Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 417

Chapter 400: Confrontation!

“Tough Guy.”

“A triggerable term, gold (legendary) level.”

“Trigger condition: When in battle, if you don’t fight back and turn to flee and hide, this term can be triggered.”

“Effect: Information threatening your life will be temporarily replaced by the term, preventing enemies from knowing your true background.”

Is it an information replacement term?

It should be quite useful.

Shen Ye was looking at it when he suddenly remembered another one of his terms.

“The Boy Who Lived!”

“Tough Guy” seems to be of the same affinity as this term…

Should I merge them?

As soon as Shen Ye thought this, three terms suddenly appeared above his head, neatly arranged.

“Tough Guy, The Boy Who Lived, Scourge.”

—The three terms spontaneously gathered together!

Is this affinity?

In terms of names and effects, they also have some connection.

—They should be kindred spirits.

Shen Ye recalled the scene of merging terms before, and simply activated “Blood-sucking Child” directly, and began to merge these three terms.

“You used the dark gold term ‘Blood-sucking Child’.”

“You merged the fate-type purple term ‘Scourge’, the combat-type gold term ‘Tough Guy’, and the blue term ‘The Boy Who Lived’.”

“Although the levels of the three terms vary, their affinity is extremely high.”

“Congratulations!”

“They banded together!”

“This merger produced a super-evolutionary effect.”

“You have gained a new term:”

“Gossip Protagonist.”

“A niche information-type term, a name for the manifestation of extremely rare elements, dark gold level (unrivaled).”

“Description: Any entity with malicious intent towards you, all information they receive and transmit about you will have various discrepancies.”

“—According to unofficial sources, the new governor is from the west, wields a rake, has two sworn brothers, lives in the Grand View Garden, and is known as the Timely Rain.”

Shen Ye was stunned.

This dark gold term is so coquettish.

Come on, equip it directly, put it on top of my head.

—This directly saves so much trouble!

While Shen Ye was delighted, a wave of energy came from his arm.

A message from the Swarm Core!

“Where are you?”

Wanshen’s voice carried a hint of joy.

“I’ll be right there,” Shen Ye replied, then controlled the invisible heaven demon to crawl out of the blood pool and onto the shore.

Looking back—

The mummy was still pinned in the blood pool, unable to move.

—The seal here is indeed extraordinary.

I’ll come back next time.

Shen Ye snapped his fingers.

All the “doors” were disarmed.

The next moment.

He returned to the 170th universe, on the cliff.

Tantai Mingyue had already been sent here, waiting for him.

Wanshen’s voice sounded from the void:

“Your human friend is present, so we won’t show up, lest we disrupt your business.”

“I’m going to take the corpse to complete the mission now.”

“With this功績, your transfer can definitely be arranged.”

“Thank you, Wanshen, and thank you all, my brothers, for caring about my affairs,” Shen Ye thanked them.

After speaking, he took out the grass carp, allowing it to disappear into the void.

Then, he sent a big red packet in the Swarm Core.

The bugs were all excited.

—Baxter is truly a man of his word!

As for Wanshen and several other Zerg masters, Shen Ye did not send red packets.

After all, they have their status.

They wouldn’t care about such small change.

“Boss Wanshen, dear ones, if you need any help in the future, just call me, and I will not hesitate!” Shen Ye expressed.

“Good!” Wanshen’s tone remained unchanged, and he continued to instruct, “Your combat term is very good, and you will have a chance to exert yourself later.”

“By the way,” another insect voice emerged, “That monster just seemed to release something to attack Baxter—how did you survive, Baxter?”

Before Shen Ye could speak, Wanshen already smiled and said:

“You didn’t see the dark gold term on his head, tsk, I can feel it’s used to mislead enemies.”

“Baxter… has an unrivaled talent in terms.”

Everyone fell silent.

Terms.

They are always something one can only dream of.

Even if there are some ways to obtain certain specific terms—

But these are relatively low-level terms.

As for those high-level, unique, and rare terms, they require extremely special circumstances, recognized by the Dharma Realm, to have a certain probability of being obtained.

It’s too difficult.

But Baxter, after two mythical terms, brought out another dark gold term.

—And he’s so young!

He is a little bug in our Swarm Core!

Wanshen’s voice sounded again:

“Baxter, find a safe place, and wait for my message.”

A gust of wind blew.

It was as if something surrounding them had vanished.

—They left.

Shen Ye looked at Tantai Mingyue.

“I was just with an Emperor Species,” Tantai Mingyue stared at him and said slowly.

“Did it ask you for money?” Shen Ye asked.

“No!”

“Then what are you nervous about?”

Tantai Mingyue stepped forward, her voice a little higher:

“They are the dominant species in the universe! Nangong Wantu, what price did you pay for them to help us out?”

