How shocked or astonished the outside world was no longer concerned Luo Yan.
In any case, he had finally vented the Luo Family's pent-up anger.
After this battle, the Yaoguang Holy Land would need decades to recover! Moreover, Luo Yan had wrecked the Quasi-Emperor formation beneath it with a single sword strike. Repairing it would be harder than climbing to heaven.
Great Luo City.
In a secluded courtyard at the rear of the Luo Family estate.
This place was now considered forbidden ground within the Luo Family. Ordinary clansmen were hardly qualified to come here; they could enter only at the courtyard owner's command.
Everyone in the Luo Family knew who lived there: their ancestor, a Quasi-Emperor.
The courtyard's furnishings and surroundings leaned toward a modern style. Its original appearance had been quite pleasant, but Luo Yan had found it uncomfortable to live in, so he had remodeled it into its current form.
"Ancestor, we've found what you requested!" The Luo Family Head stood outside the courtyard like an obedient child, respectful and not daring to set foot inside.
"Come in."
At those words, Luo Feng entered, carrying a box in both hands.
"Ancestor, these are the starry-sky coordinates you wanted."
Luo Yan found it somewhat unbelievable. Shouldn't something like this be extremely important? How had they found it so easily?
"Can you guarantee this is genuine?" he asked. He had never been to Earth in Shrouding the Heavens. That place was shrouded in mysterious formations and would not be easy to find. He had to make certain.
Luo Feng said, "An important figure from the Ji Family heard that you were searching for starry-sky coordinates and asked me to pass this on to you! This star map was imprinted by the Void Emperor during his travels through the heavens. You should be able to find the coordinates you need within it."
Luo Feng opened the box, revealing a star map inside. Luo Yan stepped forward and picked it up. As he immersed his consciousness in it, he soon saw phantom images of countless stars. He conjured Earth's appearance within the star map, and a set of coordinates soon appeared, pointing in a certain direction.
"This must be quite important to the Ji Family, right? They're willing to part with it?" Luo Yan quickly mastered the star map's use and realized that it was an exceedingly precious treasure.
"The Ji Family hopes to borrow your Time Mirror to study it," Luo Feng said, revealing their request.
Luo Yan was rather surprised. Didn't the Ji Family have the Void Mirror? Why borrow his Time Mirror? "What do they want it for?"
"The Ji Family has always wanted to create a Little Void Mirror replica. Unfortunately, the Void Mirror's level is too high, and the replicas they produce can only be used once. Several thousand years ago, they wanted to borrow the Yin-Yang Mirror, the supreme treasure of the Yin-Yang Sect in the Central Plains, but the sect refused. After seeing your Time Mirror some time ago, they set their sights on it!" Luo Feng answered truthfully. Such matters were common knowledge among the holy lands and great families. Otherwise, imitations of various Emperor Weapons would not have circulated in the outside world. Some attempts failed, while others succeeded.
"They can borrow my Time Mirror, but I'll also need to borrow the Ji Family's Void Mirror to study it. If they agree, I'll find time to visit them."
"I'll go ask them right away." Luo Feng put away the box that had held the star map and withdrew.
Although the ancestor had no use for it, that did not mean the Luo Family had no use for it! It was excellent material for artifact refining.
Time flowed like water, and three years passed in the blink of an eye.
The Luo Family ancestor's sword strike against a holy land was now three years in the past. As time passed, the fervor surrounding the incident gradually subsided, and attention shifted elsewhere.
Yet whenever anyone spoke of the world's mighty figures, they inevitably brought up Luo Yan again.
One man had challenged an entire holy land. Luo Yan could be called the first to do so in ten thousand years!
A living Saint!
Few people knew Luo Yan's exact strength in the battle at the Yaoguang Holy Land. Those who did were old monsters with profound cultivation. A living Quasi-Emperor was a taboo existence. Who would dare discuss him lightly?
Since no one refuted it, the outside world naturally assumed that the Luo Family ancestor was a Saint.
