Before the puppet could finish speaking, the red light in its eyes faded completely, and it fell silent.
Xu Qingtong waited a long while, but the puppet made no further movement. He brought out another puppet, had it walk over to the fallen one and pick it up, then turn and head into the stone house.
The puppet entered the stone house, set the first puppet beside the stone coffin, and stood to one side.
Xu Qingtong's divine sense followed the second puppet the entire time. Only after it had remained inside for a long while without anything else unusual happening did he enter the stone house with Xiao Bai.
Once inside, Xu Qingtong concentrated and examined his surroundings closely. The stone house was small, consisting of just this one room. Apart from the stone coffin in the middle, there was nothing else inside.
The stone coffin seemed to have been fashioned from some kind of jade, but Xu Qingtong did not recognize it. It did not look like something from this realm.
Xu Qingtong pondered for a moment, then suddenly remembered what Sect Leader Shen Haotian had said: the Black Tortoise Secret Realm was sealed within the immortal treasure, the Black Tortoise Picture. An immortal treasure! Did it come from the Immortal Realm?
If this secret realm really came from the Immortal Realm, that would explain the Mandui Fruit and this stone coffin!
The more Xu Qingtong thought about it, the more convinced he became that his guess was correct. He could not help growing excited. No wonder the demon beasts he encountered and the spirit herbs he gathered were all things he had never seen before.
The Wuji Sect's disciples were generally stronger than those of the other sects. That surely had a great deal to do with