Fang Chen followed the chains with his gaze and discovered that their other ends were fastened to an ancient barrier. The veins and Dao patterns on that barrier closely resembled the veins on the red membrane he had seen outside, and those veins seemed almost alive.
"A human, of all things!"
A rough voice came from the enormous crocodile's mouth.
Fang Chen looked up at the crocodile and asked, "Why were you sealed here?"
"Why was I sealed here? Hahahaha..."
Upon hearing Fang Chen's question, the crocodile burst into wild laughter.
Rumble!
Suddenly, torrents of lightning struck down along the chains, relentlessly blasting the crocodile's body.
"Aaahhh..."
The crocodile's enormous body rolled violently, then went rigid.
Fang Chen had not expected this to happen.
But ten breaths later, the crocodile opened its eyes again. Ignoring Fang Chen, it laughed wildly into the void. "Hahaha, Ao Kun, keep going! Why did you stop? Let's see how much energy you have left!"
The next moment, every star in this ancient starfield trembled. Streams of starlight converged, forming a phantom True Dragon more than a hundred thousand zhang long.
The True Dragon unleashed a deafening roar at the crocodile, then turned to Fang Chen and said, "Human Daoist Friend, leave this place at once. Tell the people outside that this Black Lotus Two-Hearted Crocodile is about to break free. Tell everyone to flee!"
"Hahaha, flee? Throughout heaven and earth, there is nothing I cannot do. Where could you possibly flee?"
The giant crocodile laughed wildly at the True Dragon phantom.
A trace of fury flashed through the True Dragon phantom's enormous eyes as it looked at the giant crocodile. It twisted its massive body and delivered a Divine Dragon Tail Sweep, lashing the crocodile viciously across the mouth.
Boom!
The blow sent the