Chapter 191: The World Buried in the Stone Coffin!

After the star plate failed, Fang Xu also lost his only means of escape; seeing the funeral bearer's attack approaching, a hint of panic arose in his heart.

What should I do now?

His gaze fixed on the funeral bearer's massive body and the Hu Lin corpse dragged by the iron chain on its other hand, Fang Xu's body shot out!

At the moment that iron chain was about to lock onto him, he flew straight toward the funeral bearer's back!

Faced with such a terrifying existence, trying to escape now is obviously impossible.

Fang Xu decided to do the opposite!

Since I can't escape, I'll proactively jump onto you to see what you're capable of.

Compared to the funeral bearer's towering height of a kilometer, Fang Xu was like an ant before him; his figure shot out and landed directly on the massive stone coffin behind the funeral bearer!

Roar!

The funeral bearer also didn't expect Fang Xu to make such a choice, and the stone coffin behind him seemed to him a sacred, inviolable existence; feeling Fang Xu actually step onto the coffin at this moment, the funeral bearer flew into a rage!

Its terrifying body shuddered violently!

The invisible qi shock directly caused Fang Xu behind it to vomit blood!

Too terrifying!

Fang Xu tightly gripped the huge iron chain binding the stone coffin, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.

That blow from the funeral bearer had already left him seriously injured.

If they strike again, I'm afraid I'll be shaken to death!

But the problem is, I'm now riding a tiger, hard to dismount.

He could feel that the funeral bearer at this moment was extremely angry.

It seemed that my act of stepping on the stone coffin was a grave desecration, and they would certainly not let me off.

Feeling the funeral bearer's muscles contracting, Fang Xu was startled!

They're going to attack again!

His figure instantly leapt from the iron chain, and Fang Xu landed directly on the coffin lid.

Just as he was preparing to fully cope with the funeral bearer's attack, he suddenly noticed that the massive stone coffin had revealed a crack.

And from within the crack seemed to emanate some kind of strange fluctuation.

Fang Xu hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and slipped inside.

The stone coffin was huge, but the space inside was somewhat cramped.

All around was pitch black, but after a martial practitioner's cultivation reaches Martial Sovereign, ordinary night can no longer affect their vision.

But this darkness inside the stone coffin is true darkness: not only can the eyes see nothing around, even soul power cannot extend here.

Fang Xu searched in his Qiankun Ring and finally found the most useful thing.

A tinderbox.

Blowing on the tinderbox in his hand, with the aid of its faint flame he finally managed to see part of the interior of the stone coffin.

I now seem to be in a narrow passageway.

Feeling along, one wall was smooth while the other was carved with mysterious patterns; Fang Xu proceeded cautiously.

No!

This isn't a passageway!

After proceeding for a while, he suddenly realized something was off!

The position I'm currently in is definitely not a passageway!

The most accurate situation is that the outer stone coffin is called the outer shell, while the inner one engraved with mysterious patterns is the true coffin.

This practice was also very popular in ancient times in my previous life.

Coffin and outer shell, coffin and outer shell.

One layer coffin, one layer outer shell.

The passageway I previously thought of is actually the gap between the coffin and the outer shell.

Realizing this, Fang Xu began to feel his way toward the top of the true inner stone coffin.

Now he is very curious: what exactly is buried inside this coffin borne on the corpse of an ancient god?

With the light of the tinderbox, Fang Xu felt his way toward the coffin's top while paying attention to the ancient carvings on the stone coffin, hoping to find some information about the coffin's owner's identity.

But these carvings are disordered and extremely complex.

Moreover, since he cannot view them in full, he cannot readily make sense of them for a while.

In the end, when he arrived before the true coffin lid, he was still in a haze.

"Huh!?"

Having reached the coffin's top, Fang Xu originally still had worries: the outer shell had a gap letting him in, while the inner coffin he could open himself.

But when he saw a tiny crack on the top of the coffin lid, his face showed a hint of surprise.

The outer shell has a gap, and the inner coffin also has a gap?

Feeling the strange aura inside the coffin growing stronger, Fang Xu hesitated no longer and directly entered the stone coffin along the crack.

With the faint light of the tinderbox, after entering, Fang Xu immediately furrowed his brow.

Because what appeared before him was actually another passageway-like scene!

Only this time, one side of the passageway is a smooth stone wall, while the other side is a bronze wall engraved with exquisite patterns.

With his previous experience, Fang Xu understood that this inner layer of bronze wall might be the true coffin.

While the outer two layers are both shells.

Three layers of coffin and shell; this situation is truly rare.

