# 1862
Chapter 1855: Embodiment of the Past
The hurricane rose from behind Lin Qiye's wings, sending Lina staggering backward. Athena and Artemis, feeling the surging divine power fluctuations, had expressions of surprise flash across their faces.
What a powerful aura!
Just then, a dull grinding sound echoed from within the Gate of Truth.
As Lin Qiye's palm pressed against the portal's surface, endless gray mist flowed from the narrow crack in the door, nearly engulfing his figure. Yet at this moment, one corner of the Gate of Truth was being slowly pried open!
"It worked?!" Artemis saw that crack in the door, and her astonishment transformed directly into shock.
Beside her, Athena gazed intently at those golden strands of divine power, her eyes narrowing slightly:
"No wonder... with the Limit-Breaker's 【Mortal Divine Realm】 in hand, creating miracles isn't anything unusual."
The divine power within Lin Qiye's body was being consumed wildly, endlessly flowing into the 【Mortal Divine Realm】. For him at this moment, that one corner of the door 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 for you to go in. Wait for me at the entrance! If I haven't come out within a month, go to Great Xia and find Sword Immortal Zhou Ping. Tell him this location!"
Lin Qiye's words fell, then he released his grip. His figure turned into a stream of light and directly dove through the portal!
BOOM—!!
At the moment of his disappearance, the heavy portal closed once more with a thunderous roar.
...
Within the endless gray mist, Lin Qiye gazed at the fragments of light scattered like stars across the sky, his eyes flickering with confusion.
Before this, Lin Qiye had heard people speak of the Gate of Truth—that beyond the door lay "Truth," the ultimate origin of everything. Any existence that glimpsed "Truth" would be overwhelmed by the terrifying amount of information it contained and descend into madness.
Yet this world before him gave him no such feeling... No, to be precise, even when he had stood before the Gate of Truth, he had felt no hint of its grandeur or vastness.
To think, even the Gate of Truth's phantom summoned by An Qingyu had given people an incomparable sense of oppression, making one's scalp tingle at a single glance. Compared to that phantom, the Gate of Truth's true form before him seemed almost fake—just a door with nothing behind it.
But Lin Qiye knew very well that a door with nothing behind it could not, after being destroyed, have evolved into a Temporal Maze spanning a hundred years.
After contemplating for a moment, Lin Qiye thought he understood the reason... The Gate of Truth before him was merely a remnant.
The truly complete Gate of Truth had been destroyed a hundred years ago. The spirit 【Key to the Gate】 had fallen into eternal slumber, the "Truth" realm that should have been beyond its doors had completely severed all connection, and even the spatial-temporal power it contained had shattered utterly, evolving beside the ruins into the Temporal Maze—the "light cone"散发 towards the future.
If that were the case, then this Gate of Truth shouldn't possess the ability for "equivalent exchange" at all!
At this point, Lin Qiye could basically confirm that luring the Night Goddess Nyx behind the door had been an outright deception.
But who had lured Nyx behind the door?
The 【Key to the Gate】 from the past?
"Look over there!" Artemis's hawk-like eyes locked onto a certain direction, and she immediately spoke up.
Lin Qiye snapped back from his contemplation. His gaze followed where Artemis was pointing, and at the end of these clusters of light fragments, he saw a massive shadow slowly writhing.
Lin Qiye's brow furrowed tightly. He spread his wings and flew swiftly toward it.
As the distance between him and that shadow shrank, Lin Qiye finally saw its true form. They were corpse after corpse of tentacles, piled in disarray across the ground, as if they had been rotting for a long time.
But among these dead tentacles, a few thick ones still flowed with starlight, coiling together in an eerie manner, their starlight flickering intermittently as if breathing.
Lin Qiye had seen these tentacles before. Days ago, when An Qingyu had summoned the Gate of Truth in an attempt to resurrect Jiang Er, it was these tentacles that had stolen his emotions. If Lin Qiye guessed correctly, these were incarnations of a portion of the Gate of Truth's body.
When Lin Qiye's gaze pierced through these breathing tentacles and looked toward where they coiled deeply, his pupils constricted!
Beneath the suckers of these tentacles, a pitch-black sphere was being tightly wound around. Night and faint starlight flowed across the sphere's surface, being sucked up by the suckers like nutrients, continuously flowing into the earth beneath.
The Law of Night!
Lin Qiye would never mistake Nyx's Law. The sphere wrapped by countless starlight tentacles was none other than the Night Goddess Nyx, who had been tricked behind the door!
And this remnant of the Gate of Truth was undoubtedly using Nyx's divine power and Law as nutrients, continuously nurturing this realm. Perhaps because of this, Lin Qiye faintly sensed that the countless shattered light fragments across the sky seemed to be gradually growing brighter at a slow rate.
"Nyx-sama!" Athena cried out in alarm.
"Mother!"
Seeing this, Lin Qiye's chest heaved剧烈. A surging killing intent erupted from him!
Without the slightest hesitation, he directly gripped the hilt of Ame-no-Murakumo. His figure turned into a golden bolt of lightning, charging toward those few starlight tentacles wrapping around the sphere!
BOOM—!!
Just as the golden sword light was about to slash out, a light fragment in the sky suddenly brightened. Like a meteor, it crashed down before Lin Qiye!
The terrifying aftermath of divine power forced Lin Qiye to halt his advance. He waved away the dust before him, and within that radiant cluster of light, a mirror-like shard gradually emerged.
"What is that?" Lin Qiye's brow furrowed tightly.
As a few starlight tentacles moved away from the pitch-black sphere, the Law of Night flowed through their bodies and into that shard. After a moment, a figure draped in starlight robes slowly walked out from within the mirror shard...
Catching sight of that figure's face, Lin Qiye's gaze froze.
It was indeed the Night Goddess Nyx!
But strangely, the Nyx who walked out from the mirror shard appeared much younger than Lin Qiye remembered, and her aura barely maintained the stage of having one foot stepped into the Supreme God realm. Moreover, when she looked at Lin Qiye, there was no emotional fluctuation in her eyes, as if looking at a stranger.
Seeing this, a look of astonishment appeared in Lin Qiye's eyes. Connecting this with what Artemis had said earlier—that she had heard her past self's voice from within the Gate of Truth—his eyes narrowed slightly.
"These light fragments can actually embody people's pasts and materialize them?"
Lin Qiye could naturally see that the young "Nyx" before him was not the real Nyx, but some kind of puppet-like existence. If he had to guess, the Law of Night upon her body had also been drawn from Nyx herself.
While Lin Qiye was contemplating, the young Nyx's double eyelids slowly opened. When she looked at Lin Qiye, a trace of killing intent emerged in her gaze.
"The enemies of Olympus, eh... How convenient that you've come!"
A wisp of night spread from the hem of her starlight robes, like ink dropped into water, instantly dyeing the entire earth in darkness!