Born with immortal seed

Chapter 417 The Sound of the Underworld Coffin Again
"The waves that surge forward forever and never recede must follow the laws of nature, no matter how ingenious the escape technique is... Come out, what's the point of continuing to hide?"

Bai Zichen looked at the majestic water palace in front of him, with its upright white marble pole, and stood holding a sword, speaking leisurely.

"Neither advancing nor retreating, can you expect to break through a spider web with your eyes alone?"

The sudden shift to an aggressive style of behavior is undoubtedly closely related to a complete change of appearance.

In any case, Li Hansi's image has been changed. From his clothing and appearance to his words and actions, he has completely changed his appearance. No one would associate him with Su Wuming, the other persona he used to practice Qi gathering and cultivation on the Water Eye.

Of course, it also stems from confidence in their own abilities.

Chen Ze cultivated the Dragon Transformation Scripture, so he might have come from the Dragon Gate.

Old Man Shen repeatedly and earnestly invited him to explore the underwater palace, which most likely indicates that he had ulterior motives.

At worst, we can just let all these people perish in the underwater palace.

The perpetrator was none other than Li Hansi, a descendant of the Fish-Dragon Sect who harbored a deep-seated hatred for Youlongmen.

"Greetings, fellow Daoist. We were just passing by and stopped to look at this spider web out of curiosity. We'll be leaving now..."

Two gray-robed Core Formation cultivators leaped out of the water, their waves crashing against the stone wall and scattering water droplets all over the ground.

After exchanging greetings, one of them stared at Bai Zichen's face, paused for a moment, and then exclaimed.

"Are you Uncle Li of the Xuanming lineage? Kong Fanyun and Kong Fanlin of the Yuanming lineage. Master showed us the images of the five main lineages' successors. The one who corresponded with you a few years ago was our senior brother Chen Ze."

"The lineage of the Yuan and Ming dynasties?"

Bai Zichen's mind raced; this outcome was within his expectations.

He transformed Li Hansi's appearance, largely for the purpose of making contact with the successors of the other four branches of the Fish-Dragon Sect.

According to Li Hansi's notes, the five main lineages were not in the same place, but they maintained contact, seemingly for some important action.

How did you all end up here?

"We waited near Rotten Axe Mountain for several years, but we did not see Uncle Li or the successor of the Xuming lineage. We had to disband temporarily and agreed to meet again in twenty years. Then, Senior Brother Chen discovered in an ancient book that the Water Mansion Master Wu Sanzang had a mysterious origin and many records were contradictory. He suspected that he had obtained the inheritance of the ancient mechanical path, which is why he had followed the trail here."

Kong Fanyun made no attempt to hide anything; it seems that the relationships among the five main branches of the Fish-Dragon Sect have become much more harmonious during their exile.

"Now it seems that the head of the Shen family definitely has a problem, but Senior Brother Chen is at the late stage of Core Formation and is carrying the family's inherited treasure, so there shouldn't be any problems. Therefore, we think we should not destroy the spider web to avoid alerting the enemy."

"No problem, but that's not necessarily true... Let's go up and take a look."

Bai Zichen looked up into the depths of the Water Mansion. From the current perspective, Chen Ze's situation was not very good.

With a flicker, he crossed the hundred-step jade staircase and appeared outside the circular platform.

The sudden intrusion of three Core Formation cultivators startled Old Man Shen. He flicked the water droplets with his bone palm, causing the thirty-six Heavenly Gang Copper Pillars to rumble and spin, trapping the intruders in the formation as well.

"Junior brothers, quickly join forces to kill this Liao! His cultivation technique is flawed; he can transform his flesh and blood into a different kind of true essence, making him extremely difficult to deal with!"

Chen Ze spotted two fellow disciples and a stranger at a glance, and was overjoyed.

I didn't expect it to be one of our own people who broke in; otherwise, we would have really gone to great lengths to use our secret techniques.

Bone shackles formed from the void, binding his limbs and hindering his ability to fight the bone demon.

If it weren't for the long banner in his hand, with its fluttering flags and golden light protecting him from all sides, he would have suffered a great loss long ago.

When the attack from the white bone demon struck the golden light, at least five-tenths of its force was deflected and diverted, leaving only the portion that it had to bear.

