The Longevity Family: Starting from the Foundation Establishment Ancestor

"The will of the Time Lord..." Han Mu's eyes were icy cold. That vast, chilling, and malicious gaze, though fleeting, felt like a thorn in his back. This old thing had indeed been watching all along, and had likely already roughly pinpointed their location.

"We must move faster!" Han Mu shouted, no longer hesitating, his figure like lightning rushing towards the three towering, thirty-foot-tall guardian bone generals.

"Han Li, prepare for battle!"

"Received!" Han Li's hands flew, and dozens of array flags he had prepared shot out, instantly setting up a "space-time delay" array around the Bone General. Although it could not completely imprison the peak Golden Immortal, it was enough to slow down their movements by half a beat.

"Zhou Meng, Luo Feng, Bai Ling, go!"

"Roar!" Zhou Meng's warhammer erupted with a dazzling gray-white light, a heavy hammer imbued with the sealing power of "Time Guardian" smashing towards the head of the central bone general. Luo Feng swung his battle axe in a wide arc, cleaving towards the knee of the left bone general with the force of splitting mountains and shattering rocks. Bai Ling's sword light flashed like lightning, her figure elusive, countless sword energies raining down on the vital points of the right bone general.

The three bone generals roared silently, wielding their massive bone blades in retaliation, but their movements were slowed by the formation, greatly reducing their power. Boom! Boom! Boom! Three loud explosions rang out. Zhou Meng's hammer sent the central bone general staggering backward, cracking its skull; Luo Feng shattered the knee of the left bone general with an axe, forcing it to kneel on one knee; Bai Ling's sword energy left countless sword marks on the right bone general's body.

However, these three bone generals seemed to have merged with the bone peak, and dark golden bones quickly emerged from their injured parts to repair them. Although their aura had weakened, they were still fierce.

Just then, the terrifying roar from inside the cave suddenly drew closer! A stench swept over them, and an even larger shadow burst forth from the darkness!

That was none other than a monster fifty feet tall, resembling an earth dragon, but covered in dark golden bone plates, with ferocious bone spurs on its back, a head like a pangolin magnified dozens of times, and two dark red, blood-like flames burning in its eye sockets—the "Pangolin Dragon Beast (Bone Transformation)"! Its aura had indeed reached the threshold of Taiyi, and because it was a monster born from the combination of the remains of gods and demons, death energy, and chaotic time in this place, its combat power in this Bone Peak home ground was even more troublesome than ordinary Taiyi threshold cultivators!

"Roar—!" The Pangolin opened its massive maw, filled with sharp teeth, and a viscous, dark red breath, a mixture of death energy, malevolent energy, and chaotic time, surged towards Han Mu and his companions like a waterfall! Wherever it passed, the space itself was corroded, producing a hissing sound.

"Scatter!" Han Mu shouted, taking a step forward to block the breath directly in front of him. He clasped his hands together in front of his chest, the "Source Coffin Mark" between his brows glowing, the four fragments resonating within his body, and a layer of condensed gray-white light screen rapidly unfolding in front of him.

laugh--!

The crimson breath slammed into the light barrier, producing a piercing corrosive sound. The light barrier trembled violently, ripples spreading across its surface, but it remained unbroken. Han Mu's body trembled slightly, but he did not retreat an inch.

"Such strong corrosive power, and the chaotic time energy it contains is constantly impacting the light curtain structure." Han Mu felt a chill; this monster was even more troublesome than he had anticipated. He summoned the system panel and quickly glanced at the current status.

Name: Han Mu

[True Realm: Mid-stage Taiyi Jade Immortal (Peak State)]

[Time Rule: 85%]

[Status: Peak. Fragment fusion rate of "Coffin of Origin" 20%. "Netherworld Guardian Order" automatically activated, resisting some of the erosion from deathly resentment. Currently resisting the breath of "Pangolin (Bone-Transformed)".]

[Celestial Aura: -6000 points]

[Warning: The will of "Time Lord" has locked onto this area; attention level increased.]

