Chapter 220: The Murderer

After trying, this coffin could only be opened from the head and pushed toward the tail.

Li Youyi was cautious, first pushing the coffin lid open by one foot.

Yang Qingchan, who looked exactly like Yang Qingxi, was lying inside, revealing a face as pale as paper and as beautiful as a painting.

First using thought power to sense, then quickly probing her neck and heart pulse.

The blood was cold, and the heart pulse was broken.

Dead as dead can be.

Only then did Li Youyi finally feel relieved, pushing the coffin lid open to three feet, and her upper body was completely revealed.

Yang Qingchan's hair, clothing, and makeup were all carefully treated, her clothes were neat, she wore various ornaments, and her lips and eyebrows were drawn. If it weren't for the lack of blood, it would be as if she were just sleeping.

Her cultivation stood at the peak of the Five Seas Realm, her physical body was strong, even if she had been soaked in water for seven days, she was still like just dead, her skin was delicate as jade, without any damage.

The inside of the coffin was indeed full of array texts as Coffin Master said.

Li Youyi turned her face to the side, revealing the sword wound on her neck.

This wound was left seven days ago when she was forced to struggle from Li Youyi's sword and was cut by the Yellow Dragon Sword.

"Wrong! The wound has deepened, cutting off the carotid artery."

Li Youyi remembered very clearly that although the Yellow Dragon Sword cut her, it definitely did not cut the carotid artery.

Moreover, he did not activate magic power on the Yellow Dragon Sword at that time. Even if he really cut the carotid artery, with Yang Qingchan's cultivation, she could completely mobilize magic power to temporarily seal the injury.

And the strange destructive power of the Yellow Dragon Sword itself, currently, only targets demon evil spirits, not humans.

"Someone forged the wound, forming the false appearance that Yang Qingchan was killed by me cutting her carotid artery with one sword and losing too much blood."

In Li Youyi's view, this was purely superfluous.

Because whether Yang Qingchan was killed or not, he and the Sui Sect were deadly enemies.

If it was aimed at him, Li Youyi, this added layer of framing crime was meaningless.

What was the other party's real purpose?

Turning the corpse over, back facing up.

Li Youyi pinched the finger seal and crossed his brow, and the Heavenly Eye appeared.

The jade back that should have been extremely moving had large patches of dark purple, which was the injury left by being smashed by Tao Yanyan's hammer seven days ago.

Yang Qingchan was wearing defensive battle clothes

The person had been dead for seven days, yet the runes still had not dissipated.

The Six Desires Talisman is naturally terrifying; it was created by the ancient Son of Heaven, the "Six-Thought Heart Demon," to control the hearts of people across the world. In the era of the Six-Thought Heart Demon, every Wu Xiu who reached the Five Seas realm had to have a Six Desires Talisman planted within their body.

However, the Six Desires Talisman of that time possessed six types of power, each representing one of the six human desires, with the antidote for each rune held by one of the six demon officials.

The Six Desires Talisman currently popular among the evil paths hidden in the shadows of the Lingxiao Life Realm's world structure only represents one of the six desires.

This type of rune is not easy to cast.

If Yang Qingchan had not been so severely injured that day, the Six Desires Talisman cast by Bai Shu would have been shattered by her protective magic Qi before it even got close to her.

"There must be another fatal wound!"

Li Youyi released Er Feng, letting it search for injuries and subtle traces of magic Qi on Yang Qingchan's body.

Er Feng moved inside Yang Qingchan's clothing, forming a bulge.

After a while.

This bulge stopped at the heart of the corpse.

After emerging from the collar, Er Feng informed Li Youyi via mental power that there were extremely faint traces of magic Qi fluctuations near Yang Qingchan's heart, but no physical injury.

"No injury, yet there are residual magic Qi fluctuations. In other words, this is equivalent to using magic Qi to grip her heart, preventing it from beating, causing her to die of a literal heart stoppage."

"How could this be? With Yang Qingchan's high cultivation base, she couldn't even put up a fight?"

This method of death was far too bizarre.

Er Feng's next sentence resolved his confusion.

It informed him that the lingering trace of magic Qi did not belong to a Five Seas realm Wu Xiu.

