Chapter 788: Is this a Test, or is it Imparting Knowledge? (I) (2/2)

He said nothing, but his lips under his mask were pressed together tightly. As he looked at the zombies, he slowly unfurled the wings on his back.

“Seniors, I am Long Haochen. I must repent to you for the sake of the Temple Union.”

As he said that, he actually just knelt down on the floor in his Armour of Eternity left behind by the creator god, bowing his head to the sixty-three undead before him.

The white armor was so holy, while the crown on his head was so beautiful as well. However, in that moment, he just knelt and bowed for these sixty-three predecessors.

He did not do that for himself, but for the union and all of humanity.

Long Haochen’s actions had shocked all the Eternal Heroes present. They looked at each other as the passion in their soulfires gradually subsided. It was replaced by confusion and they were slightly touched as well. The human who had gained the recognition of the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation was actually kneeling for them. He was…

“Child, what are you doing” Hurry up and get up,” the first Eternal Hero said in a hurry. He wanted to lift him up, but when he sensed the holiness from the Armour of Eternity, his action was futile.

Long Haochen raised his head slowly, but he continued to kneel there. His mask shot up as tears pooled in his eyes, “Predecessors, seniors, you deserve a bow from me. You deserve a bow from everyone who still lives in the union. Six thousand years ago, you use your lives to chase away the demons. For the sake of the alliance, you even went as far as to be reincarnated as undead, slumbering for six thousand years quietly in this cold cavern. Although I don’t know who made that decision back then, but as the chairman of the new union, I can’t let this continue. Mankind would be doing you a disservice if we did!”

As he said that, he lowered his head once more and brought it to the ground three times firmly.

Only then did the sixty-three Eternal Heroes understand Long Haochen. In that moment, they all fell silent.

A woman said, “This child’s so honest that he’s cute. Did the person who gave you the key not tell you that we chose to remain like this? And the arrangements here were according to our requests.”

“Huh?” Long Haochen was dumbfounded. He raised his head and immediately sense good-willed smiles from the soulfires of the sixty-three Eternal Heroes.

“Dumb child, get up.”

The Eternal Hero who had spoken to Long Haochen first chuckled. Although the muscles on his face could not move, Long Haochen could clearly sense the good intentions he had behind laughing.

Although Long Haochen had made a fool of himself, he had still managed to move these seniors with his sincerity.

Only then did Long Haochen stand up. He said rather awkwardly, “I thought…”

“What did you think? Did you think that we were abandoned?” The female’s voice rang out once more and an Eternal Hero stepped forward. When she made her way over, the others clearly formed a path for her. She must have possessed quite the status among the Eternal Heroes.

Although she was now a zombie, Long Haochen could still see her beauty when she was still alive. Her face was not grey like most other Eternal Heroes. Instead, it was white, extremely pale-white. However, her skin was clearly still quite supple. Only her blood-red eyes seemed extremely terrifying.

“This isn’t just a cavern beneath the Knights’ Sacred Mountain, but also a place above the mouth of a frost spring. We need to use the coldness here to prevent our bodies from rotting. Every coffin has a small hole connected to the mouth of the spring, which will draw in the coldness. Otherwise, what you’ll be seeing wouldn’t be zombies, but skeletons. As for anything else, would we, a bunch of deceased people, find use in them? However, we then discovered that the coldness of the frost spring could let our powers grow and stabilise our soulfires, to prevent it from being extinguished so easily. That’s why we’re able to survive until now. Although we’re still close to our end, we can last a little longer.”

So that was what had happened. Long Haochen understood the secrets here now.

“I’m Shu Yongxiao, basically the leader of the people here. The last time someone came was thirty years ago. Back then, that kid called Yang Haohan came here as a replacement for the original temple head. Tell us, what’s happened in the thirty years outside?”

The Eternal Heroes had all surrounded Long Haochen now. Most of them had a good impression for this young man who had inherited the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation. Although Long Haochen had made a fool of himself earlier with his sincerity, but these seniors who had just awakened were obviously in a good mood seeing how he recognised them and did not reject them.

Long Haochen nodded and explained everything he knew that had happened to the temple alliance in the three decades to as much detail as possible. He went into particular detail regarding the previous holy war and the newly-founded Temple Union.