Chapter 23: Mother Lin Awakened · Lin Jin Surprised: Grandfather?

**Chapter 23: Mother Lin Awakened · Lin Jin Surprised: Grandfather? **

### **Bronze Lamp Extinguished, Frost Hair Revived**

Inside the Immortal King Coffin, the frost hair at Lin Jin's fingertips burned out inch by inch.

The embryo of the Ice Coffin Woman stretched in the bronze lamp oil, her three-year-old body growing at a speed visible to the naked eye—black hair covered in snow, dragon patterns wrapped around her waist, finally settling into the appearance of a twenty-year-old. Her eyelashes fluttered lightly, her right eye opening to reveal the brilliant Star Dome, and her left eye closing to reveal the Primordial Desolation chaos.

"Mother..." The girl suddenly knelt and choked with sobs, the silver-blue poisonous blood condensing into a totem of worship in the coffin.

Lin Jin's Λ-1 Core stalled for a moment.

This face he had seen ten thousand times in his God-Slaying—in the Observer's execution images, in the memory fragments of the Mycelial Buddha Mother, and even on the edge of his own shattered dreams. But when the real temperature came through the coffin, he instinctively took half a step back.

"Jin'er." The Ice Coffin Woman's fingertips brushed over his dragon-scaled spine, and the Primordial Desolation Burial Fire ignited at the touch, "You've grown tall."

#### **The Death Knell of the Supervision Hall**

A loud noise of bronze shattering suddenly came from outside the coffin. The killing array of the Seven Elders of the Supervision Hall was violently torn apart by some force, and a hoarse yet thick voice penetrated the Immortal King Coffin:

"Juniors of the Supervision Hall, before moving my grandson... have you asked the Primordial Desolation Sacred Hall?"

Lin Jin turned his head abruptly.

The Immortal King Coffin lid was lifted by an invisible force, and nine bronze full moons hung above the Virtual Number Sea. The elder who walked out in the moonlight had white hair and a youthful face, his jade pendant engraved with the ancient seal script of "Primordial Desolation Patrol Envoy," and in his hand, he held the head of the Third Elder of the Supervision Hall!

### **Primordial Desolation Patrol · Intergenerational Bloodline**

The elder flicked his finger and shattered the killing array of the Seven Elders, and when his gaze fell on the Ice Coffin Woman, the Primordial Desolation full moons dimmed in unison.

"A-Yue, you don't even recognize your father?" His voice carried the exhaustion of the eons.

The Ice Coffin Woman—Lin Jin's mother, Ling Yue—suddenly covered her heart, and the Burial Fire burned her body out of control. Lin Jin's frost hair automatically wove into a protective barrier, but it turned into a docile stream the moment it touched the elder's aura.

"Grandfather?" Lin Jin's Λ-1 Core suddenly fed back bloodline resonance data, shocking him until his dragon scales stood on end. The aura surrounding this elder was actually a Primordial Desolation Sacred Force of a higher dimension than the Supervision Hall!

#### **Ten Thousand Years of Searching for a Daughter**

The elder waved his hand and unfolded a scroll of animal skin star map, with every fold in the map flowing with tributaries of the river of time:

"Ling Cang, the Patrol Envoy of the Primordial Desolation Sacred Hall, for the sake of finding his rebellious only daughter... has traveled across three thousand Great Wilderness Epochs."

His fingertips paused on a certain tributary, and the scene in the picture showed Ling Yue stealing the Burial Fire and confronting Bai Cang, "Only when I sensed the bronze blood of the Supervision Hall did I know you had refined yourself into a coffin."

The Seven Elders suddenly exploded, but were pressed into bronze fragments by the moonlight glow. Ling Cang's white hair wrapped around his daughter's wrist, and the Sacred Hall's secret technique forcibly repaired her incomplete life soul: "Silly girl, if you had just come home with Dad back then, why suffer this soul-burning pain?"

