Chapter 4: Falling into the Coffin

Falling into the Coffin

"Liu Shi, the Ruan family is all here."

"Good."

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

General Zhou Ao stood respectfully beside him, having taken off his armor and wearing casual clothes. It turned out that he personally led the troops tonight. He treated High Master Liu with great respect and bowed, "It is the disciple's family who are stupid and stubborn, not worthy of cultivation, making Liu Shi disappointed."

"How stupid, not necessarily," High Master Liu smiled slightly. "It is the aptitude of the Ruan family's children that exceeds ordinary people, probably because they have been nourished by the Earth Pendant all year round, and their skin is closer to the Dao rhyme. The Earth Pendant is a rare treasure even if it is placed 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 the Ruan family's generation, named Ruan Rong. The disciple originally wanted to be a matchmaker to marry this girl to the Crown Prince, with the Earth Pendant as a dowry. Unfortunately, the Ruan family has wolfish ambitions, actually using a rebellious girl to pretend to be Rong to enter the palace to bewitch the Crown Prince, wanting to do something wrong."

He sighed for a long time, looking extremely regretful. "The Emperor had to break his wrist to remove you before the Ruan family caused a major disaster. It's just a pity for the Ruan family, the descendants are not filial, and finally lived up to the vast imperial grace for seven hundred years."

He was eloquent and reversed black and white. The Ruan family's remnants were all furious, their mouths were stuffed with cloth balls, and they could not scold. Only Ruan Rong was still ashen-faced, her eyes dull, as if she had suffered a great blow and her heart was dead. High Master Liu saw her disheveled clothes and messy hair, and could not help but frown slightly. Zhou Ao saw this and hurriedly said angrily, "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 the garrison, but they did not dare to be arrogant in front of High Master Liu. They hurriedly knelt and reported, "General, please see clearly, the jade mine is an important place, and we dare not do anything dirty. This girl's clothes are messy because when we found this girl, there were several teenagers with her, and we fought to the death with us, and it took some effort to take her down, and we even injured several brothers—"

Zhou Ao said angrily, "Nonsense! You are elite soldiers and generals, but you were injured by a few teenagers?"

The Ruan family's children naturally practiced the Ruan family's martial arts to temper their bodies, but the Zhou family also had secret methods for training soldiers. The Zhou family soldiers were injured by the Ruan family teenagers, which was no different from the Zhou family's secret method losing to the Ruan family's martial arts. Therefore, although the Ruan family head had already been executed, Zhou Ao was still furious. High Master Liu did not care, waved his hand, "No need to say, this girl has spiritual roots, and the teenager beside her should have also opened his veins. It is not strange that you ordinary people were injured by her. If it weren't for the help of my light seeds, they might have escaped."

He asked, "What about that teenager?"

Several soldiers looked at each other, although they had not heard of what "spiritual roots" were, they were a bit 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... the little ones thought that the Immortal Master wanted to see a living person, so we captured her."

"There is no greater sorrow than a dead heart," High Master Liu sighed. "The sorrow 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. It's a pity, it's a pity."

He said it was a pity three times, but Zhou Ao did not feel it was a pity at all, but secretly rejoiced. He waved his hand behind him, and the soldiers naturally took the Ruan family's remnants to one side and strictly guarded them. High Master Liu took all his expressions into his eyes, but did not point it out, smiled slightly, blew out the light spots falling on his fingertips, and blew the whole room with fluorescence, "These people don't have the aura of magic weapons, so we have to look for them again."

As soon as the words came out, the light spots scattered, perched on the shoulders of many soldiers. Zhou Ao issued orders one after another, dividing the crowd into several paths and sending them to all directions. Those light seeds would naturally lead the soldiers into passages that could accommodate people. If the holes were too small and difficult to accommodate people, the light seeds could also split into small light spots and drill into them to see what was going on.

High Master Liu stood with his eyes closed, seemingly focusing on holding the law. Zhou Ao stood respectfully on the side, peeking several times, and was also hesitant to speak. High Master Liu did not open his eyes, but as if he could see it, he smiled, "What's the matter, if you want to say something, just ask."

