429: The Demigod in the Coffin

The Altar of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect was incredibly vast.

If one were to look down from above, they would clearly see that the entire Altar was comprised of four areas encircling a massive central palace.

The entire palace was pitch black, standing on the ground, filled with an eerie aura, and also carried a terrifying suppressive force.

It seemed that precisely because of the suppression from this palace, these four areas could be eternally held in place.

It was obvious.

This colossal palace was the true core of the Altar.

Although Xiao Shi could not see the overall layout of the Altar.

But as he gained immense improvements in the other four areas, upon leaving the Crimson Tiger Lineage's area, he directly appeared outside this enormous black palace.

The palace doors of the entire black palace were tightly shut.

To enter it.

The doors had to be opened first.

Xiao Shi gazed at the massive doors before him.

The entire doors stood several hundred meters high.

Carvings of an Evil Ghost, a Dream Witch, a Mountain God, and a Crimson Tiger were prominently displayed on the doors.

“No…”

“Rather than carvings, they look more like real, living beings sealed within the doors.”

Xiao Shi narrowed his eyes slightly.

He reached out, attempting to push open the doors.

However, before he could touch the doors.

A layer of black light film already shimmered on the entire doors, and when his palm touched this light film, it was directly repelled.

Xiao Shi realized that opening these doors evidently required some special method.

He observed carefully.

Not missing any detail on the doors.

After a long while.

Xiao Shi had a guess in his mind.

“The key to opening these doors should lie in the Four Symbols carvings on the doors…”

Thinking of this.

Xiao Shi’s face instantly transformed into an Evil Ghost.

Pfft!

With a sound of flesh tearing.

A pair of massive black Evil Ghost wings suddenly ripped through his back, growing out from within.

At the same time, a black single horn emerged from his forehead.

His entire being directly transformed into an Evil Ghost form.

He extended his palm again.

He stretched his palm towards the Evil Ghost area corresponding on the doors.

This time, his palm easily passed through the light film, successfully touching the doors.

And the moment he touched the doors.

The eyes of the Evil Ghost carving on the doors suddenly glowed with an eerie red light.

As if it had come alive.

Xiao Shi felt that he had successfully gained the recognition of the Evil Ghost on the doors.

And he had to simultaneously gain the recognition of all Four Symbols on the doors to open them.

Immediately.

Xiao Shi then proceeded to gain recognition one by one through his own Four Symbols power.

However, strangely enough… even though all Four Symbols on the doors had recognized him.

Yet, when Xiao Shi reached out to push the doors, the entire massive doors remained motionless.

Completely unable to be pushed open.

“It seems a crucial step is still missing…”

Xiao Shi fell into contemplation.

He tried taking out the heart.

Wanting to see if it needed to be opened through the heart to open these doors.

However, when he took out the heart.

There was no movement or reaction from the heart.

“It’s not the heart…”

Xiao Shi frowned deeply.

“Besides the heart, what else could open these doors?”

He pondered deeply.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning crossed his mind.

He thought of an extremely crucial item.

“I know what it is!”

Xiao Shi spread his palm.

Chirp!

His palm split open, revealing a profound eyeball, like a starry sky.

It was… the eye of imperial judgment!

When Chen Yuan gifted the heart to Xiao Shi, he also gave the eye of imperial judgment to Xiao Shi.

However, because Chen Yuan had forcefully used the eye of imperial judgment at that time.

This caused significant depletion in the eye of imperial judgment.

Although it came into Xiao Shi’s hands, it had been dormant within Xiao Shi’s body, recovering its power.

Anyway, with Xiao Shi’s current cultivation, he couldn’t use the eye of imperial judgment.

At this moment, Xiao Shi realized.

The key to opening these doors must be the eye of imperial judgment!

The eye of imperial judgment, as the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect’s most treasured artifact.

It had always held a pivotal position within the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect.

If even the heart in his hand couldn’t open these doors.

Then what could open these doors must only be the eye of imperial judgment!

At once, when the eye of imperial judgment emerged from Xiao Shi’s palm.

The originally dormant eye of imperial judgment instantly awakened.

“The aura of the Altar…”

“This is the Altar!!”

