Myriad Realms Gatekeeper

The moment the door opened.

Everything around changed.

Shen Ye realized he was not in the tunnel at all.

It was like a movie—

The scenery all around was rushing backward.

He could see a teenager soaring through the air, returning to Lake Heart Island, talking with his schoolmates.

That teenager was himself.

Interesting...

So, was he observing what was happening to himself?

"What just happened?"

Nangong Sirui asked.

Xiao Mengyu replied, "It seems some kind of underground ban was activated, causing a brief effect on us—there's actually no need to be afraid."

Nangong Sirui pondered and looked towards himself.

"Shen Ye, what do you think?"

he asked.

Shen Ye saw himself think for a moment before answering, "Who cares what it is, let's go. Hurry up and dig an upward passage."

"Okay!" everyone responded in unison.

"But we don't have tools," Guo Yunye fretted.

"We do! Teacher Yang Yingzhen had me prepare a lot of toolkits, which include digging equipment," Zhang Xiaoyi said.

Everyone immediately became excited.

...Something's not right.

At that moment, Shen Ye saw a monster over three meters tall standing behind all his classmates.

He had no idea when it arrived.

Even observing everything as if watching a movie, Shen Ye still didn't know how it appeared.

The monster had a woman's head, was covered in black, hunched like a beast with its limbs on the ground, and emitted a faint dark mist from its back.

Although it was so conspicuous, none of the classmates showed any reaction to its emergence.

They were discussing how to dig the passage.

Shen Ye looked at himself in the center.

He showed no reaction either.

This was way too strange.

Could everyone not see the monster?

"Hey! There's a monster!"

Shen Ye yelled loudly.

Unfortunately, at this moment, he was just like a spectator, utterly unable to affect what was happening.

After a discussion,

Shen Ye, Nangong Sirui, and Xiao Mengyu took the lead, and everyone walked back to where the tunnel had collapsed.

The three-meter-tall woman followed along.

"Let's start digging, everyone, and try to make a way out as soon as possible."

Zhang Xiaoyi spoke out loudly.

Shen Ye watched as he and Guo Yunye distributed various digging tools to everyone.

At that moment,

the three-meter-tall woman suddenly moved.

She bared her sharp, pointed fangs and issued a deep, thick voice:

"The seal has loosened... no one leaves..."

Six hands emerged from the black hair on the woman's body, forming pairs, each pinching a spell seal.

In an instant—

The ground trembled violently.

A vast surge of black light seeped out from underground, erasing the ground into a powder and continuing upwards.

Everything in its path was destroyed, turned into inconsequential dust.

The students had no time to react.

Many were swept by the black light and instantly turned into skeletons, collapsing on the ground.

More and more people died.

Xiao Mengyu was no exception.

She ran towards Shen Ye but was erased by the black light halfway, becoming a tumbling corpse.

Everyone was dead.

Relying on the Divine Shield's might, Nangong Sirui struggled for a few moments before he, too, fell dead.

Only Shen Ye was left.

Unable to accept it, he let out a roar of anger:

"No!"

Lilias rushed over from the side, her hands forming a spell seal, as she screamed:

"We've got to escape—quick, open the door!"

Before she could finish speaking—

Everything suddenly vanished without a trace.

Shen Ye found himself still standing amidst the rubble.

All the scenes he had just witnessed disappeared.

No people.

No black light.

No three-meter-tall woman.

What had just happened seemed like a dream.

Even the white door was gone.

After catching his breath for a while, Shen Ye finally asked:

"Great Skeleton... what did you just see?"

"You opened that white door, and then the door disappeared," the Great Skeleton truthfully said.

"That's not right..." Shen Ye immediately shook his head.

So much had happened.

How could it be that as soon as the door opened, it disappeared?

Suddenly,

a figure flew out from the tunnel, perching on a protruding rock.

Lilias!

She spoke up,

"Your classmates have woken up from the Six Senses Seal Technique and are asking where you went."

"Okay, I'm coming," Shen Ye responded.

Suddenly,

the ground shook slightly.

"An earthquake?"

Shen Ye immediately snapped back to reality.

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Lilias looked into the darkness and said softly,

"You need not worry about the earthquake, but there's another concern."

"What?" Shen Ye asked.

"A surge of technique coming from the depths of the Great Tomb... a very strange one..." Lilias whispered.

"Let's go! First, we'll join the others!"

Shen Ye followed her as they raced back.

As they neared Lake Heart Island, Lilias hid herself.

Shen Ye landed on the island.

Indeed, his classmates had all woken up and were discussing what had just happened.

"What just happened?"

Nangong Sirui asked.

Xiao Mengyu replied, "It seems some kind of underground ban was activated, causing a brief effect on us—there's actually no need to be afraid."

Nangong Sirui pondered and looked towards oneself.

"Shen Ye, what do you think?"

he asked.

Shen Ye's mouth hung open, unable to speak for a moment.

Cold sweat seeped from his forehead, his breathing almost too strained to catch his breath, his heart kept falling yet never reaching the bottom.

No way...

All of this had happened behind that door just now.

And now it was really happening!

Dream?

