Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 474

Bottom deck of the ship.

Before an unremarkable wall.

Two White Night Spirit Kings quietly appeared here.

“He split the world,” said the White Night Spirit King.

“How? There should be truth suppression here; ordinary secret arts and divine skills can’t resist truth,” said the other.

The White Night Spirit King’s face showed an unnatural expression, as if unwilling, but still had to admit:

“It should be the fundamental truth of destiny – no one wants to suffer a karmic backlash from destiny.”

A moment of silence.

Any other technique would be suppressed by truth.

Destiny was no exception.

But only destiny would cause a backlash afterwards.

Because destiny possesses the most basic and greatest structure that constitutes all truths:

Causality.

This is the underlying structure of all logic.

No matter how powerful the truth, it is within causality.

Sometimes the effect comes before the cause; sometimes cause and effect appear simultaneously, and even the origin of all truthful creations has a source.

Whatever the source, it must represent the “cause.”

Since it is within causality, then when causality backfires, one must bear it.

“So this powerful ultimate creation avoided his spell.”

The White Night Spirit King clicked his tongue in wonder.

“Extravagant… trying to avoid us, but using a spell like that. He probably doesn’t know that now he has to face two of me.”

Another White Night Spirit King said.

“Yes, you and I each enter a split world, so there are two of me in each world.”

“Then there will be four of me in total.”

“I’m multiplying, but he remains constant. What will be the consequence of this?”

The two White Night Spirit Kings reached a conclusion together:

“…His chances of survival will become lower and lower.”

“Infinitely approaching zero.”

Indeed.

Freely creating parallel worlds within an ultimate creation—

This was indeed a rather astonishing professional skill.

But this skill had no offensive capabilities.

He hadn’t suffered any attacks!

On the contrary—

No matter which parallel world he hid in, once they found him, he would be killed.

So what was the purpose of him releasing such a useless skill?

The White Night Spirit King couldn’t find the answer.

However, this also made sense.

—As prey, in the despair of approaching death, blindly and desperately using various skills to live even one second longer.

This was also a common occurrence.

In any case, let’s end this battle.

“I’ll go to the ventilation duct.”

“Then I’ll go look for his tracks.”

“Good.”

One White Night Spirit King jumped onto the ceiling, its body gradually shrinking, and slipped into the ventilation duct above the ceiling.

The other White Night Spirit King cast a spell, beginning to search for Shen Ye’s tracks.

Suddenly.

They both stopped simultaneously.

“The ship—”

“Yes, the ship is starting to flip over.”

“In that case, this floor will soon become the twenty-first floor.”

“It kept its promise to us.”

“Then we also need to speed up and kill that kid quickly.”

…

On the other side.

In the dark chamber.

Shen Ye walked slowly on the wall.

Because the entire ship was flipping, he moved along the wall, changing positions as the ship rolled.

Until he stood on what was originally the ceiling.

Mist arose from the void.

Boiling mist filled the surroundings, obscuring vision, as if something was about to happen.

Two lines of shimmering small text appeared before Shen Ye’s eyes:

“The current bottom deck of the ship has become the twenty-first floor, which is the very top of the entire ship.”

“The twenty-first floor trial rules are now effective!”

In an instant.

All the fog dispersed.

Shen Ye found that the surrounding environment had changed.

This secret chamber had transformed into a world.

The vast, flat plains showed no living creatures, entirely made up of white bones—

All sorts of white bones.

It was like a temporary feeding ground, where devoured beings had long ceased to exist, only their scattered skeletons remaining, accumulating over time to form a plain of white bones.

Not far away.

On a bare tree, a huge humanoid creature squatted.

Its form was hidden in the swirling mist, only revealing two huge, red-glowing eyes.

“Welcome.”

“The human who finally reached the twenty-first floor.”

“You are truly amazing, having broken through the trials of the first twenty floors to arrive at this ultimate place.”

Shen Ye couldn’t help but let out a soft sneer.

Trials of the first twenty floors?

They didn’t exist at all!

This ship had forcibly changed the deck levels!

“Who are you?”

Shen Ye asked.

The figure, still squatting on the tree, continued: “I am the sailor of this ship, an existence of the sixteenth stage of truth, specially here to introduce the trial of the twenty-first floor.”

“—The ship is about to set sail.”

“It will advance through the endless void of truth.”

“As long as you lead it to defeat and devour the seven ultimate creations encountered along the way, you can gain its allegiance!”

After hearing this, Shen Ye said, “Sorry, I’m not interested.”

“You’ve already reached the twenty-first floor, yet you say you’re not interested?” the figure asked.

“I came here to escape pursuit. In fact, I don’t want to participate in any competition at all, because I have no interest in this ship,” Shen Ye said.

