Chapter 49: Knocking From The Coffin, Is The Queen Of Jing Jue Still Alive?
This massive shockwave stunned even Su Mo.
It turns out these guys, including King Mu of Zhou, King Lu Shang, and Jing Jue, are all indestructible monsters. Even after lying in coffins for thousands of years, they still can’t die or be destroyed!
Otherwise, how could they make hammering sounds from inside the coffins!
Su Mo focused and looked toward the Kunlun Divine Wood.
But the entire Kunlun Divine Wood showed no trace of a seam.
Unlike traditional coffins, this was simply a cut section of tree trunk. No one knew how the Jing Jue people made it, with no visible gaps between the trunk parts. Could the Queen of Jing Jue have cut open the trunk, hollowed it out, lain inside, and then let the tree grow back together?
He then used the Great Yin Meditation Technique to visualize the Kunlun Divine Wood.
But the power and Magnetic Field condensed in the Kunlun Divine Wood itself were too strong, making it impossible to find a seam through visualization.
Su Mo immediately gave up, raised the Frost Moon Sword in his hand, and slashed at the iron chains binding the trunk.
No matter if you’re still alive or not, and no matter if you’re issuing a warning.
Since I’ve come here, there’s no way I’m leaving empty-handed!
The Ghost Cave Sacred Blood must be obtained!
Clang!
With one strike, the Frost Moon Sword cut an iron chain into two segments. The Kunlun Divine Wood then trembled slightly, and suddenly another massive shockwave came from inside.
It seemed the Queen of Jing Jue lying inside had been angered by Su Mo’s actions and was knocking on the coffin again to warn.
Su Mo just snorted coldly and raised the Frost Moon Sword again.
“Be careful!”
Professor Chen suddenly shouted loudly from behind him.
It turned out that after Su Mo cut off the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus from the Kunlun Divine Wood, the intense Floral Fragrance in the air turned into the stench of rotting corpses. Then these two completely different scents dissipated with the cold wind blowing from the Ghost Cave.
Professor Chen and the others in the distance had also awakened.
Hearing the first massive shockwave from the Kunlun Divine Wood, Professor Chen could no longer sit still.
He and Hao Ai Guo were both greatly shocked.
Knocking sounds were actually coming from inside the Kunlun Divine Wood!
Could the Queen of Jing Jue still be alive?
At this time, Chu Jian, Sa Di Peng, and Ye Yi Xin had also awakened. Seeing themselves lying here, they couldn’t help but look at each other in bewilderment:
“What happened to us?”
“Yeah, why are we lying here!”
Wang Pang Zi curled his lips:
“You guys almost died just now. If not killed by fighting each other, you would’ve jumped into the Ghost Cave yourselves!”
“If not for Master Su, even nine lives wouldn’t have saved you!”
Only then did Chu Jian and the others understand that they had been bewitched by the Floral Fragrance of the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus and nearly died there.
Hearing the knocking from the Kunlun Divine Wood, Professor Chen quickly had Hao Ai Guo and Chu Jian help him stand up, then walked toward Su Mo.
Hu Ba Yi and the others, fearing something might happen to Su Mo, also followed Professor Chen over.
At this moment, Su Mo had just cut an iron chain, and the Kunlun Divine Wood emitted knocking sounds again.
Hao Ai Guo and the others, hearing the knocking, were all stunned speechless.
Could the Queen of Jing Jue really not be dead?
For these thousands of years, she had been quietly lying in the Kunlun Divine Wood.
Now, after Su Mo cut off the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus and the iron chains binding the Kunlun Divine Wood, was she angrily knocking on the coffin to warn?
Professor Chen hurriedly shouted to make Su Mo stop.
Su Mo turned back and glanced, seeing they had come back, and frowned:
“Why did you come over again? Didn’t I tell you to stay there?”
“Little Su, can you stop first!”
Professor Chen adjusted the thick reading glasses on his nose bridge and said:
“Knocking sounds are coming from the coffin. This Queen of Jing Jue couldn’t still be alive, could she? If we rashly open the coffin and damage the Queen of Jing Jue inside, our sin would be great!”
Su Mo smiled and said:
“Professor Chen, are you sure the knocking from the coffin is from the Queen of Jing Jue?”
Professor Chen was immediately speechless.
The Kunlun Divine Wood hadn’t been opened yet, so it was unknown if it was the Queen of Jing Jue making the knocking. Since they were already here, if they didn’t open the coffin to see, everyone would die with eyes wide open!
“Open the Kunlun Divine Wood and take a look. If the Queen of Jing Jue’s corpse inside really hasn’t decayed, worst case we restore the Kunlun Divine Wood and let it lie quietly here again!”
Hearing Su Mo’s words, Professor Chen pondered for a long time before finally nodding reluctantly.
He and Hao Ai Guo were already old, having spent their lives studying Jing Jue Culture. Now at the coffin of the Queen of Jing Jue, if they didn’t open it for a look, he feared he’d never have another chance.
That would really mean dying without closing his eyes.
Xue Li Yang had returned to the country precisely to investigate the Queen of Jing Jue and the Ghost Cave to find a way to resolve her own Curse!
Without opening the Queen of Jing Jue’s coffin, there was no way to discuss resolving the Curse!
The method Su Mo proposed was already the best solution for everyone.
Seeing Professor Chen no longer speaking, Su Mo raised the Frost Moon Sword in his hand again and slashed at the remaining iron chains.
Clang, clang clang…
After several consecutive strikes, the dozen or so iron chains binding the Kunlun Divine Wood had all been cut by Su Mo.
Su Mo stood beside the Kunlun Divine Wood, carefully examining the bark texture on the divine wood.
Finally, he spotted a barely noticeable seam between a section of bark.
It was a seam as fine as a silken thread, looking as if the trunk had been split open back then, grown back together, leaving only this almost indistinguishable line.
If not for Su Mo’s eyesight far surpassing ordinary people, it would be impossible to discover amid the mottled bark.
Su Mo then inserted the Frost Moon Sword along the seam.
Although the Kunlun Divine Wood’s trunk was tough, the Frost Moon Sword was a divine weapon that cut iron like mud. The sword edge pierced the trunk without any resistance.
After inserting the blade into the trunk, Su Mo cut downward along the seam from when the trunk had been split open.
Soon, the trunk was cut open along the seam by him.
During this process, Xue Li Yang and the others’ hearts pounded, eyes fixed on Su Mo’s sword edge while gripping entrenching tools and other weapons tightly, their palms sweating from tension.
Seeing Su Mo had cut open the trunk, Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi then brought Chu Jian and Sa Di Peng to hug the upper half of the trunk and counted one, two, three before pulling together.
After an extremely dull thud, the coffin lid made from the Kunlun Divine Wood was moved aside by Hu Ba Yi, Wang Pang Zi, Chu Jian, and Sa Di Peng together.
The four didn’t lift the coffin lid directly but slowly shifted it to one side, gradually widening the gap on the other side.
Su Mo stood on that side, eyes fixed on the gradually enlarging gap.
Soon, the seam between the coffin lid and coffin body was a palm wide.
Suddenly, a black figure shot out from between the divine wood coffin, like a black lightning bolt, directly passing through the gap!
It was a black crested snake as thick as an arm, with a strange fleshy crest on its head!
