Chapter 1855
by 林方方Chapter 1855 Visualizing the Past
The hurricane swept from the wings behind Lin Qiye’s back, causing Lina beside him to stagger backward. Athena and Artemis, sensing this surging wave of divine power, also showed expressions of surprise.
Such strong energy!
Just then, a dull scraping sound came from between the Gates of Truth.
As Lin Qiye’s palm gripped the surface of the gate, endless gray mist flowed from the small cracks, almost engulfing his form. But at this moment, a corner of the Gates of Truth had already been slowly pried open!
“He succeeded?!” Artemis saw that crack in the door, and the surprise in her eyes turned directly into shock.
Athena, carefully observing those golden divine powers beside her, narrowed her eyes slightly:
“No wonder… with the Seraphim’s [Mortal Divine Domain] in hand, creating miracles isn’t difficult.”
Divine power was frantically depleting within Lin Qiye’s body, continuously pouring into the [Mortal Divine Domain]. For him now, this corner crack was already the limit of what he could achieve.
Seeing this, Athena and Artemis seized the opportunity and flew into the crack one after another. Just as Lina was about to follow, Lin Qiye’s voice suddenly rang out:
“You haven’t become a god yet, it’s too dangerous to go in. Wait for me at the entrance! If I don’t come out within a month, go to Great Xia and find the Sword Immortal Zhou Ping, tell him this location!”
As Lin Qiye’s words fell, he released his hands, his form transforming into a beam of light, directly disappearing behind the gate!
Boom—!!
As he vanished, the heavy gate closed again, emitting a thunderous roar.
…
In the endless gray mist, Lin Qiye looked at the fragments of light clusters like stars in the sky, a hint of bewilderment flashing in his eyes.
Previously, Lin Qiye had heard people talk about the Gates of Truth, saying that behind the gate was “truth,” the ultimate end and origin of everything. Any being who saw “truth” with just one glance would go mad from the terrifying amount of information they couldn’t bear.
But this world before his eyes didn’t give him that feeling… No, it should be said that when he stood in front of the Gates of Truth, he didn’t feel any grandeur or vastness from it.
It’s worth noting that even the illusory Gates of Truth summoned by An Qingyu would give people an incomparable sense of pressure, making one’s scalp tingle with just a glance. Compared to that illusion, the actual Gates of Truth before him seemed fake, just a door with an impressive appearance but nothing more.
But Lin Qiye knew clearly that a merely impressive-looking door couldn’t possibly evolve into a time labyrinth spanning a hundred years after being destroyed.
After pondering for a moment, Lin Qiye understood the reason… the Gates of Truth before him was just a remnant.
The truly complete Gates of Truth had been destroyed a hundred years ago. The spirit of the artifact [Key of the Gate] had fallen into eternal slumber, the “truth” world that should have been behind it had completely severed its connection, and even the space-time power contained within had completely shattered, evolving into a time labyrinth beside the ruins—the “light cone” radiating toward the future.
If that was the case, then the Gates of Truth before him shouldn’t possess the ability of “equivalent exchange” at all!
At this point, Lin Qiye could basically confirm that luring the Night Goddess Nyx behind the gate was a complete deception from beginning to end.
But who exactly had tricked Nyx into the gate?
Was it the [Key of the Gate] from the past timeline?
“Look over there!” Artemis’s eagle-like eyes locked onto a certain direction, and she immediately spoke up.
Lin Qiye snapped out of his thoughts and looked in the direction Artemis was pointing. At the end of these light cluster fragments, he saw a huge shadow slowly writhing.
Lin Qiye frowned deeply and flew toward it with a flap of his wings.
As the distance to the shadow grew shorter, Lin Qiye finally saw the true appearance of that thing. It was a pile of tentacle corpses, chaotically lying on the ground as if they had been rotting for a long time.
But among these dead tentacles, several thick ones still flowed with starlight, eerily coiled together, the starlight on their surface flickering as if breathing.
Lin Qiye had seen these tentacles before. A few days ago, when An Qingyu summoned the Gates of Truth trying to resurrect Jiang Er, it was these tentacles that took away his emotions. If Lin Qiye wasn’t mistaken, these should be the embodiment of part of the Gates of Truth’s body.
When Lin Qiye’s gaze penetrated through these breathing tentacles to see what was deep within their coils, his eyes suddenly contracted!
He saw that beneath the suckers of these tentacles, a black sphere was being tightly wrapped by them. Night color and faint starlight flowed on the surface of the sphere, being sucked by the suckers like nutrients, continuously flowing into the ground below.
The Law of Night!
Nyx’s law—Lin Qiye would never mistake it. Inside that sphere wrapped by countless starlight tentacles was the Night Goddess Nyx who had been tricked into the gate!
And this remnant of the Gates of Truth was undoubtedly using Nyx’s divine power and law as nourishment, constantly feeding this world. Perhaps because of this, Lin Qiye vaguely felt that the shattered light clusters in the sky seemed to be gradually regaining brightness at a faint speed.
“Lady Nyx!” Athena exclaimed.
“Mother!”
Seeing this, Lin Qiye’s chest heaved violently, and a surge of killing intent erupted!
Without any hesitation, he gripped the hilt of the Kusanagi Sword, his form transforming into a golden lightning bolt charging toward those few starlight tentacles wrapping the sphere!
Boom—!!
Just as the golden sword light was about to slash out, a light cluster fragment in the sky suddenly brightened, falling like a meteor in front of Lin Qiye!
The terrifying divine power aftershock forced Lin Qiye to stop. He waved his hand to disperse the dust in front of him and saw a mirror-like fragment emerging from the shining light cluster.
“What is this?” Lin Qiye frowned deeply.
As several starlight tentacles moved away from the black sphere, the Law of Night flowed along their bodies into that fragment. Moments later, a figure wearing a star-woven gauze dress slowly walked out from the mirror fragment…
Seeing the face of that figure, Lin Qiye’s gaze froze.
It was the Night Goddess Nyx!
But strangely, the Nyx who walked out from the mirror fragment looked much younger than the one in Lin Qiye’s memory. Her aura barely maintained at the stage of having one foot in the supreme realm, and she looked at Lin Qiye without any emotional fluctuation in her eyes, as if looking at a stranger.
Seeing this scene, a look of surprise appeared in Lin Qiye’s eyes. Recalling what Artemis had said earlier about hearing her past self’s voice from the Gates of Truth, his eyes narrowed slightly.
“Those light clusters can actually derive people’s past and materialize them?”
Lin Qiye certainly recognized that the young “Nyx” before him was not Nyx herself, but some kind of puppet-like existence. If he wasn’t mistaken, the Law of Night on her was also absorbed from Nyx.
As Lin Qiye was pondering, young Nyx’s eyes slowly opened, and a hint of killing intent appeared in her eyes as she looked at Lin Qiye.
“An enemy of Olympus… you’ve come at the right time!”
A touch of night color spread along the hem of the star-woven gauze dress, like dense ink dripping into water, instantly dyeing the entire ground!