Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 523-533: The World of Gates
"Lin Beixuan!"

This name seems both far away and very close to Maro at this moment.

The two had only met once a few months ago during a transaction in the border area of ​​Luocheng, and had not seen each other since. Therefore, most of Malu's impression of Lin Beixuan came from Liu Fei.

However, he still remembered Lin Beixuan's face. After all, even among the people he knew, Lin Beixuan's appearance was one of the best.

However, it was only his appearance that made Maro remember him.

However, today's reunion with Lin Beixuan stirred up a storm in Ma Lu's heart.

"My master has arrived, the discussion can begin now!" At this moment, the voice of the Old Immortal of the South Pole echoed in the silent square.

Pairs of eyes were fixed on Lin Beixuan, their gazes filled with a variety of strange emotions: awe, curiosity, and some even harboring a hint of hostility.

The old immortal of the South Pole's address of "Master" startled everyone present, causing their expressions to change drastically.

A dignified immortal actually addresses the person before him as "Master"?!
What is his identity?
Zhang Daoling glanced at Lin Beixuan, then turned his head to look at the Old Immortal of the South Pole. He pondered for a moment, as if he had thought of something.

"So he was..."

“Lord Beiming!” Wuxin’s gaze was fixed on Lin Beixuan, and he said in a solemn tone.

There are many legends about the deeds of the Lord of the Northern Underworld, both in the secular world and among the common people.

What is most impressive is that the other party wiped out the starving ghosts of Luozhou and seized control of the entire state between the Evil Spirit True Lord and the Goddess Zigu.

For most mortals, they are like players entering the game of the mortal world. Most of them are still playing the first chapter, while the Evil Spirit True Lord and the Purple Maiden Goddess are the bosses with some content in the last chapter.

But then suddenly, someone emerged as a player, forcefully squeezing out from among the final chapter's bosses to become a new boss.

Now that such a powerful figure with immense influence in the mortal world, whose strength is equivalent to that of the Evil Spirit True Lord and the Goddess Zigu, has appeared before us, how can we not be shocked?

Liu Fei stared blankly at the tall, slender man in front of her, her eyes filled with complex emotions, her mind seemingly stuck in a quagmire, her thoughts moving slowly.

It should be noted that when she and Madam Bai went to Luozhou, they had met once in Anle County.

At the time, Lin Beixuan was dressed in a martial arts outfit, like a chivalrous knight who had been training in the martial arts world. After asking him if he had just entered the Kaifu realm, Liu Fei did not think much of it.

Later, a series of events happened to her in Luozhou, but she never connected them with Lin Beixuan.

Until this moment, Lin Beixuan stood in front of him, bathed in the gaze of everyone.

The old immortal of Antarctica's address of "Master" connected all the clues.

“The last person has finally arrived. Now we can officially begin the next part of the meeting.” Zhang Yuanxing stood on the high platform, holding a microphone, his gaze fixed intently on Lin Beixuan.

Upon hearing the voice, Lin Beixuan slightly raised his head, glanced at Liu Fei, and knew that now was not the time to explain. He simply nodded to her and then slowly walked to the seat at the very front, which belonged to the Human Immortals.

As he sat down, the previously quiet and oppressive platform was suddenly filled with a buzzing sound, and many people below were whispering to each other.

The official statement did not reveal that Lin Beixuan was the Lord of the Northern Underworld, so many people were still kept in the dark, believing that Lin Beixuan was some kind of hidden immortal.

Those who had already recognized Lin Beixuan's identity felt a mixture of awe and fear.

Among them, the fewest temples are the most numerous.

At this moment, the two immortals from Shao Temple were completely deflated, losing all the high spirits they had displayed when arguing with the Old Immortal of the South Pole. They looked like two ostriches burying their heads in the ground.

Seeing this, the Old Immortal of the South Pole couldn't help but curl his lip and mutter a few curses: "Hmph, still pretending to be a Buddha in the mortal world, cowardly bastard, just a fame-seeking scoundrel."

The Old Immortal of the South Pole did not back down from his words. Those sitting in the same row as him were mostly immortals, so it was impossible for them not to hear him.

When Cijing and Cihang from the Shao Temple heard this, although they were already burning with anger, they immediately calmed down when they looked up and saw Lin Beixuan sitting next to the Old Immortal of the South Pole.

