Gatekeeper of all realms

Chapter 689 Mary's Stone Coffin
Big ship.

Good Duck has been kicked into the partition door.

Young Shen Ye stood still, looked at the Virgin Mary, and shook his head, saying:

"ended."

“You think you can definitely beat me?” Maria sneered.

She cast a spell and instantly controlled Shen Ye.

—Just like how I controlled the ducklings just now.

Shen Ye sighed.

"Is the sigh a sign of despair and regret for one's fate?" Maria said as she activated her magic.

Behind her, illusory figures took shape and transformed into majestic buildings.

Dharma Image: Silent Church!

Her magical power increased dramatically.

Shen Ye was unable to move, and his body emitted a series of cracking sounds.

however.

Shen Ye spat out a mouthful of blood, but his expression remained unchanged.

"You are very strong, but you are not sensitive enough to changes in the situation, which is the reason for your failure."

He said calmly.

Maria's eyes flashed with anger, and she shouted, "I am the master of both divine and magical power, while you are merely a newly promoted S-rank human. What gives you the right—"

Her voice stopped abruptly.

Because she suddenly noticed something was wrong.

My own strength is waning.

Not only that, his body gradually became transparent, as if it would disappear at any moment.

Shen Ye regained his mobility.

He received the white fungus soup from his seventh uncle in the void, drank it all in one gulp, and waited for his injuries to heal before saying:
“Once the ‘present’ is determined, the ‘past’ will be settled, and the ‘future’ will become clear.”

“I remember that was exactly what you said just now.”

Maria's face turned pale, and she involuntarily took a few steps back, whispering, "No..."

Shen Ye acted as if he hadn't heard, and continued:

"'Now' is confirmed."

"—That door will never open, and the 'future' will forever be separated from the 'present' and the 'past'."

"Now you should know what this means."

Maria was startled.

this moment.

She finally realized what was happening!

Yes.

The barrier is the power of the Dharma realm, and also the Dharma realm's final act of goodwill towards all sentient beings.

door.

It has been inherited and activated.

The future has already been created.

In fact.

From the perspective of truth, it is the "future" that determines the "present" and the "past".

future--

Only good ducks and the Dharma realm exist.

This means a terrible and irresistible "now"—

Everyone else will "end" in the Entropy Annihilation Era!
The truth was so devastating that Maria momentarily forgot to attack.

suddenly.

The large ship began to rock violently.

The hull began to tear apart.

The tables, chairs, walls, and even murals in the room are all stretched out, as if they could turn into two identical objects at any moment.

—Although the two ships have merged, the power of the entry seems unable to keep them coexisting peacefully.

They're going to separate!
Shen Ye's aura suddenly changed.

Maria immediately sensed it and screamed:

"You're really here!"

“That’s right, this is the final moment. I have finally arrived here to do something for all living beings,” Shen Ye said.

His eyes shone with a deep blue color, yet also revealed wisps of golden light, and behind him, a sacred song emanated.

—It is God who was summoned by Shen Ye and descended upon him!

I never thought you would come here, at this moment!

Maria's tone was tinged with resentment.

"Good things come to those who wait, just like a fine sword," Shen Ye said in a calm and gentle tone.

“I’m going to die here, which is different from what you said when you recruited me to work for you,” Maria said.

“You betrayed me,” Shen Ye said.

“I just want to go to the future we agreed on,” Maria said.

She suddenly looked up.

A halo disappeared from the top of her head.

"You took away my sacred status... and you really care about that?"

Mary asked.

“It’s time, Maria,” Shen Ye said.

He walked to the wall, placed his hand on it, and said:

"My strength here has been exhausted, and I will never appear again from now on."

"But you no longer belong to the divine, so you can deceive many beings."

"so--"

"This is the last chance I'm giving you to live."

The words have not yet fallen.

Wisps of golden light emanated from Shen Ye's hand, forming a long contract on the wall.

After doing this, his imposing aura gradually faded.

He turned to look at the other person, his tone carrying an undeniable sense of sacredness:

“Maria, you have returned to your original identity in the Dharma realm. Now is the time for you to make a choice.”

"Submit to Shen Ye and survive."

"Or perhaps it will end in this entropy extinction era."

Finished speaking.

The divine aura emanating from him vanished.

A line of small, glowing text quietly appeared before his eyes:
"God has ended this coming and has entered the ranks of the unsummonable forever."

As Shen Ye looked at the words, a sense of unease welled up inside him.

—What exactly happened?

He looked at Mary.

