The coffin lid and coffin body fit together seamlessly, as though they were one whole.
At the center of the lid was carved a gigantic heavenly eye. Instead of an eyeball, it held a semitransparent piece of Netherworld Jade.
And this thing appeared only in the Return-to-Ruins Secret Realm.
Eight stone pillars stood inserted around the stone coffin on all sides. Their shafts were wrapped in dried corpse sinews, and a bronze bell hung from the top of each one.
The bells swayed without making a sound, making the scene exceptionally eerie.
At the sight, Xu Changqing's pupils contracted. "Could it be?"
As everyone knew, the Inscribed Bone Mound itself was the tomb of the Inscription Ancestor.
For some unknown reason, it had later suddenly become a Secret Realm that only Golden Core Realm cultivators could enter, opening just once every five hundred years.
Quite a few people had entered it before. For instance, Qin Baili's martial uncle, Mo Yuan, the Mind's Eye Sword, had once cut away an entire stone wall from somewhere within and obtained runes and Talisman-Spirit Flowers.
Unfortunately, even after many years of deciphering them, there had been no major gains.
Now, seeing a stone coffin of such scale before him, Xu Changqing vaguely guessed the identity of whoever lay within.
Either it was the Inscription Ancestor himself.
Or it was someone extremely important to the ancestor.
Whichever it was, neither this stone coffin nor the being inside it could be simple.
He had not expected such an unexpected discovery before leaving the Portable Space.
Thus, Xu Changqing patiently continued watching for a while, only to discover that every Bone-Inscription Puppet approaching it was being suppressed and could not venture deeper.
At most, they could approach the small coffins around the perimeter. That was all.
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