The Kong brothers acted decisively, clapping their hands together and each wielding a curved hook, sending two cold beams of light hurtling towards a cultivator whose body was half-skeleton from a strange angle.

If Chen Ze hadn't spoken up, I wouldn't have been sure that this person was Old Man Shen.

Old Man Shen pulled out a bone from his back, exhaled a breath of nether energy onto it, and it transformed into a white bone flying sword burning with eerie white flames.

"Combined attack technique..."

Bai Zichen watched as the two curved hooks flew through the air, working in perfect harmony to trap the white bone flying sword in place.

Occasionally, there are even exquisite hooking techniques that make the chilling white flames on the sword light formed by the flying bone swords sway and appear as if they are about to be extinguished at any moment.

"This method... it feels strangely familiar... the use of Netherworld energy, the White Bone Divine Power—isn't this the skill of the White Bone True Man of the Ghost Spirit Sect?!"

Bai Zichen suddenly realized the source of this sense of familiarity.

A demonic sect on the northern border and a family cultivator from the eastern swamp—there is no possibility that the two are related or exchange goods.

The techniques and supernatural abilities are so similar that there is only one possibility: both sides have received the same inheritance.

"If I remember correctly, the White Bone Divine Power is a demonic art that the Ghost Spirit Sect copied from the underworld coffin and modified. Could it be that Old Man Shen also discovered an underworld coffin and thus embarked on this path..."

Bai Zichen's gaze toward Old Man Shen turned dangerous. There were too many legends and stories involved in the Underworld Coffin, some true and some false.

The Ghost Spirit Sect has studied the Netherworld Coffins generation after generation, accumulating the contents of hundreds of jade slips. He had read most of them during his time at Wanxianjian.

Ge Cang also mentioned that the underworld coffin was a vessel used by great figures in ancient times for reincarnation.

It seems that all attempts have failed, which has instead caused various strange phenomena to occur in the underworld coffin.

The Ghost Spirit Sect proved the danger of the Underworld Coffin through the tragic fates of countless cultivators within its ranks.

Even the Netherworld Coffin in the underground palace of Wanxianjian was caused by a sudden crack in the ground, falling into an abyss tens of thousands of feet deep.

"Another late-stage Core Formation cultivator. If I kill you all, a True Monarch can be resurrected a hundred years earlier, and this old man will still have a chance to break through to a higher realm and extend his life!"

Old Man Shen suddenly broke off his right arm, which transformed into a white bone lock-heart hammer. He compressed the air to the extreme and smashed the special material of the round platform with each blow, causing stones to fly everywhere.

"You mean Wu Sanzang? He's only at the Nascent Soul stage. How could he possibly help you break through your cultivation level and extend your lifespan? That's just wishful thinking on your part!"

With the "Close at Hand, Far Away" technique unfolding, Bai Zichen easily dodged the bombardment of the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer. He noticed that Old Man Shen had fallen into a state of delirious rambling and deliberately provoked him.

"What do you know? The True Lord is a great figure from ancient times. He was reincarnated once in the Middle Ages through the Netherworld Coffin and only fell into slumber after undergoing tribulations... When he awakens again, his supernatural powers will have advanced to a higher level. How could you insects possibly fathom his abilities? This old man will definitely become a Nascent Soul cultivator, and the Shen Clan of Beihe will become the number one family in Dayeze!"

Old Man Shen was excited and waved one of his ribs.

"What branch of the Zhang family of Jinjian? They're just distant relatives born out of wedlock. They wouldn't even bother to come knocking if they came to beg for money!"

The Underworld Coffin exists within the Water Palace!

Bai Zichen immediately grasped the key point, completely ignoring the claim that Wu Sanzang was the reincarnation of an ancient powerful being.

If reincarnation and rebirth were truly that easy, then all those ancient beings whose strength rivaled that of gods and demons would not have perished in their next life, let alone reincarnated twice in a row.

More likely, it is because Old Man Shen was invaded by the dark energy in the underworld coffin, which caused him to develop delusions.

Those Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators died in agony, their minds clouded and trapped in the lies they themselves had created.

"You are also a pitiful person who cannot attain the Great Dao. May you return to the dust as soon as possible, so that you will not suffer in the mortal world..."

Bai Zichen drew his sword and swung it, a blazing sunbeam burning through the water and splitting the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer in two.

(End of this chapter)