"We can't delay any longer!" Han Mu's eyes sharpened, and the fragment of the "Seed of Reincarnation" within his body trembled slightly, a strange Daoist aura of reincarnation merging into the gray-white light screen in front of him. The color of the light screen instantly deepened, changing from gray-white to a more profound, seemingly all-consuming dark gray.

"Reincarnation—Reversal!"

Han Mu shouted and pushed forward with both hands! The dark gray light screen actually took the initiative to meet the dark red breath, "enveloping" it, and then, like a mirror, "reflected" the terrifying breath back along its original path, even amplifying its power slightly!

"Roar?!" The Pangolin was clearly caught off guard by this move. It was covered in its own breath and let out a painful and angry roar. Dark red flames burned fiercely on its head in an attempt to counteract the breath, but it was still blown apart, its head bleeding and its bone plates shattered. Its huge body rolled backward and crashed into a large section of the cave wall.

"Now!" Han Mu seized the opportunity, his figure transforming into a streak of light, instantly passing through the still-lingering energy turbulence and appearing above the Pangolin Beast's head. His right hand formed a sword-like shape, the gray-white light at his fingertips condensing to its extreme. He unleashed a "Time-Breaking Finger," a technique that combined the three profound mysteries of "Time Acceleration," "Time Decay," and "Origin Suppression," fiercely striking the core of the dark red flame between the Pangolin Beast's brows!

puff!

Like a hot knife through butter, the fingertip pierced through the flames and the hard skull without resistance, disappearing into its skull. A surge of violent time energy and primal Dao energy erupted and raged within its skull!

"Awooo—!!!" The Pangolin Beast let out an extremely mournful howl, its massive body convulsing and struggling wildly. Large pieces of its dark gold bones peeled off and weathered away, and the dark red flames in its eyes quickly dimmed and went out. In just a few breaths, this terrifying monster, comparable to the threshold of the Taiyi realm, completely lost its life force and turned into a pile of disintegrating bones.

Han Mu withdrew his finger and grabbed in mid-air, extracting a fist-sized "Dragon Beast Soul Crystal" interwoven with dark red and dark gold, containing pure death energy and the power of time from the shattered bones, as well as a palm-sized, grayish-white crystal that was strongly resonating with the fragments in Han Mu's body—the sixth fragment of the "Coffin of Origin" (the tail of the coffin)!

Upon handling the fragment, it felt warm yet slightly cool, and the essence of time flowing within was more condensed than the previous pieces. It transformed into a stream of light and actively merged into Han Mu's brow. In an instant, Han Mu felt his understanding of the laws of time become clearer, and his control over the "Coffin of Origin" strengthened.

Just then, something unexpected happened!

The three eerie crescent moons in the sky above the "Eternal Star Tomb" suddenly shone brightly at the same time! In particular, the gray moon, with countless fragments of time flowing within it, cast down an extremely thick, hazy beam of light that ignored spatial distance and precisely enveloped the bone peak area where Han Mu was located!

Within the pillar of light, a dark golden phantom, many times clearer and more solid than before, composed of pure will, slowly coalesced. The phantom's face was blurred, but a pair of cold, indifferent dark golden eyes, seemingly capable of seeing into the past and future, were fixed on Han Mu.

"Found you, little bug." The grand, majestic, and unquestionable voice of "Time Lord" resounded directly in the minds of Han Mu and everyone present. "Hand over the fragments of the 'Coffin of Origin,' cripple your cultivation, and I may spare a wisp of your remnant soul for reincarnation. Otherwise... you will be annihilated, body and soul, and eternally condemned."

A terrifying pressure, like the collapse of the heavens, pressed down fiercely! Han Li, Zhou Meng, Luo Feng, and Bai Ling groaned, forced to their knees, blood trickling from their mouths, barely able to lift their heads. Liu Ruyan and the others in the distance were even more severely impacted, their defensive array's light screen flickering violently.

Only Han Mu stood upright, looking up coldly at the dark golden phantom, a cold smile slowly curving his lips.

"Leave me a wisp of my soul? You dare to presume?"