The Return of the King!
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A withered palm pressed against the coffin's edge, and a force slowly pushed the lid aside.
The next moment.
A dried corpse sat up from inside the coffin, its head of grizzled hair fluttering and swaying in the air.
There was not the slightest trace of flesh on his body, as though a sheet of skin had been wrapped around a skeleton.
"Guh..."
He exhaled faintly, and a sharp, grating sound came from his throat.
He turned his head slightly, and the friction of his bones produced a series of clicking sounds.
He turned his head toward Lin Bai and Chu Xi, a pair of pale, pupil-less eyes fixed on them.
Hiding behind Lin Bai, Chu Xi trembled in fright, nearly bursting into tears.
Lin Bai steadied his mind. Being stared at by this peerless powerhouse who had once dominated the world caused even his will to begin collapsing involuntarily.
"Who... are you..."
"For what matter... have you summoned me back..."
That terrifying visage of skin stretched over bones, those pale eyes without pupils, that hoarse and grating voice, and that aura of power that dominated all beneath Heaven—
All of it left Lin Bai and Chu Xi terrified and uneasy.
Chu Xi hid behind Lin Bai, her whole body faintly trembling.
She was still a little girl, after all.
At a time like this, she did not look like the Sect Master at all.
Faced with Ancestor Zhao Yangze's questions, Chu Xi did not dare answer. Lin Bai could only brace himself and respond.
Lin Bai's expression turned solemn. He clasped his hands in salute and said, "I am Lin Bai, the current Holy Son of the Tianshui Sect. This girl is Chu Xi, the current Sect Master of the Tianshui Sect!"
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