Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 608

The blade.

A blade appeared silently.

The blurry shadow of the blade swept across the monster’s head, then lightly split into seven or eight afterimages.

As the blood mist exploded.

The man and the blade had already appeared tens of meters away.

Clang!

The long blade returned to its sheath.

Shen Ye walked back and carefully examined the corpse on the ground.

“That last strike of yours was excellent.”

The Chaos Boat said.

“Of course it was excellent,” Shen Ye said.

“But why did you fly tens of meters away after striking?” the Chaos Boat asked.

“Why not?” Shen Ye retorted.

“See, you fly away, and then you have to walk back to check the corpse.”

“Can’t help it — I don’t want to get monster blood on me.”

“You’re quite particular about hygiene.”

“Because I was about to eat.”

On the other side.

Good Duck has already obtained Shen Ye’s memories and is quickly searching:

“Emblem!”

“A monster, two pairs of compound eyes, an elongated body, eight legs, black muscle tissue, skilled at pouncing, capable of traversing space using the power of laws.”

“Search!”

A voice sounded from the emblem:

“This query requires 70 entropy points; a deep query will require 1000 entropy points.”

“Money is no object, search it thoroughly for me!” Good Duck said with great pride.

A moment later.

The search results came out.

In the Pale World.

Shen Ye was squatting on the ground, eating a bento box.

As Good Duck’s memories synchronized, he wiped his mouth and couldn’t help but murmur to himself:

“A monster that only appears in the Pale World?”

“It’s a group combat unit. Kill one, and a group will appear. Their collective technique is a synchronous resonance annihilation method.”

“So troublesome…”

He suddenly drew his blade and continuously unleashed long and short blade shadows in the void.

Swish, swish, swish—

One monster after another drilled out of the void, only to be cut into several pieces by the blade shadows.

But more and more monsters appeared.

Though the blade was fast.

Monsters were like a sea.

Ordinary strikes would eventually run out of targets.

At a certain moment.

As soon as seven or eight monsters appeared, they immediately kept their distance, all letting out “goo-hoo-” cries.

The void immediately vibrated.

Invisible forces gathered from all directions, attacking Shen Ye 360 degrees without any blind spots.

“Good move.”

Shen Ye praised, sheathed his blade and held his breath, then both the blade and his hands disappeared for an instant.

—Blade Art: Carousel!

In an instant.

Everything became incredibly slow.

The eight resonating monsters were drawn by the blade intent, entering the “Two Instruments Soul Manager” pháp tướng (dharma body), their lives and deaths cycling endlessly.

With the monsters gone, the resonance technique naturally dissolved.

The long blade once again transformed into dense, uneven blade shadows, one by one slaying the monsters that subsequently appeared.

Suddenly.

Shen Ye’s expression tensed.

He retreated a few steps backward and shouted:

“Seventh Uncle, hold them off for me first.”

Seventh Uncle immediately took his place, forming a hand seal with both hands, and loudly proclaimed:

“You go ahead and eat, I’ll teach them the method of sacrifice.”

A torrent of truth power radiated from Seventh Uncle’s hand seal, freezing all the monsters in place.

—Truth Suppression!

Seventh Uncle’s strength had been steadily increasing, now reaching the nineteenth tier.

The main reason he could reach this level was because he had always been with several of the strongest constructs of truth.

Chatelet took care of him because of Shen Ye, and Su Su was used to eating what Seventh Uncle made, sometimes giving Him pointers.

In addition, Seventh Uncle was a good and honest man, and he was enthusiastic in his work.

Even a crafty little boat like Chaos Boat often gave him advice.

When Seventh Uncle stepped forward at this moment, he naturally easily suppressed thousands of monsters.

Shen Ye was able to finish his bento and drink a bottle of orange juice before walking into the battlefield with his blade.

He was about to enter battle, but suddenly stopped.

“What’s wrong?”

Seventh Uncle asked.

“Blade technique restricted — the law of time has been drawn away,” Shen Ye said in surprise.

It seems.

The Saint of Time isn’t giving any chances.

It doesn’t matter, using other laws is the same for him.

Shen Ye was about to make a move.

But he saw lines of faint characters appearing in the void:

“You are under some kind of restriction.”

“The current situation is unclear, but from this moment on, you can only use one law per move.”

He was restricted!

Shen Ye simply used the “death” law directly, and the long blade turned into a black light, striking hundreds of times in an instant.

—World-Severing Dual Slash!

This was a destructive blade technique, perfect for releasing the law of death!

The surroundings immediately emptied.

Those monsters were killed by him and Seventh Uncle, their corpses plummeting from mid-air like dumplings falling into a pot.

