When a noble was buried, the coffin was divided into inner and outer layers. The outer layer was the sarcophagus, roughly the size of a room; the inner layer held the coffin itself, along with all manner of burial goods—jewels and goldware.
The inner coffin was where the body was placed, the coffin commonly spoken of.
Only aristocratic clans and nobles were particular about such things. Ordinary folk struggled even to scrape together enough for a single coffin, much less bear the cost of a complete coffin and sarcophagus set.
This enormous coffin and sarcophagus deep within the ice cave had been positioned with exceptional care, forming an array together with the surrounding layout.
The sarcophagus was filled with dense medicinal liquid, as dark and fathomless as black water, submerging most of the coffin.
Looking again at the coffin, seven or eight pills the size of fists had been embedded in it. Their fragrance rushed into the nose, stirring one's Blood Qi.
Great Prince knew his treasures. At a glance, he could tell that neither the stone nor the timber used to make this coffin and sarcophagus was ordinary.
The stone was called Three Lives Rock. It was said that its texture resembled flesh and blood, and historical records explicitly stated that little children of flesh and blood had once emerged from such stone.
Three Lives Rock was exceedingly difficult to find, and rare in quantity. Most pieces were mere fragments; finding a huge stone large enough to carve into a stone sarcophagus was even rarer. Even mobilizing the strength of the entire world might not accomplish it.
Great Prince still remembered the instructions of the two medicine masters and forcibly suppressed the urge to touch it. Yet merely standing beside the Three Lives Rock invigorated the life force within