Chapter 74: Otherworld Coffin from Kunlun

Subsequently, Cang Li introduced Li Youyi to everyone, telling of the tragic battle by the Sui River a month ago. But soon, the topic of discussion among the crowd changed to the peak battle between Cang Li and the Dragon Gate inheritor at the Sui River.

After listening for a long time, Li Youyi only then learned that after he escaped that night, such a thing had happened.

After being completely marginalized, Li Songlin took Li Youyi away.

He smiled: "Don't mind it! You have to know, any older brother looking at his sister's sweetheart will not be pleased, and will always try every way to find faults in you. But he was able to carry the booklet of Nine Springs insights on him, which shows he still put in the effort."

"It's just that the scene Xue Zheng made on the street earlier must have been distorted and spread blindly, so he has a lot of opinions about you."

"Young people, especially those whose talent has reached his level, are very arrogant, and their words are naturally a bit sharp."

"But there is one sentence I agree with very much. Fight, you must fight. If the Ancestral Field is not broken, how can you defeat Xue Zheng?"

"After Cang Li emerged, the Jiu Li Tribe now cares very much about the wins and losses of the younger generation. They want to rise again in his generation and press down the Sui Sect, Three Chen Academy, Tian Yi Sect, and Coffin Sea Pavilion."

"Fourth Uncle, don't worry, I will try my best to impact the Ninth Spring." Li Youyi was very calm and put away the booklet Cang Li gave him.

Originally he didn't need it, after all, there were three old antique masters, but refusing Cang Li on that occasion—how could this number one of the younger generation of Li Prefecture step down?

Li Ling chased after him: "I will make it clear to my brother! It's all their blind rumors. It's just a Xue Zheng; how could you possibly fear him?"

Li Youyi appeared indifferent and didn't care about their views.

He only cared about the revenge for the hunt by Xue Zheng, Tang Yan, and others.

On the stone bridge ahead, a woman in her early thirties walked over, wearing a cloud-patterned robe on the outside, a white silk undershirt on the inside, with wide sleeves and embroidered branch and leaf patterns.

"Mother!"

Li Ling, like a lively antelope, instantly turned into a motionless quail, lowered her head, and hid slightly behind Li Songlin.

"Sister-in-law." Li Songlin cupped his hands and bowed.

Li Youyi naturally had his own sense of propriety, followed with a bow, and did not look directly at the young woman opposite.

But just a hurried glance was enough to see that the other party was a pure immortal body, with few traces of time on her face, and her eyes were very sharp.

Without any foreshadowing or pleasantries, the young woman asked: "What are your plans next?"

Among the three people present, it was clear that this question could not be for Li Songlin and Li Ling.

Li Youyi answered truthfully: "For now, I just want to cultivate hard for a period of time and impact the Ninth Spring Ancestral Field."

"Stay at Zao Mei Manor for now."

……

When Li Youyi looked up again, Li Ling's mother, Qin Dan, had already gone far away, having only said two sentences from beginning to end. He said: "Fourth Uncle, how do I feel like I've been tricked by you? I shouldn't have come to Zao Mei Manor."

Li Songlin smiled: "Feeling the pressure, right? To tell you the truth, the mistress of our Li family rarely shows up. Let alone you, I also have pressure."

The head of the direct line of the Cang Li Tribe was Cang Li and Li Ling's father—Li Songgu.

Of course, the family head was not the patriarch.

The family head sat in the family mansion in Jiu Li City, and the patriarch sat in the Ancestral Mountain.

"Opening an Otherworld Coffin, the family head is going to open an Otherworld Coffin."

"I heard that they were going to open an Otherworld Coffin tonight, so I specifically came to join the fun."

"Is there any happy event?"

"Don't worry about it. The coffin-opening technique of the Cang Li family head is enough to rank in the top ten in Li Prefecture; there are not many of the older generation who are stronger than him. Today, we will definitely be able to broaden our horizons."

