Marutian's mocking laughter echoed in my mind. His words on the dialectical approach of discerning truth from falsehood were perplexing. Speaking the truth was the only way, relying solely on intuition. Yet, what if this was all a decoy? Returning the object would serve no purpose and only place the relic back in Marutian's hands. It would bring calamity upon all living beings. Who could make the decision for me, who could make it for them?

It had been a long time since I felt such confusion. There were only two paths ahead, to return or not to return, a seemingly simple choice but immensely difficult. Despite having made up my mind, I found myself swayed by Marutian at the last moment.

"I suppose that woman has also told you why I repeatedly bet with you, resorting to every means to push you to a dead end."

"For the dragon's body! But you have already abandoned it once, and you are no longer entitled to it."

"Is that so? Reisgolo, the glimmering golden body in your hands is nothing but a dragon bone greatsword in your hands. You have not used it well and have wasted it into a skeleton. None of us truly have any entitlement!"

"At least, I have not abandoned it!"

Marutian, seemingly annoyed, impatiently said, "It should have been mine. No matter what, I have the right to take it back. Yet what I desire now is its completeness. You should return it to its rightful owner."

"Absolutely not!" I stated firmly and resolutely.

“Why do you fancy being human? Either give the dragon body to me, and I will reserve a position for you in the new world, as a king!"

He tried to lure me, and I sensed that his true desire lay in possessing the dragon body.

"To be honest, I would rather humans be the source of my life. I never imagined it turning out this way. My existence is thanks to you. Should I address you as father?"

"Not that familiar. If possible, I would love to acquire your dragon body immediately and rebuild the dragon realm!"

"Must the dragon realm be destroyed in all three realms? We could've..."

"Certainly could've? Don't joke, Reisgolo. As dragonkind, we are but a relic within the three realms. Without us, who would remember the dragons? We could easily enslave humans, gods, and demons. Why should we share the former world with them?" His voice remained arrogant, his method of purification.

"Monagath!" His response truly angered me; I wanted nothing more than to beat him senseless.

"I plan to abandon that name, a new world must be paired with a new name."

"Monagath, have you ever considered—death!"

Marutian appeared surprised by my question. Death was his grand objective; how could he consider it? Yet, he replied – Yes.

"You wish to say that the end of life is death, but our dragon souls are immortal, signifying eternal life. No one can control us, nor does the underworld dare to contain us. However, when I exist in a barely detectable state for an extended period, the loneliness makes me wish for death, for a definitive end. But later on... I understood how crucial the luminous body was. When you possess it, you are indifferent to its value. In the beginning, all dragonkind tried to persuade me—'We will not forget you.' Yet in reality, they couldn't withstand the passing of time..."

"How selfish, from anyone, even the dragonkind is not exempt from human nature. Therefore, abandoning this world from the very beginning was a mistake, and you all sacrificed for it. You sacrificed the old world, the dragon kind sacrificed you, and you, in turn, sacrificed your gleaming dragon body."

“No, taking back the body to welcome the Dragon Clan on the Ark and returning everything to how it was in the old world is the best outcome. This time, it is you, Reisgolo, who we sacrifice.”

A fist pounding on the door sent ripples through the air. Why me? What did I do wrong to deserve this? Is it because I chose the body of Monargos? No! Is it because I destroyed two Dragon Realms? No! Did I cause the extinction of the Dragon clan? Definitely not! Choosing me as the sacrifice is the most unacceptable.

“If it were the Holy Dragon, he might accept it, but I am both him and not him, so I choose to let you die in the truest sense.”

“Qin Yang, don’t talk to him any longer!” Elena suddenly interrupted the spiritual conversation between Marutian and me, as she noticed the cracks on the door spreading rapidly.

“You...” I suddenly realized.

“Haha! To tell you the truth, I am not on the other side of the door, I am inside the door!”

Inside the door was a rift of the Three Realms. I had felt something unusual inside it when crossing dimensions. Now I knew it was the headless dragon body, and Marutian was now searching within the rift, perhaps already finding what he sought.

Marutian had been talking to me all along, buying time! So, there had been no lie from the very beginning, what Yueyuan Qing said about returning the “Dragon Clan's sacred object” must be done.

Realizing this, I immediately placed the sacred object into the slot, but the cracks had reached the slot. As soon as I placed it, the dragon sculpture shattered. Marutian's hand reached out from the crack to catch the fallen sacred object before disappearing!

And at that moment, the Three Realms gate shattered simultaneously...

“Darn you, Monargos! I'm sorry... Yueyuan Qing... Senior.”

2

The Divine Realm, fragments of the gate floated in the air. In front of Marutian, the unseen dragon body turned into half a dragon core under his control.

“You chatted with me for so long, it seems you still don't quite believe in Yueyuan Qing.”

“What is that?” The Nine Demon Kings and the higher divine beings stopped in the midst of their battle. Nothing was more important than the shattering of the “God-Demon Gate”, the most direct connection between the Three Realms. Without the gate, all beings in the Three Realms wishing to cross over would have to use expensive spatial Magic arrays, which were also unsafe.

“What? This is a dragon core!” Marutian, holding the half dragon core, directed his gaze to reveal dozens of dragon clan Magic arrays instantly, rampaging recklessly in the sky and on the ground. For Marutian, this place was now expendable.

“Ah! To see such power again since the God-Demon War...”

