Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 684
byA place of corpses.
Blood.
Seeping into the soil.
The long blade flashed, then retracted its cold light, hiding back in its sheath.
Everyone was dead.
Shen Ye put the matter aside.
He looked into the distance.
The grassland was boundless.
But since it was the other shore, there must be other people present.
—It was time to explore here.
Shen Ye was about to move, when he suddenly saw the corpses on the ground fly up one by one, disappearing into the void.
Faint glowing words then appeared:
“The current humans and souls have been ‘terminated’ by you.”
“Team battle — ‘Slaughter Squad’ annihilated ‘History Hunting Group’.”
“Today you terminated a team.”
“As such, you have received the reward of the Entropy Annihilation Era. Today you have met the requirements for survival.”
“Your rating is A.”
“You can choose:”
“1. A-level treatment for one day;”
“2. D-level treatment for three days, and personal strength improvement.”
The small words remained suspended.
Shen Ye looked at these prompts, somewhat confused about the situation.
Ask someone?
But Hera and her team members had already been terminated.
Not to mention corpses.
Not even their souls remained.
In this situation, even Dark Whisper couldn’t be used.
Shen Ye read it a few more times.
Alright—
From the literal meaning, at least one thing was certain.
He wouldn’t die.
Next.
—What kind of treatment could be more important than improving one’s own strength?
As long as he didn’t die, he would always choose to improve his strength!
“I choose 2.”
Shen Ye said.
As soon as he spoke.
He suddenly disappeared from his spot.
After he disappeared, cracks gradually appeared in the grassland.
The cracks expanded and deepened.
The grassland suddenly collapsed, scattering into countless particles in the void.
…
The cold wind howled, and snow danced wildly.
A mouse passed through the iron bars, crawling forward along a mottled, dirty wall, and burrowed into the temporary detention room.
The person on the bed lay motionless, seemingly without breath.
The mouse gradually lowered its guard.
—This human was probably indeed dead.
The weather was terrible, and finding food was truly difficult.
If it didn’t eat something, it would starve to death too.
Eat.
The mouse approached, about to act, when suddenly the youth’s hand shot out and grabbed it.
“Squeak! Squeak squeak!”
The mouse struggled in terror.
Hopeless.
The grip was tight.
The youth yawned, began breathing again, his eyes clearing from their daze.
“A mouse…”
He struggled to sit up, one hand holding the mouse, the other covering his forehead, seemingly in pain.
Shen… Ye?
A very common name.
Damn it.
I am Shen Ye!
Why does it feel like transmigration!
A thoughtful expression appeared on the youth’s pale, tender face.
The howling wind blew through the iron window.
—It was really cold.
The room was extremely simple.
The only thing that could attract attention were the lines of faint glowing words in the void:
“You have received D-level treatment, lasting for three days.”
“Your strength has been forcibly raised to A-level lower.”
“—Good luck.”
All the small words flashed by.
Shen Ye sat up, and suddenly felt something moving in his line of sight.
It was light.
The light was moving gently.
He followed the light spot, fixing his gaze on the mouse.
A line of small words immediately appeared above the mouse:
“Feed this animal, generate a bit of ‘love’, and activate the basic power of the second Dharma Aspect.”
…Damn it.
What exactly was going on?
Why could he see these strange annotations?
Shen Ye fell into thought.
The second Dharma Aspect.
“Seventh Uncle.”
“I’m here.”
“Has anyone woken up?”
“Everyone is in slumber, but Susu’s eyelids just twitched.”
“Susu?”
Shen Ye started to understand.
Yes.
His strength was insufficient, so he could only use the truth-creation “Seventh Uncle”, merging it with his Dharma Aspect to form “Gatekeeper’s Cage, Sacrificial Offering”.
But!
He possessed the “Mandala Chants”!
He could completely separate Seventh Uncle from the Dharma Aspect, replace it with other truth-creations, and merge with the Dharma Aspect again!
In that case—
Seven truth-creations.
Meaning he would have seven Dharma Aspects!
