An Inconvenient Secret

High in the sky.

Song Wen and Mi He stood dozens of miles apart.

All manner of treasures floated between them.

Spirit Stones, pills, spirit herbs, Jade Slips... the list went on.

Mi He's magic power wrapped around a ten-foot-long bronze coffin and drew it toward her.

"Wait," Song Wen said.

Mi He stopped pulling in the coffin, her voice displeased.

"We agreed that the Bronze Key Coffin would be mine."

Song Wen looked at the Bronze Key Coffin suspended in midair. An inexplicable sense of familiarity stirred in him. He felt certain he had seen it somewhere before.

Though puzzled, he gave nothing away and said evenly, "I only want to make sure there are no other treasures inside."

Mi He frowned in displeasure, but she raised a hand and opened the coffin.

It was empty.

"Satisfied now?" Mi He sounded impatient.

At the sight of its interior, Song Wen finally remembered where he had seen a Bronze Corpse Coffin like this one.

He owned an identical coffin. He had acquired it so long ago that he had nearly forgotten about it himself.

Back in Blood Cloud Cave, Blood Brow's soul had been imprisoned in a Soul Shackle, which had been placed inside a bronze coffin.

Apart from its sturdiness, the coffin had shown no trace of spiritual energy.

At the time, Song Wen had reasoned that anything left intact after tens of thousands of years could not be ordinary, so he had casually put it in his storage ring.

Song Wen nodded calmly. "The coffin is yours."

"Hmph!"

Mi He gave a cold snort and put the coffin in her storage ring.

"What you want is in that blood-colored Jade Slip. It's the only Jade Slip we found in the Longevity Hall. All the others, along with the