Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 356 Batteries
In the mist, Ran Jianfei's voice, carrying a hint of magic, made Ran Qing's heart pound.

I had an urge to immediately open the stone coffin in front of me.

But almost instantly, he forced himself to calm down, frowning as he looked at Ran Jianfei, who was faintly visible in the white mist before him.

"...Are you really Ran Jianfei?" Ran Qing's eyes held a hint of wariness.

It seemed as if Ran Jianfei's remnant soul was deliberately luring Ran Qing to open the stone coffin.

And speaking of which, why did it appear so easily?

Since he lost to that ghost, the ghost was trapped in the coffin, but he, who was taken away by the ghost, could move freely outside.

Something doesn't seem right no matter how you look at it.

Ran Qing's vigilance caused the transparent man in the white mist to pause slightly.

He paused for two seconds, then smiled and said with some emotion, "...You really are suspicious, unlike Sixth Sister who is so easily trusting."

A middle-aged man stood in the mist, his figure transparent and indistinct.

Father and son looked at each other, and Ran Jianfei said, "But being suspicious is a good thing. Being too trusting of others often leads to being taken advantage of."

Before Ran Qing could respond after Ran Jianfei finished speaking, Xiao Mianhua, who was sleeping soundly at his feet, suddenly opened her eyes and jumped up.

"Ran Qing!" Little Cotton, after waking up, hurriedly found Ran Qing.

When Xiao Mianhua saw the transparent middle-aged man next to her, she was stunned for a moment, but ignored him.

Instead, she anxiously urged Ran Qing, "Open the stone coffin quickly! Auntie said the sooner we open it, the better. We have to get back quickly; this place is more dangerous than we imagined!"

Little Cotton's sudden awakening surprised both Ran Qing and Ran Jianfei.

Especially after Xiao Mianhua woke up, she was all alone—she hadn't brought any living people out of the Ghost King's coffin.

She had foolishly followed "Sixth Aunt" before.

Ran Qing thought she would bring back a resurrected sixth aunt.

Ran Qing asked in surprise, "You came back alone? Didn't you see Aunt Liu?"

Ran Qing refused to bring his family back to life; that showed his heart of stone.

But he didn't think Little Cotton could be so heartless.

Faced with the surprised gazes of Ran Qing and his son, Xiao Mianhua shrank her neck and stammered, "...I wanted to bring Auntie back, but Auntie refused to come."

"She said she was dead, and the one who came back to life now is not the real her at all, but most likely an evil spirit from the ancient Luo Ghost Kingdom wearing her skin."

"So she only talked to me for a little while, and then kicked me out..."

Little Cotton said, sounding somewhat aggrieved.

She had hoped to bring her beloved aunt back to life.

But her aunt refused to come out with her.

Hearing Xiaomian's answer, Ran Qing was stunned, and for a moment, she felt a pang of sadness.

Sixth Aunt...doesn't want to come out?
The person resurrected from the Ghost King's Coffin can indeed be mistaken for the real person.

Personality, memory, and appearance are all exactly the same as the deceased.

After understanding Ran Qing's feelings, Li Hongye smiled and said goodbye to him without lingering.

Aunt Liu was even more resolute. After talking with poor little cotton for a while, she actually kicked little cotton out, choosing to die rather than accept this false "resurrection".

Little Cotton said, "Auntie said to quickly open the stone coffin, finish what needs to be done, and let us return to the human world."

"This stone coffin is no longer dangerous."

"The real danger to the Ancient Luo Ghost Kingdom is not in this coffin!"

Little Cotton relayed what Aunt Six had said.

Ran Qing was taken aback: "The real danger to the Ancient Luo Kingdom... isn't in this coffin?"

And it uses "already"...

In other words, this coffin was once very dangerous?

But it's no longer dangerous?
Ran Qing glanced at Ran Jianfei in the mist beside her, and without further hesitation, she took a deep breath and gripped the lid of the stone coffin tightly.

He then pushed the heavy stone coffin away with all his might.

With a creaking sound as the stone coffin lid rubbed against each other, Ran Qing easily pushed the coffin open. To her surprise, the lid wasn't completely sealed shut.

Only after the coffin lid was opened did they discover that there were signs of misalignment and movement between the lid and the coffin.

Like...

"Has anyone opened the Ghost King's Coffin before?"

Ran Qing's expression changed slightly, and an ominous premonition arose in her heart.

He pushed the heavy, thick coffin lid open halfway.

That's enough to see the scene inside the coffin.

The first thing that catches the eye is an extremely gorgeous robe adorned with many gold decorations.

These are the mourning clothes worn by the remains in the coffin, which shows that the deceased held an extremely high status in life.

It's almost unimaginable that the primitive and ignorant Zangke people could wear such magnificent golden robes.

This is the legendary Ghost King, the ruler of the ancient Luo Kingdom.

The coffin is its final resting place.

But now that Ran Qing has opened the stone coffin...

"The coffin is empty?!"

Ran Jianfei, who was standing in the mist, was somewhat astonished.

Little Cotton was so shocked that she lay on the edge of the stone coffin, peering inside, her eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

"Ran Qing, this is an empty coffin!"

Or rather, there was no body.

Now, besides the strange burial goods and gorgeous robes, the only thing left in the coffin is a transparent female ghost whose limbs are bound by chains and who lies stiffly on the robes.

The female ghost's face was contorted in pain and her expression was ferocious.

Within her transparent body, wisps of resentment were constantly being drawn from the stone coffin and seeped into the surrounding coffins.

Upon seeing Ran Qing open the coffin lid, the female ghost struggled desperately.

This female ghost, with the exact same face as Ran Qing's mother, longs to escape this stone coffin.

But an invisible force bound her, floating on the empty robe, constantly drawing away the resentment from her body.

This scene was inexplicably terrifying.

Ran Qing almost instinctively thought of one word—battery!
The female ghost who was captured and put into the Ghost King's Coffin was now like a battery, with the Ghost King's Coffin extracting her "resentment".

But the remains of the Ghost King, which should have been lying in the coffin, were nowhere to be found...

When Ran Jianfei's remnant soul saw this scene, his expression changed drastically and became extremely ugly.

"The Ghost King has already escaped!"

"Someone opened the Ghost King's coffin before you and released the Ghost King!"

Ran Jianfei exclaimed incredulously, "But the Ghost King has been dead for thousands of years, how could he possibly escape?"

"Could the legend of the elixir of immortality be true? The Ghost King in the Ghost King's coffin is immortal?!"

Ran Jianfei had not expected such a scene inside the coffin.

The eerie empty coffin sent chills down the spines of everyone present.

The ancient kingdom of ghosts is the greatest shadow hanging over everyone's head.

And the Ghost King's Coffin is at the very center of this shadow.

But now, when Ran Qing painstakingly walked to the Ghost King's coffin and opened the lid, she found that it was empty.

The truly dangerous and terrifying Ghost King has long since left this coffin, and his whereabouts are unknown.

It may roam the eerie and mysterious ghost realm of the Wujiang River, or it may have gone to the human world and wander among the living.

It's even possible that, without Ran Qing and the others noticing, the mysterious and terrifying Ghost King was coldly laughing as he brushed past them on the streets of the human world...

(End of this chapter)