Chapter 463: Chapter 463

463: Chapter 458: The Unknowable Cloud 463: Chapter 458: The Unknowable Cloud Yun Rong looked deeply at her, “You are a smart girl, and you did the right thing, but please also do not tell him these truths in the future.”

Fang Geyu, puzzled, asked, “Why?”

When Baili An was mentioned, Yun Rong’s lips curved into a faint smile, “I have made a pact with him, and I promised him that I would wait for him in the future.”

“That future is certainly not the one I experienced; to you, I may seem like an extraneous part of this world, yet I bear his pact and do not wish to just disappear.”

Fang Geyu understood her words and felt conflicted, “You mean, the price of your appearance in this world is…

That meant, if anyone learned that she was from the future, she would…

Fang Geyu found this to be truly pitiful.

In the future world, she lost everything; the world was remade, and everyone returned to the beginning.

Only she remained out of place, like a surplus gear in the annals of history.

Because the laws of this world do not allow two of her to exist at the same time.

And within Fang Geyu, too, there was a being not bound by the rules of this world; thus, even if she knew Yun Rong’s identity, it would not have any effect.

Yun Rong hummed indifferently, the smile still present on her lips, “He is very clever, much more than you might think.

If he knew these things, it wouldn’t be hard for him to deduce my real identity.”

Fang Geyu could not understand, so she asked, “If the world has already ended in the future, why would you appear here?”

“The end of the world…” Yun Rong looked at her with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “I didn’t expect you to have glimpsed this far… Hmm, correct, as you have seen, in the future world, all beings of the Six Realms perished, and everyone died.” Her tone was quite casual.

“Only I…” The next moment, her casual tone became heavy, “survived.”

Suddenly, Fang Geyu thought of the corpse that lay in the belly of the giant snake, and said, “Lady Yun Rong… did you also emerge from this Bronze Gate world?”

The darkness in Yun Rong’s eyes faded, and her gaze returned to being clear as she smiled.

“The world you saw in the Bronze Gate is not the one I was in; this place is detached from the natural laws of time and space.

The reason you found your junior brother’s remains here is that Xiao Bai broke through the Bronze Gate at the cost of his dragon’s downfall, bringing his bones here.

Since the Bronze Gate has been sealed for many years, even Xiao Bai cannot leave from here, and I am not the master of the Bronze Gate; how could I possibly leave from here to go outside.”

As expected, the Xiao Bai she mentioned must be the great serpent.

Fang Geyu decided to keep silent and ask no further; after all, everyone has secrets that should not be revealed, and there was no point for her to continue probing.

Unexpectedly, Yun Rong casually tapped her brow lightly, where intricate golden marks outlined by complex inscriptions began to shimmer faintly.

She continued, “But I am the owner of another door.”

Fang Geyu’s breath hitched, and her expression changed dramatically as she exclaimed, “This… what is this…”

Seeing her react so strongly, Yun Rong’s brow mark vanished, and a look of understanding appeared in her eyes, “Miss Fang Da seems so astonished; you must have already known that in this world, there is more than just one door.”

Fang Geyu reacted swiftly, suddenly realizing and speaking with a complex expression tinged with indescribable terror, “It’s the Kunlun Pure Pond, isn’t it?

What’s hidden under the Kunlun Pure Pond is the second door, right?”

Yun Rong looked at her with admiration, “Miss Fang Da, you are truly clever.

Indeed, my junior brother brought me to Kunlun, where he and Sister Cang Nanyi reached a consensus to hide the icy coffin I was in within the Pure Pond.

The door beneath the Pure Pond is one of the Nine Gates—the Golden Gate.

To awaken from the innumerable slumbering years, one must first merge the key that governs the gate, and this is the true reason why I am still alive.”

Yun Rong’s eyes narrowed into a shallow smile that carried a subtle unnaturalness, “Cang Nanyi, also known to you as the Empress.”

Fang Geyu’s jaw nearly dropped, “You call a venerable Kunlun God, the being of heaven and earth itself, Sister Cang Nanyi?!

By age, couldn’t she be your great-grandmother?”

Yun Rong’s eyes narrowed further, yet not a trace of a smile could be found in them, “Since she can act her age disgracefully and lacks any self-awareness befitting a great-grandmother, isn’t it reasonable to address her as ‘sister’?”

Fang Geyu shuddered, “What exactly happened between you two?”

Yun Rong’s gaze was profound, “Who knows…”

Fang Geyu felt overwhelmed by everything she had learned today.

The world knew only of the Bronze Gate as a forbidden one, but they had no idea there were nine such taboos in total, and the Sacrificial Abyss Evil God within her was a common product created by the power of these nine gates.

From the moment she wore her sword, she personally encountered nine completely different immense worlds.

The purpose of Shifang City’s continued existence was to unravel the secrets hidden within the Ten Directions Sword; everyone believed that only after a long cultivation process could one decipher the Sword Language, following the inheritance of the divine sword.

And since the creation of Shifang City, only two City Lords have ever emerged.

The first was her mother, and the second, her father.

However, after her mother leapt from the grand tower, the sword chose her.

Only then did she realize the Sword Language that countless people sought to unravel had always been the secret her mother protected.

When wearing the sword, the soul of the Evil God within would dwell in the host’s heart, feeding off the host’s desires, bewitching and guiding the host to search for those nine great gates.

But in the Six Realms and Four Seas, across the Eight Desolates, people’s understanding of the gate was limited to just one Bronze Gate.

And her own mother never once set foot in Xianling City.

So even though nobody told Fang Geyu what she was supposed to do upon receiving the Ten Directions Sword,

she was very clear about the mission she bore.

The Jade Token that was meant to invite her to Xianling City was never destroyed by any hidden force within Shifang City, unwilling for her to vie for the position of City Lord with her brothers.

Instead, from the start, she had destroyed that token herself.

Yet somehow, a new Jade Token had once again found its way into her hands.

And just at this time, the little corpse demon by her side, bereft of the memories of his past lives, needed the Immortal Tears.

Thus, she now stood within the world of the Bronze Gate, and the unseen Golden Gate had sprung up before her so unexpectedly.

Fang Geyu suddenly felt a chilling terror creep over her; she prided herself on being exceptionally clever, immune to the intrigue and scheming, but only upon stepping into Xianling City did she suddenly realize that every path she took seemed to be laid out in advance by someone else.