Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 639
byThe city wasn’t very large.
From atop a tall building, one could clearly see the human army outside the city, neatly arranged.
It was strange.
The city was surrounded by a massive army.
However.
Inside the city, it was desolate, with no sign of human activity.
“Could this be enemy territory?”
Shen Ye mumbled.
The King, with arms crossed, said, “There are enough strong presences here that are worthy of a battle with me.”
“Why haven’t I seen them?” Shen Ye asked.
“They’re hidden away. This move is quite clever. I only know they’re here, but I don’t know where exactly they are,” the King said with a smile.
He raised his hand and lightly tapped in the void.
Strands of law beams descended, like a shadowy curtain covering the two of them.
Their figures became ethereal, then vanished.
Enemies were nearby.
To be cautious.
The two of them moved to another location, hiding on the top floor of another building.
Suddenly.
Shen Ye remembered something.
He could use a trait in this situation.
Within an hour, the power of the trait he set would be the strongest!
Tiny glowing words immediately appeared:
“You have activated the trait ‘The Man With the Longest Survival Time’.”
This was a trait he hadn’t used in a long time!
1. Designate a target to say, ‘Indeed, it is I!’, thereby replacing your identity;
2. This target will bear everything for you and will not be discovered until its destruction.
As the trait activated.
Below the building, in the square, the humanoid metal statue suddenly shouted:
“Indeed, it is I!”
—It had replaced Shen Ye!
Shen Ye and the King, on the other hand, hid in the shadows, silently waiting.
The sky gradually darkened.
The humanoid metal statue moved freely in the square.
But for a time, nothing happened.
The King spoke:
“This is human history, do you know it?”
“Not clearly,” Shen Ye shook his head, “Humans actually fell from the other shore. I don’t understand what human history was like.”
“The other shore? Fall?”
The King asked with interest.
Shen Ye then explained the Eternal World, the True World, and the matters of Aether and the Other Shore.
The King listened with great interest.
Boom—
A loud noise came from the square.
The two paused their conversation and looked down.
They saw that the metal statue had been hit by something, its upper body completely vanished, evaporating into a rain of metal in mid-air.
“Here they come.”
The King spoke.
Shen Ye looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a purple sphere floating in mid-air.
It let out a vast voice:
“Welcome, all of you.”
“Law beasts, and humans, demons.”
“This is the destroyed human royal city, yet you managed to appear here, proving that our plan still has some loopholes.”
“This also proves your abilities.”
“To show our appreciation—”
The void split open.
A fair and delicate young girl descended, standing in the square.
“Let me find out what problems you have.”
She said.
Shen Ye and the King exchanged a glance.
—That was clearly a human, and there weren’t any strong power fluctuations from her. Why would she say she could kill them?
Something was out of the ordinary.
Neither of them showed themselves, instead staying in the shadows on the top floor, continuing to observe the situation.
The girl continued:
“Request sequence, mark my target.”
The purple sphere replied, “Marked. You may begin clearing the problems.”
“Understood,” the girl replied.
The next second.
Shen Ye and the King discovered that two scarlet light and shadow marks had indeed appeared above their heads.
In a flash of lightning.
Shen Ye reached out and drew the two light and shadow marks into his hand, turning them into the ephemeral energy source.
—During this hour, the power of the traits was at its strongest!
He used “Mandala Uroboros” to completely absorb the power of the two marks!
The purple sphere immediately said:
“One mark successful, two failed.”
“Find the demons first.”
“Instruction received,” the girl said.
She took a step.
In an instant, her entire body inflated, transforming into a giant tens of meters tall. She stomped her feet, stirring up a howling gale.
The giantess charged forward, leaping over dozens of buildings, and punched into a skyscraper, grasping something tightly.
When she retracted her fist, Shen Ye clearly saw Mogahou clutched tightly in her hand.
“Bastard!”
“—What exactly are you?”
Mogahou yelled loudly.
“You really have a lot of questions.”
The female giant said plainly.
She squeezed hard.
Mogahou was instantly crushed to dust.
Blood dripped down the female giant’s hand.
The purple sphere, however, said:
“The demon possesses multiple reincarnation methods, and has just reincarnated and escaped.”
“So that’s how it is,” the female giant said.
“Mark updated, begin mission immediately.”
“Understood!”
The female giant looked towards the other side of the city, and with a flash of her figure, disappeared.
—That might have been the direction Mogahou escaped.
“What do you think?”
