The Gate and the Hound

Since the ritual could be passed down, it means that someone did it before and survived...

He remembered Usoma's notes mentioning that gods also have factions. Could it be that the faction responsible for killing the Sea God is the one that enjoys seeing the ancient gods' remains and feels pleasure?

There are still doubts about this matter; Luo Wei always felt that it wasn't as simple as it seemed on the surface...

While pondering these thoughts, Luo Wei noticed that the key in Tilis's hand suddenly underwent some changes.

The originally simple key began to glow faintly, gradually transforming into a silver key with intricate patterns.

Such a key matched Luo Wei's imagination of a divine, mysterious artifact.

Tilis also noticed this change. She slightly opened her eyes, her expression full of excitement.

She clenched the key tightly and struggled to turn it, as if it were truly inserted into a keyhole of a door.

Tilis excitedly pushed open the "door."

Intense light enveloped both of them. Tilis looked at the door that had been opened and eagerly stepped forward.

The door slowly closed.

Then.

Tilis and Luo Wei witnessed a scene that was so bizarre and indescribable that it was beyond words.

Countless timelines and spaces extended infinitely in all directions from the node beneath their feet. It was as if they were standing at the end of time and space, witnessing all the evolutions of the world.

"This is incredible..."

Tilis was so shocked that she could only repeat and marvel repeatedly.

"A miracle..."

"It's a miracle..."

"Luo Wei!" She excitedly lifted the glass bottle in her arms and shouted incoherently, "Did you see it? Did you see it?!"

"I didn't lie to you, did I?!"

"It really exists! We can leave this world! We can go anywhere we want!"

"I saw it! Calm down first!" Luo Wei felt like his soul was about to be shaken out of his body.

"Calm down, okay, calm down, you're right..."

Tilis hugged the jar containing Luo Wei tightly. She glanced around vigilantly, feeling the lingering presence of something sinister watching her.

A bone-chilling, unconcealed murderous intent.

It was the Huntsman.

The killers and cleaners of time and space.

Tilis quickly searched through the infinite time and space.

"Luo Wei! Where is your home? Quickly find it!!"

"Hurry! We're being targeted by that thing!"

Luo Wei didn't need her to tell him; from the moment they entered, his eyes had been constantly searching through those timelines.

To be honest, he was also curious if he could find a way home through this method.

It wasn't that he really wanted to go back, but it was better to know than not.

Unfortunately, so far, he hadn't found it.

This place seemed to be a high-dimensional perspective of this world, or more specifically, the Anomalous Species Containment Facility. Those infinite timelines, in his eyes, were more like different nodes in the river of time—some just born, some thriving, some destroyed... There were various strange planets and different races, but one thing was certain: there was no Earth, nor his original home.

Hearing Luo Wei's answer, Tilis's expression changed to one of disbelief.

"How is that possible? How could there be no trace of your home? Where exactly are you from??"

"I'm from..." Luo Wei smiled, "...a place you'd never expect..."

"You must be lying!" Tilis shook the glass bottle vigorously, "You must not want to leave this place! You're still attached to it! That's why you don't want to leave with me!!"

Luo Wei's spirit form flickered violently.

"I am attached to this place, but I'm telling the truth."

Tilis's expression gradually darkened. "Forget it! I'll deal with you later!"

She quickly looked around, staring intently at a suddenly distorted space in the depths of the universe.

Seeing Tilis suddenly become quiet, Luo Wei also looked in that direction.

It was the Huntsman.

This was the first time Luo Wei had seen this creature.

Its specific appearance was hard to describe because it was an abstract existence, like a conglomeration of twisted lines. It made the black space ripple and become chaotic, which was how the two of them noticed its approach.

There was a pack of Huntsmen...

The horrific image of her teacher's death suddenly flashed through Tilis's mind.

Fear, like a parasitic worm, enveloped her whole body, making her tremble uncontrollably.

"Run..."

"We have to run!"

Tilis frantically searched through the infinite timelines while keeping an eye on the Huntsmen's movement.

"They're coming!"

"It's too late, it's too late!" Tilis completely forgot about looking for Luo Wei's hometown at this point.

She had to choose a world quickly and descend as fast as possible.

Seeing the pack of Huntsmen rushing towards them, Tilis hurriedly jumped downwards with Luo Wei.

"This one will do!"

She could only choose the nearest world.

In that instant of crossing dimensions,

Luo Wei once again saw the blinding light, feeling like his eyes were about to be burned out.

Countless light spots were stretched into long lines trailing behind them, while the Huntsmen chased relentlessly.

The huge energy fluctuations caused Luo Wei, inside the glass bottle, to flicker violently, and he soon lost consciousness.

When he woke up again,

Luo Wei found himself on a red-brown, barren expanse.

The glass bottle had shattered, and his spirit form floated above the ground.

First, he observed the surroundings.

Not far from him, Luo Wei found Tilis's corpse.

Like her teacher, her body was torn into countless pieces, and large patches of blood had already dried.

The two spirit forms floating in the air looked at each other.

Tilis blinked.

"I... succeeded, didn't I?"

In the eyes of the Huntsmen, she was already dead, so the hunting ceased.

Tilis didn't care about the death of her physical body. She excitedly observed the surroundings.

Luo Wei gazed into the distance. "It seems so..."

This was an incredibly desolate world. Apart from the red-brown, desert-like land and the slightly undulating mountains in the distance, there was nothing—no green, no living creatures, and even the air felt devoid of oxygen...

Only endless silence...

"Is this the world you chose?" Luo Wei muttered to himself as he looked at Tilis.

Tilis stared at this desolate "new world" and was silent for a moment.

"Hehe, it's not in vain, what a beautiful paradise!" Luo Wei looked into the distance, sarcastically mocking her.

Although she had truly succeeded, Luo Wei didn't hold back his mockery, because it was obvious that this place was uninhabitable.

Would two wandering ghosts survive on this desolate death planet?

It was quite ridiculous.