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In the end, only the Infinite Trials Deity Lord and the Dragon Queen remained.

The Dragon Queen looked at that face, one that bore only two or three traces of resemblance to the one in her memories, her expression tangled with complicated emotions.

“Thank you,” the Dragon Queen said.

“You do not need to thank me.” The Infinite Trials Deity Lord replied softly. “I already said it. I was merely repaying a debt.”

“But I had already forgotten you.” An endless sense of remembrance surfaced in the Dragon Queen’s eyes. How long ago had it been? Back then, in her pursuit of becoming the strongest, she had traveled throughout the Great World, challenging powerful opponents wherever she went.

Then, while passing through a battlefield, she had stumbled upon a child amid a heap of corpses. The child’s body was drenched in blood, surrounded by countless decaying bodies, yet he neither cried nor made a sound. He only stared at her stubbornly.

She found it amusing. So she saved the child and took him in as her disciple. But at that time, she was never going to stop her journey for the sake of a child. After spending a few years raising him until he could live independently, and casually teaching him a little, she left.

From that moment on, she never saw that child again, and in time, had even forgotten his existence entirely. “I never imagined that after all this time, you would already become a Deity Lord of your own era,” the Dragon Queen sighed. “I can barely recognize you.”

Indeed. Nearly ten million years had passed, so long that those few years in which the Dragon Queen had raised that child now felt utterly insignificant.

“So my repayment ends here.” The Infinite Trials Deity Lord looked directly into the Dragon Queen’s eyes and said seriously, “The next time I encounter my so-called junior sister, I will not hold back.”

“Is that so?” The Dragon Queen smiled. “I doubt she will either.”

“That’s true. She is the Dragon Eater, after all. When the time comes, the one who should be afraid might be me,” the Infinite Trials Deity Lord said, shrugging at himself with a self-mocking smile.

“If you reveal your identity, she would spare you.”
“I do not need that kind of pity.”
“After all this time, that stubborn temperament of yours really hasn’t changed.”
“Wasn’t that taught by you?” The Infinite Trials Deity Lord said softly, “Whether it is you, Master, or my junior sister, or myself, aren’t our dispositions all the same? Passed down along the same line.”
“…You make it sound as if you’re very familiar with Lilith.”
“There’s no need to be familiar. Just by looking into those eyes, I know.”
“……”

***

“I’m leaving now.”

“Farewell, Mulhane.”

The Infinite Trials Deity Lord froze for a moment. “You still remember that name?”
“Of course. I personally gave it to you back then, didn’t I?”

“To be honest, I never liked that name.”

The Dragon Queen raised an eyebrow. “Why?”

“It sounds terrible. And you named me that just because there happened to be a mulberry tree and a pagoda tree where you found me. It felt far too arbitrary.”

“I did spend a full five minutes thinking about it,” the Dragon Queen sighed.

“Then you should have thought longer!”

……

“This time, I’m really leaving.”
“Then I’ll truly say goodbye.”
“Mm. Farewell, Master.”

The Infinite Trials Deity Lord waved his hand as his figure gradually faded away. His final words drifted on an almost imperceptible breeze into the Dragon Queen’s ears.

“Actually, I’m a little jealous of my junior sister, Master.”

“Jealous…?” The Dragon Queen let out a helpless, bitter smile. “That really doesn’t sound like you.”

……

Everyone had left. Only the Dragon Queen remained. She looked around at the devastation. The several rounds of fierce battles earlier had reduced nearly all the stars here into cosmic dust and shattered debris.

But they were dead stars to begin with. There was nothing worth lamenting. Other than making the place appear even more desolate.

The Dragon Queen shook her head and paid it no further attention. With a single step forward, her figure crossed tens of thousands of kilometers in an instant, returning to that shattered yet solemn palace.

She sat down upon the throne atop the pyramid. Light streamed down through the broken dome above. With a gentle wave of her hand, a blue planet floated upward and slowly entered the radiance.

Only after it was completely enveloped by the light did the planet begin to rotate once more. And upon the planet, the time that had been frozen finally resumed at that very moment.

Everything returned to normal. Aside from a few special existences, no one could perceive anything amiss.

The Dragon Queen waved her hand once again. The restrictions she had imposed upon the planet began to dissipate, silently and without a trace. And at the very instant those restrictions vanished completely, thick and heavy tribulation clouds immediately gathered above the planet.

Although the Dragon Clan’s ancestral land was in ruins, it was nonetheless a place of resurgence for the dragon race, carrying within it an astonishing volume of fortune.

Under normal circumstances, relying on this fortune alone, the planet would give birth to a Divine Realm powerhouse every thousand years. Unfortunately, it had been suppressed by the Dragon Queen’s restrictions for nine million years.

One could easily imagine how terrifying that fortune, accumulated and preserved for a full nine million years, truly was. As the suppression lifted, catalyzed by that vast fortune, the planet would give rise to one heaven-favored prodigy after another in the years to come.

And the ones who benefited the most were precisely the people of this generation. For instance, the moment the restrictions dissipated, a Divine Tribulation descended immediately upon… Ciel.

Even several other demigods began to stir restlessly, showing clear signs of imminent breakthrough.

Before long, the tribulation clouds dispersed. Now a true god, Ciel finally broke free from the shackles of the world and appeared before the Dragon Queen.

“Where is she?” The moment she arrived, she demanded this outright.

The Dragon Queen did not take offense at her abruptness. She merely pointed toward the boundless starry sky. “Lilith is in the Great World. As for her exact location, even I do not know.”

“Go find her. Find her, and then give her happiness.”

……

“Heh heh, I never thought I’d see the day I became a true god as well.” A bare-chested burly man led a white-haired, red-eyed girl as they walked out from the planet. Then, quite by accident, he spotted the Dragon Queen seated above, looking down at him from the upper left.

“Well I’ll be damned, isn’t this the Dragon Queen? You became a god too, huh?” The Demon King Skarst, Lilith’s so-called big bro, rubbed his hands together, itching to have another bout with the Dragon Queen and reclaim the loss from years ago.

But before he could make a move, a terrifying pressure descended upon him, nearly forcing him flat onto the ground.

“D-d-d-damn it… You didn’t just enter the Divine Realm? This is—” Skarst was so frightened he could barely get his words out. Fortunately, the Dragon Queen did not pursue the matter further.

She simply pointed once more toward the endless stars.

“Go find her. Do not let her remain alone…”

……

Many years passed after that, and countless others emerged from the planet. A white-haired old man. A girl in white. A youth of outstanding talent.

Some of them were people Lilith had once known. Others were strangers born purely from the planet’s overflowing fortune. Yet regardless of who they were, the Dragon Queen always pointed them toward the Great World and told them the same thing.

“Go seek Lilith.”

Some were overjoyed, unable to wait as they set off on the journey to find the girl. Others were indifferent, believing the Dragon Queen to be nothing more than a madwoman guarding this place.

But no matter what, many people left this star and stepped onto the same path Lilith had taken before them.

The Great World was vast. They might meet her, or they might not. But in the end, the girl would no longer be alone. The story was not yet over.

……

At last, no one else emerged from the planet. Perhaps there would be more in the future, but waiting any longer no longer held meaning. The Dragon Queen could finally sleep once more.

Before she closed her eyes, her gaze swept across the shattered grand hall. The hall stood empty, yet faint remnants of the past seemed to linger, wandering through the space.

The Dragon Queen slowly closed her eyes and said softly, “Sweet dreams, everyone.”

And so the ethereal remnants all bowed in response: “Sweet dreams, Your Majesty.”