As if to confirm Zhao Ermu's conjecture, the corpse king who stepped out of the fire suddenly burst into flames and pounced on Zhao Ermu with lightning speed.
Zhao Ermu's eyes suddenly changed. Although he was on guard, he didn't expect that the Corpse King was unexpectedly fast this time. Before he could even take action, the Corpse King over there was already in front of him, and then he flew up and kicked him on the chest. .
"Poof!" Zhao Ermu spurted out a mouthful of blood. He felt as if his chest had been hit by a bell full of pestles, and he flew out immediately.
Zhao Ermu, who was kicked away, did not stop until he hit the tomb wall. When he fell back to the ground, blood began to pour out of his throat. He wanted to get up, but found that he couldn't exert any strength at all. He had no choice but to struggle and lean against the wall. After feeling his physical condition for a while, he said desperately in his heart: It's over, I have a broken sternum!
Zhao Ermu glanced at the Corpse King and saw that he actually turned around and started walking towards the bronze coffin. He was slightly relieved, and then turned his eyes to Zhao Laojin who was leaning at the door. For the first time, his eyes showed the intention to retreat.
Over there, the Taoist priest with a grimace was still coughing non-stop at the bottom of the coffin. He Siniang squatted beside him and kept helping him straighten it out. After a while, he finally regained his consciousness.
The grim-faced Taoist priest who sat up and said the first thing he said was: "Where's that ghost?!"
He Siniang didn't say anything, but her eyes had already caught a glimpse of half of the head emerging from the coffin. She hurriedly winked at the grimace Taoist priest and signaled that the Corpse King was now standing outside the bronze coffin.
The grim-faced Taoist priest did not dare to speak at this time. He quietly raised his buttocks and turned around as he approached He Siniang. When he saw the motionless Tianling Gai of the Corpse King, he couldn't help but lower his voice and asked: "What is it doing?".
He Siniang shook her head: "It suddenly stopped moving. Could it be..."
"Stop guessing and leave quickly!"
The two of them didn't have time to think too much and started to retreat against the sarcophagus.
The Taoist priest with a grimace fixed his eyes on the corpse king's Tianling cover. He used his hands and feet on the bottom of the coffin. As he continued to retreat, more and more parts of the head of the corpse king could be seen. When he got closer to the end of the coffin, the Taoist priest with a grimace felt like he was about to catch a glimpse of the corpse king. His eyes were wet, and suddenly his palms felt cold, and his left hand seemed to press something on the bottom of the whirring coffin.
The Taoist priest with a grimace was stunned. Judging from the touch in his palm, the thing at the bottom of the coffin was probably a jade pendant. This was actually not surprising. After all, jade pendants and swords were the most common burial objects of military commanders. The strangest thing is the shape of the jade pendant. The more the grimace Taoist priest touched it, the more he felt that the shape of the jade pendant was very familiar to him, vaguely like some kind of animal. As he was thinking hard, He Siniang's voice suddenly came from his ears: "What are you doing again?" What are you doing there! Why is the Corpse King staring over?!"
The Taoist Priest with a grimace hurriedly looked at the Corpse King. As expected, the other party was staring directly at him. This time, his hand stopped in mid-air in fright. He didn't know what to do with the jade pendant for a moment.
"Come out quickly!" He Siniang had half of her body turned out of the bronze coffin. Seeing the corpse king's eyes getting colder and colder, she couldn't help but urge: "Stop scratching at the bottom of the coffin. You have a destiny to fish." Is life acceptable?"
"Pindao didn't touch the fish, he just accidentally touched something, and Pindao seems to understand why the Corpse King didn't move."
"Why?"
"Could it have stepped on its own bronze sword..."
"...Isn't that sword broken?"
"So what if it's broken? The significance of an item being buried in a coffin is of course of great significance. I guessed that it was at a loss after stepping on the broken sword, so it froze on the spot."
"In this case, let's run away quickly, right? By the time it comes to its senses, it will be too late."
"It's useless. The sword was cut by Pindao. Will it let Pindao escape? And..." The grim-faced Taoist opened his palm, and a rat-shaped jade pendant suddenly appeared in his palm.
"This is... oh, you really have a weak hand! Didn't I tell you not to touch it?! Are you planning to piss me off to death?!"
Seeing He Siniang getting angry, the Taoist priest with a grimace said hurriedly: "Pin Dao touched it before you asked me to do it. Don't be angry, Si Niang... No, that's not the case. Pindao wanted you to see the shape of this jade pendant."
"What shape?!" He Siniang glanced at the Corpse King and saw that he was still standing in the same place. Now she did not dare to call the grim-faced Taoist priest to come out. Who knew what the Corpse King's reaction would be if he took the jade pendant out of the coffin. She looked at it again He glanced at the jade pendant in the Taoist priest's hand with a grimace and said indifferently: "Isn't it just a mouse?"
"It's a mouse... it's a mouse, and its shape and size... are exactly the same as Pindao's key to the Gray Immortal Temple!"
"Ah?!" He Siniang was surprised. She had seen the jade pendant of the Taoist Ghostface. It was the only relic left by Chen Sanxiao to the Taoist Ghostface. It was said that the secret of the eunuch of the Xian family was hidden in it, but that thing was not from the Chen family. Is it something only the head of the house has? Why would one appear in the sarcophagus for no reason?
The grim-faced Taoist priest showed a rare expression of excitement, held He Siniang's hand, and said: "I have a feeling that this bucket can solve the confusion that has been in my heart for more than thirty years."
"Really? So you took the opportunity to touch my body?" He Siniang said with a smile, but did not shake off the grimace Taoist priest's hand.
The grimace-faced Taoist priest blushed with embarrassment and took the initiative to pull his hand back, saying sarcastically: "I was so excited, and besides, your standards for "moving things" are too low."
"Are you still in the mood to argue? Have you forgotten our situation? Even if this jade pendant can solve your confusion, what can you do? Believe it or not, as soon as the jade pendant is taken out of the coffin, the Corpse King will immediately attack again you?"
"If I don't take the jade pendant out with me, can it let me go?"
"That's not certain, huh? Taoist priest, do you think the reason why the Corpse King hasn't attacked us for a long time is because of this jade pendant?"
"You mean it's worried that we'll get too anxious and throw the jade pendant away?"
"Um."
"It already has such a brain?! Then it's better to let it be a human, and let me be a monster."
"Don't underestimate it!" Zhao Ermu appeared out of nowhere: "It just broke my sternum with a kick."
"Ah? Are you okay then?"
"I can no longer exert any strength in my upper body. If I fall down again..."
"You want to quit?"
Zhao Ermu nodded: "As long as you take my eldest brother out safely, I will still give you the blood of the blue dragon with both hands when you get outside the fight."
The Taoist Priest with a grimace sighed. Although he was happy with the clues about the jade pendant, he also understood that it was difficult for the Corpse King to survive in the battle, let alone track down the clues. At this time, he still had the upper hand in retreat. But he broke the bronze sword by himself, and he was also the one who dropped his pants when he was chased by the Corpse King. This knot is already dead, how easy is it to just pat his ass and leave now? Thinking about it, he couldn't help but said: "I asked you to withdraw before but you didn't. Now you are being stared at by the Corpse King. Can you and I withdraw just by opening our mouths?"
"Didn't you two talk about the jade pendant? Since the Corpse King values it so much, why not throw it into the tomb passage, so that we can have time to escape."
