On the previous worldline, the Star Dragon King who granted me my end?
In a daze, Yu Lian's mind was completely overtaken by the last moments of his previous life. In an instant, he even felt his soul being burned.
Great, great. In my previous life, I was at the seventh ring when a star dragon breathed in my face and killed me. This time, I'm not even at the seventh ring yet, and I'm going to be burned to death by the same opponent?
...But he realized almost immediately that what the Star Dragon King had breathed out wasn't something as shallow as dragonfire. It was a dense gamma-ray burst, equivalent to gathering the energy and heat the sun scattered across its entire solar system into a single beam of light, aimed straight ahead.
Faced with power that could be called the might of the universe, what right did even his seventh-ring self have to feel heat?
Fake! Yu Lian made his judgment, then reached out and gave the dragon beyond the stars a thumbs-down.
The starry sky and the dragon both scattered in an instant. Immediately afterward, what appeared before Yu Lian's eyes was once again the mist-shrouded floating island in the spirit realm.
Hmph. A mere illusion like that thinks it can deceive my senses? Since the Aether Dragon King appeared, this must all be born from my own inner demons.
Heh heh heh. Inner demons? I know all about those! It's nothing more than beating myself up.
Yu Lian felt he had overcome another hurdle, and couldn't help feeling a little pleased with himself. Then he noticed that his upside-down thumb was pointed at the people outside the formation.
The good news was, he wasn't pointing it at his martial aunt, Lady Mei. If he had,