Inside the magnificent and majestic great hall, gold and jade were shining brightly. Ninety-nine dragon pillars made of gold supported it, symbolizing the supreme power of the emperor. In the center of the great hall, a coffin carved out of a single piece of dark ice emitted a chilling aura that pierced to the bone.
Inside the ice coffin was a stunning beauty, wrapped in a golden long dress that covered her body, with exposed skin as transparent as glass, without any signs of death, and she looked like she was sleeping rather than dead.
A man in yellow clothes sat beside the ice coffin, his whole body covered with dirt. He held a red gourd in his hand and was pouring liquor into his mouth with a gurgling sound. The transparent liquid spilled from the corner of his mouth, but he didn't care at all.
Xuanji Ice Emperor let go of Qin Lingyun's hand and took a few steps forward, each step was the same distance apart, not a single millimeter different. He didn't turn his head back, but an icy voice sounded in Qin Lingyun's ear: "Not for now."
The man in yellow clothes had a beard on his face, which hadn't been trimmed for some time. The desolate air that emanated from his entire body was reflected in every move he made.
Even the arrival of Xuanji Binghuang and Qin Lingyun couldn't change him, this intangible aura emanating from him continuously, like a magnet attracting everything around.
"Huang Ji Tian, you're really degenerating." The voice of Xuan Ji Bing Huang was still devoid of emotion and icy cold.
"Who are you? Do you know my name?" The man in yellow clothing put down the gourd and turned his head around.
Qin Lingyun's heart skipped a beat, this yellow-clad man had a face full of wind and frost, but his eyes were sharp enough to pierce the sky and earth. This was an intangible aura, although it didn't intentionally oppress, yet it felt like a giant mountain pressing down, unstoppable.
"Alright, Huang Ji Tian, no need to probe further. She is just an ordinary female cultivator, and as for me, you should be able to guess who I am." Xuan Ji Bing Huang paused slightly, and the invisible aura completely dissipated.
The man in yellow clothes was silent for a moment, his eyes fixed on the Extreme Ice Emperor, his gaze becoming brighter and brighter, slowly saying "So you are..."
Xuanji Ice Emperor interrupted his words "Don't say it, it's not good for you."
The man in yellow robes sighed and said, "Alright, now that you've reincarnated again, what brings you to find me? Is there something I can help you with?"
"I didn't have anything going on, she just wanted to go up to the ninth floor, so I brought her up." Xuan Ji Bing Huang said casually.
The man in yellow robes cast his gaze towards Qin Lingyu, and finally had a hint of curiosity. "Do you want to go up to the ninth floor? Do you want more rewards? What's your relationship with him, do you still need me?"
Although Xuanji Ice Emperor said that Qin Lingyun was just an ordinary female cultivator, in the heart of the yellow-robed man, people related to him might be just ordinary people.
Facing the man in yellow clothes, Qin Lingyun didn't have much fear. Although the man in yellow clothes was full of vicissitudes, Qin Lingyun could still feel a sense of familiarity.
Qin Lingyun calmly said, "Senior, I want to take something that is very important to me. It's not that I don't want to, but I must take it."
Qin Lingyun was not the one, but she had to get it anyway. Such a contradictory thing had to be said. Xingdi didn't say which one it was, but Qin Lingyun guessed in her heart that this yellow-robed man must be the one.
The pupils of the man in yellow contracted slightly, and his entire spirit suddenly surged up.
"I understand, what was bound to happen has happened... This is something I cannot give you."
Qin Lingyun clearly felt a flash of murderous intent in the eyes of the man in yellow.
"Why? Does he have such a strong intention to kill me? Did I unknowingly offend him? Qin Lingyun wondered in her heart, and at this time, the yellow-clothed man who was originally sitting down slowly stood up."
"Although it doesn't belong to me, this thing is more important than my life. If you must have it, step over my dead body." The man in yellow clothes suddenly ignited a fierce battle intent.
The familiar aura made Qin Lingyun recall in an instant that the one who killed and sealed the Ice Scale Snake Demon King was this person, Huang Ji Tian. In that painting, standing proudly in the air, looking down on the world, unstoppable, like a virtual immortal emperor returning to the mortal realm, the power of the divine fantasy realm shook the heavens and earth. But now it's so decadent, this strong contrast made Qin Lingyun not recall immediately.
Seeing Qin Lingyun's eyes, the man in yellow clothes tilted his head and took a sip of wine, bursting into loud laughter. "Since you can enter my palace, you should have obtained the sealed painting I left behind. Let me take a look."
The yellow-clad man pointed a finger in the air, and it was as if ripples spread out on water. The scene of Qin Lingyun entering the sixth level reappeared in mid-air, all the way until Qin Lingyun unrolled the painting.
"It was the Ice Scale Snake Demon King. Since I've obtained the painting, I don't need to hide it from you, I am Huang Ji Tian, the Tower Spirit of the Huang Ji Sealing Heaven Tower. In the entire Langya universe, almost every cultivation star has my projection." The man in yellow robes laughed loudly, his body standing upright, all his decadence swept away, his disheveled black hair dancing wildly in the air.
"Do you want to fight me? And still want to kill her?" Xuan Ji Bing Huang said solemnly.
Qin Lingyun stared at Huang Jitian and said word by word: "Do you want to kill me? Why?"
