Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 697

Wait.

The fight next door was still ongoing.

It wasn’t Shen Ye’s turn to act yet.

He leaned back on the sofa, propped his feet on the coffee table, and stretched comfortably.

He continued to wait.

After his warm-up, he took a short break and chatted with Maria.

“Saintly Mother, are there any more of our people on this ship?” Shen Ye asked.

“No, there aren’t — even Hera and her group are deities, they just look very similar to humans,” Maria said.

“These monsters are quite wary of the human race,” Shen Ye commented.

“The human race has great potential, both high and low limits. They are actually very afraid of powerful humans emerging, and there’s an unspoken rule: no humans are allowed on this ship.”

“I see.”

Shen Ye nodded.

Suddenly.

He felt a tremor throughout his body.

He pulled out his phone and saw a message pop up:

“Your comrade cannot contact you, but she hopes that during your door ability’s promotion, you will also integrate your Natal True Item.”

“—The Omniscient and Omnipotent Lord.”

Natal True Item…

It was the Truth Phone.

But who proposed this idea?

Shen Ye thought about it while saying, “Why are humans not allowed on the ship?”

Maria replied, “Because the Other Shore Ship is going to the future. If humans are on this ship, it means that humans will still exist in the future.”

“—The monsters don’t want that to happen.”

“But you and God are on our side,” Shen Ye said.

“Of course, we’ve already gone all-in. The revival of human civilization is extremely beneficial to creator races like ours,” Maria said.

Shen Ye nodded slightly.

—It’s decided.

If other comrades wished him to do so, then he would.

God would not send messages casually.

His willingness to send this message for his comrade was a subtle hint.

Shen Ye placed his phone into the void.

The “Mandala Ouroboros” entry was activated!

The Truth Phone instantly merged into the void, combining with the two doors.

Two lines of faint luminous text quietly appeared:

“Your Natal Item has provided a direction for evolution. The time for this evolution will be shortened.”

“Please wait patiently!”

Alright.

He would wait then.

As Shen Ye was thinking, he suddenly saw Maria reach out from the mural and pat him.

“?” Shen Ye.

“You… don’t worry about the fate of those monsters anymore, come onto the mural,” Maria said.

“Why?” Shen Ye asked, surprised.

“I have a bad feeling,” Maria said.

Her hands formed seals.

Threads of light emanated from her, touching the palace on the mural.

The lines outlining the palace and mountains, touched by this light, immediately disintegrated and reorganized, becoming even more ethereal.

—It was a stealth technique!

Shen Ye sensed a different meaning and asked, “What have you detected?”

“I don’t know—” Maria’s voice became ethereal: “I can’t see anything clearly, but my heart senses an extremely powerful evil approaching this ship from a great distance.”

“Is it from the past?” Shen Ye asked.

“No,” Maria said.

“Is it a fragment of history that has already been destroyed?”

“Neither—I really have no clue. You’d better hide in the mural now.”

Shen Ye’s gaze sharpened.

He had just managed to trap several S-tier monsters; was he to give up now?

If he ignored them, they would surely escape according to the contract after their battle.

—At least one would escape.

If they escaped and joined other monsters, it would mean that his abilities and what happened here—

He would be at a disadvantage!

“I’ll come over and hide as soon as possible.”

Shen Ye said, and then slapped the wall.

A door immediately appeared.

A three-headed monster crashed through the door, covered in blood.

“Thanks.”

It said, gasping for breath.

“Why are you so injured?” Shen Ye asked.

“The Soul Orb’s bizarre shadow is really hard to deal with.”

The monster explained.

At this moment.

Shen Ye’s three clones simultaneously activated the “Future Walker” entry, boosting their swordsmanship, all attributes, and Dharma Form.

“Do you need a weapon?” Shen Ye drew his Gloomy Blade and asked.

“Is this—a blade?” the monster asked.

“Yes,” Shen Ye said.

“It’s a good saber, but I don’t really use it,” the monster mused.

No sooner had the words left its mouth.

Its entire body disintegrated, turning into glowing dust that vanished into nothingness.

—Blade Technique: Return to Stillness.

An S-tier blade technique.

“Description: Evokes the power of entropy, causing all laws designated by the blade’s edge to reach their end, all sentient beings and myriad things to enter entropy, and all existence and non-existence to fall into eternal stillness.”

The monster didn’t even notice when the long saber moved.