“Don’t worry about that, in short, we have safely left the Taishang Dao Palace,” Shen Ye said.

Seeing that he didn’t want to talk, Tantai Mingyue couldn’t force him.

“I need to return to the Human Race Resistance Alliance immediately. Are you coming with me? I can recommend you to join.”

Tantai Mingyue said.

“I won’t go,” Shen Ye said.

“You’re not going? That’s the strongest human alliance in the multi-layered universe, possessing countless resources, various secret knowledge, and massive intelligence!” Tantai Mingyue said in disbelief.

Shen Ye suddenly brought up another matter:

“I guess—even in the Anti-Alliance, there aren’t many people with the ability to open doors, right?”

“Of course.” Tantai Mingyue didn’t know why he changed the subject, but she still responded.

“If that’s the case, why would someone with your ability to open doors be involved in the mission of the 99th level Taishang Dao Palace? This Dao Palace is a dead end,” Shen Ye said.

Tantai Mingyue’s expression became complicated.

She understood what the other person meant.

—She possessed the Gate of the Underworld, yet she was not valued within the resistance army.

Nangong Wantu naturally had some doubts about his own future.

He is also a gate-keeper!

Tantai Mingyue said: “Your ability to travel between various worlds is extremely helpful in combat.”

“—They will definitely cultivate you well.”

“Why didn’t they train you?” Shen Ye continued to press.

Tantai Mingyue gave a bitter smile, suppressing the sourness in her heart, and continued:

“My gate is the Gate of Misfortune. The deceased I summon can only obey my commands and are not genuinely resurrected, which is why I’m treated this way.”

Shen Ye shook his head, looked at the void and dark universe, and sighed:

“To compel the dead to revive and fight—your gate ability is simply a divine skill. I’ve only seen a similar skill in a hot-blooded manga.”

What is a Shonen Manga?

“Someone imagined such a skill?” Tantai Mingyue tried to skip “hot-blooded manga” and pick up the conversation.

“Yes, that skill is called Impure World Reincarnation.”

“—So I suggest you don’t go back. In the future, we door-users can form our own organization and not have to depend on others. Wouldn’t that be comfortable?”

Shen Ye suggested.

Tantai Mingyue hesitated for a moment, then, after careful thought, said:

“I’ll go back and check the situation first, and collect some mission rewards, then we can discuss things at length.”

“Then you go ahead, remember to stay in touch with the contract,” Shen Ye said.

“Okay, see you later.”

After saying that, Tantai Mingyue activated a ring on her hand and instantly vanished.

Everyone had left.

At this moment.

Only Shen Ye remained.

He suddenly felt a little itch on his neck.

A mosquito bite?

Or something else?

He reached out to scratch, only to touch something cold.

“?” Shen Ye.

With the invisible heaven demon by his side, and the great skeleton, demonic beast, and the Four Kings hidden in his Dharma form.

How could something appear on him?

It was too late to do anything now.

If this thing was meant to kill, he would already be dead.

But—

He brought the cold object closer to his eyes.

It was a small black snake.

A faint glow appeared next to the snake, forming words:

“The Dharma Realm Plaything is about to dissipate and has returned to your body, bringing back what it stole during this battle.”

It turns out it was the Dharma Realm Plaything summoned by the term “Good Brother”!

I knew it couldn’t just appear on me!

The black snake opened its mouth, spat out something with a “puff,” and then gradually disappeared.

Shen Ye hastily caught it and saw.

It was an egg.

…An egg?

Even the monster that Wanshen couldn’t defeat actually had an egg on it?

Speaking of eggs, Shen Ye had dealt with countless of them in his life.

He had also seen relevant content in numerous literary and film works, so he naturally knew what to do.

Egg!

What does it represent?

He patted his storage bag, pulled out a glass, cracked the egg on the rim, and the egg white and yolk flowed into the glass.

Poured in soda water.

Drank it all in one gulp.

Hiss—

Such a great tonic!!!

Shen Ye made a hand seal and began to circulate the Taishang Blood Demon Void Becoming Saint Refinement Method.

It was also thanks to this cultivation method that he managed to purify the Emperor Species bloodline and establish a connection with the Swarm Core.

Now he had gotten an egg from the ruins of the 170th universe.

Who knew what kind of egg it was?

—As everyone knows, humans don’t lay eggs.

At such a high cosmic level, the egg shouldn’t be an ordinary egg, right?

After all, the Dharma Realm Plaything wouldn’t steal things randomly.

It only steals truly valuable items.

—This is the power of terms determined by the rules of the Dharma Realm!

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

Shen Ye suddenly opened his eyes, clenched his fists, and let out a long groan through gritted teeth:

“Ugh—this isn’t right—”

The next moment.

He suddenly transformed into a humanoid Emperor Species, with countless slender arms on his head, a long stinger tail dragging behind him, and muscles like reinforced steel all over his body.