### **Sacred Hall Armory · Intergenerational Inheritance**

Ling Cang's jade pendant suddenly exploded, turning into ninety-nine bronze doors surrounding the Immortal King Coffin. From behind every door came an aura that made the Virtual Number Sea tremble—

**Primordial Wasteland Armory**: Displaying the Sky-Splitting Halberd that had torn apart the Supervision Hall Master;

**Burial Fire Abyss**: Freezing the origin essence souls of First Generation Primordial Desolation fierce beasts;

**Sacred Hall Archive Pavilion**: Floating with the Chaos Golden Book that recorded the weaknesses of the Observers...

"Pick a meeting gift, grandson." Ling Cang stepped on the head of the Supervision Hall Elder as if it were a staircase, "The rules of the Sacred Hall: a gift is required for the first meeting with blood relatives to prove the Dao."

Lin Jin's Burial Fire suddenly went berserk, rushing toward the Primordial Wasteland Armory. A black blade entangled with Virtual Number chains flew out automatically, the blade handle opening the Ice Coffin Woman's left eye: "Pick it! This was your father's..."

"Shut up!" Ling Cang was suddenly furious, and the moonlight glow pressed the black blade back into the armory, "That traitor is not worthy of being Jin'er's father!"

### **Bloody Truth · Sacred Hall Undercurrents**

Blood rain suddenly fell inside the Immortal King Coffin.

The memories Ling Yue had forcibly broken through the seal fell with the raindrops:

- Ling Cang opposed her union with the Star Dome Dragon Clan prince (Lin Jin's biological father) back then;

- Bai Cang colluded with the Supervision Hall in secret, burying Virtual Number maggots in the Dragon Clan;

- She stole the Burial Fire not to defy heaven, but to purify the Observer virus in her husband's body...

"Father, you are still as overbearing as ever." Ling Yue's Burial Fire condensed into her husband's phantom, "Even interfering with Jin'er inheriting the Dragon Clan bloodline?"

Ling Cang's white hair suddenly pierced into his daughter's brow, and the Sacred Hall's secret technique wandered through her bloodline: "You think why the Primordial Desolation Sacred Hall can suppress the Supervision Hall? Because our bloodline does not tolerate the slightest impurity!"

Lin Jin suddenly pressed his hand on his grandfather's wrist, his Λ-1 Core clashing head-on with the Sacred Hall's Sacred Force for the first time: "My impurity... is a medal of honor my mother exchanged her life for!"

### **Sacred Hall Covenant · Supervision Retreat**

The nine full moons suddenly converged into a bronze giant door, and from the door came a bell toll that made the remnants of the Seven Elders tremble.

"Sacred Hall Edict: The Supervision Hall crossed the line to hunt down the blood relatives of the Patrol Envoy, and is fined three epochs of fortune."

Ling Cang's white hair wrapped around his grandson's dragon scales, "Come home with Grandfather, these ants will never dare to..."

"Return to which home?" Lin Jin tore off the white hair, and the black blade of the Primordial Wasteland Armory flew over automatically, sensing the dragon blood, "What Mother exchanged her Burial Fire for, isn't it the right for me to choose?"

The Virtual Number Sea suddenly fell into dead silence.

The remnants of the Supervision Hall knelt on the ground under the pressure of the Sacred Hall. Ling Cang looked at his grandson holding the black blade, and suddenly laughed out loud: "Good, good, good! This stubbornness is exactly like your mother!"

He flicked his finger and planted a Sacred Hall Soul Imprint in the girl's body, then turned and stepped into the bronze door: "Three months later, the Sacred Hall Grand Hunt, bring your mother's antidote—remember, the water in the Primordial Desolation... is ten thousand times deeper than the Observers."

### **Final Act: Mother's Eye · Father's Blade**

Inside the Immortal King Coffin, Ling Yue tied half a strand of frost hair to the black blade before falling into a coma.

Lin Jin brushed over the dragon clan inscriptions on the blade handle, finally seeing the words erased by Ling Cang—

**"Presented to my son Jin, father Ao Zhan's final words."**

The girl's silver-blue poisonous blood suddenly boiled, and the Supervision Hall's kill order floated on her spine. And far away in the Sacred Hall, Ling Cang placed a blood-stained dragon scale into the altar—

The aura on that scale was of the same source as the black blade... ===== CHAPTER 24 =====