Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 670

“The entry ‘Mandala Ouroboros’ is about to be upgraded.”

A line of small, luminous text remained motionless.

Shen Ye waited for a few breaths, growing a little puzzled.

Entry upgrades usually happen quickly.

Why is there no movement?

A few more breaths passed.

A new prompt finally appeared:

“In the previous battle, you did not completely defeat your opponent; you ended in a draw.”

“This entry cannot evolve.”

That’s not right!

Just now it said I won, but now it suddenly changed to a draw.

What went wrong?

Shen Ye looked at the new prompt, a deep glint in his eyes.

“Valhalla.”

He spoke.

Valhalla silently appeared before him.

“I have something to ask you,” Shen Ye said.

“Speak,” Valhalla replied.

“In the realm of the Bizarre, how is strength ranked?” Shen Ye asked.

“The High Dimensional Lord and the Doomsday Destroyer once confirmed this; surely, you don’t even know that?” Valhalla questioned.

“I don’t know,” Shen Ye admitted frankly.

“Impressive—you aren’t really a human male just over twenty years old, are you?” Valhalla asked again.

Shen Ye looked at him, smiled, and said nothing.

“Alright, it’s public knowledge, so there’s no harm in me explaining it once.”

“Let me use myself as an example.”

“—I am a Bizarre life form created in imitation of a certain existence. I possess an emergent ability called ‘Omnipotence’ that cannot be suppressed by other True Reality constructs.”

“When you have an emergent ability that is completely unsuppressable and can be wielded at all times—”

“You are called a B-rank expert.”

“B-rank?” Shen Ye repeated.

“That’s right, I am a mid-level B-rank existence,” Valhalla said, crossing his arms. “In many historical fragments, reaching B-rank means you can walk sideways with impunity.”

“Because of that emergent ability that isn’t suppressed by anything?” Shen Ye asked.

“Exactly,” Valhalla replied.

“Then what are the other tiers like?”

“Those who can manifest a Bizarre Shadow and whose basic attributes are above the twenty-first stage of True Reality, meeting both conditions, can be called D-rank Bizarre life forms;”

“Doomsdays and sentient beings who can battle D-rank Bizarre life forms can also be called D-rank.”

Shen Ye nodded.

A Bizarre Shadow is a Dharma Aspect.

Being able to manifest a Dharma Aspect and having basic attributes reach the twenty-first stage of True Reality means being an expert whose numbers can be counted on one hand in the Myriad Worlds.

However, on the Other Shore, this is merely the lowest tier of existence!

“What about C-rank?” Shen Ye asked.

“Building on the D-rank foundation, possessing at least one entry, a Bizarre Identity, and corresponding skills reaches C-rank,” Valhalla explained.

Shen Ye thought for a moment and understood.

This was also easy to comprehend.

The Umbrella Demon he encountered back then had a Bizarre Identity.

It should have been a C-rank existence.

However, Bizarre Identities are not fixed.

This was a very interesting point.

—As True Reality constructs upgraded, their Bizarre Identities would also improve, and their corresponding Bizarre skills would grow in power.

Valhalla continued:

“I’ve already explained B-rank.”

“As for A-rank, that’s difficult.”

“It’s based on the B-rank foundation, in addition to possessing an emergent ability—”

“One of your entries, Bizarre Identity and skills, Bizarre Shadow, or other various abilities, must surpass the general scope, be immensely powerful, almost invincible.”

“But how is that measured? How is ‘immensely powerful’ defined?” Shen Ye pressed.

“Unprecedented, something nobody has even heard of—you are the first existence to possess such an ability, and you use it to cut down B-rank experts like slicing melons—”

“Only then can you be called an A-rank expert.”

“Is A-rank the strongest?” Shen Ye asked.

“No, above A-rank there is S-rank. For example, the ‘Omniscient and Omnipotent Lord’ whom I imitate, he is an S-rank existence.”

“S-ranks are experts who can determine the main historical timeline, and there are very few of them.”

Valhalla stated.

A moment of silence.

“I see,” Shen Ye sighed, then continued: “B-rank expert Valhalla, I now ask you—”

“Why did you hold back in the previous battle?”

“Me? Held back?” Valhalla retorted.

“Yes.”

Shen Ye looked at the battle record in the void and said:

“It doesn’t matter if I tell you; I have the complete battle record here.”

“Before you died, you released an ‘Omnipotent Blessing’ that was cast upon the expert who was attacking you.”

“Then you were killed by their combined assault.”

“—I resurrected you.”

