Chapter 2240 The Truth of That Year!

Ao Zhentian's expression immediately faltered, "Brother Lin, what do you want to do? This is the True Dragon Clan. Once you are exposed, you are doomed for eternity!"

Lin Xun turned and walked away from the cliff, without looking back once, "Do you remember what I said to you that year?"

Ao Zhentian couldn't help but think of what Lin Xun said before he left with Zhao Jingxuan from the Ancient Wasteland Domain and the Star Chess Sea.

"I know you would never harm her, but it's hard for me to have faith in the entire True Dragon Lineage. Really, if something unexpected happens to Jingxuan, I will definitely not be able to bear it. If that happens, then I will really find fault with the True Dragon Lineage."

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"Although this is a bit unpleasant, I am speaking from my heart. I heard that dragons have reverse scales, and those who touch them will die, so Jingxuan is my reverse scale."

At that time, Ao Zhentian hadn’t taken those words to heart, but at this time, they were like a knife, piercing his heart.

Panic overtook him as he shouted shrilly, "Brother Lin, I..."

He looked around, but found that Lin Xun had disappeared.

For a moment, Ao Zhentian trembled all over. His heart was churning, and he was filled with endless panic as he rushed around as if out of control.

Bang!

The power of the array rolled and blocked him from going further.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it——" Ao Zhentian's eyes were red, and he kept attacking the array like crazy, but in the end it was in vain.

"Brother Lin, if you were me, would you...choose to betray your parents, relatives, and friends...and your entire clan?"

Ao Zhentian squatted on the ground, hugged his head tightly, and revealed an expression full of pain and inner turmoil, "Why, why did things turn out like this..."

In fact, Lin Xun had not really left. From a distance, when he saw Ao Zhentian in such pain, he also sighed in his heart.

Finally, he said, "Miss Yin Huan was captured by your fourth brother and expelled in an extremely humiliating way. Your True Dragon Lineage made her the most humble slave, and subsequently she was sold many times. If you were Miss Yin Huan, would you still protect your clan like this? She is the woman you love the most."

"What?!"

Ao Zhentian felt as if he was struck by lightning. His head almost exploded, his emotions were completely out of control, and his whole body was trembling with anger.

"If you understand how I feel now, then tell me about Jingxuan. Despite all this, I still consider you as a friend," Lin Xun said.

"I..." Ao Zhentian's face became distorted, as if he was about to go crazy.

At this moment, a gentle voice sounded, "Zhentian, you... Just help Brother Lin. None of us know whether Miss Jingxuan is alive or dead. She is also your younger cousin and the dao partner that Brother Lin cares about the most."

Ao Zhentian suddenly looked up. With his bloodshot eyes, he saw the familiar figure that he had been thinking about during those lonely years.

Seeing her looking at him with pity, Ao Zhentian's inner determination seemed to be shattered, and he trembled and said, “Yin Huan, what Brother Lin said just now... Is it true?"

Yin Huan nodded and whispered, "If it weren't for Brother Lin, I... I'm afraid I would have never seen you again..."

Ao Zhentian's teeth chattered. For a long time, all he could do was take deep breaths as he tried to control himself. His eyes were filled with hate as he murmured, "All my life, I have never thought about betraying the clan, but all this...is being forced by you all..."

Lin Xun and Yin Huan looked at each other, and both felt relieved.

However, when Lin Xun learned from Ao Zhentian about the shocking inside story of what had occurred during the Thousand Dragon Celestial Assembly, he was completely stunned...

Decades ago, the Thousand Dragon Celestial Assembly, which had attracted the attention of all races in the True Dragon World, kicked off, with a total of forty-seven of the most outstanding young descendants of the True Dragon Lineage participating in it.

During this event, these participants would use every means they had to seize the power of the Ancestral Dragon True Origin that was gathered in the True Dragon Pool.[2]

As the niece of the clan leader, Zhao Jingxuan was also eligible to participate.

At the beginning, she did not perform well, and was even ridiculed by many dragons who claimed that her blood was impure.

Halfway through the event, however, a shocking reversal occurred...

Zhao Jingxuan suddenly began to shine. In an extremely domineering way, she frantically devoured the Ancestral Dragon True Origin that had been prepared in the True Dragon Pool.

No matter how hard the other members of the True Dragon Clan fought, they could not get a single drop...

This turn of events immediately shocked the whole audience.

Gradually, all the bigwigs of the True Dragon lineage discovered that something was wrong. The Ancestral Dragon True Origin in the True Dragon Pool was one of the most precious treasures of the True Dragon Clan, and its power was extremely amazing. At most, any descendent could only refine about one hundred catties of it.

However, Zhao Jingxuan's body was like a bottomless pit, constantly devouring, and it was about to swallow up all of the Ancestral Dragon True Origin that was there. Thus, the higher ups of the True Dragon Clan immediately stopped her from continuing.

Later, the current leader of the True Dragon Clan, Ao Huanhai, discovered that it was not Zhao Jingxuan who had devoured the Ancestral Dragon True Origin.

Instead, it was the baby in her womb!

Hearing this, Lin Xun felt like he had been struck by thunder, and he froze instantly. A baby? A baby!!!

Wasn’t that...his and Jingxuan's child?

Lin Xun's heart was rolling. He was an Emperor, so his state of mind had long been tempered to an unprecedented level. However, when he learned of such news, he couldn’t stop himself from being affected. It was as if something had fiercely strummed his heartstrings, producing ripples that were like a landslide and tsunami within him.

