By the time he leaped to the top, everyone else had already climbed into the coffin. The moment he stepped onto its lid, he felt a bone-deep chill through his shoes.
After a careful look around, he saw that everyone who had entered before him was hurrying toward the center of the Giant Coffin. Knowing he was unfamiliar to them, Xu Yi was certain they would recognize him if he climbed down recklessly.
He no longer had the Dragon Crocodile Armor to protect him. The place was packed with Qi Sea Realm experts, and any one of them could pose a mortal threat to him—not to mention the danger of being surrounded by all of them.
He took out some iron essence and shaped it into a hooked spike. Hooking it onto one end of the lid, he carefully pressed himself against the top, activated his wall-crawling technique, and crept toward the center.
After moving nearly ten zhang, he reached the limit of what the iron essence could manage. Xu Yi stopped, held his breath, lowered his body temperature, and looked ahead. His eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.
At the center of the coffin was a square pool, three zhang across, filled with dark green liquid. It was exactly like the underground river he had seen earlier. Strangely, the water was flowing, with a clear current.
The pool had obviously been specially designed to connect with the underground river outside.
The strange thing was that, unlike the river outside, whose water exuded wisps of sinister energy, the water here looked like a gentle, rippling pool.
When everyone looked toward the pool, their eyes were never drawn first to the dark green water filling it.
Instead, every bulging gaze converged on the two corpses in the pool.
One lay