What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

Finally, he arrived at the ten-centimeter-wide crack in the stone coffin.

Zhang Xuanqing took a deep breath, joined two fingers together, and sharply pressed them against his brow, uttering a low shout: "Open!"

Instantly, a bright blue light appeared in his eyes.

He leaned out slightly, trying to see the inside of the stone coffin through the crack.

However, less than three seconds later, something unexpected happened.

Suddenly, a surge of black yin energy, several times more violent than before, erupted from the stone coffin, as if it had sensed the prying eyes of outsiders.

The burst of Yin energy transformed into an invisible giant hand, which slammed down on Zhang Xuanqing's face.

At the same time, the six bronze chains wrapped around the stone coffin also trembled violently.

The remaining yellowed talismans on the chains suddenly glowed with a dark red light.

After the light burst forth, it quickly extinguished and dispersed the yin energy emanating from the stone coffin.

They continued their momentum and headed straight for Zhang Xuanqing.

This seal seems to have regarded Zhang Xuanqing, along with his detection techniques, as an intruder.

This resulted in a strong rejection reaction.

Seeing this, Zhang Xuanqing did not resist.

He suddenly pushed off with his feet, and like a feather, he rapidly floated backward from the three-meter-high altar, landing steadily beside me.

"Master Zhang, are you alright?"

I stepped forward and asked him a question, while simultaneously manipulating the jade-colored evil energy within my body to help him dispel the trace of residual yin energy clinging to the corner of his clothes.

Zhang Xuanqing waved his hand, calmed his somewhat disordered breathing, and shook his head with a wry smile.

"No, it failed."

His tone carried a hint of helplessness.

"The coffin was pitch black, and the yin energy was as thick as ink. My aura-gazing technique couldn't penetrate it at all."

and……"

He turned to look at the bronze chains on the altar, frowned, and said:

"Not only is the thing inside the stone coffin repelling my investigation, but the seal outside is also repelling me."

If I had forcibly used lightning magic or a deeper level of investigation, it might have triggered a full-scale counterattack from the seal.

If the evil entity fails to investigate properly and instead completely destroys the already crumbling seal, then it will truly be a case of overreaching and counterproductive.

To be on the safe side, I had no choice but to stop for the time being.

Upon hearing this result, everyone's mood became heavy.

Even Zhang Xuanqing couldn't investigate it; the stone coffin was like an unopenable blind box, filling people with a sense of oppressive uncertainty.

Just then, Zhang Xuanqing turned his head and looked at me intently.

"Brother Chen, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to go up there."

"I?"

I was slightly taken aback, but then I realized what Zhang Xuanqing was thinking.

Zhang Xuanqing nodded, a glimmer of hope in his eyes: "Yes, it's you."

As you just saw, that seal strongly repelled me.

However, you should be very familiar with the aura flowing over that seal.

Zhang Xuanqing's words completely confirmed my guess.

In fact, as soon as I stepped into this sacrificial square and saw the dark red marks on the altar, the jade-colored evil energy within me had already resonated slightly.

So I know very well that this seal is 100% my grandfather's handiwork.

"Since this seal has a connection with you, it certainly won't strongly repel your aura."

Zhang Xuanqing patted my shoulder, his tone carrying a hint of entrustment.

"Go up and take a look, try to use your malevolent energy to communicate with that seal."

Perhaps you'll not only be able to see what's inside, but also discover some clues about the evil creature's weaknesses within this seal.

"Okay, I'll go take a look."

Without hesitation, I nodded to Zhang Xuanqing, my tone remaining calm.

When Zhang Xuanqing saw that I had agreed, his expression became more serious.

However, he did not leave me to face the danger alone. Instead, he took his long sword and walked to my side.

"The yin energy on this altar is extraordinary, and coupled with the backlash from the seal itself, it can damage the very foundation if one is not careful."

Although the aura emanating from that seal is of the same origin as yours, you should still be cautious.

Zhang Xuanqing said in a deep voice, and at the same time, a vast and upright golden light rose from his body.

"Although I cannot directly touch the seal, I will escort you up there and provide backup for you."

"If anything unexpected happens, I can protect you immediately."

"Then thank you very much, Master Zhang."

Upon hearing this, I did not refuse.

Having such a skilled person by your side can indeed reduce many unknown risks.

After that, the two of us walked side by side up the steps of the obsidian altar.

Zhang Xuanqing truly deserves his reputation as a high-ranking master of Longhu Mountain.

He controlled his protective golden aura within a very precise range.

It neither actively provoked the seal on the stone coffin, nor did it act like a sharp umbrella, forcefully pushing away the dense black yin energy that tried to approach me.

Under his cover, I was almost completely unaffected by any external yin energy.

Following the steps, I arrived at the huge gray-white stone coffin.

Standing close to the stone coffin, the oppressive feeling of coldness and deathly silence increased exponentially.

I didn't look at the crack from which black smoke was billowing out, but instead focused my gaze on the bronze chains wrapped around the stone coffin.

The dark red marks on the chains exuded an aura that made me feel incredibly familiar.

I took a deep breath, slowly extended my right hand, and placed my palm on a relatively well-preserved bronze chain.

The moment we made contact, I closed my eyes, channeled a wisp of malevolent energy within my body, and carefully channeled it into the chains through my palm.

"Buzz—"

A deep hum exploded in my mind.

Immediately afterwards, the biting cold around us seemed to vanish in an instant.

My consciousness was as if it had been swept into a bottomless vortex, breaking through the barriers of time and space, and falling into the deepest part of the sealed memory.

When my consciousness returned to normal, the scene before me had undergone a complete transformation.

It was still the same dimly lit underground sacrificial plaza, and the same obsidian altar.

But the air was no longer filled with pure black yin energy; instead, it was filled with an extremely violent mixture of bloodlust and corpse poison.

In the center of the altar stood a man's back view.

He wore a worn-out coarse cloth long gown, his figure was upright, but he showed a hint of weariness that was hard to hide.

Although I could only see his profile, his familiar features and eyebrows made me recognize him almost instantly.

That's Grandpa.

However, the grandfather in front of me was not the wrinkled, withered old man I remembered who always smoked a pipe, but a middle-aged man in his prime.

Grandpa was in very bad condition at that moment.

I could clearly see a shocking penetrating wound in his left abdomen.