Chapter 715: Chapter 715: 99 Turns into 1_1
Qin Sisi seemed attracted by the Phoenix, and she could not help but walk a few steps towards the coffin. Her eyes gradually focused, and a joyous light appeared on her face.
"What’s wrong?" Ye You felt Qin Sisi’s emotional change and asked.
"Xiao Hei, is it time yet?" Qin Sisi counter-questioned, looking nervous.
Ye You sighed softly and replied in a low voice, "Yes, we only have half an hour left."
Without further hesitation, Qin Sisi immediately pointed toward the coffin and exclaimed, "Xiao Hei, look at that Phoenix."
Ye You raised his head and glanced at the Phoenix pattern engraved on the side of the coffin, then asked perplexedly, "I see it, but is there a problem?"
Qin Sisi explained excitedly, "The Phoenix pattern means there is a woman in the coffin. According to the customs here, a mirror will be placed in the coffin when a woman is buried."
Ye You’s eyes changed instantly. He immediately sprang from Qin Sisi’s arms and jumped on top of the coffin.
"Be careful," Qin Sisi warned, "There’s something odd about this coffin."
She briefly explained the incident when the black smoke emerged from the coffin and absorbed the little ghoul leader the previous night. It all happened so suddenly. The black smoke erupted and rapidly sucked in the ghoul leader, then disappeared without a trace.
Ye You’s gaze was deep as a pool. Now that they had come this far, no matter how terrifying the entity in the coffin was, he had to try.
He quietly transferred his magic power to levitate himself above the ground, placed both paws on the edge of the coffin lid, and applied force to push it open.
With a series of creaks from the scraping wood, the coffin lid was pushed open, revealing its occupant to their eyes.
Over the long stretch of time, the person in the coffin had turned into a skeleton. A black funeral shroud, embroidered with a golden Phoenix, covered the body, leaving only the skull exposed. Above the skull was a shiny and precious Phoenix crown radiating a golden light.
Qin Sisi and Ye You both tensed up, held their breaths, and prepared for combat. However, after waiting a while, there was no movement from the skeleton in the coffin.
Qin Sisi gritted her teeth, gathered her courage, and reached her hand into the coffin, feeling around the edges.
Soon, she touched something with a very smooth surface, but the edge was a bit sharp.
Qin Sisi’s heart tightened, and she quickly drew it out. In her grasp was indeed a mirror embedded in a wooden flower frame.
Despite the passage of long ages, the mirror’s surface was still smooth and bright. Qin Sisi clearly saw her own reflection.
"Xiao Hei, I’ve found the mirror!" Cried Qin Sisi cheerfully. She was about to hand the mirror to Ye You when she found that she could not move her arm.
She looked down in confusion, only to see a pale, bony hand grasping her wrist.
"Ah!" Qin Sisi couldn’t help but scream in panic. She tried hard to break free from the skeletal grip but found it was as strong as a vise, holding her wrist tightly.
Qin Sisi tried to compose herself, took the mirror with her left hand and threw it towards Ye You, "Xiao Hei, catch it!"
Ye You’s eyes were sharp as he leaped up, his paw rapidly firing a ray of blue light.
The mirror was hit by the blue light and immediately soared backwards, then steadily stuck on the wall as if it had been fixed there.
The occupant of the coffin finally spoke, the hoarse and throaty voice was the same as the one they heard when the black smoke devoured the ghoul leader, "Young girl, you’ve trespassed into my sleeping chamber and I didn’t make it hard for you. Now you even steal my personal item, how unreasonable."
Qin Sisi quickly replied, "Elder, it’s not our intention to disturb you, we’re just borrowing your mirror for a moment, and we’ll return it soon."
"Elder?" The hoarse voice repeated these three words, seeming rather dissatisfied with the address.
A thought flashed through Qin Sisi’s mind. In such a critical moment, she had to set aside ’honesty’ first and tried to speak in the most polite manner, "Miss, beautiful lady, we will return your mirror shortly. Could you please let go of me first?"
While speaking, her other hand was already gripping the Divine Dog’s Fury. If this old ghost insisted on not letting go, she might have to resort to violence.
However, Qin Sisi hoped to resolve the situation peacefully since this old ghost’s power would likely be strong. Even if they could beat it, they would probably lose some time, and for them now, time was of the utmost importance.
While Qin Sisi was speaking with the old ghost in the coffin, Ye You was already in action. He waved his paw lightly, and the snow-white Refining Spirit Bottle was brought out for the last time.
Ye You softly recited a spell, injecting a hint of spiritual power into the bottle.
The once ordinary-looking Refining Spirit Bottle suddenly burst out with an incredibly dazzling light. One by one, shimmering stars flew out of it.
The cycle of heaven is circular and repetitive. Ninety-nine as one, never-ending.
