Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 396
byChapter 379: Shen Ye, Tongtian, Huntian!
The sky shattered.
Endless stars filled Shen Ye’s vision.
He looked down into the depths of the demon abyss.
As the earth crumbled, a terrifying surge of power erupted from the depths of the demon abyss.
One ancient monster after another was about to awaken.
According to historical records, they were the ones who destroyed the Supreme Immortal Kingdom, and they were also the ones who established civilization in the ninety-nine layers of the universe, monitoring multiple universes, trying to prevent the Tongtian Art from appearing in this world.
A glimmer of wariness flashed in Shen Ye’s eyes.
The matter didn’t end there.
Besides Yun Ni, hidden in the shadows were the Saint of the Grand Supreme Dao Palace and the Saint’s Heart Devil.
Monsters, Saints, Heart Devils.
He couldn’t deal with any of them.
Charlotte had barely escaped such a trap by expending all her efforts.
Who knew he would step right into it again?
The universe, indeed.
It was truly too treacherous.
“Come on, tell me your destiny setting, just like I set up Penglai Immortal Mountain—”
Yun Ni’s tone contained a hint of excitement as she continued:
“Watch me break your Heart Devil, and then easily kill you!”
Yes.
She was currently empowered by the demon abyss and could directly kill him.
But she wanted to gamble with him—
Observing carefully, those monsters were destroying the entire planet and slaughtering all cultivators, yet not a single one attacked him.
The Saint didn’t come either.
Did monsters also adhere to duel etiquette, making space for Yun Ni?
So fake.
Shen Ye took a deep breath, placed his hand in the void, and shouted:
“Tongtian Art!”
Before his words faded.
The countless monsters suddenly stopped slaughtering living beings, all halted their actions, and turned to look in Shen Ye’s direction.
At this instant.
Even the roar of the planet’s destruction ceased.
In the dead silence, millions of eyes stared at Shen Ye, wanting to witness the supreme art, the first of the Three Arts of the Immortal Kingdom, which had never appeared before.
Shen Ye maintained the gesture of pressing his hand in the void, but nothing unusual happened.
At this moment.
His mind became clear.
Yes.
He should have realized it sooner.
Creating an entire world, specifically setting up cultivation Dao Palaces and sects, and then using the “Grand Supreme Forgetfulness, Ascension, and Feathery Dao Scripture” and broken ruins as bait—what was all this for?
The answer was obvious.
The Tongtian Art.
—If not for the Tongtian Art, why go to such great lengths?
A sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of Shen Ye’s mouth.
Even if he saw through their scheme, it wouldn’t change anything.
Perhaps he would just die faster.
Unless—
“Go! To the future!” Charlotte urgently whispered in his ear.
To the future.
Charlotte would die.
Stay here?
No, if they stayed here, both he and Charlotte would die.
Then.
Go back to the past?
Shen Ye’s thoughts raced, and he suddenly shuddered.
A gamble.
Why did Yun Ni want to use a gamble to try and keep him?
If one stood outside of destiny, observing the whole situation, some things were so obvious.
The gamble—
It was like a bright marker, revealing a previously unseen line of destiny hidden in the formless.
A person appeared in Shen Ye’s mind.
At this moment.
Shen Ye deeply experienced the mysteries of the law of destiny.
He was like a cicada nymph, lurking in the deep darkness of the earth for decades, unaware, and then suddenly burrowing out of the mud, seeing for the first time the wilderness illuminated by the sky, the majestic, continuous green mountains, and the endless forest.
Two small lines of faint light appeared:
“By cultivating the Grand Supreme Forgetfulness, Ascension, and Feathery Dao Scripture, you have gained a deeper understanding of destiny, transcending ordinary beings.”
“Perhaps you can do something?”
The small words scattered into faint light and vanished into the void.
But the idea in Shen Ye’s mind grew clearer and clearer.
Yes.
Not to the future, not to stay in the present.
Only back to the past.
In reality, destiny had already set everything in motion, lacking only someone to connect the threads.
If he could link everyone’s destinies—
It would create an incredible effect!
At this moment, the demonic creatures in the sky were stirring, seemingly realizing they were being played.
No time left!
Shen Ye’s mind moved, and he looked at Yun Ni, saying:
“Yun Ni, you are the guardian of the cage.”
Destiny setting activated!
In an instant.
He and Yun Ni disappeared into the void together.
The demonic creatures looked left and right but could not find any trace of the two.
