Chapter 4: Falling into the Coffin

Falling into the Coffin

"Master Liu, all the Ruan family members are here."

"Good."

Outside the earth well, it was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, but inside the earth well, it was like a fairyland. Shining light points flew up and down in the cave, drilling into thousands of holes, illuminating all the haze thoroughly. The flickering was beautiful, reflecting on Master Liu's face, making him look even more jade-like and radiant. He opened his eyes and looked at these Ruan teenagers and girls with withered spirits one by one, and couldn't help but sigh, "The Ruan family is worthy of being a thousand-year-old family, all of them are beautiful jade materials, what a pity. Zhou Ao, there are quite a few people here whose aptitude is on par with yours, and they are better than your children."

General Zhou Ao stood beside him, having taken off his armor and wearing casual clothes. It turned out that he personally led the troops tonight. He was very respectful to Master Liu and bowed, "It is the disciple's family who are stupid and stubborn, unable to be cultivated, making Master Liu disappointed."

"How stupid, not necessarily," Master Liu smiled slightly. "The aptitude of the Ruan children exceeds ordinary people, probably because they have been nourished by the Kun Pendant all year round, and their skin is closer to the Dao rhyme. The Kun Pendant is a rare treasure even outside Song Guo. For seven hundred years, it has been a pearl cast in the dark, wronged."

While speaking, his eyes stayed on a Ruan girl for a long time. Zhou Ao observed his words and expressions and hurriedly said, "This is the most outstanding girl of this generation of the Ruan family, named Ruan Rong. The disciple originally wanted to be a matchmaker to hire this girl for the Crown Prince, with the Kun Pendant as a dowry. Unfortunately, the Ruan family is ambitious, and actually used a rebellious daughter to pretend to be Rong to enter the palace to bewitch the Crown Prince, wanting to do something wrong."

He sighed, looking very painful. "The Emperor had no choice but to cut off the strong man's wrist and remove you before the Ruan family caused a great disaster. It's just a pity for the Ruan family, the descendants are not filial, and finally lived up to the seven hundred years of Imperial grace."

He was eloquent and reversed black and white. The Ruan family remnants were all furious, their mouths blocked by cloth balls, and they were about to scold. Only Ruan Rong was still ashen-faced, her eyes dull, as if she had suffered a great blow and her heart was dead. Master Liu saw her disheveled clothes and messy hair, and couldn't help but frown slightly. Zhou Ao saw this and angrily said, "What happened just now! I told you to bring people here, but I didn't tell you to do anything else!"

These soldiers were arrogant in their garrison on weekdays, but they didn't dare to be arrogant in front of Master Liu. They hurriedly knelt and reported, "General, the spirit mine is a heavy place, and we dare not do anything filthy. This girl's clothes are messy because when we found her, she had several teenagers following her, and they fought us to the death. It took some effort to capture her, and we even injured several brothers—"

Zhou Ao angrily said, "Nonsense! What kind of elite soldiers are you, and yet you were injured by a few teenagers?"

The Ruan children naturally practiced the Ruan family's martial arts to refine their bodies, but the Zhou family also had secret methods for training soldiers. The Zhou soldiers being injured by Ruan teenagers was no different from the Zhou family's secret method losing to Ruan martial arts. Although the Ruan family head had already been executed, Zhou Ao was still furious. Master Liu didn't care and waved his hand. "Don't say it anymore. This girl has a spiritual root, and a teenager beside her should have also opened her pulse. It's not surprising that you ordinary people were injured by her. If it weren't for the help of my light seeds, maybe they would have escaped."

He asked, "What about that teenager?"

Several soldiers looked at each other. Although they hadn't heard of what "spiritual root" was, they were vaguely guilty and said in a low voice, "Swords and guns have no eyes... they were all killed by us. This Ruan Rong girl also wanted to seek death, we... we thought the Immortal Master wanted to see a living mouth, so we captured her."

