Chapter Fifty: The Bloody Coffin

  I didn't pay much attention because it was too cold here, I guess the ice on the ground had melted. I was still using force to try to flip over the coffin lid.

  "Hurry up, Xiao Long!" At this time, Xiaoyu anxiously shouted at me.

  "What's wrong, Xiao Rou?" I turned back to look at her. "Don't even think about saying you're here to open the coffin, my strength isn't enough, let alone yours."

  Xiao Rou shook her head and said: "No, look at your feet."

  As she spoke, she pointed to the spot under my feet with her finger. At this moment, I lowered my head and took a look, and that kind of fear suddenly swept over me again. Under my feet, it was actually being eroded by fresh blood, and the bleeding position was exactly this coffin.

  I swallowed hard and asked Xiaorou: "What is this? It can't be blood, can it?"

  Although it's already obvious that this is blood, I don't dare to admit it. Xiaoyu reaches out her hand and pulls me, saying: "Yes, not only is it blood, but it's fresh blood that flowed out the moment you lifted the coffin. You'd better get out of here quickly."

  With Xiaoyu's hand in mine, I wanted to leave this place, but surprisingly found that my feet couldn't lift off the ground. It was as if someone had grabbed hold of my feet and I couldn't move at all.

  "Xiao Long, what are you doing? Get out of here quickly."

  Xiao Rou saw that I wasn't moving anymore and got a bit anxious. I tried to move my legs again, but still couldn't. I also got anxious and said to Xiao Rou: "It's no use, I really can't move now."

  As soon as I said that, Xiaoyu's expression also became tense. At this moment, I found that the coffin below was still bleeding profusely and had already submerged my ankle.

  Xiao Rou suddenly let go of my hand, retreated to a position two meters away from me, sat down with her legs crossed, took out a talisman from her pocket, joined her hands together and placed the talisman in between. She muttered something in her mouth and crushed the talisman into pieces.

  Then he came over to me and said: "Hurry up and eat this, then take the ancient bronze sword and chop at what's under your feet."

  I didn't waste any more words, directly putting the talisman in my mouth and chewing it to pieces before swallowing. After eating, I felt like I had sobered up a lot, so I slowly withdrew the ancient bronze sword from its position on top of the coffin lid and grasped it in my hand.

  When I looked down at my feet again, I almost dropped the ancient bronze sword. In the position under my feet, there were two pairs of bloody and blurry hands grasping my feet.

  "Hurry up, cut it down no matter what you see!" Xiao Rou urged me.

  I let out a gentle breath and swung my sword at the hand. As the ancient copper sword chopped down, one of the pairs of hands was already severed by me. I tried to move the foot, and it actually moved, so I quickly continued to chop at the other pair of hands. The other pair of hands was chopped into two segments, but they suddenly merged back together and grabbed my foot again.

  "Ah!" I involuntarily let out a cry.

  Xiao Rou saw me screaming in terror and immediately appeared by my side, pulling me out of the blood pool. At the same time, she snatched the ancient bronze sword from my hand and began frantically slashing at the ground.

  As I chopped, the red blood splashed up. At that time, I didn't know how to describe my heart, fear had gone overboard, and my mind was a bit blank because these things were actually so real blood, absolutely not some kind of illusion.

  I clearly saw those arms being chopped off, but after being chopped into pieces, they immediately reassembled and rushed towards Xiaorou's feet again!

  I didn't have time to think about fear or not, I directly snatched the ancient bronze sword from Xiaoyu's hand and crazily chopped it down on the ground like she did just now. Those arms were originally able to reassemble, but before they could reassemble again, they were blown away by the sword energy of the ancient bronze sword! After that, they couldn't be reassembled anymore!

  Seeing that they were not in a compound, Xiao Rou and I quickly retreated to one side. At this time, Xiao Rou looked at me incredulously and said: "Xiao Long, your strength was so great just now."

  "Is it me?" I asked somewhat disbelievingly.