Zhou Ao asked carefully, "Liu Shi, for the past few hours, the places that should have been searched have probably been searched. The disciple thinks that the Ruan family has many branches and many disciples outside. Will the Earth Pendant have been taken out of the capital by them long ago?"

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

Zhou Ao did not dare to disturb High Master Liu again, turned around and called people to arrange tables and chairs, and set out a plate of spiritual jade, serving very thoughtfully. High Master Liu did not care, sat in the chair, looked back, frowned, "The important place of the earth vein, there are too many corpses, which is very inauspicious."

Zhou Ao was about to find someone to transport the corpses, but High Master Liu waved his hand, and a spiritual light flew out, circling slightly over the corpses on the ground, and the corpses turned into nothing, and even the bloodstains did not exist, only the wooden talismans clattered and fell to the ground. The soldiers under Zhou Ao's hand saw the immortal means for the first time, and they were all so scared that they could not stand, and fell to the ground. Several of them were afraid that they would also be collected by the spiritual light, so they protected their heads and faces with their hands, not daring to peek at all. Even the few Ruan family children could not care about the sadness, and all stared wide-eyed, unable to believe the scene they saw.

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

He pondered for a few times, clapped his hands and laughed, "That couldn't be better."

For this Earth Pendant, the first family of Song Guo was wiped out, and the soldiers under Zhou Ao killed so many people that their knives were dull, but High Master Liu seemed to look forward to not finding this magic weapon even more. Even though the immortal's actions were not something ordinary people could measure, Zhou Ao could not help but be very confused, and mumbled, "If it cannot be found, Immortal Master Chen's side..."

"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," High Master Liu smiled. "Do you think Immortal Master Chen has never seen the Earth Pendant? To tell you the truth, this Earth Pendant should have been called the Thick Earth Pendant. In our Lingxiao Gate, it is nothing more than a low-level product. It is precisely because we know the Thick Earth 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, and the Thick Earth Pendant should have turned into a mortal object long ago. Seven hundred years, it has still been able to protect the Ruan family's jade mine for a bumper harvest, and even make the Ruan family's children spiritually gifted, which is truly amazing. If it weren't for someone secretly refining it, then... hehe, then..."

"Then?"

Zhou Ao was fascinated by the listening, and lost his sense of propriety, actually asking. After asking, he realized that he had already exceeded his duty, and his face turned pale, and he hurriedly knelt down to apologize, "The disciple forgot himself, Liu Shi don't blame me."

High Master Liu also pitied his caution, waved his hand, "Get up, it's also hard for you. You Song Guo people have been subordinates of our Lingxiao Gate for tens of thousands of years. Two thousand years ago, I was handling affairs in the Song capital and once met your ancestor. If it weren't for this matter, someone with your aptitude should have been able to find a place in our Lingxiao Gate's lower sect."

He had always loved talent, and when he said this, he could not help but look at Ruan Rong again, sighing, "That Ruan family little 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 dull, her eyes wide open, looking at High Master Liu curiously. High Master Liu saw her expression was lively, and he was quite appreciative. The fear in Zhou Ao's eyes flashed, and High Master Liu saw it in his eyes, but was not angry, only saying, "In your heart, this is naturally a very 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 enter the Immortal Sect. Cultivators from the same place like you should be the closest, and it's too late to help each other."

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

Judging from 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 bowed down and felt admiration, "Liu Shi sees clearly, Zhou Ao is a vulgar person from the countryside, knowing only petty gains in his life. If it weren't for Liu Shi's pity, how could I know the greatness of heaven and earth?"

He kept kowtowing, "I only hope to be accepted into Liu Shi's sect, hear the Dao in the morning, and die in the evening!"

High Master Liu sighed, "You don't need to ask anymore. This matter is not over, I cannot accept you as a disciple. Accepting a disciple means passing on the law, but Song Guo is absolutely not allowed to use spiritual power—get up, don't regret it, and don't ask any more questions. The three sects joined forces to seal Song Guo's spiritual vein, naturally for very important things. These things cannot be told to you. You mortals have shallow thoughts and cannot hold your heart. Once you know it, you will think about it day and night, and it is easy to be taken advantage of by that person."