"This is impossible! How would a Wu Xiu above the Five Seas realm dare to kill someone during the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival?"

Li Youyi immediately released his mental power, injecting it into Yang Qingchan's chest to investigate carefully.

He found nothing.

The opponent's methods were extremely sophisticated; only a special creature like Er Feng could detect the traces.

"Could it be..."

A look of inconceivable shock and confusion appeared on Li Youyi's face, and in his mind, the elegant figure of Yao Qian, the modest gentleman, emerged.

There was only one possibility for someone to kill Yang Qingchan without being held accountable by the Du'e Temple: it was done by the higher-ups of the Sui Sect themselves.

The only Sui Sect higher-up who appeared that night was Yao Qian.

"Beneath such a bright and united exterior, the interior of the Sui Sect is actually this dark. However, the method of killing was quite gentle."

Li Youyi did not believe that Yao Qian killed Yang Qingchan just to frame him.

At most, it could only be considered... a convenient frame-up.

Li Youyi couldn't be bothered to think about the deeper reasons; as long as he found the true culprit who killed Yang Qingchan, he wouldn't feel so disgusted in his heart anymore!

"Yao Qian probably still thinks his methods were clean. Plus, the body has been soaking in water for several days, making it even more devoid of traces. Heh heh, what a modest gentleman..."

The dead are to be respected.

After tidying up Yang Qingchan's appearance, Li Youyi was about to close the coffin lid and leave.

Suddenly, he sensed something was wrong.

The coffin was ten feet long, and Yang Qingchan's body was placed at the head. In other words, there was still over a meter of space at the foot of the coffin.

Heavy at the head and light at the feet, it was too uncoordinated.

"Whoosh!"

Li Youyi pushed the coffin lid completely open, revealing the space at the foot of the coffin.

A foot-long jade box was hidden tightly against the end.

Runes were arranged on the jade box.

The runes were connected to the coffin.

Li Youyi's eyes darted around; he didn't think this was a burial object, so he quickly took out the Huang Long Sword to break the runes. After opening the jade box and using his mental power to investigate, there was indeed more to it than met the eye.

The jade box was forged using the inner world generated within a Wu Xiu's Qi sea, with a space of several dozen cubic feet.

The stolen Spring Coins and the bets from the Wu Xiu on the last day were all inside.

Li Youyi was excited; this feeling of recovering what was lost was truly wonderful. He no longer had to worry about the rations for the seven little ones to grow to seven inches. It should also be enough for his future cultivation in the sixth sea, the Wind Mansion.

He hurriedly moved the jade box out and stored it in the blood mud space.

The voice of his Master, the spirit tablet, came from the blood mud space: "This otherworldly coffin is actually a decent battle treasure. It has two arrays inside, one offensive and one defensive, which complement each other perfectly."

"Oh!"

Li Youyi, who was closing the coffin lid, suddenly had a thought and asked: "What level of power can this coffin's offensive array reach? Can it still be activated?"

The Master, the spirit tablet, said: "The offensive array of this otherworldly coffin is formed by the superposition of nine layers of Profound Light arrays; the power of each layer of Profound Light does not reach the Dao Seed level. But with nine layers superimposed, ordinary Dao Seed realm Wu Xiu would likely find it hard to withstand. The only drawback is that the Profound Light in the array will be released all at once."

"Look, the white substance embedded in the blood mud coffin is still in a semi-virtual, semi-real state, which shows that the Profound Light within the array is still there."

Li Youyi's resolve grew even stronger!

Originally, when he discovered the stolen Spring Coins in the coffin, he wanted to take this opportunity to hide in the coffin and ambush Hua Yuzi.

Yang Qingxi was no match for the Wu Xiu from the Far West Ash Region, and the array at the Fourth Academy was not set up by a Spirit Thought Master, so it definitely wouldn't hold for long.

Once she was captured or her consciousness was taken, and Hua Yuzi came to retrieve the Spring Coins, Li Youyi could catch him off guard.

With Li Youyi's current cultivation, it was entirely possible to kill Hua Yuzi by surprise.

At the very least, he could severely injure him.