A deep male voice suddenly sounded:
“No matter, even if the Heart Devil duel is lost, the power bestowed upon Yun Ni is enough to sustain her in battle for a long time.”
“Just wait.”
This voice was both an explanation and a command.
Everything on the entire planet came to a standstill.
The demonic creatures hovered in mid-air, silently waiting for the two disappeared individuals to reappear.
Perhaps in the next second.
Yun Ni would emerge with the boy’s corpse.
Or perhaps she had already uncovered all of his secrets, thereby completely grasping the intelligence of the Tongtian Art.
Just wait.
She wouldn’t lose.
…
On the other side.
Innumerable years ago.
Just as Yun Ni set the Heart Devil duel in the era when Penglai Immortal Mountain still existed—
Shen Ye set another timeline.
The World of Five Desires.
This was a cage world that had just been completed.
Dense sealing runes covered the entire planet, layer upon layer, continuously releasing powerful sealing energy.
“The past era?” Yun Ni observed her surroundings warily and asked, “So what exactly is your destiny setting?”
Shen Ye finally began to explain his destiny setting:
“Yun Ni, you are the guardian of the ‘Five Desires’ cage, a powerful being upon whom numerous universal worlds placed their hopes, responsible for guarding that legendary terrifying existence with Mogahou—”
“Nine Aspects!”
“Yun Ni, you are also known as Lilith, destroyer of the Great Thousand Worlds, mistress of the Wailing Demon Prison, the Cursed Spirit King, the star that commands all souls to fall—”
“These are the names the Buddhist world gave you; they prove your character setting.”
“If one day you break character, then you lose.”
“Now, go and experience this history.”
“—And then walk toward your destined fate!”
As his words fell.
Destiny setting took effect!
Yun Ni descended and guarded the prison outside the seal with Mogahou and the others.
Almost at the same moment—
Lines of faint light appeared before Shen Ye’s eyes:
“Heart Devil duel begins.”
“Since the opponent also cultivated the Grand Supreme Forgetfulness, Ascension, and Feathery Dao Scripture, they also have the opportunity to make a destiny setting at this moment.”
“The opponent’s destiny setting may change your setting.”
“Due to the vast disparity in your strength, her setting can be a single sentence, not exceeding ninety characters.”
Ninety characters!
And it could change Shen Ye’s setting!
Shen Ye thought about the few times he had passively accepted moves and seemed to never have such treatment.
He held his breath and looked at Yun Ni.
Yun Ni, however, was silently experiencing the previous setting, trying to find the hidden dangers within it.
In a short while.
She spoke:
“Is this your destiny setting? You want me to die in this era because I lose my name?”
“What a deluded dream!”
Waves of destiny’s laws emanated from Yun Ni.
She spoke:
“I have countless ways to survive; my name will never be lost, but will continuously provide me with spiritual world power; one day I will meet you from the past, and I will win your soul with a deceptive gamble. Once I do this, you must tell me all the secrets of the Tongtian Art!”
As her words fell.
Lines of faint light appeared before Shen Ye’s eyes:
“The opponent, with power far exceeding yours, has seized the initiative in this destiny setting.”
“This destiny setting will be primarily based on the opponent’s setting, with yours as a secondary influence.”
“Begin!”
All the small words flashed and disappeared.
The destiny fluctuation emanating from Yun Ni merged with the void, even becoming a part of the void.
She sensed it.
She revealed a victorious smile and said leisurely, “You can surrender, after all, this Heart Devil duel has already been dominated by me.”
“Then we’ll see,” Shen Ye said.
“Idiot,” Yun Ni said and then ignored him, turning her attention to her work in the “Five Desires” world.
Shen Ye also vanished into the void.
He held Paige’s hand, still covered in Charlotte’s blood.
“She controlled this destiny setting?”
Charlotte asked.
“No, she’s an idiot,” Shen Ye said.
As if to reassure Charlotte, he explained further:
“My setting was: ‘The name of the dharma realm represents your character; if one day you break character, then you lose.'”
“And her countermeasure was: ‘My name will never be lost, but will continuously provide me with dharma realm power.'”
“So?” Charlotte asked.
“In her setting, her name will never be lost, which means her persona will never break, then—”
Shen Ye spread his hands and said, “She will be forever trapped in this Heart Devil duel.”
“Why forever?” Charlotte asked.