The scene of them going to the authorities to retrieve the bodies of their two deceased fellow disciples is still vivid in their minds.

The soul perished, leaving only the charred body, which was preserved by the authorities in a crystal coffin.

If it were any other immortal, even if Zhang Daoling were dissatisfied with the Shao Temple, he probably wouldn't take action against it for various reasons.

However, they knew that if they angered the person in front of them, he was capable of slaughtering the entire Shao Temple.

They had originally considered seeking revenge against the Lord of the Northern Underworld, but as his fame in the mortal world grew, and he even fought against the Evil Spirit True Lord and the Goddess Zigu without being at a disadvantage, they completely abandoned that idea.

Just as Lin Beixuan took his seat and the crowd below began to discuss among themselves, someone appeared next to Zhang Yuanxing without anyone noticing.

Ye Shuo stood with his hands behind his back next to Zhang Yuanxing.

One was the director of the Bureau of Secular Affairs, and the other was the dean of the Academy of Science and Education. They represented the Xuan Kingdom government in hosting this seminar.

"Please be quiet, everyone," Ye Shuo said first.

"I'm sure everyone understands the purpose of the official gathering here today. Many of you have probably seen the doors that have appeared in the border crossing and what lies behind them."

"So far, the gates in the border areas of two cities have been opened, and many monsters different from those in the mortal world have emerged from them. Each of them has strength no weaker than that of the Divine Realm and cannot be killed by any power other than incense and divine power."

"If we hadn't used our powerful firepower to cover them, those monsters would have already crossed the border and entered our real world."

……

Ye Shuo, with a solemn expression, gave a general account of the matter concerning the remains.

Everyone present fell silent and listened attentively.

Lin Beixuan sat silently in his chair, watching the image displayed in the center of the huge electronic screen on the platform.

At this moment, a short video appeared on the screen.

The scene in the video was likely filmed by a drone, taken from a high altitude.

In the very center of the image is a slightly ajar door, from which halos of light continuously emerge. Monsters, in some extremely bizarre poses, appear in the transit area as if transformed from a two-dimensional plane into 3D.

They were numerous, densely packed like locusts, and instantly engulfed the area around the door.

At the same time, shortly after the remains appeared and began to take shape, countless fire-breathing shells fell from the sky.

After a barrage of missile strikes, the roar of wreckage echoed through the smoke, followed immediately by a new round of overwhelming bullets and artillery fire.

As the video pans across the screen, it becomes clear that despite the intense barrage of fire, quite a few wrecked objects managed to escape.

At that very moment, the official immortals who had been waiting nearby began to reap the lives of these corpses. The scene ends there, freezing on the body of one of the corpses.

Jionghai's appearance was very strange. It was two meters tall at the shoulders, with long and thin limbs. Its body was covered with black hair like steel needles, and its face was covered with a bone mask with two sharp horns on the head, making it look like a goat that had lost its flesh and blood.

Zhang Yuanxing began, "Our Academy of Sciences has collected many corpses of the deceased for dissection and found that they have no biological organs. Instead, they have a strange way of circulating energy."

"This energy circulation method is very similar to the incense and temples of mortal gods and immortals."

Zhang Yuanxing frowned as he said this, his gaze fixed on the location of the immortals at the forefront.

Wuxin from the Bodhi Temple chanted a Buddhist prayer and asked in confusion, "Whether it is a human immortal or a mortal god, if they want to circulate the divine power within the incense and temple in their body, they need to use at least one divinely created organ to activate it."

"If they have nothing inside their bodies, how do they convert energy?"

Zhang Yuanxing replied, "Our institute also considered this issue, so we conducted a study."

As he spoke, Zhang Yuanxing waved his hand, and immediately researchers from the Academy of Sciences wearing protective suits worked together to push a huge vessel up from below the stage.

The enormous vessel was filled with a thick green liquid containing a decapitated corpse, its surface riddled with wires and tubes.

Lin Beixuan stared at the corpse inside the vessel, and a prompt immediately appeared on the panel in his mind.

[You have encountered a special objective: Remains - Demise.]

[The Skeleton Encyclopedia is now open; information on the remains has been successfully unlocked.]

[Remains - Demise: The lowest-level crawler behind the Gate World, capable of ignoring the magical power of those below the Human Immortal or Mortal God realms. Possessing the corrupting and defiled power behind the Gate World, it is one of the means to spread the corrupting and defiled power of the Gate World.]

