Chapter Thirty

1

"Hah, in the end... it's still me." Monagors shook his head in disappointment.

"Yes, I really wanted to squeeze out the last bit of value from your remains, doing so is the best method." Dragon Soul beneath the heavy sword was already on its last breath, facing my request Monagors didn't immediately agree.

"Where... is the best..." Monagors was covered in dragon blood, cracks were appearing on the dragon core above the blood pool, barely retaining a hint of dragon power, the only dazzling thing was the scattered golden light that had yet to fade.

"Now you only have two choices, voluntary or involuntary. If you choose voluntarily, you may leave a record of final regret in history, self-sacrifice for justice. Otherwise, without you, the world can only be infamous."

"Voluntarily..." Monagors' gaze slowly moved to the ancient Dragon Emperors outside the "Dragons' Prison."

"We don't have much time left. If the dragon core shatters further, it will be useless."

"At this point... I still have... my reputation... ridiculous."

"Your eyes have always been on the ancient Dragon Emperors, emotions are the colorful pens in our lives with time's accumulation, once the scene is painted, it is indelible. Don't contradict yourself anymore, you have strong patience and determination, you will understand."

"Finally... at least... look at them again." Monagors didn't respond directly, but he had already given up the struggle in his heart, lingering on the ancient Dragon Emperors, one by one, in his eyes. I could see besides the Dragon Emperors, there were more memories in his eyes, both sweet and bitter, scenes of dragons chatting happily, the joy of the prosperous kingdom, the betrayal of the end of the world. I regretted that Monagors had come to this point. He always thought of the dragon race, always yearned for the era of the dragon race. But the times never stopped, and his actions could not be accepted by the world. Despite the regret, he shouldn't continue like this.

"If there is anything left, I will find a way to let a part of you reincarnate." Part of the dragon soul was actually equivalent to blankness.

"No, if there is anything left... use it to guide the Dragon Ark... Geirerofi is the key... Qin Yang, what you say is also correct, if you do it, do it thoroughly."

"Sure, as you wish." The rainbow light heavy sword executed downward, the hero of an era - "Dragon of Space and Time, Monagors" officially fell. In that instant, the only place with light in this world erupted with an unprecedented brilliance, all living beings seemed to hear a clear bell, the bell of life awakening, life blooming like spring after the thick snow melts.

The three realms, in a semi-entangled state, quickly returned to the form of the Spiral Three Realms, the sun rose as usual, the moon rose and set as scheduled...

2

One year later, in the summer, in the Othrian Empire, in the imperial capital, at The Chishin Academy high school division, on the eve of graduation, Qin Ying, Lilith, Xiao Yao, Xiao Qiong, and Hanya sat in the auditorium, listening to Principal Guffy's speech before graduation, congratulating the students who were about to leave. From a teacher's perspective, students leaving here every year was common, but this group of students was special. Each of them wore a ring, a storage ring from the early days of synthetic elements. A year later, there were better methods of storing synthetic elements. They raised their fingers silently in remembrance, mourning the photo of the acting student council president hung above the auditorium.

Guffy continued, "Today, on the first day of everyone leaving the academy, marks the first anniversary of the Three Realms Peace Treaty. Remember, in this world there are no longer the ideas of gods, demons, or superior beings, but peace doesn't come easy. To gain respect, one must be strong."

Hanya left the auditorium early and returned to the small building of the student council. The building was devoid of life. Hanya returned to her room and put down her emblem of the "First Knight". She had already packed up everything.

"Hanya, sister." Wen Xi stood at her doorway.

"Study hard, Hanya. The High Priest Lin wants you to inherit their legacy."

"It's an era of equality between gods, demons, and humans now. We don't need them anymore. I want to go with you!"

Hanya, with a small backpack on her back, said, "No, leave it to me. We will find them someday. Let me set out first."

"If you sneak away like this, Lilith and the others will be angry!"

"What does it matter? Perhaps, by me leaving, they will follow soon. Even Elena hasn't reappeared since disappearing, she must have set out without telling us."

"Brother, have you really found him? It's been a year..."

"As long as he's not dead, we can."

Qin Ying suddenly appeared and said, "You really are disobedient, Hanya!"

"Don't press me with your contract. Now that we've graduated, everyone should go their separate ways."

"Do you think you can find Qin Yang by traveling across the Three Realms on foot? The answer is definitely not. With this contract, as long as he's within the Three Realms, we can sense it!"

"Are you implying he's already dead? Then why are we still alive!"

"I'm just saying he's not within the Three Realms! We don't have the ability to time travel. He might be in the past, the future, or perhaps in another world."

Hanya clenched her fists, feeling both angry and helpless.

"Wait! Ever since that day, the gates of gods and demons have been slowly restructuring. Perhaps this is all being orchestrated by Qin Yang from the beyond."