Reality?

But now was not the time to consider this point, but rather—

Shen Ye glanced peripherally toward where the three-meter tall woman stood.

There was nothing there.

Absolutely nothing.

But everyone's words and actions lined up.

"Do we really dig?" Shen Ye said.

"Dig!" echoed the crowd in unison.

"But we don't have any tools," Guo Yunye worried.

"We do! Teacher Yang Yingzhen had me prepare many toolkits, and there are digging tools inside," Zhang Xiaoyi said.

Everyone suddenly became excited.

Shen Ye watched everyone's eagerness and felt a shiver run through his body.

That attack was not something any of them could withstand.

What to do?

"I'm going to the restroom; you guys prepare here," Shen Ye said.

With that, naturally, no one paid him any more attention.

Xiao Mengyu also shifted her gaze away.

Shen Ye's physique flashed, retreating to a secluded spot outside the island, and soon found a quiet place.

"Lilias."

"Here." Lilias appeared quietly.

"Go, simulate that white light's attack and hit the crowded corridor a few more times," Shen Ye directed.

Lilias said, "On it," and disappeared from sight.

She didn't ask a thing.

Judging by her speed, it appeared much faster than usual.

Shen Ye's heart churned.

—She was a divine spirit.

Perhaps with her power, she could see the three-meter tall woman.

But—

Inside the white door, in the scene he had witnessed, she had never made a move.

Not until the very end did she try to meet up with him.

If he died, she would die too!

As Shen Ye silently pondered, a loud boom suddenly came from outside.

That corridor stretching down from above was attacked again!

Lilias's action was so swift!

Shen Ye's physique moved again, and he swiftly returned to that island in the lake.

At this moment.

Fear and bewilderment were written on everyone's face.

—If there were still such severe attacks from above, then digging a passage upward was impossible.

Because if such an attack occurred again, the corridor would surely collapse!

"It looks like we're going to be trapped here for a while," Nangong Sirui sighed.

"Unless something unexpected happens, that seems to be the case," Xiao Mengyu also said.

Shen Ye remained silent.

That three-meter tall woman had said—

"The seal has already loosened... no one is allowed to leave..."

Now.

No one had left.

Would she make a move?

Shen Ye waited several breaths until a lot of time had passed and there were no black lights burrowing out of the ground.

...It was temporarily safe.

Neither Mo Ga Ru nor the three-meter tall woman had made a move to kill anyone.

It was nothing short of a miracle.

Or perhaps the three-meter tall woman didn't exist at all.

But who would dare to bet?

Having already seen the ending where everyone dies, he preferred to err on the side of caution!

Shen Ye rubbed his temples and simply found a place to sit and rest.

Zhang Xiaoyi and several classmates began discussing how to reinforce the fortifications on the island.

Xiao Mengyu was checking the injuries of several female classmates.

Nangong Sirui looked at the completely blocked corridor, his eyebrows tightly furrowed.

—Was this kid still holding out hope?

Shen Ye immediately shouted, "Xiao San, come here for a second."

"What for?"

Nangong Sirui approached with a look of confusion on his face.

"I have stored a lot of food here, and I can't trust it with others; it might cause problems. You are the strongest, so I want you to distribute it to everyone," Shen Ye said with seriousness.

Food!

That was indeed a matter of life and death for everyone.

Nangong Sirui immediately turned his attention away from the corridor and nodded.

"Give it to me; no one can steal food from me."

The two crouched there and sneakily moved the food from the storage tool.

"Shall we distribute it regularly every day?" Nangong Sirui asked.

Shen Ye paused, then said, "No, divide the total amount into one hundred and thirty-six portions, everyone needs to take their own share."

"Why distribute it all at once?" Nangong Sirui was puzzled.

"Because I'm afraid that in case of another collapse that isolates us, some people won't be able to get food in time," Shen Ye explained.

"Do you know something?" Nangong Sirui asked. Read the latest on empire

"I don't even know if I know, but let's proceed in the safest way possible, at least there will be no regrets," Shen Ye replied.

"It seems you do know something, tell me," Nangong Sirui insisted.

"I'm not sure, so I can't tell you," Shen Ye replied.

Neither of them was willing to back down.

"Then let's exchange information," Nangong Sirui said.

"Exchange?" Shen Ye repeated.

Nangong Sirui crouched on the ground, pulled out a hand that had been hiding in his sleeve, and showed it to Shen Ye.

—His hand was holding a spell seal.

But what was more captivating than the spell seal on his hand was—

A deep wound ran through his hand, from his wrist down to his ring finger, deep enough to see the bone.

However, the wound had healed, with fresh scars crusted over it.

"Heavenly Demon Likeness - Yaksha Body Protection Seal."

Nangong Sirui spoke with a serious and heavy tone, "This technique summoned the seventh layer of Yasha's power to protect me."

"But just now, my technique, along with my hand, suffered a severe injury, and the Yaksha technique power was annihilated. I thought we were in a dead end—"

"But look, my hand has recovered."

Shen Ye's heart shook.

It might be real!

The three-meter tall woman was truly nearby.

He just couldn't see her!