Currently, his strength had reached A-level lower, barely enough to communicate with the parasitic empress Susu.
That’s why those anomalies appeared!
“Susu is about to wake up.”
Shen Ye felt a little anticipation.
He picked up a dry, hard food package from the table and tore it open.
“Eat up, I hope you can accept it, it will keep you from starving.”
He placed the cracker in front of the mouse.
The mouse was still held in his hand, its body unable to move, but it instinctively sniffed the scent coming from the cracker.
No choice, too hungry.
The mouse opened its mouth and bit hard into the cracker.
An abnormality arose—
A gust of wind emanated from Shen Ye, seemingly accompanied by a faint glow.
This glow illuminated the surroundings, lingering for a long time.
Shen Ye was a little surprised, and subconsciously spread out his other hand.
All the light on his body immediately gathered in his hand, forming a faint, warm glow.
As soon as the light point appeared, another anomaly occurred—
In the room, various distinct annotations popped out of nowhere, floating in the void.
A “leaky” label appeared on the washbasin.
The words “steel sandwich” appeared on the wall surface.
A “expired food” warning surfaced on the crackers.
The iron bars on the window were no exception.
Although each of them was as thick as an arm, a line of prompts revealed a problem:
“One of them is damaged (removable).”
Hmm?
Was the detention room’s maintenance budget insufficient?
They didn’t even maintain the iron bars?
Shen Ye looked around, hardly believing his eyes.
With just this tiny, faint glimmer of light, he could discover all sorts of things in the room!
Shen Ye’s gaze fell back on the faint light in his hand.
The light point slowly spread out, turning into lines of small words:
“Due to close contact with ‘her’, you have temporarily gained her basic ability:”
“Fundamental Skill: Heart Devouring Seed.”
“Description: When you express goodwill and it is accepted by the other party, all things will reveal their information, and the target that accepts the goodwill will expose its essential weakness.”
Susu’s power…
Shen Ye glanced inside the Dharma Aspect, only to find Susu with her eyes closed, still in a dream.
But her long eyelashes fluttered continuously.
—Dreaming?
Or about to wake up?
Tsk.
My strength is still insufficient. Otherwise, she would awaken directly, instead of using this roundabout way to help me.
Shen Ye forced himself to calm down.
He stood up and walked to the faucet, placing his hand under it.
One drop, two drops, three drops.
Although the faucet was tightly closed, cold water dripped out.
It was indeed leaking.
He turned around, went back to the table, and picked up the package of crackers.
The expiration date on the packaging was “Eat before 876398 / 11 / 20.”
It was really expired!
Is this D-level treatment?
Clang—
The door was kicked open.
Several burly, fierce-looking men rushed in, glaring at Shen Ye with cold smiles.
“A newcomer!”
“How did you get here?”
They asked.
“Wiped out the History Hunting Group,” Shen Ye said.
The group listened with sneers, exchanged glances, and then all retreated with sneers.
After a few breaths.
A dark-skinned, burly middle-aged man walked in.
“Which team are you with?”
The middle-aged man asked.
“Slaughter Squad,” Shen Ye said.
The middle-aged man waved his hand.
A child darted in, stammering:
“Reporting—repo-reporting—”
“He’s lying—”
Before the words finished.
The middle-aged man was furious, rushed forward, and punched:
“Impersonating a master? You’re asking for death!”
The child cried out urgently:
“Lying—lying, lying—not lying!”
The fist froze in mid-air.
If it went forward one more inch, the fist would have met Shen Ye’s blade.
Once they started fighting, there would be no turning back.
But fortunately, the fist stopped.
The middle-aged man bowed respectfully, his expression amiable, and said,
“Big brother, how did you come to our place?”
Shen Ye was about to speak, when he suddenly had an idea.
He was a “historical figure who fell out of history,” so Hera and her team decided to deal with him.
In their words—
“…Historical figures either possess astonishing wealth or hold certain secrets…”
No.
He couldn’t admit that he was someone who fell out of a historical fragment.
So—
“I’m here to investigate.”