The figure explained: “This is the third strongest among the twenty-one ultimate creations, known as the ‘Boat of Chaos.’ Any entity that obtains it—”

“Get lost,” Shen Ye said calmly.

The figure’s voice paused.

But the next second.

Another voice echoed from within the heavy mist:

“To think you discovered the captain’s cabin, in that case, I should thank you.”

A delinquent youth with wings emerged.

—White Night Spirit King!

Besides him, there were three other identical beings.

Four White Night Spirit Kings in total.

It looked extremely excited and said to Shen Ye:

“By killing you, I not only eliminated an opponent but also fulfilled my promise.”

As the words fell.

Shen Ye suddenly disappeared.

The four White Night Spirit Kings were stunned simultaneously.

“That move again!”

“He separated two parallel worlds. His disappearance in this world means the real him went to another parallel world!”

“Go—”

The White Night Spirit Kings vanished into the void together, arriving in an identical world setting.

—Shen Ye was still not there.

But because it was a new timeline separated from that moment, there were now four more White Night Spirit Kings.

Now there were eight White Night Spirit Kings.

They looked at each other in dismay.

The original White Night Spirit King stepped forward and picked up a slip of paper from the ground.

The note read:

“Eight of you, can you win?”

The White Night Spirit King held his breath for a moment, then a ball of fire appeared in his hand, burning the paper to ashes.

He stood still, silent, not speaking for a moment.

The other seven White Night Spirit Kings also remained silent.

Only the figure squatting on the big tree urged:

“The target used some kind of professional skill to teleport to the twentieth floor.”

“Go chase him!”

The White Night Spirit King didn’t move.

He only raised his head, looking at the figure on the tree, a rare look of apprehension on his face.

“I have a small question.”

He began.

“Ask,” the figure said.

“If I complete the trial of the twenty-first floor, can I truly become the master of this ship?”

“…Yes.”

“Very well, I’d like to try.”

“You scoundrel, have you forgotten the promise you made?”

“No—killing that young man is extremely simple. I want to do something more difficult now. Once I succeed, killing him will become even simpler.”

…

Twentieth floor.

Shen Ye appeared directly beside the Finisher Lord of all eras.

“What is the trial on this floor?”

He asked.

“Twenty-one great calamities of destruction; you must survive,” the Finisher Lord said.

“Very difficult, right?”

“I don’t think I can pass.”

“Then let’s go.”

Shen Ye grabbed him, and with a flash, suddenly disappeared from the spot again.

He appeared on the stairs between the sixteenth and seventeenth floors.

The Valkyrie was resting there.

“How did you two get here?”

She asked in surprise.

The Finisher Lord shrugged, looking at Shen Ye in incomprehension.

“Wait.”

Shen Ye said.

Wait?

The Valkyrie and the Finisher Lord both didn’t quite understand what he meant.

Shen Ye, however, gazed into the void.

Lines of shimmering small text appeared in the void:

“You consecutively activated the Mountain God’s professional skill ‘Thought Shuttle’, arriving beside the Finisher Lord and the Valkyrie.”

“You deactivated the Dharmakaya ‘Yin-Yang Two Poles Rescuing from Suffering, Delivering from Calamity, Suppressing Life Divine Mountain’.”

All the small text vanished.

Shen Ye waited for a few more breaths, seeing no unusual phenomena around him, before speaking:

“I’m waiting for the White Night Spirit King.”

“Isn’t it supposed to kill you? Why are you still waiting for it?” the Valkyrie asked.

“Because it has to make a choice—”

“Either abandon the opportunity of the twenty-first floor and chase after me; or seize the seven equally powerful avatars I’ve created for it.”

A cold glint flashed in Shen Ye’s eyes as he calmly said:

“Such a rare opportunity, I believe it will seize it.”

The Valkyrie and the Finisher Lord exchanged glances, both deeply shocked.

To drive wolves to devour each other!

“I thought your ultimate move was to escape,” the Valkyrie sighed.

“My skills aren’t offensive, so I can only make them attack each other… I hope it works,” Shen Ye said.

Time passed by the minute.

Until now, the White Night Spirit King still hadn’t arrived.

It must have been tempted!

At this moment, it was on the twenty-first floor, with seven helpers by its side, its strength unprecedented.

As long as it stayed on the twenty-first floor and successfully completed the trial—

It would achieve its goal of billions of years, becoming the master of this Boat of Chaos!

So why abandon such a great opportunity to chase Shen Ye?

The Finisher Lord, however, thought of something and quickly spoke:

“Wait a minute—if it succeeds in the challenge, it will immediately become an unprecedented ‘gatekeeper’.”

“After all, this ship has been developing for billions of years.”

“At that time, when it comes to kill you, won’t you be helpless?”

Shen Ye nodded, “So we can’t let it win.”

“Do we help this ship?” the Finisher Lord asked.