"I...have a child?" He looked at Yin Huan next to him, with an unconcealable ecstatic light in his eyes, and...pure disbelief.

Yin Huan was also shocked by the news, but she was an outsider after all, so she was calmer than Lin Xun. She smiled and nodded, "Yes, Brother Lin, you are now a father."

Lin Xun was full of turbulent emotions, so he took a deep breath and looked at Ao Zhentian again.

Ao Zhentian lowered his head, not daring to look Lin Xun in the eye.

This made Lin Xun feel like a basin of cold water was being poured on him and he instantly sobered up from his excitement as he said, "Go on."

Ao Zhentian was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth and spoke, as if he had exhausted all his strength.

After learning that Zhao Jingxuan was pregnant, the influential clan members, headed by Ao Huanhai, the patriarch of the True Dragon Clan, all looked ugly and furious.

In addition to letting her participate in the Thousand Dragon Celestial Assembly, they had actually called Zhao Jingxuan back for another purpose.

They wanted to arrange a marriage for her and were planning to betroth her to Bai Kongjia, the ninth prince of the White Tiger Lineage.

Unfortunately, with the news of Zhao Jingxuan's pregnancy, this marriage was now obviously impossible. Naturally, they were infuriated by this.

Just as those True Dragon Clan bigwigs were about to punish Zhao Jingxuan severely, Ao Huanhai had discovered a shocking secret.

The child Zhao Jingxuan was carrying not only had the purest and highest-grade Ancestral Dragon bloodline, but also possessed a taboo-like terrifying talent: the Grand Abyss Heaven Devourer!

As a member of one of the Four Great Primordial Clans that have existed since time immemorial, Ao Huanhai knew that the Grand Abyss Heaven Devourer was unique to the Luo Clan, an Immortal Imperial Clan from the other side of the cosmos.

Moreover, even in the Luo Clan, very few people could awaken this bloodline talent!

Despite the odds, there was now a baby who had awakened this incredible innate talent.

What shocked Ao Huanhai the most was that such a baby still had the extremely rare Ancestral Dragon bloodline flowing in their body, which was extremely pure!

Hearing this, Lin Xun's face darkened, and he had a vague idea of what had happened next.

"Because of this incident, the Thousand Dragon Celestial Assembly was forced to be interrupted, all news was blocked and suppressed, and all the clan members who participated in the event were silenced..."

Ao Zhentian's voice became more and more gloomy, "It was also from that time that my cousin Jingxuan was taken away by my father. Not to mention me, even the other influential members in the clan don’t know where she is. In fact, this matter was also listed as the most core secret of the True Dragon Clan."

Lin Xun's expression became uncertain as he asked, "You don't know anything else?"

"I have been imprisoned here for all these years, so how could I know anything..." Ao Zhentian's voice was bitter, "The only thing I can be sure of is that because of the baby that Jingxuan was pregnant with, my father will definitely not harm her."

"That's my and Jingxuan's child!"

Lin Xun's face became ashen, "And I, as a father, was marked as a must-kill enemy by your True Dragon Lineage. They wished to eliminate me as soon as possible, and even worried that I would come from the Ancient Nebula Road. Thus, they did not hesitate to take action and had directly destroyed the path that led to the Ancient Nebula Road!"

Lin Xun took a deep breath and said word by word, "Now, tell me, what do you think your True Dragon Clan wants to do? Steal my child, give him the surname Ao, and never let him know who his real father is?"

Ao Zhentian became dejected and was unable to refute any of the accusations.

Lin Xun’s hunch was right. After learning about the terrifying talent of this baby, the influential members of the True Dragon Clan would never allow this baby to leave the True Dragon Clan!

Furthermore, if Lin Xun could be killed, it would be equivalent to completely cutting off the possibility of father and child meeting each other in the future.

"Brother Lin, calm down. This matter is not something that Zhentian can change." Yin Huan looked at Lin Xun, who was in a rage, with concern and comforted him softly.

Lin Xun took a few deep breaths and tried to calm himself down, but it was difficult to suppress the turmoil within his heart.

Decades had passed. Jingxuan and his child...hadn’t they grown up long ago? And as the father, he actually...only found out about this now!

When Lin Xun thought of this, boiling hatred erupted in his heart and he was on the brink of losing control.

Ao Zhentian thought of something and whispered, "Brother Lin, the reason for sinking the path to the Ancient Nebula Road was just not because of you. Instead, the elders of our clan knew that if the Nameless Esteemed Emperor found out that your child had the talent of Grand Abyss Heaven Devourer, he would definitely immediately come to kill.

Lin Xun frowned and said, "The Nameless Esteemed Emperor has been completely defeated, and now only a trace of his soul is left."

Ao Zhentian was stunned, "The Nameless Esteemed Emperor comes from the Luo Clan on the other side of the cosmos and controls the taboo tribulation lightning power, but he was defeated?"

Obviously, he also knew the origin of the Nameless Esteemed Emperor!

Yin Huan couldn't help but interject, "Zhentian, now is not the time to talk about this, tell Brother Lin quickly, where is Miss Jingxuan now?"

Lin Xun also looked at Ao Zhentian.

"I really don't know anything." Ao Zhentian's voice became more and more bitter.

For decades, he has been like a prisoner, confined here, so how could he be exposed to such core confidential matters?

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

1. See Chapter 1663 for when this conversation occurred ☜

2. Back in 1628, the author called it Ancestral Dragon True Blood, but I guess he wants to differentiate it from the Ancestral Dragon Blood that Yanxing needs to revive the Nameless Esteemed Emperor. That or he’s mixing up his terms again. ☜