"Grief is greater than heart death," Master Liu sighed. "Grief confuses the heart pulse. Even if she is accepted into the sect at this time, it will be difficult for her to step into the Dao path in this life. This girl's aptitude is the only one I have ever seen in my life, and that teenager's aura was only stronger than hers. What a pity, what a pity."

He said "what a pity" three times, but Zhou Ao didn't feel it was a pity at all, but secretly rejoiced. He waved his hand behind him, and the soldiers naturally detained these Ruan remnants and guarded them strictly. Master Liu took all his expressions into his eyes, didn't point it out, smiled slightly, blew out the light points on his fingertips, and blew the fluorescent light in the room to bloom. "These people don't have the aura of magic weapons, we need to search again."

As soon as the words were spoken, the light points scattered, inhabiting the shoulders of many soldiers. Zhou Ao gave orders one after another, dividing everyone into several routes and sending them to all directions. Those light seeds would naturally lead the soldiers into the passages that could accommodate people. If the holes were too small and difficult to accommodate, the light seeds could also split into small light points and drill into them to see clearly.

Master Liu stood with his eyes closed, seemingly concentrating on holding the method. Zhou Ao stood by, peeking several times, and wanted to speak but stopped. Master Liu didn't open his eyes, but as if he could see, he smiled. "What's wrong, ask if you have anything to say."

Zhou Ao asked carefully, "Master Liu, in the past few hours, all the places that should have been searched have been searched. The disciple thinks, the Ruan family has deep roots and many disciples outside. Could the Kun Pendant have been taken out of the capital long ago?"

Master Liu shook his head. "The Kun Pendant must be here."

Zhou Ao didn't dare to disturb Master Liu anymore, turned around and called people to arrange tables and chairs, and set out a plate of spirit jade, serving very thoughtfully. Master Liu didn't care, sat in the chair, looked back, frowned, and said, "The earth vein is a heavy place, too many corpses are very inauspicious."

Zhou Ao was about to find someone to transport the corpses, but Master Liu waved his hand, and a spiritual light flew out, circling over the corpses on the ground, and the corpses melted one after another, and even the blood stains did not exist. Only the wooden talismans clattered and fell to the ground. The soldiers under Zhou Ao who saw the immortal means for the first time were all so scared that they couldn't stand and fell to the ground. Several were even more afraid that they would be collected by the spiritual light, protecting their heads and faces with their hands, not daring to peek at all. Even those few Ruan children were so scared that their eyes widened, not daring to believe the scene they saw.

The spiritual light collected all the corpses in the main cave and flew into the holes by itself. Master Liu picked up a piece of spirit jade, threw it into the cup, drank a sip, and said, "The Kun Pendant is an earth-element magic weapon. It can only last long if it is worshipped in the spirit vein. Song Guo has had no cultivators for seven hundred years, and no one has enlightened the spirit vein. Only this spirit vein has not dried up, which is the only place in Song Guo where the Kun Pendant can be worshipped. The Kun Pendant must be hidden here. If it cannot be found..."

He pondered for a while, clapped his hands and smiled, "That couldn't be better."

For this Kun Pendant, the first family of Song Guo was destroyed, and the soldiers under Zhou Ao killed until their knives were blunt, but Master Liu seemed to be looking forward to not finding this magic weapon. Even if the immortal's actions were not measurable by ordinary people, Zhou Ao couldn't help but be very confused, muttering, "If it cannot be found, Immortal Master Chen there..."

"If it is found, Immortal Master Chen will inevitably blame me for being frivolous. If it is not found, he will praise me for having a sharp eye," Master Liu smiled. "Do you think Immortal Master Chen hasn't seen the Kun Pendant? To tell you the truth, this Kun Pendant should be called the Thick Kun Pendant. In our Lingxiao Sect, it is nothing more than a low-level product. It is precisely because we know the Thick Kun Pendant like the back of our hand that we saw the Ruan family's wrongness. Song Guo has been cut off from spiritual energy for seven hundred years. The Thick Kun Pendant should have turned into a mortal weapon long ago. Seven hundred years, it can still protect the Ruan family's jade mine bumper harvest, and make the Ruan children spiritually beautiful. It is truly powerful. If it is not secretly refined by someone, then... hehe, then..."

