Him and their stars.

Chapter 2189 Don't say anything, just slap her.
What a magnificent scene! The enormous, sacred creature stretching across the Milky Way is itself a dreamlike spectacle.

However, Yu Lian noticed a hint of age in that sacred figure.

He seemed to see a psionicist at the peak of the eighth ring, about to break through to the edge of truth, but in the end, he was a psionicist who had reached the twilight of his life.

Thinking about it more carefully, on another timeline, I don't think I've ever heard of this dragon being active.

Amida Berencaster put down her cola, clapped her hands, and looked completely satisfied with her meal. She took a half step back, and the gemstone bracelet on her wrist glowed faintly, instantly enveloping her in a thin, pale golden film.

"Fox, is this what you expected?" Fei Fei sneered.

"If I were to say at this point that I've seen a possibility of something, it would sound like I'm just being sarcastic, but it's true. So, I'll activate backup plan three." She gave a calm smile: "Little Fish and Orange Cat are both smart people. They'll understand once I've said this much, and I won't need to get involved."

"Heh heh heh heh what you guys were talking about? Politics is all dirty stuff, I don't understand it." Fei Fei sneered.

Yani shrugged: "Then let's say it in a way you can understand. Ankara is just restarting the spiritual arrays of the Celestial Realm. He will replace the High Priest of Norddos and preside over all the mystical arrays of the Celestial Realm. It's expected to be fully restarted in three minutes. It's time to say goodbye."

Feifei paused for a moment, then looked at Yu Lian. Given their unspoken understanding, a single glance was enough to convey a thousand words. Of course, it was also very possible they communicated through telepathy.

A hint of reluctance flashed in her eyes, but it was quickly replaced by determination. She hugged her lover tightly, kissed him deeply for half a minute, and then took two steps back.

Feifei's mind quickly connected with the spatial anchor point set up on the Silent Ship, initiating a long-distance dimensional jump.

However, as her figure began to become transparent and was about to completely disappear into the spatial passage, her expression suddenly changed slightly. She clearly saw that Amida Berencaster had moved closer to Yu Lian and offered her lips to him as well.

Although the time was short, it was enough to make Fei Fei's body pound with fear and her mind reeling. However, she was already helpless as she was about to be teleported away.

“This is a kiss between friends, don’t overthink it, and there won’t be any further steps,” Yani said.

Your focus is clearly on the second half of the sentence, isn't it?
"Watch your brain stem." The moment Fei Fei left the scene, she reached up and slashed her neck, mouthing an undisguised threat.

“Oh dear, I’ve lost my mind.” Princess Rainbow Rose, who had gained the upper hand in this regard for the first time, shrugged and chuckled without a care. She then glanced at Brunhilde, who remained silent beside her, and laughed, “The subsequent movements are ready to begin, but there are still restless, ghostly notes. They are often what destroy a performance, but they are also what create greatness. The rulers’ elaborate schemes often fail to achieve their goals. Are you ready, Your Majesty?”

"Ha, when did someone as skilled at behind-the-scenes planning as you become so lacking in confidence about planning?"

"I understand. Besides, I've already said I really will resign. Whether it's His Majesty or not is a matter for after the selection of the Emperor," King Suruka said sternly. She was actually angrier than Feifei, angry that she couldn't even be assertive.

As for Yani, who was waving, her figure had blurred into a data stream-like phantom, flickering and disappearing like a holographic image affected by signal interference.

This isn't spatial teleportation; it's more like a phase teleportation protocol that completely bypasses the barrier that's about to expand and cover the entire area.

However, since we're talking about agreements, it's inevitable to think of Little Gray, the robot lady who understands agreements even better. But she slipped away silently long before the dinner party even started, which probably means everything is under control.

Yu Lian and Brunhilde exchanged a glance and suddenly realized that only the two of them were left in the space, and for a moment the atmosphere became somewhat awkward and difficult to describe.

Logically speaking, they should be an old married couple who have spent their lives together and have a child, so they shouldn't have this kind of awkward and unfamiliar feeling.

Brunhilde said, "Now it's just us left, a feeling we haven't had in a long time."

“Yes, it’s been years. The last time we were alone together was back then, on the Dawn Angel. You were planning to play a prisoner game with me,” Yu Lian said. He thought of the hotpot scene on the Dawn Angel. If you ignore Miss Nairhana, who disguised herself as furniture, and that trainee orderly from the junior military academy, it could be considered a time alone together.

“Isn’t it only a little over half a year?” Brunhilde said, adding that being alone in the virtual timeline is, of course, real.

