They found the carriage and placed Long Qinglan's mysterious body in it. Long Chen knew that he would be the key to this illusory Baiyang Town. He and Lingxi drove the carriage out of the city, one on the left and the other on the right. They were very fast, and after a while, they arrived at their destination.
This familiar place made Long Chen miss it very much. At this moment, he was undoubtedly very excited. He moved Long Qinglan's corpse down and leaned it against a tree. Then, he and Ling Xi looked at him quietly.
Lingxi had heard Long Chen talk about the past, so Long Qinglan's corpse should come back to life.
Long Chen wanted to see him alive. Long Qinglan's vision was unparalleled, so he must know what was going on. Long Chen had too many questions to ask him.
Seeing this thin and dispirited man again, Long Chen's heart was filled with mixed feelings.
"Hey, don't play dead. I know you're still alive," Long Chen said in a teasing tone.
He wasn't teasing Long Qinglan, but his own life.
"Must you wait for me to dig a hole for you to come back to life?" Long Chen said with a smile.
There couldn't be two mysterious dragon jades in this world, so it proved that the current Long Qinglan was different from the Long Qinglan of the past. Otherwise, Long Chen could have taken out the Yang family's dragon seal and obtained the second Ancient Blood Spirit Dragon's essence blood.
This world was fake, and it wasn't even because time had been reversed.
There wasn't a second him in Jadeite Jade Building.
And the core of this world should be Long Qinglan.
Under Long Chen's expectant gaze, Long Qinglan finally opened his murky eyes. At that moment, Long Chen was on the verge of tears. This man was his faith, and at this moment, his faith had finally come back to life. There were no words to describe how excited Long Chen was at this moment.
Last time, Long Qinglan's corpse had come back to life, which had given him a fright. Since then, his life had changed.
This time, Long Qinglan opened his eyes. His gaze was gentle, as if he had experienced the vicissitudes of life. He looked at his son with approval and excitement, and said, "You're finally here …"
This different sentence brought Long Chen too much excitement. This was also the difference between this world and the previous one. If time was reversed, the first words he would say would be, "Brat, hurry up and dig out my Dantian."
"Father."
Long Chen's heart was filled with excitement, and he hurriedly knelt to the ground and bowed deeply. This was the person he respected the most in his life, and he was like heaven and earth to him. They had met again, but he still didn't know if he was dead or alive. Although there were many problems, etiquette couldn't be forgotten.
Lingxi was like a chicken that followed the chicken, and a dog that followed the dog. When Long Chen knelt, she hurriedly knelt as well, and called Long Qinglan 'daddy.' Looking at the boy and girl, Long Qinglan's aged and weathered face couldn't help but reveal a satisfied smile.
"Children, get up." His voice still couldn't hide the weakness in it.
Long Chen stood up with Lingxi, and stood in front of him emotionally, his eyes red.
Since he had appeared, was he still alive? Or did he still exist in this world in some other way?
Even Long Chen didn't know.
"Is this my daughter-in-law? Very beautiful, very obedient. Very good, very good."
He looked up and down at Lingxi, his eyes filled with approval. He nodded repeatedly, and his undisguised love made Lingxi a little embarrassed. She hurriedly said, "Thank you, daddy."
"Good child."
Long Qinglan was very satisfied, but Long Chen was even more excited. The person in front of him had a consciousness, and wasn't the Long Qinglan who had asked him to dig out the mysterious dragon jade.
Long Chen hadn't expected to meet him here. Then, the inherited blood essence of the Void Cosmic Dragon was probably related to him, just like how the inherited blood essence of the Ancient Blood Spiritual Dragon was completely left to him by him. This second portion of the Ancestral Dragon's blood essence, which Long Chen had searched for so long, was actually still under the control of this person.
Everything became clear in his mind. From the Extreme Cosmic Finger, to the patterns on the City of the Tragic Deaths, and then to this place, it might all be related to this man. When Long Chen was three years old, he had gone to the Three Great Imperial Domains and asked Han Yunxing and Nangong Lie to protect Long Chen. It could be said that he could predict the future.
"Make good use of the God's blood in your body. In the future, you can become a Supreme God," Long Qinglan first said to Lingxi.
"God's blood."
A look of realization appeared on Lingxi's face. Long Chen also knew about Lingxi's bloodline. It had only transformed in recent years. In other words, the Sword Soul Emperor must have found an especially precious blood when he was reincarnated. Then, the transformation happened in recent years, and the so-called God's blood appeared in Lingxi's body.