Valhalla chuckled twice, deep in thought:

“You know everything I do.”

“Yes, you clearly could have won, but you still forced me to use resurrection,” Shen Ye quickly continued, “In the end, I even used your power, which gave the opponent more information.”

“The opponent probably has some conjectures about my abilities.”

“Is this what you wanted?”

Valhalla sighed, scratching his head, “Sorry, I’ll be smarter next time, and I won’t put you in such a difficult position again—”

Poof.

Shen Ye pulled a long bone from the ground, plunged it directly into his forehead, and then swung it forcefully—

Valhalla was lifted high, thrown, and pinned to the bone wall.

“You’ve already tried, but your ‘Omnipotence’ couldn’t break free from my power, could it?”

Shen Ye said.

Valhalla let out a miserable shriek, then suddenly stopped, staring at Shen Ye and saying:

“Your Bizarre Shadow is extremely powerful; it can—”

Valhalla suddenly paused.

A glimmer of confusion flashed in his eyes.

At the same time.

A line of small, luminous text appeared before Shen Ye:

“‘The Omniscient and Omnipotent Lord’ deems your ability unknown; no one can know its specific details.”

Such a good thing exists.

Thanks in advance.

Shen Ye pointed casually.

Dense bone spears flew up from the ground, zipping out and piercing Valhalla’s body, pinning him firmly.

Valhalla let out a cry of agony, then began to laugh maniacally:

“Hahaha, what does it matter? You’re not A-rank yet.”

“Your ability is still very weak; I held back in the battle, and you couldn’t stop me.”

“—Let me go!”

“Otherwise, in all future battles, I will hold back!”

“Are you sure?” Shen Ye asked.

Valhalla’s voice faltered.

—If the other party let him go, he would return to the moment he was defeated.

“The Doomsday killed me, not you! Damn it, why should I be under your command!”

He roared unwillingly.

“If I plant a mine and you step on it, of course the mine is powerful, but you still lost, didn’t you?” Shen Ye patiently explained.

“Is someone helping you in the dark?” Valhalla asked.

“You don’t need to know, but you do need to know one thing—”

“You handed them the victory that I should have won, and I’m very annoyed,” Shen Ye said.

“What can you do? I fought for you according to the rules, didn’t I?” Valhalla replied.

A moment of quiet.

“Actually—”

“You still don’t understand me.”

Shen Ye said in the tone of an old friend, “If I wasn’t prepared, how would I have lured you in?”

“—If my art, from its very inception, didn’t consider how to counterbalance you, then why would I create this art?”

Shen Ye stepped forward and placed his hand on Valhalla.

With a “bang,” Valhalla transformed into a huge cannon.

The cannon barrel was made of alloy with continuously flowing black runes, and the rear of the cannon body spread out six pairs of auxiliary stabilizing wings, like a demon’s opened wings.

The enormous, hard cannon barrel pointed towards the sky.

It was like an ancient beast, constantly craving to unleash world-destroying barrages. “Omnipotent One.”

“Siege Heavy Cannon.”

“Description: The shells fired by this heavy cannon possess the power of ‘Omnipotence’ and can destroy all enemies.”

“—Transformed from the Bizarre life form Valhalla.”

The heavy cannon stood before Shen Ye, silent and still.

It couldn’t even utter a word now.

Yes.

In the description of “Gate Warden’s Cage, Acting Bone Temple,” there was a line: “Your enemies must defeat your summons and destroy the entire cage before they can attack you.”

The summons are actually “part of the cage”!

“Destroy the entire cage”—

Logically speaking.

To achieve this step, one must first destroy the “part of the cage” formed by the “summon”!

This was Shen Ye’s ability.

It was said to transcend limits, called ‘Sequence-type Dharma Aspect, an unprecedented emergent Dao Shadow, an unknown primordial power’—

Not even God knew how far it would evolve!

Shen Ye looked up at the dozens of meters tall heavy cannon and said:

“You brought this upon yourself.”

“For enemies to destroy the cage, they must destroy you, this ‘Omnipotent’ cannon.”

“—You can’t even fake it anymore.”

He patted the heavy cannon as if patting someone’s shoulder, then turned and left the Dharma Aspect.

A figure quietly appeared.

White Emperor.

“Can I play with that heavy cannon?” he asked, somewhat impatiently.

“Sure—you like playing with cannons?” Shen Ye said.

“The laws it contains are extremely fascinating; I can deduce some ways to utilize laws from it,” White Emperor said.

“Then fire off a hundred rounds first,” Shen Ye decided.

