Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 645

Night.

The day’s work was over.

Jiu, however, was still inspecting the Aether Warehouse.

As the warehouse manager, it was indeed necessary for her to occasionally work overtime and check the inventory.

But she wasn’t just working overtime.

In the Aether Warehouse, there were always some things that truly came from the other side.

She was diligently searching for these items.

——This was for the Lineage’s new mission.

After all, she had just completed the prerequisite for the second mission:

“The Emperor’s Attendant.”

Now, the crucial question was—

“Hey, Lineage, there haven’t been any drops from the aether all day. Will this parallel world really produce what you mentioned?”

Jiu asked.

A line of faint glowing text appeared:

“It is recommended that you reread the Lineage’s initial emergent power of exile: Parallel Displacement.”

“I know.”

Jiu replied, “Isn’t it just ‘exiled to another suitable parallel world, allowing you to live peacefully during your exile’?”

The faint glowing text continued to appear:

“All parallel worlds will be inspected and scrutinized, and may even be directly destroyed, but this one will not.”

“This is what ‘sufficiently suitable’ means.”

Jiu looked at these two lines of text and couldn’t help but shake her head.

——This parallel world had nothing, not even the Monitors had appeared.

What exactly did “sufficiently suitable” mean?

The first prerequisite mission had resolved the crisis of survival.

Until now—

A line of small text would occasionally pop up in the void:

“Your future attendant is serving.”

Rahu.

He was fighting with those Monitors.

——So she was temporarily safe here.

But how long could this situation last?

She didn’t know.

The second mission just released by the Lineage also left her completely bewildered.

Jiu’s gaze swept across the void, looking at the newly appeared mission prompt:

“You have completed the prerequisite mission ‘The Emperor’s Attendant’.”

“The current parallel world has been cleared of suspicion and is temporarily in a safe state, thus a new mission can be initiated:”

“Take a little risk.”

“Description: This parallel world was found by the Lineage with great effort. You need to take a little risk and investigate the Aether Warehouse to see if there are any new discoveries.”

“Reward: Use the Spirit Catching Net or the Parasitic Empress, and you will learn a secret.”

“—Something has gotten into the warehouse.”

“—While it’s still relatively safe (11/24, you still need to survive safely for 11 hours to complete the ‘Exiled Old Emperor’ mission), you must do something quickly.”

Got into the warehouse?

No matter what it was, she had to hurry.

God knew how much longer Rahu could hold out!

Jiu began to scan among the diverse items.

The surroundings were silent.

Dead silent.

In the darkness, only various objects silently stared back at Jiu.

“To be honest, you’re making me inspect this dark, spooky warehouse alone, and it’s full of strange things—”

“I’m about to explode.”

Jiu said unhappily.

But the Lineage didn’t respond to her.

Only Chatterley’s voice then sounded:

“Don’t worry, I’m behind you.”

“And me,” Susu said.

“I’m here too,” Chaos Boat said.

Jiu finally stopped talking and began to seriously look for clues.

About half an hour later.

She finally found something.

From a pile of messy ornaments, she found a dirty rag doll.

Jiu stared at the doll and couldn’t help but sigh.

It was late night.

The warehouse was so dark.

She was standing there alone, holding such a rag doll.

“Eerie Doll.”

“Fallen object, ???’s toy.”

“Description: It is dead, but its corpse will not obey your commands, and will even show instinctive combat reactions.”

Obey commands?

This thing was alive!

No, it was dead!

So powerful even after death?

Well—

Let’s try to communicate!

Jiu looked at the rag doll in her hand again and was about to speak when she felt it move slightly with the breeze.

In an instant.

In the void next to the rag doll, lines of faint glowing text appeared:

“Front fist erect, back fist forming a palm downward, finger seal reversed, front flipped, side front flipped—”

“Laws ‘Curse’, ‘Concealment’, ‘Desire Chaos’ released together.”

“Seal completed, the ‘Affection’ spell will be completed in five seconds.”

“The opponent may release this spell at any time, making you unable to put it down and keeping it by your side, releasing the power of your soul origin for it to devour.”

——What was this?

Jiu was curious when she saw two more lines of faint glowing text appear:

“Your bizarre pupils ‘Eyes of Truth’ have been activated!”

“You witnessed the entire process of the Eerie Doll casting its spell!”

“—Nothing can conceal itself from the Lineage Emperor who tramples fate, even if he is in exile!”

So that was it!

Jiu suddenly realized—

After acquiring the Eyes of Truth, she could see the enemy’s spell-casting process!

The opponent’s spell had a five-second duration.

There were still two seconds left.

——How could she let it succeed!

“Oops, I didn’t hold it steady!”

Jiu casually threw the rag doll to the ground, simultaneously activating the attribute “Mandala Ouroboros.”

The rag doll immediately merged with the ground.

It was embedded in the floor.

——The commotion created by the spell immediately disappeared.

Jiu waited in the warehouse for a while, until the opponent made no movement, then spoke:

“Susu.”

