"Whoosh!"
The moment that devouring force surged out of the coffin, Ren Ye could no longer suppress his longing. He abruptly channeled his spiritual power and darted over to it.
Once there, he impatiently probed inside. He sensed a gray haze rising, and the scene within grew increasingly clear. Yet his face suddenly went white, and his body stiffened until he stood there like a statue.
"Brother, at this very moment, I have to congratulate you from the bottom of my heart...!" Li Xiaopang was genuinely happy and excited. He followed close behind, his mouth full of auspicious words, but the sight inside the coffin suddenly left him dumbstruck as well.
"Whoosh!"
The rising devouring aura slowly dispersed through the hall.
The four accomplices stood blankly beside the coffin. Inside, it was completely empty, with no unusual phenomena or fluctuations from spiritual objects whatsoever. There was only a jade pillow and a yellow lining spread across the bottom.
After enduring countless hardships and risking their lives to track their way into the Divine Tomb Immortal Palace, they had finally found the coffin where the blind boy had slept... only to end up with nothing.
There were no earth-shaking phenomena inside the coffin, much less the Origin Eyes... It was truly despair-inducing.
"Th-this is impossible! There was clearly a devouring aura rising just now!" Li Xiaopang said, his face deathly pale. "If it really was just an empty coffin without anything alive inside, how could we have sensed that aura?!"
"Ah."
The Storyteller sighed deeply and shook his head. "There are many possible explanations for this phenomenon. For example, the blind boy slept here for so long that some devouring aura remained inside the coffin. Then the coffin was sealed shut, and now that aura has escaped. There would be nothing