"Hahahaha—" The boy laughed to himself again, "Two thousand years ago, when you slaughtered my ancestors and massacred tens of thousands of my people, did you ever imagine that this day would come?"

The Sun brothers' faces had turned from pale to ashen. Now, what did they not understand? Why had their clansmen, who had always been safe and sound, suddenly begun to die in large numbers over the past decade, and why did each of them die at the age of thirty-five?

—Because this is precisely the curse that their ancestors placed on all the descendants of the King of Jinzhu Yelang more than two thousand years ago—the Nine Deaths Soul-Suppressing Curse, which will last for generations without end.

Starting with the sudden death of all the elders in the family over the age of thirty-five one night ten years ago, they have been searching for the cause for a full decade.

Over the past decade, countless Sun family members have died tragically and without cause. Now, of the tens of thousands of members in this once-powerful family, fewer than a hundred remain.

And they are the family's last hope.

They searched through a great deal of information and visited countless ancient tombs from previous dynasties. It wasn't until three months ago that they finally confirmed that the curse originated from the tomb of the first King of Jinzhu Yelang, who lived two thousand years ago.

There is a very beautiful name for that place: Green Dragon Carrying the Coffin.

The boy's words completely tore away the last veil of pretense between the Sun brothers, and the two factions' two-thousand-year-old hatred was destined to never be reconciled.

At this point, in order to save the people, Yue Qi had no choice but to speak up.

"You can settle your scores however you like after the Central Hell is opened. But for now, before it's opened, everyone must follow my orders—Wen Jiajia, release your pets and keep an eye on them."

"Okay!" Wen Jiajia waved her little hand, and a bunch of strange creatures were released, completely covering the three of them.

"Alright." Yue Qi walked to the boy's side. "Tell me, how do we open it?"

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Inside the bronze coffin, Yan Qing awoke once again from her deep sleep because she heard a clanging sound outside the coffin.

She then realized that someone seemed to have come outside.

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Fifteen minutes ago.

With the boy's help, Yue Qi successfully opened the great stone gate using the Nine Doubts Mirror of Nanshan. He unexpectedly discovered that the Sun family's heirloom—the Nine Doubts Mirror of Nanshan—was actually stolen from the Yelang tribe.

As a result, the three people from both sides confronted each other again without any politeness, but were eventually completely suppressed by Wen Jiajia's strange army.

After entering through the stone gate, everyone found themselves in a pure black starry sky.

Strangely, once people enter this place, they can float in mid-air, just like in space.

The boy explained to them, "When our ancestors first discovered this tomb, they wanted to build a celestial palace, modeled after the Heavenly Palace of Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum. It is said that our ancestors once obtained a huge meteorite from outer space, which gave them such a bold idea."

As he spoke, his tone became somber. "However, before the tomb was completed, our ancestors were murdered by villains. Not only that, but tens of thousands of lives of my Yelang clan were also lost."

He was downcast for a while, then revealed a secret.

“Back then, the ancestor of the Sun clan was an outsider whom our ancestor rescued from the wild world. Because of his supernatural magical abilities, our ancestor appointed him as the high priest. Who knew that this man was a wolf in sheep's clothing and always wanted to replace our ancestor. Our ancestor was imprisoned for eight years and tortured to death. The injustice he suffered was clear to all our clansmen.”

"The first king of my Yelang tribe originally possessed extraordinary abilities. Therefore, in order to completely suppress him, the villains divided his body into eight pieces, seven of which were suppressed in seven small hells."

"As for the head, he made a fake Azure Dragon Coffin and suppressed the head inside. This was to ensure that the head would never be freed. As for himself, he renovated this ancient tomb from the previous dynasty and transformed it into its current form."

The young man had said most of what he knew, but Yue Qi still had one more question.

"From what you're saying, could it be that the high priest, the patriarch of the Sun family, is also buried here?"

The boy didn't know. "I only heard my older brother say that he might also be buried here, but we just can't find any evidence."

Yue Qi keenly noticed the problem in his words, "You mean, a fake Azure Dragon Coffin Dance? Could there be a real one?"

The boy nodded. "That's right. My older brother said that the Azure Dragon Coffin was something that suddenly appeared in this ancient tomb from the previous dynasty. However, this Azure Dragon Coffin not only appears and disappears mysteriously, but there are no corpses inside. I remember my older brother saying that the Azure Dragon Coffin is not actually a real coffin."

The boy's words far exceeded everyone's expectations. Moreover, Yue Qi had a feeling that the older brother he mentioned—Mu Xiao—must know something.

So he deliberately asked the boy about his "elder brother," but the boy seemed to have his mouth sewn shut and refused to reveal a single word.

This made him even more curious: what exactly was this Mu Xiao's identity?

Wen Jiajia wasn't curious about their various grudges at all; she only cared about one thing: where was Yan Qing?

However, the boy was completely unaware of this.

There was nothing there but pitch-black void, so the group had no choice but to scatter and search separately.

Yue Qi went alone to the southeast, pondering the boy's words along the way. If the Sun family ancestor was the one who cast the curse, and the feng shui of this tomb was so inauspicious, why did he insist on burying himself here?

It is estimated that the only way to finally solve this problem is to find the real Nine Dragons Carrying a Coffin.

Wen Jiajia went in the opposite direction from him; she had chosen this direction following the system's instructions. Although the system seemed to have lost its predictive abilities since entering this tomb, it still retained some navigational capabilities.

She came here because the system sensed that there seemed to be living beings here. That brat Yan Qing had saved her so many times, and although she didn't appreciate it verbally, she already considered her a friend in her heart.

Therefore, she will still take the initiative to help when she is able to.

Out of caution, Wen Jiajia had always relied on the strange flying sound to clear the way ahead. This time, she hadn't flown far when she heard the strange flying sound from ahead.

There's something there!

Wen Jiajia was greatly shocked and quickly chased after him. From afar, she saw a huge azure dragon statue silently resting in the void.

On the back of the stone statue, a huge stone coffin was carried.

—The Azure Dragon Carries the Coffin!