"That was a dream."

“A beautiful dream, yet not without reality.” She still looked directly into Yu Lian’s eyes, not giving an inch: “You were able to manipulate the Empire’s fleet on the Empire’s own territory, easily pass through our army’s defenses through the Gate of Glory, enter Shengyuan through the Dragon’s Lair and head straight for the sky. Wasn’t it from there that you obtained the information? Hahaha, you really are something else. You actually dared to use it directly for military purposes.”

"how about you?"

“Me? I was able to get help from Ankaragan, of course, because I got the information from there.” Brunhilde’s eyes also gleamed with obvious pride. “In addition, there are the coordinates left by Sword Emperor Resnat in the Void Realm, which allowed me to quickly enter the seventh ring through the trials. Finally, there are the clues to the Primarch Project and the direction of our investigation.”

Well, as expected, Brunhilde's gains from the dungeon were no less than her own. She truly deserves the treatment of one of the chosen heroines of this era!

"Lian Qing, since we have obtained real information and results, what makes you think it was a dream?" she said quietly.

“This is a philosophical question. We can invite some experts in occult theories to give a lecture next time,” Yu Lian said.

Brunhilde smiled and said, "Speaking of which, your orderly, Sergeant Emer, has already died in battle at Shengyuan."

Yu Lian finally pieced together the image of that handsome young man from a certain groove in his cerebral cortex. Yes! That's what the child's name was.

"...He should only be seventeen years old now, and he hasn't even graduated from junior military academy yet."

"A sixth-year student at the Saint Tero Junior Military Academy, not yet eighteen years old. However, he has an internship assignment, serving as a staff sergeant in a local garrison unit somewhere in the Shengyuan Star Sector."

"Is that so?" Yu Lian sighed softly. However, he only sighed once.

"Breen, you're telling me this now, surely not to make me feel guilty?"

"You're not that naive. Of course I am. I just wanted you to know."

Yu Lian remained standing, gazing up at the rainbow dragon beyond the dome. He seemed to have observed the eyes of this ancient dragon, but he could only vaguely perceive a blank, chaotic void: "I truly never imagined that the rainbow dragon, at this age, would have already achieved the unity of heaven and man... the harmony between heaven and dragon, and the natural way of the Dao."

Such a powerful ancient dragon was only detected when it got quite close. This stealth technique of completely merging with the galaxy and moving with the natural flow was already at a high level, but it completely exceeded Yu Lian's understanding of the Rainbow Dragon.

Brunhilde explained, "The rainbow dragons aren't defined by their colors, but by their variability. As they age, they awaken different spiritual abilities based on their past. For example, Ancaragan... perhaps because he still harbors regrets about that war, he eventually gained the ability to resonate with the galaxies. His spirit can pluck strings in the universe, allowing him to appear silently and quickly anywhere in the galaxy through the vibrations of those strings."

Yu Lian listened with awe and wonder.

Now that I think about it, the shadow that flashed across the orbit of Ruixing reported by the Silent One must have been the form of this Primordial Rainbow Dragon. However, it traversed a distance of more than one astronomical unit in just a few minutes, which must be a higher-dimensional space travel ability.

Since we're talking about strings, could it be some kind of application of string theory?

Yu Lian felt that if he had the chance, he must discuss theoretical physics with this ancient dragon senior. The Primordial Rainbow Dragon, having lived for a thousand years, was certainly no less intelligent than himself. "However, the Rainbow Dragon's innate talent remains the control of force fields. As it ages, the manipulation of force fields gradually evolves into mastery of gravity, and even gravitational pull." Brunhilde looked at Yu Lian meaningfully: "Lian Qing, do you know what this means?"

Yu Lian couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Speaking of which, Brin, you said you didn't approve of this war."

"Yes, I wasn't really in favor of it from the start."

"You also laid out a whole set of policies for the entire occupied territory of the community."

"It has even begun to be implemented. This is not a social experiment, but a pilot program for a new policy."

"You, in this state, are preparing to leave?"

“I’m not lying, Lian Qing,” she said softly. “I really am preparing to resign.”

“But not today,” Yu Lian said.

“Of course not.” Brunhilde laughed. “Today… today is the day for them to witness.”

Yu Lian vaguely sensed a long and profound echo. It was not a sound, but a tremor that acted directly on the soul.

Ancaragan's six wings simultaneously extended to their maximum extent, each wing membrane covered with dense psionic runes. These runes flowed like living things, extending into the starry sky.