But in the blink of an eye, he again reverted to the physique of a pure human male teenager.

The swiftness of this transformation caused his entire body to feel as if it were being flayed a thousand times over, exceeding the limits of human pain endurance.

A faint light quickly formed small characters:

“You have obtained the egg of a super-intelligent cosmic species from the primordial era and used it to stimulate your bloodline, causing it to purify and evolve.”

“The power of this egg is too strong and has completed the super-high-level bloodline purification and evolution of the Emperor Species.”

Shen Ye was stunned.

What?

Super high-level bloodline purification and evolution?

…If you put it that way, I’m not sleepy anymore.

But what’s the effect?

The faint light continued to appear in small characters:

“Congratulations.”

“Your Emperor Species bloodline has become purer, and as a result, all your attributes have permanently increased by 10 points.”

“You can transform into a humanoid form of the Emperor Species at any time. In this form, all attributes increase by 200 points.”

200 points!

At the same level, the Emperor Species has 200 more points in all attributes than humans!

This is playing for nothing.

So, this is the power of the Emperor Species?

More importantly—

When he fought against the Emperor Species, the Emperor Species transformed into a humanoid form.

Now.

Shen Ye could also transform into this form.

This plugged his last loophole, so he wouldn’t be discovered by other bugs in the Swarm Core that he couldn’t transform back into his “insect body.”

As Shen Ye was silently pondering, a call suddenly echoed within the Swarm Core:

“Baxter, come with me.”

The vertical eye on the back of his hand shot out a beam of light, which quickly formed glowing runes out of thin air, surrounding Shen Ye and converging into a formation.

Space teleportation array.

Activated!

Shen Ye was instantly teleported away.

Dizziness.

Before he could react, his feet landed on solid ground.

—This was an inverted pyramid-shaped structure, its volume no smaller than a death star, slowly rotating in the cosmic starry sky.

At this moment.

Shen Ye stood on an open, completely exposed terrace.

A humanoid Emperor Species stood to one side, nodding slightly to Shen Ye:

“The battle just now went smoothly, and the mission is completed, it was perfect.”

“Greetings, great one, thank you for your continued care,” Shen Ye immediately said.

He noticed that the other party was gently floating in mid-air, their feet not touching the ground, and their entire body was covered in natural golden patterns, emanating an aura of majesty.

—This is the strongest one among the Emperor Species, Wanshen!

Dong dong dong.

Three drumbeats sounded.

One by one, palm-sized, square glowing objects emerged from the void, surrounding the entire terrace.

Shen Ye could hear various clamorous sounds from those square glowing objects, and even scolding and beating sounds.

“Each glowing cube is a spacetime window, and within the window are the influential figures of various races who have voting rights on matters,” Wanshen communicated telepathically.

“What should I do?” Shen Ye communicated telepathically.

“Wait until I’m done speaking. Then you say you don’t want to participate in the secret mission of the Immortal Kingdom’s highest echelon, and you should be able to leave the 99th Dao Palace,” Wanshen said.

“I remember,”

The drums sounded for the second time.

A sharp voice suddenly sounded from one of the square glowing bodies:

“Baxter, you rendered great service in the temporary conscription mission and would have received corresponding rewards and compensation, but Wanshen has submitted an application, wishing to use your功績 on this occasion to transfer you to his battle zone—”

“Do you agree or disagree?”

“I agree,” Shen Ye quickly replied.

“Very well, since both parties agree, then proceed with the transfer—after all, the power of the Emperor Species, used for practical matters, is still trustworthy.”

The sharp voice said.

Ripples of affirmation echoed from the square glowing objects all around.

Suddenly.

An angry voice echoed throughout the terrace:

“I disagree!”

The void flickered.

The Dao Palace Sage appeared on the terrace.

He looked at Shen Ye with murderous intent and shouted loudly at the glowing objects around him:

“He promised me, and my rituals have already been reported and prepared. There is no way I can back out now!”

“Did you promise him?” Wanshen asked.

“No, I never said that,” Shen Ye spread his hands.

The Saint sneered, “Do you think I didn’t record it? I made an optical recording then.”

After saying that, he began to make hand seals and cast spells.

Immediately after.

A scene of light and shadow appeared before everyone’s eyes.

The Saint and Shen Ye appeared in the light and shadow, conversing.

—It was the conversation that took place in the airship room earlier!

“How about signing this contract?”

The Saint asked.

“What kind of contract is it?” Shen Ye asked.

“Every morning, you have to eat a bowl of beef noodles, a bun, drink a bowl of rice wine, and eat a marinated egg,” the Saint said.

“Eating so many carbs in the morning will make you fat,” Shen Ye said with distress.

“You’ll have the strength to work at the docks when you’re full. By the way, aren’t you looking for a Dao companion? As long as you eat that much every day, you’ll have muscles, which are very attractive to human opposite sexes,” the Saint said.