Maria, however, stared at the contract on the wall, her expression gradually turning to despair:

"You old codger... have you really exhausted... your strength?"

boom--

The ship rocked violently again.

in the secret room.

Everything was doubled, and even the walls were stretched to twice their original length.

The two ships are about to separate completely!
But on only one wall was there that glowing contract.

—It's Shen Ye's ship!

Shen Ye sighed and said:
"God's last act of kindness, the decision is yours."

“The door has severed my future; I can only die here,” Maria said.

“But all my possessions will be carried into the future,” Shen Ye said.

—For example, the nightmare world.

For example, the seven truths of creation.

Maria lowered her head and looked at her gradually fading body.

A moment.

She finally took a step forward, walked to the wall, and placed her hand on the blank space below the contract.

Seeing this, Shen Ye also pressed his handprint.

The contract, radiating golden light, burst forth with intense blazing light from the wall.

The contract is done!

"You have entered into a perfect divine covenant with Mary, the Mother of the Dharma, and neither of you can turn away from the other, for eternity or endless damnation."

The tiny, glowing words flashed by quickly and then disappeared silently.

"now."

Mary said briefly.

Countless intricate lines suddenly appeared on the entire wall, outlining a Gothic black cathedral.

She stepped forward against the wall and stood in front of the church, then turned to look at Shen Ye.

Shen Ye understood and took a step forward as well.

next moment.

He found himself standing in front of the church.

"follow me."

Maria said.

—After the contract was signed, her body solidified once more.

Perhaps that's why—

She didn't say anything more along the way, as if she had accepted everything in the contract.

Shen Ye followed her into the church, through the hall, around the huge cross, and into a secret passage, down the steps.

Soon.

The two arrived at a very narrow and dark hut.

The room is filled with various sacred objects, radiating a powerful and divine aura.

Surrounded by these sacred objects, and in the very center of the room—

An open stone coffin appeared before Shen Ye's eyes.

The stone coffin was empty.

"Lie in."

Maria said expressionlessly. "Why?" Shen Ye asked, spreading his hands.

“This sarcophagus is the fundamental manifestation of all power, originating from the same source as the Dharma realm. Only by entering can you see the truth,” Maria said.

Shen Ye glanced at her, then looked up into the void.

“It’s alright. This room still retains some of God’s power, so it can temporarily block any prying eyes,” Maria said.

“???” Shen Ye.

Seeing his confusion, Maria added:
"This is safe, the only safe place—but remember, once you close your eyes, immediately take a step back, open them again, and come back here."

The atmosphere has changed.

As this past Mother recounted her story, an indescribable sense of eeriness and grotesqueness arose in the darkness.

Shen Ye gently stroked the stone coffin, gazing at the faintly glowing text appearing above it:
"fruit."

"Description: The solver of entropy annihilation, the fruit of billions of twisted sacred trees."

The message is brief.

It makes one wonder, yet no useful information can be gleaned from it.

Shen Ye made a decision quickly.

—Before God departed, He left Himself with a message:

“Maria is the only flaw, and now that flaw is yours.”

It seems we have to give it a try.

Ok.

Give it a try!
Shen Ye lay down in the stone coffin and closed his eyes.

Moment.

It was as if countless icy liquids surged up, immersing Shen Ye in them, gradually submerging him, and sinking him into an invisible abyss.

Shen Ye discovered that he could "see" his surroundings.

I was hanging from a thick branch, swaying gently in the gray mist.

He reacted immediately.

Do not--

It wasn't himself hanging there, but the stone coffin.

now.

I am observing my surroundings from the perspective of the stone coffin.

Shen Ye was stunned at first glance.

Look around.

The boundless land was entirely paved with twisted black corpses.

The whole world was shrouded in gray, and there was no sign of any living creature.

Only this tree—

This tree is also made up of corpses of all sizes and shapes.

These bodies were headless.

Their limbs and even tails are tightly intertwined, forming the trunk of the tree and its lush, long branches.

The tree is laden with countless fruits.

The fruits were like old, dilapidated black coffins.

Some coffins were completely broken, while others were intact but empty.

A few coffins were tightly closed.

Faintly, one could hear the cries and howls of millions coming from inside the coffin.

The stone coffin was one of them!

Infinite power—

A power deeper and more boundless than the Dharma Realm converged on this tree, emanating wisps of mist towards the endless dark corpse land.

Shen Ye was used to all kinds of situations, but at this moment, he took a step back without hesitation and opened his eyes.