The power they represented seemed to have dissipated, but in Yu Lian's spiritual vision, those strange factors had flowed into the endless universe, eventually forming a three-dimensional array that covered the entire star field.

The entire starry sky surrounding Universal Paradise. No, perhaps the entire celestial galaxy's psionic background radiation is soaring.

Yu Lian sensed that the "texture" of the space was changing. The dimensional structure, which was originally as easily disturbed as the surface of water, was now becoming dense and solid, as if it had transformed into a frozen block of ice.

He attempted to use his psionic energy to perform a spatial jump, but unsurprisingly, he failed.

This space is refusing to fold.

"If we had been half a minute later, Feifei and the others wouldn't have been able to leave," Yu Lian said with a smile.

“If they really don’t leave, things will get very complicated for us.” Brunhilde stood under the dome, as if bathed in rainbow light cascading down from the starry sky: “The fewer actors a double act needs, the better.”

Yu Lian smiled as he watched the giant dragon in the sky. His gaze and intuition pierced through the spiritual barrier formed by Ancaragan's six outstretched wings. There, behind Him, in the starry sky far beyond the Universal Paradise, ripples of energy unique to the leap were constantly erupting.

One rider, two riders, ten riders, a hundred riders—these were dragon-like mythical beasts riding spirit stars, soaring through the starry sky. They seemed to have been born out of thin air, appearing in precise triangular formations on the outer tracks of the amusement park.

Having just fought a fierce battle and finally killed the main force of the Astral Knights who were wiping out the Void Beast, they returned to the void in just one second.

Yu Lian's gaze swept over the two rather imposing Flamewing Dragons and Four-Phase Dragons at the head of the pack. Although those two behemoths were indeed magnificent, they were still somewhat smaller than the millennia-old behemoth before him. What truly bothered Yu Lian, of course, was the human figure on the dragon's back.

Duke Gérard and Gilly? Very well, they're old acquaintances.

“It’s still two astronomical units away from the outer ring. And you just pulled them over like that.” Yu Lian said, “I didn’t know the Celestial Array could achieve this effect.”

“It’s not me, it’s Ancaragan,” Brunhilde corrected. “It can control gravity, and teleportation has become instinctive for it. As long as life information enters its mental domain, it can be pulled over.”

She took a step forward, her jade-like feet landing on the floor, which shimmered with spiritual light, producing a soft hum. Yu Lian seemed to realize then that when this girl wasn't wearing the Emblem Machine, she was simply dressed in a completely form-fitting white power suit, even more fitted and curvaceous than the Alliance suits that Fei Fei and Yani had worn before.

Perhaps it's because white better shows off the true outline of the body than black.

She was even barefoot.

On that virtual timeline, Yu Lian had seen countless scenes that were even more explosive and extravagant than this. Yet, he still glanced at them a few more times.

"Now, Lian Qing, the Heavenly Domain is under lockdown."

“Very well, your dragon ancestor has sealed off the realm of the spiritual, but He cannot seal off the conclusions of physics.” Yu Lian stared directly at the other party: “My fleet has begun its operation.”

Brunhilde adjusted the gemstone earring on her earlobe, a hint of relief in her smile: "Yes, they are preparing to retreat. Lord Sobyk did not pursue them. However, your fleet is retreating towards Gravity Well No. 3, where you are very likely to encounter the King's fleet."

"Will he intercept me?" Yu Lian asked with a smile.

“Of course he wouldn’t.” Brunhilde shook his head, full of sarcasm. “But if it’s Duke Barryon and Marshal Betaway’s fleet, then it’s really hard to say.”

Yu Lian finally asked, "Did your plan include them?"

Brunhilde's smile became slightly more genuine: "My dear, we've all made plans in that world. We can't possibly plan everyone's fate. In the face of the grand scheme of things, the fate of those in power is even more uncertain."

She looked up at the Rainbow Dragon. The magnificent creature lowered its head, its dragon eyes, over twenty meters in diameter, gazing at the amusement park, the starlight flowing within them seemingly containing a solemnity and mystery that transcended millennia.

It was indeed a sacred and majestic being, but it certainly lacked intelligence.

To be fair, Yu Lian thought that the huge dragon's eyes were quite clear.

“Of course, before that…” Brunhilde looked at Yu Lian with a sweet smile and a mischievous glint in his eyes: “We need to bring this matter to a normal conclusion first.”

"Seconded."

"Then, hold me tight, kiss me... no, slap me!"

"You know what, you really have to believe it, I've never heard of such a request in my entire life!"

"Come on, you think you've heard that before?"

The starlight in Ancalagan's eyes suddenly became sharper.