Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 486: The Name of the Ancient Path

At the end of the mountain path, Star Pivot Hall lay ahead.

The main hall was built into the mountain, its entire body dark greenish-black, with little exterior ornamentation except for dozens of palm-sized metal formation plates hanging from the eaves. When the wind blew, they lightly bumped against each other, producing no crisp sound but only a low, steady hum of metal and stone that made anyone entering this place unconsciously calm down.

Two duty disciples at the door saw Su Ming and bowed in unison.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Su."

"Is Master inside the hall?"

"The Zhenren is already waiting for you."

Su Ming stepped into the hall.

Inside Star Pivot Hall, it was even quieter than outside.

Tall shelves stood everywhere, filled with all kinds of jade slips, formation plates, damaged artifacts, and sealed spiritual materials. The air carried a faint cold scent of metal and stone, mixed with the aged fragrance of books accumulated over years. A massive star chart was engraved in the center of the floor, with interwoven star points and lines of varying depths, as if someone had once used it to deduce the patterns of heaven and earth countless times.

Xuanheng Zhenren stood behind a long table, examining a dark purple jade slip.He wore a deep purple formation robe today, his sleeves hanging down, his back straight, standing there.

Hearing footsteps, Xuanheng turned around.

His gaze fell on Su Ming, first sweeping over his robe, then his aura, and finally stopping on Shadow perched on Su Ming's shoulder. He paused for a breath before nodding faintly.

"Your cultivation has condensed further. Not bad."

Su Ming bowed. "Disciple greets Master."

"Sit."

Xuanheng gestured.

Su Ming sat down at the lower seat as instructed, and Shadow jumped onto the back of the chair to crouch there. The little creature was usually fearless, but before Xuanheng, it inexplicably restrained itself, even smoothing its feathers.

Xuanheng didn't speak immediately. Instead, he placed the jade slip back on the table and studied Su Ming for a moment.

"At the Sect Leader's Peak, was the matter resolved?"

Su Ming was momentarily startled, then quickly understood.

likely already sent

answer Master, the Sect Leader has ordered that white crane grounded for three months and not allowed to leave

and state your grievance clearly is an

that single sentence,

of worry in Su Ming's

that Su Ming's expression had stabilized, Xuanheng raised his hand, took out an ancient jade slip

with rounded edges, showing no signs of fresh carving but rather looking

realm you're going to is called the

Ming looked up

Ancient Path.

reaction was not awe, nor mystery,

was far

opportunity countless sect disciples sought but could never obtain,

eyes and said calmly, "Do

just

who left it behind

fingertip lightly on the jade slip, his voice low and steady, as if telling a story so ancient

was plagued by endless demon tides. One of the sect's formation ancestors, in order to deduce the Border-Guarding Grand Formations, used an entire mountain range as the formation base and laid out a trial formation covering a hundred miles in the back

Ming listened, barely holding his

a mountain range as a

longer something an ordinary

could fully take over the formation." Xuanheng continued. "Over successive generations, the sect repaired and maintained it, but could only manage its surface. As time flowed on, tens of thousands of years passed, and that grand formation evolved on its

like... a

Ming blurted

at him

is not a dead

sent a slight tremor through Su

A living formation.

at Iron Wall Pass, the Eight Gates Lost Trace Incomplete Formation Elder Qingquan had given him, and even the Nine-Lock Linked

were either incomplete, chaotic, or like cornered beasts fighting

Xuanheng called the "Ancient Path," however, seemed

a path that had self-generated and self-evolved

and pushed the jade slip toward

can no longer confirm. But before he departed, he personally carved two characters on the entrance stone gate—'Ancient

slip, a faint, indescribable respect rising

and tens of thousands of

"Myriad Phenomena," not "Heavenly Evolution,"

Only "Ancient Path."