Having learned their lesson, the workers moved with extreme caution this time.
Yet even after they had set up the tripod and begun digging, there was no sign of the ground sinking.
Only then did everyone realize that the problem really had been resolved.
Half an hour later, all the soil around the coffin had been cleared away.
With more than a dozen men hauling with all their strength, the coffin was finally lifted out of the ground.
When the coffin touched down, every worker turned to look at Chen Miao, who stood to one side examining it.
Without lifting the coffin themselves, they would never have understood just how incredible it was that Chen Miao had single-handedly pulled it halfway out of the ground earlier.
Leaving aside the material the coffin itself was made of, the men carrying it had even wondered whether it contained concrete rather than a person!
Yet Chen Miao had moved that very coffin all by himself.
If the rope had not given way, he might have pulled it out earlier.
"All right, head up first."
Hua Jianming breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the coffin, finally unearthed.
Once all the ordinary people had left, Hua Jianming said to Chen Miao beside him, "The rest is up to you."
Chen Miao nodded and told everyone to stand farther back.
Then he took his tools and prepared to pull out the Coffin Nails.
If the workers opened this coffin, the corpse qi that escaped would likely make them suffer.
Before removing the Coffin Nails, Chen Miao had checked the coffin. It had six in total.
Normally, a coffin had seven Coffin Nails, each with its own significance.
Three of them were coffin-lid nails.
The Heaven Nail was driven into the center of the