“Will it get tired?”

“No, it’s ‘omnipotent’.”

“Good!”

White Emperor eagerly merged into the Dharma Aspect and went off to have fun with the cannon.

Shen Ye returned to the ground.

He stood outside the towering city walls of Star Moon City, looking at the rows of human defenders on the walls, who were facing a formidable enemy.

“Hey, everyone.”

Shen Ye waved up, “The monster has been defeated.”

In an instant.

The three sequences, “Yoke-Soul Erosion,” “Blaze-Blood Biotic,” and “Divine Hive,” all vanished.

People looked at each other in dismay.

“Go back and rest; there’s nothing today.”

Shen Ye said.

Lines of small, luminous text appeared before him:

“You have won the sequence decisive battle.”

“The master of the current historical fragment has changed from ‘Myriad Gods’ Hive Mother’ to ‘Baxter’.”

“You are the master of this historical fragment!”

The next second.

The entire city turned illusory, and the people, like a revolving lantern, quickly flashed and faded, eventually disappearing.

The entire world was a void.

In the dark night sky.

A figure quietly descended.

—It was that Black Man.

“We fought to a draw—your subordinates don’t listen to your commands, so your actual strength level is still debatable, isn’t it?”

The Black Man said.

“What do you want to say?” Shen Ye asked.

“Let’s collaboratively develop this world; this is our bottom line,” the Black Man said.

“Develop?”

Shen Ye looked at this illusory world, feeling momentarily perplexed.

—Such a world, what is there to develop worth developing?

“Yes, this world is called ‘God-Ghost Assembly’, and it conceals an extremely important event from the main history.”

“The Myriad Gods’ Hive Mother was our gatekeeper.”

“You replaced her.”

“Therefore, you must bear this responsibility, otherwise, a stronger expert will eliminate you sooner or later.”

The Black Man chattered on.

Shen Ye was silent for a breath.

He spoke:

“I think—”

“I don’t want to cooperate with you bunch of trash at all.”

As his words fell.

His Dharma Aspect was about to manifest immediately.

But a sudden anomaly occurred—

Swish!

A crimson light streaked across, cutting off the Black Man’s head.

“Hahaha! I like your attitude!”

A frivolous and eerie voice rang out.

In mid-air.

A black-haired man quietly appeared.

A pair of crimson, eerie wings spread behind him, his demeanor wild, yet his eyes held a hint of satisfaction.

Shen Ye immediately entered a state of heightened alert.

Too strong!

He didn’t even know how the opponent appeared.

And—

He cut off the Black Man’s head with a single move!

The black-haired man held the head in one hand, while he himself tilted his head, sizing up Shen Ye.

“May I ask who you are?”

Shen Ye asked.

“I’m from the Doomsday Faction, here on a secret mission, so I won’t say my real name—just call me Man-Eater Ghost,” the man said.

Shen Ye slightly relaxed.

Someone from the Doomsday Faction—

He had some connection with them.

“Man-Eater Ghost—what brings you here?” Shen Ye asked.

“This historical fragment is indeed somewhat important; before, it was overshadowed by three old orders, so we didn’t have a position to say anything.”

The man continued, “But now it belongs to you, and I’ve decided to thoroughly awaken it, allowing it to reveal the true scene from history.”

“Does this world really have a secret?” Shen Ye asked.

“You must see for yourself—take this.”

A letter appeared in Shen Ye’s hand.

“This is?”

“Read it after you enter.”

“Then—”

“It’s not good for me to show my face, but before I leave, I will kill all those who know, so no one will know about this place for about three days.”

The man grinned at Shen Ye, licking his lips:

“Those fools who fought with you previously, and those who secretly coveted this history, will all be killed.”

“They will be transformed into my power.”

Before his words finished.

He grabbed the head and shot into the night sky, disappearing.

Shen Ye looked up for a moment.

…It was truly strange.

The Other Shore was full of secrets.

If he could return to the Myriad Worlds—

Stop!

He now had a whole family with him, and behind them was the entire Nightmare World.

He had to move forward, never retreat.

He took a deep breath and pulled a piece of paper from the envelope.

On the paper was a line of flamboyant calligraphy:

“The God-Ghost Battlefield is all up to you.”

Sword energy pierced through the paper.

These words were written by the person who unleashed the sword rain.

Shen Ye remained silent for a few breaths.

He owed this person a favor from before.

—He wasn’t an ungrateful person.

Now this historical fragment belonged to him, and the person hoped he would do something—

Then he would go and see.