Compared to the carvings on the second layer stone shell, the pictures engraved on this layer of bronze coffin are relatively simpler.

The connections between the lines also increased a bit.

But even so, Fang Xu still couldn't tell what these lines represented.

Curious about the identity of the bronze coffin's owner, Fang Xu continued to feel his way toward the top.

As he was about to reach the top, a thought suddenly popped into his mind.

Could this bronze coffin also be another outer coffin?

After having that thought, his figure had already arrived at the top of the bronze coffin.

Here, too, there was a crack.

At that moment, Fang Xu felt a bit dazed, and a trace of fear rose in his heart.

The corpse of the ancient god lay upon the coffin, and inside the huge coffin three layers of outer coffins had already appeared.

The identity of this coffin's owner is certainly not simple.

Now, each layer of outer coffin has revealed a crack; this situation cannot be a coincidence.

There are only two possibilities for this situation.

Either someone has entered this stone coffin, or… something inside the stone coffin has come out!

If someone had entered, the pallbearer's strength would be terrifying.

Just how terrifying would that person's strength have to be?

After all, I could get in because the stone coffin's several outer coffins already had cracks, as if someone had opened the way for me.

Obviously, the first person to enter could not have received such treatment.

If he wanted to get in, there was only one way: endure the pallbearer's terrifying attacks and force open each layer of outer coffin.

Fang Xu dared not imagine such strength.

He just felt deep down that it was somewhat impossible.

If the crack in the coffin and outer coffin wasn't made by someone entering, then only the other possibility remains.

Something inside the coffin has gone out!

The pallbearer bore the stone coffin; in a sense, he greatly revered what was inside the stone coffin.

If what's inside wanted to come out, he would certainly not stop it.

But this also doesn't feel quite right.

Since everything inside the stone coffin has already come out, why is the pallbearer still carrying this coffin as he wanders the Vast Sea?

Puzzled, Fang Xu glanced at the crack in the bronze coffin, hesitated a moment, then resolutely slipped inside.

The instant his body passed through the crack, his pupils contracted slightly.

Another passage!

The bronze coffin is also an outer coffin!

However, the coffin that appeared this time is still a green jade coffin.

The jade coffin also bears exquisite carvings.

At this moment, Fang Xu finally could roughly understand the meaning of these patterns.

There are some figures, as well as some irregular lines.

Because it is a four-layer outer coffin, the jade coffin's size has now shrunk to less than five hundred meters in length.

Fang Xu held a match and quickly examined all the carvings on the jade coffin.

He suddenly realized that the carvings on the jade coffin seem to record some grand sacrificial scene.

Those figures encompass not just one human race; Fang Xu discovered many creatures with wings or with monstrous beast bodies and human heads in the pictures.

There were even some strange humanoid creatures.

And what these spirits sacrificed were some irregular lines.

These lines also have no connection among them, leaving Fang Xu unable to see what they specifically represent.

After examining the reliefs on the jade coffin, Fang Xu slowly lifted his gaze upward.

He no longer believes that this jade coffin is a real coffin.

This jade coffin is very likely still an outer coffin, and there may even be another outer coffin inside.

To verify his guess, he came to the top of the jade coffin and here discovered another crack.

Unlike previous cracks, this one actually has a faint light beneath it.

However, this light is too weak; he hadn't noticed it when he earlier examined the reliefs down below.

Following the crack inward, everything turned out just as he had guessed.

The jade coffin is also an outer coffin.

Inside, a white jade coffin appeared.

At this time, the white jade coffin is only three hundred meters long, and its entire body is still carved with various exquisite reliefs.

And the fluorescence he had seen before actually comes from the white jade coffin.

Five layers.

Five outer coffins, one inner coffin—could this white jade coffin be the real coffin after all?

Fang Xu extinguished the match in his hand and began to survey the carvings on the white jade coffin.

The carvings on the white jade coffin are clearer than those on the jade coffin.

The figures and depictions of various beings on it are also clearer.

What is recorded on the white jade coffin seems to be a war.

The main character of this war is a very blurry figure, who seems to have led many beings in resisting some terrible existence.

According to the reliefs, this war was extremely tragic; beings died miserably, the earth cracked, mountains and rivers were shattered, and in the end the war seemed to have been victorious.

Because Fang Xu saw the scene of myriad spirits kneeling and praying to those lines on the last relief carving, and also saw smiles on some figures' faces.

This is a hero's story, right…

After viewing these reliefs, Fang Xu guessed that the being who led the myriad spirits to victory in the war should be the owner of the stone coffin.

The one buried here should be him.

