The Third Cave Master’s hands were still raised in empty gesture. He looked up blankly at the place where the ashes had scattered into flying dust, then looked at his empty hands, speechless.
He had wanted to capture this Yun Xi and pry open her mouth to find out the location of Little Cloud Realm. And now? Just like that, gone?
The several people around the coffin were almost all somewhat dazed. Only Liu Piaopiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Yun Xi knew that she and Yu Qing had become allies. If this evil demon fell into Qianliu Mountain’s hands, and Qianliu Mountain later learned she had been lying, that was something she absolutely could not withstand.
It was also before escaping the underground palace that she had seen the abnormality of the ghost foetus Yun Xi was possessing, thinking Yun Xi had been crushed to death, which was why she dared to direct the digging.
Who would have thought that the Yun Xi they dug out was not dead, but alive and well? At that moment, she had felt somewhat panicked.
Now it was fine. Finally over.
Dong dong dong. The white-clad scholar suddenly extended the fan in his hand and knocked on the coffin placed on the stone platform.
The several people turned at the sound. Let alone Liu Piaopiao, even Hong Teng could not figure out who this white-clad scholar was. But they could all see his composure before the Third Cave Master.
Hong Teng had asked before, but the Third Cave Master had dismissed it with just one sentence: “He’s my friend.”
“There’s still one lying inside here.” The white-clad scholar reminded the Third Cave Master.
The Third Cave Master immediately walked over, reached out to examine the coffin for a while, then snorted, “It’s actually made of pure gold. Who is lying inside? Is it that Guan Fengyang?”
Hong Teng said, “It shouldn’t be. We saw Guan Fengyang’s corpse in the main burial chamber years ago. It had already become a dried corpse. The people from the Sinan Office rummaged through things and knocked it out of the coffin. It was us who casually did a good deed and put it back in the coffin.”
“For a coffin that Yun Xi guarded even while dying, could it be that there is someone more important than Guan Fengyang?” The Third Cave Master was somewhat puzzled, then waved his hand to signal, “Open it!”
Before him, Hong Teng and the others could only do the manual work. They all stepped forward to search for the opening mechanism.
Fortunately, it was not complicated. It was just an interlocking-style coffin. Two people, one at each end, lifted off the coffin lid.
The others immediately jumped onto the stone platform to look inside, only to discover there was still a gold-threaded canopy inside. Through it, one could faintly see a person lying inside, still wearing armour on their body, with faint evil aura lingering around their body surface.
Sunlight shone in through the gaps of the gold-threaded canopy, also causing the person inside to sizzle and smoke.
The Third Cave Master immediately waved his hand, “Move it back, cover it. Quickly move it back, quickly block the sunlight.”
Liu Piaopiao and that Great Commander had not yet put down the coffin lid they were holding. Hearing this, they hurriedly moved it back and covered the coffin with the lid.
The Third Cave Master also pointed to a corner where the sun could not reach, “Move it over there.”
With Yun Xi’s precedent, everyone understood his meaning.
Liu Piaopiao and that Great Commander had no choice but to do the manual work again. Together they lifted the entire coffin, jumped off the stone platform, and moved it to the shady corner before setting it down.
Afterward, the Third Cave Master walked over, reached out to grip a corner of the coffin, and casually flipped the coffin lid over to the side against the stone wall with a loud rumble.
The gold-threaded canopy inside was still there, like a mosquito net.
Without sunlight shining on it, this time it no longer sizzled and smoked.
The Third Cave Master grabbed the gold-threaded canopy. Swish. He directly pulled it open with a wave of his arm, not caring about the shiny, jingling gold sequins on it, casually throwing it onto the coffin lid against the stone wall.
Everyone immediately crowded before the coffin, looking inside in unison.