Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 590

The sea.

A single log floated on the sea, rising and falling with the waves.

On the log.

Shen Ye stood with his knife, constantly making slashing motions.

After sending Alois away, he entered an illusion himself, fully comprehending the knowledge and techniques of a Saint-level Void.

Five hundred years passed.

He drifted alone on the deserted ocean, refining his skills with Saint-level knowledge, day and night without cease.

One day.

Charlotte’s voice suddenly came from the long saber:

“Your ‘Revolving Lantern’ saber technique is about to end, and time will return to normal.”

“—Are you going to stop cultivating now?”

“No, my saber skills aren’t good enough yet. I might need to continue practicing for a while,” Shen Ye said.

He suddenly felt something again and apologized, “I’m sorry, I haven’t spent enough time with you.”

“No need to apologize—the human race has only existed for a short time, and you haven’t grown enough. You really do need to continue cultivating.”

“Besides, in the Myriad Worlds, many powerful cultivators practice for thousands of years continuously.”

“—You must cultivate diligently to ensure your survival first.”

Charlotte said softly.

“Then, I’ll continue,” Shen Ye said.

“Mm, I’ll be right by your side—actually, I’m content just being with you,” Charlotte said.

After their conversation.

Shen Ye once again wielded his long saber, executing a “Revolving Lantern” strike.

After five hundred years.

He once again struck himself with this technique.

But this move had become somewhat different.

Flickering lights descended, replacing the sea, turning the vast ocean into fertile fields.

Shen Ye stood amidst a bamboo forest.

He took up his stance, continuing to refine his saber technique.

Another eight hundred years passed.

One day.

He suddenly stopped his saber, and an indescribable feeling welled up in his heart.

His saber technique seemed to have changed from before.

Faint small characters continuously appeared in the void beside him:

“You have continuously cultivated saber techniques for thirteen hundred years and gained some insight today.”

“‘Scattered Flowers’ and ‘Revolving Lantern’ saber styles have begun to advance.”

“Congratulations.”

“You have forged your own path.”

“—Unrestrained, unfathomable, such is your saber technique.”

At this moment.

In the outside world, only a few minutes had passed since he let Ailos go.

…

Cage Battle.

Arena.

Silas forced himself to calm down, then asked in a deep voice, “Brother, do you know what you’re saying?”

“Yes,” Siron added, “if he’s coercing you, tell us immediately, and we’ll do everything we can to rescue you!”

Ojar’s expression remained unchanged, however.

To avoid Shen Ye misunderstanding, he quickly transmitted a message:

“Don’t listen to them—they’re trying to drive a wedge between us—they’ve been coveting my power for a long time.”

“Aren’t you brothers?” Shen Ye asked curiously.

“When there’s a common interest, we are brothers, otherwise, it’s hard to say,” Ojar replied.

Shen Ye pondered, then asked, “How much power do you have left?”

“What about you?” Ojar counter-asked.

“You go first,” Shen Ye said.

“No, you first.” Ojar insisted.

“Can’t we be honest with each other?” Shen Ye snapped.

“Alright, as soon as you release that strike and completely free me from the illusion, I’ll tell you,” Ojar said.

Shen Ye clicked his tongue, remaining silent.

—Are you taking me for a fool?

As soon as the saber technique is released, you’ll be free.

With your time-based sealing arts and karma-doll techniques, you’ll definitely team up with these two destruction main gods to take me down.

Yes.

Three against one.

And I’ve also been hit by a karma-based spell.

There couldn’t be a better opportunity than this.

However—

I can’t just not help at all.

As an elemental spirit of destruction, I can instinctively sense that what he said is absolutely true.

The devouring among destruction main gods is terrifying.

There’s absolutely no turning back.

I still don’t want to lose this clone.

What to do?

—In a situation where mutual trust is impossible, yet a cage battle must be fought.

How can one fight like this?

“Never mind, you talk to them,” Shen Ye changed the subject.

Ojar then took over the body.

“Don’t ask such trivial questions.”

Ojar’s tone was surprisingly calm as he addressed the two destruction main gods opposite him:

“His saber technique is very powerful, and my spellcasting is stronger than his, so we both agreed to fuse and comprehend each other’s skills and knowledge.”

Silas and Siron exchanged glances.

