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"Fool," the Death Sun hissed. "All I need is to leave. I want to see a different world that lies right behind this gate. I\'ve worked hard to achieve it; don\'t test my already waning patience, Shen Bao."

"Fine," I said, pulling the crystal from my holding bag. It felt heavy in my hand, as if it knew the weight of the decision I was making. Without further hesitation, I threw it toward him.

"Shen Bao!" the Blue Sun yelled, her voice cutting through the air like a blade.

"Calm down, Old Azure," the Wisest Sun said, though his tone held an undercurrent of tension. "Trust the lad, has he ever proven to be unworthy of trust?" he added as he waited to see what I was planning.

Her eyes burned with a fury that could have reduced the world to ashes, but she held back. There was no time to argue, no time to act on her instincts. If we survived this, she would surely give me hell for this gamble. But for now, she watched, every muscle taut, ready to strike.

The Death Sun\'s fingers curled around the crystal, his decayed lips curling into a smile. "Good," he muttered, his voice slithering out like a snake\'s hiss. He turned his back on us, completely unconcerned about any attack we might make. He was daring us to try, confident in his control over the situation.

He moved to the gate, the crystal glowing faintly in his grasp. The grooves of the gate seemed to hunger for it, an ancient, insatiable thirst that had waited eons to be sated. As the crystal clicked into place, a pulse of energy reverberated through the air, making the ground beneath us tremble.

With deliberate precision, the Death Sun slit his wrist with one of his long, talon-like fingers. A spray of black blood arced through the air, splashing onto the crystal and the gate\'s surface. It sizzled and hissed upon contact, spreading like ink in water, darkening the surrounding sigils.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The sigils glowed brighter, thrumming with power. They twisted and writhed, forming new patterns, shifting and interlocking as if they were alive. The entire gate seemed to breathe, a beast awakening from a long slumber, its hunger vast and unfathomable. Light soon began morphing from the center of the gate, and what was once material, became immaterial.

The laws of Space began furling and curling, affected by the ancient scriptures of the gate to open a path to somewhere new.

"With this, the path to somewhere else will be open," the Death Sun said, his eyes fixed on the growing light emerging from the gate. "A place full of opportunities, don\'t you think, old friends?"

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His words were met with cold silence. He turned to the Wisest Sun and the Blue Sun, his eyes alight with a mad gleam. "You expect us to leave with you?" the Wisest Sun asked, his voice low and dangerous.

"It is an offer I make once," the Death Sun replied. "After all, what do you have here that is truly precious and worth staying for?"

"My people," the Wisest Sun answered, his voice firm and unwavering. His gaze held a fierce resolve, one that could not be swayed by the promise of power or escape. His words echoed with a deep, unshakable belief, as if they were the very essence of his being.

The Death Sun\'s lips twisted into a sneer. "Hah! Nothing but serfs and slaves. You can make more in this new place, mold them as you see fit. Why be bound to this decaying world when we can conquer another?"

"You don\'t even know where that gate leads," the Blue Sun said, her voice a hiss of contempt. She stepped closer, hammer still ready to strike. The muscles in her arms tensed, and her eyes gleamed with the promise of violence.

"Oh, I don\'t," the Death Sun admitted, his tone casual, almost bored. "But what I do know," he said, as more light began to pour out from the gate, "is that the Qi in that place is one stage higher than the Origin Qi of the Beyond." His eyes glinted with greed and anticipation as he took a few steps back, away from the gate\'s expanding light.

"One more thing," he added, a sinister grin spreading across his face.

"Shen Bao, this is my revenge for killing my clone back in the Vast Expanse!" His voice was a sudden, sharp crack that filled the chamber, followed by the sound of his fingers snapping. It was a sound that sent a jolt of terror racing through my spine.

Now, let\'s take a break here.

I\'ve spent several centuries as a cultivator, and in all that time, I\'ve come to know human nature better than most. It\'s a beast of Greed and Malevolence, a creature that thrives in the dark recesses of the soul. There\'s no such thing as a pure human, no one truly worthy of absolute trust.

Especially not a being like the Death Sun—a monster cloaked in flesh, a predator who would tear the world apart for his own ends.

And trusting him? The dumbest thing anyone could do.

Before the sound of his finger snap even finished echoing through the cavern, I had already moved. My hands clapped together in a praying motion, the symbols of power and will manifesting between my palms. "True and False! Monochrome!"