The Longevity Family: Starting from the Foundation Establishment Ancestor

boom--!

The moment the phantom of the "Coffin of Origin" appeared, it burst forth with boundless gray-white divine light. The light was not dazzling; instead, it carried an ancient, tranquil aura that seemed capable of calming all chaos. However, this seemingly gentle light produced an inexplicable effect when it shone upon the surging death energy, chaotic time, and the bone spears, poison blades, and ghosts condensed from the "Bone Burial Time-Eroding Array."

chi chi chi...

Like snow melting under the blazing sun, attacks that were powerful enough to threaten even Taiyi cultivators rapidly melted and disintegrated under the gray-white light, dissipating into the most primordial particles. The entire massive and eerie "Bone Burial Time-Eroding Array" trembled violently, and the countless divine and demonic skeletons that formed the array's foundation emitted cracking sounds as they succumbed to the immense pressure, countless cracks appearing on their surfaces.

"No! Impossible! The 'Coffin of Origin' has long been shattered. You only obtained four fragments. How could you possibly manifest such a powerful phantom?!" Shi Shi stood on the bone altar, his eyes bloodshot, frantically urging the "Rebellious" immortal power within his body, trying to stabilize the great formation. The two gray-robed elders at the early stage of Taiyi also turned pale, desperately injecting their power into the formation nodes.

However, it was all in vain. As a supreme treasure of chaos, even if the "Coffin of Origin" was just a phantom manifested from four fragments, its status was far beyond what a large array set up with external force could withstand. In particular, the "Origin" Dao rhyme contained in this coffin phantom had a natural purifying and suppressing effect on negative and distorted forces such as "Reversal," "Death Qi," and "Chaotic Time."

"broken."

Han Mu stood beneath the shadow of the coffin, uttering a single word softly. He raised his right hand and pressed it against the bone altar beneath his feet.

The coffin in front of him trembled slightly, and a highly refined gray-white beam of light shot out from the coffin, instantly striking the core of the bone altar.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a soft "crack" sound, like glass shattering. Immediately afterward, countless gray-white cracks spread rapidly in all directions like a spider web from the altar, instantly covering the entire formation!

Rumble—!

The massive "Bone Burial Time-Eroding Array" collapsed with a deafening roar! Countless bones that formed the array's foundation turned to dust, and the surging death energy and chaotic time scattered and fled like headless flies, only to be quickly purified and calmed by the gray-white light emitted by the phantom of the "Coffin of Origin".

puff!puff!puff!

The formation was forcibly broken, and Shi Shi, who was in charge of the formation, and the two gray-robed elders suffered a backlash at the same time. They all spat out mouthfuls of blood, and their auras instantly weakened. Shi Shi, in particular, had no color left on his already pale face, and his eyes were filled with horror and despair.

"Go!" Shi Shi was decisive. He took a deep breath and his figure transformed into a dim gray shadow as he fled in panic towards the depths of Burial Bone Mountain. The two gray-robed elders also disregarded their subordinates and each used their life-saving escape techniques to flee in different directions.

"Trying to run?" Han Mu's eyes turned cold. With a slight thought, the coffin shadow in front of him trembled again, and three thin, hair-like gray-white beams shot out, instantly catching up with the three fleeing people and piercing their backs.

"Ah—!" Shi Shi and the two elders simultaneously let out a shrill scream, grayish-white light patterns appearing on their bodies, as if some force was dismantling their vitality and foundation from within. But they fled even faster, burning their essence blood, and in the blink of an eye disappeared into the thick fog of deathly aura deep within Burial Bone Mountain.

Han Mu did not pursue. Manifesting the phantom of the "Coffin of Origin" had consumed a great deal of energy, and this place was fraught with danger, so it was not advisable to stay for long. He waved his hand to disperse the coffin phantom, and with a flicker of his figure, he arrived beside Han Li and the others.

At this moment, the "Reverse Time Alliance" cultivators who were besieging Han Li and his group were already in disarray after seeing their leader flee. Zhou Meng, Luo Feng, and Bai Ling seized the opportunity to kill most of them, and the rest scattered like birds and beasts. Although everyone was injured and exhausted, no one was in mortal danger.

