18 Entered the Mysterious Ruin, An Ancient Coffin!

This small episode hardly had any impact on Li Changsheng and his group.

Li Changsheng didn't explain much, and Mo Tiesha and the others stopped prying about why he was hunted down so fiercely that even after he was imprisoned in this wretched place, his enemies still didn't let him go.

After all, which one of the people kept in the deepest level of this prison didn't have any fierce enemies?

Thus, they didn't think much about it anymore and prepared to depart for the mysterious ruin under Song Yuxuang's leadership.

Traversing through the vast dungeon, it took them around an hour and a half to arrive at their destination.

The scenery before their eyes made them stupefied.

Who would believe that inside an underground dungeon there would be a garden full of lush greenery?

At the center of the garden was a dazzling light source, as though it were a little sun, illuminating the surrounding area and most likely working as some kind of energy source for the growth of the vegetation around it.

It was as if they weren't inside an underground dungeon but out there in the outside world.

Desolate Demon let his eyes roam about, probing the mysteries of this place before placing his attention back on Song Yuxuang. "Is this where the ruin you said before is located?"

Song Yuxuang nodded in affirmation but solemnly added, "Don't take this place lightly, let alone recklessly approach the source of the light, unless you want your lifespan to get absorbed like crazy!"

Hearing his words of warning, Mo Tiesha, whose eyes had been glancing a few times at the light source with curiosity, suddenly startled and subconsciously took a few steps back cautiously.

Rubbing his hands like an old swindler, he moved beside Li Changsheng, and flattering words gushed out as he opened his mouth.

"Brother Li. This is really something that only you can do, and this is definitely your opportunity! Hurry up and take a look! With your extremely long lifespan, it will be a walk in the park for you!"

"You want me to be a cannon fodder?" Li Changsheng narrowed his eyes at the old fox and gave him a cold smile. "Aren't you afraid that I'll take your life if I'm not happy?"

"No, no, no! How can it be?! I'm just speaking for your benefit, brother Li! It's really true!" Mo Tiesha hurriedly waved his hands in denial while cursing Li Changsheng in his heart. 'This brat is so sharp! So annoying!'

Rolling his eyes at him, Li Changsheng didn't pay attention to him anymore and walked straight ahead.

He was now standing right before the source of the light, staring intently into it. His body trembled slightly and then immediately regained its composure when he saw the light source wasn't burning anything.

His expression changed from astonishment to delight. Li Changsheng could feel a strong sense of familiarity within the light, almost as if it were someone or something familiar who was calling out to him.

Shedding away his hesitation, Li Changsheng took a firm step forward into the light.

As soon as he entered the light source, a mysterious force engulfed Li Changsheng, and he found that his lifespan was indeed vanishing at a terrifying speed.

It was as if a large number of tiny threads of time were being pulled out by unseen hands; every second that passed brought countless strands of his lifetime disappearing, but despite so, compared to the endless ocean that was Li Changsheng's lifespan, it couldn't even make any waves.

If it were an ordinary Spirit Gathering realm cultivator instead of Li Changsheng, they might not be able to persist for a few minutes as their lifespan would be instantly dried up.

But for Li Changsheng, this phenomenon didn't pose any threat at all, and he continued to walk leisurely further into the light source.

"It's really like Song Yuxuang said; it somewhat resembles the Emperor Sealing Eight-Trigram Heavenly Formation, and yet there's something fundamentally different. How curious."

Li Changsheng's eyes lit up, feeling eager to discover what kind of opportunity was waiting for him at the end of this light source.

While Li Changsheng proceeded further and further into the light source without breaking any sweat, the trio who remained outside the ruin watched as he advanced without the slightest change in their expression.

They were already numb by Li Changsheng's freakiness and wouldn't even bat an eye, even if his lifespan was drawn by tens of millions of years at once.

It was just that Mo Tiesha and Desolate Demon felt a little bit of regret because they couldn't enter the ruin together with Li Changsheng to find out what was hidden inside this restricted area.

Was the Eternal Emperor's inheritance really there?

And if it really existed, didn't that mean the highly sought-after opportunity that even a saint or paragon covet would end up in the hands of a weak junior, not even a noble-expert-level cultivator?

The world was really unfair and unreasonable.

The two looked at each other; realizing that they held similar thoughts, they turned their eyes back to Li Changsheng and shook their heads weakly.

A few minutes later, Li Changsheng's figure was sucked into a vortex, and he completely disappeared from their sight.

***

Li Changsheng shook his head lightly while rubbing his eyebrows to alleviate the dizziness he got after being sucked into the light vortex.

After a few minutes, he opened his eyes and found himself in a narrow corridor.

Li Changsheng instantly understood that the light source seemed to be a teleportation portal, and he had somehow been transported into a secret space inside it.

He carefully examined his surroundings, and to his surprise, he discovered that the walls of the whole place were covered with intricate patterns carved in stone and also filled with many symbols.

Some of these symbols were written in ancient script, and he vaguely recalled that such a writing style was used in an era far before the establishment of the Great Desolate Kingdom in the Eastern Desolate Region.

However, it wasn't until he sensed the spiritual energy in the surroundings that his heart raced in shock!

The spiritual energy that permeated this room was probably a dozen times more dense and purer than that of the outside world!

Li Changsheng couldn't help but wonder what type of precious treasure was stored here and how powerful the person behind the concealment of this place was.

Not taking another moment to hesitate, Li Changsheng began walking along the corridor, heading in the direction indicated by the symbols on the wall.

Along the way, he encountered several small chambers, but all of them were empty.

Li Changsheng initially expected that with such dense spiritual energy, there might be a few heaven and earth treasures that were naturally born from this environment, so he couldn't help but feel slightly disappointed.

He continued to explore until he stumbled upon one inconspicuous room, slightly larger than the rooms he had encountered before.

As he entered the room, his body suddenly tensed up.

Before him, a coffin that seemed to be made from special spiritual jade was placed in the center of the room, and Li Changsheng could feel that spiritual energy was constantly leaking from inside the coffin, filling the entire room with spiritual energy even denser than that of another part of this secret space.

"This is definitely a peerless treasure!"

Li Changsheng exclaimed excitedly, his heart pounding faster as he shortened the distance between him and the coffin.

When he was just a step away from the coffin, he could finally see the person buried inside such a precious treasure, and…

Looking inside the coffin, his eyes widened in shock!