The Longevity Family: Starting from the Foundation Establishment Ancestor

"Withdraw? Why withdraw?"

Han Mu stepped out of the secret room, his gaze calmly sweeping over the tense faces of the crowd, a cold smile curving his lips: "Three patrol teams, three mid-stage Golden Immortals, and the rest are True Immortals... Perfect for delivering supplies to us, and we can also get some information from them."

Luo Feng's eyes lit up: "Senior Han, you mean...?"

"Old Han, our current situation..." Liu Ruyan said with some concern.

"It's alright, my injuries have healed by 30-40%, enough to deal with them." Han Mu quickly scanned the system panel to check his status. "Besides, this is the ruins of 'Time Guardian,' and the remaining Daoist energy has a natural restraint on the power of the 'Reverse Time Alliance.' Fellow Daoist Han Li, please use this secret chamber entrance and the surrounding ruins as a base to set up an enhanced 'Space-Time Barrier' and 'Trapping Killing Array.' Don't aim for lethality, just enough to interfere with, divide, and delay them. Zhou Meng, use your mark to try to activate the remaining 'Time Guardian' Daoist energy here, integrate it into the array, and enhance the restraining effect."

"No problem!" Han Li and Zhou Meng immediately got to work.

"Liu Ruyan, you take Bai Ling, Li Qingzhu, Lin Fan, and Lin Xue and ambush them at key points of the formation. Once the enemy is divided and delayed, join forces to kill any lone True Immortals. Make sure it's a quick and decisive battle, outnumbering them and giving them no chance to form a formation or send a message. Luo Feng, you come with me and are responsible for finishing off the enemy and collecting the spoils."

"Yes!" The men accepted the order and quickly dispersed to prepare. Although exhausted, Han Mu's composure and clear instructions gave them confidence.

Han Mu walked to a relatively high piece of wreckage near the entrance to the secret chamber, sat down cross-legged, and began swallowing pills to accelerate his recovery while focusing his mind on the "Time Amber" he had just obtained. This crystal required specific "Time Guardian" power or "Source Coffin Mark" to be safely read.

He carefully separated a wisp of the "Source Coffin Mark" power and infused it into the amber. Buzz! The amber shimmered with light, and countless words, images, and star charts seemed to flash within it. A massive amount of information flooded into Han Mu's mind, which he quickly sorted out and absorbed.

Most of the research is from the "Alliance of Time" regarding the "Alliance of Reversal" (Alliance of Time Reversal): its organizational structure (four levels of deacons: Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow, above which are the "Time Venerables" and their guards), the characteristics and weaknesses of their commonly used techniques and supernatural abilities, some known strongholds and spacetime beacons... Among them, there is indeed detailed coordinates and perimeter security information about a secret experimental field codenamed "Abyss of Silence" deep within the "Eternal Night Galaxy"! That place seems to be where the "Alliance of Time Reversal" conducts large-scale, dangerous spacetime experiments and imprisons important "test subjects"!

What alarmed Han Mu even more was that the information mentioned that the ultimate goal of the "Rebellion Alliance" seemed to be to collect enough fragments of the "Coffin of Origin" and the essence of time, and at a certain point in time and space, forcibly open a "reverse channel" leading to the "Source of Time," allowing their "Time Lords" to go against the current, tamper with some of the basic laws of time and space, and even... replace or merge with some of the authority of the "Source of Time," becoming the true ruler who transcends all time and space! And the sacrifice of the "Eye of Return to Nothingness" was a key part of this!

"A madman... no, a madman with boundless ambition!" Han Mu thought with a chill. The ambitions of this "Time Lord" far exceeded his previous imagination. If he succeeded, the time order of all the heavens and myriad worlds could be controlled and distorted by him, which would be a true catastrophe.

He continued his investigation and at the end of the information, he discovered the coordinates of a hidden emergency evacuation passage that seemed to have been left by the "Alliance of Time." It pointed to another relatively remote and desolate star region in the "Eternal Night Galaxy," where there might be remnants of an ancient spacetime wormhole that was not fully controlled by the "Reverse Time Alliance" and led to known star regions in the outside world.

"Great! We've found a way out!" Han Mu's heart leaped with joy. But first, they had to solve the immediate problem and then find a way to traverse a portion of the "Eternal Night Galaxy" to reach that coordinate.

Just then, Han Li's voice came from outside: "Brother Han, the formation is complete. Three patrol teams have entered the ruins and are searching in a fan shape. They are expected to enter the core area in thirty breaths. They are very cautious, keeping a close distance between each other and responding to each other."

"Let them in, and activate the formation once they're all within its range," Han Mu replied telepathically, ending his meditation and standing up. His injuries had healed by nearly 40%, and his strength by almost half; this was enough to deal with three mid-stage Golden Immortals who were restrained and separated by the formation.

He walked into the shadows at the edge of the formation, like a lurking cheetah, waiting quietly.