What now?

This situation was unexpected.

Silas deliberated, then spoke, “Brother, we’ve already initiated a king-level cage battle.”

“And because he just accepted the cage battle, we paid a lot to start this conflict.”

Siron nodded continuously, echoing, “Brother, can you let us win this time?”

“No,” Ojar said with an indifferent expression, “how can I lose to you?”

Shen Ye seized the opportunity to interject:

“Besides, that Saint’s separated soul has already returned.”

A silence fell.

Only to hear the three destruction main gods say in unison:

“What? Returned?”

“Yes, I realized that I couldn’t possibly keep the separated soul of such a master, so I let him go back,” Shen Ye said.

Silas looked down at the detection spell on his hand.

—The other party wasn’t lying!

What the hell.

All that trouble for nothing.

Still, the younger brother was clever.

He acted first and at least snatched a king-level saber technique that had just appeared in the Myriad Worlds.

Silas and Siron were dispirited, sighing helplessly.

“Alright, let each of you take one blow from me, and end this boring cage battle.”

Ojar raised his hand.

The two elder brothers stood opposite him, crestfallen and unmoving.

It seemed they had resigned themselves to fate.

“Hey,” Ojar transmitted, “lend me some strength.”

“You—no way, you were pretty fierce when you attacked yourself just now, how come you have no attack power now?” Shen Ye asked in surprise.

“My heavy hammer is a true treasure of destruction, and your saber is probably not ordinary either—all those hammer blows and saber slashes were directed at me,” Ojar said.

He did not continue.

But Shen Ye understood.

Yes.

Those hammer blows and saber slashes were not jokes.

I, too, was on my last breath.

If not for Charlotte’s blessing, and if I hadn’t cast the “Heaven-reaching Art” in time to continuously revive my soul—

I would have been finished.

“Alright, let’s combine our strength for one strike and try to break through the threat they pose,” Shen Ye said.

“That’s exactly right,” Ojar agreed.

“Here I go!”

Shen Ye invigorated his spirit, controlled Ojar’s body, raised the heavy hammer, and smashed Silas and Siron with one blow each.

Thump.

Thump.

Two dull thuds.

Silas and Siron flew backwards at the same time, rolled on the ground, spitting blood, and couldn’t get up at all.

“…There’s no need to be so ruthless; just hitting the opponent and winning one move is enough to count as a win.”

Ojar said.

“You didn’t say that,” Shen Ye shrugged.

Above the arena.

A vortex formed by laws silently appeared.

It enveloped Silas and Siron, beginning to siphon off their king-level power.

—In a gladiatorial match, the king-level power of the loser will be completely devoured by the victor!

Silas sat up as if nothing had happened.

Siron spat out a mouthful of blood and shouted towards them:

“Brother, have you learned his moves? Tell him to scram, or should we kill him together?”

“You don’t need to worry about it,” Ojar said.

He manipulated a spell, immediately preparing to teleport away.

“Wait a moment,” Shen Ye hastily said, “I won this round, and the king’s power on them hasn’t been absorbed yet. Let me absorb it first, then we’ll leave.”

“You’re truly dreaming,” Ojar scoffed.

At this moment.

With his two brothers gravely wounded, they could no longer pose a threat to him.

Ojar’s tone lightened a few shades:

“The destruction side cannot generate king’s power. As main gods, we only provide destructive source energy.”

“But destructive source energy has extremely strong destructive properties, which you, as a human, cannot absorb.”

“—In the Myriad Worlds, generally no one dares to provoke destruction-side beings.”

“Because even if you win, you gain nothing.”

“Just like now.”

Shen Ye listened in silence, nodding thoughtfully:

“So, I can only absorb the destructive source energy from them?”

“Yes,” Ojar said.

Shen Ye looked towards the void beside him.

Indeed, lines of faint glowing characters floated in the air:

“You have won this king’s challenge.”

“Your two opponents have no king’s power. According to the rules, as a secondary option, you will absorb the destructive source energy from them.”

“Are you sure you want to complete this absorption?”

“Note: Destructive source energy is highly aggressive. If your affinity doesn’t match, it will kill you.”

Generally speaking—

This was already quite intimidating.

For any other king-level being, they would essentially have to grin and bear it.

