170: Couple Trees, Crimson Jade Coffin

Red blood gushed directly from inside the outer coffin.

As the blood drained away, those red silk threads withered like dying flowers.

Finally, they fell directly to the ground, and Ye Bai's black-clad figure emerged from within.

Professor Wang and the other members of the Archaeological Team were stunned upon seeing this scene.

Professor Wang felt a pang of regret in his heart... regret for the outer coffin. It was a cultural relic, yet Ye Bai had pierced right through it.

But at the thought that those silk threads would have killed them otherwise, Professor Wang ultimately felt it was better to destroy it!!

Relic restoration could be performed later; it wasn't an insurmountable issue.

As the blood flowed out along the outer coffin, a figure slowly appeared inside it as well.

However, none of them were in the mood to focus on that right now; they were all staring at Ye Bai's silhouette.

“Ye Bai!”

Seeing Ye Bai emerge, Meng Ziyi's racing heart finally settled. She rushed over to stand by his side, her eyes scanning his body up and down.

She was worried he might be injured.

Seeing that he was fine, she finally felt at ease.

Yang Mi, Reba, Bai Lu, and Yang Chaoyue followed closely behind. Seeing that Ye Bai was unharmed, they finally felt relieved.

As for Zhang Dada and Cai Xukun, they didn't have many thoughts other than relief at seeing Ye Bai safe; after all, they still needed him to solve the curse on them.

He couldn't die yet.

Seeing that Ye Bai was fine, Professor Wang first smiled, then began to examine the outer coffin and glanced at the surrounding environment.

“Professor, where did this outer coffin come from?”

The team member behind him looked at the damaged outer coffin with heartache, but he also knew that if it hadn't been damaged, those silk threads wouldn't have been dealt with.

Everyone would have lost their lives then.

“From inside this giant tree.”

Professor Wang looked at the massive tree beside them, which would take twenty people to encircle. There was a circular hole in the middle.

Its size was very similar to this blood coffin.

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at the giant tree in astonishment.

There was an outer coffin inside this giant tree?

The viewers in the Live Stream Room breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Ye Bai was fine.

【Oh my god!! Scared me to death. Luckily, Brother Ye Bai is fine. I thought he was a goner just now!】

【No way! I didn't expect Brother Ye Bai would solve those red silk threads like that, by bleeding the coffin's position first.】

【The moment I saw the knife, I felt a sense of bliss, or at least that's what I thought.】

【You're not the only one who thought that; I did too.】

【I'm not worried about Brother Ye Bai's safety anymore; I'm wondering about one thing: why would this coffin appear inside a giant tree?】

【Yeah! What kind of tree is this? Even the Amazon rainforest might not have trees like this, right? It could practically be a treehouse.】

【This tree takes at least twenty people to encircle, right? Is it what I think it is?】

The viewers expressed that this giant tree was truly eerie; it was their first time seeing such a thick tree.

Not to mention, there was an outer coffin inside it.

This was even more baffling.

Inside the Tomb.

“What kind of tree is this? It looks like two trees holding onto each other; otherwise, it wouldn't be this big.”

After hearing Professor Wang's words, Yang Mi hurriedly looked at the giant tree before her.

She saw that this giant tree was indeed two trees merged together.

“Couple Trees.”

Ye Bai said calmly.

“Yes, these are called Couple Trees. This outer coffin was placed here specifically to use the tree to provide nutrients for the person inside the coffin.”

Professor Wang made a bold guess as he looked at the vines inside the giant tree that were closely linked to the outer coffin.

“Huh?” Reba was stunned and looked at Professor Wang in confusion. “Nutrients?”

“Weren't those blood-sucking silk threads providing the nutrients?”

Wu Jing remembered that the thing had sucked a lot of blood from the Tomb Robbers back then.

“Yes, but what's inside this outer coffin isn't blood.”

Professor Wang was certain it wasn't blood; he didn't smell the metallic scent of blood.

It wasn't blood; it was likely something else.

“Not blood?”

Zhang Dada approached the outer coffin with a slightly disgusted expression. There was no bloody smell near the coffin, but there was a faint fragrance.

It wasn't a perfume, but rather the scent of grass and leaves.

“This smells like medicinal herbs.”

Zhang Dada thought it smelled very similar to some traditional Chinese medicine he had smelled before.

“This is a preservative mixed with mercury and Chinese herbal medicine. This way, the integrity of the corpse can be guaranteed.”

Ye Bai rarely took the initiative to speak, glancing sideways at the position of the outer coffin beside him.

“Corpse? Is there still a corpse in here?”

Reba looked at the outer coffin in surprise.

“If there is a coffin, of course there is a corpse. This is no ordinary outer coffin; this is a Jade Coffin, known as the Crimson Blood Jade Coffin. This coffin is quite extraordinary.”

When Professor Wang reached this point, there was a look of excitement in his eyes.

Because they would soon be able to see the corpse inside the outer coffin.

“Professor, look.”

After the Archaeological Team member saw the corpse appearing inside the outer coffin, his eyes also shone with excitement.

In the next moment.

Once the red liquid inside the outer coffin had drained completely, they saw a Female Corpse lying within.

The Female Corpse held a golden scepter in her hands, with a dragon on one side and a tiger on the other. She wore unique attire that looked similar to what the High Priest of King Yelang wore, but her face was covered by a golden mask.

The mask was dazzling under the light, emitting a golden glow.

“Is this the High Priest? The clothes look very similar to the ones we saw before.”

Looking at the Female Corpse, Wu Jing couldn't help but think it looked very much like what they had seen in the Yelang Kingdom.

“Possibly.”

Professor Wang took out the gloves he carried with him, reached out to carefully pick up the Dragon-Tiger Scepter, and handed it to the team member behind him to wipe off the red slime.

“Professor, this is a cultural relic, right? Should we take it back with us?”

The team member handled the scepter as if it were a precious treasure, cleaning it up and very carefully wiping away the filth.

“No, based on this Female Corpse's identity, she might be the High Priest. If she is, then this item will be of great use. Let's keep it for now; it might serve some purpose later.”

Professor Wang shook his head. He didn't know much about the history of Southern Yunnan or the imperial period of that time, but he was quite clear on this basic cultural context.

“Should we take this mask too?”

Another team member was looking at the Female Corpse's mask; regardless of what it was, it was at least a cultural relic.

Just then—

After the Dragon-Tiger Scepter was taken away, they saw the High Priest's body withering bit by bit, finally turning into a Dried Corpse.