghostfire motorcycle roared and shot into the sky, flying towards a magnificent building.

“Can you go any faster?” Xiao Mengyu shouted.

“When traveling the world, safety first!” Shen Ye shouted back.

The island hung above the blue sea, and the sky was also blue, even above the island.

Xiao Mengyu sat sideways, one hand gently pressing his shoulder, the other hand holding the seat, watching the flocks of birds soaring freely between heaven and earth.

The sky was clear for thousands of miles.

The autumn water reflected the setting sun, and the flowing light extinguished the distant mountains.

The strong wind blew her hair.

Her hair kept brushing her eyes and nose, making her giggle.

“Would you die if you were a bit braver? Can’t you speed up a bit!”

Xiao Mengyu patted his shoulder hard.

“Big sister, this is a Ghostfire motorcycle, but I’m not a Ghostfire youth!” Shen Ye protested loudly.

“What is a Ghostfire youth?” Xiao Mengyu asked loudly.

“Charge! —Bang! —Mama mia!” Shen Ye acted out, pretending to be hit.

Xiao Mengyu understood and burst into laughter.

The flock of birds had long since flown away.

Under the clear blue sky, the Ghostfire motorcycle suddenly accelerated.

Shen Ye tightly controlled the motorcycle with both hands, cutting an arc in mid-air, sweeping past the densely packed high-rise buildings.

The explosive roar continued.

Amidst the girl’s cheers, the Ghostfire motorcycle trailed a long cloud, drawing a beautiful arc in the sky, and landed steadily on the helipad on the top floor of the Human Martial Arts Building.

Qian Rushan, dressed in a smart black suit and sunglasses, was anxiously looking at his watch.

“Hmph, you really arrived just in time. Didn’t I tell you to be careful tonight?”

He glared fiercely at Shen Ye, then gave a polite smile to Xiao Mengyu:

“Welcome, Miss Xiao, are you with Shen Ye?”

“Hello, yes, I’m with him tonight.” Xiao Mengyu bowed slightly.

Shen Ye helped Xiao Mengyu down, then rode the motorcycle away. A few minutes later, he ran back and interjected:

“Careful about what? I don’t recall you mentioning it.”

—Xiao Mengyu stood beside him, also showing concern.

“The aristocratic family’s disciples want to establish their authority by dealing with these newcomers. Miss Xiao should understand,” Qian Rushan said.

“Oh, it’s the same every year, so boring.”

Xiao Mengyu nodded lightly, then immediately lost interest, turning her gaze to the clouds outside.

Taking advantage of this moment, Qian Rushan subtly gave Shen Ye an exaggerated look.

—Kid, good job, you actually managed to invite her to the banquet!

Shen Ye’s eyelids drooped, ignoring him.

—I actually don’t have any other intentions, I just want to help her.

Yes, that’s right.

“It’s about time, let’s go.”

The three looked together towards the edge of the building.

Outside the building—

A long staircase floated in the void.

Following the stairs upwards, one could enter a palace deep in the sky.

The tops of many tall buildings could just reach the suspended stairs extending down from the sky.

—This was designed from the beginning of construction.

“Let’s go!”

The three stepped onto the stairs, climbing up step by step.

The sky was clear and cloudless for miles.

The deep blue, serene sky began to embrace the night, with only a golden glimmer falling far towards the horizon, blending the afterglow and sunset, reflecting brightly on the three of them.

“It really feels like graduation season…” Shen Ye muttered softly.

“What?” Xiao Mengyu asked.

“Ah, nothing!” Shen Ye quickly said.

“Don’t be too arrogant tonight. I just told you, those aristocratic family members are targeting you. You should find a private room to hide in later, and when the banquet is over, safely enter the examination hall,” Qian Rushan chattered beside him.

“Isn’t it supposed to be safe here?”

Shen Ye found the sky beautiful, turned his head to look at it, and replied nonchalantly.

“If someone challenges you and you don’t respond, the conglomerate will lose face. If you do respond, it’s a legitimate one-on-one fight, and Kunlun won’t interfere,” Xiao Mengyu said calmly.

“Wow, how terrifying, I’m going back.” Shen Ye turned to leave.

Qian Rushan grabbed him and dragged him back.

“Tonight is the final evaluation of the cards, you idiot.”

“Besides, your strength is 5, agility is 4, and spiritual power is 3. Even among the aristocratic family members of your age, that’s already quite good. What’s there to be afraid of!”

Qian Rushan shouted.

“The aristocratic families have inheritances; they’ve been practicing various things since childhood, but we have nothing,” Shen Ye said, spreading his hands.

“I heard you learned a set of boxing techniques?”

“You mean Northeast Fist…” Shen Ye’s thoughts were pulled back.

“What Northeast Fist! That’s Northern East Divine Fist!” Qian Rushan corrected.

—That set of boxing techniques seems to require specific conditions to activate a higher compatibility in order to increase its power.

What are the specific conditions?

Still needs to be explored.