“In my setting, the most important words are ‘if one day’; they mean that if ‘one day’ hasn’t arrived, it will always be assumed ‘if’, and thus time will forever advance toward ‘one day’ until ‘one day’ arrives.”
“—She didn’t notice this crucial point, nor did she change the most important setting of ‘if one day’, so she will be forever trapped in the never-ending progression of time.”
“You’re not aiming for victory, merely to trap her. What’s your purpose?” Charlotte asked.
Shen Ye’s gaze deepened, and he whispered:
“I once retrieved some files from Kunlun and carefully reviewed everything Lilith had done.”
“There was one very strange thing.”
“I interpreted it as some incidental acts of kindness when she was sure of victory.”
“Is it her weakness? I remind you, everything about Lilith and the ‘Five Desires’ has been transformed into a dream by me,” Charlotte said.
Shen Ye said, “That was after you appeared, and the time we are going to is before you appeared on the Death Planet—”
“At that time, everything was still living reality.”
“—Come, let’s go to that era!”
Shen Ye placed his hand in the void.
This time.
There were no endless demons lurking nearby—
“Wait! You can travel through time?”
Charlotte couldn’t help but ask.
“Originally not, but after I cultivated the Tongtian Art, I’ve gained a tiny bit of insight.”
Saying this, Shen Ye pulled hard in the void and immediately created a door.
Lines of faint light immediately appeared:
“You have activated ‘Door of Passages’.”
“Description: Open a door in front of an obstacle and directly reach the other side of that obstacle.”
“The designated obstacle this time is spacetime.”
“You have traversed a vast amount of spacetime and arrived at that specific moment.”
The door opened.
Shen Ye, holding Paige’s hand and wreathed in Charlotte’s blood mist, stepped through.
Tens of thousands of years later.
Death Planet.
Yunshan Port.
Three lines of faint light appeared:
“You have traversed an excessively long period of time, overdrawing the power of the ‘Door of Passages’.”
“Within thirty thousand years, you are forbidden from using the ‘Door of Passages’ to travel through spacetime again.”
“Unless your Tongtian Art is further perfected.”
All the small words vanished.
Shen Ye observed the bustling port, a nostalgic expression on his face.
He slowly said:
“It has been tens of thousands of years since Lilith became one of the Five Desires. No matter how powerful the Demon Abyss power she wields, it should not be able to withstand the erosion of such a long span of time.”
“She might be a bit hazy about people and events from tens of thousands of years ago.”
“—Now we’re going to do something.”
“What is it?” Charlotte asked.
Shen Ye looked at Paige.
Paige was wearing a Daoist robe with her hair tied in a bun, looking like an ancient little girl.
“Can you enter this clone?” Shen Ye asked.
“No—you should have heard Yun Ni say—beings killed by her cannot be revived, unless with her permission,” Charlotte said.
“Then…” Shen Ye mused.
“As I said, Paige is yours, you can use her temporarily,” Charlotte said.
“—Like in the past?” Shen Ye asked.
“Yes, your soul can enter this body, just like when you fought alongside me before,” Charlotte said softly.
Shen Ye snapped his fingers.
The void opened.
From within the Immortal Kingdom’s Dharma Form, the large skeleton jumped out, caught Shen Ye’s body, and then placed a mobile phone on the ground.
After doing all this, it carried Shen Ye’s body back to the Immortal Kingdom’s Dharma Form and disappeared.
Paige, however, suddenly opened her eyes.
A line of faint light appeared:
“Charlotte has allowed you to use her clone; you are currently temporarily controlling this body of hers.”
“Then what? What do you plan to do?” Charlotte asked curiously.
“Tens of thousands of years have passed, Yun Ni probably doesn’t remember me much, but just to be safe—”
Paige picked up her phone and quickly opened a shopping platform.
After finishing her shopping, she hid Charlotte’s blood mist.
Not long after.
A small shuttle landed not far away.
Two young girls jumped off the shuttle and walked directly to Paige.
“Are you Ms. Shen Xiaoye?”
One girl looked her over.
“It’s me,” Paige said.
The other girl held a silver box, placed it in front of her, and said respectfully:
“These are the ‘Super Cute Charismatic Facial Micro-adjustment Gene Locking Syringe’ and the ‘Midnight Queen Date Shaping Syringe’ you purchased.”
“Good,” Paige said.
The two bowed again, got back on the shuttle, and left quickly.
Paige opened the box, took out the syringe, and pressed it against her body.
