"What is that?!" Chen Xinyi noticed sothing was off on the screen, but before she could say anything, an even more dazzling light blood at the bending point.
...
The Dragon seized this opportunity.
Thick clouds shrouded the tiny bending point, affecting the weather on the planet, causing a torrential downpour across the globe.
The crimson eyeball was frantically struggling, trying to break free from the seal!
The Dragon had been brewing for a long ti, just waiting for this mont to strike.
Destiny finally arrived.
This ti, it was its ultimate mission.
It seed to see the River of Destiny—that pervasive river that accommodated all things, from birth to death, from sickness and old age to joys and sorrows, within the endless passage of ti and space; it too was but an ordinary mber among All Living Beings.
Even if it wanted to leap high and beco a dazzling Star in the sky, ultimately, it would still fall from the sky and return to the night.
A cold sneer flashed in the Dragon’s eyes.
It reminded it of the first night it t the little boy, his timid voice.
"Can you... not eat ?"
"I... I ca to find my mom!"
"My mom... disappeared, she was fighting a terrifying existence in the Etheric Abyss trying to find a way forward... It’s very tough, extrely difficult. That terrifying existence should be stronger than you... several levels stronger."
The Dragon laughed.
It was reminded of its own past thoughts: What should one do when faced with an invincible enemy of fate?
This ti, there would be no chance for revival.
It would die.
...
The stars no longer shone brightly,
Everything was dim.
The shadow of the Moon and the ancient beacon towers were drinking together.
The world made up of ants began to dissolve.
Purple irregularities and dark reds,
Everything was full of anger.
The strong, however, were clueless.
Twisted faces issued thin, high-pitched screams,
Around the red candles, only tears of wax were left.
...
A cold gleam flashed in the Dragon’s eyes.
It silently laughed.
Laughing at its own montary confusion and fear.
It leaped high from the River of Destiny, just like the strong ones before it, challenging its fate!
Bowing its head, drawing a knife, entering the fray.
...
Everyone on the planet saw a bright light in the sky.
People saw a giant black hand shoving the expanding red eyeball back into the Moon!
...
Then, the light erupted, and they both entered the seal.
In the high-dinsional world of the seal, the Dragon unleashed the most brilliant battle of its life.
...
"Mr. Zhao... did you see it?"
In the dark and narrow Sheep Intestine Tunnel, Comrade Xiang Tiantian lay on the ground.
The ground shook, and the air wailed.
He seed to see sothing and started to laugh.
"We... succeeded."
True to his gentlemanly and refined nature, had he not been born in a disastrous era, he would have been a scholar, or a teacher, or an archaeologist, rather than being here resisting the Demon God—Moon of Illusion.
"Just as you said, we resealed it."
But no sound ca from the other side of the radio.
The one who had issued the orders had long been dead.
"We won..."
"But, I really don’t want to die."
"I’m really scared... I can’t see, it’s a bit dark..." He groped blindly, touching the words on the wall, one line of which was left by his father.
[Sacrifice is inevitable.]
He always felt he was not as ntally strong and determined as his father.
There were many more words, reckless rumors written by desperate humans.
"I finally understand why the initial plan failed..."
"It shouldn’t be lonely from here on out."
The light in his eyes gradually faded.
As the price for issuing the "order," his soul completely dispersed.
His heart stopped beating, his body was left with but an empty shell.
In the dark, narrow tunnel, there lay...
No, two bodies.
...
After a long ti, as the seal gradually stabilized.
The trembling on the Moon subsided and beca calm.
A few faint blue lights took over Paradise.
And the voice on "Channel 1" resounded once again, seemingly to humans, and seemingly to the silently sealed Demon God.
[It always felt that each human was just a maggot in the sewer.]
[But it never understood that there are always so maggots willing to strive with all their might to climb out of the sewers, gazing at the stars in the night.]
[You and I, we are all stars.]
...
(End of "Paradise"!)
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