Chapter 848, Station 52: No Rank, Despair Platform World: Colorless Land

A few days later.

Ye Qiyan was making his final preparations in the Wasteland.

Because the next stop deserved his most serious attitude.

[Key to the Golden Tribe's Treasury]

[In ages past, the key that opened the Golden Tribe's treasury. Through this key, one may travel to the (No Level) Despair Platform World·The Colorless Land.]

The treasure given to him by that beautiful goddess in the lake of White Forest.

A No Level platform world.

The last No Level platform world he had experienced was the End-filled apocalypse land.

But that place was clearly different from where he was about to go.

Ye Qiyan didn't know what would happen in The Colorless Land.

This kind of unknown adventure might be filled with opportunities, or it might be filled with dangers.

But since he had it, since he could go.

He wouldn't give it up.

For this reason, Ye Qiyan initiated a conversation with a certain goddess that he hadn't contacted in a long while.

["You there?"]

Time Flow Synchronization—

In a corner of some Level 12 platform world, Zhu Xingshu was using a quill pen, writing words across the curtain of the starry sky.

These words formed either epic tales of heroes, or despairing endpoints.

All the stories followed logic perfectly.

They flew toward every corner of this world under the guidance of the stars.

One after another, different figures became the protagonists of the stories.

Everything followed the fate created by Zhu Xingshu.

"Hmm hm hm~ So, when their homeland was destroyed by the Demon King, the heroes who came from all directions, following the prophecy, journeyed to the Demon King's castle, and in order to save the world, ultimately defeated the world-destroying Demon King.

Congratulations, congratulations~"

The branches of fate were trimmed.

When the period fell, the future of this world was reduced to only the single path chosen by Zhu Xingshu.

The sacrifices of countless people would ultimately become nourishment for Zhu Xingshu's conquest of this platform world.

Becoming those destined to die, fated sacrifices necessary for the birth of the heroes.

[Beep beep—]

But, her pen stopped mid-air, her palm trembling slightly. The period that should have been completed turned into a comma.

[A friend on your Special Watch list has sent you a message]

"Oh my~ Brother Ye really is something, turning my destined story into a to-be-continued, hehe, but that's fine too."

The fate of this world, because of that sudden message from Ye Qiyan, gave birth to a new branch of fate that even Zhu Xingshu could not hear.

Even though she could erase the comma and turn it back into a completed story like before.

But...

Forget it.

That's fate~

Sometimes, not changing things is what makes them more interesting.

["I'm here~ Brother Ye, hehe, are you missing your big sister? It feels like it's been so, so long since I've talked to you~"]

["That long?"]

["Mm-hm, because I've been in a Level 12 platform world, let me calculate... mhm... based on the time flow here, it's been about two years. Hehe, so, tell me, what's up?"]

Ye Qiyan didn't hesitate, telling Zhu Xingshu the name of The Colorless Land.

He didn't care what Zhu Xingshu would do after learning about it, because before asking this woman, he had already contacted Shaya, Menrojina, and even Zhao Xi.

Shaya might have known, but she seemed to have forgotten these things.

Only Menrojina roughly guessed it was related to the Golden Tribe. If it were matters of the Silver Tribe, she would know more; the Golden Tribe, she wasn't clear about.

As for Zhao Xi, she had been holed up in Suoluo City for too long, so she was even less likely to know.

In the end, aside from those two dangerous ones, Shen Yuan and Mo Shi, the only person left in Ye Qiyan's Friends List who could most likely provide him with information was just one.

Zhu Xingshu.

The founder of the Emperor's Order, a madman.

["...The Colorless Land, is it? I see... Brother Ye actually found a place like that."]

["You've been there?"]

["No, but I know that it is the final resting place of the Golden Tribe. It's very dangerous there. Even I, if I were to enter that place, wouldn't necessarily be able to leave alive. Ye Qiyan, you're the same.

Fate can never see the future you haven't chosen.

But, if you choose to enter there..." ]

["What would happen?"]

["I don't know, perhaps good, perhaps bad, because that is fate."]

Zhu Xingshu's eyes flowed with galaxies, her gaze shimmering brightly.

Those heroic epics written on the starry curtain gradually disappeared.

A brand new, pure white piece of paper fell before her in the starlight.

["But, fate says~ Ye Qiyan, you will always come through safe and sound."]

She dipped her quill in the blood flowing from her own eyes and wrote four words on that blank piece of paper.

[The Path Ahead Is Unobstructed]

"Ha, hahaha!"

Zhu Xingshu burst into ecstatic, manic laughter.

She cupped her cheeks, not caring at all about her bleeding eyes.

"The Colorless Land~ the final mausoleum of the Golden Tribe, so~ that place can be found after all~"

————

The conversation with Zhu Xingshu had ended.

From this woman's mouth, no more information was obtained.

But, that was about enough.

Ye Qiyan sat in the locomotive section.

By his side, the Judge and the Anchor gently revolved.

One more was still needed to form the Ring of Blasphemy.

Though how much longer it would take for this Ring to be born, Ye Qiyan didn't know.

But if he stopped moving forward, it would never be born.

All the mech-soldiers in the carriages were ready for battle.

Everyone's condition had been adjusted to peak state.

Ye Qiyan took a deep breath, his gaze burning as he looked at the golden key in his hand.

"Let me see just what The Colorless Land is really like."

The Light Screen appeared, and the broadcast sounded.

[Respected Train Conductor, ahead, you are about to enter the Fifty-Second Station of your choice]

[Platform confirmed]

[No Level·Despair Platform World·The Colorless Land]

[Please confirm, do you wish to enter this world?]

"Confirmed."

[Exclusive Module·Crossroads of Fate triggered]

[Please choose one of the following three options as your stopping platform for entering this world]

[Platform One: The Falling Cliff]

[Platform Two: The Sea of Tomb Bones]

[Platform Three: Beneath a Tree]

One and Two didn't seem like places that could serve as platforms.

So this time...

"I choose Platform Three."

[You have made your choice]

[Please, sit tight and hold on]

[The train is about to arrive at: The Colorless Land]

[This stop: EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!!!]

Ahead, the void manifested.

The tracks, immediately extended.

This mass of void was completely different from any Ye Qiyan had seen before.

Just by taking a single glance at that void, Ye Qiyan felt an intense sense of [Despair] [Sorrow] [Pain]...

It was the sunset land of a race, a civilization.

"Extremely dangerous, but not absolutely impassable. That means there's a chance."

TOOT!

The whistle blared loud and clear.

The wheels rolled onward.

Ye Qiyan held the Anchor in his hand.

An Anchor Point had long been renewed by him in the Wasteland beforehand.

If he encountered a danger that was absolutely impossible to defeat, he would not hesitate to choose to flee.

And when the train truly entered the world beyond that mass of void.

Something that had never happened before occurred.

The black tracks, which seemed to every Train Conductor as if they would never be severed, disappeared the moment Ye Qiyan's train entered this world!