Chapter 15: The Jade Coffin

Li Xuanji didn't know how long time had passed, maybe it was a moment, maybe it was a hundred years. I finally felt like my consciousness had recovered from the whirlwind. Hurriedly got up to see what was going on.

The originally hazy gaze gradually cleared, and Li Xuanji found himself lying in a new cave, while Jin Ning and the masked girl Long Da and several others were lying motionless not far from the surroundings, and they should not have woken up yet.

The cave is extremely open and round, about a hundred zhang in diameter. There is a circular gap about ten zhang in the top of the cave that is dozens of zhang high, and the sky light outside shines in, so that the cave is no longer dark and dead, but full of strange flowers and fruits. The whole cave is like a well, the bottom of the well is full of life, there is a small spiritual spring flowing, and the moss on the stones has accumulated I don't know how thick. Some beautiful orchids bloom with huge flower bones and compete in the cracks of the stones, and some strange small trees have goose-yellow fruits hanging on them, and the fragrance is fragrant.

In the middle of the cave, there is a tall stone platform carved of bluestone, and there is a perfect and delicate jade coffin on the top of the stone platform! The jade coffin is the same size as the ordinary coffin, but the whole is carved from a piece of white jade, the jade is delicate and white, and there is a crystal clear feeling. There are various mythical beasts carved on it, and the dragon and phoenix are auspicious and lifelike.

On the other side of the jade coffin stood a statue of the same size as a normal person, also carved from a rare piece of white jade. The statue carved a middle-aged man, wearing a jade crown, wearing a dragon robe, holding a seven-foot-long dragon head staff in his hand, with a smug smile in his handsome face, thick eyebrows as thick as a knife, his eyes scanned ahead, and he was extremely domineering! The character of this statue carved is extraordinary, and two words pop up directly in people's minds - emperor!

The sunlight on the top of the cave shone in, shining on the jade coffin and jade carving, and there was a hazy jade halo, which was unreal like a fluttering fairy.

Li Xuanji looked at the scene in front of him in shock.

I didn't expect that there was that abnormal fluctuation when I smashed the "Mountains and Rivers Society Map", and I thought it was a catastrophe. But I didn't expect to come to this strange place in a blink of an eye. The light and prosperity here formed a sharp contrast with the depressed and dead cave where he was before, which made Li Xuanji a little uncomfortable for a while.

"Hmm...... It's so uncomfortable...... Where is this ......" A few moans came, waking up the stunned Li Xuanji, and when he turned his head, it was Jin Ning and the masked woman who woke up one by one.

When several people regained consciousness and began to look at the situation in front of them, they were all shocked by this huge well-like cave.

"Could this be the real mausoleum of the Purple Dragon Emperor?" asked the masked girl in surprise, unable to help herself with excitement, and circled around the jade coffin and jade carving in the center of the cave several times, for fear that she would suddenly wake up from a dream.

"Is this statue carved by the Purple Dragon Emperor himself? Jin Ning was a little more curious about the appearance of the Purple Dragon Emperor himself, and stared at the jade carving.

Dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, and four people were also excited. Long Da is safe and sound, and his master is finally about to realize his long-cherished wish for many years, how can this not make the four of them excited.

"If this is the mausoleum of the Purple Dragon Emperor, then how did we get in?I clearly remember that we touched a very powerful formation when we smashed the "Mountains and Rivers Society Map", how could we all be safe and sound?" When the masked girl gradually calmed down her excitement, she remembered the doubts in her heart again.

"I think, that strange and powerful formation should be the legendary space formation!" Li Xuanji replied.

"The space formation? is the legendary earth-shattering double formation, is there really such an unpredictable formation in the world?" the masked girl was shocked.

"Aside from the space formation, it's hard to explain why we were able to switch to this place in an instant. Back then, the Purple Dragon Emperor used soldiers like a god, attacking everything, and there may also be a reason for the space formation. 'Divine Soldiers' is the best trick to use for surprise attacks in any war. ”

"It's a pity that I didn't have the opportunity to learn such a sharp weapon, otherwise I ......" The masked girl sighed lightly and didn't say any more.

"Master, since you have found the jade coffin of the Purple Dragon Emperor, do you want to open it now?" Long Da and the other four people were already impatient. Years of hard searching, now in front of me, itching unbearable.

"Don't move! Although there are no traps on this jade coffin, there are 'locks'. There is a formation on it, and if it is not opened properly, the entire jade coffin will be destroyed by itself. You will get nothing. Li Xuanji hurriedly reminded him.

"Thank you Li Gongzi for reminding us, we were reckless. Long Da and the other four were taken aback by Li Xuanji's words, and secretly rejoiced that they did not open the coffin recklessly, if they really wanted to destroy the things inside, even if they apologized for their crimes, it would be useless.

"Li Gongzi. Now that we've come to this point, let's say something clear to Childe. As I told you before, we didn't come to the tomb for treasures or magic weapons, but to find something. Childe has helped us so much, and he can even be regarded as a lifesaver. So I can make a promise to Childe, no matter what treasures are hidden in this jade coffin, the little woman will only take one, and after getting the thing I am looking for, all the remaining things in the jade coffin can be given to Childe and the golden girl. Never break your word!"

