Before Ye Fan could answer, Li Zhi shouted at the people who had completely surrounded the Small Coffin, "All of you, move aside. Don't get in the way of my work."
"Friend, could you tell us what this is? And what is the Nine Dragons Coffin Transport outside?" Wang Ziwen was a clever man. From Li Zhi's slightly anxious attitude, he could tell that they seemed to have very little time to come into contact with the coffin.
"Heh! You want to know? Wait until you become an Emperor." Li Zhi laughed, but his hands showed no sign of stopping.
Spray, paste, smooth, rub—he completed everything in one fluid motion. His movements were smooth and swift, and some of them were nothing more than afterimages in their eyes.
"Friend, we're all people in distress. Why bother speaking to us in riddles?" someone in the crowd shouted at Li Zhi.
"In distress? Who told you I was in distress?" Li Zhi laughed outright.
They could tell that Li Zhi definitely knew some truths they did not, yet had no intention of telling them.
That was simply human nature. Faced with unknown things, people felt fear. But when it came to secrets they already knew, apart from curiosity, they no longer felt much fear.
With only a few words, the fear that had originally lingered in their hearts had already vanished by more than half.
"You're a tomb robber, yet you actually dare mock us. Aren't you afraid that once we get out, we'll have you arrested and turned over to the police?" someone in the crowd shouted at Li Zhi.
"Smack!" A crisp sound rang out inside the pitch-black coffin chamber.
"Ah!" A pained scream followed. Then the person roared, "You actually dared throw a Tomato at me!"
"You were rude. You deserved it." Li Zhi spoke coldly.
Zhou Yi, Wang Ziwen, Lin Jia, Li Xiaoman, and the others, who had seen Li Zhi make his move, all widened their eyes.
Li Zhi threw things twice as fast as professional baseball players, and his accuracy was astonishing.
He did not even appear to take aim. With what seemed like a casual flick of his hand, he sent a bright-red fruit flying, and it struck that student squarely in the mouth.
For a moment, the atmosphere inside the coffin became somewhat delicate.
Low whispers came from the crowd. It seemed that several people were discussing giving Li Zhi a lesson.
At that moment, Pang Bo shouted, "Li Changqing, didn't your father teach you? You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Who do you think Boss Li is? He doesn't need you passing judgment on him."
Ye Fan also looked at Li Zhi in surprise and said, "Brother Li, your strength has improved tremendously in the ten months since we last met."
"After being trapped on Mount Tai for so long, it would be difficult not to improve," Li Zhi said.
Ye Fan asked again, "Then did you tell Sister-in-law that you escaped?"
"Your sister-in-law already knows that we left Earth," Li Zhi said.
"Left Earth?" Ye Fan looked at Li Zhi in horror.
"Otherwise, did you think we were still on Mount Tai?" Li Zhi said.
Just as Ye Fan was about to ask more, the Bronze Giant Coffin suddenly let out a loud bang, as though it had struck something.
In an instant, everyone felt the world spin. Before they could react, however, they were standing steadily again.
Yet Li Zhi and the Small Coffin, which had just been surrounded by everyone, had suddenly vanished. Some people began to feel their scalps tingle.
"Look! There's light over there!" Li Xiaoman suddenly pointed in one direction and shouted.
Then they surged toward the light that had appeared more than ten meters away like a flood.
As for the mysterious Li Zhi, they felt it was better to stay as far away from him as possible.
After the collision,
the Bronze Giant Coffin had overturned. Its lid had tilted, opening a gap through which the light outside shone into the coffin.
A group of people rushed over excitedly. Soon, they passed through the gap, which was wide enough for two people to walk side by side, and escaped the pitch-black coffin chamber.
Only Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Lin Jia did not follow the crowd out.
Still holding the Rubbing Pad, Ye Fan did not see Li Zhi anywhere, so he shouted around him, "Brother Li?"
He desperately wanted to understand what Li Zhi had meant by "leaving Earth."
"I'm up here." Li Zhi's voice came from the air nearby.
It turned out that when the Bronze Giant Coffin overturned, the Small Coffin lying in the center had become embedded in the wall.
The change had also caused Li Zhi, who had been rubbing an imprint of the coffin wall, to end up standing on the wall of the coffin.
Then he jumped directly down from a height of six or seven meters and landed lightly in front of Ye Fan and the others.
His ability to dissipate the force of the landing was truly flawless.
Even Ye Fan was impressed.
Ever since his strength had surpassed the so-called limits of ordinary humans, Ye Fan had spent some time practicing martial arts.
He would not dare claim that he could jump three or four meters high, but he still could not jump directly from six or seven meters without making a loud thud when he landed.
Seeing this, Ye Fan said, "Brother Li, your martial arts have improved tremendously."
