Chapter 70

##**Chapter 69: Chaos First Opens · Returning to Void to See the Truth**

###**I. Coffin Shatters, Realm Clears · A Thousand-Year Dream**

Lin Jin crushed the last Burial Coffin Clan Supervision Order, the bronze fragments scattering into star sand in his palm. A crisp sound like glass shattering came from the void crack, and the scene before his eyes peeled away like a faded scroll—the blood sea dried into ink, the calamity clouds faded into the texture of rice paper, and even the teardrops of Ao Li before she dissipated froze into water stains outlined by fine brushwork.

"So I was a prisoner in a painting..." Lin Jin lowered his eyes to look at the "canvas" cracking beneath his feet, the chaotic spiritual Qi overflowing from the cracks making his soul tremble. The memories sealed for a thousand years were suddenly unsealed: the real scene of his parents teaching him to identify spirit herbs beside the alchemy furnace overlapped and intertwined with the false memories of the Ling Clan's blood prison.

The pressure of the Anti-Void Realm burst forth spontaneously, forming a domain within three zhang of his body. The edge of the domain hit an invisible glazed wall, and from the cracks came the Observer's electronic voice:

**"Experiment Number 9527 has broken through the cognitive barrier, initiating memory cleansing pro—"**

Before the words could finish, Lin Jin's fingertips had already pierced the glaze. Real pain was felt for the first time, and where the blood dripped, a chaotic green lotus bloomed.

###**II. Green Lotus Asks the Dao · Old Friend's Lamp is Warm**

Chaotic Qi surged into a sea, and Lin Jin walked upon the lotus. In the distance, a flickering soul lamp suddenly appeared, the wick leaping with Ao Li's own Nirvana Phoenix Fire! Chasing to the lamp, he saw a young girl in coarse cloth gathering herbs by a mountain stream, the jade pendant at her waist engraved with "Outer Disciple of Profound Heaven Sect, Ao Li."

"Does the young lady know..." Lin Jin's throat choked up. The moment the girl turned around, the wooden hairpin in her hair fell to the ground—it was exactly the phoenix tree hairpin he had carved himself back then!

A mountain breeze suddenly rose, and a Nirvana pattern appeared behind the girl's ear. Lin Jin's domain trembled slightly, the chaotic Qi condensing into the sugar figurine from Reverse Scale City back then, the phoenix wings pulled from the syrup being exactly the same.

"Does fellow Daoist recognize this pattern?" The girl's hand picking up the hairpin stopped in mid-air, "Ever since I can remember, I always dream of a phoenix in fire..."

###**III. Profound Heaven Old Stele · Parents' Dust Fate**

On the way to escort Ao Li back to the sect, a forest of remnant steles appeared in the sea of clouds. Lin Jin stroked the mottled "Medicine King Valley Ling Clan" engraving, his Anti-Void primordial consciousness piercing through time—

Real memories surged in like a tide: his father Ao Zhan was actually the chief alchemist of Medicine King Valley, and his mother Ling Yue was a descendant of the Sword Tomb. Three hundred years ago, demonic cultivators attacked the valley, and the couple hid him in a Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Pill, but the pill was intercepted by the Burial Coffin Clan and thrown into the painting world!

A sword hum suddenly came from deep within the stele forest, and a rusty iron sword broke through the soil. The sword tassel was wrapped with half a piece of candy wrapper, exactly what his father used to wrap pine nut candy when he was a child. The iron sword sensed his bloodline, the rust peeling away to reveal the two characters "Yue Jin"—his mother's life-bound sword!

###**IV. Burial Coffin Appears · Reality and Illusion Intertwine**

The spiritual power of the Yue Jin sword awakening alarmed those in the dark. A black-robed person stepped out from the void, the Burial Coffin pattern on his cuffs making Lin Jin's pupils shrink—there were still Burial Coffin remnants in reality!

"Fellow Daoist, look!" Ao Li suddenly threw out her life-bound lamp. The lamp light revealed the black-robed person's true face: Chen Mo, the alchemy boy of Medicine King Valley! It was he who leaked the valley-protecting array back then, and after memory cleansing, he had become a lackey of the Burial Coffin.

"Young Valley Master..." Chen Mo's mask cracked, revealing half a mechanical face, "They planted an Observer Gu in my brain..."

The Anti-Void domain opened instantly, and Lin Jin pierced his brow with two fingers. The mechanical Gu worm screamed as it escaped, detonating before it could be crushed by the chaotic green lotus, the fragments piecing together into a terrifying totem—the back of the neck of a certain great power in the Chaos Realm was shockingly tattooed with the Burial Coffin clan emblem!

###**V. Azure Luan Transmits Message · Secret Realm About to Open**

The Yue Jin sword suddenly raised its neck and let out a long cry, the sword light painting his mother's phantom in the clouds: "Jin'er, the Reincarnation Secret Realm that appears every sixty years in the Chaos Sea hides what Mother left for you..."

The phantom was shattered by a blood-colored arrow. An Azure Luan fell from the sky, its wings pinned with a blood talisman for help from the Profound Heaven Sect. Ao Li caught the Azure Luan and found half a piece of jade Jue under its wing—it fit perfectly with the Nirvana pattern that appeared repeatedly in her dreams!

The moment Lin Jin grasped the jade Jue, a storm rose in the Chaos Sea. Deep within the vortex, a Bronze Giant Gate slowly emerged, the door ring being exactly the shape of the missing other half of the jade Jue!

###**Final Act · Reincarnation Gate Opens**

"I will accompany fellow Daoist to this secret realm." Ao Li shared her life-bound lamp wick with Lin Jin, and a strange scene appeared in the lamp light: before the Bronze Gate, a great power tattooed with the Burial Coffin totem was extracting the soul of a certain sword cultivator—that person's brows and eyes were seventy percent similar to Lin Jin's!

Spiritual rain suddenly fell in the Chaos Sea, and in the rain came his mother's remnant consciousness warning: "Behind the gate is a soul fragment of your father, but the Lord of Burial Coffin has guarded it for a thousand years..."

Lin Jin laid the Yue Jin sword across his knees, and chaotic Qi carved Anti-Void Dao patterns onto the sword body. Ao Li's Nirvana Fire burned without wind, burning a line of ancient gatha in the rain curtain:

**"The day of breaking delusions to see the truth, is when I know who I am."**