"Maybe he truly is in the future."

Moana, the emperor's envoy touring the empire, worked diligently on stage every day. Perra was building their true first home in her vampire kingdom. Situ Liyao and the Qin family were working together to create more weapons for the empire. New Pluto, Nana, managed underworld affairs in between and didn't forget to advise her brother. The Ten Demon Kings led by Hisa were truly attempting to establish new order, despite being busy. Nevertheless, everyone remained focused on one place - the "Gate of Gods and Demons."

A research department was established on the ruins of the transit city, studying the war that took place under the gate and the ecological impact of the scattered dragon blood. The most common scene witnessed by the people in the research lab was a beautiful silver-white dragon wandering near the gate for about ten minutes before disappearing.

In the imperial capital, on the top floor of the palace, Zi Liliu set down her pen, her eyes fixed on the person in the photo on the table.

"Qin Yang, you promised to awaken the emperor. Do you remember?"

"Your Majesty, the research department has reported that the gate is about to be fully restored."

Upon hearing the maid's report, Zi Liliu didn't reply. Instead, she opened a black hole and disappeared in the room, leaving the maid bewildered to pick up the scattered papers on the floor.

In front of the Gate of Gods and Demons, media from all three realms were recording events within their respective worlds. The mystery of how the events from a year ago were resolved and how the history of the Three Realms continued to unfold was still shrouded in uncertainties.

"So far, how were the events from a year ago resolved? Will the history of the Three Realms be revealed as the gate reforms today? Breaking news from the scene - Queen Othrie, the Dragon Queen herself, has suddenly appeared. Could this be the moment when the truth is finally unveiled?" Journalists quickly took their positions, ready to report to the audience.

Inside the student union building, they also received this overwhelming news. Watching the live broadcast on the screen, they pondered what they would do if the truth revealed wasn't about finding the person they were eager to reunite with but about the Gate's restoration.

"Liliu is already there. Should we go as well?" Wen Xi asked.

"Qin Yang's spatial Magic is amazing. No one knows where he will appear." Qin Ying looked at the gate in the video, which had slowly reassembled from the ruins of Hisa a year ago to what it was today.

In front of everyone's eyes, the last piece slowly floated to its intended location, seamlessly merging into place. Time passed second by second, yet the gate remained closed, showing no sign of opening. However, the fact that the gate did not open did not mean that it couldn't be opened by anyone. Zi Liliu only needed to wave her hand, and the gate would open as she wished. But just like in the past, this inevitably left many disappointed. They had expected something shocking to happen, but in the end, it remained as quiet as ever. The only thing that was astonishing was that the Queen of Othrie already possessed the power to activate the divine demonic gate, not knowing that Liliu was the representative of The Human Realm. Yet, even so, Liliu had no idea where Qin Yang had gone.

"Why hasn't he?" Liliu scanned The Human Realm with her magical eyes at the fastest speed, finding nothing. She did not find him in the Divine Realm or the Demon Realm either after entering the divine demonic gate. Liliu's face was filled with anxiety. It had been a year, yet there was still no clue of his whereabouts.

Zi Liliu looked up at the sky, feeling a mix of emotions, and soon left the place.

The girls in the student union building were gloomy. Hanya decided to pick up her bag, as being a vampire hunter in this era seemed to have little value.

This time, no one stopped her.

Hanya stood in front of the bus stop, waiting for the bus to arrive as the students left school.

"Squeak!" The bus arrived at the stop and opened its doors. Just as Hanya was about to board, she suddenly felt a hand reaching out from the crowd to grab her. She turned around to see only students, as the bus had already departed.

"Hmm?" Hanya saw a very beautiful ring on her left ring finger.

"Do you want to take it off?" The voice belonged to Qin Yang.

Hanya only heard the voice, and her feet involuntarily ran back to the student union building. She saw that all the girls, including Guffy, Nana, and Jiang Moana, were inside, each wearing the beautiful ring on their ring fingers.

"Elena, you have finally appeared," Liliu looked at the missing Elena, whose ring had dragon script inscriptions.

"The inscriptions on the ring are our dragon language names. Dragons do not have the habit of wearing rings, only humans do. He must have returned." The atmosphere in the building became tense, not knowing where Qin Yang had appeared.

"He appeared next to all of us for a moment. His doppelgänger is handy to use. It seems like he wants to be there for each of us!"

"He's not that carefree. He himself dislikes trouble, but it seems like he's complacent, making us wear these rings. Annoying!" Elena looked at the ring, complaining, but she did not take it off.

"Um, I actually wanted to ask, isn't it already dusk? Why is it still so bright outside, like it's noon?" Lilith and Wen Xi crawled to the window to watch the sun setting.

"Something's not right." Guffy immediately summoned Grimoire and ran outside the building.

