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Chapter 27 Growth
update icon Updated at 2026/2/12 19:00:02

For most people, the wandering figure of Monigas is incomprehensible. They only see disasters happening wherever he goes, with many individuals and objects disintegrating into particles, returning to the world's power and being absorbed into the sacred object. The core of the Devourer has devoured all the Magic elements, causing all mechanisms relying on elements to fall silent.

"The three realms have all fused together!" The representatives of The Divine Realm and The Demon Realm appear within the sacred object, still in their gray humanoid forms.

"But why are you three still here?"

"We cannot sustain this form much longer. As Zi Liliu represents The Human Realm and is the Dragon Princess, we will choose to merge with her. However, surviving this may mean depriving the representatives of their abilities, as the new world no longer needs us. We will be debased into ordinary beings—humans."

"In the end, even though the three realms are still controlled by the dragons, you cannot fulfill your wishes, feeling just as lost as before."

"There is no time for discussion now. Qin Yang, you must comprehend the mysteries of your new body."

It is not the time to dwell on matters in retrospect. I reexamine this battered body of mine—the scars, the wound on the forehead, the newly healed marks on the neck. It is not a flawless body. Where lies the mystery?

"The mystery of the transparent dragon body! Monigas spent time unraveling the secrets of two worlds, wreaking havoc before reclaiming his own body. How could the mystery be unraveled in an instant for me?"

But Zi Liliu's reply was different: "I believe unraveling the mystery is not just about time. Monigas may have unlocked it, having managed multiple transparent dragon bodies in his world, yet in the end, it remains in its original form, even affecting his mindset."

"Isn't a change in mindset normal? The more memories you hold, the heavier your heart, and the more confused you become about your path forward."

"Your mindset is different from his. Are you fixated on having a transparent body? Do you cling to the golden dragon body? I don't think you do."

"I am only concerned about whether my human form will still look as young and handsome as when I was seventeen. It can be altered in my human form but not in my dragon body. Does that mean if I am not fixated or if no one pays attention to me, I can uncover the mystery? I doubt it."

"Please be more open-minded, Qin Yang! Material logic does not apply to your dragon kind. In the miraculous dragon clan, everything should be possible, even more so." Liliu thought I was overthinking.

"Although that's the case, what should I do about my mindset? Even in a flawless body, unraveling my mindset may require me to die once..."

"Then die once. In the next life, you will come find us again! While you wait, I hope you only find me." Zi Liliu bluntly stated that she was not afraid to face death together, believing that other girls would not mind either, with no option of minding or not minding.

"At that time, when I chose to divide myself into three parts, it wasn't just to control the three realms separately. Otherwise, the ego should have stayed in The Human Realm instead of being placed in The Demon Realm with the Demon Dragon. The Human Realm was designed in a state without Magic elements, likely meant for overseeing and maintaining Monigas's seal. So, when Monigas claimed he didn't anticipate my method for dealing with his mindset Magic, which was located in the ego between myself and not the sacred Demon Dragon, I decided to split myself again. This way, I can solve the problem without dying."

"Why don't you rebuild my ego?" the representative of The Demon Realm said, "That ego belongs to Qin Yang himself, abandoning the Demon Dragon, the Holy Dragon, and even Reisgolo, just like an empty ego with no color, adding one's own colors on top of Qin Yang's identity."

The words from The Demon Realm sounded so crucial, and I caught on, "Emptiness is the secret of the transparent dragon body!"

"Yes, we clearly sensed that this dragon body was blank from the moment it left to when it returned, without any color, not even black or white, a dragon body devoid of everything, like a child's blank slate."

"A dragon body lacking a rite of passage! I know what to do now, indeed I should be more idealistic, I need heightened emotions."

Closing my eyes, feeling this world through the holy objects, the voices of Situ Liyao and Jiang Moana still lingered, but the hope was lost. Suddenly, the voices stopped, and I knew that Monergos's second-phase influence had reached them. Through the contracts with Jiang Moana and other girls, I felt their surroundings filled with anxiety, despair, and a crying earth.

"Liliu, you should be able to do it." Since the Holy Demon Dragon merged with Zi Liliu's help back then, perhaps she could find a way to separate us again.

The representatives of the three realms surrounded me, instructing my soul to request and then dividing it with the power of the world—a soul divided into three parts, a black, a white, and a golden soul.

"Unexpectedly, we meet again, White!" said the black Qin Yang.

