Ye Qiu found it strange and said, “Why are there so many hanging coffins here?”
Longbrow True Person said, “I’ve travelled far and wide, and this is the first time I’ve seen such a large cluster of hanging coffins.”
Xiao Zhan asked, “True Person, who are the people in these coffins?”
Longbrow True Person replied, “How would I know?”
“How could you not know?” Xiao Zhan said, “Didn’t you just claim to know astronomy above and geography below, omniscient in all things? You don’t even know who’s in the coffins?”
Instantly, Longbrow True Person’s face flushed red, glaring at Xiao Zhan coldly, “Shut your mouth. No one thinks you’re mute if you don’t speak.”
Ye Qiu activated his Heavenly Eye, glancing up at the sky.
He saw countless resentments coalescing above the canyon, resembling mushroom clouds.
Dark and terrifying.
Ye Qiu said, “If I’m not mistaken, the dead in these hanging coffins were all unjustly killed.”
Longbrow True Person asked, puzzled, “Why do you say that?”
“Intuition.” Ye Qiu didn’t reveal that he saw the resentment with his Heavenly Eye, then his gaze shifted to one hanging coffin.
Instantly, his vision penetrated the coffin.
Ye Qiu saw a corpse inside, its flesh long decayed, leaving only a pile of white bones.
The bones were split in two.
At the waist, there was a very clean cut.
Moreover, it was severed at the waist with a single slash.
Ye Qiu looked at several other coffins, and the situation was identical to the first.
Ye Qiu withdrew his gaze and said, “The people in these hanging coffins were all killed by a blade cutting through their waists.”
Xiao Zhan was startled, “Boss, you mean these people were executed by waist-cutting?”
“Yes.” Ye Qiu nodded slightly.
At the same time, Ye Qiu understood why there was so much resentment in the canyon’s sky: the people in the coffins had been waist-cut, filled with boundless grudges.
With tens of thousands of coffins gathered here, the resentment naturally soared to the heavens.
“I wonder who these people were in life and why they were waist-cut?”
Xiao Zhan cursed, “Damn feudal society!”
“Enough, stop wasting time, let’s get to the destination,” Longbrow True Person urged.
The speedboat continued forward.
A few minutes later.
“Phew~”
A cold breeze rose.
The temperature dropped sharply, as if it weren’t early spring but the depths of winter.
“So cold.” Xiao Zhan hugged his arms, shivering.
Longbrow True Person’s eyes narrowed, exclaiming, “The yin energy here is heavy.”
“Old thing, look ahead,” Ye Qiu said.
Longbrow True Person looked up and saw that the cliff ahead was still covered with hanging coffins.
However, these coffins differed from the pitch-black ones they’d seen earlier; they were all bright red.
The vermilion coffins, weathered by centuries of wind and rain, were less vibrant but gave an even more sinister feeling.
Instantly, Longbrow True Person’s expression grew grave.
“Little rascal, these coffins are no ordinary matter,” Longbrow True Person said solemnly.
“What do you mean?” Ye Qiu asked.
Longbrow True Person explained, “The ancients were particular about the material, colour, and size of coffins.”
“In ancient times, red symbolised good fortune.”
“Because lifespans were short, only those who lived past eighty and died naturally used red coffins, signifying a ‘joyful mourning.’”
Xiao Zhan was puzzled, “True Person, from what you say, these red coffins aren’t scary then!”
“You know nothing!” Longbrow True Person said, “That’s only one aspect.”
“There’s another: red coffins can be ominous.”
“When someone died in extreme agony, a red coffin was used to prevent them from becoming vengeful ghosts, while also ensuring they could never find peace, an extremely sinister practice.”
Xiao Zhan scoffed, “Sounds like a tale to scare kids. There are no ghosts in this world.”
“Fool!” Longbrow True Person snapped, “Just because you haven’t seen something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”
“Like immortals, you haven’t seen them, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
“Otherwise, where do myths and legends come from?”
Xiao Zhan said, “Obviously made up by novelists.”
For a moment, Longbrow True Person was speechless, fuming, “If you believe me, ask the little rascal if the people in these red coffins died horribly.”
Xiao Zhan asked Ye Qiu, “Boss, is what the True Person said true?”
Ye Qiu didn’t answer, instead activating his Heavenly Eye and examining the red coffins.
He found that each red coffin contained a skeleton, but these were intact, not waist-cut.
The skeletons bore no marks of blades, and their colour was normal, indicating they weren’t killed by weapons or poisoned.
So how did they die?
Ye Qiu observed closely and soon noticed something.
The skeletons’ limbs were tightly bound by iron chains, and around the coffins were blood grooves and impact marks.
“Boss, how did the people in the coffins die?” Xiao Zhan asked again, seeing Ye Qiu’s silence.
Ye Qiu withdrew his gaze and said, “They were suffocated.”
Xiao Zhan was stunned, “Suffocated?”
Ye Qiu elaborated, “These people were bound by their limbs, thrown into the coffins, and then the lids were sealed, causing them to die from lack of oxygen.”
Xiao Zhan was shocked and furious, “Bloody hell, who did this? That’s utterly depraved!”
Longbrow True Person asked Ye Qiu curiously, “How did you see what’s inside the coffins?”
Ye Qiu teased, “Want to know?”
“Yes.” Longbrow True Person nodded, then asked, “Did Master Ziyang teach you some secret art like the Heavenly Eye?”
Ye Qiu grinned, “Guess.”
Guess your uncle!
Longbrow True Person, fuming, shouted at Xiao Zhan, “How much longer until we reach the destination?”
Xiao Zhan said, “Almost there.”
Longbrow True Person cursed, “You said that before, and we’re still not there. If you dare deceive me again, I’ll throw you into the river to feed the fish…”
Before he could finish, Xiao Zhan interrupted.
“True Person, we’re almost there. Our Dragon Gate ship is just ahead, see for yourself.”
Longbrow True Person looked where Xiao Zhan pointed and saw a ship on the river 500 metres ahead.
At the top of the ship hung a flag with four large characters.
Dragon Prosperity II!
The speedboat moved forward, steadily approaching the ship.
Three hundred metres.
Two hundred metres.
One hundred metres.
As the speedboat drew closer to the ship.
Suddenly, Ye Qiu’s expression changed, and he ordered Xiao Zhan, “Quick, stop the boat now!”