Shen Ye asked with a mental message.
The King spoke, “That sphere can mark our location, which means it discovered us a long time ago.”
“And so?” Shen Ye asked.
“My specialty is destroying these pretentious things—I’ll go and gauge its strength,” the King said.
The King walked out of the shadows of the building, looked down at the purple sphere in the square, and paused for a moment.
Boom—
It shot out like lightning, directly attacking the purple sphere!
A thunderous roar echoed.
The King’s attack was blocked by a huge fist.
—It was that female giant!
“Impossible!”
Shen Ye thought to himself.
The female giant was already too far from here.
The King’s speed was so extreme that the enemy wouldn’t have had time to return for reinforcements.
Therefore—
It was “teleportation.”
Did that purple sphere teleport the female giant back?
Rumble rumble rumble—
A series of sounds came from the distant urban area.
Shen Ye looked up and saw a figure flying in the distant sky, repeatedly casting spells downwards.
It was Mogahou.
So, the target of his attack—
In the urban area, a colossal figure tens of meters tall moved slowly, resisting Mogahou’s spells while pursuing him.
The female giant.
There was a female giant there too!
—So it wasn’t teleportation after all.
Were there two female giants?
As Shen Ye was thinking, a voice suddenly reached his ears:
“So why don’t you come out and fight? Is it because you’re weaker? That’s your problem.”
He turned to look.
He saw a delicate young girl standing on the rooftop, staring into the void, speaking.
“The demon is fleeing, and the law beast is nothing special. Why do you think you can escape?”
“—Is it because you don’t dare to show your face?”
Shen Ye narrowed his eyes.
This was an unmistakable provocation.
No need to worry.
—The other party couldn’t see him without a mark.
But the King had appeared from this building, and he was with the King.
So the other side sent—
Shen Ye looked at Mogahou, who was fleeing in the distance, then at the King, who was fighting the female giant downstairs.
His gaze returned to the rooftop.
—Was this the third female giant?
Tsk.
The other party was so confident.
He didn’t know its background either.
Then—
It would be best if no one died now, so he could observe this guy’s methods more!
In an instant.
Mogahou in the distance, and the King who was fighting, both had a similar sensation.
Their aura surged.
“Hahaha, I told you, we are a team—no one can do without the other!”
Mogahou was overjoyed and laughed loudly.
“Interesting,” the King also laughed.
Before Shen Ye’s eyes, two lines of tiny glowing words appeared:
“You activated ‘Sylvan Songstress’, increasing the skill level of Mogahou and the King.”
“Level increase: 1 tier.”
—Keep fighting.
Right now, everyone has to survive!
On the rooftop.
The girl immediately said, “You are a support type?”
“In that case, it makes sense that you don’t dare to show yourself.”
“—But I have a simple method.”
The girl’s hands quickly formed a spell seal.
Boundless purple light walls emanated from her body, isolating the entire building from the outside world.
“I will directly destroy this building. If you don’t come out, then turn to dust here.”
A spell appeared in the girl’s hand.
Shen Ye took a look.
Hmm.
It was an offensive spell.
Should I fight?
No.
He didn’t even know how many enemies there were. Randomly attacking would be meaningless.
“Door.”
He whispered.
A Gate of Forbidden Lands silently appeared before him.
—Those not chosen would absolutely not be able to discover this door.
Shen Ye stepped through, arriving at another building.
“Destroy!”
The girl’s voice came from afar.
Within the purple light wall, the entire building turned to dust.
“Dead? No, not dead. He ran off.”
The girl mumbled.
Shen Ye withdrew his gaze, once again watching the battle in the square below.
The female giant and the King fought back and forth.
Neither could defeat the other.
—Nothing to discern.
Go!
Let’s check on Mogahou’s situation!
Shen Ye opened the door, stepped through, and arrived in another part of the city.
Mogahou fought while retreating.
Even with all his skills boosted by one tier, the spells he cast were completely ineffective against the female giant.
“So troublesome… Why don’t you just cooperate?”
The female giant said in a deep voice, deflecting the incoming spells.
“Damn it, what exactly are you!” Mogahou was both shocked and enraged. After narrowly dodging the female giant’s grab, he suddenly turned and dropped down.
He directly kicked aside a manhole cover, drilled in, and disappeared.
Beep beep beep—
The purple sphere’s voice echoed throughout the area again:
“Your time is running out!”
Time is running out…
Shen Ye fell into deep thought.
Everything that had happened since entering this history flashed through his mind.