"Just take a look in the mirror, and you will see me. It's a pity we have to bid farewell to him," White replied.

Black and White looked at the silent ego. The ego had long said that it had no independent thoughts, true life only existed when the three coexisted.

"Farewell, to our past selves. Finding you or leaving you back then was the wrong decision," they bid farewell to the ego, not abandoning the ego named Reisgolo Dragon. Qin Yang was just a codename, lacking true meaning.

"You handle it yourself." The three realms did not interfere; it was up to us to decide our own fate.

Black raised his hand first, looking at White, "The generous me, please don't hesitate."

White also raised his hand, and together with Black, they eliminated the ego, to eliminate the seed of the heart, to avoid being manipulated by Monergos, and to be reborn in a different sense.

Monergos stored the collected power of the world in the holy objects. The chaos of the world didn't concern him; what he cared about was how long it would take for the new world to arrive.

"Ark," Monergos muttered as he toyed with the Devourer's core mouth. This thing was useless now; in the new world, would he still need these Magic elements? It all depended on Monergos's whims.

"You still think about the Ark!"

"Geirerofi, do you need me to leave you a new place in the new world? As long as you forget."

"Do you want me to forget what you've done? Forget about my deceased relatives and friends? Impossible!"

The fiery red dragon regained some strength and flew up into the sky in dragon form, its momentum not quite matching Monergos's golden dragon body, which was larger, more powerful, and gigantic. The fire dragon's physique was already sizable.

"I erased you once, and I can do it again."

"Yes, you can do it again. So, do you want to bring the Ark over and make everyone forget? Hmph, you surely can do that; you've done it before. Don't you find yourself disgusting?"

"Time can erase all of this. I control time, I understand time, you don't need to worry, and I have decided not to leave you a place." Monai Gauss surveyed the surroundings; more and more dragons were gathering around him, all of them gradually regaining some strength.

Monai Gauss paid no attention to them. In his eyes, he saw the divine beings of The Divine Realm nailed to crosses, the demons of The Demon Realm preparing for battle, and the humans of The Human Realm trembling in fear. A strange sense of comfort washed over him, a numbness he had clearly felt before, this being the third time.

"Let us fight one final battle, my fellow dragons."

As the dragons prepared to charge forward with all their might, a disturbance appeared in the vortex sky. A golden light burst out of the artifact and vanished, scattering sparklingly across the sea. The dragons sensed a dragon soul perishing, and stood there dumbfounded, thinking that the dragon within the artifact had fallen. Only Elena stood on the ruins of the central transit city, extending her hands in a human form, as if caressing something, her eyes misty.

"Dragons, look up, stand tall as dragons, witness—Rita Ole."

A dragon emblem appeared in the sky. Seeing this emblem, all the dragons recited the same dragon language along with their dragon names.

"Dragon ascension ritual?" Monai Gauss looked at the emblem in disbelief.

The artifact slipped out of his dragon claws and moved freely in the sky. The power of the dragon queen transformed into various colored lights that surged towards the artifact. Monai Gauss attempted to attack the artifact but was blocked by the dragon ascension ritual emblem, which had been blessed by every generation of dragon emperors in ancient times, symbolizing the most crucial and final form of care to protect the growth of young dragons.

"Boom!" Crystals slowly began to grow on the exterior of the artifact, layer by layer, from a small gemstone expanding into a massive crystal.

"Dragons..." Monai Gauss also wanted to recite the dragon language, but he couldn't continue. It was a blessing, another layer of empowerment to the dragon emblem.

"Qin Yang's dragon ascension ritual? So, that dragon body did not undergo the blessed dragon ascension ritual?" Geirerofi mocked Monai Gauss.

The dragon calls continued undulating, sounding like a song. Amidst the dragon song, Monai Gauss said, "I have experienced it once, no need for excess effort."

"You, Monai Gauss, have experienced it once, but that dragon body has not, and it is not a normally born dragon, so it has been translucent all along. It seems you didn't think about it! And you overcomplicate things unnecessarily."

The crystal continued to grow larger, filled with colorful light. Eventually, everyone could see the crystalline dragon taking form, and the crystal dragon slowly began to flap its wings.

"Reisgolo!" Monai Gauss's golden form glowed with anger. He didn't care what color the translucent dragon body turned into; none of the colors chosen for the ascension ritual could outshine him. He only cared about who would hinder him in rebuilding the dragon realm.

"Reisgolo has left with that golden light. There is only one name for me: Qin Yang!"