Shen Ye said.
“Sir, what do you wish to investigate?” The middle-aged man grew nervous.
—Should he ask something?
No.
The most important thing now was—
“This doesn’t concern you, all of you withdraw, don’t bother me.”
Shen Ye said indifferently.
“Yes!” The middle-aged man said.
He dragged the child out of the room, and even helped Shen Ye fix the door and gently close it.
The noise outside gradually faded.
The usually noisy corridor also quieted down.
Shen Ye heard someone whispering, “He’s a tough one, be careful,” and similar remarks.
Through the wall.
Shen Ye gradually felt a sense of safety.
—This was a feeling he hadn’t experienced in a long time.
“Time…”
“Still a little while.”
He murmured, and then looked up at his head.
At this moment.
He finally removed the concealment, allowing the changing term to float in mid-air:
“As Hera’s entropy annihilated and terminated, her incomplete term ‘Victory’ returned to you.”
“‘Victory’ is merging with your future term ‘Most Holy’.”
“Please wait.”
Yes.
During the battle just now, “Most Holy” was on cooldown and would require at least one hour.
To be safe, he needed to wait for the power of this term to recover.
Furthermore.
The fusion of future terms also required time.
So, wait then.
He wasn’t in a hurry to do anything.
Life was most important.
Shen Ye simply rested in the simple small room.
Time slowly passed.
He was bored just staying there, so he called out the big skeleton and Seventh Uncle to have tea and snacks together.
The big skeleton pointed at the iron bars on the window and said:
“I’ve looked, outside is an endless sea, and the power in the sea is extremely violent, entering it means certain death.”
Seventh Uncle handed a cup of coffee to the big skeleton and chimed in:
“Ice storms are constantly forming, tearing apart everything in the ocean.”
“—So only here is safe.”
But.
What kind of place was this?
“It’s a prison, I guess,” the big skeleton speculated.
“I guess it’s a fortress,” Seventh Uncle said.
“Wait a little longer, and I’ll go explore,” Shen Ye also said.
Time was almost up—
Shen Ye was about to look up, when he heard a “clang” as the door was kicked open again.
A man in black stood outside the door.
He had slicked-back hair, a slender figure, and narrow, cold eyes, sizing up Shen Ye:
“Are you from the Slaughter Squad?”
“Yes,” Shen Ye said.
“I heard the History Hunting Group was wiped out by you, is that true?”
“That’s right,” Shen Ye said again.
The man entered the room and said,
“The hunting group’s private grassland has disintegrated, so it seems they really were wiped out… Why did you target the hunting group?”
“No comment,” Shen Ye said.
“So—who killed Hera?” the man asked again.
“No comment.”
“It was your team’s doing anyway, wasn’t it?”
“Yes.”
At this point, the big skeleton put down its coffee cup and disappeared behind Shen Ye.
Seventh Uncle also stood up and vanished with a movement of his body.
—The other party was exuding killing intent.
“Are you Hera’s friend?”
Shen Ye asked.
“She was my lover,” the man said.
“She must have had many lovers,” Shen Ye shrugged.
“But in Zone D, I represent her faction and control three streets,” the man said.
“Pleasure to meet you, what do you want to do?”
“Kill you.”
The man suddenly rushed towards Shen Ye.
Shen Ye remained seated, slapped his Darkflame Blade, and a myriad of blade shadows flashed out.
The man was immediately sent flying by the thick back of the blade.
—The difference in strength was too great.
Although D-level treatment was harsh and basic, it had one advantage.
The professionals here weren’t particularly strong.
Shen Ye was thinking, when he saw new lines of small words flash in the void:
“According to your mission ‘Slaughter All Demon Enemies’, a new mission has been generated.”
“Zone D Spokeperson.”
“Description: Slaughter your way through Zone D’s survival area, challenge all masters, defeat them all, and become the spokesperson for Zone D.”
“Mission Reward: All attributes increased, reaching the level to awaken Susu.”
“—Come forget right and wrong, come recall the past, the days of shared hardship always bring joy.”
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