louisehourcade Chapter 228 The Giant Gate in the Starry Sky
Chapter 228 The Giant Gate in the Starry Sky
The purple-haired high god recognized by Gu Yan was named Arthur. He looked at the transformed Gu Yan and felt a sense of familiarity, but he did not think of the stunningly beautiful boy he had fallen in love with at first sight thousands of years ago.
He racked his brains but couldn't fathom how, in just over three thousand years, a cultivator at the Tribulation Transcending stage could have reached the same cultivation level as himself. (Gu Yan is currently disguised as a High God.)
"Fellow Daoists, I am Su Shi. I apologize for disturbing you," Gu Yan said politely, deliberately adjusting his voice to sound hoarse.
The voice was hardly pleasant, yet for some reason it still caused the minds of these high-ranking gods to sway slightly.
Arthur stared at Gu Yan's face, feeling quite regretful. The young man possessed an extraordinary air, but his appearance was rather ordinary. If only his face were more handsome! Then he thought of the beautiful young man he couldn't forget. He wondered where that handsome young man was now. If only he could see him again!
"So it's Mr. Su. I am Arthur from the Ojatu family of the Azshara pantheon. These are my friends." Arthur introduced the others to Gu Yan with a smile.
After listening with a smile, Gu Yan asked her question: "Mr. Arthur, I've been cultivating in remote areas and haven't been here long. I don't know why, but as soon as I arrived in this star field, I found that the star chart seems to be malfunctioning. I feel there's a force here influencing the star chart. Why is that?"
"Speaking of which, it's a normal thing. This happens in many places in the Divine Alliance. As long as you fly a little further, your star chart will return to normal," Arthur explained with a smile.
A black-haired female deity beside Gu Yan looked at her and giggled, "I've heard that this place was once an ancient battlefield, where a god-emperor once perished. Although a very long time has passed, probably tens of thousands of epochs, the star charts of everyone who comes here still show anomalies. I've also heard that every 880 million years, a mysterious gate appears here."
The black-haired female deity stared intently at Gu Yan's face. She didn't know why, even though the young man looked quite ordinary, she just found him very charming and couldn't help but want to look at him more often and even talk to him.
"A door?" Gu Yan looked slightly interested.
"There is such a legend. It is said that when that gate appears, it will suck in everything within tens of millions of miles of the starry sky. It is said that the suction force is so terrifying that even a god-level powerhouse would find it difficult to escape," Arthur said.
"However, that door appeared for an extremely short time, only a few breaths. In addition, almost everyone who saw it was gone, so no living being has ever seen it; it's just a legend," said another black-haired male god.
Gu Yan listened with great interest, but it was none of his business. He clasped his hands in a fist salute to the group and said, "Thank you for informing me. I am in a hurry to get on my way, so I will not disturb you any longer."
"Hey, Mr. Su, why don't you travel with us for a while?" Arthur called out urgently to Gu Yan. Although the young man was of average appearance, he had a good temperament, which reminded him of the handsome young man he longed for day and night. Unable to find that handsome young man, he wanted to temporarily transfer his feelings to Su Shi in front of him.
Arthur belongs to the pantheon of Azshara, a pantheon known for its lustful nature, showing no regard for either male or female protagonists. The other high-ranking gods beside him are not from the same pantheon, but they've all interacted with Arthur before, and they can tell what he's up to just by looking at his eyes.
The black-haired female deity looked at Gu Yan and thought to herself: This young man has an ascetic appearance, like he is from the lineage of Nuwa. Many of the gods and immortals in the Nuwa lineage reject same-sex love, and some even hate it deeply. If someone of the same sex were to express their love, they would immediately become angry and embarrassed. Arthur would definitely suffer a setback.
Gu Yan had a pretty good idea of what Arthur was thinking. That bastard, if the timing wasn't wrong, she would definitely kill him.
However, he was in a hurry to get on his way and did not want to start a killing spree here, which would attract other gods.
"No need, I'll take my leave!"
As Gu Yan spoke, he turned and transformed into a streak of cyan lightning. However, before he had flown even a hundred feet, a sudden change occurred. The space of this star field began to distort abnormally, and a large cloud of white mist suddenly appeared in the entire starry sky. This mist appeared suddenly and very strangely, and then a blood-red tide emerged from the mist.
"This, this is..."
Arthur and the other high-ranking gods looked around in astonishment, while Gu Yan also stopped, wary of her surroundings. They were all enveloped in white mist.
What happened?
Before anyone knew it, a thick, pale fog began to spread silently. The fog was not ordinary water vapor, but rather a deathly gray, like an old shroud, slowly swallowing the surrounding starlight.
Right at the thickest point of this chilling white fog, space collapsed without warning.
It was a vast, incomprehensible shadow, as if a slumbering beast had awakened its eyes. As the shadow gradually came into focus, an ancient, heavy, and pungent metallic scent wafted over.
It turned out to be a towering bronze gate.
The door was unbelievably large, its surface covered with mottled patina and unrecognizable ancient inscriptions, each texture like a chasm of time. It floated silently in the void, neither reflecting starlight nor letting in any light, as if it were a relic abandoned there at the dawn of the universe.
The next second, the bronze gate, which seemed to have been frozen for hundreds of millions of years, emitted a deafening roar.
"boom--"
With that loud bang, the two heavy doors swung open inwards.
An irresistible suction force erupted instantly, like a cosmic vortex.
"not good!"
Gu Yan only had time to let out a cry of surprise before the surrounding scenery began to distort wildly. Stars, meteorites, and even the huge gas giant in the distance all seemed like specks of dust, involuntarily being pulled toward the dark, gaping door.
Arthur tried to steady himself, but his divine power could not resist the pull, and his body slid uncontrollably into the eerie darkness.
The other gods were also terrified and sucked away one by one.
Seeing this, Gu Yan fled as fast as he could, but he couldn't resist the attraction.
It was sucked in.
Immediately following was a deep, thunderous roar.
"Bang!"
The colossal bronze gate, powerful enough to swallow the stars, slammed shut without warning.
The giant gate closed and disappeared.
The instant it vanished, the surrounding white mist surged back, filling the space where the giant gate had been. This star field returned to a deathly silence, as if nothing had ever happened.