“This is a formal debut ceremony. The bigwigs of the aristocratic families and major organizations are watching, and every newcomer must participate,” Qian Rushan emphasized again.

“I know the aristocratic families—are there other organizations I don’t know about?” Shen Ye asked.

Qian Rushan continued to climb the floating stairs.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu followed him, chatting as they went.

The three of them kept walking towards the sky.

The sun set and set, sinking continuously below the horizon.

But as they kept walking upwards into the sky, they could continually see the sun, see the last rays of sunlight of the day.

Qian Rushan talked as he walked, and Xiao Mengyu occasionally added a few words.

Shen Ye listened distractedly.

The sky eventually grew dark.

Night fell.

Starlight scattered across heaven and earth.

As Shen Ye walked, he gradually understood the situation.

In this world, the aristocratic families held a dominant position.

They united to form the World United Government, governing human society and using the World United Army to respond to various internal and external threats.

Besides them, there were three other major organizational forces.

The Human Martial Arts Group;

The Colonial Hunter Equipment Research Institute;

The Eternal Life Technology Alliance.

The Human Martial Arts Group controlled various martial arts knowledge, making it the most powerful legacy-holding organization outside of the aristocratic families.

The Colonial Hunter Equipment Research Institute held core intellectual property rights for mechs and bionic prosthetics.

Even the aristocratic families needed to purchase large quantities of war equipment from the Institute for external wars, expeditions, archaeology, and maintaining public order.

Luo Feichuan’s combat arm was a product of the Colonial Hunter Equipment Research Institute.

As for the Eternal Life Technology Alliance—

This organization was dedicated to developing pharmaceutical, evolutionary, and life-extension gene technologies.

The aristocratic families could not easily interfere with these three organizations.

After all, the Human Martial Arts Group and the Colonial Hunter Equipment Research Institute had several masters standing at the pinnacle of humanity.

The Eternal Life Technology Alliance belonged to Kunlun.

It was intelligent, and any excessive interference would lead to unpredictable consequences.

This was generally the case.

Of course.

There were also some other organizations.

For example, the Archaeological Association, an organization composed of members from aristocratic families and the three major organizations.

Various churches were deemed too provocative and were not recognized by the World Government.

As for mysterious organizations like the Tower of Tarot, even ordinary professionals rarely heard about them, so there was no need to mention them.

Shen Ye suddenly brought the topic back:

“Hey, Old Qian, who exactly is targeting me?”

“You caused the trouble yourself, don’t you know by now?” Qian Rushan squinted at him.

“I don’t know,” Shen Ye said, spreading his hands.

“Then don’t worry too much. Just go have dinner, and when it’s time, leave. I guarantee you’ll be fine.”

In a little while.

Stepping onto the last step, the three finally arrived at a floating island.

This was a palace with red walls and green tiles, intricately carved beams and painted pillars.

—A celestial palace.

Standing at such a high place, looking all around, there was nothing else but the vast, boundless sky.

The last trace of magnificent pink at the horizon of the sea and sky vanished from the edge of the world.

The sky had completely darkened.

The bright moon soared upwards, the wind on Cloud Mountain rustled softly, and all sounds ascended into the void.

The world transformed into虛無 black, with only this floating palace isolated in the sky, emitting layers of ethereal glow, like the multicolored neon lights of a past life, with flowing light and dark shadows, reflecting the dreamlike moonlight, illuminating the boundless sky and sea below.

A gentle breeze wafted by.

The frost-like moonlight sprinkled on Xiao Mengyu’s soft cheeks.

Shen Ye looked a few seconds too long and was caught by Xiao Mengyu, so he quickly looked away, his gaze inadvertently sweeping past her, pretending to look at the clusters of flower shadows along the red carpet.

“Kid, keep a serious attitude for the exam,” Xiao Mengyu snorted.

“Always serious,” Shen Ye said solemnly.

The lingering sound of a violin drifted from the banquet hall, seemingly to relax people’s spirits so they could fully immerse themselves in this grand banquet.

“Are you ready?”

Qian Rushan adjusted his sunglasses.

—He seemed even more nervous than the two examinees behind him.

Shen Ye glanced at Old Money and then suddenly said:

“What happens if someone gets killed here?”

“Nonsense! That could never happen, all the big shots are watching,” Qian Rushan shouted.

Just now, he was worried Shen Ye wouldn’t come; now he’s worried Shen Ye will cause trouble.

Bringing new people is such a headache.

“Sigh,” Shen Ye sighed.

“I haven’t even sighed yet, why are you sighing?” Qian Rushan said, annoyed.

“It’s boring,” Shen Ye said.

“You like fighting that much? Now that I think about it, the first time I saw you, you had just finished a fight,” Qian Rushan’s head started aching again.

“He fights too? With his scrawny arms and legs, can he actually fight?” Xiao Mengyu chimed in.

“He fought several people, and he even cried about being bullied, can you believe it?”

“I believe that part, he’s thick-skinned.”

While the three were talking, they had already reached the palace entrance.