102: The mysterious woman in the crystal coffin

“Ha, ha ha ha……” Qi Lin’s expression was manic as he threw his head back and laughed wildly.

“With these! That Chen Family Young Master will be trampled underfoot; it’s only a matter of time!”

“Chen Tianming, you would never have thought that back then, with Qu Huaixuan, that was your last chance to kill me, right?”

Amidst the dense spiritual energy, Qi Lin even felt that he didn’t need to deliberately circulate his internal energy.

His cultivation was automatically increasing!

This feeling was simply too exhilarating!

“This generation’s protagonist is truly ordinary yet self-confident…”

Just as Qi Lin was in a frenzy, a light, airy voice suddenly sounded behind him.

Qi Lin’s voice abruptly cut off, and he froze in place as if a pause button had been pressed.

Immediately after, his back was drenched in cold sweat!

He slowly and stiffly turned his head to look, and when he saw that the person in front of him was indeed the owner of the voice from his memory, Qi Lin cried out in collapse, “Bastard! How is this possible? I clearly checked! How did you get here?”

“The protagonist Qi Lin’s mind has collapsed, Devil's Value +999.”

“The protagonist Qi Lin’s state of mind is shattered, Devil's Value +1000.”

“……”

Chen Tianming calmly glanced at the protagonist, who was clearly somewhat deranged.

Evidently, the continuous blows, the betrayal by a woman, and the death of his teammates had already driven him to collapse!

As for why Chen Tianming appeared out of thin air, it was naturally due to his Mental Control, which had been upgraded to Level 3 through AFK training.

He magnified the fear in Qi Lin’s heart and made him subconsciously ignore his presence.

This way, Qi Lin, out of fear, would turn into a treasure-seeking rat, leading him to the secret treasure.

Of course, this kind of invisibility also had significant flaws.

It was only effective on one person, and there couldn't be a third party present beside the target.

Otherwise, with a reminder, Chen Tianming’s mental-level invisibility would instantly fail.

Chen Tianming was about to tell the truth, but he opened his mouth, and an interesting idea suddenly flashed through his mind.

He paused, the corners of his mouth curving slightly upwards, and said, “The reason I can appear here is naturally because Grace told me your hiding place.”

“What?” Qi Lin was stunned by shock, his eyes wide, looking at Chen Tianming with an incredulous expression.

He subconsciously felt it was impossible, yet he also felt that at this point, Chen Tianming had no reason to lie to him!

“You’re lying!” Qi Lin’s voice was hoarse.

“The protagonist Qi Lin’s mind has collapsed, Devil's Value +1000.”

“……”

Chen Tianming walked around him slowly, his hands behind his back, and continued with a smile, “Grace is not your loyal subordinate at all.”

“The reason she obeys your commands is because she seeks the power within you; in other words, she seeks your strength!”

“And now, I am even stronger than you. Tell me, will she betray you and switch sides?”

Chen Tianming’s words were half-truths, and precisely because of this, such lies were more easily believed.

Qi Lin was completely stunned by the words, staring blankly ahead.

Scene after scene from the past flashed before his eyes.

The first time they met, Grace had fought her way out of the enemy’s main camp to join him.

After that, no matter how he tried to guide her, she showed no signs of integrating into the group.

He had originally thought this was due to her mental or personality issues.

But now, thinking back, whenever he had time, Grace would constantly challenge him…

It seemed Chen Tianming was right.

Grace truly only sought greater power!

Crack!

A sound of shattering echoed.

“Ah ah ah ah!” Qi Lin fell to his knees with a thud, clutching his head and screaming loudly.

“The protagonist Qi Lin is completely insane, Devil's Value +1000.”

“……”

Chen Tianming frowned, “So noisy…”

However, Qi Lin still had some luck on him at this moment, so he temporarily endured the noise.

Once Qi Lin’s luck was completely depleted, he casually pointed at Qi Lin.

Accompanied by a flash of electricity, the lightning, which had all been upgraded to Level 3 through AFK training, struck Qi Lin with a crack.

The latter’s screams immediately ceased!

He twitched and fell to the ground.

Chen Tianming snapped his fingers, and countless vines grew rapidly, binding him and securing him to the side.

Chen Tianming was unfamiliar with this place, and he might need to ask this protagonist something later, so he would let him live a little longer for now.

After doing all this, Chen Tianming finally had time to observe the surroundings.

This War God protagonist’s secret treasure, or rather, his cheat.

“Is this the Qi family’s secret?”

“An abandoned palace?”

“Hmm? What’s this?”

Chen Tianming quickly noticed the most conspicuous object here, the crystal coffin placed in the center. He strode over and looked inside.

When he saw the figure lying within, he was stunned!

Chen Tianming believed that by now, he had developed a considerable immunity to beautiful women.

But upon seeing the figure in the crystal coffin, he couldn’t help but marvel at the Creator’s greatness!

If the Female Leads he had seen, after taking the Rejuvenation Pill, had a beauty score of ninety-eight or ninety-nine points,

Then the woman lying in the crystal coffin before him could achieve a perfect score of one hundred points!

Her stunning beauty, combined with skin like jade, a three-dot red maple leaf mark on her brow, and the white robes commonly worn by ancient people, made her appear not only exceptionally beautiful but also incredibly mysterious, like a celestial fairy descending to the mortal realm!

“So this is an ancient person? She looks only about twenty years old. Could she be an ancestor of the Qi family? But it’s been hundreds of years from ancient times until now, hasn’t it? How is this corpse not decayed at all?”

Chen Tianming’s resistance was still very high; he quickly regained his composure and began to observe everything before him, pondering in secret.

“The spiritual energy here is too dense, more than ten times that of the outside world!”

“What is this thing on the ground? It seems to be continuously emitting spiritual energy.”

Chen Tianming picked up the palm-sized white stone piled near the coffin and put it into the system for scanning.

“Responding to the host, this is a low-grade spirit stone, a common currency in the cultivation world. It contains spiritual energy and can also be used for cultivation.”

It’s a spirit stone?

Qi Lin’s cheat is a palace full of spirit stones?

Chen Tianming was overjoyed, feeling that he was one step closer to immortal cultivation and longevity!

However, he quickly noticed something was amiss.

The reason the spiritual energy here was so abundant was not because of these spirit stones surrounding the crystal coffin, but rather… in another direction.

Chen Tianming turned and walked towards one of the four load-bearing pillars of the palace, which had a crack.

In his perception, the spiritual energy seemed to be emanating from this crack.