75: The collapse of the Crimson Lotus Palace Master, the artifact spirit: Has the master been reincarnated?!

"I just don't know why, even though this person is right in front of me, the System has no reaction."

Xu Jinhuan gazed at the cold jade coffin, which was as clear as crystal, his brows furrowing slightly as the confusion in his heart deepened.

This question had been like a thorn in his heart ever since he first caught a glimpse of the woman inside the coffin.

Now, as the ice coffin became increasingly transparent and the woman's features became clearer, his questions only grew deeper.

Yet, strangely, his Heavy Pupils' power—which was typically invincible and capable of piercing through the illusions of eternity—vanished without a trace the moment it touched the coffin wall, like a clay ox entering the sea.

All that his vision could reach was a deep, profound darkness, as if separated by an invisible chasm.

Beneath this ten-thousand-year cold jade, there was actually hidden another infinitely vast space, a world larger than an entire Dao Province!

What seemed to be a distance within reach was actually separated by layers upon layers of spatial barriers; the distance between them could only be described as endless!

No wonder the System had no reaction to this woman!

"Is there actually a world hidden within the coffin?"

Xu Jinhuan was increasingly alarmed, forming a new hypothesis about the origin of the coffin.

"The owner of this coffin seems to be the Azure Lotus Great Emperor's most beloved offspring, or perhaps even the only one..."

"Come to think of it, did this ancient Great Emperor really have any offspring?"

Xu Jinhuan suddenly thought of this question.

Although the Azure Lotus Great Emperor was renowned and had a respectable reputation among the many Great Emperors of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

However, the era in which He lived was too distant—hundreds of thousands of years ago—making Him one of the oldest Great Emperors in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. Records about Him had long since become fragmentary in the river of time, and the events of His life were blurred; even His gender remained a mystery that countless Cultivators debated endlessly to this day.

Not to mention the matter of offspring.

"But if she is not the offspring of the Azure Lotus Great Emperor, why would she be so solemnly buried in the Great Emperor's former residence, sealed in a ten-thousand-year cold jade coffin, and even have an independent space hidden within?"

Xu Jinhuan cast his gaze back to the woman in the coffin, looking at her green robes embroidered with lotus flowers and the innate imperial dignity between her brows. For a moment, his mind went blank; he could not fathom the connections no matter how hard he tried.

After a long while, he finally shook his head helplessly, no longer obsessing over this unsolvable problem.

"Forget it, if I can't figure it out, I won't think about it. As long as I can gather enough Sword Intent and Law, this woman seems to have a chance of waking up. When she wakes up, I'll just ask her directly; why waste my brainpower here?"

During this time, the crystal coffin had absorbed what could be described as a massive amount of his Green Lotus Sword Intent and Green Lotus Law.

Not only had the coffin lid changed significantly, but the woman's complexion inside had also become noticeably ruddier.

If the woman who entered Xu Jinhuan's Sendai was essentially a dead person—thoroughly dead, to the point where even a resurrection coin couldn't save her—

then the woman now was a dead person who had slightly revived; she wasn't as thoroughly dead, and with enough resurrection coins, she could be brought back to life.

And for her, the resurrection coins were the Sword Intent and Law that Xu Jinhuan condensed.

Yes, the crystal coffin was now accepting everything; as long as it was Xu Jinhuan's power, it could absorb it.

"I didn't even know my own power was this amazing!"

Watching the coffin continuously devour the Law like a whale, Xu Jinhuan was also somewhat surprised.

"As long as this fellow wakes up, not only will I gain a fighter at the level of a Great Emperor's offspring, but I can also Sign-in. It's like Qin Shi Huang touching an electric wire—I'm winning so hard!"

Thinking of this, Xu Jinhuan immediately felt that the massive amount of Sword Intent and Law consumed during this period didn't seem so painful to part with anymore.

"I'll just consider it the necessary cost for future Sign-ins."

...

In the Palace Mistress's hall.

The Palace Mistress of Red Lotus was busy handling the affairs of the Heavenly Palace, overwhelmed and wishing she could split into hundreds or thousands of Clones to act as beasts of burden to handle these incredibly absurd matters.

The Red Lotus Heavenly Palace was composed entirely of female Cultivators, and the repression index was off the charts. Many female Disciples had very loose boundaries with each other, and discussing bedroom intimacies in public was the norm.

Some Disciples even started helping each other out—without any emotional foundation, purely for release.

Therefore, there were a lot of absurd complaints here.

Yesterday, a certain Elder accused her Disciple of being too rough, causing her to be unable to conceive for three hundred years, making it hard to find an honest male Cultivator to take the blame.

Today, another Disciple complained that her Senior Sister wouldn't teach her how to use the twin swords, preventing her from experiencing the joy of all-female cultivation.

Hmm...

This Palace Mistress of Red Lotus was also a miserable person, forced to accept countless mind-shattering pieces of information every day...

Just as she was scratching her head, wanting to go out and kill those cunning female Disciples and Elders.

A phantom suddenly appeared beside her.

The Palace Mistress felt instantly pardoned, putting down the absurd, vulgar essay in her hand and approaching the phantom figure to speak:

"Senior of the Legacy? Why have you come?"

The Spirit of the Hall of Inheritance raised an eyebrow and replied:

"Naturally, it is because of that male Disciple."

Hearing that the other party had come because of Xu Jinhuan, the Palace Mistress first thought that something had gone wrong with the Azure Lotus Dao Severing Art.

"Hmm? What? Is the Azure Lotus Dao Severing Art that the kid gave incomplete? Do you need me to go find that kid and bring him here?"

After Xu Jinhuan walked out of the Hall of Inheritance, the Azure Lotus Dao Severing Art he wrote down was naturally delivered to the Palace Mistress.