A beautiful woman emerged from behind him and said, “What do you need me for?”

“Look at this thing.”

Jiu said.

“Okay.”

Susu squatted down, placed her hand on the floor, and with a slight push, said:

“It’s no good, it’s very resistant—its mental power surpasses mine, I can’t parasitize it.”

Jiu pondered for a few seconds, then also squatted down and said to the rag doll embedded in the floor:

“Listen, you absolutely must not be parasitized by her, understood?”

After saying that, she nodded to Susu, signaling her to try again.

Susu was puzzled, formed the spell seal again, and pushed down on the floor—

It worked!

All the rag doll’s secrets began to be read by Susu.

“Why?”

Susu asked Jiu while examining the doll’s memories.

“Because ‘it won’t obey my commands’—I told it to resist, so it just wouldn’t resist,” Jiu said.

“How childish… Never mind, I’ll share its memories with you.” Susu patted Jiu’s shoulder.

The next second.

A strange memory appeared in Jiu’s mind.

From a first-person perspective, she pierced through the aether and fell into the parallel worlds of myriad realms.

Every moment.

She felt herself drifting.

But everything around her gradually disappeared, and even some beings who came to investigate, seeing the rag doll, immediately retreated.

Days passed.

The entire parallel world had completely vanished.

No observers came anymore, and nothing happened.

After an incredibly long time.

Suddenly, one day—

A parallel world unfolded here.

The rag doll’s location happened to overlap with the “Council of Myriad Realms’ Survival.”

It sensed the presence of something from its homeland in the warehouse, and so it stopped there.

Jiu opened her eyes, looked directly into the void, and said:

“This thing is actually so dangerous?”

Lines of faint glowing text appeared:

“Congratulations.”

“You have completed the mission ‘Take a little risk’.”

“But it’s too dangerous! Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Jiu protested.

A rag doll.

It made an entire parallel world vanish.

And you told me to catch it!

Good thing I managed to control it when it was casting its spell!

“Calm down!”

Faint glowing text continued to appear—

Since the Lineage had merged with the mission, these prompts seemed to have a consciousness of their own:

“If you had gone to other parallel worlds, you might have been discovered much earlier.”

“While Rahu is still fighting—”

“Although it’s dangerous here, opportunities also coexist.”

“The current Lineage is establishing a link for you, but has encountered a small problem.”

“You must quickly extract all the elements from this rag doll—you cannot use attributes, if you do, you will be controlled by it instead!”

“This Lineage believes that the undead in the multiverse are a good choice.”

Jiu looked at the rag doll.

——The rag doll seemed to be casting its spell again.

Tch.

Attributes couldn’t be used, apparently.

It was the first time she had encountered something so bizarre.

Then—

Jiu reached out, summoned the rag doll, and stuffed it into a freshly manifested door.

*Clang.*

The door closed.

The door disappeared.

The rag doll was thrown to the other side of the Forbidden Door.

——Nightfall City in the Nightmare World!

Chatterley, Susu, Chaos Boat, and others were already waiting there.

“Undead are best at dealing with this kind of curse.”

Chatterley said.

“Indeed,” Cassandra agreed, “Let’s see if these undead can deal with this curse-type doll.”

“Undead control these things, it shouldn’t be a problem.” Susu also said.

…

“I’m bit confused about the meaning of these missions.”

Jiu said.

The Lineage emitted lines of blazing, faint glowing text that appeared before her:

“It’s time you knew the truth.”

“I’m listening,” Jiu said.

“Many years ago, the highly dimensional Lord who ruled over the past, present, and future, the supreme authority holder beyond the comprehension of all beings, decided to erase everything of the past and usher in the final epoch.”

“But she encountered a problem—”

“A spirit of術 (art/skill/technique) awakened.”

“There are many such spirits in the world; what’s so special about one awakening?” Jiu asked, puzzled.

“That particular spirit was extraordinary—it commanded doom and destruction, known as the Lord of Doomsday for all realms,” the Lineage said.

“If that’s the case, it should destroy everything of the past, aligning with the high-dimensional Lord.”

Jiu said.

“The funny thing is, that spirit also commanded the death of all beings, making it the supreme Grim Reaper of the ten directions.”

“His preferred method of death was ‘natural death’.”

The Lineage said.

Jiu thought for a moment and said, “A war broke out between the high-dimensional Lord and the Grim Reaper?”

“Spanning endless ages, they fought from the ancient era into the future, devastating the entire other shore.”

“Who was stronger?” Jiu asked.

“Of course, the high-dimensional Lord. She commanded the authority of all things developed to their ultimate state; the Grim Reaper was not her match.”

“But the Doomsday Grim Reaper of all realms possessed a unique quality—”

“Destruction cannot be destroyed by destruction.”

“I see.” Jiu sighed.

This implied that Xiao Mengyu, having inherited the power of the Great Calamity of Destruction, should also possess this characteristic.

But that wasn’t right.

The legacy she received was swordsmanship.