He took an object from his pocket.
—It was a worm-like, elongated piece of flesh and blood.
As soon as it appeared, it struggled wildly, trying to burrow towards the ground.
Shen Ye clutched it tightly.
Faint light shimmered into lines of small words:
“Void Parasitic Demon Worm.”
“Oddity.”
“Description: This is a high-level demon worm that can parasitize demons, possessing three abilities: surveillance, blood-sucking, and manipulation.”
“—Demons are rare, but adult ones are incredibly powerful, yet their only natural enemy is this type of demon worm.”
This was something he
picked up from Mogahou when he swung his blade at him after teleporting in.
It was…
Disgusting.
But it was precisely this demon worm that filled Shen Ye with a strange feeling.
Could it be…
He placed his hand on the Gate of Forbidden Lands, dismissing it.
The next instant.
The girl from half a city away arrived in an instant, standing opposite him.
“Not running away?”
The girl asked blandly.
“Yes—when you first appeared, you said, ‘Let me see what problems you have.'”
Shen Ye said.
“I did say that, is there a problem with it?” the girl asked.
“The purple sphere also said, ‘Marked. You may begin clearing the problems.'”
“Yes.”
“You said Mogahou had a lot of problems,” Shen Ye probed.
“The worm in your hand has already proven my point,” the girl said.
Shen Ye’s brow relaxed.
—So that’s what it was.
Damn that Watch, it must have deliberately misled them.
“My problem isn’t that my strength is too weak.”
Shen Ye said.
“State your problem,” the girl said.
Yes!
From the very beginning, the three trial-takers had been going in the wrong direction!
Shen Ye smiled and said, “There is a mad creation, lurking among us humans, having mastered everything about humanity over a long period.”
“Even now, I don’t know what it is.”
“I am human, and I absolutely refuse to be controlled in such a way.”
“That is my problem.”
—This was a reminder from the Eternal Poem!
If he could solve this human hidden danger in this history, wouldn’t he make a fortune?
It just depended on whether his guess was correct.
After Shen Ye finished speaking, he immediately watched the girl opposite him.
If there was any unusual movement.
Several great truth creations would act with him, at least buying some time for him to re-hide.
But the girl
examined him for a while, then said softly:
“Your problem is too serious, it cannot be solved in a short time, but you can only stay here for two days.”
“Can’t this problem be solved?” Shen Ye asked.
“It’s difficult, not necessarily achievable, and requires concentrating all strength…”
“Well, since you’re the first to actively state a problem—the ability to correctly understand the battlefield situation is also an extremely important ability, and you’re quite good in this regard.”
“Then I will do this for you.”
“Regrettably, we will expend most of our power.”
“Your two companions can only follow you, and this following may not solve their problems.”
After the girl finished speaking, she walked step by step, stood in front of Shen Ye, and gently pressed her hand against his chest.
“Remember, your problem is too difficult, and we can only try, without guaranteeing success.”
“Just use this—”
The wind.
Moved silently.
The girl suddenly vanished.
The purple sphere emitted a scorching light, reaching through heaven and earth, sweeping over, and completely merging into Shen Ye’s body.
Before Shen Ye’s eyes, several lines of tiny glowing words refreshed frantically:
“You have temporarily loaded the sequence:”
“Ancient Human Journey – Exorcist.”
“Duration: Two days.”
At this moment, the King rushed over and asked in a deep voice:
“Are you all right?”
“I’m fine,” Shen Ye looked behind the King.
He saw that the female giant who had been fighting the King had vanished without a trace.
The purple sphere had also disappeared.
The female giant chasing Mogahou was also gone.
The entire city was gray and fell into a strange silence.
“What happened?”
The King looked around, a bit confused.
“We were misled by the Watch. It said it would be extremely difficult for us to survive in history—but those enemies that appeared just now were actually a force that could help us solve problems.”
Shen Ye said concisely.
The King pondered for a moment, then realized, “No wonder it said we had problems.”
“Do you think you have a problem?” Shen Ye asked.
“I have many questions I want answers to. Damn it, I should have just asked directly.”
“It’s fine, there might be another chance later.”
Shen Ye suddenly looked down at his arm.
At some point, a black lasso appeared on his arm, one end wrapped around his wrist, the other disappearing into the void.
The lasso gradually tightened.
“What is this? Shall I cut it off?”
The King asked.