The masked girl's words made Li Xuanji and Jin Ning very stunned.

What the hell is she looking for? no treasures, no magic weapons, just one thing. There may be priceless treasures beloved by the Purple Dragon Emperor in the jade coffin, but she is not moved. What is so important to him?

"A word is a certainty!" Jin Ning didn't like to think too much, since the other party promised such a big benefit, a fool would not agree. There is no need for the other party to lie to himself, the two sides have a huge disparity in strength, and they are fully capable of killing themselves and Li Xuanji.

Li Xuanji suppressed the curiosity in his heart for the time being, and walked up to the bluestone platform alone. With his hand, he tried to gently caress this flawless and beautiful jade coffin.

For many years of comprehension and practice of formations and Dao runes, Li Xuanji is particularly sensitive to this aspect of spiritual awareness. Whether it was the stone gate of the ancient palace or the hidden formation trap in the "Mountains and Rivers Society Map", Li Xuanji was sensitive to it.

When he saw this jade coffin for the first time, he also noticed something unusual.

Touching his hand on the silky jade surface of the jade coffin, a hazy vein was revealed in Li Xuanji's heart. This is the unique mastery of Li Xuanji's master, Nangong Xiuyun-Soul Exploration Finger!

Soul exploration refers to the mastery of techniques belonging to the spiritualist, but it is different from the previous way.

Ordinary psychic magicians who want to explore the spiritual veins or formations need to separate their spiritual power from the body, and use the spiritual power as a tentacle to roughly detect the desired situation. However, such a technique is easy to touch some particularly sensitive formations, and it is easy to cause irreparable losses.

Nangong Xiuyun's Soul Detection Finger did not need this step. As long as you put your fingers on the node of the spiritual vein and grasp the rhythm of the spiritual vein, you can quickly grasp the direction of the spiritual vein or the arrangement of the formation. However, the Soul Exploration Finger is very particular about talent and understanding, and it also needs the support of the cultivation realm.

Talent is a sense of sensitivity, Li Xuanji's body has been tempered by Jin Siluan's elixir for many years, and his physical sensitivity is far beyond ordinary people, which is naturally not a problem. And Li Xuanji's comprehension is also recognized as extraordinary in Qingzhumen, five years of study, ten years of practice, Li Xuanji will not only read all kinds of classics collected in the master's door, but also in all aspects of exploration and refinement, especially the deepest understanding of the formation and Taoism. If there is anyone in the entire division who has the ability to practice the Soul Exploration Finger, Li Xuanji is the only candidate.

Despite this, Li Xuanji followed Nangong Xiuyun to learn the Soul Exploration Finger, but he also suffered a lot.

Nangong Xiuyun asked Li Xuanji's introductory practice to explore the spider web! Find a spider web, close your eyes tightly, touch your fingertips to a spider silk, and use subtle sensations to judge the direction of the spider; after learning it, change to a larger spider web to explore the direction of the spider, and then change to a bigger one! When this level could not stop Li Xuanji, the spiders he was looking for became two, then three, and then more......

It took Li Xuanji three years to learn the basic skills of the Soul Exploration Finger, and Nangong Xiuyun began to let Li Xuanji try to practice the Spirit Exploration Finger on the human body. With Li Xuanji's current ability, even if he grabbed a bamboo tree and activated the Spirit Detection Finger, he would be able to find out where there were bamboo shoots growing on the ground under the foot of this bamboo in an instant!

When Li Xuanji stroked his fingers on the jade coffin, the formation arrangement on the jade coffin was already clear to him. This stunt is especially useful when cracking these small, non-lethal formations, as for the previous formations on Shimen and the "Mountains and Rivers Society Diagram", it is a different matter. Because those are murderous formations that kill at the touch of a button!

Li Xuanji climbed onto the jade coffin, took a light breath, and got ready. Then I saw that the eight slender fingertips of his hands lit up with spiritual light, Li Xuanji shot quickly, and his fingers pointed at some special parts on the jade coffin, and every time he clicked it, a light lit up. The fingers on the two hands dance like butterflies dancing in soft curves, or hooking, picking, drawing, or dotting against the jade coffin. Streams of light lit up on the jade coffin, outlining a mysterious spiritual array.

When Li Xuanji's eight fingers were pointed on the jade coffin at the same time, converging into one point, the jade coffin trembled slightly, and all the complicated formations on it disappeared without a trace, and the jade coffin returned to its previous warm and quiet appearance.

"Alright, it's time to open it. Li Xuanji jumped down from the jade coffin, wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, which was not very clean, and said.

Jin Ning looked at Li Xuanji's beautiful and agile fingers with envy. The masked girl was stunned and looked at Li Xuanji, who easily and calmly cracked the formation. This kind of beautiful and efficient method is probably rare in ancient times, but now it is easily used by a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy. What kind of master should be able to teach such a wicked disciple?

Seeing that Li Xuanji had broken the sealing formation of the jade coffin, Long Da and the other four people stepped forward together, grabbed the four corners of the jade coffin and lifted it gently, and moved it to the side.

When everyone looked into the jade coffin with anticipation, they collectively lost their voices.