Myriad Realms Gatekeeper

People are really squatting on the toilet…

Rushing in suddenly is indeed impolite.

Shen Ye waited for a while before knocking on the door and asking,

"Hey, can I come in now?"

Boom!

The door shook.

Looking through the door window, the panda's huge body was already leaning against the door, its eyes sizing up Shen Ye from head to toe.

"Kid, what's your name?" it asked through the door.

"I'm Shen Ye. What about you?"

"A real man has to be as hard as iron."

"Brother True-Hard, hello," Shen Ye greeted with a fist salute.

"It's Tie Nan, idiot!" the panda shouted angrily.

It took out a booklet and flipped through it, then looked up at Shen Ye's head and muttered,

"Dining and dashing? Alright, this time there really is something for you."

The window on the door opened, and a parcel was handed out.

"What's this?" Shen Ye wondered.

"A commission left by the Hun Tian Sect—guarded by me, waiting for someone from the sect to reappear in the future, then they can directly take this parcel," the panda said.

"Something from my sect?" Shen Ye was momentarily stunned.

"Yes, your sect was almost wiped out back then, it's been a thousand years since… and finally, another disciple of Hun Tian Sect is seen."

The panda waved its paw and said, "The money has already been paid, you can take the parcel."

Shen Ye took the parcel, feeling a bit amazed.

…there was actually a parcel left for him.

"Well, since a disciple of Hun Tian Sect has reappeared, you are welcome to visit my office whenever you're free," the panda said.

"Tie… Tie Nan, what kind of business do you have?" Shen Ye asked.

"The more challenging the mission, the more interested I am—like staying near your world for over a thousand years just to fulfill the commission of Hun Tian Sect," the panda said.

Shen Ye had a moment of realization.

Yes.

The door opened by Stellar Shift leads to the nearest world.

If the panda wasn't nearby, he couldn't connect to its office.

—So it had been waiting here for a thousand years?

What kind of professional dedication is that!

"Truly impressive," Shen Ye exclaimed.

"Alright, go back now. We'll meet another day—if you can't open the portal to come here, use this address to find me," the panda handed over a slip of paper.

Shen Ye took it and saw an address written on it:

"Death Planet, Yu Jing City World Zoo, Area A, Panda Hall."

Shen Ye wasn't quite sure what the other party's situation was and couldn't help but say,

"This is…"

"I've been on vacation here for a few thousand years recently."

"But why in a zoo?"

"The air conditioning in the Panda Hall is great, food and drink are taken care of, people help me bathe, and the zookeeper even hooked me up with a few pretty ladies of my species, if you know what I mean," the panda said.

Tie Nan gave him a "men understand" look.

—Indeed, someone born with a secure job, just lying down in the zoo when they don't feel like working.

A winner in life.

"Okay then, I'll come to see you when I have time," Shen Ye said.

"Mhm, good luck, youngster from Hun Tian Sect." The panda waved at him through the door and then turned and walked back into the room.

Shen Ye dispelled the door.

"Fei Lun, it has more personality than you," Shen Ye said.

"It's scared," said the large skeleton.

"Scared of me?" Shen Ye wondered.

"I'm not quite sure, but I feel it's scared—I'm very sensitive to the emotions of living beings," said the large skeleton.

"…The mysterious panda."

"Exactly."

Shen Ye shook his head, deciding not to think about these things for now.

He would unpack the parcel first.

He casually grabbed a small sharp piece of ice and tore open the outer wrapping paper of the parcel.

A wooden box covered in talismans appeared before Shen Ye.

There were two lines of words on the box:

"Personally opened by the last Sect Leader."

"To be unsealed with the Sect Leader's Precious Tactic."

The last…

It really is for me.

Shen Ye thought for a moment, then took out the Sect Leader's Precious Tactic and placed it on the wooden box.

Crack!

All the talismans suddenly leaped from the box, scattering on the floor, igniting flames, and quickly burned away.

Shen Ye lifted the lid of the wooden box.

Inside the box lay a piece of white jade and a sheet of white paper.

An old voice sounded:

"Use the white jade first, then the white paper."

The voice was familiar.

It seemed to be that old guy.

The sect was no more, yet he still sent me a delivery, quite an operation indeed. Find more to read at empire

Shen Ye reached out and picked up the white jade.

—No feeling.

Could it be that he had to use his spiritual power?