"Senior Han, you're amazing!" Luo Feng, leaning on his battle axe, was panting, but his eyes shone brightly. "The moment that coffin shadow appeared, the entire broken formation shattered! Those three old guys ran faster than rabbits!"

"My lord, are you alright?" Liu Ruyan asked with concern, as she could sense that Han Mu's aura was weaker than before.

"It's alright, it just took a lot of energy." Han Mu shook his head, looking towards the depths of Burial Bone Mountain, where the resonance of the fragments had become clearer, and it seemed that there was less suppression. "With the formation broken, the interference on the fragments has weakened. We need to hurry and take the fragments as soon as possible while they are heavily injured and fleeing during the eclipse."

"Brother Han, I just sensed that the exact location of the fragment is inside that tallest bone mountain." Han Li pointed to a giant bone peak in the distance that looked like a sharp sword piercing the gray sky. "But the concentration of death energy there is extremely high, and there seems to be a naturally formed spacetime distortion zone. It's very dangerous."

"We have to go, no matter how dangerous it is," Han Mu said decisively. "Liu Ruyan, you take Li Qingzhu, Lin Fan, Lin Xue, and Senior Yun Yazi to set up concealment and defense formations here. Take the time to heal and recover until we return. Han Li, Zhou Meng, Luo Feng, and Bai Ling, come with me."

"yes!"

The group split up. Han Mu led the four of them, speeding towards the highest bone peak. The journey was indeed fraught with danger. Not only were there more and stronger "Time-Binding Spirits" and "Star Skeleton Beasts" appearing, but they also encountered several strange spacetime anomalies—in some places, time flowed extremely slowly, and stepping into them felt like sinking into a quagmire; in other places, time fragments were disordered, and they could see phantoms of past battles, or even be swept into small-scale time turbulence.

Fortunately, Han Li's "Time-Tracing Array" provided an early warning, and Han Mu forcibly stabilized the small-scale spacetime using the laws of time. The five of them made their way through the dangers without any major incidents and finally arrived at the foot of the towering bone peak.

The Bone Peak was entirely constructed from the bones of an unknown, dark-gold, divine being, radiating a chilling aura. Its surface was riddled with numerous holes of varying sizes, like a honeycomb, from which dense death energy and chaotic temporal power constantly poured forth. Near the mountainside, deep within the largest hole, Han Mu clearly sensed the intense resonance of the sixth fragment.

"It's in that cave." Han Mu's gaze locked onto the cave entrance.

"Senior Han, there's something guarding the cave entrance." Zhou Meng suddenly spoke, the "Time Guardian Mark" between his brows glowing slightly. "It's... a very powerful 'Time Fiend,' more than one, and... it seems to have merged with this bone peak itself."

As if confirming Zhou Meng's words, the dark gold bones around the cave entrance suddenly began to wriggle, rapidly combining and transforming, and in the blink of an eye, they condensed into three "Peak Guardian Bone Generals" who were thirty feet tall, covered in bone armor, and wielding huge bone blades! The three bone generals had dark gold soul fire burning in their eye sockets, and their auras had all reached the peak of the Golden Immortal realm. Moreover, their auras were connected to each other, and they faintly formed a battle formation.

What's more troublesome is that from behind them, from the deep cave entrance, comes an even deeper and more terrifying roar. A violent aura that far surpasses that of a Golden Immortal and faintly touches the threshold of the Taiyi realm surges out like a tide!

"Looks like we'll have to get past the gatekeepers first if we want the fragments." Han Mu clenched his fist, his eyes blazing with fighting spirit. "Alright, I just broke through, might as well stretch my muscles. Han Li, you set up an array to support them and restrict their movements. Zhou Meng, Luo Feng, Bai Ling, you deal with those three bone generals. I'll handle that big guy in the cave."

"yes!"

Just then, Han Mu suddenly sensed something and turned to look in the distance, in the direction they had come from. Although separated by thick fog of death and mountains of bones, he vaguely felt that a cold, vast, and endlessly malevolent will seemed to have just swept over that area.

It's the will of "Time Lord"! He really has been watching this place all along, and may even have already located their position!

"Hurry up!" Han Mu's eyes sharpened. "We don't have much time left."