Chapter 1902: Gate of Many Mysteries

Gate of Many Mysteries

Chen Ling looked at that empty doorway, standing blankly in place like a sculpture.

He reached out and rubbed his pained eye sockets, beginning to suspect if he was affected by the Red Star's consciousness and had already started to hallucinate?

"What are you looking at?" The youth's voice came from inside the room.

Chen Ling withdrew his gaze. After hesitating for a moment, he still didn't speak of his bizarre experience just now, just shaking his head:

"...Nothing."

As Chen Ling walked into the room, deep in the drifting mist, a "Gate" carved like white jade was outlined.

This white gate just stood in the center of this otherworldly domain like this. No walls or supports could be seen around it, as if it was embedded into space itself, exuding a mystical aura.

The moment Chen Ling approached this aura, he felt very familiar. After slightly pondering, he remembered the source of this familiarity.

The aura of this white jade gate in front of his eyes was exactly the same as the power in the Spirit Tablet left by the first-generation Nameless Actor in The Ancestral Shrine.

"That's right." The youth looked at this white jade gate and nodded slightly, "This is something the first generation left behind."

Chen Ling could vaguely see something seemed to be written on that white jade gate. He rubbed his painful eye sockets and fixed his gaze. The outlines of those fonts finally became clear.

Left side: The Red Star covers the world, all things are at their wits' end

Right side: The mysterious door connects the universe, one step into the river of stars

Center: Gate of Many Mysteries

"It is indeed his handwriting." Chen Ling recognized this special font at a glance.

"When I came, this gate was already left here. He should have used some method to open a special passage here after entering this place." The youth pointed at those two columns of words and said,

"It's already said very clearly on this."

"The Red Star descended, the world outside the gate is already At One's Wits' End, there is simply no turning point... This mystical gate leads to some place outside the universe. Only entering there is the only way out."

"The later generations of Nameless Actors who boarded the Red Star all left through this gate."

A gentle breeze from nowhere brushed past Chen Ling's body.

He stood among the thin mist, standing under that tall Gate of Many Mysteries, a pair of cinnabar-like earrings silently swaying.

"You say..."

"They all left through this gate?"

Chen Ling's voice slowly rang out.

"Yes."

"Then why didn't you leave?"

"The first generation and I had an agreement." The youth paused for a moment, his gaze somewhat complex, "He went outside the world to find a way to solve the Red Star, I stayed here to guide the direction for latecomers... He hasn't come back yet, so I won't leave either."

The youth's voice was very deep, like a ghost that had wandered in the scarlet maze for an unknown number of years, murmuring to himself towards a back that had left long ago.

The youth took a deep breath and continued to speak:

"I know, the fact that the Red Star cannot be destroyed is a huge blow to you... but you have already done very well."

"I believe that before you boarded the Red Star, you had already arranged everything. Even without you, the Dusk Society will continue to fulfill the mission of rebooting. This protracted war won't usher in an end point, it still has a long way to go..."

"You, also don't need to be trapped here wasting your youth like me."

"Go..."

"Just like them, go outside the world, find the first generation... Even if this world is already At One's Wits' End, perhaps among the stars, you can still find a way to solve everything."

"I will be here, waiting for your return."

The youth's voice echoed in the thin mist.

He wore a set of black clothes, standing before the scarlet red, like the last watcher of this lonely space.

In front of the Gate of Many Mysteries, that back draped in the black Nuo Exorcism robe took a deep breath...

Then exhaled lengthily.

"Last question."

"...What?"

"If what's standing here is my consciousness, then... where is my body?"

In the thin mist, Chen Ling turned his head to look behind him.

The youth was stunned.

After pondering for a moment, he still spoke:

"Normally speaking, Divine Path Wielders are all unable to approach the Red Star, so they can only abandon their bodies and step here in the form of a soul... But you are an exception. Your body won't be repelled by the Red Star's power. It should have landed somewhere on the Red Star now, or perhaps... has already been torn into pieces."

"Mhm... Not a bad explanation." Chen Ling slowly turned around, "Perfect identity, perfect guidance, perfect reason... But, this is also your most failed point."

The youth looked at Chen Ling, his brows furrowing in doubt, "What are you talking about?"

"From the moment I woke up, everything was too logical." Chen Ling pointed under his feet, "As you said, this is where the Red Star's consciousness is located, but why hasn't it made any reaction to me, an outsider entering, up until now?"

"Instead it's you... you can casually walk in the Red Star's consciousness, you are familiar with every road here. Of course all this can also be explained by you being trapped here for a long time, so at the time I was only slightly doubtful..."

"But the more I think about it in detail, the more strange I feel."

"As soon as I opened my eyes, you appeared by my side. You stated your identity, letting me put down my guard... Oh right, here I have to praise another sentence, your choice of this second-generation Nameless Actor identity is also very perfect."

"You know I must have close contact with the fifth generation. Using his identity to communicate with me would definitely reveal flaws, and the fourth generation is too close to the fifth generation, and they have a blood relationship, maybe I could also recognize it... The first generation already left this world long ago, you definitely wouldn't choose it. Between the second generation and the third generation, only the second generation has contact with the first generation, able to round out your lie of 'having an agreement with the first generation'."

"After that, you revealed the essence of the Red Star to me, letting me put down my guard even more, and at the same time generate trust in your words..."

"Everything, was all to make me believe those things you said later, which is 'the Red Star cannot be destroyed'."

"What are you talking about?" The gaze the youth looked at Chen Ling with was already like looking at an inexplicable madman, "I just truthfully told the information I scouted out here... Moreover, the Red Star's consciousness wasn't without any reaction. Didn't you hear the drumbeats?"

"Good question." Chen Ling stretched out a finger, "This is your first fatal loophole."

"If those drumbeats were the Red Star's consciousness targeting an outsider..."

"Then why am I the only one who heard the drumbeats?"

The youth froze in place.

"What those drumbeats were, let's put it aside for now... From the moment I woke up, I always had a doubt." Chen Ling pointed at his own eye sockets, "Why, have my eye sockets been hurting the whole time?"

He slowly turned around and once again looked at the Gate of Many Mysteries close at hand.

The white jade-like door frame was like a blurred sand mirror, barely reflecting Chen Ling's appearance... At this moment at the corner of his eyes, a pair of apricot-red eye makeup was like burning, red and swollen, as if warning him of something.

That was the Theatre Dao Secret Method the fifth-generation Nameless Actor personally taught him, a secret method that could also exert its effect even under the condition where all skills were locked.

That was...

His [Painting the Vermillion Face].