“No—we probably have to follow it, it’s guiding us in a direction—”
Before Shen Ye could finish speaking, he was suddenly pulled hard by the lasso, flying towards the other side of the city.
The King followed closely.
As the two flew through the sky, they found that the entire city began to change drastically.
The towering buildings rapidly sank underground.
Roads disappeared.
Supermarkets, hospitals, schools, parks, all submerged.
In their place was a murky swamp, stretching as far as the eye could see.
The whole world had changed!
Or rather—
At this moment.
They had truly entered what was called “history.”
The lasso pulled Shen Ye, dragging him down and rolling him into a village.
The King followed, landing.
They saw that the village was filled with corpses.
Several children and women gathered around the corpses, weeping while digging graves.
An old man sat not far away, with a dignified appearance but a weary expression.
He leaned against a large tree, his body covered in charred wounds, and his gaze turned to Shen Ye and the King.
“Strangers, what brings you here?”
The old man asked.
Shen Ye did not answer, but instead looked at the corpses first.
—Most of the corpses were adult men, with some older or younger men and boys.
All the men in this village were dead.
“We are just passing by, may I ask what happened to your village?”
Shen Ye asked.
“A demon that fell from outside the sky, we couldn’t kill it,” the old man sighed.
Shen Ye and the King exchanged a glance.
“Can you turn into human form? Don’t scare the children here.” he quietly asked.
“…Alright.”
The King thought for a moment, then transformed into the appearance of a mature man in his thirties.
Two humans.
Shen Ye first cast a spell to make the ground slowly sink.
He buried all the corpses, then took out some stored food, distributing it to the surrounding children and women, and then used magic to repair the damaged houses one by one.
After all this was done, the faces of everyone around them softened somewhat.
The King joined him in distributing food, then used his magic to gather enough firewood for the village, accelerated the growth of crops, dug irrigation ditches, and built defensive earth walls.
These things were merely trivial for Shen Ye and the King.
But for the village, they were life-saving matters.
Having done all this.
Shen Ye returned to the old man.
“Stranger, I am very grateful to you, but the demon—”
“You kill?” Shen Ye looked at the King.
“Okay.”
The King vanished from the spot.
After a short while.
He returned to the base of the tree, throwing a grotesque corpse onto the ground.
“I searched all the surrounding mountains, and this thing was the only one that seemed out of place with the surrounding laws. It should be the demon you mentioned.”
The King spoke.
Shen Ye glanced at it and saw that the corpse was actually an Emperor Species.
…An Emperor Species?
“Why would this monster appear in this world?”
Shen Ye thought silently.
“Thank you, this horrible thing is finally dead,” the old man sighed.
“Tell me, what do you need—you first, the problem with the young man next to you is probably very troublesome, let him speak later.”
The King glanced at Shen Ye.
Shen Ye shrugged, signaling for him to speak first.
The King then said:
“I have many questions, but I am confused and don’t know what it would accomplish to ask them.”
“Because you don’t know who you are,” the old man said.
“Who am I?”
“Indeed, that is your first problem. You need a name.”
“A name.”
“Yes, all things and beings have names, even gods have names, everything has a name, but you don’t, so your life hasn’t even begun.”
“…Thank you.”
The King walked to the side, lost in thought.
The old man looked at Shen Ye.
“How do you know I’m qualified?” he asked.
Shen Ye had no intention of hiding it and raised his hand, displaying the lasso on his wrist.
“Ah, that thing.”
The old man suddenly laughed, as if he had encountered an enormous joke.
He laughed for several minutes before stopping, wiping away tears of laughter with a tattered cloth, and pointing at Shen Ye:
“I have to say, you’re in trouble now.”
Shen Ye said, “I’m already in enough trouble—I thought you could help me solve a problem, which is—”
“It’s this exorcism sequence,” the old man said.
“You know and you’re still laughing at me? Is it a prank? Or is there something I don’t know about?” Shen Ye felt a bit nervous.
“This is one of the most ancient sequences. It is a peculiar arrangement of countless laws—its purpose is to help you remove evil from your body,” the old man said.
“So where is the joke?” Shen Ye asked.
“Do you know what the most primitive form of exorcism is?”
“…Fire?”
“That’s old enough, but not primitive enough—the most primitive form of exorcism is isolation.”
“Huh?”
“Yes, if you are confined in a particularly unbearable place, when the evil in your body can no longer bear it, or is enticed by something else, it will leave you.”
“Confinement… doesn’t seem funny either,” Shen Ye shrugged.