When she opened the door, Guffy was surprised to find that she was no longer in the academy, or even The Human Realm. Instead, there was an endless expanse of lush green grass, with a small building standing atop it.

Elena glanced at Zi Liliu, and Liliu's illusionary eyes activated once again. "I can't see clearly, this place is different from the Three Realms."

"Is that Geirerofi?" Lilith, upstairs, saw a tall tower slowly rising in the distance, emitting a fiery red light.

For a moment, celestial dragons and sea dragons danced in the sky, earth dragons roared, and a taste of the sea seemed to emerge from the east.

Dragon roars echoed one after another, undulating like a song. The girls seemed a bit uneasy watching this spectacle, but only Elena smiled as she looked up at the sky. "What are they welcoming?"

Following the scent of the sea, a burst of colorful light soared into the sky, and a giant dragon leaped out. "He has appeared."

"That's my brother's dragon body, how beautiful!" Wen Xi exclaimed as she saw the dazzling dragon body for the first time.

"You girls are just showing up now!" Nofice appeared with a flirtatious air. Because of her familiar, she could follow Qin Yang into this place.

When I transformed into human form, riding a mechanical dragon from the sky, the ground was covered with flowers, white birds soaring together, and dragons bowing in unison. "Do you have to be so... dramatic?" Elena couldn't help but comment on my appearance.

Facing the girls, I knelt down on one knee. "My beloved ones, please marry me!"

Wen Xi didn't hesitate and ran over to hug me tightly, her actions reflecting her feelings. "Okay, let go, we have to do the whole ceremony!"

"I don't need a ceremony, I already have the ring on, I am already my brother's bride."

"Oh, Wen Xi's standards are too low!" Xiao Qiong disagreed, saying, "You're being too simple, Qin Yang, how can you propose to all of us at once?"

"I had prepared individual proposals for all of you, but time didn't allow it, so I could only help you put on the rings."

"No time? How busy are you? Have you been hiding here for a year?" Xiao Qiong looked at the serene scene and had no signal on her phone.

"I just found out that I've been missing for a year. For me, the battle with Monai Gauss feels like it was just yesterday."

Before executing Monai Gauss, I reached an agreement with it to voluntarily become a sacrifice, a complete sacrifice, not like before when the dragon body was used as the core sacrifice. By combining the power I gained with Monai Gauss' power, I could create a new world, but without a sacrifice, this couldn't succeed.

"Welcome to the Spiral Three Realms, the Dragon Realm Center! Inspired by the Underworld affiliated with The Demon Realm!"

The Underworld was originally a small affiliated world, neither independent nor limited by The Demon Realm, but the Dragon Realm Center was more independent than the Underworld. It served as the central point of the affiliated God, Human, and Demon Realms, and could be seen as a new world in the Spiral Three Realms, balancing the energy of the three realms. Here, the forces of light and dark from The Demon Realm could find balance.

At the time of executing Monai Gauss, the light that emerged was the light of creation of the Dragon Realm Center. However, creating a world required full effort, so after formation, I fainted and when I woke up, chaos awaited to be sculpted into the world bit by bit. It took just seven hours to reach the current scale, utilizing a portion of the power from the restructuring of the three realms, while smashing the core of the Devourer to release elements.

"So much talking, what's your point?"

"Point? Oh, it's because I'm here in person, and proposing while needing to create a doppelganger. However, the time speed of the Central Dragon Realm and the Three Realms is not synchronized. In my realm, one day passes and it's a year for you all. The different time speeds of the main body and the doppelganger result in the doppelganger's existence being too short. So, proposing separately is out of the question! But now, the time speeds have been adjusted to match, and we have a live broadcast device here - the mechanical dragon. It's broadcasting the proposal scene that all beings are watching!"

"It's good enough if you can come back. The ceremony means nothing to me. Who has waited longer than me?" Elena walked up to me and extended her hand for me to lightly kiss, indicating her agreement.

As the saying goes, when one leads, everyone follows. If I had known earlier, why would I still think about proposing? It's truly a thought that deserves a gruesome punishment when spoken out loud.

Seven days later, the Central Dragon Realm was decorated with flags, celebrating the joint wedding of the Three Realms. I stood in the middle of the venue, my mother, who seemed to grow prouder each day, stood beside me, exclaiming, "I didn't expect that my son would be so amazing. Guffy...hehehe, just thinking about it makes me happy."

"Well, we have a granddaughter now, so don't make things difficult for her."

"Sigh! Of course the granddaughter should be pampered, as for Guffy... "

My mother's smile was truly heart-wrenching, a typical mother-in-law attitude.

"Grandpa!" A sweet voice, unmistakably...

"Grandpa? How did I become a great-grandmother again?"

"Well, that's Coyalu's daughter - Snow, one of the Demon Kings."

"Sigh, can't we let go of these past relationships? I've ascended too many generations!" Let my charming mother deal with this cute act, I have my own wife to admire.

