Amon curled his lips into a faint smile. "Really? Won't you reconsider?"
There was earnest persuasion in his tone. It did not sound like a test; rather, it seemed as though he genuinely regretted Lu Mingfei's choice.
"Are you truly going to give up the Dragon Emperor's power? That authority is comparable to that of a god. If you chose to control the Dragon Emperor's power yourself and then restart, you could search for your Erii through endless cycles.
"Even if every meeting was brief—perhaps only a few months, perhaps only a few days, perhaps only a single encounter—but as long as the cycle continued endlessly, you would always have another chance. Within the cycle, the two of you would forever be at the finest age of your lives. Isn't that far better than living out a short life, growing old and dying like ordinary people?"
Lu Mingfei scratched his head and said casually, "I never planned to live for thousands or tens of thousands of years anyway—wouldn't it be nice to spend an ordinary lifetime with someone I loved? Maybe you'd think I have no ambition, Senior Brother, but I never wanted to be some Dragon Slayer—
"Besides, you said it yourself just now—the second ending is like truth and like a dream"—an endless cycle was basically no different from a dream—"and tens of thousands of years in a dream don't mean much. Besides, this isn't a good dream."
Lu Mingfei smiled, and his smile was clean and pure.
"Are you sure?" Amon asked again.
"I'm sure." Lu Mingfei nodded firmly. "But where is Lu Mingze? I want to see him one more time."
"He has always been here." Amon snapped his fingers.
Visible ripples spread through the endless white space. At the center of the ripples, the figure