The three sects jointly guarded Song Guo. This secret was difficult for teenagers like Ruan Ci and Ruan Rong to know, but it was known to everyone among the princes and nobles of Song Guo. Zhou Ao naturally thought about it. The three sects guarded this place but never passed on the law. There must be a reason. High Master Liu's words were shocking, and he could not help but have his hair stand on end, asking, "That person? If taken advantage of by him—"

"Hehe," High Master Liu laughed, "If your heart is infected by him, then you are no longer you. Among his many supernatural powers, there is a tradition from the extraterrestrial demons. As long as you have a medium with him, in a trance, his demonic energy will infect you, and he will plant a demonic energy seed in your heart. Your lifelong ambitions, beloved relatives and friends, will all be forgotten. In this life, there is only 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 life or death. Do you want to become like this?"

Not only Zhou Ao, but even the soldiers beside him, and even the few Ruan family children, could not help but shake their heads. Ruan Rong made a "woo woo" sound in her mouth. Zhou Ao pondered for a moment, and seeing that High Master Liu did not object, he ordered the soldiers to tear 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 man of dignity, with petty and humble thoughts, 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, and Ruan Rong ignored him, turned to High Master Liu and asked, "Such supernatural powers must have flaws, right?"

High 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. High Master Liu did not 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, do you know why?"

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

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

Ruan Rong's face 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 the scripture, I first feel my heart is calm and guarded, as if I am a world of my own, and nothing can invade 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 could not help but mutter to herself, feeling a trace of admiration for Rong-gu, thinking in her heart, "Sister Rong is truly amazing. No one has ever taught her, and she has realized so much by herself. Sigh, Brother Qian is also amazing. The teenager who opened his veins that the one surnamed Liu mentioned should be Brother Qian."

Strange to say, although she was in the coffin, she did not feel suffocated at all. Ruan Ci only realized after closing the coffin lid that the bottom of the stone coffin was actually a bit transparent, and she could vaguely explore the movements of the lower layer, and the sound was as if it were in her ear. Although she felt very surprised, she had nowhere else to go, so she just had to be content with her situation. She listened to the conversation between High Master Liu and Zhou Ao while lying on the coffin lid, and it was quite interesting, even a bit like the civet slave just now, lying on the coffin lid and licking its fur, so leisurely and contented.

After eavesdropping for a while, many doubts were resolved, but many new questions arose. 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 am afraid that even he did not know as much as Ruan Ci did at this moment. He probably still thought that the Zhou family wanted the Earth Pendant because their spiritual jade mine had run dry, not expecting that Zhou Ao was acting on the secret order of the Immortal Master. This High Master Liu seemed to be very fond of Zhou Ao, and Zhou Ao had this backer, so he naturally did whatever he wanted. High Master Liu wanted the Earth Pendant, and he did not take it by literature, but directly sent troops to exterminate the family, not taking the Heavenly Family seriously at all.

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

But having said that, if the fire miasma 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 for the trouble of holding talismans, and the demon would have no medium. Ruan Ci quickly dispelled her doubts, took out the wooden talisman and looked at it, seeing the green light weakening, and felt a sense of urgency: she did not want to be planted with any seeds unknowingly. Death was one thing, but dying like this was really 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 had grown up together since childhood. Since Second Aunt would fear that she would steal Ruan Rong's limelight, it showed that their aptitude and talent were equally matched. Ruan Ci thought that she was not much stupider than Sister Rong, but she had never felt any 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, feeling very depressed, and felt thirsty again. She reached into her sleeve and squeezed the embroidered bag containing the spiritual jade grains, which had long been empty, and she had eaten them one after another overnight.

Ruan Ci suddenly remembered the small purse she touched from Second Aunt's bosom. She opened it and saw that it was full of spiritual jade pieces. She took one and put it in her mouth. The spiritual jade dissolved upon entering her mouth. Ruan Ci held a mouthful of water, reluctant to swallow it, and did not know when she was in tears—what Second Aunt did not forget to tell her to bring before she died was exactly the sweet jade she had tasted the day before and liked very much.