Even the Holy Demon Dragon wasn't as nervous as today. Outside, there was a continuous stream of people, all wanting to witness the wedding of the charming bride, and the Dragon clan's wedding attracted even more attention.

"People always love to admire beauty and events. I just stole a glance at the brides, oh, so beautiful!"

"You! Stop!"

"Your Majesty, don't be angry. You haven't set up barriers, so whoever has good eyesight can see it all!"

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Upon hearing this criticism, I had to immediately set up barriers to prevent anyone from seeing anything.

"Your Majesty, we demons are starting to approach The Human Realm, or you could say we are becoming more and more like humans. Although we are the evolution of humans, it feels more like devolution." Yu Zhai nonchalantly picked up a chocolate bar.

"No smoking?"

"Quit."

"Let me tell you, demons are a category that needs to evolve in thought, The Divine Realm is a category that undergoes thought devolution, humans are a category that needs to evolve both physically and mentally. Let's progress together!" Two Magic mirrors appeared beside me, reflecting and tidying myself up, welcoming the arrival of the grand event.

"How long is that fat guy going to hang up there? When will he come down?" Yu Zhai pointed to Geirerofi on the top of the tower.

"I don't know. He is in the direction pulled by the Dragon Clan Ark. When he can contact the last Ark is when he will come down. By then, there won't just be this many Dragon Clan members left, provided they are still alive."

"The Dragon Clan! Can I be glad they have the Central Dragon Realm? Otherwise, it's not just you, Your Majesty, who will be restricted."

"Don't want to be restricted by dragons? It's simple, reincarnate as a dragon!"

The sound of bells rang throughout the venue as the girls took the stage one by one. At that moment, I felt the excitement and joy that Yu Zhai must have felt from his peeks, reaching the peak of excitement and pleasure as the brides in their wedding dresses filled me with endless imagination.

For the sake of fairness, let the girls all make their entrance together. Otherwise, brides like Elena, who directly transform into dragons and descend from the sky, would definitely steal the show the whole time. And can anyone avoid jealousy when faced with someone like Jiang Moana, who instantly garners a nationwide fan base as soon as she steps out?

"Today, I have kept my promise. After wandering between life and death, I immediately brought you all home to marry you first. But first, I want to thank you all. Even though I might have lost my life at the time, you still supported me."

Facing the slowly approaching girls, I am infinitely grateful. It would be meaningless without them. Facing my family, the despair and pain I once felt seem insignificant now. After all, we have overcome it together.

Father has officially announced that at the time of mother's adulthood, he will pass the title of Duke to Qin Ying. He wants to travel the world with mother, and I am supposed to dedicate myself to maintaining the Central Dragon Realm.

In the seven days' time, Geirerofi worked hard at the top of the tower. Just as there was cheering in the venue, the Central Dragon Realm suddenly experienced its first upheaval. Originally, everyone thought it was going to rain, since normal people seeing such dark and ominous clouds would want to go home and get their clothes.

"Come on, let's see if we are too late!"

"What's happening?" Elena asked, as she was more worried about whether the wedding could continue. They had just made their entrance.

"Just wait a bit, we have guests coming." After that, I transformed into a dragon and soared into the sky, circling around and activating a large spatial Magic, instantly opening a rift in the world. A giant crystal appeared, pure and translucent, with smaller crystals inside, although the term "small" is relative – they are small compared to the giant crystal, but equivalent in size to a dragon.

"Ark! You've come back, finally... I see you all!" Geirerofi was very excited. Before he arrived here, the Dragon Clan's last ark, the crystalline ark crystallized the wisdom of the Dragon Clan at its peak for the last chance of survival. Today, he finally made contact with Geirerofi.

As the small crystals fell rapidly, their outer shells melted quickly, revealing their original form bit by bit. At this moment, the whole venue witnessed a stunning "meteor shower".

Tears welled up in Geirerofi's eyes as he knelt down on both knees. He had been eagerly awaiting this day, and now he wanted to know how many of his kind had survived to reach here, how long had he been away, and hoped that everything was not too late.

The awe-inspiring Dragon Ark had arrived, and the Central Dragon Realm finally demonstrated its true value, returning to the ground and assuming human form. Everything settled down, and even though we do not know what the future holds, we will not allow another Monet Gauss-like figure to destroy the world we have fought so hard to build.

"Everyone, today is truly a beautiful day. Let's continue..."

"Qin Yang, didn't you say you would marry me when you came back?"

Out of the blue, a voice made me turn around, and the black wedding dress stood out against the girls' white ones. Another popular girl arrived here with the promise I made.

"Situ Liyao? Oh no..."

"Qin Yang! You stop right there!" The girls in white wedding dresses looked furious, and I only saw a bouquet of flowers flying towards me!

Life really is interesting.