Following the white jade coffin's wall upward, Fang Xu quickly reached the position of the coffin lid.

The expected crack still exists.

Through the crack, the light inside the white jade coffin has become very strong.

So strong that when Fang Xu poked his head to look, he could only see a blank white expanse, unable to make out anything inside.

And that strange feeling that had been attracting him became even stronger at this moment.

Even Fang Xu could feel a faint summons.

"Come in……hurry in……"

Feeling all this, he cautiously followed the crack into the white jade coffin.

Pop!

The instant his body passed through the white jade coffin, he suddenly sensed a strange feeling.

This feeling was similar to when he previously used the Power of Solution to enter the Stone Gate World.

Before he could even figure out what this feeling was, he was instantly stunned by the sight before him!

World!

The blinding white light before his eyes faded, and what appeared in his vision was a vast world!

The whole world was riddled with scars, utterly devastated!

Here the land is covered with shocking cracks, mountains and rivers collapsed, rivers dried up, even the sun and moon overhead were shattered into fragments hanging in the sky.

Dead silence!

Decay!

Devoid of life.

Fang Xu wandered across this land, seeing rotting bones scattered everywhere beneath his feet, his eyes full of curiosity.

What on earth is going on?

An ancient god's corpse gave birth to sentience, became a bearer of the funeral, and bore a massive stone coffin.

This stone coffin has five layers of outer casings, one coffin, and inside is buried a world that has already died?

What is the relationship between this world and the ancient god's corpse?

Fang Xu walked while pondering this question.

Suddenly, his gaze caught sight of a huge withered tree.

"How familiar……"

Looking at that withered tree, Fang Xu suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.

But this withered tree had been burned, leaving only a half‑trunk of dry wood standing alone amidst broken walls and ruins.

Wait……

Fang Xu's pupils contracted, and he hurried to the ruins beside the ancient tree where only a low wall remained.

A similarly burned tree, now just a low stump, a broken stone table, and stone stools……

Seeing that familiar layout, his pupils widened slightly.

"How is this possible!!"

"What on earth is going on!!"

Gazing at the nearby shattered mountain range, Fang Xu's face showed utter disbelief.

That is Ti Lan Mountain!

This ancient tree is precisely the thousand‑year‑old maple of Fenglin Town!

And the ruined courtyard beneath his feet is exactly his home in Fenglin Town!

Then this world……is the entire Tianxuan Realm!?

His body shot up into the sky, and Fang Xu gazed into the distance!

He saw Lookout Moon Mountain, saw the once supremely glorious Central State Imperial City, and also saw Huayang Mountain.

His body landed where Huayang Mountain stands, and Fang Xu saw that the Ascension Immortal Association's Immortal Ascension Platform had been shattered, with faint traces of familiar things still around.

On the mountain peak stood the Star Palace, which housed the Cliffside Immortal Scripture in its Cliffside Underground Palace, and there was also that great iron sword long kept deep in the Divine Weapon Hall……

But all of these things before his eyes have already been destroyed by an overwhelming force!

According to the surrounding signs, Fang Xu horrifiedly discovered that the whole Huayang Mountain seemed to have been cleaved apart by a single sword!

Looking around, Fang Xu's pupils contracted once more.

That is a massive white ape corpse!

The white ape's body was split open by a sword, its blood drained, and its rotting entrails scattered across the ground!

Beside the white ape's corpse lay a black five‑clawed divine dragon!

But this five‑clawed divine dragon had been forcibly cut into two pieces, dying horribly on the spot!

Fang Xu's face turned ashen.

He knew, those were the corpses of the Old Ape and the Long Dragon!

Dead!

They both died!

Fang Xu slowly walked over to the corpses of the Old Ape and the Long Dragon, silently stroking the Long Dragon's scales, nearly shattered to nothing, and its broken horns.

He again stroked the old ape's fur that had lost its luster……

Illusion!

This is definitely an illusion!

Fang Xu repeatedly hinted to himself in his heart, everything before his eyes was an illusion.

But in the end he couldn't fool himself.

Because whether it was what his eyes saw or what his soul felt, everything here was so real.

What on earth is going on?

What happened in the Heaven Profound Realm?

Why was the entire Heaven Profound Realm buried inside this stone coffin?

Who started this war?

And who is the enemy?

At this moment, he could no longer stay conscious.

Could what is revealed inside the stone coffin be the future of the Heaven Profound Realm?

Then what about me—where did I go?

Carrying these doubts, Fang Xu, as if gone mad, searched the entire Heaven Profound Realm for any trace of himself. (End of chapter)