Chapter 649: The Underground Heavenly Coffin

The passage held no danger, so soon the five arrived at the second stone door.

Outside the stone door, another massive array enveloped it.

The array was likewise a sixth-rank defense array.

He Pingsheng had already discarded the Xuanhuo Token outside the first stone door, so this time he could not dismantle the array.

He Pingsheng's Xuanhuo Token was used, but the other three still had theirs!

"I'll do it!" Zhou Qingmei took out her own Xuanhuo Token and placed it upon the array.

Hummm… The array trembled.

Then it opened.

"It worked again?" Though she had expected it, Zhou Qingmei couldn't suppress her excitement at the sight of the array opening.

Push open the stone door!

Another identical passage.

But the fragrance had grown much stronger.

"What is this scent? Why is it so intense?"

"I've never smelled anything so wonderful in my life!"

"Is it a flower's fragrance?"

Long Yue's delicate brows furrowed slightly.

"Who cares!" Bei Chen's three-foot sword continuously emitted starlight energy; he flicked his wrist: "As long as it's not poisonous, let's go—see what's inside!"

Next!

The third door was opened!

The fourth door was opened too!

Thus, all four of their Xuanhuo Tokens were used up.

Zhou Qingmei gazed at the endless passage ahead: "If there's another array and stone door ahead, we may not be able to get through!"

"Let's keep walking!"

The passage was long and narrow, with no end in sight.

Everyone's spiritual sense surged forward at once.

Then their expressions turned grim.

For a thousand zhang ahead lay the fifth stone door.

And similarly, this door was also covered by an array's golden membrane.

"Damn it…" Bei Chen growled: "What's going on?"

But now, words were useless—better to go see for ourselves.

A thousand zhang was close; within a few breaths, they reached the array's golden membrane.

He Pingsheng looked up at the golden membrane spanning hundreds of zhang.

A defense array!

And still, sixth-rank.

That meant, to break it by brute force, one needed at least peak Void Refinement cultivation.

To dismantle it by skill alone would take years.

"What do we do?" All turned to Lady Long Yue.

After all, she was the one with the highest array expertise here.

"Wait…" Before Long Yue could speak, Bei Chen said: "Have you sensed a scorching aura?"

"It… really does feel like fire energy?"

"What?" Everyone turned toward the stone door.

Though sealed by the sixth-rank defense array, the array was merely defensive—not a sealing or spirit-gathering array—so some of the inner aura inevitably leaked out.

After carefully sensing, they confirmed it: fire attribute energy!

"Then!" Zhou Qingmei said: "The Nine Heaven Xuan Fire must be right here!"

"Huh…"

She seemed excited, inhaling deeply.

Beside her, nearly everyone was stirred with excitement.

Only He Pingsheng frowned slightly—he had sensed the fire aura here, but it differed from the Nine Heaven Xuan Fire he knew.

Clearly, Hao Cang was also puzzled.

"We need to figure out how to break this array now?" Bei Chen fretted, scratching his head.

At that moment, the sixth-rank defense array suddenly cracked open a fissure.

Boom…

A more powerful surge of fire attribute energy rushed out.

"The Nine Heaven Xuan Fire is mine…" Bei Chen shot forward first.

Then, to block others, after entering the fissure, he swung his hand backward—his starlight sword erupted with a torrent of star energy toward the entrance.

Long Yue and Zhou Qingmei cursed loudly.

He Pingsheng remained calm.

What good is entering first in a place like this?

Even if you get the Nine Heaven Xuan Fire, what then?

Without sufficient strength, possessing it is the same as having nothing.

So he wasn't in a hurry.

Letting others go first might reveal whether there were dangers inside.

Swoosh…

Swoosh…

The next instant, Zhou Qingmei and Long Yue entered one after the other.

"Young Master… we…" Hao Cang pointed at the cracked array opening, hesitating.

He Pingsheng nodded: "Let's go… see what's inside."

He Pingsheng and Hao Cang walked calmly into the array.

Strange!

The moment they entered, the array behind them sealed shut.

Before them was a vast space.

Or rather, an underground plaza.

The plaza was circular, and at its center stood a massive box.

The box resembled an exquisitely crafted coffin.

Its surface was coated in black lacquer, adorned with red-painted patterns.

The strange fragrance emanated from within this massive coffin.

Without hesitation, He Pingsheng immediately spread his spiritual sense, trying to see what lay inside.

Unfortunately, the coffin seemed wrapped in a mysterious force—his spiritual sense could not penetrate it.

He Pingsheng's gaze fixed on the coffin.

Long Yue quickly said: "Dragon Zhe, we've all tried—it cannot be opened!"

"It… seems there's also a powerful array on it!"

No sooner had she spoken than a rumbling sound erupted.

Then, visibly, two massive array membranes rose along the edges of the circular plaza.

Everyone's faces paled; they instantly sent out spiritual senses to scan.

"Bad!" Long Yue's face turned ashen: "This… this is a sealing array…"

A sealing array, as the name implies, traps those within.

Once sealed, escape is impossible for a long time.

He Pingsheng saw it too.

He not only saw the sealing array, but also a yang array called the 【Nine Heaven Yang Supreme Array】, also sixth-rank.

Thus, in this circular underground plaza, three sixth-rank arrays now surrounded them.

The first: sixth-rank defense array.

The second: sixth-rank 【Nine Heaven Yang Supreme Array】.

The third: sixth-rank sealing array.

"Huh…" He took a deep breath, a bad feeling rising.

It felt just like the underground plaza once trapped beneath his Wen Qi Mountain.

Had he been tricked again, trapped beneath this mountain?

Used as fuel for alchemy, drained of fortune and qi?

"Don't fear!" Bei Chen held his blue sword before him: "It's just a sixth-rank array—given time, we can break it. The key is ensuring no one attacks us while we break it!"

"I just wonder… what's inside that coffin?"