Chen Fan's expression hardened. His palm suddenly clenched around the sword hilt, and with a ringing clang, he drew the blade from its sheath. His body soared into the air as he thrust sharply at the lid of the Bronze Coffin.
The entire motion flowed like drifting clouds and running water, finished in the blink of an eye.
With Bald Bird's Blazing Heaven true essence seal gone, the Bronze Coffin was no longer impossible to budge. Chen Fan's sword tip struck the lid precisely, and he fiercely sent true essence through his right hand. The entire lid instantly slid flying away.
"Don't come over!"
At the same time, Mu Yunshui's cry rang out from inside the Bronze Coffin.
Chen Fan frowned. Lightly tapping the coffin's edge with his toe, he held his sword horizontally before him. Vast violet-gold Sword Qi instantly illuminated the coffin's interior.
"Stop! Go away!"
Amid a voice carrying panic and restrained anger, Chen Fan saw half of Mu Yunshui's face, along with her nearly bare jade-like back and long legs.
Her white robes had long since been torn apart by those beams of light, leaving only a few shredded strips of cloth draped over her body.
This was the first time Chen Fan had ever seen Mu Yunshui like this. Her arms were wrapped across her chest as she curled into a corner of the Bronze Coffin with her back to him. When she turned half her face toward him, her eyes were filled with utter panic, while embarrassment and anger covered her face.
At the sight of that skin as fair as jade, that flawless back, and those slender legs, even with Chen Fan's formidable will, his heartbeat could not help quickening.
Yet the instant Mu Yunshui turned around, she used the rosy radiance emanating