Seeing Heavenly-Dragon fall silent, Qinglong said softly again: “Heavenly-Dragon… your condition really isn’t right… Are you sure you don’t want to rest for a bit?”

Hearing this, the expression on Heavenly-Dragon’s face gradually shifted from confusion to anger:

“You’re toying with me… What exactly is this place…?”

Heavenly-Dragon, his face filled with rage, walked toward Qinglong step by step. Although he had already vaguely guessed the answer, he still refused to believe it.

“This is our ‘Taoyuan’… and also the ‘train’ that carries hope…” Qinglong replied. “Heavenly-Dragon… you’re tired.”

Heavenly-Dragon came before Qinglong and staggered as he reached out to grab his collar, but Qinglong retreated a step and avoided him from a distance.

“You don’t even dare let me touch you…” Heavenly-Dragon said through gritted teeth. “You have no connection whatsoever with this world… No one can see you, and you cannot influence this world… When your palm rested on my shoulder, it was as light as paper… You’re afraid of making contact with things in this world… You…”

Heavenly-Dragon looked like he desperately wanted to erupt and kill the Qinglong before his eyes, but his strength was nearly exhausted.

“You really are tired…” Qinglong replied expressionlessly. “It’s time to rest, isn’t it?”

“Hea… Heavenly-Snake…” Heavenly-Dragon turned his head and said tremblingly to the others, “Quickly apprehend him… he’s fake… Heavenly-Snake…”

But where was there any Heavenly-Snake in this room?

Heavenly-Pig stood to the side, holding his own severed head. The head in his hands kept showing a bitter smile: “Heavenly-Dragon… but I tried… I couldn’t kill Qinglong…”

“Heavenly-Pig… you…”

“Why must you push me to the front in your mutual slaughter?” The head in Heavenly-Pig’s embrace said with a miserable laugh. “I just wanted to live… I just wanted to escape… Why won’t you give me a single chance to survive?”

“No… Heavenly-Pig… you’re dead…” Heavenly-Dragon said with a wooden expression. “You clearly died…”

“He’s not Qinglong…” Heavenly-Dragon took another step forward. At this moment, the feeling of difficult breathing began to surge into his heart again. “This isn’t ‘Taoyuan’ either… This is…”

Although his mind was in complete chaos, his ‘conviction’ unstable and his breathing difficult, Heavenly-Dragon still tremblingly voiced his speculation:

“…My… dream…?”

“You truly are a formidable person.” Qinglong nodded. “To be able to discover this is a dream while inside your own dream… that alone surpasses many people. It seems you won’t obediently fall asleep.”

“If I were to fall asleep now… that would truly let you have your way…”

Heavenly-Dragon clutched his chest, feeling that his breathing was about to stop. Although he had discovered this was a dream… what had happened on the ‘reality’ side?

“Heavenly-Dragon…” Qinglong revealed a slight smile. He patted his own chest and asked in a very soft voice, “We’re both about to become ‘gods,’ yet we still subconsciously want to breathe?”

Heavenly-Dragon clutched his chest and asked in a deep voice: “Transforming into another person in my dream… how did you do it…?”

After hearing this, Qinglong said softly: “Heavenly-Dragon, when you just ‘woke up’… what were the only three sentences you remembered?”

Hearing this question, Heavenly-Dragon’s entire body stiffened, and then he carefully recalled.

When he had just ‘woken up,’ aside from the meaningless words of those rebels, the only three sentences he could remember were—

“I am Qinglong.”

This sentence was said three times in succession, continuously deepening his memory.

After these three sentences, the blurry figure before his eyes gradually became Qinglong.

“So I am Qinglong.” Qinglong pointed to the wound on his forehead. “I am the Qinglong who fought fiercely to the last moment in the ‘engine car,’ leaving behind wounds all over my body. Isn’t that right?”

“You’re controlling my subconscious…?” Heavenly-Dragon felt he had been calculated against from the very beginning. “In the ‘engine car,’ under the tree, before the throne, the only person who could fight the ‘rebels’ could only be Qinglong… You took the opportunity to disturb my cognition…”

“Isn’t this your favorite method?” Qinglong raised an eyebrow. “Giving orders within others’ dreams, in the dream no matter what unreasonable things appear… the dream’s master will think this is normal. It’s just that your ‘conviction’ is excessive, your rationality has begun to gradually disappear, and this dream has also begun to collapse along with it.”

Heavenly-Dragon forced himself to stay alert and took a step forward: “Remove your mask… let me see your face…”

“You want to see my face?” Qinglong slowly retreated to the doorway.

As he gradually retreated, the entire scene began to gradually collapse at this moment.

“Heavenly-Dragon.” Qinglong laughed softly at this time. “Come find me, I’ll grant you a defeat.”

“Where… should I go to find you…?”

“The old place.” Qinglong said. “Everyone in the entire ‘Land of the End’ is the same! As long as you miss someone, you’ll meet them… right?”

After saying this, he retreated from the room, stood in the corridor, and his entire body twisted in place before disappearing from sight.

In the ethereal distance, Heavenly-Dragon heard a voice from outside the door: “I can’t leave, you go quickly.”

Before Heavenly-Dragon could react, the entire room began to develop large numbers of cracks. Heavenly-Pig beside him transformed into bloody water right before Heavenly-Dragon’s eyes and spilled into the void.

Heavenly-Dragon immediately used ‘Suspended Animation’ to float in place, watching helplessly as the floor beneath his feet and the walls beside him collapsed and shattered.

This was the first time he had personally witnessed the space he was in collapse. A feeling of complete inability to control his fate began to emerge in his heart.

Where was this again?

How should he get out?

A few seconds later, everywhere Heavenly-Dragon’s gaze could reach, only a solitary door remained suspended in midair. Other than that, darkness surrounded him on all sides.

The scene inside the door was also rapidly collapsing, revealing strange colors.

Heavenly-Dragon walked forward in disbelief, his feet treading on empty air, and came before the door.

This was the first time he felt the fear of the unknown. What exactly was waiting for him inside the door?

Where exactly was the ‘old place’?

At this moment, he felt his entire body beginning to ache faintly, and breathing became even more difficult than before.

He hesitated slightly before stepping through the door, and was astonished to discover that outside the door was actually a familiar room.

Familiar furniture, familiar scenery.

Outside the window was still the familiar flesh-and-blood world.

This place… was Baiyang’s home in reality?

Countless questions began to bombard Heavenly-Dragon’s mind, making his already somewhat chaotic thoughts stir up like a tornado at this moment.

The room in the ‘engine car,’ from when exactly… had it been connected to this room?

“Don’t just stand there, have a seat.”

A voice rang out behind Heavenly-Dragon without warning, making his entire body tremble slightly.

He looked back in bewilderment and discovered a girl dressed in white clothes walking in through the door behind him. She was carrying two plastic bags in her hands, looking as if she had just returned from grocery shopping.

“Xia told me a distinguished guest would be visiting today. Is that you?”

After speaking, she turned around on her own and closed the door, cutting off all of Heavenly-Dragon’s routes of retreat.