But because she was busy with work, the Palace Mistress only read the original text at the beginning.

Hmm, she couldn't understand it at all, but she felt it made perfect sense.

Yes, that was exactly the feeling of a Great Emperor Scripture!

Therefore, she didn't check the rest of the content and focused on the matters at hand.

A Great Emperor Scripture could not be learned in a day.

But those stinky all-female Dao Companions could cause countless troubles in a single day.

The Palace Mistress of Red Lotus could still distinguish what was important and what was not.

The Spirit of the Hall of Inheritance shook its head.

"No, what I want to talk about is that kid himself."

Speaking of this, the Spirit's expression became serious.

"Palace Mistress, do you know how many Great Emperor Scriptures that kid learned and took from us?"

Sensing the gravity in the Spirit's tone, the Palace Mistress of Red Lotus quickly split off a few Clones, extricating herself from those unsightly essays to think solemnly.

After a long while, she guessed:

"Should be two? The Honglian Flowing Light Scripture shouldn't be a big problem. Thanks to the efforts of countless generations of my Heavenly Palace, this Cultivation Technique has been mostly developed, and the entry difficulty is not high. If that kid has a bit of luck and finds another scripture that fits him, it wouldn't be strange for him to learn two."

As the Palace Mistress, Qiu Yuebai's "little actions" certainly couldn't be hidden from her; to be safe, she added one more.

Hearing this answer, the Spirit was speechless.

Good grief, it turns out this Palace Mistress of the Heavenly Palace didn't realize just how terrifying that kid's Comprehension Ability really was.

No wonder she made that decision, letting him into the Heavenly Palace's Hall of Inheritance and allowing him to view the Great Emperor Scriptures at will.

"More than two?"

Receiving no response, the Palace Mistress was somewhat stunned and continued to guess.

"Could it be three? This kid actually managed to learn half of the Heavenly Palace's Great Emperor Scriptures!? This is a huge loss!"

As she spoke, the person in question was ten-out-of-ten—or rather, nine-out-of-ten—regretful, pounding her chest and stamping her feet, causing the two high mountains on her chest to sway and bounce, a magnificent and spectacular sight.

The Red Lotus Heavenly Palace had a total of seven Great Emperor Scriptures; trading three for one, even if the Azure Lotus Dao Severing Art was precious, it wasn't worth it.

The Palace Mistress of Red Lotus could no longer accept this result.

However, facing this answer, the Spirit still shook its head.

"Wrong."

This time, there was a trace of schadenfreude in the Spirit's voice.

Trying to take advantage? This time you've lost big time!

The Spirit's denial was like a bolt from the blue, striking the Palace Mistress of Red Lotus like lightning, leaving her stunned and motionless, unable to catch her breath, almost fainting on the spot.

"C-could it be four?!"

The Palace Mistress continued to guess, her whole body shaking like a sieve, even her voice trembling.

She even knelt down on the spot, kowtowing repeatedly in the direction of the Forbidden Ground in the back mountain, apologizing profusely.

"I am guilty! I am a sinner of the Heavenly Palace!"

"Ancestors and Ancestral Masters above, I have failed you all, I am not worthy of being the Palace Mistress..."

However, the Spirit of the Hall of Inheritance still did not nod or confirm the answer.

This made the Palace Mistress of Red Lotus increasingly panicked, shaking faster and faster.

Watching this leader in such panic and regret, the Spirit sighed and stopped playing games.

"Palace Mistress, you don't need to guess anymore. It's seven. That kid's Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying; he has learned all of the Heavenly Palace's Great Emperor Scriptures."

Hum!

These words were like a thunderclap, exploding in the Palace Mistress of Red Lotus's mind. Her consciousness instantly turned into Chaos, her brain crashed, and she completely lost the ability to think.

"Seven... seven..."

"Hahaha! Seven! It was actually seven!!!"

She muttered to herself, her eyes empty, and then suddenly looked up and laughed wildly, her laughter shrill and filled with endless despair:

"The Red Lotus Heavenly Palace's countless years of accumulation, the hard work of countless predecessors, were actually given away by me so easily! What is the point of me living anymore!"

At this moment, the Palace Mistress recalled the slightly guilty expression Xu Jinhuan had when he first made his request.

At that time, she had thought herself clever, believing the young man was just making an excuse to give the Azure Lotus Dao Severing Art to the Red Lotus Heavenly Palace for free.

She had even mocked him in her heart.

Little did she know, I was the clown!

To save a few stalks of immortal medicine, she was reluctant to take out precious treasures for the exchange, but in the end, she had handed over the entire foundation of the Sect!

Suddenly, the Palace Mistress understood a truth.

"So... things like costs, the free ones are the most expensive..."

The Palace Mistress walked out of her palace in a daze, arriving at the edge of the floating island, with thousands of miles of sky beneath her feet and a bottomless ocean at the very bottom.

Looking at the ocean, a strong desire suddenly arose in her heart.

"Senior of the Legacy, I feel like the ocean below is provoking me. I want to go and have a duel with it where only one of us survives."

"That's jumping into the sea!"

The Spirit was covered in black lines, slapping this unreliable Palace Mistress back.

"Is it really that serious? It's just a few Great Emperor Scriptures. If that kid learned them, he learned them; he won't leak them, so what are you afraid of!"

"Now, take out the scripture that the kid exchanged; let me see what exactly he wrote."

The Palace Mistress was dazed, but she still took out the book recording the Cultivation Technique and handed it to the other party.

Opening the pages, the Spirit was instantly plunged into shock at the first glance.

"Hmm?! The Master has reincarnated?!"