Eighty-one soul powers condensed into eighty-one bright and dazzling stars, akin to diamonds, arranged in the air into a square of nine rows and nine columns, like a mysterious checkerboard.
After the eighty-one soul powers flew out, the light of the Refining Spirit Bottle immediately dimmed and finally fell powerlessly to the ground, shattering with a "clink."
At this moment, Ye You had nowhere to retreat.
Under his control of magic, the chessboard made of soul power began to shrink, shrinking to the same size as the mirror, and then was gently pushed by Ye You into the mirror.
The eighty-one soul powers that entered the mirror seemed to lose control suddenly, becoming chaotic, and flying randomly without any pattern.
However, moments later, those diamond-like bright stars once again formed a unified trajectory, beginning to orbit the center of the mirror. Slowly, a circular passage was formed.
It was dark and unfathomable, with no idea where it led.
Ye You, delighted, leaped towards the mirror.
"Sisi, let’s go!" As Ye You passed by Qin Sisi, he grabbed her left hand, trying to take her into the circular tunnel that had appeared in the mirror.
However, the old ghost in the coffin was still firmly gripping Qin Sisi’s right wrist and ominously said, "You took my items without my consent, shouldn’t you leave something in compensation?"
Compensation?
Qin Sisi looked distressed, she had only come out to pay respects to the grave, she hadn’t brought any valuables with her.
Ye You’s eyes narrowed, he turned and struck a ray of blue light at the old ghost’s skeletal hand.
With a "snap", the wrist of the skeletal hand was broken off. Ye You pulled Qin Sisi forward about a meter, but then stopped again.
Even if the skeletal hand was broken off, it still didn’t lose control of the old ghost, it was still gripping Qin Sisi’s wrist tightly, stopping her from flying away.
Qin Sisi turned her head to look at Ye You, and her peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the jade bracelet on her left wrist. That was a gift from Boss Zheng, probably the most valuable thing she had.
Qin Sisi turned her head back and shouted at the old ghost, "Belle, I’ll give you this jade bracelet."
"A jade bracelet?" The self-proclaimed belle, the old ghost, seemed very interested.
Qin Sisi asked Ye You to let her go first, took off the transparent green jade bracelet and handed it to the old ghost.
Ye You didn’t stop her, only a few minutes were left, they didn’t have the time to tangle with this old ghost.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the old ghost’s skeletal hand was inspecting the jade bracelet, Ye You once again grabbed Qin Sisi’s hand and quickly jumped, taking her towards the circular passage in the mirror.
"Give me the Divine Dog’s Fury." Ye You said in a deep voice.
Qin Sisi didn’t understand, but still immediately handed the black long whip in her hand to Ye You.
Ye You turned his body, raised his paw and forcefully threw the Divine Dog’s Fury, rolling up the Luminous Pearl placed on the top of the nearest candlestick.
The old ghost took Qin Sisi’s jade bracelet, and Ye You took one of her Luminous Pearls. It seemed fair.
"Damn it!" The old ghost noticed the anomaly, immediately jumped out of the coffin, and a skeletal skeleton jumped up and down a few times, trying to grab the fist-sized Luminous Pearl.
However, Ye You’s flying speed was extremely fast, the Luminous Pearl was wound up by the Divine Dog’s Fury, brushed against the old ghost’s fingertips, and followed Ye You into the unfathomable tunnel inside the mirror, disappearing in a blink of an eye.
The old ghost was a step too late, standing still in shock for a long while, and then sighed, "Forget it, the quality of this jade bracelet isn’t bad either."
Speaking, she put the jade bracelet on her remaining skeleton wrist, beaming with joy as she admired it.
The moment with the most intense Yin energy passed in an instant, and the passage in the mirror collapsed with a bang. The eighty-one shiny little stars dimmed in an instant and scattered in all directions.
Eighty-one spirits were scattered to the ends of the earth, waiting for the next aggregation hundreds or thousands of years later.
The mirror also lost the power to support it and fell from the wall, luckily it didn’t break.
The old ghost, with a skeleton body, sashayed over to the wall, bent over to pick up the mirror, and kept murmuring, "They said they would return it soon, but they threw it here and didn’t care, the young people nowadays really have no manners."
She picked up the mirror, casually held it in front of her to look at her appearance, suddenly stunned, and after a long while she sighed, "I haven’t looked in the mirror for a long time, I’ve actually become like this, indeed, no one can escape the ravages of time."
She picked up the mirror, put on the bracelet, walked to the side of the coffin and lightly jumped, her entire body laid back smoothly into the coffin, and the lid of the coffin slowly closed automatically.
The hall was restored to quiet, the three Luminous Pearls were still quietly emitting a silvery glow, as if nothing had ever happened here.
The tale of the supernatural in the human world concludes here, and the fantasy tale of the Demon Sacred Realm will start tomorrow, hoping to continue to receive the support of all of you little lovelies.
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