Gatekeeper of Myriad Worlds Chapter 249

The person is really on the toilet…

It would indeed be impolite to disturb them rashly.

Shen Ye waited for a while, then knocked on the door and asked:

“Hey, can I come in now?”

Dong!

The door vibrated.

Looking through the window, the huge body of the panda was already pressed against the door, its eyes scanning Shen Ye up and down.

“Boy, what’s your name?” it asked through the door.

“My name is Shen Ye, what about you?”

“A real man should be as hard as iron.”

“Hello, Brother Tieying.” Shen Ye cupped his fists.

“It’s Tieman, you idiot!” the panda roared.

It took out a booklet, flipped through it, then looked up at Shen Ye’s head and grumbled:

“Eating without paying? Well, this time there’s really something for you.”

The window on the door opened, and a package was handed out.

“What is this?” Shen Ye asked, surprised.

“A commissioned item left by the Hun Tian Sect—I keep this thing, and when someone from the Hun Tian Sect comes again in the future, they can directly take this package,” the panda said.

“Something from my sect?” Shen Ye was slightly stunned.

“Yes, your sect was almost wiped out back then, it’s been a thousand years… I’m finally seeing a disciple of the Hun Tian Sect again.”

The panda waved its paw and said, “The money has been paid, you can take the package now.”

Shen Ye took the package, feeling a bit magical for a moment.

…There was actually a package left for him.

“Well, since the disciples of the Hun Tian Sect have reappeared, you’re welcome to visit my office whenever you have time,” the panda said.

“Bear… Tieman, what kind of business do you do?” Shen Ye asked.

“The more difficult the task, the more interested I am—for example, to complete the Hun Tian Sect’s commission, I’ve been staying near your world for over a thousand years,” the panda said.

Shen Ye was suddenly enlightened.

Indeed.

The Door of Transference leads to the nearest world.

If the panda wasn’t nearby, he wouldn’t be able to connect to its office.

—So it had been waiting here for a thousand years?

What kind of professional dedication is this!

“That’s truly amazing,” Shen Ye exclaimed.

“Alright, you can go back, we’ll meet another day—if you can’t open a world gate to come here in the future, you can also find me at this address,” the panda handed him a slip of paper.

Shen Ye took it and saw an address written on it:

“Death Planet, Yujing City World Zoo A District, Panda House.”

Shen Ye wasn’t quite sure about the other party’s situation, and couldn’t help but ask:

“You are…”

“I’ve been vacationing here for the past few millennia.”

“But why are you at the zoo?”

“The Panda House has great air conditioning, free food and drink, someone helps bathe me, and the director even got me a few pretty female pandas of my kind, you know.”

Tieman gave him a look that said, “men understand.”

—Indeed, for someone like him born with an iron rice bowl, if he doesn’t feel like working, he can just lie down in the zoo.

A true winner in life.

“Alright, I’ll come find you when I have time,” Shen Ye said.

“En, keep up the good work, kid from the Hun Tian Sect.” The panda waved at him through the door, then turned around and went back into the room.

Shen Ye dismissed the door.

“Fei Lun, it has more character than you,” Shen Ye said.

“It’s scared,” the Great Skeleton said.

“Scared of me?” Shen Ye asked, puzzled.

“Not sure, but I think it’s scared—I’m very sensitive to the emotions of living beings,” the Great Skeleton said.

“…A mysterious panda.”

“Exactly.”

Shen Ye shook his head, planning to put these thoughts aside for now.

First, let’s open the package.

He casually grabbed a small, sharp piece of ice and tore open the outer wrapping paper of the package.

A wooden box covered in talismans appeared before Shen Ye.

There were two lines of text on the box:

“For the last sect master.”

“Requires the sect master’s treasure scroll to open.”

Last…

It really is for me.

Shen Ye thought for a moment, took out the sect master’s treasure scroll, and placed it on the wooden box.

Snap!

All the talismans immediately jumped up from the wooden box, scattered across the floor, caught fire, and quickly burned away.

Shen Ye opened the lid of the wooden box.

Inside the box lay a piece of white jade and a blank sheet of paper.

An old voice echoed:

“First use the white jade, then the white paper.”

This voice felt familiar.

It seemed to be that old man.

The sect was gone, yet he still sent him a package. This operation was quite something.

Shen Ye reached out and picked up the white jade.

—He felt nothing.

Did he need to use his spiritual power?

