Chapter 29

**Chapter 29: Dragon Clan Arrives**

###**Act I: Dragon Roar in the Return to Ruins · Time and Space Stagnate**

The Star Remains Sea of the Return to Ruins suddenly fell into dead silence.

The Reverse Scale Guard led by Ao Tian tore through the void and descended. Before the three thousand dragon halberds touched the ground, the surging Virtual Number waves froze into ice crystals. The dragon claws of the Battle Dragon Elder Ao Lie hung in mid-air, frost flowers condensing on his dragon whiskers—time in the entire Return to Ruins was forcibly frozen by some power.

"Ancestral Dragon above..." Ao Hui's sound transmission technique got stuck in his throat, turning into ice dregs and falling.

At the end of the Star Remains Sea, a green bamboo raft broke through the fog. The old man poling the raft wore a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, with half a piece of an ice coffin fragment hanging from his waist. The Burial Fire jumping on the fragment was actually pure silver-white—completely different from the source seed fused with Lin Jin!

"Burial Fire... the true Burial Fire..." Ao Tian's Immortal-Slaying Halberd emitted a fearful hum.

####**All Things Silent**

The moment the old man stepped onto the Return to Ruins, the frozen time and space began to flow backward. The Burial Fire source seed in Lin Jin's chest suddenly left his body, turning into a stream of light and merging into the ice coffin fragment in the old man's hand. The world before his eyes suddenly collapsed, falling into a pure white void—

Floating in the void were seventy-two ice coffins, each coffin carved with the character "Lin".

###**Act II: Truth of the Lin Clan · Origin of Burial Fire**

"Your original surname is Lin, because your mother stole this character."

The old man's voice came from every ice coffin. The void cracked open a gap, reflecting the scene from one hundred thousand years ago:

-When chaos first opened, nine Ancestral Dragon ice coffins guarded the Void Poison, and the Coffin Keepers were all surnamed "Lin";

-To sever Ao Tian's control, Ling Yue erased the "Lin" character when stealing the ice coffin, refining the Coffin Keeper bloodline into Ao Zhan's dragon soul;

-The Burial Fire source seed is actually the heart of the First Generation Coffin Keeper, which was tampered with by the Immortal Sect and the Dragon Clan into an Immortal-Slaying weapon...

Lin Jin's white robes were stained with blood-colored "Lin" patterns in the void, and the Burial Coffin Clan totem on his spine transformed into the Coffin Keeper Seal: "Are you the First Generation Coffin Keeper?"

The old man took off his bamboo hat, revealing a face seven parts similar to Ling Yue's: "I am your maternal grandfather, the First Generation Ice Coffin Woman, Lin Xuansu."

###**Act III: Tracing Truth Through Time and Space · Causal Re-weighing**

The void disintegrated into a river of time, and Lin Jin witnessed the tragic song of the First Generation Coffin Keeper:

-To suppress the Void Poison, Lin Xuansu refined the nine great ice coffins into her bloodline, the price being the eternal isolation of the seven emotions;

-Ling Yue is the only soul fragment with emotions after she reincarnated a hundred times, triggering the Void Poison backlash because she fell in love with Ao Zhan;

-The Burial Fire source seed is originally named "Heart-Guarding," and only the Lin bloodline can awaken its purifying power...

"The Immortal Sect and the Dragon Clan both want to refine 'Heart-Guarding' into a killing weapon." Lin Xuansu tapped Lin Jin's brow, the silver-white Burial Fire washing away the Void Poison filth in his body. "Your mother stole the 'Lin' surname for you to preserve the last trace of the Coffin Keeper's soul."

The river surface suddenly surged with angry waves, and Ao Tian's roar pierced through time and space: "Old thing! Give me back my grandson!"

###**Act IV: Ancestral Dragon Weeps Blood · Coffin Keeper Breaks Sin**

When Lin Jin was pulled back to reality, the Return to Ruins had become a purgatory.

Ao Lie's Reverse Scale Guard was nailed to the star remains by Pure Void Qi, and Ao Tian's Immortal-Slaying Halberd pierced through Lin Xuansu's left shoulder, immortal dragon blood and silver-white Burial Fire intertwining into a miserable glow.

"Grandfather..." Lin Jin's Coffin Keeper Seal suddenly burned hot. "Is this what you want?"

He gouged out his chest with his bare hands, the silver-white "Heart-Guarding" illuminating the Return to Ruins. Ao Tian's dragon pupils suddenly contracted—what appeared deep within that light source was the tragic state of the First Generation Ancestral Dragon being suppressed by ice coffins!

"So the Ancestral Dragon is the source of the Void Poison..." Ao Hui collapsed to the ground. "The ancestor we have worshipped for one hundred thousand years... is actually the source of the disaster?!"

###**Act V: Decision in the Return to Ruins · Lin Surname Reignites**

Lin Xuansu dissipated in the silver-white Burial Fire, and the last ice coffin fragment merged into Lin Jin's palm: "The path of the Coffin Keeper... you choose it yourself."

Ao Tian's dragon halberd turned toward his own grandson: "Jin'er, give 'Heart-Guarding' to Grandfather... the Dragon Clan can regain control of the Immortal Realm!"

Lin Jin's white robes fluttered, and the star remains of the Return to Ruins reorganized into an ice coffin totem at his feet: "My surname is Lin, not Ao."

The silver-white Burial Fire surged violently, and the Ancestral Dragon skeleton suppressed by the ice coffins broke through the ground. Lin Jin leaped onto the dragon head, the Coffin Keeper Seal transforming into chains and piercing into the Ancestral Dragon's reverse scale—

"From today on, the Void Poison returns to the coffin, and the Burial Fire... returns to the Lin!"

###**Finale: Immortal Realm Shocked · Coffin Keeper Reborn**

The Immortal Sect's Dragon-Slaying Order was annihilated in the silver-white Burial Fire.

The remnants of the Supervision Hall looked at the Great Wall of ice coffins reorganized in the starry sky and knelt down in unison: "Respectfully welcome the Coffin Keeper back to his position!"

And Lin Jin's white robes had been dyed the ink color of a mysterious coffin, the "Lin" character in his left eye replacing the Burial Fire, his right eye reflecting the peach wood branch where his mother resided—

There, Ling Yue's remnant soul was being gently reshaped by the silver-white Burial Fire.