As for the Supreme God …
This referred to the gods who had passed the eighteen great tribulations.
Long Chen was about to ask on behalf of Lingxi, but Long Qinglan closed his eyes and breathed with difficulty. "I'm not in this world, and I can't hold on for much longer. You will understand her in the future. Let's talk about me. Child, sit beside me."
Long Chen and Lingxi sat beside him. Back then, there had only been Long Chen, but now Lingxi had appeared.
"My home is in the Eternal God Domain." Long Qinglan's eyes flickered with nostalgia.
Long Chen and Lingxi knew that he didn't have much time, and that they couldn't interrupt him.
"I was born in the Eternal Dragon City, one of the Five Great Dragon Cities of the Eternal God Domain. It was where I was born and raised, and where I was entrusted with great responsibility. It took me tens of thousands of years to reach a level no one in Eternal Dragon City has ever seen. I am invincible, and I am the Eternal Dragon Emperor. I am worshipped by all, and I am without equal."
The man looked up into the sky, tears welling up in his eyes as he recounted his past.
Long Chen wasn't in a hurry. He knew that whatever he wanted to know would be answered. All he needed to do was listen.
He felt that once he became strong enough, it would be time for his father to entrust him with great responsibility. This was a man who had given him everything. For him, Long Chen was willing to give up everything. Long Qinglan continued.
Long Qinglan continued, "I'm proud, I'm respected by the world, but I'm also lonely. My pursuit, my dream, isn't like that. I've had a grand ambition and a mission since I was young. This is the mission of every descendant of the Mystical Dragons. I've never forgotten my mission. I was born to pursue the Primordial Mystical Dragons, to unravel the mystery of their extinction. I'm lonely because I can't pursue it. But that day, I still embarked on this terrifying path."
Pursuing the traces of the divine dragons.
Long Chen was deeply shaken. Long Qinglan actually treated this as his mission. From his words, Long Chen seemed to understand. He was originally the high and mighty Eternal Dragon Emperor, and his responsibility was to protect his people. But when he was lonely, he pursued the greatest mystery of the Draconic Sacrificial Continent for his mission. Long Chen continued to remain silent, waiting for Long Qinglan to continue.
"I didn't succeed. I failed miserably. I was even framed, insulted, and stripped of everything I had. I was not understood by the world, betrayed by my family, deserted by everyone, and lost everything. I became the synonym of irresponsibility and laughable. But who knew that I wasn't wrong? I was only one step away from success, but I couldn't take that step. And it was this step that allowed me to see how terrifying this secret was. It didn't just concern me, it concerned the survival of the entire world. But they were still like animals, willing to be kept in captivity, and even ostracized a different species like me …"
Long Qinglan's face was covered in tears, and his eyes were filled with endless unwillingness. He shook his head in pain, causing Long Chen's body to tighten. While crying in pain, he said, "My life ended long ago. I was invincible. I was only one step away from becoming a god, and I even had the might of a god. I set an unprecedented record of passing seven Nirvana Tribulations consecutively, but I died on the last step of pursuing this secret. I was killed, but I still don't know who killed me …" "Child, you don't have to hold on to hope. I'm already dead.
"Child, you don't have to have any hope. I'm already dead. What am I now? I don't know either. I'm not in this world, I'm from the past, but the me in Baiyang Town was just a dead person. I don't exist at all. That me was just an illusion in your mind. I died long ago, and the only thing I left behind is you. Everything about the Yang Family in Baiyang Town has nothing to do with you. It's just an illusion. Everything is fake, including that woman. She gave birth to you, and everything else, it's all fake. I'm the one who deceived you. You're a life created by me."
Long Chen felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and he stared at Long Qinglan in a daze.
He was a life that Long Qinglan had created. Everything in Baiyang Town was fake, an illusion. Everything that the people of Baiyang Town thought, Long Qinglan's peerless beauty when he arrived, his marriage with Yang Xueqing, and the birth of a child, as long as Long Qinglan existed, everything was fake. There was no such person.
Because he had said that he had died a long time ago.
Long Chen was a real person, and he didn't dare to believe that all of this was fake. Looking at the old man's tear-streaked face, he hadn't cried like this for a long time. He naturally couldn't accept all of this. Even his sibling relationship with Yang Lingqing wasn't real. Everyone in the Three Regions and Nine Worlds couldn't escape Long Qinglan's divine might. Everything was under his control.
All of this sounded so unimaginable, but it was true.
"Then, what am I?" Long Chen couldn't help but ask himself.
That's right, what exactly am I?
Was he a real person?