—It was still considering if the saber was usable when it died.

“It completely suppressed its perception; it couldn’t even comprehend that strike.”

Maria sighed.

“It was just a normal attack, but this move’s level is too high, it shielded everything from its perception and drew upon the power of entropy to deliver a strike,” Shen Ye said nonchalantly.

Maria fell silent.

“Hurry up, again—” Shen Ye knocked on the door.

In fact.

The two monsters barely balanced the fight against the Soul Orb.

Now that one monster was out of the picture, the other was immediately in grave danger.

The door burst open.

A monster rolled to the ground, covered in wounds.

It looked up.

There was no one else around, only its companion.

—Just a moment ago.

The young Shen Ye had descended and transformed into the monster that had just died.

“Saved… Damn it, the Soul Orb is too strong, it’s really hard to kill.”

The monster gasped for breath.

“Look at me.”

The young Shen Ye shouted.

“?” The monster was bewildered.

“Shen Ye’s saber can heal injuries. Look at my body,” the young Shen Ye continued.

The monster scrutinized him closely.

Indeed, there were no injuries on his body.

“Shen Ye, can you also—”

“Here, a guaranteed recovery.”

The saber stabbed.

Should it dodge?

The monster hesitated slightly.

—Still, it should dodge.

But…

It seemed impossible to dodge.

Pfft.

The long saber pierced the monster’s body.

“Alright! Come on, hide on the mural now!”

Maria urged.

Shen Ye returned the long saber to its scabbard, silently watching the monster’s body gradually entropy.

With the death of these two monsters—

The Soul Orb could no longer fulfill the terms of the contract.

It would be trapped here forever!

Shen Ye was about to step onto the mural when he heard a loud clamor from the direction of the distant deck.

Something astonishing seemed to have happened.

“Hide with me.”

Maria urged.

Shen Ye, however, pondered, “…It’s too strange. Those are all S-tier monsters, they’ve seen all sorts of situations, how could they all be crying out in alarm?”

“I sense that a ‘cleansing’ is about to happen,” Maria said.

“You mean—”

“Many people will die, and this ship is also in danger!” Shen Ye said, slightly horrified.

This was the Other Shore Ship; even the decisive battle between the High-Dimensional Lord and the apocalypse failed to destroy it.

It traveled through endless entropy, awaiting the coming future.

Yet Saintly Mother Maria said it was also in danger!

No.

“I need to go see what’s happening, otherwise, I’ll be completely in the dark and won’t even know how to react!”

Shen Ye said.

Maria took a cross from her neck and handed it to Shen Ye.

“This is the highest holy relic of our divine side; it can protect you for three seconds from death.”

She warned.

“Thanks, I’m just going to see what happened, I absolutely will not put myself in danger,” Shen Ye said.

“It’s good that you understand, after all, you’re the only human on board—if you die, humanity will never appear in the future.”

“Understood!”

Shen Ye hung the cross around his neck, then immediately used his identity card to transform back into the monster he had been earlier. He pushed open the door and darted away.

Zone C and Zone D were connected, an area of cabins with fixed portholes. There was even a viewing area in the corridor where one could directly see outside the ship.

Shen Ye had just entered Zone C and hadn’t yet proceeded towards the deck area. He suddenly turned around and retreated.

He went straight back to the room and closed the door.

“Why are you back?”

Maria asked, surprised.

Shen Ye said nothing, leaning against the wall, his face pale, his body limp, and cold sweat beading on his forehead.

“You—this is—”

Maria’s tone shifted from surprise to apprehension.

Shen Ye also felt something and looked down at his chest.

He saw that the cross he had just hung around his neck no longer emitted its holy glow.

It had turned into a piece of constantly writhing flesh.

From this piece of flesh, streaks of blood emerged, as if some organ was about to extend from within.

“It took a blow for you—find a way to deal with it quickly.”

Maria urged in an anxious tone.

Shen Ye unhesitatingly summoned a door, kicked it open, and threw the living flesh inside.

—The destination was set to be beyond the Other Shore.

The flesh was thrown out of the great ship!

Only then did Shen Ye let out a long breath and quickly said,

“Thank you for your cross, otherwise, it might have been me who suffered the misfortune.”

“What attacked you?” Maria asked.

“Nothing attacked me—after I entered Zone C, I looked through the observation deck and saw a huge shadow outside the ship.”