No wonder everyone detested the destruction faction!

—Lose and die, win and get nothing.

Who would want to bother with them!

But today, the situation seemed a little different.

Shen Ye possessed a clone that was an elemental spirit of destruction!

—He truly could absorb destructive source energy!

“Absorb.”

Shen Ye commanded.

The faint small characters immediately kept popping up:

“You are the Eternal Truth Destruction Beast ‘Super Saiyan Duck Man’.”

“Each of your bodies simultaneously possesses the three powers of eternity, truth, and destruction. They can switch individually or exist simultaneously.”

“Congratulations.”

“You are absorbing the destructive source energy of the destruction main gods Silas and Siron.”

A black light emerged from the vortex above the arena, striking Ojar and gradually merging into his body.

“Brother!”

Silas and Siron cried out simultaneously.

“Wait, I didn’t—” Ojar exclaimed.

The next second.

The three main gods simultaneously realized the truth of the matter.

“It’s the soul! His soul is absorbing the power of destruction.”

Silas said.

“Hahaha,” Siron couldn’t help but burst into maniacal laughter. “What a fool. A human dares to covet our destructive source power?”

“You’re going to die,” Ojar also intentionally sighed.

A human absorbing the destruction source power of a main god would surely be unable to bear it and would undoubtedly die.

He died.

The illusion naturally lifted.

This was good news, but I also lost the opportunity to learn his saber technique.

—The whole thing was irreversible.

It can only be this way.

Ojar was just thinking with some regret when he suddenly looked in one direction.

Silas and Siron did the same.

A humanoid figure emerged silently from the dark void and landed on the arena.

Kaelen!

This arrogant and conceited destruction main god appeared before everyone!

“Are you all injured?”

“Before, you treated me like a scouting dog, but now you’re all so battered yourselves.”

“Tsk tsk tsk, why so careless.”

Kaelen said at his leisure.

Ojar’s expression changed dramatically, and he growled, “This is impossible, you should still be in that illusion!”

“Yes, you are in my ‘illusion’,” Shen Ye interjected.

He specifically glanced at his Dharma Form.

Kaelen’s soul was lost within it, in a state similar to the old blind man.

Could it be—

“That’s fake,” Shen Ye blurted out.

“A bunch of idiots, it’s about time you had a moment of clarity,” Kaelen said lazily.

He casually pulled out a mask and displayed it to them.

Faint small characters continuously appeared beside the mask:

“The one and only false face.”

“King-level wondrous item, treasure of the Myriad Worlds, special item.”

“Description: Makes an entity exactly like you, until you cancel it.”

—It’s a wonder item!

And it’s king-level!

“So that’s it, you sent a fake to die while you hid yourself.”

Ojar said.

Kaelen burst into laughter, loudly declaring, “I didn’t want to, but you three were too aggressive, so I had no choice.”

“Look at all of you now—”

“Who’s the dog in the end? And who’s the real victor?”

The three destruction main gods were speechless for a moment.

Shen Ye, however, felt an alarm bell ring in his heart.

Too terrifying.

—It’s not that Kaelen’s methods are terrifying.

But rather that in the Myriad Worlds, there are simply too many unknown skills, techniques, and treasures, making it impossible to guard against them!

Any random enemy.

Their methods are completely unknown.

How do you fight that?

Are battles in the Myriad Worlds always this unknown?

As for the king-level wondrous item Kaelen used…

It did give me some inspiration.

Shen Ye’s heart stirred, and his Dharma Form immediately felt something.

In a chicken coop.

The Benevolent God Rooster was sleeping. At Shen Ye’s summons, it immediately jumped out of the nest, snatched the carrot from the wall, and left.

Behind it, countless hens clucked mournfully.

The rooster halted its majestic figure, turned back to give the hens a resolute glance, then transformed into an afterimage, soared into the sky, and disappeared.

Seeing it go, the hens gathered to discuss.

Soon.

A new notice was posted outside the chicken coop:

“Thirty hens wanted.”

“Seeking a rooster.”

“Requirements: Comb must be red and straight.”

“Benefits: Thirty hens.”

Let’s skip this part.

The Benevolent God Rooster, carrying the carrot, immediately began to exert the effect of the wondrous item.

Shen Ye also deliberately concealed the fluctuations of his soul.

