Xiang Wentian, Left Envoy of Yellow Springs, requested an audience, but the Dao Master known as the Corpse Queen Mother paid him no heed.
Presiding over reincarnation, illuminating life and death—she was busy, with no time to spare.
Xiang Yuan, the Heavenly Sect's young sect master, requested an audience. The Corpse Queen Mother was immediately no longer busy, and the coffin lid rose from the ground.
Yet she did not burst from the coffin. She remained sealed within.
"Reporting to the Dao Master, Xiang has indeed come regarding the affairs of the Heavenly Court."
A sharp gleam flashed through Xiang Yuan's eyes as he discreetly examined the black stele before him, along with the coffin within it, wrapped layer upon layer in void chains.
When Xiang Yuan had first met the Dao Master, he had been merely at the Spirit Transformation realm. He knew a little about everything in cultivation, yet was only half-baked in all of it. Limited by his horizons, he had failed to grasp the deeper meaning behind the Dao Master's coffin-spirit-like skin.
Xiang Yuan had once suspected that the Dao Master had been sealed by someone.
Now that his horizons had broadened and he had even touched upon the origin of the Heavenly Dao—the most fundamental laws of the Heavenly Dao—he immediately understood upon looking again at the Dao Master's coffin-like skin.
The Dao Master truly had been sealed!
But she had not been sealed by another. She had sealed herself!
The Dao Master was too powerful. If she did not remain within reincarnation for long periods, if she did not seal herself, the laws of heaven and earth leaking from her corpse would bring irreversible changes to the entire Dry Abyss Realm.
For details, one could look to the descendants of the Ancient God Clan