If Qiao Jiajin and Zhang Shan couldn’t defeat Qinglong, then how exactly could they safely reach Tianlong’s side and touch him under Qinglong’s watchful eye?

“You’re hesitating,” Qi Xia said. “Right?”

“Yes, I’m not confident,” Chu Tianqiu said. “Even Zhang Shan and Qiao Jiajin couldn’t gain any advantage in front of Qinglong. What do you think the probability is that the two of us could run to Tianlong safe and sound?”

“The two of us…?” After hearing this, Qi Xia shook his head. “Chu Tianqiu, it’s only you.”

“Only me…?”

“I only need to fall asleep to see Tianlong, so I don’t need to enter this door,” Qi Xia said. “You find a way to preserve your life, then touch Tianlong. I’ll wait for you in the dream.”

After hearing this, Chu Tianqiu narrowed his eyes and looked at Qi Xia. He always felt that Qi Xia seemed to be hiding something from him. At this kind of moment… he suddenly announced he wouldn’t enter this door. No matter how one thought about it, it was too suspicious.

“Chu Tianqiu… we only have this one chance,” Qi Xia said in a very light voice. “Everyone risked their own lives to endure until this moment, all for the sake of letting you invade Tianlong’s dream. So those ‘Heavenly-Levels’ were cleared for you, the ‘Ants’ were liberated for you, the ‘door’ was crafted for you…”

“Wait, you seem to be mentally confused… Qi Xia… what kind of absurd statement is this?” Chu Tianqiu said with a somewhat angry expression. “At this critical moment, you’re telling me that everyone’s efforts were all for me?”

“That’s right.”

“This was clearly all your plan. I don’t even know what exactly to do after entering Tianlong’s dream. Are you trying to extricate yourself at the final moment?” Chu Tianqiu showed complete doubt toward Qi Xia’s approach for the first time.

Qi Xia’s state already looked somewhat abnormal. If he truly made the final wrong decision in a chaotic state, everyone would fall short of success at the last step.

“I told you before,” Qi Xia shook his head. “We need to break open a crack in Tianlong’s dream… this is our plan…”

“You call this a ‘plan’?” Chu Tianqiu took a step forward and stood face to face with Qi Xia. “We don’t know what’s in the dream, nor do we know exactly who is in the dream… how exactly are we supposed to break open a crack in the dream?”

“You…”

“With me here, I’ll figure out a way…” Qi Xia repeated once more. “Chu Tianqiu, there will be a way…”

Chu Tianqiu looked at Qi Xia’s body. His body was covered with new and old wounds, almost tortured beyond human recognition. For a moment, he was at a loss for words too.

Would Qi Xia truly think of a way to break open a crack in Tianlong’s dream…?

“Chu Tianqiu, when you’re ready, enter the door,” Qi Xia said again. “Everything is entrusted to you. Remember, even if you die, you must touch Tianlong…”

Chu Tianqiu felt that in his entire life, he had never been as hesitant as he was now.

Because the feeling Qi Xia gave him wasn’t at all like having a well-thought-out plan. Instead, it was somewhat chaotic. He kept repeating the phrase “even if you die, you must touch Tianlong,” but this was also his entire plan.

“Dawn is about to break…” Qi Xia slowly opened his mouth and actually revealed a somewhat strange smile. “Chu Tianqiu… we’re about to run out of time… perhaps in a few minutes, perhaps in the next second?”

Chu Tianqiu stared at the door before him, his expression so complex it was difficult to describe.

“Won’t you try once…?” Qi Xia spoke again. “Right now, the distance between us and our final success… is only a wooden door.”

Chu Tianqiu turned his head to look at Qi Xia. After thinking for a few seconds, he asked, “Qi Xia, where are you going to fall asleep?”

Qi Xia extended a single finger and slowly pointed at the floor beneath his feet. “Right here.”

“Separated by a door… entering the dream outside Tianlong’s room…?”

“Correct.” Qi Xia responded. “The rest of the matter… is entrusted to you.”

After Qi Xia finished speaking, he took a step back, leaving the door for Chu Tianqiu.

And seeing the two people’s expressions being so complex, Tiantian didn’t know what to do for a moment either. She just remained silent on the side.

Chu Tianqiu was clear he didn’t have any choice. If he chose to give up at this time, he had no way to answer to all the people who had died in “Heavenly Mouth,” much less any way to answer to Wen Qiaoyun.

Those people didn’t even have the qualification to board the train. They merely placed a thread of hope with him.

All the deaths were for the sake of staying alive. All the despair was for the sake of preserving the last bit of hope. But what about now?

In order to be able to stand here, people had already lost too many things.

Whether his own life should be thrown away here… was no longer that important.

“Qi Xia…” Chu Tianqiu lowered his head and slowly came before the door. “As long as I enter this door, then everything I’ve done in the entire ‘Land of the End’ will be completely without any guilty conscience.”

“Is that so?”

“But what about you?”

With an expression of extreme sorrow, Chu Tianqiu looked at Qi Xia’s grayish-white pupils and repeated, “Qi Xia, do you have a clear conscience?”

Qi Xia remained expressionless throughout. He didn’t answer Chu Tianqiu’s question. Only after a long silence did he speak:

“Chu Tianqiu, good night.”

Hearing this painless and itchless answer, Chu Tianqiu’s expression gradually changed from extreme sorrow to calm, and finally he wore a bitter smile. “Qi Xia… liar…”

He removed many eyeballs from his jacket and held them in his hand, then threw them all into his mouth.

Regardless of what abilities those all were, he needed these eyeballs to make himself even more insane. Only this way could he activate the most extreme “Dream Entry.”

Chu Tianqiu’s eye color gradually became blood red, and his hair also slowly floated up at this moment. A strange and complex aura began to appear on Chu Tianqiu’s body, making him seem to depart from the category of “human” in a certain instant.

“I’ll explore this path.” Chu Tianqiu said in a hoarse voice. “Things being as they are, I will shoulder the hopes of others. Even if I die, it doesn’t matter.”

After saying this, he imitated Qi Xia’s manner, used a wood chip to move the handle, and entered that door without looking back.

In this room with no way out whatsoever, at this moment, only Qi Xia and Tiantian remained.

“Qi Xia…” Tiantian felt her condition had improved somewhat, then said, “Didn’t you say you still needed me to help with a small favor…?”

“Yes.” Qi Xia nodded. “I need a small knife for self-defense. Can you craft one?”

After hearing this, Tiantian paused. “Should be possible… are there any requirements?”

“The sharper the better. When killing someone, it’s best if the other party doesn’t feel any pain.”

“Oh…” Tiantian responded. “I’ll try my best.”

Tiantian searched around the vicinity in a circle but didn’t have any decent materials. She could only pick up a piece of broken wood, then mobilized her conviction and continuously compressed the wood, increasing its density. Then she sharpened the edge, and an extremely hard wooden knife appeared in Tiantian’s hand.

She handed the sharp wooden knife to Qi Xia without thinking, but in the next second, she felt something wasn’t quite right.

According to what Qi Xia and Chu Tianqiu said, what they were entering was a dream. But would a knife for self-defense actually be needed in a dream…?

Qi Xia took the knife and said expressionlessly:

“Zhang Lijuan, good night.”