……

Not only those young cultivators, but some middle-aged figures who came after hearing the news all poured into the backyard.

Li Ling was a bit surprised: "What's wrong with my father? It should have been some time since he personally opened a coffin, right?"

Li Songlin smiled: "I guess, your father mostly wants to show off in front of his future son-in-law, to show his strength, so that his son-in-law doesn't listen to rumors and feel that the Li family is really run by the mistress."

How could Li Youyi believe this?

But he was truly a bit curious about the Otherworld Coffin in his heart.

It was said that the most ordinary Otherworld Coffin was worth ten million copper coins and could buy a house in Jiu Li City; it was a treasure that only great cultivators could play with.

The Jiu Li Tribe relied on salvaging Otherworld Coffins to become the richest in the world.

Coincidentally, he had hidden fifteen Otherworld Coffins carefully selected by Master Coffin in the Blood Sea Coffin Dock in his Evil Camel Bell, and he had long planned to sell them.

"You two go and take a look; the Otherworld Coffin to be opened today is quite rare, and maybe something incredible will be opened," Li Songlin said with a meaningful smile.

When Li Youyi and Li Ling rushed to the backyard, it was already overcrowded.

The area in the middle where the Otherworld Coffin was placed was packed tightly.

The two didn't squeeze into the middle and found a higher position to look from afar.

The Otherworld Coffin surrounded by the crowd was the size of a normal coffin, made of black wood. As laymen, no cultivators present could see its rarity.

But Otherworld Coffins were all salvaged from the Blood Sea and had been soaked for unknown years. If it were truly ordinary wood material, how could it be preserved so well?

Li Songgu, who was standing beside the Otherworld Coffin, was a middle-aged man in his forties, quite thin, wearing a simple green robe, a square scarf on his head, with sideburns hanging to his shoulders, very spirited and with a scholarly temperament.

He scanned the crowd with a faint gaze and then pinched a finger seal.

"Whoosh!"

The spiritual light Heavenly Eye between his eyebrows opened, and a spiritual light mist like aurora erupted from his body, connecting to the clouds, and a powerful aura shrouded the area of several feet around the Otherworld Coffin.

"Sprinkle red cinnabar, just in case," he said softly.

Two elderly assistants threw a kind of crimson soil toward the Otherworld Coffin.

After the red cinnabar fell onto the spiritual light mist supported by Li Songgu, it automatically slid off, forming a circle with a diameter of about three feet on the ground.

Li Ling whispered: "This is to prevent the existence of 'Passing Spirits' in the coffin! Once a Passing Spirit rushes out, it will be blocked within the circle by the red cinnabar."

"Bang! Bang! Bang…"

Li Songgu pinched a finger seal and tapped in all directions of the Otherworld Coffin. Especially the bottom, he tapped twelve times.

Every tap, circles of spiritual light ripples surged out.

A moment later, he frowned and said: "According to the old man's many years of coffin-opening experience, this is an Otherworld Coffin from Kunlun. This wood might be divine wood material; just the coffin itself has extraordinary medicinal value, worthy of being called a thousand-year spirit herb."

"Boom!"

All the cultivators in the courtyard were shocked.

The coffin lid is a thousand-year spirit herb?

Even an ounce of thousand-year spirit herb could be sold for a sky-high price.

How many catties must this coffin be? How much money must it be worth?

Li Youyi was naturally envious. If he could get a catty of coffin lid to feed the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors, perhaps he could feed them to a level comparable to Five-Sea Realm martial cultivators.

Of course, the premise was that this Otherworld Coffin was truly comparable to a thousand-year spirit herb.

Li Songgu saw that everyone didn't believe it, so he took a dagger of magic artifact level from an elderly assistant and drew a line on the top of the coffin.

The magic artifact could only draw a shallow mark.

