"Crack... crack..." As Xu Zhi swept down both hands, two bolts of lightning struck the box. The shell inscriptions that had already calmed and turned into nothingness surged forth once more! Yet the instant those shell inscriptions appeared, the lightning cleaved them in two! "Wooo..." Waves of spatial thunder rumbled around the box, rings of vortices emerging from the void and pouring into it! The shell inscriptions fell from the box like dead, stiff tadpoles. Then, the fist-sized box began to expand amid booming tremors, transforming in moments into a coffin more than a dozen zhang long! As for the box Xiao Hua had obtained in the Lost Star Palace, after a layer of restriction was shaved away, it became a black ruler one chi long and two fingers wide.
"This..." Xiao Hua was dumbfounded. He had thought the box obtained from the Heavenly Prison contained something exceedingly miraculous, but he had never expected it to be a coffin!
The coffin was pitch-black, and no one knew what material it was made from. Eight lifelike enormous dragons were engraved upon its eight edges, sealing the entire coffin tightly shut. At its head and tail were respectively a ferocious dragon head and a clawing, fang-baring dragon tail!
"Nine Dragon Coffin Seal??" Seeing that the dragon scales of the nine dragons were forged from inscrutable shell inscriptions, and that tadpole-shaped clouds and radiance veiled the space between the nine dragons, even Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue could not help crying out, "How could the Three Great Continents possess a Nine Dragon Coffin Seal??"
Xiao Hua's heart quailed, and he hurriedly asked, "Senior, what is this Nine Dragon Coffin Seal...?"
"The Nine Dragon Coffin Seal... is an object of the Heavenly Court!" After pondering for a moment, Fairy Xingyue replied, "It is generally