After her startled exclamation, the woman did not stop, but continued forward with a swaying gait.
Chen Lin and Fat Tiger remained squeezed inside the Bronze Coffin, utterly motionless. Only after a long while passed without anything unusual happening did he begin to consider his options.
He had only two choices now. The first was to open the Bronze Coffin outright and have Fat Tiger charge out to investigate. With Fat Tiger's undying body, even being scattered to pieces would not matter much.
But once the coffin lid was opened, its protection would be gone. If the unknown being outside meant him harm, he might not be able to handle it in his current condition.
Ghostly creatures used different methods from cultivators. He could not deal with them according to ordinary reasoning.
The second choice was to wait, see where the other party intended to take him, and counter each move as it came.
But the second choice left him far too passive. If he was taken straight to the fifth layer or somewhere deeper, the danger would be far too great.
At that moment, Chen Lin missed Grass and Hua Ruyu terribly. If those two were still around, things would be much easier. Fat Tiger might have an undying body, but his lack of strength was a crippling weakness.
All sorts of plans cycled through Chen Lin's mind, only to be rejected one after another.
The only place he could draw help from now was the Nightmare Realm.
But if he went fishing in Flower Valley, he could not catch a Beauty Flower without using the Fortunate Art. The consequences of that art were too severe; he could not use it unless his life was on the line.
Gambling Fortune Lake was out of the question too. Golden Toad's