Chapter 5

At the moment that hoarse, ancient voice sounded,

Gu Lin Tian's body visibly trembled.

"Reporting to the ancestor!"

"It is not that our family has faced a calamity that could overturn the heavens; rather, our Gu Family……has encountered a tremendous opportunity! This matter concerns the future fortunes of our Gu Family for myriad generations. Lin Tian dares not act arbitrarily, so I boldly ask the ancestor to leave seclusion and personally decide."

His voice, bolstered by divine sense, clearly transmitted into the depths of the immortal mausoleum.

Inside the immortal mausoleum, there was a moment of silence.

It seemed that the ancestor who had just awakened was digesting the information in Lin Tian's words.

"A tremendous opportunity?"

The hoarse ancient voice sounded again, carrying a faint hint of doubt.

"If you dare to use the words 'tremendous,' it seems it is indeed no small matter……very well."

"You……come in."

As the words fell, the chaotic qi that shrouded the front of the forbidden area,

and those disordered spacetime laws, as if wiped away by an invisible great hand,

automatically split open a safe passage barely wide enough for a few to pass through, leading straight to the gate of the immortal mausoleum.

"Thank you, ancestor!"

Gu Lin Tian was overjoyed, straightened up, and gave Gu Yuan a glance.

"Yuan'er, let's go, stay close to me."

"Yes, father."

He followed behind Gu Lin Tian,

carefully stepping onto that passage.

Upon stepping inside, Gu Yuan felt the surroundings change instantly.

The heavenly and earthly laws of the outside world completely failed here,

replaced by a pure, ancient, supreme immortal dao aura.

Just taking a breath, Gu Yuan felt his immortal body rejoicing.

The passage was not long,

soon the two arrived before the enormous immortal mausoleum gate.

The gate towered tens of thousands of zhang high,

cast from unknown immortal metal, its surface covered with the mottled marks of time.

At this moment, the gate was slowly opening a crack inward,

a brilliant yet not blinding immortal light shone out from the crack.

"Boom——"

With a tremendous roar, the gate swung fully open.

The scene beyond the gate was not the dark tomb one might imagine, but a vast starry sky!

Countless stars were born and died within it, and divine chains formed from the great dao laws,

like giant dragons weaving through the starry sky, constructing a complete and stable inner universe independent of the world!

And at the center of this starry sky,

hovered an ancient bronze coffin.

Upon the coffin were carved dense immortal dao runes,

each rune seemed to contain the ultimate truth of heaven and earth, making one's soul feel like it would split at a glance.

The coffin lid had already been opened halfway.

A terrifying aura that could make the river of time stand still,

was emanating from that coffin.

Gu Lin Tian led Gu Yuan to a point a hundred zhang before the bronze ancient coffin, stopped, and again bowed deeply.

"Son Gu Lin Tian, pays respects to the ancestor!"

"Descendant Gu Yuan, pays respects to the ancestor!"

Gu Yuan also performed the salute, his heart filled with shock.

Using a universe as the tomb and the Bronze Immortal Coffin as the outer coffin.

Is this the display of a mortal-realm true immortal?

He furtively raised his eyes, wanting to see what exactly lay inside the coffin.

All he saw was that within the coffin, chaotic qi swirled and immortal light intertwined, making the interior impossible to discern.

He could only vaguely see a withered figure slowly sitting up from within the coffin.

"Enough, there's no outsider here, rise."

The hoarse ancient voice sounded again,

this time much clearer than before.

"Hehe, just now there was an outsider, wasn't there."

Gu Lin Tian straightened up, his expression not as stern as when he was outside.

Gu Yuan also finally made out the appearance of the person inside the coffin.

It was an old man wearing gray hemp clothes, his frame withered, his hair sparse and white,

his face covered with deep wrinkles.

The old man's eyes were murky yet calm; he first glanced at Gu Lin Tian,

Then it landed on Gu Yuan's body.

"Huh?"

He let out a soft "huh."

"Yuan'er's soul is much more refined than when I first saw him; it seems you haven't spared any effort these years, Lin Tian."

"Moreover... this little fellow seems to have a trace of... a very interesting aura on him, even I, an immortal, find it hard to see through."

Gu Yuan's heart gave a sudden jolt.

Interesting aura?

Could it be a trace left by the system?

Or perhaps,

is it the aura of that dark, tumultuous world?

Before he could figure it out, Gu Lin Tian beside him spoke up.

"Father, it's precisely for this matter."

He stepped forward,

repeating word for word what Gu Yuan had told him before,

and recounted it again to the Old Ancestor exactly as it was.

From Gu Yuan's bloodline awakening and soul anomaly,

to sensing the coordinates of another world, and then to that world being rich in resources yet currently in turmoil——

As Gu Lin Tian spoke, the Old Ancestor's hitherto calm face finally showed a hint of emotion.

His cloudy eyes once again turned to Gu Yuan, and his gaze changed.

"You say... Yuan'er can clearly pinpoint the coordinates of that world?"

"Exactly!"

Gu Lin Tian answered firmly,

"I have personally investigated; deep within Yuan'er's soul there truly lingers a trace of otherworldly aura, exactly as he described, without the slightest difference!"

The Old Ancestor fell silent.

His eyes, which seemed able to pierce through myriad ages,

scanned back and forth over Gu Yuan and Gu Lin Tian.

After a long while,

so long that Gu Yuan felt as if a century had passed.

The Old Ancestor's withered hand slowly rose and lightly tapped in the void.

Hum——

A vast, boundless star chart instantly unfolded before the three of them.

It was a three‑dimensional map of the entire Immortal Realm and the surrounding boundless Chaos Region,

covered with countless light points, each representing a world or a star system.

"Yuan'er."

The Old Ancestor looked at Gu Yuan and spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Point out that world... where is it?"

Gu Yuan nodded,

relying on the system's navigation,

he felt his vision blur,

within that vast star chart,

an extremely faint, almost extinguished dark‑red light point was clearly marked.

That light point lay in a desolate Chaos Region far from the Immortal Realm's main route.

Were it not for the system's marker, even a true immortal,

scanning with divine sense for hundreds of millions of years, might still fail to detect its existence.

Found it!

Gu Yuan's heart settled; without hesitation he reached out and pointed to the position of that dark‑red light point.

"Grandfather, Father, please look!"

"That world is right here!"