“That shadow was much larger than the ship, like it was submerged in water, slowly moving towards the ship.”

“I had a bad feeling and immediately retreated.”

Shen Ye explained.

“Hide,” Maria called out to him.

“No… that thing is coming towards the ship. Hiding now is like burying your head in the sand.”

Shen Ye said.

“If it weren’t for the cross just now, you’d be dead,” Maria said sternly.

Shen Ye was a little disoriented.

At this moment, the screams outside had all vanished.

The entire ship was deathly silent.

—If he went out, he would die too.

But if he did nothing, the ship might be doomed!

He had to find a way…

“The more areas you control, the greater your power on the ship, is that right?”

Shen Ye asked.

“Either control more areas, or the areas you control evolve strongly enough. Both can increase your power,” Maria said.

Shen Ye gritted his teeth, walked to the wall, pressed his hand against it, and opened a door.

“What are you doing?”

Maria asked.

“The Soul Orb has a grudge against me—no matter what happens on the ship, I’m going to take it out first!” Shen Ye said.

A duck landed, transformed into one of the two S-tier monsters, and pushed the door open to enter.

The void shimmered.

The young Shen Ye transformed into the other monster, and likewise pushed the door open to enter.

In the next room.

The Soul Orb coldly watched the two monsters that had reappeared.

“Did he save you?”

It asked.

“Yes,” the good little duck, imitating the monster, let out a strange cry, “Even that move couldn’t kill us just now. You must be very disappointed.”

“I am the strongest. Let me out, and I will torture Shen Ye thoroughly to avenge you!” the Soul Orb said.

The two monsters exchanged a glance.

“You are indeed very strong, we are sincerely convinced by that,” the good little duck said.

“But we’ve decided to continue fighting,” the young Shen Ye said.

Under the Soul Orb’s gaze, the good little duck suddenly drew a knife and stabbed it into the young Shen Ye’s chest.

“What are you doing!”

The young Shen Ye clutched his chest, startled.

“As long as one is killed, one can get out—it doesn’t have to be the Soul Orb’s life, I can kill you too!” the good little duck said, its face contorted.

“You damned fellow…”

The young Shen Ye fell to his knees, clutching the long saber buried in his chest.

He was dying.

A door suddenly appeared on the wall.

“Haha, well done, bring his corpse over—before it fully undergoes entropy, I have a use for it.”

The voice of the young Shen Ye echoed from within the door.

“No problem.” The good little duck dragged the dying young Shen Ye into the door.

The door vanished.

“…” The Soul Orb.

One of its companions had killed another.

It was free.

An uncontrollable longing surged in the Soul Orb’s heart.

Damn it.

It had been too cautious.

It should have acted just now and killed that fellow.

Now that one was free.

What about itself?

Was it to be trapped here for all eternity?

The Soul Orb involuntarily shivered.

The next second.

A door appeared on the wall.

Shen Ye’s voice rang out again:

“Your companion has gone out.”

“I know,” the Soul Orb said.

“Your mission cannot be completed, and you will be trapped here eternally,” Shen Ye said.

“I know that too,” the Soul Orb replied.

“Want to change your mission?”

“Can it be changed?”

“Yes, in the fifth room, I’ve trapped another S-tier monster—it wanted to steal the treasures of the Slaughter Team, which is why it was locked in the room.”

Shen Ye’s tone turned cold:

“Kill it, and I’ll let you out.”

Accompanying his voice, the contract reappeared before the Soul Orb.

The content of the contract had been slightly altered.

The target to be killed had become the monster in the fifth room.

The Soul Orb read the contract several times, finally saying:

“Okay, I’ll go kill it.”

Shen Ye approved: “That’s right—as long as you complete the mission, I’ll have generous rewards for you.”

“Just you wait,” the Soul Orb said, “I will definitely regain my freedom.”

It stepped through the door and arrived at that room.

Shen Ye waited silently in the room.

Four monsters.

Two were dead.

Two remained.

—If he killed them all, wouldn’t their areas be empty?

Rumble—

A violent tremor.

Shen Ye was suddenly startled from his thoughts.

“Start building Zone D.”

He said decisively.

“Aren’t you afraid of other monsters discovering you’re rich?” Maria asked.

“Making the ship stronger is more important now—if it’s doomed, anything we do will be meaningless!”

Shen Ye pressed his hand against the wall and began to input gold.