Swoosh!
Passing through the light curtain, Zhang Yue found that the far shore he arrived at was an unimaginably vast ancient battlefield.
And right now, he was standing together with Xingtian on a floating sky island.
All around the sky island, on the land below, eight cities stood tall.
Xingtian looked at those cities and said to Zhang Yue, "This is the God Realm, and they are the eight strongest dynasties of the God Realm."
Zhang Yue's eyes were full of shock, "What exactly is this place?"
"Is this a dungeon? A hidden secret realm?"
Xingtian shook her head, "This is the Otherworld."
"It's just that it exists outside the hundred regular worlds, a supreme domain beyond them."
"Under normal circumstances, as long as a human professional clears the one hundredth world, they can reach the God Realm."
According to what Zhang Yue knew, the country with the highest progress in the world right now, the Beacon Nation, had only reached the ninety seventh world.
Looked at this way, Xingtian didn't seem to be lying.
But…
"How did you enter the God Realm?"
Xingtian glanced at Zhang Yue and said, "I told you already. I entered the Otherworld two hundred years ago."
"The Otherworld descended on Earth only a hundred and ten years ago," Zhang Yue asked suspiciously, "How did you enter the Otherworld two hundred years ago?"
"Two hundred years ago, the Otherworld launched a summoning on humans. At the time, all around the world, there should have been more than ten million humans who were forcibly pulled into the Otherworld."
Xingtian's words made Zhang Yue's heart jolt.
Because in his memory, there really had been a massive global news story like that, one that shook the world for over a century.
That piece of news said that around two hundred years before the present moment, a sudden global mass disappearance event occurred.
Countless people vanished as if into thin air, disappearing from this world in an instant.
No sign of them being alive could be found, but at the same time, no bodies were found either.
At the time, it was an enormous sensation.
Because according to incomplete statistics, the population that disappeared worldwide reached at least the tens of millions.
They evaporated all of a sudden without the slightest warning.
After that, people searched for ten whole years, but there were still no clues about these missing individuals.
Until a hundred years after that event, the Otherworld suddenly descended.
Some people suspected that those who disappeared back then had entered the Otherworld.
However, when professionals entered the Otherworld later, they never found any trace of those people.
Now, hearing Xingtian talk about this, Zhang Yue suddenly felt his back go cold.
"You were one of the people who disappeared two hundred years ago."
Zhang Yue asked, "Back then ten million people disappeared. What about the others?"
Xingtian turned her face toward the distance. After a long silence, she finally said, "They all died."
"I was the last survivor, or rather, one of the only two survivors."
Zhang Yue was shocked.
Ten million people, all dead.
"We were dragged into the Otherworld without any warning. Because we didn't understand the laws of the Otherworld, had no experience, and didn't know what we were supposed to do or what trials we were facing…"
"As a result, in the simplest first world alone, at least a hundred thousand people died."
"Later, as we gradually learned the laws of survival in this world, everyone worked together to clear the second, the third, the fourth worlds…"
"With every layer, as the difficulty increased, people died. Almost every day, every hour, every minute, every second, someone was dying."
"I didn't even notice it myself. When I finally broke through the one hundredth world and thought I was standing at the pinnacle, I looked back and realized there was no one left behind me."
As she said this, tears fell from Xingtian's eyes.
"Ten million people paved the path forward for us with their flesh and blood. Only Kai and I survived to the end."
Zhang Yue asked, "Who is Kai?"
"A companion who survived with me," Xingtian continued, "When we broke through the hundredth world, we arrived in the God Realm."
Zhang Yue couldn't help feeling stunned.
He never expected humans had already broken through the one hundredth world two hundred years ago.
But now, after the Otherworld's descent and a full century of development, the highest anyone had reached was only the ninety seventh world.
It really made people feel that modern folks weren't as capable as those from the past.
Zhang Yue looked around at the territory of the so called eight dynasties and asked Xingtian, "Is there some kind of special mission here?"
"No," Xingtian said, "We only need to obtain the core of any one of the dynasties and we can leave."
"Otherwise we will be trapped in the God Realm forever, unable to get out."
"The God Realm originally had nine dynasties. A hundred years ago, Kai conquered one of them. He used that dynasty's core to leave the God Realm."
Hearing this, Zhang Yue felt puzzled, "Then what about you? Why didn't he take you out with him?"
Xingtian looked a bit pained, "Only one person can use one core. After he left, he never came back."
Only then did Zhang Yue realize Kai had abandoned Xingtian after conquering the God Realm, escaping alone and leaving her behind.
That was unbelievably selfish.
Xingtian continued, "I can't conquer the dynasties alone, because the God Realm has a law, the Law of the Gods. Only the merging of yin and yang can form divine power capable of resisting the gods and demons in the God Realm."
"What do you mean by merging yin and yang?", Zhang Yue asked, confused.
Xingtian said in a deep voice, "Yin is feminine power, yang is masculine energy. Put like this, do you understand?" [T/N: 😑😐😶]
Zhang Yue finally understood.
Xingtian wasn't trapped in the God Realm because she lacked strength.
She was trapped because of the Law of the Gods. Alone, she could never break the limit of the God Realm.
This limitation could only be broken by a man and woman together.
And Kai, after using Xingtian to break through the God Realm, ran off alone and never cared about her again, leaving her stuck in the God Realm for two hundred years.
It was hard to imagine that the person standing in front of him was actually over two hundred years old.
Even though Zhang Yue himself was more than a hundred, she was still a whole century older than him.
But…
"You're two hundred years old and still look this young?"
Xingtian really looked soft and fresh, like she was glowing.
Like an eighteen year old girl who had just reached adulthood.
Xingtian said to Zhang Yue, "After breaking through the hundredth world and entering the God Realm, one evolves into a god and obtains the divine power of immortality and agelessness."
So that was it.
It wasn't strange Zhang Yue had so many questions. Anyone in his shoes would.
Zhang Yue asked again, "I know the purpose of the Divine Tomb secret realm you created was to serve as an entry point for outsiders to reach the God Realm. But why did you create the Divine Tomb in the World 57?"
"Wouldn't placing it in a higher world and letting high level professionals enter be better?"
"I created an entrance in every world."
Xingtian looked at Zhang Yue and said, "But in more than a hundred years, this is the only one that has ever been opened."
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