When the crack was replenished anew, a panicked faceless person instantly ran toward this place.

Before Qi Xia could stop her, she plunged headfirst into the healing crack as if escaping from some monster.

Qi Xia frowned and initially wanted to pull her back, but after thinking for a few seconds, still withdrew his hand.

How could there be such a coincidence?

She didn’t run toward the exit, didn’t run toward sparsely populated areas, but ran precisely into this crack?

The ‘unexpected incident’ had just appeared, and a new accident came to fill it.

Watching that woman struggle in the crack, Qi Xia frowned in contemplation.

It seemed that even when the situation reached this point, ‘karma’ and ’cause and effect’ still existed.

The person before his eyes appearing here at this moment to fill the ‘unexpected incident’ might be because of the karma Qi Xia had committed in the past.

And her going out through this crack would plant new cause and effect for another time.

When ‘good’ and ‘evil’ began to entangle, ’cause’ and ‘effect’ alternated in reverse.

Let the ‘unexpected incident’ resolve the ‘unexpected incident,’ let ‘karma’ nourish ’cause and effect.’

Qi Xia no longer concerned himself with this faceless person, only turning back to look at Heavenly-Dragon.

He still lay quietly.

He didn’t move, as if deep in thought.

Was it Baiyang?

No, he felt like he was fighting the entire world.

Qi Xia walked slowly to Heavenly-Dragon’s side amid the pedestrians running about everywhere. He discovered Heavenly-Dragon was completely unharmed, currently staring expressionlessly at the sky.

Heavenly-Dragon gazed blankly at the sky in a daze.

That enormous ribbed pirate ship, after knocking Heavenly-Dragon flying, floated lightly in the sky like a balloon. Although it had no eyes, Heavenly-Dragon just felt it was watching him.

What kind of scene was this exactly?

This world seemed to be alive.

Aside from Baiyang, every single thing in this amusement park wanted him to perish.

Qi Xia didn’t speak, seemingly leaving time for Heavenly-Dragon to rest, then turned and walked toward a small stall to the side.

This small stall was selling amusement park souvenir pins. The stall owner had long since fled. The pins on the stall were all made from bone fragments, with patterns outlined in fresh blood.

Qi Xia browsed for a while, took a pin painted with a flower pattern from the small stall, placed it in his pocket, and only then returned nonchalantly to Heavenly-Dragon’s side.

“Tired?” Qi Xia asked.

Heavenly-Dragon didn’t answer, only gazed at the sky.

“If you still have fighting spirit, you can continue fighting.” Qi Xia said again. “Less than one-tenth of the things here have been dismantled. Much effort is still needed.”

After hearing this, Heavenly-Dragon laughed bitterly: “You didn’t use ‘conviction’ at all.”

“Hmm?”

“Those things attacked me as if they were alive. They weren’t under your control at all.” Heavenly-Dragon asked expressionlessly, “What exactly is going on with this amusement park…?”

“Heavenly-Dragon, the problem isn’t with the amusement park. I said before, the reason I chose to settle things with you here is because this place is useless now, so I wanted to tear it down and rebuild something else.”

Heavenly-Dragon’s expression gradually turned ugly. He felt he had been played.

“It has nothing to do with this amusement park… yet you deliberately brought me here?”

“No matter where you go in this world, you can’t possibly win.” Qi Xia said. “The moment you stood here, everything was already settled.”

“Baiyang… where exactly is this place?”

“You’re more perceptive than Qinglong. You should have already discovered the stability of this world.” Qi Xia said. “No matter how insane I may seem, this world conforms to its original logic. It won’t show any signs of collapse regardless of any circumstances. So is this really a dream?”

Heavenly-Dragon felt that what Qi Xia said was true. When he first entered here, he felt everything was bizarre, but after staying for a while, he discovered it was exceptionally stable.

Even more stable than his own dreams.

Everything here was composed of flesh and blood, and every person here had no face.

Seeing Heavenly-Dragon fall silent, Qi Xia suddenly asked from the side: “Heavenly-Dragon, do you think you… have a face?”

Heavenly-Dragon froze, as if remembering something. He tremblingly reached out to touch his own face—

His features were clearly all there.

“So this place… really… isn’t a dream?”

“That’s right.” Qi Xia nodded. “I told you long ago, but you…”

Before the words finished, Heavenly-Dragon suddenly swung his hand at Qi Xia. Qi Xia’s body was blown apart like a sand dune by a strong wind, turning into fragments of flesh and blood that scattered in the air.

The flesh and blood fragments dispersed completely, and a small bone fragment pin fell from midair.

Even Heavenly-Dragon hadn’t expected that ‘Disintegrating’ Qi Xia would be so easy.

This proved that this world indeed wasn’t a dream… but something else.

This place was… reality?

But how could such a place exist in the world? It was even more absurd than ‘Taoyuan.’ How could it possibly exist in reality?

A few seconds later, a person slowly walked to Heavenly-Dragon’s side. He lowered his head, picked up that bone fragment pin, and put it back in his pocket.

Heavenly-Dragon saw clearly that the person was Qi Xia’s face and couldn’t help but reveal a trace of bitter smile.

A person who had just been ‘Disintegrated’ was now standing here perfectly fine.

Such a bizarre place… actually wasn’t a dream?

But if it was a dream… why didn’t killing the dream’s master cause the dream to collapse?

“Baiyang, you clearly entered my dream, yet now you want me to believe this isn’t a dream?”

Qi Xia shook his head: “Heavenly-Dragon, this is precisely one of my schemes. When you thought you had awakened, you were actually in a boundless dream. When you came here thinking you were still in a dream, you had actually already woken up long ago.”

Heavenly-Dragon struggled to prop up his body and slowly sat up. He didn’t look like he had been defeated, but rather shattered.

“Then when… did I wake up?” Heavenly-Dragon asked again.

“The instant before entering the door, I suppose.” Qi Xia murmured. “At that time, did you feel your breathing becoming even more difficult, being in boundless darkness?”

After hearing this, Heavenly-Dragon laughed bitterly again.

In that moment of collapse… he indeed felt his breathing became even more difficult.

But who would discern whether that was because of awakening?

“I came here in an awakened state… yet you showed me nightmare scenery.” Heavenly-Dragon supported his forehead and sighed helplessly. “Tell me honestly, can I kill you here?”

“No.” Qi Xia answered. “If you want to thoroughly kill me, you would need to destroy this entire world.”

He looked at Qi Xia, hesitating to speak many times, finally only able to sigh lightly and ask: “How did you do it?”

“What you killed wasn’t me, but a part of this world.” Qi Xia answered. “The more obvious your killing intent toward me, the more dangerous you will be.”

Heavenly-Dragon murmured: “You clearly said you had no reason to continue fighting with me, yet ever since I stepped in here, I’ve felt abnormally intense killing intent.”

“That’s because what wants to kill you isn’t me, but this entire world.”

“What…?” Heavenly-Dragon felt that things seemed to exceed his expectations once again, but carefully thinking about the situation just now, it was indeed so. “The world wants to kill me… but you don’t?”

“How should I explain this to you…” Qi Xia crouched down and gently stroked the ground. “Heavenly-Dragon, this world is ‘me.'”

For the first time, Heavenly-Dragon felt that such a short sentence could be so difficult to understand.