The mythical Nine-Layered Coffin required blood to open.
Although Zhou Tong could easily break the restrictions on the coffin and force it open, he had come to discuss the Dao with the Divine Emperor. There was no need to use such a violent method to break in.
He had visited the Foreign Realm several times and had long acquired plenty of True Immortal Realm blood. Opening the coffin would naturally be effortless.
A drop of True Immortal blood fell onto it. At once, the Nine-Layered Coffin cracked open with a crack, and a seam appeared as the first coffin opened. The coffin within was clearly a size smaller, equally ancient and unadorned, its surface etched with all manner of blurry patterns.
But it was True Immortal blood, after all. Opening one layer of the coffin consumed hardly any power.
Crack!
The coffin continued to open—the second layer, the third, the fourth...
The power of the True Immortal blood continuously seeped into the Nine-Layered Coffin. Powerful fluctuations surged violently, like a blazing fire burning fiercely.
In only a moment, eight layers of the Nine-Layered Coffin had opened, leaving only the final coffin.
This coffin was merely the length of a thumb, ancient and plain, yet it emitted an utterly terrifying pressure. An invisible majesty surged forth like a tsunami.
Opening the first eight layers had used only half the drop of True Immortal blood. Zhou Tong casually dripped the remaining half onto the final coffin, and at once—
Crack!
With a faint sound, a tiny seam appeared in the final layer. Boundless Emperor Sha poured down from that seam, overwhelming heaven and earth like a vast sea, limitless and endless as it rushed straight at Zhou Tong.
The thumb-sized coffin contained another world within. It was like a vast universe, filled