Long Chen swam to the Ling Xi Sword and called for her, but no reply came. He had a bad feeling all along, and now his worst fears seemed to be coming true.
Wait, Xiao Xi always falls asleep for a short period of time after she uses her powers. Maybe she’s fine, Long Chen thought in an attempt to console himself. He was happy that he had managed to hold the Ling Xi Sword. When he jumped into the abyss, he thought he would never be able to find her again.
He was certain she would get better.
The water was far too cold at that depth for him to linger for too long, so he surfaced to catch his breath.
Once he was on the surface, he decided that his top priority was to confirm whether Ling Xi was alive or not before trying to figure a way out.
Soon after, he dove back down to the metal coffin and bent over to get a better grip on the Ling Xi Sword’s hilt. That was when he noticed the giant crack the Ling Xi Sword had left behind.
What could be inside it? Long Chen released his grip for a moment and looked into the crack. He looked around until he saw something white. Suddenly, his eyes widened with shock.
What the fuck? He felt his scalp go numb.
The interior of the coffin was murky, but he could make out something white inside it. When he was trying to work out what it was, he saw dark-green light come out of two massive slits that quickly grew into two holes. Each hole was the size of a lake, and the green light illuminated the whole interior of the coffin, allowing Long Chen to see everything.
Fear gripped his heart at that moment, and he escaped. He barely remembered to grab the Ling Xi Sword at the last second.
Long Chen thought he knew what he had just seen, but he didn’t know if he was right!
The two dark-green lights were eyes!
When the lights illuminated the coffin, Long Chen saw that there was a corpse within it!
No, it was not a corpse, because it had just awakened.
The corpse was two hundred meters wide and a thousand meters long, but rather than being the corpse of a monster or beast, it was a girl!
He wasn’t able to get a good look at the face, he only vaguely remembered that it was a girl.
In his panic, he grabbed the hilt of the Ling Xi Sword just as the green light exploded within the coffin. A massive force surged out and launched Long Chen upwards, forcing the Ling Xi Sword out of the coffin too.
He had thought that it would take some time to remove the Ling Xi Sword, but it had been done in one go thanks to the force.
Long Chen was thrown outwards above the surface. He flew up thirty meters into the air, and he was sure his body would break if he landed on the water. To his surprise, he stopped in midair, as if someone was controlling him.
“What’s happening? Who are you?” Long Chen instinctively knew that the thousand-meter-tall girl in the coffin was a scary being. She was someone who could only be found in the places where Ling Xi or Long Qinglan came from, where cultivators with strength beyond Long Chen’s imagination reigned.
Such a strong cultivator couldn’t appear in the Cangyang Kingdom.
But Long Chen couldn’t figure out why was she so massive. Was she human?
She was stronger than the Eastern Azure Dragon Patriarch, so much so that Long Chen didn’t even have thoughts of fighting back. Since he was suspended in the air, he thought the girl wouldn’t kill him. If she wanted to, she would’ve killed him with that explosion earlier.
She must’ve been sealed at the bottom of the pool of the Star Devil Prison by someone. She got out thanks to the Ling Xi Sword breaking the seal on the coffin! Long Chen felt slightly relaxed knowing that. Perhaps the girl was grateful for their help in unsealing the coffin.
Thanks to Long Qinglan and Ling Xi expanding his worldview, Long Chen could brace himself to face someone this strong. If not, he would’ve been crying and pissing from fear.
Long Chen looked down.
The pool of water was receding, as if a massive monster was drinking the water. The water level lowered at a very fast rate until the metallic coffin was exposed to the air.
Long Chen watched anxiously.
At the top of the coffin was the hole that the Ling Xi Sword had made. There was light coming from the hole, illuminating the dark space.
Suddenly, the crack started to widen, and soon, a hole around ten meters in diameter was formed. The perimeter of the hole was somehow melted off. Once the hole was formed, the light disappeared, plunging everything into darkness.
“Wait, that’s it?” Long Chen was hoping for something more.
While he was waiting, a hint of starlight came out of the hole before a humanoid shadow shot out of it and appeared in front of Long Chen. It was a girl roughly his size rather than a thousand meters tall. Still, he knew it was the very same corpse he had seen.
Long Chen didn’t know how to describe what he was seeing.
The girl seemed to be around Ling Xi’s age, but her eyes were a deep, dark green, just like the pool of water. Somehow, he felt like his soul was being sucked into those eyes. Her face was immaculate, beautiful enough to rival Ling Xi. Her eyes were cute yet cold, as if they could see through everything. Her nose was cute, and her lips were as red as cherries. She was a cold beauty.
This was the first time Long Chen had seen someone as beautiful as Ling Xi. But she was completely different. Ling Xi’s eyes were pure and untainted, but the girl’s eyes were cold and filled with killing intent just like a devil.
But Long Chen was more concerned that the devilish girl wasn’t wearing anything.
She was stark naked before him. He realized that the white stuff he had seen in the coffin was her skin. And now he was seeing it all.
Her snow-white breasts, slender waist, thick thighs, and jade-like feet were exposed to him without anything in between.
If it had been any other situation, Long Chen would’ve stared at her lustfully. But it was different now. He needed to hold himself back, or he would die. The girl looked youthful, but she might’ve been thousands of years old. If Long Chen didn’t control himself, the girl might get annoyed and kill him in one blow.
Long Chen dared not look for more than a single moment and quickly turned his head sideways.
He was thinking about Ling Xi. Even though the girl was as beautiful as Ling Xi, Long Chen dared not get attracted to her.
“Give me your clothes.” A clear voice rang in his ears. It was soothing yet deadly, sending chills down his body.
He didn’t take his own clothes off but rather took a new set from his Universe Pouch. Even when he threw the clothes to her, he dared not take a single peek in that direction.
Long Chen suddenly felt himself being lowered by a mysterious force. The force dissipated once he touched the metallic surface.
“You can turn around now.”
He obeyed and saw that even though she was wearing a guy’s clothing, her beauty was impossible to hide. Ling Xi’s beauty was one that swayed the souls, but the girl’s beauty was one that affected the physical flesh. Long Chen feared her, so he dared not think of anything.
She’s an old monster! Long Chen kept telling himself that to maintain his sense of reverence in order to survive another day.
This was something he had learned the hard way. He needed to be polite to others so that he wouldn’t get killed.
Therefore, he dared not say anything.
“Give me the sword.” The girl looked at the Ling Xi Sword, the same one that had broken her seal.
“You want it?” Long Chen asked back.
Normally, Long Chen was indeed afraid of her, but his calmness made the girl slightly irritated. “I know there’s a soul in there. She must be someone you care a lot about, but I won’t harm her. I just want to see the sword.”
Long Chen thought about it. Someone this strong has no reason to lie. He handed her the sword. When she touched it, a vibration burst forth from the Ling Xi Sword, causing the girl to fly backwards from the impact.
Long Chen was shocked.
Thankfully, the girl was not hurt.
The Ling Xi Sword is indeed extraordinary. To think it would send this mysterious girl flying.
“Indeed. I can’t touch it. The sword is very weird. To think it could pierce through the Demon Sealing Coffin but still doesn’t allow me to hold it.” The girl approached Long Chen and ignored him completely.
She then raised her head and looked at him. “I wanted to kill you, but I will let you go since you hold the sword. However, you need to help me.”