"If you can't speak properly, then don't speak at all! You're disgusting me!"
Before I could even speak, Luo Tianhe couldn't help but feel disgusted and forcefully slashed Li Huai.
Li Huai clutched his head in pain, looking aggrieved.
After these waves, at least half of the villagers have now given up.
"How about we come back tomorrow, when it's light, to open the coffin?"
A strong young man spoke hesitantly.
I looked around and surprisingly, not a single person uttered a word of objection. It seems that most people share this view.
"Since you put it that way, it's not impossible."
I took a deep breath and spoke slowly. Li Huai and Luo Tianhe were both puzzled. In their view, since we were already here, why not just go for it and leave it until tomorrow?
Ge Wang remained calm, as if he knew what I was about to say.
My voice turned cold, seemingly devoid of any emotion.
"However, since you came here today, this evil spirit has remembered you. I am fine and can protect myself, but I estimate that I will have to find a new group of people to participate in the exorcism ceremony tomorrow."
Immediately, Li Huai and Luo Tianhe understood what I meant, and Luo Tianhe even shouted:
"Wouldn't there be a dozen or so rotting corpses hanging from the trees tomorrow, blocking our way? They'd come crashing down like water-filled balloons, and then we really wouldn't be able to get in!"
"I think we should act quickly and deal with the evil spirit tonight!"
To my somewhat surprise, it was the village chief who stepped forward, gritting his teeth.
The village chief may be timid, but he is also reasonable.
After listening to what I said, he thought about it carefully and found that this possibility was extremely high!
Moreover, this evil spirit had been to his house before, so it knew the way well. It didn't know whether others would die or not, but it knew it would definitely die itself.
He doesn't want to turn into a rotten meat balloon tomorrow.
"Does anyone else have any objections? If not, let's go in and prepare to open the coffin!"
Seeing that no one objected, I took the lead and stepped through the gap in the broken wall on the side.
The villagers looked at each other, and ultimately, their fear of becoming rotten flesh the next day outweighed their fear of the evil spirits, so they gritted their teeth and followed.
After all, I'm still here. If they really ran away, there would be no one to cover for them at night!
When the time comes, they will be powerless against the evil spirits.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, the temperature dropped several degrees, and I couldn't help but shrug and scratch the goosebumps on my body.
"Prepare to open the coffin," I commanded in a deep voice. Then I took out a mixture of glutinous rice and iron filings from my cloth bag and carefully sprinkled it around the coffin.
Two strong villagers took shovels and began to dig. To our horror, blood slowly seeped from the ground.
The two villagers were thrown into disarray and dared not continue digging.
I took out two Five Emperors Coins and slapped them hard on their backs. The coins immediately seemed to stick to them and wouldn't fall off no matter how they moved.
"Dig, keep digging, I'm here!"
The two burly men could feel the yang energy emanating from the Five Emperors Coins behind them, and immediately felt the coldness on their bodies dissipate somewhat.
Hearing me say that, he gritted his teeth and started digging again with all his might.
Soon, we saw the coffin, and my face immediately turned ashen.
First of all, the material of this coffin is not sandalwood at all; it's dead wood!
This wood looks similar to sandalwood, but it is said to have drifted out of the Naihe River and is considered an ominous object!
This wood possesses an extremely deep yin energy, so much so that it is pitch black and does not reflect light at all.
Every side of the coffin was covered with densely packed runes of the Rebirth Mantra, but those runes looked as if they had been carved with blood, and were now dried and dark red.
The coffin walls, inscribed with scriptures, were covered with all sorts of talismans, which were yellowed and torn, and it was impossible to tell how many years old they were.
Moreover, all the talismans between the coffin lid and the coffin seam were cut open with a sharp tool.
It was obviously the work of that college-educated guy.
What really gave me the creeps were the seven cinnabar lines wrapped around the jar!
This cinnabar line is completely different from normal cinnabar lines; it is as thick as a baby's finger.
Moreover, the color is not bright red, but a dark red that resembles coagulated blood.
They wrapped around the coffin in an extremely complex way, forming ancient and twisted soul-locking knots.
Similarly, they were also cut, and the cross-sections were very smooth.
I looked at the three-inch-long nails that were nailing the coffin lid, and my breathing became deeper and inevitably heavier.
These are no ordinary nails; they are clearly bronze coffin nails!
The nail head was engraved with dense, coiled dragon patterns, which, under the moonlight, seemed to come alive and were wriggling slightly.
Damn, the origin of this evil spirit is even more terrifying than I imagined!
I couldn't help but curse inwardly. These bumpkins who've never seen the world dared to open this kind of coffin. It's like an old man drinking poison; they're tired of living.
Seeing that I was panting heavily and my face had turned deathly pale, Ge Wang patted my shoulder:
"This coffin is unusual, isn't it?"
I flung his hand away and said through gritted teeth:
"It's more than just extraordinary; this coffin is more than large enough for the Empress to live in!"
I somewhat regretted coming here, but the die was cast. I took a step back and said through gritted teeth,
"Continue opening the coffin!"
The two burly men took out a crowbar, wedged it into the seam of the coffin, and then began to pry open the coffin lid.
But even with the two burly men straining and their faces turning red, the coffin lid remained completely still.
Seeing this, Luo Tianhe and Li Huai also went to lend a hand.
Despite the combined efforts of the four grown men, the coffin lid remained completely unresponsive.
The villagers who were watching were dumbfounded. They remembered that when they opened the coffin, that man had pried open the coffin lid all by himself.
Looking back now, it must have been something inside causing the trouble; otherwise, that heavy coffin lid couldn't have been pried open by just one person.
"Alright, stop wasting your energy. It's that evil spirit causing trouble. I'll put talismans on the coffin later. When you see the talismans burning, start prying them off. Be quick, though, because it's hard to say whether the talismans will even burn for a second."
Seeing this, I took out a talisman and looked at them solemnly.
The group nodded seriously.
I pasted four talismans on the four corners of the coffin, and then chanted incantations.
The next moment, the talisman suddenly burst into flames.
In an instant, the four strong men exerted their strength at the same time, and with a muffled thud, the coffin lid was pried open.
Luo Tianhe wiped the sweat from his brow and muttered:
"If opening a coffin is so difficult, the subsequent rituals to send off evil spirits will probably be fraught with difficulties as well."
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