Qinglongmon

チンロンモン, *Chinronmon*

**Qinglongmon** (チンロンモン, *Chinronmon*) is one of the Four Holy Beasts, who was originally a Triceramon partnered to one of the original Chosen Children.

## Appearance

Triceramon has the form of a dark-green triceratops covered with hard skin on some parts of its body. It has sharp teeth, blue eyes, and three horns; a smaller one on its nose, and the larger two above its eyes, covered with red stripes. There are 3 white claws coming out of each of its hands and feet.

Qinglongmon is a long azure dragon with ten small white wings and four legs. His body is covered with chains and there are three silver balls around each of his legs. His face is covered with a blue mask with yellow markings. He has a single silver lightning-shaped horn on his face, four red eyes, and a long white beard.

## History

Initially in Child form, the digimon was partnered with one of the original Chosen Children. At some point, that digimon reached the Perfect level of Triceramon. During a climactic battle against the Dark Masters, Triceramon evolved into Qinglongmon. Qinglongmon and the other newly evolved digimon managed to imprison the Dark Maters. However, sometime later, they managed to escape and imprison the Four Holy Beasts in turn. Qinglongmon was released when the Chosen Children of 1999 released the powers of their Crests. Qinglongmon, along with the other Four Holy Beasts, then helped setting up the rigged D-1 Tournament to train Akiyama Ryō to fight Moon=Millenniummon, but was re-imprisoned when Ichijōji Ken becomes the Digimon Kaizer. Qinglongmon and the other Four Holy Beasts then created the D-3 and delivered them to the new Chosen Children of 2002 to help them fight against the Digimon Kaizer.

## Digimon Adventure 02

An apparition of Qinglongmon, writhing in pain, appears each time BlackWarGreymon destroys one of the Holy Stones that preserve balance in the Digital World. BlackWarGreymon decides that Qinglongmon is a worthy opponent, and continues to destroy the stones in search of him. Ultimately, Qinglongmon is freed when the Chosen Children use their D-3s to move the final Holy Stone, and he appears before them and BlackWarGreymon. Qinglongmon questions BlackWarGreymon for destroying the Holy Stones and putting the Digital World at risk. BlackWarGreymon tries to attack Qinglongmon, but fails. Qinglongmon tells BlackWarGreymon that the Dark Towers he is made of seal his power. As Archnemon reveals their plan and reason for creating BlackWarGreymon, he confronts her about his "destiny", to which Qinglongmon responds that only he can discover his own destiny. Satisfied with this answer, BlackWarGreymon leaves.

With the threat of BlackWarGreymon gone, as well as Archnemon and Mummymon, Qinglongmon introduces himself to Chosen Children, and explains how he and the other Four Holy Beasts are connected to past events in the Chosen Children's lives. He then plants his Seeds of Light in place of the destroyed Holy Stones. After Ichijōji Ken expresses his worries about the darkness, Qinglongmon tells them to keep the light in their heart, hope, in the dark times. Before he leaves, he informs the children that not all threats have been eliminated and that their mission is not yet over.

Later, Qinglongmon gives Gennai one of his twelve DigiCores in order to help the Chosen Children and their digimon fight in the Real World. Using the power of the digicore the Digimon of the Chosen Children are able to evolve into their Perfect forms again, and Paildramon manages to evolve to Imperialdramon, his Ultimate form. Qinglongmon later gives Yagami Taichi and Agumon more power, allowing Agumon to once again warp evolve to his Ultimate form, WarGreymon, so he can fend off BlackWarGreymon in the Real World.

## Trivia

* Qinglongmon's design is based on the Azure Dragon of the East (青龍, *Qīng Lóng*), a creature of the Four Symbols in East Asian mythology.
* Triceramon's design is based on the triceratops horridus, a dinosaur species.