"What you want is right here, this Heaven Defying Coffin indeed has a mysterious and powerful ability, it can actually escape the punishment of the Heavenly Dao's laws, leaving behind a thread of life. If you had come here five thousand years ago, I would have willingly handed over the Heaven Defying Coffin with both hands, but now that you want to steal it, you are my enemy."
The majestic voice was like a huge bronze bell, with an aura that was overwhelming. Qin Lingyun, however, saw the deep emotions of the woman in the coffin from the glance she gave him sideways.
Xuanji Ice Emperor sighed and turned around, "Let's go, we can't take this heavenly coffin away. At present, I am not a match for Huangji Tian."
But Qin Lingyun didn't move her feet, she heard that the Sky Coffin could escape the Heavenly Dao's laws and preserve one's vitality, so couldn't it be used to call back Xingdi's lingering soul from the underworld, thereby preserving a thread of life?
Qin Lingyun's heart was surging, she realized that the speculation might be true, and this theft of the heavenly coffin might have a great deal to do with Xingdi. Xingdi had said before, if there was no theft of the heavenly coffin, she might regret it later.
Suddenly a firm and unyielding voice flashed in his mind: "Get the Heaven-Defying Coffin, must get the Heaven-Defying Coffin"
But Xuanji Ice Emperor once said that even he was no match for Huangjitiian, and it's highly likely that she could be killed with just a breath from him. Yet how can she give up?
Huang Ji Tian's originally somewhat hunched body straightened, making him look wildly majestic as if a divine demon had descended. If not for Xuan Ji Bing Huang's icy aura holding it back, the sheer momentum would have been enough to crush Qin Lingyun into dust.
The dragon has a reversed scale, touching it will surely die. Now stealing the heavenly coffin is his reversed scale, whoever wants to take it away is an enemy of his.
Qin Lingyun gazed at the figure of Huang Ji Tian, but what emerged in her mind was the various pasts of Xing Di, that warm and gentle smile, standing proudly with his hands behind his back, the adorable way he liked to go shopping, scene after scene of everything that had happened before flashed by quickly in her mind.
Qin Lingyun's face showed a hint of stubbornness as she slowly asked, "Huang Jitian, senior, who was it that gave you the Heaven Coffin back then?"
Huang Ji Tian took another sip of wine and said, "I don't deny it. That mysterious person once said that one day someone would come to the ninth floor to reclaim the stolen Heavenly Coffin. I won't deny all this. Although I consider myself upright and honest, this time I only stole the Heavenly Coffin for you. Name your price, if you want something even more precious than the Daoist artifact, just say it."
Qin Lingyun didn't have it, her heart was like a burning flame, smelting her body and mind. She really wanted to get the Heaven's Coffin immediately, but she wasn't an idiot. With her strength, if she said she must steal the Heaven's Coffin, she would definitely be beaten into dust by Huang Jitian.
But she wanted her to give up like this, but she was not reconciled, very not reconciled.
Her body was trembling slightly, wanting to speak, but couldn't say a word. She wasn't afraid of death, but if she died here without retrieving Xingdi's soul, that would be the most foolish thing to do.
Qin Lingyun's fingernails dug deep into her palm, the pain stimulating her mind to become even clearer. She couldn't afford to lose her rationality, or else she would never have another chance to revive Xingdi again. A person only has a chance as long as they are alive; if they're already dead, there's no meaning anymore.
At this time, the originally silent Xuanji Ice Emperor sighed and slowly transmitted his voice to Qin Lingyun, saying "Alright, I'll take care of this matter."
Turning around, the tall figure of Xuanji Bing Huang took a step forward, and snowflakes floated in the air. He looked at Huangji Tian and said, "Hand over the stolen Heavenly Coffin." Although Xuanji Bing Huang's aura rose sharply with each step, by the time he was only eight or nine steps away from Huangji Tian, his aura had already reached its peak.
Huang Ji Tian shook his head and said, "If it were the you from before, I wouldn't be able to withstand even a finger from you. But now, you're not my match. Although you have done me a favor, if you push me too hard, I won't show any mercy either."
"Yingying is my everything. If heaven wants to take Yingying away, I will destroy heaven; if earth wants to take Yingying away, I will shatter the earth."
At this moment, the majestic sky, that soaring heroic spirit rose to the heavens, his disheveled clothes and fluttering whiskers could not conceal his radiance, in his eyes a true dragon was swirling, around his body countless immortals seemed to be chanting, grand and magnificent, connecting ancient and modern times.
Then, the aura on Huang Ji Tian's body changed, and a boundless sentimental aura spread out in all directions. At this moment, Huang Ji Tian transformed into a thousand-year-old love fairy, with an aura of sentimentality everywhere.
The imperial extreme heavenly eye pupil flashed with a strange light, and his fingers secretly pinched the incantation. At this moment, Qin Lingyun's voice slowly echoed "How can I get the stolen Heavenly Coffin?"
"Unless you can initially understand the cycle of life and death, and find your soul from the years, otherwise I will kill you."
Qin Lingyun nodded and said, "Alright, wait until I have a basic understanding of reincarnation, then I'll come back here."
"Ice Emperor, would you mind taking me away from the Imperial Extreme Heaven Tower? Qin Lingyun was as calm as a deep and serene pool of water."
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