Chapter 2438 - 2438: Skeletons in the Stone Coffins

Fat Wang fell on the ground beside him, seeing Ye Qing gripping the handle of this long knife, yet he hadn't fallen, which surprised him greatly. Of course, he didn't know what had happened to Ye Qing.

After feeling the suction inside the long knife, Ye Qing was even more certain that there was something wrong with it. He gripped the long knife tightly, took a deep breath, and suddenly began trying to pull the long knife upward, wanting to pull it out to see what the problem was.

The long knife seemed to be embedded very solidly on the ground. Ye Qing exerted force to lift it, but the long knife only moved slowly. Ye Qing gathered all his strength, feeling as if he was lifting hundreds of pounds, finding it difficult to lift the long knife. On the contrary, if he relaxed even slightly, the long knife would definitely fall directly back to its original position.

Ye Qing dared not relax in the slightest, not even daring to catch his breath, desperately holding onto the handle of the long knife, slowly pulling it upward. However, he didn't notice that as the long knife was slowly pulled out of the ground, subtle changes were occurring around the cave.

On the stone-tiled floor around the cave, six stone coffins slowly rose. Each stone coffin seemed to be embedded in the ground. The seams with the ground were extremely tight, and if these stone coffins hadn't risen by themselves, no one would have thought that six stone coffins were hidden beneath the floor.

As the long knife was slowly pulled out, those six coffins gradually became exposed, as if they were being pulled out along with the long knife. However, they emerged silently, and Ye Qing, focusing all his effort on pulling out the long knife, didn't notice the situation with the stone coffins behind him.

Ye Qing took a full five minutes to completely pull out the long knife. At this point, the six stone coffins also surfaced entirely, appearing inside the cave.

Over here, Ye Qing didn't notice the appearance of the stone coffins at all. After pulling out the long knife, he picked it up and began to closely observe it, wanting to see what was special about the long knife.

But Fat Wang, behind him, clearly saw the appearance of the six stone coffins, which greatly shocked him. In fact, what was even more shocking was that after the six stone coffins rose, their lids slowly opened, giving an eerie feeling, as if something inside the stone coffins was about to crawl out.

Fat Wang's eyes widened. His years of experience as a grave robber told him that coffins opening by themselves was definitely not a good sign. Normally, coffins with zombies or the like inside open by themselves. Could it be that there are zombies inside these stone coffins?

Thinking of this, Fat Wang couldn't help but shiver. He hurriedly tried to cry out again to alert Ye Qing. However, his strength was drained, and it was already remarkable that he could make any sound at all. He couldn't utter complete words, let alone warn Ye Qing.

Ye Qing heard Fat Wang's cries from behind but didn't pay attention. Actually, from the moment he started pulling out the long knife, Fat Wang had been crying out continuously. Now that Ye Qing had pulled out the long knife, he naturally wanted to first study the long knife and wasn't inclined to bother with such a trivial matter as Fat Wang's cries.

Just as Ye Qing was studying the long knife carefully, the six stone coffins behind him moved again. After the lids opened, six people slowly sat up inside the stone coffins. These six people were dressed in burial clothes worn by the dead, adding a terrifying aura.

Seeing this situation, Fat Wang almost went mad, continuously crying out, but Ye Qing never glanced at him. Fat Wang cursed Ye Qing's ancestors up to eighteen generations in his heart, but it changed nothing. He could only watch helplessly as the six people dressed in burial clothes slowly walked out of the stone coffins.

The six people had their backs to Fat Wang and, once they stood steady, turned their heads simultaneously to look at Fat Wang. As soon as they turned their heads, Fat Wang was frightened into a shiver. What he saw weren't people at all; they were six skeletons dressed in burial clothes!

"Damn!" Fat Wang cursed in his heart, but he couldn't form a single word aloud, only able to cry out continuously. But the crux of the problem was that Ye Qing wasn't paying attention to him, still meticulously studying the long knife in his hand.

The six skeletons dressed in burial clothes all had empty eye sockets aimed at Fat Wang, as if they had targeted him. They started walking towards him together.

"Damn, I'm dead!" Fat Wang wailed inwardly. Although he had seen many strange things, he usually managed to escape. But this time, he had no strength, and couldn't even run if he tried. Now he was simply waiting for death.