He channeled his spiritual power into the white jade.

After a breath.

The old man’s voice sounded again:

“I resigned from the position of sect master, dedicated myself to studying the art of immortality, lingered for thousands of years, and finally understood the reason for my sect’s demise.”

“See for yourself.”

The white jade suddenly radiated light, projecting an image into the void.

In the dark cosmos.

A pale blue planet floated silently.

The image flickered.

A grotesque insect lay on the surface of the planet, slowly wiggling its long segmented limbs like a bee.

Its body was even larger than the planet itself, and its six pairs of wings were covered with gleaming golden patterns, reflecting the starlight in the dark cosmos into misty light runes.

The old man’s voice resounded again:

“This is an Empress species.”

“Only beings worthy of being called ‘Emperor’ in the cosmos can be described as an ‘Empress species’.”

“It invaded our world and killed the planetary consciousness.”

“But strangely, after only feeding once, eating about thirty million humans, it drilled a hole in the planet, hid itself inside, and began to slumber.”

As the old man’s voice narrated, the insect indeed drilled a deep hole in the planet.

It retracted its body, even its wings, reducing its size to less than a tenth of its original, and then burrowed into the hole.

“We don’t know when it will wake up.”

“But we absolutely cannot just wait for it to wake up and then watch helplessly as it devours large numbers of humans again.”

“We gathered the strongest warriors of various races and marched into the cosmos, hoping to find a new world for us to inhabit.”

“But we soon discovered something.”

“—The World’s Satellite.”

On the screen.

A satellite appeared next to the planet, about a tenth of the planet’s size.

The old Taoist continued to narrate:

“The best resources, the rarest mines, the excellent heritage, all presented within the satellite.”

“This is the great means of the planetary consciousness.”

“It originally intended to escape with the satellite, but unfortunately, it was targeted by the Empress species insect and was killed before it could move.”

“We never interfered with anything on the satellite, allowing it to develop continuously.”

“The satellite was named by us—”

“Nightmare.”

“After a comprehensive exploration of this satellite, we discovered the planetary consciousness’s pre-arranged plan.”

“—We called it Yao Tai.”

“Unfortunately, when we discovered it, it had not yet fully grown and was unable to deal with that insect.”

“However, in your era, it should already possess the power to fight back.”

“Go.”

“Go to the Nightmare World to find Yao Tai, it is the strongest weapon nurtured by the planet to combat the Empress species—”

“It can protect you all!”

As soon as the voice fell.

In an instant, all images vanished.

Crack!

The white jade shattered into a thousand pieces, scattering from Shen Ye’s hand.

Shen Ye was almost dumbfounded.

What?

The Nightmare World is the satellite of the main world?

“Hey, fellow countryman, are you alright?” the Great Skeleton asked cautiously.

The sound of “fellow countryman” brought Shen Ye back to his senses.

“I’m fine,” he sighed and murmured, “I now know why the Nightmare World and our world share a hell.”

—Because both planets originated from the same planetary life form.

He looked down at the wooden box.

There was still a blank sheet of paper in the box.

When Shen Ye looked at the blank paper, a line of small characters appeared on it:

“When you are ready, place this paper on the cover of the Sect Master’s Treasure Scroll.”

Ready…

There’s nothing much to prepare.

Bring it on.

After seeing that cosmic giant worm just now, I wouldn’t be surprised no matter what else shows up.

Shen Ye placed the paper on the cover of the Sect Master’s Treasure Scroll.

The paper immediately made a “creaking” sound, as if doing something.

New small characters then appeared on the paper:

“Due to not being merged for too long, please wait for one hour.”

One hour?

Why does it take so long?

Shen Ye looked at the paper with doubt.

No.

The paper had already disappeared.

It had completely merged into the cover, becoming part of the Sect Master’s Treasure Scroll.

Wind.

Wind from nowhere blew across the Sect Master’s Treasure Scroll, causing its pages to turn backward, page after page.

On the dense blank pages, images of ancient figures appeared, lively and vibrant, all looking at Shen Ye.

“This is—”

Shen Ye hesitated.

The wind stopped.

The Sect Master’s Treasure Scroll almost reached its last page, but then flipped back again, quickly turning through all the pages and closing silently.

In a short while.

A line of bold and forceful characters appeared on the cover of the book:

“Three thousand years of rise and fall, heroes emerge among humanity; hearing of your perilous journey, ten thousand elites come to meet you.”