The artifact spirit within the eye of imperial judgment felt extremely surprised.

“Senior, can you help me open these doors?”

Xiao Shi quickly asked.

“Of course.”

The artifact spirit within the eye of imperial judgment smiled.

“The doors of the Altar have always only been able to be opened by me.”

Xiao Shi was overjoyed upon hearing this.

It was indeed as he had guessed!

The eye of imperial judgment was the key to opening these doors!

He raised his hand.

He aimed the eye of imperial judgment in his palm at the doors.

Chirp!

A crimson-gold beam of light immediately gushed out from within the eye of imperial judgment, illuminating the black doors in front.

Under the illumination of this crimson-gold beam of light.

The entire black doors were also rendered golden.

At the same time, swirls composed of numerous intricate patterns appeared on the doors, constantly rotating at the very center.

This caused the entire heavy doors to emit a grating, teeth-grinding “creak” sound.

The doors slowly opened.

Whoosh!

The moment the doors opened.

Xiao Shi clearly felt the black coffin within his body fluctuate.

This made his heart pound.

He became even more certain that there was a great connection between the existence in the black coffin and the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect.

Immediately, after taking a deep breath.

He followed the wide-open doors and entered.

The great hall was filled with gloom, and at the uppermost position, a large black bone chair was placed!

Around this black bone chair, there were four statues.

They were an Evil Ghost, a Mountain God, a Dream Tapir, and a Crimson Tiger, respectively.

The entire great hall was extremely vast.

The moment Xiao Shi entered the great hall.

He was immediately drawn to an object placed in the very center of the great hall.

This was clearly a coffin!

Whether it was the shape, color, or other aspects of the coffin, it was incredibly similar to the coffin within Xiao Shi’s body.

The feeling it gave Xiao Shi… was as if this coffin and the coffin within his body were a pair!

Xiao Shi’s heart pounded.

He realized that he would soon uncover everything.

In fact, he already had some guesses about the identity of the demigod in the black coffin.

It was just that he couldn’t confirm if his guesses were correct… Now, as he continuously approached the coffin in front.

He could clearly feel the vibration amplitude of the coffin within his body growing larger and larger.

Especially the coffin lid.

It kept making clanging sounds.

Pfft!

Suddenly.

When Xiao Shi arrived within a hundred meters of the coffin in front.

The heart within his body, under high-speed beating, suddenly flew out of his chest on its own, transforming into a black light, and instantly shot towards the coffin in the distant great hall.

And upon touching the coffin, the heart directly merged into it.

“Thump thump! Thump thump!”

In an instant.

The entire great hall echoed with loud, massive heartbeats.

And from an initial faintness, it gradually grew stronger.

At the same time, the heart rate also grew faster and faster.

Accompanying the heartbeat.

Creak!

A grating and heavy friction sound emanated from the coffin in front.

This was the sound of the coffin opening!

The entire black coffin was slowly opening.

Thereby causing the entire great hall to shake and tremble wildly.

It was obvious.

The heart within Xiao Shi’s body was the key to opening this coffin.

With a clang.

The coffin lid shot high up, crashing heavily onto the ground, emitting a loud thud.

Xiao Shi held his breath and approached the coffin.

As the coffin lid fell.

He could already see a corner of the corpse inside the coffin.

When he came beside the coffin.

And leaned in to examine the inside of the coffin.

He immediately clearly saw… that within the coffin, it was indeed a young man.

This person had a handsome face, lying quietly in the coffin.

What particularly caught Xiao Shi’s attention.

Was the position of the heart in the other party’s chest, where there was originally a gaping hole.

But now, with the integration of the heart.

It caused the flesh in his chest area to rapidly grow and heal.

Xiao Shi gazed at the young man’s face.

Although he was seeing this young man for the first time, he felt an extremely strong sense of familiarity from his appearance.

At first, he hadn’t understood where this sense of familiarity came from.

But very quickly… he remembered the origin of this sense of familiarity!

This greatly shook his mind.

“Indeed!!”

“It really is him!!”

Xiao Shi instantly confirmed his previous guess about this person’s identity.

Now, although the other party had already integrated his heart, and the heart had begun to beat powerfully within his body.

