Life span plundered, I became a detective and achieved immortality

The young man in white looked around, his gaze sweeping over the still slightly restless spatial turbulence at the edge of the valley—like a venomous snake unwilling to lie dormant, it completely lost its ferocity the moment his gaze touched it, and obediently lay prostrate on the ground; then he swept over the faint primordial aura remaining in the ruins, mixed and weak, yet still able to discern the traces of the fall of hundreds of half-step Golden Immortals.

He spoke slowly, his voice calm and even, yet carrying an aura of profound understanding of all things, as if every word contained the rules of heaven and earth, stirring subtle ripples of law upon falling into the void.

Immediately afterwards, he looked up into the void, his gaze seemingly able to penetrate layers of spacetime barriers, ignoring the obstruction of millions of years, and clearly saw the entirety of that earth-shattering battle—golden pillars of light tore through the sky, dyeing the world a fiery golden-red; a sea of ​​flames, like a colossal beast, devoured hundreds of torrents of divine powers; the desperate roars and unwilling souls of hundreds of half-step Golden Immortals struggled and perished in the turbulent currents, and their immortal corpses, fused with all their primal power, were ruthlessly imprisoned and suppressed.

"Let me see where this brat Lie Xuan is hiding now." The white-robed youth's lips curled into a strange smile, like a cat playing with its prey, his eyes gleaming with scrutiny; or like a cold judge, with an indifferent air of ruling everything.

The next second...

The white light surrounding the young man in white suddenly surged, like a pillar of light connecting heaven and earth, flowing with immortal Daoist principles, enveloping the entire valley. His mind soared infinitely, piercing through the clouds, crossing realms, and merging with the primordial will of the Nine Realms Continent—in an instant, everything of the Nine Realms Continent clearly appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness: from the deep-sea dragon palace of the Cangxuan Realm to the towering ancient banyan tree of the Qinglan Realm, from celestial fortresses to true immortal cities, every floating speck of dust, every flowing breath, was revealed without exception.

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After tea time.

The young man in white slowly opened his eyes. The white light in his eyes faded, replaced by a hint of doubt. He frowned slightly and said, "Strange, why is there no trace of that brat Lie Xuan?"

Everything in the Nine Realms Continent is under the control of the Origin Will. Unless one is an Immortal Golden Immortal like him, who can forcibly shield the secrets of heaven with their own Dao principles, even with a Grade One Immortal Immortal Artifact, it is difficult to completely hide from the Origin Will's detection; traces will always remain. Although the power unleashed by the Primordial Ancestor Lie Xuan millions of years ago was strong, touching the edge of immortality, it was still significantly different from a true Immortal Golden Immortal. His Dao principles had not yet completely transcended the rules of the Nine Realms. To completely erase his traces and hide from the Origin Will's monitoring, he was still lacking.

"It seems I will have to take action myself."

With a thought, a terrifying divine sense, far exceeding that of a perfect half-step Golden Immortal by tens of millions of times, swept out from his sea of ​​consciousness. This divine sense was like an invisible storm, containing an immortal pressure, centered on the Fire Crow Domain, rapidly sweeping outwards in all directions—passing over the immortal mountains of the Azure Mist Domain, every leaf of those ancient trees that had stood for hundreds of millions of years was clearly visible under the divine sense; sweeping over the ancient forests of the Azure Profound Domain, even the insects hidden in the tree holes had nowhere to hide; penetrating the deep sea of ​​the Azure Cloud Domain, every brick and stone of the underwater dragon palace was meticulously examined... Wherever it passed, whether it was a cave buried millions of feet underground or a secret realm hidden in the crevices of the void, all were dissected layer by layer by this divine sense, leaving no trace of concealment, as if the entire Nine Domains Continent had been overturned.

"Hiss... How... How terrifying is this divine sense!"

"Before him, we half-step Golden Immortals are like ants!"

"If that Lord of Divine Sense were so willing, he could suppress and annihilate us with a single thought!"