Did swordsmanship represent the power of the Grim Reaper?

As Jiu was musing, she heard the Lineage continue its narration:

“Originally, everything was irreversible. The high-dimensional Lord was destined to triumph over all, bringing about the final epoch, reducing all things, beings, gods, and Lords of Law to naught.”

“But the Grim Reaper would not allow it.”

“The high-dimensional Lord was never able to completely suppress him, and eventually had to devise a solution.”

“Huh? Is there really a way for destruction to destroy destruction?” Jiu asked, intrigued.

“No one knows—but the high-dimensional Lord knew that the Doomsday Grim Reaper of all realms always saw himself as a human.”

“What commonalities do humans have? What weaknesses?”

“The high-dimensional Lord decided to ‘descend to the mortal realm’ and experience human life.”

“She resolved to reincarnate as a human herself, to experience everything as a human, and thereby discover the opponent’s weakness!”

“And then?” Jiu listened with great interest.

“Then… I cannot say,” the Lineage said.

“Hey, hey, you’re teasing me like this is not right,” Jiu said unhappily.

Something astonishing must have happened!

“It’s true that I can’t say it. You only need to remember what happened after that—”

The Lineage continued:

“The high-dimensional Lord abandoned all her authority.”

“All her equipment and power passed through the Aether, scattered across the myriad realms, hidden within tens of thousands of parallel worlds.”

“Those things gathered together, were called—”

“The World of Truth.”

Jiu was stunned.

Wait a minute.

So, all kinds of true creations were actually the discarded powers of the high-dimensional Lord?

Faint light appeared as small characters:

“Currently in the 13th hour.”

“You must survive 24 hours.”

Jiu snapped back to attention and asked in a deep voice:

“How much longer can Rahu last?”

A line of faint glowing text appeared:

“Unclear, but you need to prepare a reasonable identity, so that even if Rahu departs and countless Modifiers descend, they cannot touch you!”

“How can I do that—the situation is still so dangerous, why didn’t you say anything earlier?” Jiu asked.

Another line of faint glowing text appeared:

“It would have been useless to say it earlier. You must find the rag doll and transform its elements before we can proceed to the next step!”

The next second.

Chatterley’s voice quietly sounded:

“It’s already taken care of.”

“Was it troublesome?” Jiu asked.

“Actually, it’s just a corpse, and clearly just a toy. For the undead, this isn’t difficult,” Chatterley said.

“That’s good. Did it provide any useful information?” Jiu asked.

“We’ll have to wait to find out,” Chatterley said.

“Huh?”

“Failun ate that rag doll, probably in a while he’ll know everything about it.”

“Ate it?… Was this guy from Guangdong in his last life?” Jiu exclaimed in admiration.

Suddenly.

She sensed the call of the contractor.

“Come on, the decision is yours, Failun!”

Summoning successful!

*Bang*—

The large skeleton descended into the warehouse.

“It’s done.”

It said excitedly.

“What did you gain?” Shen Ye asked.

“The True Earth is actually fragments of an entity’s power. The deep underground is impassable, but as long as you take me with you—”

Before the large skeleton could finish speaking, it transformed with a “bang” into a rag doll.

A skeleton doll.

“You—you’re so ugly,” Jiu said disdainfully.

“Ugly it may be, but it’s useful,” the skeleton doll said in a doll-like voice, speaking doll-like words.

Two lines of faint glowing text appeared in the void beside it:

“Possession of the high-dimensional Lord.”

“—With this item, you can travel underground.”

Jiu sighed.

Ugly it was, but as long as it worked.

She fastened the skeleton doll to her satchel.

The void immediately erupted with a tremor.

Jiu heard Rahu’s voice in her ear:

“You sensed something and acquired that doll, which is good.”

“I have done my best.”

“Keep going, I hope to meet you again in the future.”

——Rahu was leaving!

Jiu’s heart trembled.

She saw lines of blazing, bright text appear in the void:

“Rahu has departed.”

“You have obtained the human childhood toy of the old high-dimensional Lord and transformed it into your personal possession.”

“This currently triggers the formal chapter of the human ‘Eternal Poem,’ materializing it as a mission for you:”

“The Exiled Emperor’s First Card.”

“Description: Obtain at least seven powerful creations of truth from the True Earth, gain their allegiance, and use them to form your first bizarre card.”

“—The bizarre card represents your identity and can save you from death.”

“—Go quickly and collect the creations of truth! This is the proof of identity that will make the Modifiers spare you!”

Jiu’s heart immediately pounded.

Almost all the true creations around her were the strongest in the True Earth.

Multiverse, Parasitic Empress, Chaos Boat, Uncle Seven, Spirit Catching Net.

Five of them.

Two more were needed!

“Door.”

Jiu uttered a single word.

The Forbidden Door quietly appeared before her.

“Let’s go.”

She stepped through it, disappearing from the warehouse.

A few moments later.

In the darkness.

Figures quietly emerged.

Modifiers!

They reappeared in this world, silently searching for any suspicious activity.