My Coffin, Burying Heaven's Corpse

Chapter 28: My Coffin, Burying the Corpse of Heaven

The black-clad True Immortal's expression shifted rapidly, cold light flickering in his eyes as he pondered.

The next moment, two beams of hazy white light shot from his pupils, instantly sweeping across the entire City Lord's Mansion. The True Immortal's expression grew even uglier; in a secret chamber in the backyard, Chen Fengyang was making no effort to conceal his spiritual fluctuations, pouring his full strength into refining the Moon-Gazing City's City-Suppressing Seal. He had already refined more than half of it.

Furthermore, the True Immortal's scan failed to detect any trace of an Immortal Spirit Root within the mansion.

The black-clad True Immortal looked at Chen Tiannan, a flicker of murderous intent crossing his eyes. However, because a High Immortal had visited previously to bestow honors upon the Chen Clan, he was forced to suppress the urge to kill.

"Since that is the case, This Seat shall not pursue the matter further."

The black-clad True Immortal resumed his previous indifferent expression and spoke: "Chen Tiannan, receive the decree. By the edict of the Glazed Heaven Palace: Chen Tiannan, Lord of Moon-Gazing City, is hereby appointed as a Ninth-Order Lower Immortal General. You are to report to the Red Capital in two months to receive your official seal."

"Chen Tiannan thanks you for the grace."

Hearing this, Chen Tiannan breathed a slight sigh of relief and bowed in gratitude.

The black-clad True Immortal nodded coldly and turned, vanishing into mid-air. However, among the several Great Vehicle stage Void Immortals who had arrived with him, one remained behind with five Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators, disappearing into the city.

This left Chen Tiannan feeling extremely uneasy.

Originally, the strongest person in Moon-Gazing City was the late-stage Tribulation Transcendence expert Chen Fengyang, but now that a Great Vehicle stage cultivator had come to station himself here, Chen Tiannan felt deeply unsettled.

"A second bestowal..."

After receiving the news, Chen Xiao fell into deep thought.

"Father, it is merely a verbal appointment, ordering you to go to the Red Capital in two months to collect the official seal?"

"Yes." Chen Tiannan's face was grim. Such a thing defied all logic. Ordinarily, a bestowal from the Glazed Heaven Palace would not only involve a nominal Seventh-Rank Immortal General title but would also include material rewards.

The arrival of these people was bizarre; to make such a grand display only to verbally appoint a Ninth-Order Lower Immortal General made no sense. Furthermore, when appointing an immortal official, who ever heard of making the appointee travel to collect the seal themselves? Even a fool could see there was something fishy going on.

Moreover, a High Immortal had already personally visited Moon-Gazing City to bestow honors upon the Chen Clan, and they already possessed a City-Suppressing Seal. This measly Ninth-Order official title was utterly insignificant.

However, both groups belonged to the Glazed Heaven Palace. No one in the Glazed Heaven dared to impersonate the Palace; that would be a death wish.

What unsettled Chen Xiao most was the second group's demand that Chen Tiannan personally travel to the Red Capital to collect the seal.

No one dared to defy the will of the Glazed Heaven Palace. If they did, even with Chen Fengyang holding the City-Suppressing Seal, he would not be able to protect the Chen Clan.

The Immortal World consisted of the Nine Heavens, Ten Lands, and Three Immortal Seas; the Glazed Heaven was one of the Nine Heavens. The Glazed Heaven was divided into seventy-two Immortal Realms, and the Red Capital was the greatest city in the southern Xuhe Immortal Realm, serving as its capital. Moon-Gazing City was merely one of the many cities under the Red Capital's jurisdiction.

Chen Xiao knew that the Glazed Heaven Palace always acted with impartiality and would not frame the Chen Clan. If there was a scheme afoot, it must involve the unknown treasure beneath Mingyu Mountain.

It was highly likely that the Nangong Family was behind all of this.

Chen Xiao understood clearly that the Nangong Family was far from simple, and the Chen Clan's crisis was far from over.

"How is the progress at Mingyu Mountain?"

The remaining Great Vehicle stage cultivator sat in the main seat of the Nangong Family's great hall, looking down at Nangong Shenhe with a haughty expression.

"Reporting to the Elder..." Nangong Shenhe's expression was somewhat bitter.

