Thud! Thud! Thud!
As the Market's purple-mist energy projection rapidly gathered, the pounding within the blood-red coffin grew increasingly frantic.
Once it passed a certain threshold, even the blood-red coffin—whose extraordinary material was obvious at a glance—began to tremble, the vibrations steadily intensifying with time.
Boom!
At a certain moment, the blood-red coffin abruptly exploded. The once-solid block of blood-red immortal metal shattered into countless pieces and sprayed throughout the mountain's interior.
Song Chi did not spare the shattered coffin a single glance. This thing might have held tremendous value to the former Immortal Domain Civilization, or even to the many civilizations of the boundless star sea, but to a Kindle captain, it was merely one mineral material among many.
After the blood-red coffin exploded, his gaze remained fixed on the figure lying within... or rather, on the humanoid figure.
It was a man whose physical body still resembled that of an ordinary star-sea human. His eyes were tightly shut, and he wore a white jade crown. His dark-blue Daoist robe was embroidered with white cloud patterns, while golden threads gleamed at its hem. Even lying there silently, he still possessed an air of solemn dignity and majesty.
Had Song Chi not already known that the Immortal Domain Civilization had been destroyed hundreds of thousands of years ago, he might have assumed this corpse had been dead for no more than a thousand years.
Yet Song Chi was not fooled by the corpse's attire and bearing. At once, he noticed the incongruity of this Destiny Immortal Lord's corpse deep within the immortal mound.
The Destiny Immortal Sect had once been a colossal power within the Immortal Domain Civilization. How could someone bearing Destiny as a title possibly have been an insignificant nobody?
In Song Chi's estimation, this Destiny Immortal Lord