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In an instant, all the half-step Golden Immortals on the Nine Domains Continent were shaken to their core, and they were all awakened from their seclusion. Their minds trembled, and their faces turned pale as they looked toward the Fire Crow Domain. Their eyes were filled with awe and deep longing—a desire for the Immortal Realm and an aspiration for supreme power.

"It's an Immortal Golden Immortal! This is the power of an Immortal Golden Immortal!" A peak half-step Golden Immortal exclaimed, his voice trembling with excitement. "It must be that battle a million years ago that alarmed all of you Immortals!"

"There's no mistake! More than half of the half-step Golden Immortals in the Nine Immortal Realms have been lost. How could such a major event, which shakes the foundation of the Nine Immortal Realms, not alarm the Immortals?"

"I wonder how you immortals will deal with that old man Lie Xuan? I imagine you won't let him off easily. Killing so many half-step Golden Immortals at once has crossed the bottom line of all the immortals, not to mention that he even dared to dream of proving himself to immortality..."

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In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed.

In the ruins of that valley in the southern part of the Fire Crow Domain.

The white-robed youth's composure faded, replaced by a grave expression: "How could this be? Not only did it deceive the primordial will of the Nine Domains Continent, but even now, with my personal intervention, I can hardly detect that brat Lie Xuan's whereabouts."

"Could it be that this child has already left the Nine Domains Continent?"

The young man in white frowned, a thought flashing through his mind.

It's already lucky that a junior who hasn't yet attained immortality could evade the monitoring of the primordial will; there's absolutely no way he could escape the perception of an immortal golden immortal.

As long as this brat Lie Xuan is still in the Nine Domains Continent, there's no way he wouldn't have discovered it.

Immortal and Half-Step Golden Immortal, though only two words apart, represent worlds apart in terms of life level and power level, like the moon and a firefly, not even in the same dimension. Any trick of a Half-Step Golden Immortal is like a child's play in front of an Immortal.

"Or is it that other immortals are secretly protecting him?" Soon, another thought flashed through his mind. This was not impossible—the nine immortal golden immortals were constantly at odds with each other and were by no means a united front; it was common for them to undermine each other and support each other's forces in secret.

The more he thought about it, the more believable the latter seemed. Compared to a half-step Golden Immortal being able to deceive the Origin Will and the Immortal Divine Sense through his own means, it was obviously more convincing to believe that he was "protected by other immortals".

Besides, Lie Xuan has lived for tens of thousands of cosmic eras; he is by no means an impulsive fool. If he didn't have something to rely on, how could he dare to recklessly attempt to reach the Immortal Realm in such a sensitive place as the Nine Domains Continent?

"Let me see who's behind this." The white-robed youth sneered, and with a wave of his right hand, a beam of extremely refined white light shot into the sky, manifesting an ancient silver mirror above his head.

The mirror's surface was ancient and unadorned, etched with intricate star trails and immortal Dao patterns, within which flowed a faint aura of time. Nine pigeon-egg-sized star beads were inlaid along its edge, each containing the essence of trillions of stars, radiating a pressure that suppressed time and space. Streams of immortal Dao essence swirled around it, and the light and shadow within the mirror shifted and shifted, seemingly trying to reflect all the secrets of the nine heavens and ten earths, even forcibly revealing deliberately concealed causes and effects.

This is one of the three immortal artifacts in his possession—the Nine Heavens Immortal Mirror, which is dedicated to deducing heavenly secrets. Even if it is the traces of other immortals, as long as the other party has not deliberately concealed them with the Great Dao of Immortality, it can still reveal clues.

The white-robed youth looked up at the Nine Heavens Immortal Mirror suspended above his head, and a stream of pure immortal immortal power probed into it. Instantly, the light and shadow flowing on the mirror surface intensified, and the Dao patterns on the Star Pearl seemed to come alive, circling along the edge of the mirror and emitting a faint hum, as if countless stars were revolving within it. He took a deep breath, chanting incantations, his voice deep and ancient, as if it came from the beginning of time, carrying a power capable of shaking the very Dao:

"With the heavens as witness and the Great Dao as guide, cause and effect will be revealed, and the traces will surely be found..."