"Speak." The Great Vehicle stage cultivator was an elder of the Nangong Family named Nangong Xiangyan. He had passed his heavenly tribulation five hundred years ago and become a master of the Great Vehicle stage.

This time, because the Chen Clan had produced an Immortal Spirit Root, the Nangong Family headquarters had dispatched him to find and secretly eliminate it.

An Immortal Spirit Root was merely potential; if it perished halfway, the Glazed Heaven Palace would not investigate too deeply.

"Within the spiritual veins of Mingyu Mountain, there were five Innate Divine Spirits. We previously captured one, but before we could refine it, the other four rescued it, and they have since vanished without a trace."

Nangong Shenhe finished his report in one breath, then lowered his head, not daring to look at the Elder.

"There were five of them?"

Nangong Xiangyan's eyes lit up. "Send more men! Search with everything you have; you must find those five Innate Divine Spirits!"

"Elder, Mingyu Mountain has now been taken over by the Chen Clan. If we send more men, I fear the other side will notice."

Nangong Shenhe looked troubled. He wasn't afraid of the Chen Clan itself, but Chen Fengyang's possession of the City-Suppressing Seal made them difficult to deal with.

"A mere Chen Clan? What does it matter if they have the City-Suppressing Seal? They are just a backwater family. In two months, the Chen Clan will become our puppets; there is no need to worry about that."

Nangong Xiangyan appeared to be in his thirties, his face full of arrogance. In his eyes, Moon-Gazing City was nothing but a poor backwater. If not for the existence of that object deep within Mingyu Mountain, he would not have deigned to look at this place at all.

The several Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators standing beside Nangong Xiangyan also wore expressions of disdain. A mere Chen Clan—if the Nangong Family didn't want to attract too much attention, they could wipe them out with a flick of a finger.

During this period, the Chen Clan did not take much action. Only the Poison Immortal, Cai Di, would occasionally disguise himself, don a mask, and use Heaven-Concealing Talismans and Escape Talismans to travel to Mingyu Mountain to reinforce the poison arrays hidden in the mountain's belly, using the Heaven-Concealing Talismans to mask the spiritual fluctuations.

By now, Cai Di's cultivation had recovered to the Integrated Body Late Stage, only a step away from the Tribulation Transcendence stage. However, he was not in a hurry to break through, choosing instead to consolidate his foundation. For a cultivator, the Tribulation Transcendence stage was a massive hurdle. Even though this was the Immortal World, the tribulation remained a nightmare; without absolute preparation, no one dared to break through rashly.

Chen Xiao felt a slight sense of urgency. If his cultivation reached the Orange Cloud Realm, the heavenly tribulation would no longer be a problem. However, although he had reached the peak of the Golden Core Mid Stage, the Nine Heavens Thunder Virtue Universal Transformation Art showed no signs of breaking through, still lingering at the fifth turn of the Red Cloud Realm.

Cultivating the Nine Heavens Thunder Virtue Universal Transformation Art required devouring massive amounts of spiritual energy. He had already consumed over ten thousand of the seventy thousand high-grade Heavenly Mystery Stones obtained from Nangong Shenyao, yet his realm remained stagnant.

The day for Chen Tiannan's journey south was drawing closer. If nothing unexpected happened along the way, Chen Xiao would have thought the person who set this trap had lost their mind.

BOOM!

Just then, the entire City Lord's Mansion suddenly shook, and even the defensive arrays within it nearly collapsed.

"How bold! Who are you to dare run wild before the gates of the City Lord's Mansion!"

Every guard at the City Lord's Mansion possessed a cultivation base at or above the Golden Core Realm. At this moment, outside the mansion gates, dozens of guards were locked in a tense standoff with a man dressed in hempen robes.

The man in hempen robes appeared to be twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, his hair disheveled and his face etched with the weariness of a hard life. Beside him stood a black coffin as tall as a man, and the bluestone slabs beneath it had already been pulverized into dust.

The tremor that had just shaken the City Lord's Mansion was clearly caused by this man slamming the coffin onto the ground.

"My coffin buries the corpse of Heaven."

"Chen Fengyang, Heaven demands you be buried with it!"

Suddenly, a long, mournful cry erupted from the man in hempen robes.

Chen Xiao, who had been on his way out to observe the commotion, stumbled at the sound of this cry, nearly falling to the ground.

Damn it, why did this perverted Coffin Man come here?