Years ago, Yi Shuyuan had obtained the Mystic Gold Coffin from the cat demon Xuan Ji. Hidden within that coffin was a force of profound yin.
It was precisely by combining this utmost yin with the utmost yang of alchemical fire that he had created the Heaven-Turning Furnace in his hands.
Aside from the wondrous creative power of Yi Shuyuan's own Way of Heaven and Earth Transformation, the coffin itself had truly been extraordinary.
He still remembered how, at the bottom of the Kaiyang River, a corpse-shaped shadow had coalesced shortly after the Golden Coffin was opened, forming an evil creature capable of considerable harm. General Crab had subsequently destroyed it with a formation.
At the time, Yi Shuyuan had wondered who had once lain in that Golden Coffin. At the very least, it certainly could not have been the Nine-Lives Cat Demon Xuan Ji.
Now the whole truth had come to light. What had once lain in the coffin was an untransformable bone-though, of course, it had not yet become one back then.
Many of the Nine-Lives Cat Demon's peculiar traits could now be explained as well, including her terrifying demonic plague. The trouble she had caused with it was also why the local Celestial Court had put her on its wanted list.
That demonic plague, which turned people into things neither human nor demon, had most likely been influenced by the untransformable bone's corpse aura. It was a divine ability the cat demon had gradually acquired through using the coffin to revive herself.
These thoughts flashed through Yi Shuyuan's mind one after another before finally returning to the untransformable bone itself.
Meanwhile, the man seated opposite Yi Shuyuan went from shock to bewildered uncertainty, then gradually regained his composure. This time, however, he no longer dared scrutinize Yi