"Then?"

Zhou Ao was fascinated and lost his sense of propriety, actually pursuing the question. After asking, he realized that he had already overstepped, and his face turned pale. He hurriedly knelt and apologized, "The disciple lost his shape, Master Liu don't blame me."

Master Liu also pitied him for being careful, waved his hand, and said, "Get up, it's hard for you. You Song Guo people have been subordinates of our Lingxiao Sect for tens of thousands of years. Two thousand years ago, I handled affairs in Song Jing and once met your ancestor. If it weren't for this, with your aptitude, you should have been able to find a place in the lower sect of our Lingxiao Sect."

He had always loved talent. Speaking of this, he couldn't help but look at Ruan Rong again and sighed, "That Ruan girl, I don't know what kind of future she will have. Seven hundred years, it really delayed too much."

Ruan Rong was no longer dumbfounded, her eyes wide open, looking at Master Liu curiously. Master Liu saw her expression was lively and quite appreciative. Zhou Ao's face flashed with fear, but Master Liu saw it in his eyes and didn't get angry, just said, "In your heart, this is naturally a rare opportunity, so you have murderous intent towards Ruan Rong, fearing that she will come to compete. You don't know, outside Song Guo, this is actually not a big deal. Cultivators with aptitude can naturally join the Immortal Sect. Cultivators from the same place like you should be the closest, helping each other is too late."

He sighed again, "This is not your fault. You know too little, so you think too much."

Looking at his appearance, he was much younger than Zhou Ao, but his teachings were earnest, and his tolerance and pity made Zhou Ao's tiger eyes red, and he knelt down and admired, "Master Liu is wise, Zhou Ao is a wild villager, knowing only petty gains in his life. If it weren't for Master Liu's pity, how could I know the greatness of the universe?"

He kept kowtowing, "I only hope to join Master Liu's sect, hear the Dao in the morning, and die in the evening!"

Master Liu sighed, "You don't need to ask anymore. If this matter is not finished, I cannot accept you as a disciple. Accepting a disciple means passing on the method, but Song Guo must not use spiritual power—get up, don't regret it, and don't ask any more questions. The three sects joined forces to close the Song Guo spirit vein, naturally for very important matters. These things cannot be told to you. Your mortal minds are shallow and cannot hold your heart. Once you know, you will think about it day and night, and it is easy to be taken advantage of by that person."

The three sects jointly guard Song Guo. This secret was difficult for teenagers like Ruan Ci and Ruan Rong to know, but it was known to everyone among the royalty and nobility of Song Guo. Zhou Ao naturally thought about it. The three sects guarded this place but never passed on the method. There must be a reason. Master Liu's words were shocking, and he couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end, pursuing the question, "That person? If he is taken advantage of—"

"Hehe," Master Liu laughed, "If your heart is infected by him, then you are no longer you. Among his many supernatural powers, there is a heritage from the extraterrestrial demons. As long as you have a medium with him, in a daze, his demonic energy will infect you, and he will plant a demonic energy seed in your heart. Your life's ambitions and beloved relatives will all be forgotten. In this life, you will only have one thing left, and that is to be loyal to him. Whatever he wants you to do, you will rush to do it regardless of your life. Do you want to become like this?"

Not only Zhou Ao, but even the soldiers beside him, and even those few Ruan children, couldn't help but shake their heads. Ruan Rong made a "woo woo" sound. Zhou Ao pondered for a moment, and seeing that Master Liu did not object, he ordered the soldiers to pull off the cloth ball in her mouth.

Ruan Rong spat, first spat at the soldier, and then scolded Zhou Ao, "You didn't dare to ask yourself, so you let me ask. A dignified man, with a sneaky and humble heart, bah!"

Her words hit Zhou Ao's calculation, but he had been in the court for many years, so how could he care about a young girl? His face remained unchanged. Ruan Rong ignored him and turned to Master Liu, asking, "Such supernatural powers must have flaws, right?"