The syringe began to inject automatically.
“Plastic surgery?” Charlotte asked.
“The most straightforward is the most effective—and then I need to buy clothes, get my hair done, change my style, a lot of things, sigh, being a woman is so busy,” Paige grumbled.
Her body and face began to change.
“…Sometimes I really wonder what’s going on in your head,” Charlotte whispered.
Three hours later.
The fire-tender Paige disappeared.
The cute and charming modern little girl, Shen Xiaoye, appeared in the world.
She glanced at the time.
That time had come.
So she walked out of the milk tea shop and came to the square of Yunshan Port, heading towards the fountain of the Goddess of Springs.
Beside the fountain.
Stood a man and a woman.
The man was refined and elegant, a mature and handsome middle-aged man.
The woman was a young girl, beautiful and fresh, exuding an indescribable charm.
It was Yun Ni and the Skinner!
The little girl took a deep breath, trying to calm herself, then walked towards them.
The young girl noticed her immediately.
“Is something the matter?”
The young girl asked.
“Miss, you’re really beautiful,” the little girl said in a childish voice, “I have a flower here, and I want to give it to you.”
The young girl glanced at the vibrant rose, then looked at the little girl, and said indifferently:
“So, what do you want from me?”
—She didn’t recognize her!
“Nothing, I just want to give it to you, big sister,” the little girl held up the flower branch, wanting to hand it to her.
But the young girl didn’t take the flower.
She pondered for a moment, then looked at the statue of the sacred goddess in the fountain.
“Child, I want to ask you a question—”
“Do you think that sacred goddess statue is more beautiful, or am I more beautiful?”
The little girl looked at the statue, then at the young girl.
“Of course you’re more beautiful!”
She said with a definite tone.
Only then did the young girl smile, and she said to the man behind her:
“The most basic currency of a deity is charm—”
“All laws manifest on me as an arrangement that makes all beings bow in worship, and it also contains a creative beauty that ordinary people cannot comprehend.”
“This child is good. That silent monster impersonating the Goddess of Springs can only deceive dirty adults; it’s useless against such pure children. She saw my beauty.”
The man smiled and nodded, saying softly, “Praising the deity is what she should do.”
“No, there is nothing in the world that others ‘should’ do for you. Most mortals don’t realize this, so they can never find peace.”
The young girl reached out, took the rose from the little girl, and sniffed it gently before her nose.
“Thank you for the flower.”
She held the flower in one hand, touched the little girl’s head with the other, and said softly:
“As a return gift, I curse you.”
The little girl froze.
The young girl, however, slowly continued:
“You will endure a fear that ordinary people cannot, fall from several thousand meters high, then be submerged by the sea, experiencing the pain of dying, starving on a deserted island, rescued by ill-intentioned people, until the ship also sinks, and you still cannot die.”
“You can only bear the pain of memories, growing up in this pain, bound by birth, old age, sickness, and death, dominated by love and hatred, manipulated by the impermanence of the world. Those mortals who troubled you will all meet their end as if seeking death, until the day you reach ninety-nine years old, basking in the warm winter sun, feeling peace due to ignorance and innocence, only then can your soul gradually break free from my curse.”
“If you still remember me at that moment, I will come to pick you up.”
“If you forget, then in the vast world, you are free—”
“Go wherever you want.”
The little girl listened in a daze, somewhat understanding and somewhat not.
When the young girl finished speaking, she ran away due to an inexplicable panic.
She ran and ran, panting as she ran, her face pale, her eyes red, as if tears were about to fall.
A sudden change occurred—
Boom!!!
A fierce flash of light shot into the sky.
More than one flash—
Explosion after explosion echoed across Yunshan Port.
A scream rang out, then was quickly drowned out by successive explosions.
—The little girl who handed her the flower.
She was blown into the air by the strong wind—
Suddenly, a sunshade spun and flew towards her, landing on her at just the right moment, wrapping around her to form something akin to a hang glider.
The little girl instantly flew away, far from the continuously exploding floating island.
Ten thousand meters up in the sky.
The girl rode the wind, flying forward continuously.
Soon.
She was completely away from Yunshan Port.
Lines of faint light appeared in the void before her eyes:
“The current clone has been affected by Yun Ni’s power.”
“Yun Ni personally requested Charlotte’s clone to live, therefore the master of the clone—Charlotte can be revived.”
All the blood mist emerged, swirling around the little girl, then surging forcefully into her body.