Screams came from the bottom of her feet. It was the tone of her foster father. Eldest Master probably would not die, but would be tortured for a while, but it would not be too long. The Ruan family below would not survive. He would naturally not hand over the Earth Pendant. If Ruan Ci were him, she would do the same.

She closed her eyes and cried, but did not want to cover her ears, still listening to the last sound of her foster father in the world. While crying, she was still swallowing the sweet jade in her mouth. At this time, every supply could not be easily consumed. Second Aunt told her to live on, and Ruan Ci naturally had to listen to her.

Eldest Master Ruan's voice gradually became smaller. Ruan Ci had some induction in the dark, knowing that her foster father had passed away, and tears could not help but burst out. The civet slave did not know when it jumped down, leaned on her knees, stood up, and licked her face. The prickly tongue licked her with pain. Ruan Ci cried and hugged it into her arms, madly smoothing its fur. In the past, she would always stroke the civet slave when she was in a bad mood, but now she felt more and more sad as she touched it, and finally buried her face in the civet slave and cried loudly.

She did not know how long it had passed, and her emotions gradually calmed down. The civet slave moved again, broke free from her arms. Ruan Ci wanted to speak, but the civet slave kicked over with one foot. She was sealed by the cat's claws, and she woke up, hearing the bottom shouting, "Immortal Master! Zhou respectfully welcomes the Immortal Master's carriage! Delaying the Immortal Master's important affairs, please punish the Immortal Master!"

With a soft "um," the stone cave below suddenly shone brightly, and pure white rays of light reflected up from the hole, looking strange and weird. Ruan Ci's heart was in her throat, curled up on the edge of the stone coffin, instinctively avoiding being illuminated by this white light.

"Haven't you found the Earth Pendant yet?" The Immortal Master's voice was very gentle, but it was also very clear through the hole, without any loss. That Zhou—mostly General Zhou, his answer sounded vague, nothing more than saying that there were still people who had not been found, perhaps on the escapees.

The Immortal Master "um"ed and said unhurriedly, "It doesn't matter. My Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Moistening Divine Light can illuminate the lungs. What is the difficulty in illuminating the earth well here?"

He smiled slightly, "In less than two hours, the light seeds will be born and transformed, and you just need to take the light seeds to find them."

Ruan Ci was confused about the divine light and light seeds he spoke of, but she was already shouting "not good" in her heart. If these light seeds could fly, flew up from the hole, and illuminated this place, then the Immortal Master would have an induction, and what was the difficulty in capturing her?

She instinctively looked at the civet slave in her arms, and the civet slave was also looking at her. Its round cat eyes were still unhurried. It turned around, stepped on Ruan Ci's shoulder, jumped onto the large stone coffin, jumped to the edge of the small stone coffin, waved its claws, and the stone coffin lid was pushed open a crack. The civet slave jumped into the coffin, a cat claw stretched out from the crack, scratched a few times, hooked the lid from the inside, and covered the coffin tightly again.

Is this civet slave really just a cat?

Ruan Ci was dumbfounded and did not know what to think, but in any case, the small stone coffin was narrower than a child's body, and she could not get in no matter what. Time was tight, she did not have time to think, got up and turned onto the stone coffin, learned from the civet slave to push the coffin board—this coffin did not use glutinous rice juice to seal the mouth, and it felt extremely light, and it was pushed open a large opening at once.

Who knew what the coffin looked like after not being opened for hundreds of years? Ruan Ci held her breath and let it go, but did not smell any strange odor. She boldly used the green talisman to shine—the coffin was clean, not stained with dust, and there were no funeral objects. Only a white jade coffin lay in the coffin.

The coffin of a wealthy family was not nested seamlessly, and there was always room for some funeral objects. Ruan Ci measured it with her eyes, and she could not hide on both sides of the coffin, but she could lie on the coffin, and even turn over.

"Civet slave, civet slave..."

She whispered a few times with her breath, thinking that if the civet slave could lie in the coffin with her, there would be a companion. But the small coffin was silent, and the civet slave seemed not to have heard at all. Instead, the white light seemed to find something wrong, and it suddenly flourished. Ruan Ci gritted her teeth, dared not delay, turned and jumped into the coffin, turned and closed the coffin lid, and it went dark in front of her eyes.

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