All the scenery disappeared.

He found himself still lying in the sarcophagus in the cathedral's secret chamber.

Mary stood to one side.

Shen Ye sat up, wiped the sweat from his brow, and it took him a while to calm down.

"what is that?"

he asked.

“The real world,” Maria said.

She further explained, "In your human way, you can understand it as the outside world being the real world, while everything we live in is a 'testing ground' that they have carefully constructed."

"What are they?" Shen Ye asked again.

“I don’t know,” Maria said.

"What is their purpose?" Shen Ye pressed.

“They’re trapped—the Entropy Era, you know, they’re afraid to even die—they yearn for the future,” Maria said.

"and many more!"

Shen Ye was about to say something when Maria waved her hand to interrupt him:
"You've cut off the future, so this tree, and indeed the whole world, remains here."

"What about God? And other powerful beings, such as the lords of higher dimensions, or the Doomsday?" Shen Ye asked.

Maria said directly:
"Those powerful people you encountered were not the real people."

"That is merely their will and consciousness remaining in history, and their meager remaining strength."

"And what about the real them?" Shen Ye asked.

"I don't know."

"Is God not himself?"

When it came to God, Mary finally became more talkative:

“The monster outside collected a drop of God’s blood and used it to create this sacred being.”

“But I have dealt with God, so I know—”

"God is real."

"Even though it is only formed from blood, it possesses a sacred will."

"God was involved in this play—using the power of a single drop of blood to deceive those beings amidst endless fragments of history and to devise a scheme."

"At the last moment, he chose to stand by your side."

After digesting the information for a while, Shen Ye spoke:

"So you want to run away."

“Yes,” Maria readily admitted, “the fragments of history were not created by the battle between two powerful beings, but rather by the fact that the monsters outside could not create the true main history, and could only create these fragments of history.”

"And what about us? What are we?" Shen Ye asked.

“Living beings reproduce very easily, and all things can be created at will—you are not a fake person, there is no doubt about that,” Maria said.

"They created countless such vast world systems, just so that all living beings could find a path to the future."

The conversation stopped.

Maria looked at Shen Ye.

Shen Ye paused for a moment, then immediately realized the other party's deeper meaning.

The road to the future.

I broke it myself.

If at that time—

Maria spoke directly:

"If you had opened the door then, connecting the future with the present, then they would all have awakened—"

"The whole world outside will awaken."

"These terrifying creatures, they're not S-class, nor SSS-class, who knows what class they are."

"They can even simulate the power of those powerful figures from the past."

"The blood of God is the only loophole in endless history."

"Back to those monsters—once they sense the future has arrived, they will inevitably control you, then all of them will pass through the door, escape the Entropy Annihilation Era, and head to the future."

"It's alright. For a moment I thought it was all over, but actually it was God himself who kicked the duck over."

"Only God can do this without being discovered."

"Next, you chose to separate the 'present' from the 'future'."

"So we are still alive."

"Does God really no longer exist?" Shen Ye asked.

"When the duck was kicked, the drop of blood exerted its power, obscuring everything, so the power of the blood was completely exhausted."

"Without blood, God's will has no place in our world."

Mary said.

Sudden.

A door opened.

The other Shen Ye was covered in blood, his wounds were shocking.

"We almost got killed by that soul-binding orb—we can't stay on the ship anymore, we have to get out of here immediately."

He said.

The two Shen Ye looked at each other, then both looked at Maria.

"Looking at me is useless; that door to the partition can never be opened again—I've said it before, God is no longer in our world."

Maria shook her head.

—We can't open that door anymore.

If you open it, you'll be discovered.

Those monsters possess power surpassing SSS-level; they can sense future passages in an instant and directly alter the entire battle situation.

—It's no problem at all.

"Unfortunately, we have lost God."

Shen Ye said.

Maria appeared relatively calm, but her face was already ashen, and she said in a trembling voice:
"God revealed his true will because of that drop of blood."

"Everything you see, except God, and even all the powerful beings you summon, are imitations of those monsters outside."

"They deduce methods to reach the future in countless experimental worlds."

"So what do we do now?"

Shen Ye thought for a moment, then shook his head and said:
"It's not like this."

“How could it not be like this? I observed for endless time before discovering this truth, and thus was accepted by God,” Mary sneered.

“There is at least one power, the will of an being, that is not controlled by them,” Shen Ye said.

"Who?"

"end."

Shen Ye raised his hand.

A surge of dark flames rose from his hands.

(End of this chapter)