The little girl’s expression changed, and she let out an excited cry:
“Baxter!”
The void opened.
The large skeleton delivered Shen Ye’s body without a moment’s delay.
Shen Ye’s soul immediately left the clone, returned to his own body, and opened his eyes.
The next second.
The little girl broke free from the clumsy hang glider and rushed over, burrowing into his embrace.
The wind was too fierce.
Continuous explosions echoed from the distant sky, reverberating long in the clouds.
—Everything in this era no longer mattered.
The little girl wrapped her arms around his neck, crying softly:
“The Immortal Kingdom lost, and the Huntian Art was also defeated long ago—so I decided early on to take away the Huntian Art, lest it implicate you.”
“But after dying once, I don’t want to die again at all.”
“Baxter, I want to be with you!”
At this moment.
Many of Shen Ye’s previous conjectures were once again confirmed.
The Huntian Art was so powerful.
And he had discovered it entirely by himself.
Why wouldn’t Charlotte leave it for him?
Insisting on taking it away?
The answer was so clear.
Because the enemies of the Immortal Kingdom would never sit by and watch the Three Arts emerge!
After Charlotte ascended to the higher-level universe, she used all her strength to escape from the Grand Supreme Dao Palace.
Even so, she was still constantly fending off various pursuit.
—She left the Indeterminate Layer Universe with the Huntian Art, sacrificing herself for him!
But she never said anything.
Only at this moment, with her emotions stirred, did she reveal the truth.
A warm current surged in Shen Ye’s heart. He couldn’t help but hug her tightly, and after a long while, he whispered:
“Okay.”
The little girl, however, shook her head, biting her lip and saying:
“Unfortunately, it’s not possible yet. In that moment in the future, they are still waiting for you and Yun Ni to decide the victor.”
“At least we’ve gained this time,” Shen Ye said.
The little girl looked up at Shen Ye.
She kept looking at him, truly reluctant to avert her gaze.
“No.”
Her voice was full of fondness and tenderness:
“We must complete this quickly, otherwise your fate and mine will still not change.”
Shen Ye said, “You mean—”
The little girl paused, then gave the answer:
“Yun Ni, trapped by your destiny setting, will eventually die in the subsequent battle.”
“Although the Tongtian Art is only in its embryonic form and has only traversed spacetime, it has made them completely unable to predict.”
“More importantly—”
“After you used that embryonic Tongtian Art, I felt that the Huntian Art on me seemed to have been empowered. Now is the time to use the Huntian Art to cooperate with you.”
“Empowered? The Tongtian Art empowered the Huntian Art?” Shen Ye couldn’t help but ask.
The little girl nodded, and secretly transmitted, “After the Tongtian Art appeared, I feel the power of the Huntian Art has increased several times!”
Shen Ye gasped.
—In fact, what he used wasn’t even the Tongtian Art, just a single “Tong” character.
Even so, the Tongtian Art had already strengthened the Huntian Art by several times.
This was truly an astonishing secret!
“Baxter, now is our time to change the outcome.”
The little girl continued:
“—I am still being hunted, and you are still entering the Grand Supreme Dao Palace.”
“This is the best dream node; when all this becomes reality, it will deceive them!”
An invisible power emerged from the little girl Paige, spreading in all directions, pervasive throughout the void universe.
Finally, she whispered:
“Baxter.”
“I’ll miss you.”
As the words fell.
Shen Ye felt a dizzying sensation, everything passing by like a dream.
It was the Huntian Art!
It felt like an incredibly long time had passed, yet it also felt like a fleeting dream.
In an instant.
Shen Ye suddenly opened his eyes.
He found himself sitting on a meditation cushion.
On the adjacent cushion sat Tu Fusheng.
Looking around, he saw that this was a grand hall.
Below, two rows of astute and capable cultivators stood.
They were silent, seemingly there just for show.
An old man in a black Daoist robe sat opposite, conversing with him and Tu Fusheng.
“Senior Tu, your descendant is joining our Grand Supreme Dao Palace; we will certainly take good care of him, so please rest assured!”
The old man said with a smile.
Tu Fusheng cast an inquiring glance in his direction.
Shen Ye took a deep breath, looked down, and saw that he was holding a jade slip.
The jade slip was densely filled with his identity information, followed by two annotations:
“Accepted!”
“To be arranged as a direct disciple of a Grand Supreme Dao Palace Elder.”
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