The remaining monsters immediately began to flee.

Good Duck suddenly transmitted new intelligence.

—After these monsters are defeated, another type of monster will immediately arrive.

These are more evolved, stronger monsters!

The battle will continue without end.

By the way.

No one has dared to challenge the Pale World for a long time.

Because there are too many monsters here, too dense, even forming an offensive and defensive alliance!

Shen Ye looked at the memories while showing a puzzled expression.

“Something’s not right…”

He murmured.

In fact.

According to the most basic law of the jungle.

How could powerful monsters form an alliance with lower-level monsters?

It should be a slave system, right?

At the very least, it should be “dominion,” not “alliance.”

Boom boom boom—

The earth trembled incessantly.

A completely black giant drilled out from underground.

“Query—” Shen Ye said.

At the same time.

Good Duck screamed, “Query a black giant, it belongs to the Pale World, I want all its information!”

The giant strode heavily towards Shen Ye.

Shen Ye raised his long blade.

But the death law swirling around the long blade dissipated.

Facing this monster, the death law actually lost control—

It could no longer function!

The power on the long blade instantly vanished.

“Help?”

Chaos Boat spoke.

“No need, I need to check something,” Shen Ye said.

He held the long blade level, holding his breath, waiting for the black giant to approach step by step.

The giant opened its mouth, as if to spit something out.

Now!

The long blade trembled, and the entire world suddenly transformed into an endless array of lines, moving extremely rapidly.

—Scattered Flowers!

This sword technique did not possess those four laws, but it did possess the power of fate.

As everyone knows.

Among the myriad worlds, no one is arrogant enough to claim sole dominion over the law of fate!

Even a Void Saint would not easily manipulate fate.

Fate is an unpredictable law, prone to backlash!

The long blade moved constantly along a line, eventually slashing towards the end of that line—

Clang!

A resounding crash.

The black giant’s iron fist collided with the long blade.

Shen Ye was sent flying back like a cannonball, crashing into the ground.

“Pah.”

He spat out a mouthful of blood, then jumped up and continued to observe the giant.

“You’re already spitting blood, and still playing solo?” The Chaos Boat muttered.

“It’s fine,” Shen Ye said.

He looked towards the void, watching the lines of faint characters that had just appeared:

“You used the term ‘Mandala: Ouroboros,’ and absorbed an element from the opponent during the previous collision.”

“Do you want to use this element immediately?”

—That last move was to absorb the element!

That’s why Shen Ye had to take action himself.

Shen Ye spread his hand.

A cluster of free-floating gray mist appeared in his hand.

It was the element from the giant.

But—

What exactly was this element?

“Give it back!”

The black giant roared, its muscles bulging, its entire form becoming even more colossal.

Its aura reached its peak, and it forcefully spat out a beam of dark light towards Shen Ye.

Arcane attack—

—This was a life-or-death blow!

Shen Ye’s pupils contracted sharply, and the long blade in his hand trembled accordingly.

Lines of faint text immediately appeared:

“You used the laws of ‘dream’ and ‘control’.”

“The Carousel is forming again.”

“But without the laws of ‘time’ and ‘death’, this strike is incomplete.”

In an instant.

The long blade pierced through the giant’s body.

The blade intent suddenly shifted.

—Scattered Flowers!

Illusory lines appeared from the void, wrapped around the blade, and stretched.

Carousel and Scattered Flowers, a dual strike!

Even when facing Old John, Shen Ye hadn’t fully unleashed both blade techniques!

This time, however, he gave it his all.

The shadowy energy group suddenly vanished, and the black giant walked a few steps, then froze in place.

“What kind of blade technique is that?”

The giant rumbled.

“A killing blade technique,” Shen Ye said.

“No, your blade technique has clearly lost two laws—I’ve never seen a blade technique with four laws—and you’ve even added a new one,” the giant said.

“I added the law of fate,” Shen Ye explained.

“Unheard of,” the giant sighed.

It slowly knelt down.

Dense bloodlines emerged from its body, gradually expanding—

A mournful cry of a blade resounded around it.

The black giant’s massive form was immediately dismembered into a pile of shattered flesh.

It died.

Shen Ye, however, showed no joy of victory on his face, but stood silently with his blade, as if contemplating something.

The next instant.

Lines of faint text appeared again:

“Your ‘dream’ law has failed.”

Now.

Only the laws of ‘control’ and ‘fate’ are available.

Strange…

Why are the laws failing one after another?

Could the ‘pale’ law counteract ‘death’, ‘time’, and other laws?

Shen Ye was utterly puzzled.

A moment later.