But this person had not revived because of it.

He was still a cold corpse.

Xiao Shi’s brow furrowed slightly at this.

He began to carefully examine the corpse.

Soon, he understood why the other party had not revived.

“The heart merely restored the completeness of this corpse…”

“But this corpse currently only has a physical body, lacking a soul.”

“To revive him, his soul must return to his body.”

Thinking of this.

Xiao Shi’s heart suddenly stirred.

“In other words…”

“The one in the black coffin within my body is actually his soul!!”

“No wonder the coffin within my body and this coffin in the Altar are so similar, like a pair.”

“These two coffins…”

“One contains the physical body, and the other contains the soul!”

Xiao Shi was somewhat surprised by this.

All along, he had thought that what was inside the coffin in his body was the body of this demigod.

He never expected it to be the other party’s soul.

Upon realizing this.

Xiao Shi immediately summoned the coffin from within his body.

When the coffin from within his body appeared.

This coffin immediately overlapped with the coffin in the great hall before him.

The moment the two coffins overlapped.

Xiao Shi clearly felt that there was a soul within this corpse!

No longer just an empty shell.

However, the soul within it was only a remnant soul, not a complete soul.

This also meant that even with a soul, the other party still had not awakened.

“It seems I still have to find a way to repair his soul?”

Xiao Shi felt the difficulty.

After all, ever since he obtained this coffin, the demigod’s soul within it had always been a confused remnant soul.

And he had no method to repair its soul.

This made him feel tricky.

“Senior, can you perform soul repair?”

Xiao Shi could only seek help from the eye of imperial judgment.

“This is not within my capabilities.”

The artifact spirit in the eye of imperial judgment replied.

“Actually, the master’s soul here doesn’t need you to repair it; the master’s biggest problem is his physical body!”

“As long as the master’s physical body recovers its completeness, then his soul will gradually recover. Now you only need to wait here for the master’s soul to recover.”

Xiao Shi suddenly understood.

It seemed that as a demigod, his foundation was even more astonishing than he had imagined.

The true key to his revival.

Was the heart of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect’s wielder!

At the same time, from the reply of the eye of imperial judgment’s artifact spirit.

Xiao Shi could already confirm… that this demigod in the coffin was the founder of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect!

Only the founder of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect could be respectfully called “master” by the eye of imperial judgment!

At the same time, the other party’s figure was also the same as the figure of the person who sealed the Evil Ghost Era that he had seen in the vision earlier!

Although Xiao Shi had already deduced a lot of information at this moment.

However, there were still many things that he needed to wait until this demigod revived to get answers.

Soon.

Xiao Shi found that it was indeed as the eye of imperial judgment had said.

When this demigod’s physical body recovered its completeness with the integration of the heart, his soul immediately began to recover.

This also made Xiao Shi understand why the other party’s remnant soul had told him that the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect could revive him.

It was just that because the other party’s soul was incomplete.

Therefore, he only knew that the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect could revive him, but did not know the specific steps.

Just like that.

With the continuous recovery of his soul.

This demigod, who had been dormant in the coffin for a long time, finally opened his eyes!

Successfully revived!

However, his soul was still not fully recovered at the moment.

It had only recovered to the extent that allowed him to awaken, so he still appeared somewhat weak.

But the moment he opened his eyes and saw Xiao Shi.

He revealed a smile.

“You truly didn’t disappoint me.”

Apparently, after he awakened.

Through his previous memories within Xiao Shi’s body, he knew that it was Xiao Shi who brought him back to the Altar, successfully reviving him.

At the same time, he had also witnessed Xiao Shi’s growth along the way.

He was full of praise for Xiao Shi.

“Senior, can you tell me your identity?”

Xiao Shi asked.

Although he had basically guessed the other party’s identity, he felt it was still necessary to confirm it.

“Certainly.”

The demigod in the coffin smiled.

“I believe you’ve already guessed.”

“My name is Yan Huagu.”

“Besides being the founder of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect, I also have another identity, which is…”

“The Martial Emperor’s second descendant!”

Even though Xiao Shi had already guessed.

But the moment the other party said it himself, his mind couldn’t help but be greatly shaken!!