"We're here."
The Eternal Dragon Emperor suddenly reached out and stopped Long Chen. Of course, he knew that Long Chen was very excited.
Therefore, he brought Long Chen along with him to restrict his speed, and then slowly brought him down.
The specks of starlight below gradually grew larger in Long Chen's eyes. There was an enormous space there, and as he got closer, he sensed that those specks of starlight were actually ancient runes. Those runes formed a spirit formation that was ancient and ancient. It contained a heavy power that surrounded the space below.
"This seems to be the power of time …"
Long Chen was quite sensitive to the power of time.
This ancient matrix was suppressing the flow of time to the extreme, causing the flow of time below to weaken to the extreme. Compared to the real time, it was probably only a tenth, or even a hundredth, or even a thousandth. It was as if a year outside was only a day inside.
"Don't be too excited."
The Eternal Night Dragon Emperor stood on the other side, speaking gently but worriedly.
Long Chen was confused.
The truth.
He wanted to know the so-called truth. So, he opened his eyes wide and gradually approached the matrix below. As the distance shortened, he seemed to see something slowly swaying, but he didn't care. He looked at the core.
In his view, Long Qinglan's corpse should be very small, somewhere in a corner.
But when he got closer, he saw something strange.
There was a black, sticky thing that looked like an octopus tentacle. It swayed slowly in front of him, and that was where the baby's cry came from.
"What is this?"
Long Chen was shocked.
"Take a look."
The Eternal Dragon Emperor said coldly.
Long Chen was a little confused. He took a closer look and saw that the space below was filled with such things. They were all slowly waving octopus tentacles, but they were much more disgusting and sticky than octopus tentacles. They were full of bumps and hollows, as if they had a suction force that swallowed everything.
Long Chen looked down along the tentacles of these huge swaying octopuses, but what he saw almost suffocated him. At this moment, his mind was blank.
It was a huge meatball. The hundreds of octopus tentacles had grown out from this meatball. The meatball wasn't the octopus' body, and it didn't even want to die. It was just a regular ball with no eyes or nose. However, on the meatball, Long Chen saw something even more shocking and disgusting.
There were hundreds of human heads on the meatball, all of which were the heads of infants. They were all the same in terms of appearance and size. These were definitely the heads of infants that had grown out of the meatball, because at the places where they were connected, one could clearly see the blood vessels and meridians.
The octopus tentacles, the huge black ball of flesh, and the hundreds of identical baby heads on it. The problem was, where was Long Qinglan's body?
Long Chen didn't care about this strange thing.
He looked around. At this moment, he was already very close. In front of him was the formation that could change the flow of time. He carefully searched every corner, but he couldn't find that familiar figure. In the end, he fixed his eyes on the monster that was waving its arms …
"What the hell is this? Where's my father?"
Long Chen took a step back. He asked in a hoarse, trembling voice.
His reaction seemed to be within the expectations of the Eternal Dragon Emperor and Eternal Night Dragon Emperor.
The Eternal Dragon Emperor snorted and said, "Are you blind? Can't you see such a big thing?"
At that moment, Long Chen felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
This was the truth.
Long Qinglan's body could be this monster with octopus tentacles and baby heads. This was impossible. Long Chen didn't even know what this thing was. It wasn't a wild beast, not an ancient species. Who knew what it was.
"Bullsh * t. How could my father be this thing? Eternal Dragon Emperor, did you bring me to Eternal Dragon City just to show me this thing? What are you trying to tell me? That my father was this thing from the beginning to the end?"
Long Chen took a few steps back, his eyes fixed on the Eternal Dragon Emperor.
Below, the monster imprisoned by the formation was still waving its hundreds of tentacles. What happened outside had nothing to do with it. The hundreds of baby heads were no different from real people. They widened their eyes and looked at the world curiously.
Long Chen's mind was in a mess.
This was completely different from what he had imagined.
What was the Eternal Dragon Emperor's purpose in showing him this thing?
The Eternal Dragon Emperor sneered at Long Chen's hysterical state. "I knew you wouldn't believe me. I didn't believe it back then either. Who would have known that he would become like this? You ask me, but who am I supposed to ask? I don't know the reason, but I only believe what I see. This is Long Qinglan. If you don't believe me, you can scram immediately. Scram back to your Massacre Dragon City."
His temper wasn't as good as the Eternal Night Dragon Emperor.