“No,” Shen Ye’s gaze turned to the Valkyrie, “we need to help that seventeenth-tier powerhouse, because that powerhouse will not attack her followers—”

“For countless years, this powerhouse has only accepted the White Night Spirit King’s sacrifices, but has never harmed the White Night Spirit King. She even moved her own residence because she was annoyed with it.”

“This is our only safe choice.”

“I see,” the Valkyrie sighed.

“Let’s go to the sixteenth floor; we need sacrifices,” Shen Ye said.

The three set off together, descending the stairs, and arrived at the sixteenth floor.

This floor.

It was an entire world.

As soon as the three entered, they appeared in a dilapidated hut.

Outside were abandoned farmlands.

Various farm machinery had long fallen apart into pieces, haphazardly piled by the roadside.

A prompt appeared on the wall of the hut:

“Sixteenth floor trial begins.”

“Objective:”

“Survive for three days and three nights.”

After a few breaths.

All the small text disappeared.

Shen Ye leaned against the wall, tired, and pulled out a piece of chocolate to eat.

The Valkyrie watched him.

—This man is too formidable. He didn’t even make a move, just kept escaping, yet he managed to survive until this very moment!

In fact, he was neither a match for the White Night Spirit King nor able to resist the various pressures from the Boat of Chaos.

But he was still alive.

And those two guys had started fighting each other!

The Valkyrie looked out the window again.

In the distant fields, one huge monster after another appeared.

Fighting…

Fighting was what she was best at.

That seventeenth-tier powerhouse had also helped her improve her strength.

“You rest; leave the fighting to him and me.”

The Valkyrie offered proactively.

Shen Ye looked at the Finisher Lord, who immediately nodded: “I can handle the fighting with her; you get some rest.”

“Alright, I’m counting on you two,” Shen Ye said.

—The Finisher Lord was also a master capable of destroying many worlds.

While he couldn’t handle the challenges of the twentieth floor, this was only the sixteenth floor, and with the Valkyrie cooperating in battle, it shouldn’t be a problem.

At least their combat power was stronger than his.

Seeing him close his eyes to rest, the two slipped out of the hut, one after the other, and stood in the field outside.

“Where did you find such a strange fellow?”

The Valkyrie asked in a low voice.

“I don’t know either—I was imprisoned by him for a long time, but then he came and said a few words to me, and things developed to this point,” said the Finisher Lord of all eras.

“Cunning as a demon,” the Valkyrie remarked.

“Human-demon,” the Finisher Lord echoed beside her.

“You’re still so foolish… Let’s begin. Pile up all the monsters we kill; it will be easier for me to make sacrifices.”

“Okay.”

The two met the surging monsters.

In the hut.

Shen Ye simply lay down on the wooden bed.

He pulled out a bag of beef jerky, eating it while resting.

He had continuously unleashed professional skills and performed several Dharmakayas, barely managing to escape.

He was indeed extremely exhausted.

Next.

He could only rely on his two capable comrades.

As he was silently thinking, a line of shimmering small text suddenly appeared in the void:

“The day has ended, your immovable property’s gateway has undergone various changes, leading to a rather high evaluation for you today.”

Shen Ye was startled, then realized.

That’s right!

A day had passed!

It was time for settlement, and once settled, he would receive a trait!

But why hadn’t the alarm gone off?

Shen Ye pulled out a phone and looked at it.

Perhaps the magnetic field here was off, or for some other reason, the phone screen was black.

Never mind the phone for now, let’s see today’s reward!

To his eager gaze, lines of shimmering small text quickly appeared:

“In this day, you temporarily enhanced the truth creation and won a confrontation.”

“You added a brand new pickaxe.”

“You earned the title of ‘Creator’, allowing you to bring truth creations back to reality.”

“Set the Truth Mine as the Experience Mountain.”

“—You are worthy of all praise!”

“Now make a choice:”

“1. Randomly acquire a new trait (trait category is random, trait power ranges from legendary to primordial); ”

“2. Upgrade an existing trait, forcefully raising its level by one.”

There was no need to choose!

The current enemies all possessed the power of truth; he definitely needed to upgrade an existing trait!

“Blind Eye’s Pride” was a triple truth trait, and “Lord of the Sun” was also a triple truth.

Only “Vampire Lad” was quintuple truth!

If “Vampire Lad” were upgraded by one level, it would reach sextuple truth, getting closer to the White Night Spirit King’s octuple truth.

Shen Ye quickly made his choice.

The shimmering small text immediately changed accordingly:

“You chose to upgrade the existing trait ‘Vampire Lad’.”

“Congratulations, with your excellent performance today, your trait ‘Vampire Lad’ has been upgraded by one level, currently becoming:”

“‘Vampire Elder’!”

“This is a brand new combat trait, reaching the terrifying level of sextuple truth!”