"Past and future are all reflected in the mirror; the hidden reveal themselves, and the concealed expose themselves..."

"By relying on my immortal foundation, I bind a million-year fragment of spacetime, condense the threads of cause and effect across the nine realms, and command!"

Each word carried a boundless, immortal Daoist aura, transforming into golden runes upon entering the void, merging into the Nine Heavens Immortal Mirror like shooting stars. Simultaneously, his hands moved like butterflies, his fingertips tracing profound paths, unleashing a series of hand seals—sometimes like a gentle tremor of a flower, drawing forth wisps of chaotic energy to merge into the mirror, enhancing its deductive power; sometimes like a horizontal slash of a sword, cleaving the void to reveal threads of cause and effect, severing all irrelevant interference; sometimes like lifting stars, pushing the pressure of the nine star beads to their limit, making the mirror's reflective power ever stronger, piercing through layers of illusion.

Streams of immortal power, capable of terrifying even a half-step Golden Immortal, surged from his body into the Nine Heavens Immortal Mirror like a raging celestial river. The mirror suddenly lit up, its light piercing through the thick clouds and shooting straight into the sky, dyeing half the sky silver-white; the light and shadow within the mirror churned violently, beginning to recount the cause and effect of millions of years ago: the battle scene in the Fire Crow Valley reappeared clearly, the fierce collision of golden pillars of light and seas of flames, the scenes of resentment and despair as hundreds of half-step Golden Immortals perished flashed by one by one... Finally, all the light and shadow condensed, freezing on a dissipating nine-colored spacetime gate.

"This is a projection of the Nine Realms Immortal Gate. As expected, that brat Lie Xuan has already left the Nine Realms Continent." The white-robed youth stared at the collapsing nine-colored light gate in the mirror, a hint of understanding appearing in his eyes. Then, his sneer deepened. "He ran quite fast, but did he think that by leaving the Nine Realms Continent and escaping the monitoring of the Nine Realms Continent's original will, he could rest easy?"

"Let me see where you are hiding."

Before he finished speaking, his hands moved with increasing speed, his fingertips flashing with seals like shooting stars chasing the moon. Each seal was more profound than the last, subtly activating the star beads at the edge of the Nine Heavens Immortal Mirror. The nine star beads lit up simultaneously, shooting out nine beams of silver light that converged into the mirror, making the projection of the Nine Realms Immortal Gate even clearer, revealing even the smallest fragments of light scattered when the gate collapsed.

"Using the Nine Realms Immortal Sect as an anchor, tracing the flow of the river of time and space, crossing the barriers of realms, seeking its traces... Imperial decree!"

The white-robed youth's incantation suddenly accelerated, the words falling like pearls onto a jade plate, bursting forth with an even more magnificent immortal Daoist aura. The light and shadow in the mirror distorted violently, and the fragments of the nine-colored light gate transformed into countless points of light, drifting into the depths of the void like dandelions. Each point of light was connected to a faint causal line, extending towards an unknown realm.

The immortal power within him surged into the Nine Heavens Immortal Mirror like water bursting its banks. Unable to withstand the force, the mirror emitted a buzzing sound, and the immortal Dao patterns on its surface shone as bright as day, faintly revealing a hint of crystalline brilliance—a sign that the Nine Heavens Immortal Mirror was gradually approaching its limit.

In the mirror, among countless causal lines, the thickest causal line, like a silver serpent, pierced through layers of chaos, bypassed billions of years of void, and headed westward, finally penetrating a thick boundary barrier, pointing directly to the direction of the Xuanzhen Immortal Realm.

"It's actually in the Xuanzhen Immortal Realm... Could it be that old man Xuanzhen is behind this?"

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