"Alright, stop arguing. Long Chen, listen to me."
The Eternal Night Dragon Emperor pressed Long Chen's shoulder lightly.
"Wait."
Long Chen's heart trembled. He looked at the monster below, his eyes trembling as he shook his head. "I won't believe you. Just tell me your purpose. Do you want me to believe that my father is this thing? Do you want me to give up on pursuing the truth and obediently serve you?"
Hearing this, the Eternal Dragon Emperor was furious. He was about to make a move. With his god-like strength, he could kill Long Chen in a second. But the Eternal Night Dragon Emperor stopped him and said angrily, "Eternal Ghost, are you crazy?
What if the Time Matrix collapses and he escapes? We've spent so much effort to slow down his growth. Do you know what kind of disaster he will cause if he escapes? "
This made the Eternal Dragon Emperor stop. He just looked at Long Chen coldly and said, "The truth is right here. We preserved his body here in ice. We didn't think too much about it and built a tomb for him. But we didn't expect that one day, there would be a commotion down here. When we rushed down, what do you think we saw?"
The Eternal Dragon Emperor looked at Long Chen's crumbling expression and sneered, "We saw tentacles coming out of his body. That's what you saw. Then, his skin, his flesh, all turned into what you saw. This is the truth. The truth is that your father is probably not himself anymore. He didn't know when his body had been taken over by a demon. You could even say that he was a demon himself."
"Don't talk nonsense. There's nothing wrong with him."
The Eternal Night Dragon Emperor coldly interrupted the Dragon Emperor. She looked at Long Chen seriously. At this moment, Long Chen was trembling all over. He looked at everything down below in disbelief.
"No, that's impossible. My father never told me this." He shook his head.
Long Qinglan had died in Eternal Dragon City, but she didn't know who he had given birth to her. She was the one who had personally buried him in Aspen Town. Later on, she had met Long Qinglan many times, the last time being in the Battlefield of the Gods …
Then what was with this monster in front of him?
Which one was his real body?
Looking at the dazed look on the child's face, the Eternal Night Dragon Emperor held it in for a moment and said, "Child, there is one thing you have to believe. That is the most authentic evidence."
"What is it?"
Long Chen trusted the Eternal Night Dragon Emperor.
The Eternal Night Dragon Emperor pursed her lips. She pointed at the huge meatball and said, "Do you see the heads of those babies?"
"Yes …"
Long Chen nodded. Every time he saw the babies' heads, he felt very sad.
The Eternal Night Dragon Emperor said softly, "You may not believe it, but this is what Qinglan looked like when he was a child. There is no difference …"
This sentence completely crushed Long Chen's heart.
At that moment, he was stunned.
At the beginning, he really didn't believe it. He didn't think it was real. However, from their conversations, the sense of authenticity made Long Chen gradually understand that it was not a lie. This was the truth they said.
At that moment, Long Chen took a deep breath and almost couldn't control his tears.
That was impossible. Even if he had become like this, it was definitely not his own will. Long Chen was familiar with his father. No matter what, he was definitely not someone who would do evil of his own accord.
Seeing his dazed expression, the Eternal Dragon Emperor said solemnly, "Do you understand now? I know that you, Long Chen, have absolute faith in him and want to clear his name. Today, I let you see it so that you can give up and focus on your talent. In the future, if you have his strength, you need to protect the human race and work for us, and not become a new evil demon. We have never purposely tarnished his reputation, but you have to admit that ever since he became the Eternal Dragon Emperor, Long Qinglan is no longer the Long Qinglan that he used to be. He is guilty."
Long Chen didn't refute.
He didn't have the strength to explain or admit anything. Today was a huge blow to him. He stared blankly at the monster waving the tentacles. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't connect it with the man in his heart …
Eternal Night Dragon Emperor said, "We looked through the information of the Primordial Age. The three Dragon Emperors worked together to create this Time Design to stop its growth. One day inside is equivalent to one year outside. We had no choice but to do this because we realized that it was very strong and it was constantly growing. What was strange was that it actually knew Long Qinglan's mystiques and dao techniques. We were worried that when it reached its peak, it would become another Long Qinglan. Hence, we could only use this method......"
The waving tentacles and the hundreds of baby heads lowered made Long Chen's heart fall into a dead silence.
He still couldn't accept this fact.
"Gentlemen, can I stay here with him?"
Long Chen finally calmed down. He wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes and asked.
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