"Your classmates have all gone out. Why are the three of you still here?" Li Zhi asked.
"What did you mean when you said that we've already left Earth?" Ye Fan asked urgently.
"Go out and see for yourself." Li Zhi hoisted his mountaineering pack onto his back.
Then the four of them followed everyone else out of the Bronze Giant Coffin.
What met their eyes was a stretch of land that looked as though it had been soaked in blood.
Red-brown soil and rocks filled their vision, as if they had arrived in a wasteland at the end of the world.
The sky was even darker and grayer, like the apocalyptic battlefield after a nuclear war in a movie. It was forever shrouded beneath a thick layer of Gray Mist.
The stunned crowd only came back to their senses when Li Zhi and the other three walked up behind them.
This definitely was not the Mount Tai Summit. Everyone reached the same conclusion.
Ye Fan looked at the scene before him and asked, "Where exactly are we?"
Li Zhi glanced at the gloomy sky and said solemnly, "The former Life Source Land. The Nine Dragons Coffin Transport has existed since ancient times, forever traveling through the universe. It goes from one Life Source Land to another and never remains in one place for long."
Ye Fan stared at Li Zhi and asked, "Brother Li, where did you learn all this?"
"Mount Tai," Li Zhi replied briefly.
Then he said to Ye Fan and the other two, "You can travel with your classmates. I have something else to do, so I won't disturb you."
With that, Li Zhi walked toward the nine True Dragons in front of the coffin.
Although they were now Dragon Corpses without the slightest sign of life, the Life Level of those nine True Dragons when they were alive had certainly far surpassed that of ordinary humans. They might even have surpassed the level of True Immortals and reached the level of Immortal Kings.
They might be the only Immortal Corpses in this universe that Li Zhi could get close to.
Even if they were dead now.
Long ago, when Desolate Heaven Emperor created the Dragon Transformation Realm, he had fused the nine snow-white Dragon Bones that had once been the bodies of the nine dragons into his own spine. From them, he comprehended the Nine Transformations of the True Dragon, thereby perfecting the Dragon Transformation Realm.
Although Li Zhi did not possess Desolate Heaven Emperor's terrifying comprehension, he knew that carefully observing these nine True Dragon corpses would certainly be of immense benefit to his future cultivation of the Dragon Transformation Realm.
Rather than risk his life traveling with Ye Fan and the others to explore the Great Thunderclap Temple, he might as well excavate as many benefits as possible from the Nine Dragons Coffin Transport.
Seeing Li Zhi leave alone, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Lin Jia exchanged glances, unsure what he intended to do.
Lin Jia asked, "Ye Fan, your neighbor is really strange."
At that moment, Ye Fan had many questions he wanted to ask Li Zhi, but judging from Li Zhi's attitude, it seemed that he had no intention of catching up with him for now.
Then the three of them followed the other students onto the land of the Ancient Scarlet Planet and embarked on the perilous journey to explore the Great Thunderclap Temple.
Li Zhi followed the iron chains connected to the Bronze Giant Coffin and arrived beside the bodies of the nine True Dragons.
The Dragon Corpses were enormous, each a hundred meters long. Standing right beside them, he could not take them all in.
Li Zhi had to retreat. Only after running two hundred meters away could he fit their majestic forms into the frame of his phone's built-in camera.
Then he changed angles several times and took pictures of the Dragon Corpses.
Unfortunately, the phone he had casually snatched had a camera with poor resolution and could not clearly record every detail on the Dragon Corpses.
After taking the pictures, however, he diligently used his own eyes to observe every detail of the Dragon Corpses, trying to firmly record their divine bearing in his mind.
Afterward, he even reached out to touch and sense the cold aura radiating from the Dragon Corpses.
The dragon heads, dragon claws, dragon bodies, dragon tails, and dragon scales—Li Zhi did not overlook a single detail.
He seemed to have overtaxed his mind, as white smoke began to rise from the top of his head.
At the same time, the excessive consumption of his Spiritual Power caused his complexion to gradually turn pale.
"Clang!"
Only when a deep, thunderous bell toll came from the distance did Li Zhi finally emerge from his state of excessive concentration.
He immediately reached into the Snakeskin Bag in his pack, grabbed three fruits, stuffed them into his mouth, and swallowed them whole. After replenishing his fluids, he finally felt alive again.
After returning to the Five-Colored Altar, Li Zhi did not climb onto it directly. Instead, he circled the Five-Colored Altar, taking pictures without pause.
He also picked up some broken scraps from beside it and stuffed them into his bag.
At the same time, a bold idea appeared in his mind.
Perhaps he could use this Five-Colored Altar as the altar for performing Stealing Heavenly Secrets, sacrifice the Three Lives Bronze Coffin directly, and obtain heaven-shaking fortune.
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