"Then either the other coffins are still outside, or there may be more than one cave on this enormous mountain wall."
Ye Tian inferred.
"That is hard to say. But from where we are, it looks as though this is the only cave on the surrounding cliff faces. If there are other caves, they can only be on this side, because when those coffins flew over, they did not head in any other direction."
Qian Hong said.
"Then let us leave the others alone for now and open the remaining few in front of us first."
As Ye Tian spoke, he wasted no more words.
He walked forward and opened two coffins in succession. This time, the things flung out with the long whip seemed far from ordinary.
From the fourth coffin, he drew out a treasured sword. From the fifth, he obtained a damaged book whose writing could not be seen clearly.
"If those Taiji symbols are seals, then who would seal items without autonomous life or consciousness inside them?"
Ye Tian began to waver in his earlier conjecture. After all, it truly made little sense, even though that conjecture had allowed him to break the seals on five coffins.
"Perhaps the coffins do not contain Heavenly Dao as we imagined at all, but burial objects related to Heavenly Dao."
Shen's voice rang out again at just the right moment.
"Why would Heavenly Dao have burial objects? And why seal them with these mysterious coffins? Could it be that exalted figures such as yourselves also believe in reincarnation, rebirth, the underworld, and the netherworld? But is this not the underworld already?"
"This is merely what you mortals call the underworld. To us, this is only a world different from other worlds. What we seek is a higher world, a