Demon Lord 3

After I got back, I slept well, but the dream was unforgettable. I slept so well on the first day, and I didn’t expect to meet an old acquaintance in my dream. This old acquaintance was the Dark Emperor. We chatted for a while, and he asked me if I was afraid. I shook my head and said that I had nothing to be afraid of. He nodded and said that I was quite courageous. He asked me what kind of person I most wanted to be in my life, and whether I was like him. I shook my head and said no, I didn’t think he was the most powerful person. I thought the most powerful person was the true God. In my consciousness, I thought that the true God was much stronger than the Dark Emperor. The Dark Emperor also used his usual skills and asked me curiously, is even this skill not enough? I shook my head and said that I was not as powerful as a True God, that I was much more powerful than him. He asked me if I was someone who was very good at controlling dreams. I nodded and said that it was the Dark Emperor. I said that I had also encountered a True God, but he didn't think the True God was that powerful. He believed that the True God was more restricted than him. Although the power displayed was strong, in many aspects, every stronger person was controlled by the Heavenly Dao. The more such control, the stronger the person's strength was. Although he could have destructive power, the world would not allow him to destroy it. Many things kept this person tightly imprisoned. Now I was also very curious about the True God, so I asked the Dark Emperor if he had seen what the True God looked like. The Dark Emperor shook his head. He didn't do anything to hurt us this time. He just wanted to chat with me and said that he came to treat me as a friend. I asked him if we had anything to talk about. He said yes, he said that at least we had a common language, because he also saw the strength of a strong person in me, and also saw the feeling of a lonely life. I asked him if I was lonely. I had teammates, friends, relatives, and partners around me. Why did he say I was lonely? He shook his head and said no. "Although I'm not lonely now, that doesn't mean I won't be lonely in the future." He had comrades and friends before, but he remained lonely. When he was young, he yearned for the highest peak, hoping to protect those around him. In the end, he had nothing. I asked him if he longed for love. He nodded and said yes. I fell silent again, unsure how to understand his life. I didn't ask about the past. I simply asked if he had ever seen the true God with his own eyes and had he ever fought against the true God. He shook his head, saying he wasn't at that level yet. A true god, even in dreams, was an absolute being, like the sky itself. No matter how powerful I was, I couldn't pierce it. If I could, I could escape beyond the Three Realms. I asked him if he wanted to have that power, and he said no, because by then he wouldn't be truly human anymore. I asked him what it was, and he said it wasn't. Perhaps it was higher than a god. Perhaps humans, gods, demons, and monsters were all definitions we could define, but that wasn't it. I asked him what it was again, and he thought for a moment and said, "I think everything will return to chaos. Perhaps that person is chaos!" I was also a little confused about what chaos was, so I continued to ask him, but he didn't continue the conversation. He asked if I wanted to take his place. I nodded and said I had thought about it, because he had unlimited power, but he was also trapped. He was terribly lonely here, without family or friends. If it were me, I didn't think I could endure that loneliness at the moment. In that loneliness, I might want to escape, but he was so much more powerful than us, and yet he couldn't escape the end of this world. What was it? He said, "Did you know that the Earth is round? If the Earth is round, then the world is round too. It's as if everything in this universe is round. The starting point is also the end point, and the end of the world is also the beginning of the world. The beginning is the Big Bang, and the end will also return to the Big Bang, repeating itself again and again. Perhaps many, many years from now, everything will repeat itself. I wonder if you and I will still make the same choices as before?" Hearing his belief in this theory, I had an idea and said, "Let me put it another way. What if this time is after the Big Bang? We have come to this world for the second time, a second Big Bang, a second repetition of this world. Will our choices be the same as before?" Hearing what I said, he smiled a long-lost, gratified smile and asked, "Did I come up with all this on my own?" I nodded and said yes.