Myriad Realms Gatekeeper

Death Planet.

The ground.

Yujing City District, Cross-River Bridge.

A man with no face stood on the bridge, holding an umbrella, gazing at the glittering river below.

Momentarily.

A woman in a bright red robe appeared, standing beside him.

"The sky is full of stars, the moonlight is beautiful, yet you still hold an umbrella," the woman said.

"What if it rains?" the man replied.

Before his words had fallen, dark clouds covered the sky, and thunder rumbled.

A torrential downpour began.

The woman in the bright red robe stood in the rain, letting it soak her body, and said calmly,

"Since when did you start to fear such normal rain? Perhaps you are not one of the Nine Aspects, but merely that personality known as the 'Demon of Fear'."

"It's not fear, but we should be prepared," the faceless man said.

He insisted on holding the umbrella, asking in a steady tone,

"Have you passed on our profession to someone else?"

"Yes," Charlotte said.

"That young man called Shen Ye?"

"Yes."

"...I thought he had used some remarkable technique, but since it was you who taught him, there's no need for me to investigate further."

"What do you plan to do?" Charlotte asked.

"Kill him—out of consideration for you, I'll make sure he feels no pain," said the man without a face.

A silence.

"This should be my decision... Have you ever considered that perhaps you are the person I imagined, and I am the real one among us?" Charlotte said softly.

A silence.

"You are no match for me," the man without a face said.

"Look at your shackles and say that again," Charlotte scoffed.

"You've already died once, Snake Woman, killing you will just take a bit more effort," the faceless man said.

He held the umbrella in one hand, the other hand gesturing towards Charlotte across the space.

—He was about to strike!

Charlotte spoke calmly,

"If we fight, that guy at the center of the universe will sense it, won't he?"

The faceless man held his hand up, for quite a while, and still did not release an attack.

Charlotte gave him a deep look.

"You understand me well, Snake Woman. I must consider our lives, unlike your madness," the faceless man said.

"Then there's only one way to determine the winner," Charlotte said.

"Yes, there's only that one way," the man without a face agreed with a nod.

"Determine the winner?" Charlotte asked.

"We must, since this planet is also approaching the center of the universe—the number of surviving planets in the whole universe isn't many anymore; we can't die as insignificantly as all the other ants in the cosmos," the faceless man said.

"Yes, one of us must survive, not like the last time, fighting each other while fighting against that thing," Charlotte agreed.

"Let's do it, then."

"Come on, then."

Charlotte walked towards the man without a face, not stopping her steps, continuing right into his body.

At the same time.

Layers upon layers of black light emerged from the void and quickly wove around the faceless man, forming a black cocoon.

Two of the Nine Aspects, one body, trapped in the cocoon.

The cocoon moved slightly, passed over the railings, and with a "plop" sound, fell into the great river, sinking to the river bottom.

All was quiet again.

Minutes later.

The entire bridge was sealed off.

The blockade spread silently in all directions.

The city fell into a deathly stillness.

Powerful figures from all around gathered upon this bridge.

Xu Xingke stood on the railings, looking down at the surging river below.

"So the 'Nine Aspects' aren't dead," he mused.

"Yes, teacher, I've only just figured out the situation," Shen Ye said.
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He recounted the cause and effect.

Everyone fell silent.

A decisive battle of the strongest in the universe, neither side dead, the spectators wiped out.

There was no way to reason with that.

"An existence above the Nine Layers of Dharma Realm... no wonder..." the Nangong Family Head remarked.

"Do you know how strong it actually is?" Song Yinchen asked curiously.

"A single movement can destroy a planet," the Nangong Family Head said.

"If... the Death Planet is destroyed by it, do we have any other emergency plans?" Shen Ye asked.

Everyone looked at him with an expression that said, "You actually asked that?"

"What's wrong?" Shen Ye was perplexed.

"If it decides to destroy a planet, only the strong can flee—others won't even have time to board a large spacecraft," the Swordswoman said.

"Perhaps the strong can seek refuge on other planets, but only a few will manage to survive; for ordinary people, there is no chance," Xu Xingke said.

"Damn it," Shen Ye muttered.

"By the way, we've detected that a world is being destroyed, just as you mentioned, the World Graveyard—is it the work of the Nine Aspects?" Cang Nanyan interjected.

Shen Ye thought back and sighed,

"It should be."

If the Nine Aspects were to target the Death Planet—

"Teacher, can the king species stop the Nine Aspects?" Shen Ye asked.

"The king species has been drained by the Art of Nightmare several times; it's no longer capable, and it won't win," Xu Xingke said.

"So what's our strategy now?" Shen Ye asked.

"There is no strategy," Xu Xingke said.

Shen Ye was taken aback.

"The Nine Aspects far surpass everyone's strength, an invincible existence even in the Ancient Era. No strategy will work," Xu Xingke explained.

"It has shackles," Song Yinchen mentioned.

"It split off several personalities to form a new Nine Aspects, annihilating the divine spirits of the Nightmare World, fought with that one from the center of the universe, and the aftermath killed countless observers of Eightfold Dharmakaya," Shen Ye laid out a stark fact.