Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 640: Chapter 482: Taking Away the Black Coffin_2

"For... guarding the tomb?"

"Perhaps. Tomb Guardians are like those common world’s emperors from ten thousand years ago, who had a penchant for having imperial mausoleums built for themselves after death. Because of the workers gathered to build these mausoleums, a large city would often form around them once the mausoleums were completed. Our Snow Demon Race is like those workers constructing imperial mausoleums for the emperors. Though we guard their tombs, to the masters of these coffins, we are not necessary. They don’t even consider our presence nor the dilemmas we face. We, who have been influenced by them, can only be rejected by the outside world, continuing generation after generation to willingly watch over the burial grounds. Heh, ’Tomb Guardian’ is indeed an apt word."

"Alright, if you have any more reflections, you can voice them later. For now, let me put this coffin away."

It was Chen Zhixing who, after observing for a while and finding nothing remarkable about the coffin, finally felt confident enough to put it into the small green bottle.

But before he could move, the Second Generation Snow Demon King interrupted him again.

"Wait a moment."

"Hmm?" Chen Zhixing turned his head to look at him.

"Are you sure that by doing so, you won’t affect this Snowfield Plateau and my Snow Demon Race?"

The Second Generation Snow Demon King didn’t forget the main issue. After interrupting Chen Zhixing’s actions, he directly said, "You know, my Snow Demon Race has always been reliant on the presence of this black coffin. If you rashly take it away, I’m afraid the Snow Demon Race will face problems."

Will there be a problem? That’s a good question.

Chen Zhixing rolled his eyes, sighed, and said:

"What happens to the Chang Ghost that assisted the Tiger Demon after the Tiger Demon’s death?"

"..." The Second Generation Snow Demon King was left speechless for a moment before exhaling, "It’s fine, go ahead."

Chen Zhixing nodded and then began to use the absorbing power of the small green bottle to gather the black coffin.

However, this wasn’t easy.

Perhaps the black coffin’s grade was too high, or perhaps Chen Zhixing was not the true owner of the small green bottle. Facing the bottle’s suction, the black coffin did not remain completely still, but its reaction was minimal.

Every ten or so seconds, only a wisp of black qi would be captured by the small green bottle from the black coffin.

"Can’t absorb it?"

Seeing this, Chen Zhixing frowned slightly. To be honest, he was well-prepared mentally before coming. Even if a powerful monster had jumped out when he decided to gather the black coffin, Chen Zhixing wouldn’t have been surprised. What truly troubled him was the current situation.

The black coffin’s level was too high, making it difficult to properly absorb into the small green bottle.

The Second Generation Snow Demon King sighed slightly upon seeing this.

"It still works. The black qi you’re collecting is actually the remnants of the coffin’s owner’s aura. Once you gather all the black qi here, the black coffin’s influence on the Snowfield Plateau will vanish. But from the current situation, this process might take more than ten years... That’s not long; both you and my Snow Demon Race can wait."

To the Second Generation Snow Demon King, waiting a mere ten years to gain freedom was a worthwhile trade. Furthermore, during these ten years, he could prepare the trapped Snow Demon Race on the Snowfield Plateau for their future freedom, so he hoped to maintain the current state.

But Chen Zhixing did not want to wait.

"Ten years? That’s too long!"

With a single thought, four spiritual incarnations stepped out of his body and moved to the four corners of the black coffin.

The Second Generation Snow Demon King, seeing this, was taken aback: "What are you going to do!"

"What am I going to do? Of course, I’m going to take this coffin away!"

As Chen Zhixing’s words fell, the four thought incarnations, each possessing tens of thousands of jin of strength, grabbed the four corners of the coffin and exerted force.

"Heave!"

As the sound of earth shattering echoed, accompanied by ghostly wails, pure darkness that had been surrounding the black coffin seemed to be awakened by Chen Zhixing’s actions and began to crazily converge towards his location.

"Quick! Get back!" The Second Generation Snow Demon King was alarmed, although he didn’t know what the darkness truly was, his spiritual sense told him not to touch it, lest something terrifying befall him.

But... retreat?

Chen Zhixing’s eyes glowed, and the Dharma God of Emperor Ziwei of the North Dipper emerged around him. Unlike before, this time, the Dharma Body held a small green bottle.

"I’ve been waiting for you! Absorb it for me!"

Chen Zhixing’s Ziwei Dharma Aspect was massive, and the small green bottle in its hand was no small token.

As the darkness arrived, the small green bottle held by Emperor Ziwei grew into a vast maw, swallowing the darkness whole.

A moment later, the darkness dissipated, and the starlight faded.

Chen Zhixing continued to hold the small green bottle. Inside, in a world that had been arranged into a small grotto heaven, a smaller version of the Ziwei Dharma Aspect was ensconced—the center of its body surrounded by a mass of black qi.

Hmm.

Chen Zhixing did not recklessly use his own Dharma Image to consume this black qi, instead employing the incomplete Ziwei Dharma Aspect that had been gathered within the small green bottle by Wang Lin. Being of the same origin as the small green bottle, it was perfectly suited for gathering the black qi from the black coffin.

However...

"This coffin, ultimately, can’t be lifted?"

Seeing that the black qi had been completely absorbed, yet the black coffin remained fixed in place, and despite his thought incarnations using enough force to stomp large pits into the ground, they could not lift the black coffin.

Wait, pits?

Chen Zhixing’s eyes narrowed, and with a mischievous smile on his face under the Second Generation Snow Demon King’s fearful gaze, he watched as the four thought incarnations stopped touching the coffin and instead began to dig beneath it.

In a breath, the earth beneath the coffin was hollowed out!

As the black coffin dropped, Chen Zhixing—already prepared—used the power of the small green bottle to capture it in the bottle’s world.

He succeeded!

Yet, Chen Zhixing didn’t feel much excitement.

The black coffin was an unclaimed object. If, after all his efforts, it couldn’t be taken away, wouldn’t that make him useless?

Regarding why the black coffin hadn’t been taken all these years despite sitting here?

One reason was the guardian black qi, the other being the coffin’s own mystical nature. Without a container of sufficient grade, using an ordinary container would result in it bursting the moment the black coffin entered.

Of course, these reasons weren’t the most significant.

Sensing something, Chen Zhixing closed his eyes to meditate for a moment.

"This repulsive force..."

Currently, as a Master of One Tao, Chen Zhixing could keenly sense the world’s operating rules.

Now, he clearly felt that, if he wasn’t already a Master of One Tao, a substitute enforcer of the world’s rules, he wouldn’t be able to leave the Snowfield Plateau with the black coffin.

The Snowfield Plateau was a prison!

But the real prisoner in this prison wasn’t the Snow Demon Race. It was this black coffin that the world had imprisoned on this plateau!

The Snow Demon Race’s difficulty in leaving the plateau was due only to being tainted by the black coffin’s aura and thus rejected by the world consciousness, not because they were true prisoners. Otherwise, Chen Zhixing’s mother wouldn’t have had the opportunity to leave.

Still, Chen Zhixing realized he couldn’t carry the black coffin for long. If he kept it, soon the world would form a new ’Star Sea Plateau’ prison around this Taoist Lord to imprison him once again.

"So, did this black coffin transgress the heavenly principles to be this targeted by the rules of the Celestial Profound Realm?"

Opening his eyes, Chen Zhixing sighed in resignation upon realizing everything.

It seemed that this time, he had no choice but to leave.