He channeled his spiritual power into the white jade.

After a moment…

The elderly man's voice resonated once more:

"I resigned from my position as Sect Leader to devote myself to the study of the Art of Longevity, managing to live for thousands of years, and at last, I understood the cause of our Sect's destruction."

"See for yourself."

White jade suddenly emitted light, projecting an image into the void.

In the pitch-black universe.

A blue planet hung still and silent.

The image flashed.

But then a bug could be seen lying on the surface of the planet, slowly trembling its long limbs like a bee.

Its body was even larger than the planet itself, with six pairs of wings covered in glittering golden patterns, reflecting the light of the stars in the dark universe into dazzling mist-like runes of light.

The old man's voice rose again:

"This is a king species."

"Only beings that can be described as 'emperor-like' in the universe are called the king species."

"It invaded our world and killed the planetary spirit."

"But strangely, it fed only once, devouring approximately thirty million humans, then burrowed a hole in the planet, concealed itself, and began hibernating."

With the elder's voice, the bug indeed burrowed a deep hole in the planet.

It contracted its body, even folding its wings, and its volume shrank to less than a tenth of its original size, before drilling into the hole.

"We have no idea when it will wake up."

"But we absolutely cannot just wait for it to awaken and then helplessly watch it devour a vast number of humans again."

"We rallied the strong among various races to march into the universe, seeking new worlds to inhabit."

"But we soon discovered something."

"—The planet's satellite."

On the screen.

A satellite appeared next to the planet, roughly one-tenth the size of the planet.

The old Daoist continued to recount:

"The best resources, the rarest minerals, Excellent inheritances, everything was present within the satellite."

"This was the great method of the planetary spirit."

"It was preparing to escape with the satellite, but unfortunately, it caught the eye of the king species bug and was killed before it could leave."

"We have never interfered with anything on the satellite, allowing it to develop continuously."

"The satellite was named by us—"

"Nightmare."

"After thoroughly exploring this satellite, we discovered the contingency plan of the planetary spirit."

"—We call it the Jade Terrace."

"Unfortunately, when we discovered it, it had not yet matured and was incapable of dealing with that bug."

"However, in your era, it should have already possessed the power to counterattack."

"Go."

"Go to the Nightmare World and seek the Jade Terrace—it's the most potent weapon nurtured by the planet to combat the king species—"

"It can protect you!"

As soon as the words were spoken,

All the images vanished in an instant.

Crack!

The white jade shattered into thousands of pieces, spilling from Shen Ye's hands.

Shen Ye was almost baffled.

What?

The Nightmare World is a satellite of the Main World?

"Hey, buddy, you alright?" the Skeleton asked cautiously.

A single word, "buddy," snapped Shen Ye back to his senses.

"I'm fine," he sighed, murmuring, "Now I know why the Nightmare World and our world share the same Hell."

—Because both planets originated from the same planetary life entity.

He looked down at the wooden box.

Inside the box was one remaining sheet of paper.

When Shen Ye looked at the paper, a line of small characters emerged:

"When you are ready, place this sheet on the cover of the Sect Leader's Precious Tactic."

Ready...

There isn't much to prepare.

Let's go.

After having seen that sort of Cosmic Giant Insect just now, whatever you throw at me next, I won't be surprised.

Shen Ye placed the sheet on the cover of the Sect Leader's Precious Tactic.

The sheet immediately made a "click-clack" sound as if something was happening.

New small characters subsequently appeared on the paper:

"As a merger hasn't occurred for a long time, please wait one hour."

An hour?

Why does it take so long?

Shen Ye looked at the paper with puzzlement.

No.

The sheet of paper had vanished.

It had completely fused into the cover, becoming part of the Sect Leader's Precious Tactic.

Wind.

A wind from an unknown source fanned the pages of the Sect Leader's Precious Tactic, flipping them backward one by one.

On those blank pages, emerged the images of ancient characters, lifelike and moving, all of them looking towards Shen Ye.

"This is—"

Shen Ye hesitated to say.

The wind stopped.

The Sect Leader's Precious Tactic was almost turned to the last page but then flipped forward again, rapidly finishing the turn of the whole book, and quietly closed.

In a moment.

A line of vigorous and powerful characters appeared on the cover of the book:

"Adrift for three thousand years, heroes abound in the mortal world; Hearing your road is fraught with danger, thousands of heroes come to meet."