He cursed Ye Qing's ancestors up to eighteen generations several more times in his heart, but it didn't slow down the skeletons in the slightest. The six skeletons, moving slowly, still closed in, surrounding Fat Wang. They then reached out their fleshless bones toward him. The six skulls were less than half a meter away from Fat Wang, causing his calves to quiver uncontrollably.

As the six skeletons were about to grab Fat Wang, suddenly, Ye Qing shouted, "Sure enough, there's something wrong with this long knife. Fatty, look!"

Saying this, Ye Qing turned around holding the long knife, and happened to see the six skeletons reaching out to grab Fat Wang. The situation startled Ye Qing, as he didn't know what was happening—how could six skeletons suddenly appear and try to grab Fat Wang in just the blink of an eye? What on earth was going on?

Seeing the urgent situation, Ye Qing didn't have time to think and rushed over with the long knife. Naturally, this long knife wasn't handy for him, so as he quickly approached, Ye Qing drew the scabbard of The Ancestor of Miao Dao from his back, sweeping at the six skeletons with the momentum of Sweeping Thousands Army.

The six skeletons heard the commotion from Ye Qing's side and immediately turned their heads. But just as they turned, the scabbard of The Ancestor of Miao Dao in Ye Qing's hand had already struck them. However, the anticipated shattering of all six skeletons didn't occur; instead, they were just swept away. In fact, not a scratch was left on these skeletons, and they slowly crawled up from the ground, glaring menacingly and approaching Ye Qing.

"Are their bones this hard?" Ye Qing was startled as well. The scabbard of The Ancestor of Miao Dao is much stronger than ordinary famed instruments. But why didn't it leave a scratch when striking these skeletons? These skeletons were just too formidable!

The narrowly escaped Fat Wang finally breathed a sigh of relief and cursed, "Damn..."

After all this trouble, who knows whether it was the effect of the Ziyu Chenxiang Pill or the fright spurring his blood circulation, but Fat Wang finally spoke his first words. However, his first words were definitely curses, that's for sure.

Ye Qing didn't pay attention to Fat Wang cursing him and stared at the six skeletons, saying solemnly, "Where did these six skeletons come from?"

"Damn, you have the face to ask me?" Fat Wang coughed a few times, adjusted his speech speed, and said, "These six skeletons, you let them out, and you still dare to ask others!"

"I let them out?" Ye Qing glanced at Fat Wang and said, "Stop talking nonsense, when did I let out these six skeletons?"

"Nonsense, if you hadn't pulled out that long knife, how could these six skeletons have appeared?" Fat Wang said urgently.

"Long knife?" Ye Qing was shocked and quickly asked what was going on. After Fat Wang finished describing the earlier situation, Ye Qing finally understood.

"I see!" Ye Qing slapped the long knife in his hand and said, "When I just pulled this long knife out, I felt something was wrong with it. The tip of the long knife seemed to be tied to something. After carefully studying it for a while, I discovered that the tip of the long knife should be connected to a mechanism. So, this knife tip is connected to the mechanism of those six coffins!"

"Why bother with all this nonsense now? Hurry and find a way to deal with these six skeletons!" Fat Wang urged, "This is truly haunting!"

After going through so many things, facing these moving skeletons again, Ye Qing certainly wouldn't think of them as haunting. Ye Qing had encountered moving skeletons only three types: controlled corpses, such as the Secret Technique of Corpse Ghost Dragon controlling corpses as puppets; then the skeletons seen at Xiliang Mountain transformed by the combined power of the Immovable Bodhisattva Seal and the red Heavenly Cluster Clouds; and the third, the Divine Clan corpses seen at Panlong Valley, which although turned into skeletons, still astonishingly powerful.

However, these six skeletons were normally powerful, as evident from Ye Qing sweeping them away all at once earlier. Yet, their bones were exceptionally hard; even the scabbard of The Ancestor of Miao Dao couldn't leave a mark, indicating the hardness of their bones. Then, what exactly is the situation with these skeletons?

While Ye Qing was pondering, the six skeletons had surrounded him. Clearly, they seemed to be enraged by Ye Qing, as this time they were advancing for a siege.

Naturally, Ye Qing wouldn't allow the six skeletons to encircle him. Before they reached him, Ye Qing immediately brandished the scabbard of The Ancestor of Miao Dao, striking the six skeletons away once more. Yet, he still couldn't harm the skeletons in the least; the six skeletons slowly climbed up again, once more surrounding Ye Qing, like indestructible cockroaches.