As for the remaining Chen Wenwu and the Left and Right Attendants, Li Youyi didn't fear them at all. Even if he couldn't beat them combined, he could definitely escape.

Killing Hua Yuzi would be like cutting off one of Luan Sheng Lin You's arms... no, cutting off one of his legs. From then on, Luan Sheng Lin You would only be able to walk on one leg, never again able to attend to both the Western and Southern borders, nor able to balance offense and defense.

Just like if the imperial court didn't have a capable number-two figure like Jiang Ning supporting it, Ge Xiantong's life would be much harder.

The chance of success was high, but it was too risky!

A slight mistake would have serious consequences.

That was why Li Youyi had previously abandoned this idea; he didn't want to take the risk.

Now it was different; if the coffin itself had a terrifying offensive power and also a defensive array, and if Li Youyi still didn't dare to seize this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity, then he would have to swallow the "two worms" evaluation given by the Dragon Palace and Lu Cangsheng.

"Boom!"

A loud noise came from the direction of the Fourth Academy.

Hua Yuzi was using a Hundred-Character Scripture magic tool to forcefully attack the array.

Li Youyi no longer hesitated; he jumped into the coffin, moved Yang Qingchan's body to the foot of the coffin, and lay at the head in an invisible state, his hands forming the Cihang Aperture Opening Finger.

As soon as the coffin lid opened, he would strike.

If it wasn't Hua Yuzi who opened the coffin, he would directly activate the offensive array and indiscriminately deal with all the Wu Xiu entering the mourning hall. The Master, the spirit tablet, had already told him how to activate the offensive array.

This coffin had likely been checked by the people from the Far West Ash Region when they were searching for the hider, they just hadn't discovered the jade box at the foot of the coffin.

As long as Yang Yun didn't expose him, Hua Yuzi would definitely open the coffin himself, and he wouldn't be on guard.

Li Youyi fully released his hearing; it was simple to determine if Yang Yun had exposed him. He just had to listen to see if any Wu Xiu from the Far West Ash Region were rushing to the carriage to investigate.

Li Youyi's worry was clearly redundant.

One after another, Sui Sect Wu Xiu were killed in front of him by the Left Attendant's cruel methods, and there were the screams of Yang Yue being skinned alive; this was a nightmare Yang Yun wouldn't even dare to have while sleeping, and he was soon scared into a faint. Of course, it could also be because he hadn't eaten for seven days and was too weak.

The array was broken before long.

"Yang Qingxi, you don't even have the qualifications to buy your life anymore!"

"Haha, Qi Jin wants her skin; I'll peel it myself in a moment."

The voices of the Left and Right Attendants rang out one after another.

Immediately after, there were more screams from the young Sui Sect Wu Xiu. Facing the top experts of the Far West Ash Region, even when they formed a combined attack array, they collapsed after only a few dozen strikes.

"Eldest Miss, don't worry about us, you must escape!"

"Eldest Miss, I'll go first... ah..."

The screams gradually faded.

But the sounds of battle did not stop.

Li Youyi, lying in the coffin, knew that Yang Qingxi was the only one left of the Sui Sect's younger generation! She definitely couldn't escape; two Disaster Fire realm Great Thought Masters had come from the Three Chen Palaces to preside over the array, so it was impossible for her to get away.

Being captured was only a matter of time.

Beyond everyone's expectations, Yang Qingxi erupted with combat power at the level of an inheritor, paying the price of injury upon injury to repel Hua Yuzi and fight her way out of the encirclement, bathed in blood.

She didn't choose to attack the array screen, but flew down from the roof with lightning speed and instantly threw herself into the mourning hall.

The Left and Right Attendants followed closely behind.

"Qingxi, surrender, and there's still a way to live." Chen Wenwu also caught up.

Yang Qingxi, who had entered the mourning hall, had cold and sharp eyes, full of killing intent and malice, and threw her broken sword at the pursuing Chen Wenwu. She slapped her fingers heavily on the foot of the blood mud coffin, releasing a ring of spiritual light flames.

Suddenly, the coffin, which could not be opened from the foot, was pushed open by her.

"Swish!"

She jumped directly into the coffin.