Shen Ye looked at himself in the light and shadow, and couldn’t help but freeze.

He looked at the Saint.

The Saint was also dumbfounded.

—This was not the scene from back then!

How did it turn out like this?

Shen Ye suddenly realized.

That niche information-type term, a name for the manifestation of extremely rare elements—

The dark gold level “Gossip Protagonist”!

“Any entity with malicious intent towards you, all information they receive and transmit about you will have various discrepancies.”

So the information transmitted by the Saint had a deviation!

—It actually had this effect!

“It’s not like that!” The Saint cried out in dismay, “He promised me—”

Wanshen interrupted him, “Alright, I’ll make the decision. Baxter can eat noodles every morning from now on—you don’t have to interfere with our battle zone transfer anymore.”

“No!” The Saint adamantly refused.

“Whether you can or not is irrelevant. Now, the patriarchs of the Multi-Universal Alliance will cast their votes,” Wanshen said.

A crisp sound echoed from all the square glowing bodies.

The sharp voice sounded again:

“Unanimous!”

“On a side note—”

“Code-named ‘Saint’, Lord of Secrets, we hope you focus more on excavating the secrets of the Immortal Kingdom, rather than what your subordinates eat.”

“Alright, that’s it for today.”

As the words fell.

All the square glowing objects quickly vanished.

It’s over.

On the terrace, only Shen Ye, Wanshen, and the Saint remained.

Shen Ye thought for a moment, walked up, and sincerely said:

“It was my ignorance before, running around the universe, just for fun, and accidentally ended up in the Dao Palace, wanting to find a human partner.”

“But now I feel that the Dao Palace is not suitable for me.”

“My Lord, please let me go.”

The Saint fell silent for a moment.

Indeed, if you want to sign a master-servant contract when others are unaware, there’s nothing to say.

But now everyone knows everything.

Do you still want to trick them?

The Saint adjusted his expression and smiled, “Are you so unoptimistic about the secret mission of the Three Arts of the Immortal Kingdom?”

“Everyone is telling me that the Dao Palace hasn’t made any progress in thousands of years, right?” Shen Ye said.

The Saint looked at him.

“During my time in the Dao Palace, did I do anything wrong to it?” Shen Ye asked again.

A hint of awkwardness finally appeared on the Saint’s face.

—The man offered mountains of gold and silver, and had clearly stated from the beginning that he was only here to find a Dao companion for fun.

Yet he himself was thinking of capturing him to sign an eternal master-servant contract.

That’s not cool.

“Saint, let’s part ways amicably. Don’t do anything unnecessary anymore,” Wanshen said coldly.

The unspoken meaning of this statement was, “Be a decent person.”

The Saint certainly understood.

“I happen to have some information. If he joins, we can pull off something big,” he took two steps back. “But since you’ve already decided, then forget it.”

The void receded on both sides.

The Saint flashed and vanished from the terrace.

“Be careful of him – he’s a vindictive fellow, not only talentless but also prone to jealousy and envy,” Wanshen warned.

“I understand,” Shen Ye said.

“You’re still too young, so I won’t give you overly difficult tasks. For now, you’ll be in charge of item appraisal. How about that?” Wanshen asked.

“No problem… I will get rid of him sooner or later,” Shen Ye said.

“Hmm—hmm?” Wanshen suddenly looked up and gazed at Shen Ye.

“The Saint made a fool of himself in such an important setting today, so he will definitely try to get rid of me later—and silently.”

“Only this way can he regain his face.”

Shen Ye continued calmly:

“I am the same—”

“A piece of trash who wanted to enslave me has already crossed my bottom line. I will use his blood to tell all races—”

“Don’t mess with me, unless you want to die.”

Wanshen was silent for a moment, then suddenly grinned and burst into wild laughter.

“Hahaha, that’s it! That’s it!”

“Baxter, you are so young, yet so clear-headed—”

“You’re truly a new worm in our Swarm Core!”

Wanshen roared ferociously:

“I will provide you with all convenience, just go ahead and do it.”

“—Only the death of our enemies can manifest the will of our Imperial Race of the Universe!”

Shen Ye nodded slightly.

Indeed, that was the case.

Moreover, his saying this had a deeper consideration.

The Saint is responsible for uncovering the secrets of the Three Arts.

—He must die.

He must have a plausible reason to target him in the future.

Now Wanshen understood his intentions and clearly supported him.

Then.

In the struggle of the three arts, no matter how he targeted the Saint, other cosmic races would not consider it as “someone challenging the entire cosmic life form alliance” and needing to be immediately annihilated!

Everyone would think—

“Look, the Emperor Species and the Saint are fighting!”

—Other races would not easily intervene; they would only watch the show!

This is the situation he wanted!