Winter Snow Thousand Cat Lanterns

The vast Dream Sea, atop layers of miracles and magnificence, where Transcendents walk the ascendant path guided by their ultimate longings as if by beacons.
The supreme beings wielded power, their greatness shining in all directions, ascending to divinity.
But even deities were not the ultimate. They too struggled for greater perfection and ideals, endlessly, within the Void Origin, above the Dream Sea.
"So... Your Majesty Ybur, as the most powerful Slime in history, what exactly drives you to become stronger?"
Many years later, when faced with the question from a Heavenly envoy, Ybur, who by then stood at the zenith of the Dream Realm as the "World Devourer," recalled the afternoon just after his birth when the Creator had stuffed him down a golden toilet and flushed him into the sewers in one go...
After a long silence, he spoke with a heavy tone:
"It's the toilet. The golden toilet."
The envoy: "???"

I, a Slime, have also dreamed of becoming a great Demon King!

As soon as Ybur spoke, both women looked at it in surprise.


"Are you sure?" Temir said. "Don't you want to think it over again?"


Ybur replied in astonishment, "Does it even need thinking? The solution is clearly laid out on the surface of the puzzle! Think about it, we're observing this painting from an audience's perspective, looking down on it, and we control our bodies in an indirect, puppet-like manner. What does that tell us? It tells us that our true consciousness and our bodies are not in this painting but outside of it!"


Temir was shocked, "It really seems like it..."


Ybur continued, "So, if we can figure out a way to get back to our bodies, we can escape this scroll."


Saraphido said in a faint voice, "But the converse is also true. If we can figure out a way to escape this scroll, we can get back to our bodies... so, doesn't that bring us back to square one? We still need to find a way to leave this place."


Chapter 144: Star Observing City