And from the mark that was drawn, a faint auspicious radiance emanated. Those with keen perception discovered that the surrounding grass and trees were obviously affected and became more lush.

Bursts of exclamations came from the courtyard, and many people were envious.

Li Songgu's face became solemn: "Sure enough, just like the legend, this Otherworld Coffin cannot be opened anymore!"

After putting on such a big show and tapping and hitting for a while, he actually wasn't going to open it!

What was the meaning of this?

Li Songgu cupped his hands and apologized with great cultivation: "It's not that Li doesn't want to open it, but with my current thought power, I cannot control it. This kind of divine wood coffin from Kunlun has been opened by Jiu Li sages before…"

Halfway through his words, he paused again and said: "Forget it, this matter is of great importance; it's better for you to know less. Put it away, hurry up and put it away, and transport it back to the Ancestral Mountain as soon as possible."

Let alone the crowd of cultivators present, even Li Youyi almost couldn't hold back and wanted to curse.

He was very interested in this Otherworld Coffin comparable to a thousand-year spirit herb, but he was even more interested in "Kunlun." Because this was the most mysterious place in Earth's mythological legends, the mountain of all gods.

Why would the name be such a coincidence?

After everyone dispersed, Li Youyi took the initiative to step forward to pay his respects and bowed as a junior.

Li Songgu had a very good personality and was very kind: "You are Li Youyi, right? I heard Fourth Uncle mention you; quite good, yes, quite good."

Li Youyi truly couldn't stand the gazes sizing him up tonight and asked impatiently: "Dare I ask the family head, how do you judge where an Otherworld Coffin comes from?"

Li Songgu was very talkative and explained in detail: "The world thinks that the most precious things in Otherworld Coffins are those secret treasures and burial objects, and the remains of the deceased. But I think the most precious things in the coffin are those books and classics. You must know that although the characters on these classics are different, they can be parsed using thought power."

"What is recorded and depicted in the various books and classics in the coffin is a world that truly exists. It's just that no one knows where these worlds are."

"I really want to go out in my lifetime and find those worlds recorded in the Otherworld Coffins. It's a pity that the Nether Realm is vast, and the Blood Sea is boundless… Alright, the more I talk, the further I go. It's like this: as long as the experience is rich enough and the materials read are enough, judging the origin of an Otherworld Coffin is not a difficult matter."

Li Youyi asked: "Did the two words 'Kunlun' appear in the classics of some Otherworld Coffins?"

"Kunlun should be a certain great world, and the number of Otherworld Coffins is not small. It's just that this one in front of us is too special, the wood is extraordinary, and it cannot be moved rashly," Li Songgu said.

Li Youyi pursued: "In the Otherworld Coffins from Kunlun, are there any classics that mention words related to the Queen Mother of the West?"

Li Songgu frowned, recalled carefully, and shook his head.

Li Youyi thought about the mythological legends related to Kunlun and asked again: "Tian Yong City? Hanging Garden Palace?"

Li Songgu shook his head again.

Li Youyi gave up. It seems that although this world partially overlaps with Earth's mythological legends, it doesn't match at all.

Li Ling rushed over, anxious: "Father, Uncle and Aunt are here, they are here to demand the exotic herb stained with immortal mist that Fourth Uncle picked, and they have already started arguing. You should go and take a look."

"Truly worrying! Fourth Uncle picked the herb; what does it have to do with them? Family shame! Youyi, you stay here for now; we'll talk properly about the Otherworld Coffin tonight."

After Li Songgu sighed, he walked quickly toward the corridor.

Li Youyi glanced at the Otherworld Coffin that was being carried away and looked at Li Songgu's back, gradually coming to his senses. Recalling the previous events, he secretly said: "This family head wouldn't be fishing on purpose, would he? This Otherworld Coffin is not an ordinary bait."

Li Youyi naturally wouldn't think he was fishing for him or testing him. A small shrimp like him wasn't qualified to have a family head calculate so carefully.