Lines of faint characters appeared silently before Shen Ye’s eyes:

“You possess the monster’s ??? element.”

“The current death of the monster has activated the element, beginning to summon a higher-level existence.”

“The power of seven terms gathers here, attempting to extract this element from you.”

“Your term ‘Mandala: Ouroboros’ is of a higher level, and stimulated by this, it suddenly grew by five levels again, suppressing and nullifying the seven terms!”

What?

There were actually seven terms working together to extract the giant’s element from him?

Fortunately, he had “Mandala: Ouroboros”!

This term had already exceeded the limits of the True World, standing at an unprecedented height.

Therefore, the enemy could not extract that element.

In the dark.

Shen Ye felt as if he was about to grasp something.

The combat mechanism of the monsters was incredibly ingenious—

That element seemed to be able to accurately detect the enemy’s life and death, and immediately activate, summoning stronger fighters.

But there were two problems here.

One.

Why am I losing the power of the laws?

Two.

Since the enemies are allied, why not send the strongest one to directly kill me and be done with it?

As he pondered, Chatelet’s voice came to his ear:

“The elemental power you have, Su Su can activate it too—do you want to go see what it is?”

“Go,” Shen Ye said.

“Prepare for teleportation. I have to add, I can’t guarantee where you’ll be teleported,” Su Su said.

“No problem, even if I die, I won’t blame you, just let me go see,” Shen Ye said.

The next second.

He felt the fluctuation of that elemental power, and then—

Swish!

The world flashed by.

Shen Ye found himself in a completely sealed underground plaza.

In the center of the plaza.

A sealed coffin stood motionless, its wooden surface covered with various runes.

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As soon as Shen Ye appeared, he immediately felt the power of the element in his hand begin to boil, as if ready to leave his body at any moment.

“Go.”

Shen Ye simply let it go.

Clap, clap, clap, clap—

A series of sounds.

All the seals on the coffin’s surface had opened!

Boom!

The coffin lid slowly fell.

A monster walked out from within.

This was a two-headed, four-armed, “mantis”-shaped monster covered in sharp bone blades.

Just from the power fluctuations emanating from its entire body—

It was stronger than all the previous monsters!

—The moment this monster appeared, Shen Ye immediately sensed something.

He raised his long blade.

The swirling threads of law on the long blade immediately dried up.

The “control” law failed!

Now.

Shen Ye could no longer use the power of the four laws to fight, nor could he unleash the full power of the “Carousel.”

“Something’s not right.”

Chatelet suddenly spoke.

“If one can suppress the enemy’s laws, wouldn’t they be invincible? Is the Pale World that strong?” Su Su also said.

“This is too strange — as things stand, there’s only one strategy,” the Chaos Boat said.

“What?” Seventh Uncle asked.

“Run,” the Chaos Boat said.

“Get out of here,” Su Su and Seventh Uncle said in unison.

The monster let out a series of increasingly sharp screeches, looking over at Shen Ye.

Shen Ye suddenly spoke:

“You guys hold it off for me, I’m going to do something else.”

“Okay.”

Chatelet, Su Su, and Seventh Uncle appeared together.

The Chaos Boat, however, said: “I’ll accompany you, at least there’ll be someone to watch your back.”

“Alright.”

Shen Ye said no more, directly shouted “Door,” stepped in, and disappeared.

The surface of the Pale World.

—On a derelict tall tower, at its very peak, the Gate of Telepathy suddenly appeared.

Shen Ye stepped out and looked towards the incomplete painting on the wall.

He tore the painting open.

A pile of bones immediately fell out.

They were the bones of the messenger!

Shen Ye chanted a spell, beginning to perform the “Cataclysmic Resurrection” technique.

Lines of faint text kept appearing:

“The laws you possess are being completely sealed.”

“‘Cataclysmic Resurrection’ is a power of the destruction camp and does not belong to other laws.”

“This resurrection spell will not be sealed!”

All the bones immediately formed, flesh, hair, and facial features all grew out.

“Ah!”

“Alive!”

Two voices sounded at the same time.

—It was the Messenger and Red Queen!

“Just a moment, I’ll take care of this, we can chat later,” Shen Ye said.

“No need to be nervous,” the Messenger said, looking at the expression on Shen Ye’s face and waving his hand, “We considered your stress, so we all choked to death on water.”

“That’s easy to deal with, just spit out the water,” Red Queen said.

Shen Ye indeed found his mouth and throat filled with water.

—These mission cards were quite considerate.

He spat out all the water and said, “I found a problem.”

“What problem?” the Messenger asked.

Shen Ye recounted the battle process.

The two cards fell into contemplation.