  Xiao Rou said to me with certainty: "Yes, just now when I was holding the ancient bronze sword and chopping downwards, I could release all of the sword's aura, this is really impressive."

  "I don't quite understand either, I just chopped it according to your appearance." I replied, and asked at the same time, "What should we do now, why is this coffin bleeding?"

  "I'm also unclear about this, I've never encountered such a thing before, a coffin bleeding, and it's bleeding so much and so brightly." Xiaorou was also bewildered.

  At this time, I studied the ancient bronze sword in my hand and thought to myself, "Was that really my power just now? I didn't feel like I used too much force." But I also felt it, the speed of the slash was simply too fast. Whether or not it was my power earlier, but I felt that this ancient bronze sword is truly a treasure. It doesn't appear to have a sharp blade, yet it's even sharper than one with a blade.

  Xiao Rou circled around the coffin again and said to me: "Xiao Long, now there are two choices, I'll let you decide."

  I immediately put away the ancient bronze sword and said: "You come to decide then, Little Rong, I'll listen to you."

  Xiao Rou shook her head and said to me, "This time, you choose. Listen carefully, first, we quickly leave here because we don't know what's inside the coffin. Although we've already come in, it's certain that we'll disturb the vengeful spirit here. The heart demon hasn't been caught either, and it will continue to haunt you in the following days. We can only return empty-handed, but we can exchange it for temporary safety. Do you understand?"

  "Uh-huh!" I nodded and said, "Got it, Xiaorou, what's the second one?"

  "Secondly, let's reaffirm our previous idea and open this coffin. The evil spirit is definitely inside. However, the risk of opening the coffin is extremely high. A bleeding coffin can be considered an omen. I don't know what's inside, if there are other malevolent entities inside, it could lead to both of us dying instantly. Since everything I've done is to help you awaken your past life memories, you decide."

  Actually when Xiaoyu said these words, I had already been thinking about it in my heart. It really fits that saying: either way is death.

  I thought for just over ten seconds before saying to Xiao Rou: "I choose the second one!"

  To be honest, life and death are no longer important to me now. But I think since I've been able to live until now, with so many people sacrificing for me, I should return the favor a bit. I don't want to disappoint Xiao Rou.

  "Have you thought it through?" Xiao Rou's eyes widened. I nodded vigorously, proving my stance.

  "Alright, this time I'll open the coffin. You stand aside!" Little Rong gestured with her hand.

  "Let me come!"

  Xiao Rou shook her head and said to me: "You can't open it, I rely on my strength and can't open it either. I want to use magic to open the coffin. Please ask Da Li Gui for help!"

  She said that, I didn't dare to say anything else. After all, I really didn't have the strength to open that coffin. Xiao Rou took off her backpack at this time, took out a five-colored rope from inside, untied it, and let each one become an intact root, wrapped around the position of the coffin lid. After tightening everything, she twisted the five-colored rope together again and threw it on the ground.

  "Xiao Long, move over a bit." Xiao Rou said to me.

  "Hmm!" I hastily retreated to one side. Seeing that I was out of her range, she took out a stick of incense from her bag and placed it in front of the five-colored rope. This stick of incense was thicker and slightly larger than the ones she had used before. After inserting it into the ground, she clasped her hands together and lit the incense with her fingertips.

  It wasn't until now that I realized why I hadn't seen Xiaoyu ignite the paper man and incense with fire earlier, it turned out she was using her fingertips, which is simply unbelievable. This skill can only be described in two words: professional. After igniting them, Xiaoyu quickly retreated back, muttering some sort of spell-like words from her mouth.

  While watching the incense burning, a large section suddenly disappeared. Before I could react, another large piece disappeared, leaving only less than three or four centimeters of incense head left.

  "What's going on, Xiaorou? What's with the incense?" I couldn't help but interrupt her, despite not wanting to.

  Xiao Rou stopped chanting and said to me: "I've been eaten!"