With a bang, the heavy stone coffin crashed to the ground, making the entire floor shake violently. A powerful shockwave spread outward, instantly reducing the hundred-plus Bone-Inscription Puppets carrying the coffin to dust.
Watching the enormous stone coffin before him, Xu Changqing's pupils trembled violently. "They really carried it out?"
One had to know that this was a Secret Realm that only opened once every five hundred years.
Moreover, only cultivators in the Golden Core Realm could enter.
Yet now, it had been emptied bit by bit by "one of their own."
For safety's sake, Xu Changqing did not approach it immediately. Instead, he awakened another batch of Bone-Inscription Puppets and attempted to pry open the perfectly sealed stone coffin.
Yet no matter how they tried, they could not succeed.
First, the thing was too heavy.
Second, they could not find any opening.
Xu Changqing raised a brow. "We're just one last tremor away, and you're still giving me trouble?"
Of course, this situation was both unexpected and perfectly reasonable.
After all, with a stone coffin of such scale, whatever lay inside could not be simple.
If it could be opened so easily, the experts who had entered the Secret Realm before would have taken it away long ago.
Fortunately, Xu Changqing had mastered many top-tier skills, and he began trying every possible method.
Runes, artifact refining, pill refining, and so on—he tried every method he could use.
In the end, he discovered that skills were not what truly worked.
It was...
After trying countless methods and pondering countless approaches, yet still failing to open the stone coffin, Xu Changqing helplessly chose the "wicked path."
He first hid himself inside a sunken ship, then put away the Thunder Dragon Water-Repelling Boat and brought it into his Portable Space.
He wanted