Soon, shadowy figures appeared. Three ten-person teams, each led by a mid-stage Golden Immortal and consisting of nine True Immortal members, cautiously entered the depths of the ruins. They were clearly well-trained, maintaining tactical distance from one another, their divine senses scanning back and forth, the standard gray scimitars and array plates in their hands radiating a cold aura.

"Residual traces and fresh marks detected over there in that pile of rocks!" The leader of the Earth-Rank Seventh Team, a mid-stage Golden Immortal cultivator with a scar on his face, said coldly. "Be careful. They might be remnants of a defeated army that escaped from the 'Disorderly Rift,' but they're not simpletons for triggering 'Seven Stars Locking the Sky.' Capture them alive; there's a hefty reward!"

"yes!"

The three teams slowly surrounded the area where Han Li had set up the formation.

"Now! Activate the formation!" Han Li shouted, and the formation plate in his hand shone brightly.

Om-!

The light in the core area of ​​the ruins suddenly distorted, and a hazy, grayish-white mist spread out, enveloping all three patrol teams! Within the mist, time and space seemed to stretch and fold; the three teams, though seemingly close at hand, instantly felt their companions' voices and auras become distant and blurry, and the surrounding scenery became bizarre and surreal, making it difficult to discern directions. Furthermore, a gentle yet resilient Daoist aura of "Time Guardian" permeated the air, causing the "Reverse Time Alliance" cultivation techniques within their bodies to become somewhat sluggish.

"Not good! It's a trap! A spacetime formation!" The leader of "Earth Team Seven" paled and shouted sharply, "Form defensive formation! Move towards the center! Send out a distress signal!"

However, under the dual interference of the formation and the Daoist aura of "Time Guarding," their communication spells were greatly reduced in effectiveness, and the distress signals they sent out were weak and chaotic. They wanted to get closer, but were separated by the distorted spacetime.

"Make your move!" Han Mu's icy voice echoed within the formation.

Liu Ruyan, Bai Ling, and the others emerged from various hidden points like ghosts, each targeting a lone True Immortal team member separated by the formation, and launched a joint attack! In an instant, sword energy, blade light, and spells flickered in the mist of light, accompanied by short screams and muffled groans.

"Damn it! You cowardly rats hiding in the shadows! Get out here!" The three mid-stage Golden Immortal leaders were both shocked and furious, frantically attacking the distorted spacetime around them in an attempt to break the formation.

"Your opponent is me." Han Mu's figure seemed to step out of time, appearing silently in front of the leader of "Earth Team Seven".

"You're asking for death!" the scarred leader roared, his scimitar transforming into a chilling gray light that tore through the mist and slashed straight at Han Mu's face, the blade crackling with the power of time reversal.

Han Mu simply raised his right index finger and pointed it at the incoming blade of light.

"Certainly."

There was no earth-shattering collision; the sharp blade light froze abruptly three inches from Han Mu's fingertips, as if time itself had stood still. The scarred leader's sinister smile vanished, his eyes filled with disbelief and horror.

"Shatter." Han Mu's fingertips trembled slightly.

The solidified blade light, along with the curved sword, shattered into dust inch by inch, like a weathered sand sculpture. Immediately afterwards, an invisible force of decaying time spread along the broken blade to the scarred leader's arm and body.

"No... no..." The scarred leader only managed to utter two words before his entire body rapidly withered and turned ashen, as if it had been washed away by millions of years of time in an instant, turning into a dried corpse, falling to the ground silently, without any breath.

Instant kill! A mid-stage Golden Immortal is like an ant before Han Mu!

The other two mid-stage Golden Immortal leaders had just repelled a wave of spatial turbulence when they witnessed the horrifying scene of the scarred leader being instantly killed. Terrified, they turned and fled.

"Can you escape?" Han Mu's figure flickered, appearing behind one person as if by teleportation, and he pointed a finger at him as well. That person didn't even have time to scream before following in his footsteps. The third person was struck in the back by Han Mu's palm strike from a distance, spitting out blood and collapsing to the ground severely injured. He was then knocked unconscious and tied up by Luo Feng, who arrived shortly after.

The battle began quickly and ended even faster. In less than twenty breaths, of the three patrol teams and thirty "Reverse Time Alliance" cultivators, three were killed (two mid-stage Golden Immortal leaders and one True Immortal), one was captured (a mid-stage Golden Immortal leader), and the remaining twenty-six True Immortals were all wiped out! Liu Ruyan and the others only suffered minor injuries to two of them.

"Clean up the battlefield, remove all traces, and in a quarter of an hour, take the prisoners and we'll leave here," Han Mu instructed the group, his gaze fixed on the depths of the "Eternal Night Galaxy," towards the "Abyss of Silence" and the direction of the evacuation passage.

The new journey may be more dangerous, but it also holds the key to completely thwarting the conspiracy of "Time Lord".