Chapter 755: Three Coffins
"What kind of odd thing?" Ye Chen hastily asked Xiaojiu, "Is it good or bad for us?"
Xiaojiu is the Nine Spirit Sparrow Emperor, one of the most precious clans among soul beasts, with an exceptionally keen sense of perception.
Of course, Ye Chen wanted to know more about the Demon Tomb from Xiaojiu.
After all, he was about to venture into this Demon Tomb!
However, Xiaojiu now shook his head: "I'm not sure what exactly it is. I merely have a faint feeling that the thing is of immeasurable value, and if you obtain it, it will probably be of great help to your cultivation!"
"Once we enter the Demon Tomb, I'll try to sense where that thing really is."
Immeasurably valuable?
Great help to cultivation?
Ye Chen's heart stirred.
It seemed that after entering this Demon Tomb, he would have to thoroughly search for it.
While Ye Chen and Xiaojiu were conversing telepathically, Fairy Luo Yun also spoke up to Ye Chen: "Ye Chen, don't judge the Demon Tomb by its appearance from the outside. It only spans several hundred zhang in circumference, quite ordinary, but it's far from simple inside."
"I also discovered a Secret Map by chance, which revealed the method to enter this Demon Tomb."
"Let's go, we'll enter right now!"
As she spoke, Fairy Luo Yun took the lead, flying down to a boundary on the side of the Demon Tomb.
Ye Chen also landed where Fairy Luo Yun descended.
Ye Chen noticed that in this side boundary, there were three odd black plants.
Unlike other lush plants, these three black ones had not a single leaf on them, just bald trunks.
Moreover, these trunks were engraved with many patterns that looked incredibly strange!
Even though Ye Chen had studied the Nine Volumes of Formation Array, he could not decipher the meaning of these patterns.
Yet Xiaojiu, upon seeing these patterns, was greatly shaken in mind and spirit: "Huh, it turns out to be the script of the 'True Spirit Divine Kingdom' recorded by Lord Emperor Yan in the information he left me!"
"Good heavens, that 'True Spirit Divine Kingdom' is said to be much bigger and more powerful than the Mountain Divine Nation of Wanmu Mountain! And it's far, far away from this Mountain Divine Nation! How could the script of that Divine Kingdom appear here? How could it appear outside this Demon Tomb?!"
"Looking at the meaning of this script, is this Demon Tomb merely a subsidiary tomb? Is it just to guard a main tomb?"
"Where is that main tomb, then?"
Even Xiaojiu, who recognized the script on the trunk, was completely baffled by the scant information it conveyed.
At that moment, Fairy Luo Yun reached out with her palm, and a gray tablet appeared in her hand.
Ye Chen and Xiaojiu both saw that the gray tablet also bore engravings of patterns remarkably similar to those on the tree trunks.
However, the patterns on the tablet were denser and more complex, as if holding some underlying meaning.
Seeing Ye Chen and Xiaojiu's attentive eyes, Fairy Luo Yun smiled softly: "Ye Chen, this tablet contains the way to enter the Demon Tomb that I crafted following the Secret Map."
"With it, we can open up this Demon Tomb."
As she spoke, Fairy Luo Yun held the tablet, and with a sudden flash toward the leftmost of the three black odd plants, a "boom" echoed, and the left plant emitted a burst of hazy Divine Light.
As the mystical plant emitted a hazy Divine Light, the Demon Tomb beside it also burst forth with a curious Divine Light.
At that moment, Fairy Luo Yun grabbed Ye Chen's hand, and at the same time, the strange Divine Light emanating from the Demon Tomb wrapped around Fairy Luo Yun and Ye Chen completely.
The next instant, both of them disappeared from outside the Demon Tomb.
When Ye Chen's Divine Sense recovered clarity, he found himself suspended above the void of a vast lake.
Looking downward, Ye Chen was shocked to discover three enormous Ice Coffins floating on the lake!
Each Ice Coffin was over ten thousand feet long, with the central one being more than double the size of the two flanking it!
Stranger still, these three Ice Coffins were all uncovered, as if they were meant to be open from the outset.
However, white fog floated above the Ice Coffins, and even Ye Chen's mighty Divine Sense couldn't penetrate the fog to directly scrutinize the contents within.
Clearly, this white fog served a powerful function in blocking Divine Sense from probing.
"Ye Chen, these three Ice Coffins are the true treasures of this Demon Tomb,"
"Once you really enter these Ice Coffins, you'll know that they have stairs leading downward one after another."
"However, currently, I can only descend to the bottom of the Ice Coffin on the left. As for the other two, even with my Heavenly Divine Venerable Realm, I simply can't traverse those stairs and reach the very bottom!"
"The Treasure I am seeking is at the bottom of the left Ice Coffin. Unfortunately, I can't get to the bottoms of the other two; otherwise, I could see what lies beneath them."
"I fear there must be something extremely precious down there!"
Fairy Luo Yun's eyes lingered on the three Ice Coffins above the vast lake as she conveyed her thoughts to Ye Chen through voice transmission.
As Fairy Luo Yun's voice fell, Xiaojiu also transmitted a message to Ye Chen: "Ye Chen, I found where that strange thing I sensed before entering the tomb is."
"It's inside the central Ice Coffin!"
Hearing the words of Fairy Luo Yun and Xiaojiu, a gleam flashed in Ye Chen's eyes.
Xiaojiu spoke of something precious inside the central Ice Coffin, while Fairy Luo Yun said she couldn't reach the bottom of the central Ice Coffin even with her Heavenly Divine Venerable Realm, able to enter only the left Ice Coffin.
It instantly dawned on Ye Chen that the mysterious object inside the central Ice Coffin must indeed be extraordinary to have even prevented Fairy Luo Yun of the Heavenly Divine Venerable Realm from reaching its depths.
But while Fairy Luo Yun was stopped, Ye Chen had not yet tried to enter, so of course, he would not be deterred.
Without personally venturing forth to seek out what Xiaojiu mentioned, Ye Chen would never give up!
Considering this, Ye Chen addressed Fairy Luo Yun directly: "Senior, let's first go and look for the Treasure you want inside the left Ice Coffin, and then we'll try our luck with the other two afterward."
"Try our luck?" Fairy Luo Yun chuckled. "Ye Chen, it seems you are quite interested in the other two Ice Coffins, just like I was before."
"But once you go in, you'll find out just how bizarre those two Ice Coffins are."
"Alright, you will definitely not rest until you give it a try, so we'll first retrieve the Treasure from the left Ice Coffin, and then we'll have a look at the other two!"
As she spoke, Fairy Luo Yun took the lead and flew towards the inside of the left Ice Coffin.
Ye Chen also followed after Fairy Luo Yun, flying into the left Ice Coffin.
Upon entering the Ice Coffin, Ye Chen indeed found, just as Fairy Luo Yun had said, that there were staircases extending downwards, one after another.
Ye Chen and Fairy Luo Yun flew for the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea before they finally traversed these staircases and reached the very bottom of the Ice Coffin!