“When will he... stop?”

“He doesn't think it's enough, he won't stop at all.” Hisa and the Demon Kings fought back together, and Ellen and the others had regained consciousness just at the moment of the gate's destruction.

Yu Ze's rueful smile said, “It's fortunate that you are all at The Divine Realm.”

“Yu Ze!” Hisa gave a meaningful look to this old opponent.

“Tsk... Everyone, let's launch a counterattack together.”

Immediately, Mountain King and Monkey King took the forefront, while the rest of the Demon Kings displayed their own skills to counterattack. In The Divine Realm, they might be slightly weaker in the Dark Magic department, but under Hisa's lead, the divine beings also joined in.

“A dying struggle is also quite a spectacle.” Marutian watched the dazzling Magic attacks filling the sky, leaving only one figure in his sight as the dust settled, the new Pluto, Naina.

"Nana, you are the Dragon Queen, I can only let you watch them." Marutian once again sealed all the demons and gods of the Magic and Divine clans on the crucifix made of earth. With each word of the Dragon language Magic, spears appeared one by one, piercing through them, but demons and gods are not easy to kill.

"Do you want them to be your audience?" Nana looked weakly at everyone, the falling God's Temple as the backdrop, the suspended demons and high-ranking gods one by one. The lower-ranking gods, seeing this scene along with the appearance of the elusive black hole, could only feel despair.

"It's been a long time since I felt this way. After so much time has passed, I am once again going to do the same thing in this world. Of course, I need an audience. It's a pity they won't live to see the arrival of the new century."

"What exactly defines the new century for you? What kind of catastrophe do you want the Three Realms to go through to be satisfied?"

"Satisfied? There's nothing left for me to be satisfied with. The hope lies in the fusion of the Three Realms and the recreation of the Dragon Realm to possibly bring me satisfaction. But if Qin Yang doesn't die, you Dragon Queens might have a chance to see it."

"Then Yuyuanqing would also accompany you if he were alive!"

Marutian looked at Nana and said, "I never thought about that."

"I don’t think you would either, and there's no chance now since everyone has perished."

Marutian shook his head in silence, thinking that everyone saw him as cold and indifferent, but he believed that it was just a burden he had to let go of. He didn’t care about the dying gazes.

"What kind of mess is this?" Nana felt that this world was even more insane than she had imagined, despite her not being young at all. In an instant, a mutation occurred, and near the shattered gates around Marutian, light traces appeared, indicating a seal as the Magic elements disappeared.

"Ridiculous Qin Yang, where did you get a million dragons from? The 'Ten Thousand Dragons Imprisonment,' one of the highest Dragon-sealing Magics, is the lowest level and most suitable for Qin Yang's current use, but as the name suggests, it requires ten thousand dragons. Where can you find ten thousand dragons in this era? Even a hundred dragons would be difficult to find. Although Marutian had already sensed that Qin Yang had been using the 'Dragon Call Order,' it remained to be seen how many dragons were active in the Three Realms in response.

However, strangely enough, this 'Ten Thousand Dragons Imprisonment' gradually took shape, and although it was said to be the lowest level, its power was not inferior at all. Marutian saw the Dragon Core slowly dimming.

"Even though we don't have enough dragons, we still have Dragon people!" I looked at the scant dragons responding to the 'Dragon Call Order' within the Three Realms, so I made a bold decision to use people with a high activation rate of dragon lineage in the Dragon Realm and other places in the Human Realm such as the Qin family as substitutes for the orthodox dragon race. This way, we will need not just ten thousand, but several times more.

The embryonic form of the 'Ten Thousand Dragons Imprisonment' appeared simultaneously at the gate of the Three Realms. This place was the only connection point with the tightest bond between the Three Realms, so after the gate disappeared, the scenes witnessed here unexpectedly synchronised across the realms.

I saw Marutian in The Divine Realm, and Marutian also saw us in The Human Realm. This guy seemed unfazed at all, as this was just a weak strategy I had left behind.

"Not a bad method, but you, Reisgolo, can only come up with this futile attempt. Whereas I have a complete Dragon Core in my hand, what about you?" Marutian cut off a piece of the Dragon Core that originally belonged to the real Marutian and finally turned the transparent Dragon Core into a complete whole.

"If you want me to become a real dragon, then you must have a way to seize my dragon body, so why should I still transform into a dragon? If even 'Ten Thousand Dragons Imprisonment' can't deal with you, then I can only perish with you, letting you remain so transparent and lonely when rebuilding in the dragon realm!"

"Not at all righteous and resolute, my plan is to save the dragon race, why not participate! You think I'm using unorthodox methods, being selfish, then what about the fact that you, representing the gods, humans, and demons, have abandoned our dragon race? Join in, and besides, your dragon body originally belongs to me, so let's return everything to the beginning, isn't that good? I think it's amazing!"

"The beginning, the beginning, there is no such thing when you abandoned the old dragon realm! I am myself, returning it to you is not impossible, but giving it back yet having you destroy the three realms would only make me lose, so I have decided not to give in at all!"

"The 'Ten Thousand Dragons Imprisonment' is now officially activated, only to see the majestic Dragon Language Magic Array rising from the ground, trapping Marutian within it, he lightly taps the Magic Array, incredibly sturdy, while the runes formed by those Dragon Languages crawl all over his body."