Master Liu was the mastermind behind the Ruan family's extermination, and Ruan Rong had a deep hatred for him, so she did not call him Immortal Master. Master Liu didn't care. He obviously looked at Ruan Rong differently, looking at Ruan Rong with great interest, as if looking at a cute little animal, and smiled, "Not bad, everyone in Song Guo holds talismans. What do you think is the reason?"

Ruan Rong and Zhou Ao were both startled when they heard this. Ruan Rong muttered, "Isn't... isn't it to avoid the fire miasma Qi?"

"That's not wrong to say, but the fire miasma Qi is outside the house. Like you deep-boudoir women, who don't even see the light of day for a lifetime, why do you also hold talismans every three days?" Master Liu asked, "You have already comprehended talisman power by yourself, haven't you thought about the meaning of this scripture?"

Ruan Rong showed a thoughtful look, and Zhou Ao also muttered and chanted. After a while, Ruan Rong's eyes lit up and she shouted, "Ah! I understand. When chanting scriptures, I first feel my heart is calm and guarded, as if I am a world of my own, with no invasion from inside or outside. It turns out it is to guard against heart enemies. I originally thought that only when the heart is calm can I produce coolness. Sigh, I didn't know the details, I thought it all wrong."

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"Guard against heart enemies, so that's what it means?"

In the coffin on the top of the cave, Ruan Ci couldn't help but mutter to herself, feeling a trace of admiration for Rong Gu, thinking, "Sister Rong is really amazing. No one has ever taught her, and she realized so much by herself. Sigh, Brother Qian is also amazing. The teenager who opened the pulse that the man named Liu spoke of should be Brother Qian."

Strange to say, although she was in the coffin, she didn't feel suffocated at all. Ruan Ci only realized after closing the lid that the bottom of the stone coffin was actually a bit transparent, vaguely able to explore the movement of the next layer, and the sound was as if it were in her ear. Although she was deeply surprised, she had nowhere else to go, so she took it as it came. She listened to the conversation between Master Liu and Zhou Ao while lying on the coffin lid, listening with relish, even a bit like the civet slave just now, lying on the coffin lid and licking its fur, so leisurely.

After listening to the wall for a while, many doubts were solved, but many new questions emerged. Ruan Ci suddenly remembered the Crown Prince—the Crown Prince said that a young girl like her who wanted to know everything was very suitable to be by his side, but I'm afraid he didn't know as much as Ruan Ci at this moment. He was probably still thinking that the Zhou family wanted the Kun Pendant because their spirit jade mine had run dry, not expecting that Zhou Ao was acting on the secret order of the Immortal Master. This Master Liu seemed to be very fond of Zhou Ao, and Zhou Ao had this backer, so he naturally did whatever he wanted. Master Liu wanted the Kun Pendant, but he didn't succeed in taking it by writing, so he directly raised troops to exterminate the family, not taking the Imperial family seriously at all.

"However, having said that, if there is no fire miasma Qi, it must be very difficult for us to hold talismans regularly." A rebellious thought flashed through her mind, "Is this fire miasma Qi generated naturally? Or was it created to make people hold talismans?"

But having said that, if the fire miasma Qi could be created, this ability was great, and it seemed that the people could be moved away directly. In this way, there was no need to hold talismans so troublesome, and the demon would have no medium. Ruan Ci quickly dispelled her suspicion. She took a look at the wooden talisman and saw that the green light was weakening, and a sense of urgency surged: she didn't want to be planted with any seeds unknowingly. Death was one thing, but dying like this was too much. It seemed that she still had to read the talisman scripture. If she could comprehend talisman power, that would be the best.

She and Ruan Rong grew up together since childhood. Since Second Aunt would be afraid that she would steal Ruan Rong's limelight, it showed that their aptitude and talent were on par. Ruan Ci thought that she was not much stupider than Sister Rong, but she had never felt any unusual induction when reading the scripture. This time was the same. Although she knew the meaning of holding the talisman and the meaning of the talisman text, she still gained nothing.