Luo Yan had not been idle during those three years either. First, he had visited the Ji Family to study the Void Mirror and determine the difference between a true Emperor Weapon and a half-complete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
Afterward, he had addressed some of the Luo Family's shortcomings. Under the systems he introduced, the family shed its former decline and flourished with each passing day.
The one with the chaos origin divine body had not emerged into the world and continued cultivating diligently within the Luo Family. Whenever Luo Yan had time, he offered guidance to the family's young prodigies, though Donkey instructed them in his stead most of the time. Of course, that guidance was not free. Donkey had practically become an object of reverence among the Luo Family's cultivators. They served fine food and drink every day, afraid that Donkey might someday stop teaching their younger clansmen.
At the same time, Luo Yan had uncovered certain truths. Emperor Weapons could only be forged by Ancient Great Emperors!
Contrary to rumor, the Yaoguang Holy Land's Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron had certainly not become an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon on a night of thunder and lightning after countless generations of sages worshipped it day and night! There was only one possibility: the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron had been made by the empress. The Yaoguang Holy Land stood atop the Ruthless Great Emperor's tomb, and the Ruthless One Lineage's inheritance existed within the holy land!
This had also indirectly sounded a warning for Luo Yan.
The Time Mirror's origins were anything but ordinary!
According to the Luo Family's accounts, the Time Mirror was his natal artifact, something he had personally forged.
Yet Luo Yan felt it could not be that simple. Traversing the River of Time with Quasi-Emperor cultivation already defied common sense. How could an ordinary person comprehend a power as forbidden as time law? Even the legendary Time Beast could only cross the River of Time at will after reaching the Immortal King realm.
Perhaps only the Time Mirror could explain the root of all this!
Perhaps the Time Mirror had never been a divine weapon forged by the original owner of his body, but a divine treasure he had obtained by chance. It was precisely through the Time Mirror that the original owner had comprehended the great Dao of time!
Upon discovering this secret, Luo Yan immediately used the Time Mirror to examine the original owner's entire life. Sure enough, it was just as he had suspected. The Time Mirror had never been a divine weapon he forged, but an Immortal Artifact he had obtained by chance! It surpassed Emperor Weapons!
With this Immortal Artifact, he had surged forward triumphantly, becoming invincible throughout the world. Yet because the Time Mirror was incomplete, his glory had blazed like a shooting star, fleeting as a flower that bloomed for only a moment. It was not that he had never tried to repair it; even after exhausting every effort, he had found no way.
Only in his later years, when the Time Mirror's backlash drastically reduced his lifespan, had he thought of using it to extract the origin of time from the River of Time to repair it.
Unfortunately, it was already too late, and he had ultimately passed away in the mountain forests.
Then Luo Yan had transmigrated here and "naturally" thought of repairing the Time Mirror with the origin of time.
At last, everything was clear-the dark clouds had parted to reveal the rising sun!
During those three years, thanks to the Luo Family ancestor's presence, the family had ridden the wind and waves in the Southern Region, rising from a top-tier great family to an existence that even holy-land-level powers treated with considerable wariness. Unless they were fools, no one dared casually offend a family guarded by a Saint.
In other words, as long as the Luo Family ancestor lived, the Luo Family would never fall!
That day, Luo Yan opened his eyes and, leading Donkey without leaving any instructions, stepped into the starry sky.
"The ancestor has left! Remember what I told you! The ancestor is currently in seclusion and will see no one!" Sensing the movement within that courtyard, Luo Feng looked at the others with a solemn expression. Beneath the portrait at the center of the Ancestral Hall, a precious sword rested as an offering. It was the very Saint Weapon that had cleaved open the Yaoguang Holy Land three years earlier, and three strands of sword qi remained within it.
"Yes, Family Head!"
All the Luo Family's senior members knew that the ancestor intended to leave the family and journey into the starry sky. Even outsiders had guessed as much. After returning to the Luo Family, Luo Yan had given only one order: find the starry-sky coordinates within the Five-Colored Altar!
There was no hiding it.
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