"Now the Xia family was taking things far too much for granted. They had brought down an Emperor's soul, yet never considered how they could possibly control an Emperor with their own strength—let alone control someone who had once reigned supreme in the upper realm after placing him inside the coffin. Their plan was utterly absurd." Great-grandmother sighed, then looked me up and down with a curious expression.
No wonder she had said when we first met that she would stop at nothing to cast me into another plane. It turned out she had seen the images.
Xia Qingping had sent me to the back mountain. Could it be that he also knew the secrets of the Azure Heaven Cauldron or the Azure Heaven Scroll? Was he trying to let me learn what had happened here?
But even if I knew, what could I do? Could I help them by jumping into the Blood Cloud Coffin myself and then helping them open the Phoenix-Attracting Coffin? Absolutely not.
And things were far from that simple. The Xia family's conspiracy was vast. It had already begun the moment they drew down the Emperor's soul. I simply did not know who the player moving the pieces was.
The key was that no one knew what opening the Phoenix-Attracting Coffin would actually do. "Great-grandmother, what will happen when the Phoenix-Attracting Coffin is opened?"
This was the end of every secret. Now, only Great-grandmother might be able to tell me. As for the Xia family, they certainly would not say.
"That thing belongs to another plane. Based on my conjectures, it may be used to break through the boundaries in reverse. With it, after breaking through those boundaries, one might reach another, entirely new plane. As for the specifics, I am still only guessing. Whether