Ruan Ci chanted a few times, but still gained nothing. She felt very upset in her heart and felt thirsty again. She took a piece of Sweet Jade from her sleeve and put it in her mouth, secretly saying, "This piece of Sweet Jade is so big—ouch!"

The first half was muttered in her heart, and the second "ouch" was shouted out. This Sweet Jade was harder than stone, almost breaking her teeth. Ruan Ci covered her mouth, instinctively spat out the Sweet Jade, illuminated it with the green talisman, and was stunned. "This—this is—"

This was a jade stone like a sparrow egg, shining brightly under the green light, with five colors. Ruan Ci reached out to pick it up and look at it, but the coffin lid under her body suddenly trembled, as if something was moving in the coffin.

"Ah!!!!!!!!!"

Even though she was considered bold, but in the dark, inside the coffin, the coffin lid under her body trembled and moved in the faint light, even the boldest person would be scared out of their wits. Ruan Ci screamed, pounced upward violently, wanting to push open the lid, but the lid didn't move. She was agile, so she supported the stone wall like a spider, arched her back against the lid, kept some distance from the stone coffin, and kicked the lid wildly.

Under her body, the coffin lid moved out inch by inch, inch by inch, and had already opened a crack. The jade stone slid into the coffin along the arc.

As soon as the jade stone fell, all movement in the coffin stopped suddenly. Ruan Ci stared at the thin crack, hesitating in her heart—this... was it suppressed by the jade stone?

Just as she thought this, the commotion in the coffin started again, and the coffin lid "clattered, clattered" and moved away. Ruan Ci was so scared that she couldn't even scream, and she couldn't even look away, like a clay sculpture, watching the lid slide to one side, and the corpse in the coffin came into view.

She was small, and in her panic, she lay on the tail of the coffin. She could only see the lower half of the corpse. The corpse was very tall, wearing gorgeous clothes, with her hands on her lower abdomen, as if sleeping. Ruan Ci saw that her sleeve seemed to be missing a piece, and the sparrow egg stone fell right on that missing piece, the five colors shining brightly, illuminating the inside of the coffin. Ruan Ci could clearly see the corpse's long and white fingers crossed in one place, and she could even see the light green blood vessels, looking like a living person.

It didn't look scary, which was naturally good, but it definitely couldn't be said to be a good thing. Ruan Ci took a shallow breath, held her breath, gathered her courage, and looked up. She saw that the corpse's face didn't look scary either. It was a man-dressed beauty, eyes closed, as if sleeping.

Not scary... not scary is fine, not scary is fine, she kept convincing herself in her heart. The five colors in the coffin gradually dimmed. Ruan Ci lowered her head and took a look, and illuminated it with the green talisman, couldn't help but frown: the sparrow egg stone had disappeared, but the female corpse's sleeve didn't know when it was repaired.

She raised her head thoughtfully, only feeling that many things tonight were mysterious. After pondering for a while, she wanted to sort out the clues, but always felt that something was wrong, as if she hadn't noticed something.

Ruan Ci looked left and right for a while, didn't find anything wrong, but she believed in her feelings very much. She pretended to turn her eyes away, looked back suddenly, looked down, and there was no abnormality. She couldn't help but frown, lowered her head to study the female corpse's sleeve, and suddenly raised her head again. The female corpse was still sleeping with her eyes closed. Ruan Ci muttered, "Did I scare myself? —No!"

She looked at the female corpse's left earring, "I remember very clearly, this earring was originally facing inward—now, now it is... facing, outward..."

Thinking of this, Ruan Ci felt her hair stand on end, moving her gaze inch by inch, looking at the female corpse's face—

Sure enough, the female corpse didn't know when she had opened her eyes, and a pair of pitch-black eyes were staring at her.

"Ah!!! ————————"

Ruan Ci was so scared that she screamed, and in her panic, she couldn't support herself anymore, waving her hands and feet, and fell into the coffin.

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