After the instant of “Eternity,” Heavenly Dragon slowly opened his eyes.

Before him was a city of flesh and blood, both strange and familiar.

Qi Xia sat facing him. His expression was blank, as if he had just casually taken a nap.

The two seemed to have been separated for a long time, yet also seemed to have been entangled for a lifetime.

While they looked at each other wordlessly, Qi Xia said softly:

“Good morning, Heavenly Dragon.”

Heavenly Dragon paused for a moment, then spoke in a hoarse and weak voice: “What a bold hypothesis. You gambled that if I used ‘Entering the Dream’ in reality to create a world, then I would confusedly use ‘Crafted Object’ to create a world in the dream. You gave me the most realistic dream, making me create a real world in the void of the third station… You had already prepared both the station before ‘Taoyuan’ and the station after ‘Taoyuan’ in ‘Eternity’… just waiting for me to enter the trap.”

“After all, I know you can do it,” Qi Xia replied. “The entire ‘Taoyuan’ is so fragmented, with buildings from various eras—isn’t that what you created after extracting everyone’s memories? ‘Taoyuan’ wasn’t originally like this, was it? I have to say the world you created is perfect, with the only flaw being that it’s completely empty.”

“Heh… Applying ‘Endless Life’ and the most powerful ‘conviction’ onto me, borrowing my ‘Entering the Dream’ to activate ‘Crafted Object.'” Heavenly Dragon smiled bitterly. “You’ve created a real world that belongs uniquely to them. What a madman… To make that person called Chu Tianqiu touch me… just how much preparation did you make…?”

“Oh?” Qi Xia said softly. “Do you want to watch it again?”

Heavenly Dragon stared at Qi Xia and fell silent for a long time, finally lowering his head: “You really did arrange an ending for each and every so-called ‘god.’ The four divine beasts were defeated by the five elements they represented, and I…”

“Defeated by a dream,” Qi Xia said.

“Absurd…” Heavenly Dragon smiled bitterly. “Truly absurd…”

“Is that a compliment?” Qi Xia asked.

Heavenly Dragon no longer knew how to describe his current feelings. All he could do was smile bitterly.

Win?

How could he win?

Where could he even begin to win?

“You deceived me once again…” Heavenly Dragon said with twitching eyes. “You said… if you wanted to create a world, this process wouldn’t require me at all… but you completely borrowed my power…”

“Yes, Heavenly Dragon, I deceived you. So what?” Qi Xia nodded. “You had many chances to see through me, but you didn’t do it. Aren’t you curious at all… why every time I started recovering my memories, there were many blanks in my brain? Why could I never recover all my memories no matter what?”

After hearing this, Heavenly Dragon gradually lost his voice. Yes, he had a chance to realize it—Qi Xia’s memory capacity was too vast, making it impossible for him to retrieve everything in a short time.

But even if he had realized it, what could he have guessed? He had already felt a strong sense of adhesion when activating “Entering the Dream,” but he would never have anticipated that someone had begun laying out a dream from such a distant past.

At this moment, Heavenly Dragon felt that everything truly was like a great dream.

Qi Xia chuckled lightly, then stood up, gently brushed off the dust accumulated on his body from “Eternity,” and walked toward the distance.

The entire flesh-covered land began to churn at this moment. The many fierce beasts in the amusement park looked covetously toward the building where Heavenly Dragon was.

The first unsolvable death tribulation on Heavenly Dragon’s path to godhood was about to arrive.

“Qi Xia,” Heavenly Dragon called out just as Qi Xia was about to leave the building.

Hearing Heavenly Dragon call his name for the first time, Qi Xia stopped his footsteps and turned to look at him.

“Why aren’t you leaving?” Heavenly Dragon asked.

“Leaving?” Qi Xia pondered. “Where to?”

“As long as you want to live in that world, nothing can trap you here, right?” Heavenly Dragon said. “Are you really planning to spend eternity here?”

After hearing this, Qi Xia seemed to have gained a bit more interest in Heavenly Dragon. He smiled and said: “Heavenly Dragon, no matter how resolute a person’s will is, under the influence of the bustling world they will gradually realize that the world they’re in is the real world, so their subconscious will make them begin to experience birth, aging, sickness, and death. They are surrounded by real family members, which will make them increasingly fade their identity as ‘Participants of the Land of Terminus,’ and one day they will return to normal life.”

“So?”

“So do you think that I, having experienced ‘Eternity,’ carrying a terminal illness, mad as a demon, half good and half evil, with divinity and humanity intertwined, without any relatives in the real world—should I experience birth, aging, sickness, and death like an ordinary person together with them, or should I live eternally like a deity in that world?”

Just as Heavenly Dragon wanted to ask “Why not live eternally,” he suddenly remembered what Qi Xia had once said.

He said that the world he created never needed a god.

It seemed that the answer to this question had been answered long ago.

If Qi Xia wanted to forcibly become a normal person and wash away all memories of the “Land of Terminus,” for him it would be no different than losing his thoughts—at that time, he would truly be dead.

“Choosing this path, I am destined to be lonely,” Qi Xia said. “I cannot settle the lingering thoughts remaining after experiencing ‘Eternity.’ I cannot step into the life that normal people can enter, so I can only choose this place as my final destination.”

“So the world you need to return to…” Heavenly Dragon’s lips trembled slightly as he spoke. “Needs ‘lingering thoughts’… ‘peace’…”

“Unfortunately, lingering thoughts are always difficult to settle, and I…” Qi Xia smiled bitterly, then turned his head again and walked toward the building’s exit—

“Heavenly Dragon, good night.”

After leaving, the overwhelming wailing sounds of giant beasts rang out behind Qi Xia.

He didn’t know if Heavenly Dragon was resisting, but no matter what, it wouldn’t change any result.

An entire world awaited Heavenly Dragon to kill. If Heavenly Dragon could truly kill the entire world—

Then he would create another one for him.

Qi Xia walked out of the amusement park and raised his head to look at the blood-red sky.

What mood was he in right now…?

Just a sense of melancholy and loss now that everything had settled.

After achieving all this, his karmic ties with those people had already ended.

He didn’t need to receive any feedback.

Walking on the road paved with flesh and blood, Qi Xia also revealed a bitter smile.

That distant world… could he really return to it?

“Unless…”

Qi Xia shook his head.

No, that kind of “unless” didn’t exist.