When Othecus manifested, a tightly locked golden gate appeared within the mark, blue mist swirling among the gate’s bars, rendering the scene behind it unclear. After a moment of silence, some invisible force violently struck the gate, causing it to tremble and roar violently, as if some monster was desperately trying to open it.

A heavy breathing sound came from behind the door, and a nameless outline gradually appeared in the mist.

The Key of Candlefort.

Unlike the three door keys sought by Aemon, Candlefort’s secret key is composed of the [Key of All Gates - Othecus], which also possesses the capability to transcend the Crystal Wall System, but it is exceedingly difficult to control.

Candlefort once was one of the strongholds of the souls from the Otherworld.

Shawn’s figure halted. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

He walked to the golden gate before him, somehow, his figure began to gradually distort, becoming unspeakable.

A deep space rift materialized.

It severed Shawn’s head directly, that was a fractured Plane Law, harboring the terrifying energy to annihilate all matter.

"The body is severely damaged!"

"The head is decapitated by the space rift!... Body energy transformation law activated!..."

Shawn’s headless corpse stood motionless.

Next second.

A new head grew out, while the original head turned into energy dots dissipating in the air.

Ignoring all fatal weaknesses.

Never would die due to severe injuries.

Shawn did not move, he glanced down at his torso, which was severed in half, expressionlessly moved his fingers, reattaching the two severed parts, and by the next second, he had fully recovered.

He is an Energy Body.

The demigod law transcends all mortals!

He roughly understood the kind of power the Key of All Gates - Othecus in front of him wielded, incomplete Space Law, along with a tint of Divine Power [Space Manipulation].

Law Power twisting.

Shawn’s body gradually dissolved, under the interference of space, he could no longer maintain human form, as if a bursting bubble, his whole being transformed into a pale purple sphere, with endless nebulae swirling within it, a terrifying energy vortex constructed from countless silver knowledge runes, an unnameable form coalescing within the purple bubble, endless knowledge amalgamating like a flood forming a splendid galaxy, with a silver brain emerging from the void at its very center.

It looked like a miniature Su’en’s Brain, Terra Star System’s upper position Old One, that was Shawn’s most truthful form, or one might say, the projection of his Extraordinary Essence.

He had actually long been an Old One.

Because usurping the laws of the Old Ones, seizing the Extraordinary Essence of the Old Ones would ultimately transform one into an Old One member.

This is the curse borne by all demigods ascending from the Bizarre Realm, unable to enter the Pantheon unless reversing the Root Source Law, reverting from the unnamable Old One form to their original guise.

A fearful breath sounded from behind the golden gate.

It was frightened.

——Shawn [Unnamable Old One Form]!

In that expanding purple bubble, endless nebulae swirled like a vortex, countless mysterious knowledge surged out, fiercely gnawing at the golden gate before them, the Key of All Gates - Othecus let out an extremely miserable scream, its form slowly dissolving, just like when Shawn was parasitized by the great detective Morty Laine back then, endless knowledge began to nest upon this golden gate.

This was Shawn’s true demigod form!

The human appearance was merely his habit, or one might say, a guise.

He wanted to return to being a normal human.

Only along with the correction of the world’s Root Source Law, did that faintly purple bubble, with rotating nebula runes, transform into a vast rune matrix, Space Law was being reformed, the golden gate dissipated, finally revealing a door key engraved with an eerie eyeball, surrounded by tendrils.

"Devour the Pathway of Gateway Law!"

"Master Extraordinary Divine Power [Space Manipulation]!"

Shawn’s form recovered from the unnamable, transforming into a handsome human male, gently grasping the Key of All Gates in his hand.

An ancient spirit vanished eternally within the long river of history.

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