# Chapter 1341: The Beginning of Eternity
"So if you want to kill me, you have to destroy this world," Qi Xia continued. "This world carries my former will. It was built with the obsession of 'killing you,' so you can feel the immense killing intent emanating from the entire world."
Tianlong slowly stood up, looking at Qi Xia in disbelief.
Even though Tianlong's thinking far exceeded that of ordinary people, he still couldn't comprehend the meaning of these words at this moment.
"A world built for the purpose of 'killing me'...?"
Qi Xia didn't speak. He stood up and walked away without looking back. Tianlong, feeling his mind in chaos, could only follow.
The two of them traversed almost the entire amusement park, arriving before a massive, flesh-and-blood building that resembled a theater.
The building had a round body with thick walls, like a giant frog crouching on the ground, its gaping maw wide open, waiting for someone to enter.
"I came here every day for a very long time," Qi Xia said, looking up at the enormous flesh structure.
"A very long time... how long?"
"I don't remember," Qi Xia said. "Maybe tens of thousands of days."
"Tens of thousands... of days?" Tianlong still felt that Qi Xia was insane. "Bai Yang... you..."
Qi Xia ignored Tianlong and led him through the building's entrance. Inside was a narrow, pitch-black corridor, like the throat of some massive beast.
After passing through the flesh-made hallway, a blood-red clearing suddenly appeared before them. The entire building pulsed slowly, as if they had arrived inside the belly of a giant monster.
When Tianlong saw this clearing, he noticed that the small flesh square was covered in battle scars—countless wounds deeply embedded in the flesh walls. Some scars had healed only to be torn open again, then scabbed over once more, as if they had witnessed a slaughter involving tens of thousands of people over several years.
And in the center of the square, a person was sitting in meditation—but he had no face.
After a few seconds, Tianlong realized something was wrong. This person's clothing and hair color were exactly the same as his own, and on the blank face, there was even a vermilion dot at about the position of the third eye.
"What... is this... thing?" Tianlong asked incredulously.
"He is the you I created," Qi Xia answered truthfully. "For tens of thousands of days, I came here every day to fight you."
Hearing this, Tianlong felt a chill run down his spine, but he still didn't know how to respond. The situation in this world seemed far more complicated than he had imagined.
"Do you remember?" Qi Xia said with a calm expression. "When you first fought me, the thing you asked me about."
Tianlong's expression froze as he recalled that moment. When they first fought, he had asked Bai Yang—
*"Your inner world has only been complete for a single day, yet you look like you've been fighting like this for years."*
"You were half right back then," Qi Xia said. "But it's a pity—the time wasn't years. It was decades."
Qi Xia slowly walked forward, and the 'Tianlong' in the distance seemed to sense something. He looked up and stood up, assuming a fighting stance.
He didn't say a word, just stood there with his hands behind his back.
"He simulates the fighting style of the Tianlong in my heart," Qi Xia said. "But the 'Immortal Arts' he releases are still flesh and blood."
Tianlong stared at the figure before him, feeling an icy chill throughout his body.
"This is what the 'Tianlong' in my memory really looks like," Qi Xia said with a smile. "Unfortunately, after fighting him for so long, you no longer have a face in my heart. Every time I try to recall what you look like, my mind can only conjure this faceless monster."
"No wonder when I appeared in your dream... I didn't have a face?" Tianlong paused, still feeling something was off. "But where did you get decades of time...?"
Qi Xia turned back, still wearing an indifferent expression. "Tianlong, do you want to hear a story?"
"What... story?"
"A story about 'eternity.'"
Tianlong was silent for a long time before finally nodding. "Alright."
"To tell this story, I'm afraid it will take as long as 'eternity.'"
A flicker of hesitation crossed Tianlong's expression, but right now, in this place where he had no power to resist, what way was there to escape?
He couldn't kill Qi Xia, and he couldn't escape.
"A story... that spans 'eternity'?"
"Maybe it's not really 'eternity.' Time has an end," Qi Xia shook his head. "But to an ordinary person like me, it might as well already be 'eternity.'"
Qi Xia walked forward slowly, and a crack opened beneath the faceless Tianlong's feet, swallowing that bizarre figure.
Then Qi Xia sat down on the spot. He crossed his legs, facing the place where the faceless Tianlong had disappeared.
It seemed that from beginning to end, he had no fighting intent at all. Tianlong felt like he was facing something unknown.
"Tianlong, if you want to know the truth of this place, then enter the dream of the entire world."
"What—"
"If you want to know what this place is, how to escape, why you lost, and what 'eternity' is... then enter the dream of this world," Qi Xia said. "The entire world is a giant living being. In its dream are all my memories, including that story about 'eternity.'"
At this moment, the building was so quiet it was as if time had stopped. The two could only hear the pulse of the whole world beating.
To know everything... he had to enter the dream of the entire world?
"Perhaps..." Qi Xia hesitated for a moment, "after you experience 'eternity,' you will understand what 'God' is."
Qi Xia's last words finally struck a chord in Tianlong's heart. His expression grew even more hesitant.
"Bai Yang, if I enter this dream, can I wake up?"
"You will wake up after 'eternity,'" Qi Xia said. "But for you, it might be better to sleep forever."
Tianlong was silent for a long time. Then he slowly walked up to Qi Xia and sat down cross-legged as well.
The two sat facing each other, a few meters apart, presenting a bizarre scene of discussing the Dao.
"I go to experience 'eternity'... and what about you?"
Qi Xia slowly closed his eyes. "I'll wait for you here."
After pondering for a while, Tianlong took a deep breath and used the last of his 'Conviction' to activate 'Enter Dream.'
The moment 'Enter Dream' was activated, he finally found a familiar feeling.
The world he was in was indeed reality, and the earth beneath his feet indeed had a dream.
Bai Yang hadn't lied.
In a daze, Tianlong found that he seemed to have become Bai Yang.
No, to be precise, he had become Qi Xia.
He had returned to 'Taoyuan.'
He was leading numerous 'participants' in a rebellion against... Tianlong?
Yes, he was not Tianlong. At this moment, he was Qi Xia.
This dream did not begin from the origin of 'Taoyuan.' Instead, it started from the final day of the collective rebellion.
Such a brief single day... how could it be called 'eternity'?
"Is this just the memory from a moment ago?" Tianlong muttered to himself.
*No, it isn't.* Qi Xia's voice came from somewhere ethereal.
Tianlong was startled, then chuckled lightly. "You can hear me?"
*Yes. I told you—this world is me.*