“This lasso brought you to me because I happened to gain the qualification to activate the ‘Exorcism’ sequence when I was young.”
“If I activate it.”
“You will be—”
“Confined in the abyss, where there are countless beings eager to obtain ‘evil,’ they will try their utmost to extract ‘evil’ from you.”
Shen Ye immediately became sensitive.
Could it be…
“Is your punchline, then, in those two words, ‘extract’?” Shen Ye asked.
“That’s right, what is a nightmare for humans is an incredibly wonderful thing for some other beings. I dare say you’ll be quite popular there,” the old man said.
“That doesn’t matter. Please activate the sequence and send me there—I want to remove the evil from my body.”
Shen Ye said.
“And you?” the old man looked at the King.
“I’ll go too—it’ll be a good time to think of my name.”
“Alright, then be careful yourselves.”
The old man placed his hand on Shen Ye’s wrist, firmly gripping the lasso, and chanted a spell:
“Immediate custody.”
The entire world flashed away.
Shen Ye felt as if he were wandering and floating in an endless ocean.
The next second.
Thump.
He fell to the ground.
The King, on the other hand, rolled over and stood up from the ground.
The two looked around.
They saw that it was pitch black, and the surrounding walls were made of huge, moss-covered stones.
There were iron bars not far away.
—This was a prison!
As the two were looking, they heard a voice from deep within the cell:
“Newcomers, what good things do you have on you?”
Sure enough, there was something!
Shen Ye turned around with a hopeful face, and said towards the depths of the darkness:
“I’m not sure either, please help me check.”
From the depths of the darkness, seven or eight ferocious and hideous ghostly faces emerged, all staring at Shen Ye.
“Yes.”
“He has it.”
“He certainly does.”
“What a wicked thing, but well hidden.”
“How can we get our hands on it?”
“Not easy.”
“Looks like we’ll have to use the most primitive method.”
“Let’s try it.”
The ghosts retreated and disappeared.
A rustling sound.
“What are they doing?” the King asked, puzzled.
“I’m not sure about the primitive method either—they’re probably preparing exorcism tools,” Shen Ye said, also uncertain.
A few minutes later.
Candlelight ignited, illuminating the ancient, derelict prison cell.
Several heavily made-up, burly men took small steps and approached Shen Ye.
“This young man.”
“You’re free tonight, aren’t you?”
“As long as you contribute the evil on you, everything else is negotiable.”
They winked at Shen Ye.
Shen Ye was stunned.
These guys exuded monstrous demonic energy, but to obtain the “evil” on Shen Ye’s body, they desperately transformed into humans.
It wasn’t easy.
—Not easy my ass!
The King examined them one by one, shaking his head;
“Now I know what that old man was laughing at.”
“—Perhaps you’d like to try?”
Shen Ye’s expression was calm. He drew his blade and said, “I suddenly think it’s quite good for humans and evil to coexist.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
When those men who had struggled to transform saw his stance, they could no longer suppress their murderous intent and said sharply:
“Human, don’t refuse a toast to drink a forfeit. We were just planning to serve you together.”
Shen Ye held back, barely suppressing the urge to vomit his dinner.
The King, meanwhile, smiled faintly, bored, and picked at his newly human ear, asking:
“Fight?”
“Fight, I’d rather die fighting,” Shen Ye said, his face pale.
Suddenly.
A figure descended from the sky, laughing loudly:
“I have a lot of evil on me, many problems, please help me!”
—It was Mogahou!
He had followed them!
Both sides were stunned.
“Companions?”
The ghostly creatures demanded.
Shen Ye and the King both shook their heads.
The monsters all looked at Mogahou, who had only just now clearly understood the situation.
—At this time, he was still in the form of a Long-haired Man.
On him—
Something seemed to attract the spirits.
“It seems to have many hidden tricks, some of which are quite wonderful.”
“Not a bad curse.”
“How wonderful, though not as good as that小子.”
“We can help him, hmm.”
Before Mogahou could figure out the situation, he was already being pulled by seven or eight burly men towards the darkness.
“You guys—”
“You have many problems, and we are going to perform a ceremony for you!”
“A ceremony?”
“Yes, it will definitely help you.”
“…”
…the darkness seemed to have calmed.
The darkness seemed to surge.
But that didn’t matter.
“Fight?”
The King asked languidly.
“Let’s go see what’s beyond the iron bars, what do you think?” Shen Ye began to gather intel.
“Okay, let’s go.”
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