……

"Scrapped molt!"

Lin Beixuan narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the corpse locked in the vessel, lost in thought.

Just as the experts from the Academy of Sciences had guessed, the skeleton before them was one of the lowest-level monsters behind the Gate World.

This indicates that, in addition to the lowest-level skeleton in front of us, there exists an even more powerful skeleton behind the door.

Furthermore, there is also the pollution and filth power mentioned on the panel. The information on the panel is not much, but from the overall meaning, it should be something that will have a negative impact on the world they live in.

It's like a seemingly insignificant drop of black water trying to pollute a clean water source with its sheer volume.

"It seems the authorities' concerns are not without merit. If the remains appear in the mortal world, putting aside their inherent danger, their ability to pollute the world alone necessitates keeping them firmly behind the door and preventing them from emerging," Lin Beixuan thought to himself.

Zhang Yuanxing continued his narration from the high platform.

"We tried to simulate the energy flow of the remains using the power of incense, and finally discovered that what they used as the link for the flow of power was actually the bone surface of their faces."

Zhang Yuanxing pointed to the bone mask on Jionghai's face.

"This bone mask functions similarly to a divinely created organ, but unlike a divinely created organ, this mask contains a special power that our Academy of Science and Education still cannot understand."

Zhang Yuanxing's tone was solemn: "And to kill the Jionghai, we need to use divine power to shatter this bone on their face."

Ye Shuo continued, "However, what we are most worried about right now is not that, but whether there is a monster behind the door that is even more powerful than the skeleton in front of us."

"As you all saw in the video just now, the door was only opened a crack, and Jionghai, who possesses the power of the Divine Realm, ran out. Our Secular Bureau speculates that the width of the door opening actually represents the level of Jionghai's strength."

"The wider the door is opened, the stronger the power that our world can hold behind it, and the stronger the monsters that will appear."

"Currently, our official firearms can still temporarily suppress the remains of gods. However, if remains of gods comparable to or even great gods appear, the situation will probably be beyond our control."

"If the remains were to invade the present world along the transit route, the consequences would be unimaginable."

"The reason we have gathered you here is to pool our wisdom and work together to find a solution."

After Ye Shuo finished speaking, his gaze swept across everyone's faces, lingering particularly long on Lin Beixuan and Zhang Daoling.

No matter how successful the secular children are in the secular world, their roots are still in this world. If problems arise in the secular world, they probably won't be able to return to the secular world to develop their careers.

And most importantly, it seems that the things behind the door are not only targeting the present world, but also the mundane world.

The audience fell into deep thought, and the atmosphere grew increasingly heavy.

Zhang Yuanxing picked up where Ye Shuo left off, saying, "We face many problems, but we need to solve them one by one."

"First and foremost, we hope that everyone can work together to develop a method that allows ordinary people at the Opening Realm to use the power of incense."

"According to our investigation, although the skeletons in front of us are comparable to the Divine Realm, they do not know any magic. They rely entirely on the physical strength and speed of ordinary Divine Realm cultivators."

"In other words, if conditions permit, even someone at the Opening Mansion Realm has a chance to kill Jionghai, but the prerequisite is that they can use the power of incense to shatter the bone surface on its face."

Zhang Yuanxing glanced at Lin Beixuan intentionally or unintentionally, and said calmly, "On this point, we may need more advice from the immortals of Xuan Kingdom present."

As soon as these words were spoken, a large number of eyes were fixed on the seats of the immortals at the very front.

Liu Fei was naturally among them, but her gaze remained fixed on Lin Beixuan.

The power of incense is the power that comes from the faith and wishes of all living beings. Only humans, immortals, and deities can wield it after the incense is lit.

It can greatly amplify the spells and techniques originally used by the user.

Among the more than one billion people in the Xuan Kingdom, there are no more than thirty individuals who possess such power.

The room was completely silent, as if everyone was waiting for the people in the front seats to speak.

Zhang Daoling of Longhu Mountain frowned and pondered, seemingly lost in thought.

The monk Wuxin at the Bodhi Temple slowly turned his prayer beads and shook his head.

The immortals from the seven major halls were also lost in thought.

However, in this eerie silence, someone unexpectedly spoke first.

"Suppose that someone at the Opening Mansion Realm wants to use the divine power of incense, then first they need to possess something..."

(End of this chapter)