—After all, in their eyes, his absorption of destructive source energy spelled doom.

Now, with the “Carrot Chicken” wonder item’s effect:

“Negligible.”

He could temporarily lie low.

Yes.

Shen Ye finally figured out what he should do.

—In the Myriad Worlds, he must lie low!

—Because you simply don’t know what other tricks the enemy has up their sleeve!

And he had never experienced such a scene before—

—fusing with three other people to fight against the guy who faked his death and had been secretly hiding all along!

Shen Ye thought silently.

At this moment.

The situation in the arena changed again.

“Silas!”

“Siron!”

Ojar shouted urgently.

“Coming—” the two main gods said in unison.

As Ojar’s spell formed, they instantly vanished from their original spots.

Faint characters floated before Shen Ye’s eyes:

“The Three Destruction Main Gods have completed a ‘Destruction Fusion’.”

“They have completely merged into one.”

“This is the legendary Destruction Divine Skill—”

“Ojar’s Judgment!”

Shen Ye watched, silent and unmoving, without uttering a sound.

—So Ojar still had some real skills of his own.

Although the three main gods were all heavily wounded, such a three-person fusion technique was bound to bring about a drastic increase in strength—

They might not lose against Kaelen!

The next second.

Shen Ye suddenly realized that all the destructive source energy from the King’s Battle had been absorbed.

Faint small characters continuously refreshed:

“Congratulations.”

“You have obtained the purest part of a power of rules.”

“With this source energy, you can create a destruction skill, or, based on your identity as an ‘Eternal Truth Destruction Beast,’ elevate a keyword from a single attribute to a dual attribute, thus allowing further advancement.”

“Please choose.”

I can upgrade my keyword!

Just when I needed it, someone hands me a pillow!

I just happen to have a keyword that has reached the pinnacle of the world of truth.

Shen Ye immediately said:

“With the spoils of this king’s battle, I will upgrade my truth keyword—”

“Mandala Uroboros.”

In an instant.

The newly absorbed destructive source energy vanished from Shen Ye’s soul.

Accompanying this loss, “Mandala Uroboros” began to break through upwards from the peak of the truth keyword!

Shen Ye had never heard of such a thing.

“Charlotte?”

He whispered.

Charlotte’s voice came from the long saber: “Generally speaking, the keywords of each world have their own characteristics, for example, the world of truth is suppression.”

“I haven’t seen your situation either.”

Alright.

The development of keywords is also unknown!

But since it’s breaking through upwards, it certainly won’t get weaker, right?

Shen Ye thought silently.

In the arena.

The situation continued to evolve.

“Kaelen,” Ojar’s aura steadily rose, his tone filled with murderous intent, “why are you always so arrogant?”

Kaelen watched in stunned silence.

Now Shen Ye understood even more.

Even he didn’t know the three destruction main gods had such a move!

“Ojar, I was just joking with you, don’t take it seriously.”

Kaelen shed his playful demeanor, speaking respectfully.

“A joke?” Ojar repeated.

“Of course it’s a joke, how could I dare to deal with you?” Kaelen forced a smile.

“This time we went to war and gained nothing substantial. We would have let it go, but you insisted on seeking death—”

“Then I’ll devour you!”

Ojar reached out and pulled a heavy hammer from the void, charging towards Kaelen.

Kaelen hastily cried out:

“Please spare me! I truly didn’t mean it!”

“Die,” Ojar roared.

The next second.

A premonition of ill omen suddenly welled up in Shen Ye’s heart.

Kaelen retreated swiftly, the panic on his face suddenly vanishing.

In its place was a grim expression filled with murderous intent.

The void shimmered.

Three beings emerged from behind Kaelen, each emanating an intense aura of destruction.

Including Kaelen, there were now four destruction main gods!

Ojar’s expression changed dramatically.

This was an ambush!

This was a meticulously prepared ambush, solely to devour the three destruction main gods in one fell swoop!

“I’m so scared, Ojar. From now on, you three brothers will cease to exist, ahahaha!”

Kaelen burst into maniacal laughter.

Ojar turned and fled.

But it was too late.

The current situation was that four main gods in their peak state were going to kill three heavily injured main gods and devour their power!

—This was an internal war within the destruction faction!