“What do you think?” the Messenger asked.

“No choice — although there might be some secret here, our mission is ‘eternity’, and our goal is to meet the ‘Pale King’ — we have no time to investigate the monster situation.”

Red Queen said solemnly.

“Even completing this task is difficult; we truly are on the verge of death, almost unable to hide and commit suicide,” the Messenger sighed.

“Since that’s the case, you two continue with your mission, and I’ll investigate the monster’s secret,” Shen Ye said.

“That’s the only way,” the Messenger said.

“However,” Red Queen added, “take out the scale we gave you last time.”

“Okay.”

Shen Ye handed over the “Balance” scale.

Red Queen took the scale, then produced another similar scale, showing it to Shen Ye:

“This is another ancient law that has vanished, only this remnant remains, and it’s perfect to leave to you as well.”

“Oh? What law is it?” Shen Ye asked, interested.

“‘Rebirth’,” Red Queen said.

He chanted a spell, clasped the two scales together, and squeezed hard.

The two scales immediately transformed into a twenty-centimeter-long “rod-shaped” object, which Red Queen tossed back to Shen Ye.

“I have a premonition that the matter you are investigating is extremely important, but we are beings from history and can only fulfill our mission according to a predetermined trajectory.”

“This matter is entrusted to you.”

“This is the help we can give you.”

Red Queen said.

Shen Ye caught the “short staff,” and lines of faint characters immediately appeared before his eyes:

“You have obtained a long dagger:”

“??? Ancient Blade.”

“Proto-weapon.”

“Description: Constant with the laws of ‘Balance’ and ‘Rebirth’, unaffected by your era, and due to the continuity of history, the laws on this dagger will not dissipate.”

“—Ancient laws seem to be re-energizing in your hands.”

Shen Ye was stunned.

It could be like this?

“In history, we are doomed to fail, and this weapon is the hope we can pass down to you,” the Messenger said.

The two were about to disappear into the void again.

“Wait a minute—” Shen Ye quickly said, “You are both very strong, was the ancient Pale World so difficult?”

The Messenger and Red Queen exchanged glances.

“Logically, it shouldn’t be so difficult. Among humanity’s four missions, the first one should be the simplest.”

“And humanity’s characteristic is the ability to utilize multiple laws.”

“We, who were created with multiple laws, were already stronger than the ultimate weapons of many species at our birth.”

“—So our failure was almost impossible.”

“But we did fail after all.”

Shen Ye was silent for a few breaths, then said: “I will find out the truth, and then I will contact you.”

“Good, we await your news,” the Messenger said.

They walked into the void together, returning to history, and disappeared.

Only Shen Ye remained standing there.

Shen Ye looked down at the long dagger in his hand—

Although it wasn’t a blade, it could mostly be used as one.

Most importantly—

He finally had laws he could use.

The only thing to note was that the characteristics of the laws were different.

Perhaps the power of the blade technique would also transform.

Suddenly.

There was a “clunk.”

Shen Ye looked up, seeing lines of faint characters appearing above his head:

“Congratulations.”

“You have reached the intersection of history and future, and are about to witness that astonishing secret.”

“Humanity’s mission shines brightly again, seemingly able to continue, yet also seemingly destined to fall into eternal darkness.”

“All laws in the myriad realms are witnessing this moment.”

“Please note.”

“If you let go of that secret, and do not investigate it, you will obtain the supreme term of survival.”

“If you continue to investigate—”

“You must survive for twelve hours to gain the recognition of the myriad laws, and thus obtain the unknown term exclusive to humanity.”

Shen Ye quickly read it.

Supreme term of survival?

He thought for a moment and then gave up.

—Giving up information was equivalent to surrendering.

In that case.

He would never be able to understand the operating mechanism of the Pale World, nor defeat the monsters here.

Nor could he obtain the “Pale Law.”

Without laws…

In the future, he could only rely on others.

Should he really yield to the Saint of Time, or keep hiding from Old John, and cease to improve his strength ever again?

Some people are alive, but they’re so miserable they wish they were dead.

What’s the difference between that and being a wage slave?

Doing the most painful things, yet calling it making a living.

What’s the point!

Speaking of which, my duck body is still working!

Shen Ye gripped the dagger tightly—

He must continue to investigate the secret!

On the “short staff”-like dagger, a faint light emanated, forming a thirty-centimeter-long blade.

—Short ones are cute too!

Could it kill enemies?

Who cares!

If I can’t stab them to death, I’ll beat them to death with it!

In short—

He would absolutely not live at the mercy of others!

Shen Ye tied the dagger to his waist, reached out to summon a door, and stepped through it.