“Oh…?” Heavenly-Dragon froze for a moment, then tilted his head slightly. “Where did I say something wrong?”

“Leave together with me…” Qi Xia raised his head, his eyes beginning to turn cold again. “That statement is simply too absurd…”

“How so?”

“You picked out all the evil deeds I’ve committed to shake my psychological defense line—there’s indeed nothing wrong with that.” Qi Xia said. “But you don’t know what my starting point actually is, and you don’t know what exactly drove me to use every inhuman means to force myself into a dead end… Heavenly-Dragon, I do indeed want to push myself into despair, and I do indeed want to eliminate you, but I absolutely will not accept boarding the train with you to fly to the ‘New World.'”

“What’s wrong with going to the ‘New World’?” Heavenly-Dragon laughed. “Baiyang, just like I said, we can already stand above ‘mortals.’ Only you and I are qualified to board the ‘train.'”

“No, every single person struggling here must board the train.” Qi Xia said. “Only you ‘gods’ cannot, so your starting point contradicts mine. This leaves me no choice but to eliminate you.”

“Ha…” Heavenly-Dragon’s flat face began to twist continuously. “But Baiyang, oh Baiyang… why exactly? Are those sinners really that important? They’re merely a group of dead souls who should be in hell. Whether they live or die, who cares?”

“I care.” Qi Xia answered decisively. “Heavenly-Dragon, this is the fundamental divergence between you and me, and also the reason I could never agree with you. What you care about is whether you yourself can remain a ‘god,’ while my reason for becoming a ‘god’ from the very beginning was to thoroughly destroy this place and let everyone out. Although my current methods are gradually approaching what you call an ‘evil god,’ I’ve always known what I’m doing. My goal is crystal clear and has never changed from beginning to end.”

“So you’re still you after all…” Heavenly-Dragon’s voice gradually became distorted. “I can’t even deceive you about this, ha… haha…”

“You once gave ‘hope’ to those in despair, and now I’m also giving them ‘hope.’ Just like the situation you’ve sensed when entering dreams recently.” Qi Xia continued. “Only the ‘hope’ you gave out was despair in disguise, while the ‘hope’ I give out is genuine light. I’ve been planning for this for decades… how could I possibly give up everything at the last moment to board the ‘train’ with you?”

Qi Xia walked forward step by step, and the entire room began to be covered with red flesh and blood once more. This time, the flesh and blood occupied the entire room.

“Heavenly-Dragon, you clearly could have taken everyone away.” Qi Xia said. “You clearly could have let every person here board the ‘train,’ but your mind only has yourself. You think the lives of ‘mortals’ are worthless as grass, that they should just drift about anywhere. You’ll never be able to experience what the people here have done just to survive.”

“What… does that have to do with me?” Heavenly-Dragon asked again. “Baiyang, even if all the mortals knew this… they absolutely could not shake me.”

“Have you ever experienced the intense desire to live?” Qi Xia asked as he moved forward. “Even when the mud has already passed your chin, you still want to struggle to survive. They want to leave this cage, want to return to the real world and reclaim their lives. There is monstrous regret and despair here, yet you turn a blind eye to it all.”

“I said, it has nothing to do with me.” Heavenly-Dragon said again. “Baiyang, the reason they’re trapped in endless reincarnation here is precisely because of your ‘Endless Life.’ You mustn’t pin this all on me.”

As the two spoke, they were already close at hand. Heavenly-Dragon kept moving his neck, looking as though killing intent was overflowing everywhere.

“Baiyang… I’m still very curious, how exactly did you see through all this?” Heavenly-Dragon said. “I didn’t show contempt for ‘mortals’ before, so how could you have started making this plan from so long ago?”

“Ha…” Qi Xia couldn’t help but laugh after hearing this. “Because I discovered something very interesting.”

“What?”

“Heavenly-Dragon… you’ve always called me ‘Baiyang,’ you’ve never called me by my name.” Qi Xia said with a deranged laugh. “I really want to ask you… what is my name?”

“You…”

“Even though I’m no longer ‘Baiyang,’ even though I’m standing here in the form of a ‘Participant,’ you still call me ‘Baiyang.'” Qi Xia stared at Heavenly-Dragon’s flat face. “Because in your heart, the names of ‘mortals’ aren’t worth mentioning at all… You look down on every person struggling and fighting here, don’t you?”

“I admit it.” Heavenly-Dragon nodded, seeming to laugh as well. “Who cares what you’re actually called? For me to remember the two characters ‘Baiyang’ is already a tremendous favor to you.”

“So it’s truly unfortunate—I saw through you long ago.” Qi Xia said. “This conversation ends here as well. We still cannot cooperate.”

“Oh…?”

“Be careful of Qinglong.” Qi Xia added. “He really wants your life.”

After hearing this, Heavenly-Dragon pondered for a moment, then spoke again in a contemptuous tone: “Baiyang, since you haven’t fully recovered your memories, let me tell you one more thing.”

“Speak.”

“Qinglong absolutely cannot harm me.” Heavenly-Dragon laughed loudly. “So in the end, the one kept in the dark is still you. Qinglong and I were originally one yin and one yang, joined together using ‘Grafting,’ then forcibly separated using ‘Twin Flowers.’ Each of our bodies contains half of the other—each person is half yin and half yang. If one dies, the other will die too. So I advise you to carefully consider Qinglong’s motives and not become a headless fly.”

“This sounds no different from a curse.” Qi Xia’s lips curved upward. “I don’t know what method Qinglong used to escape this curse, but in any case, it’s all the same to me. No matter which of you two dies, the other will die—this is tremendous good news for me. This conversation is already over, Heavenly-Dragon. Please leave.”

“Baiyang, I see you really don’t know what’s good for you…” Heavenly-Dragon’s voice gradually turned cold as he asked softly, “Do you think, with the conversation having reached this point… I would let you wake up alive?”