I Have A Sword

Chapter 776: Nine Blood-Red Coffins

Powerful backers?

Dai Zong and the others glanced at him and snickered. Clearly, they didn't think too much of Ye Guan's backers.

The man in black, however, was furious, thinking that Ye Guan was mocking him. He immediately activated his saber intent, and a seemingly endless surge of saber intent flooded out of him.

The surrounding spacetime trembled, but he didn’t make a move.

After all, he was seriously injured and was greatly weakened.

The mysterious statue was there as well, and he was afraid of it.

He could also feel that the statue hadn't used its full strength.

The man in black glared coldly at Ye Guan, forcibly suppressing his killing intent. He then silently retreated to the side, positioning himself close to the door, ready to flee at any moment.

Although they were in the ruins of a Tier Four civilization with plenty of opportunities to seize, what were opportunities if he was dead?

The others cast curious gazes at the statue, wondering why the statue didn't attack Ye Guan and Yi Nian.

Dai Zong looked at Ye Guan and smiled. “Can you tell this statue that we are good people and that it shouldn't attack us?”

Ye Guan laughed. “To be honest, I don't know why it didn’t attack us, but I think it's because we're humble...”

With that, he looked at the man in black and suggested, “How about you give it another try?”

Hearing Ye Guan’s words, the man in black's face turned sullen, and he stared at Ye Guan with undisguised killing intent in his eyes.

Dai Zong laughed heartily and then looked at the man in black. “You should try it again, but be more humble this time.”

The man in black’s face was extremely dark and grim. Unfortunately, he could no longer escape as the experts behind Dai Zong had marked him with their divine sense.

If he were to flee, they'd definitely strike him down.

However, he was also too weak to withstand another attack from the statue.

Thinking of this, the man in black truly hated Ye Guan, wishing he could tear the latter apart on the spot.

Dai Zong sneered and asked, “What, do you need me to invite you personally?”

The man in black looked at Dai Zong. “I have no grudge against you; why are you targeting me?”

“Because you're the weakest here," Dai Zong replied calmly.

The man in black’s face turned incredibly ugly. He pointed at Ye Guan in the distance and exclaimed, “They're weaker than me! They're from a Tier One civilization, too!”

"You believed him just because he said that he's from a Tier One civilization?" Dai Zong asked.

The man in black was stunned.

Dai Zong shook his head and added, “If he were really from a Tier One civilization, he wouldn't be here, nor would he dare to come here. Fool, have you not noticed that he's been pretending to be weak?”

The man in black was dumbfounded. He turned to look at Ye Guan, who appeared to be honest and innocent on the outside. Was he really pretending to be weak?

Now that he thought about it, would someone from a Tier One civilization even dare to come here?

If he truly were as weak as his cultivation base was telling everyone, how could he remain so calm and composed around people like them?

Meanwhile, Dai Zong turned to Ye Guan and smiled. “Am I right?”

“You asked this man in black to test the statue, but you actually wanted to see if I would step in. Is that right?”

Dai Zong burst out into a peal of boisterous laughter.

The man in black felt even worse. How could he not finally understand what was going on? The people of the Junlin civilization wanted to test the young swordsman’s strength.

They were wary and didn’t want to make a move without understanding the situation, so they used him to provoke the young swordsman, knowing that he'd target who seemed to be the weakest among them—Ye Guan.

This way, they'd be able to gauge Ye Guan’s strength without making an enemy of him.

Realizing that, the man in black looked as if he had swallowed a ton of filth. Damn, how cunning.

Ye Guan glanced at Dai Zong, somewhat surprised, but then he realized that it wasn't strange at all. After all, the Junlin Civilization wouldn't possibly send an idiot on an expedition of this scale.

In other words, it was only natural for people to refuse to believe that he was weak. Those truly weak people wouldn’t dare to come here, after all.

Nonetheless, no one expected that the statue would refuse to attack Ye Guan and Yi Nian.

Dai Zong and the others became even more certain that Ye Guan wasn't so simple.

The lady in white had been observing Ye Guan all along, and her curiosity toward him became even clearer.

Dai Zong suddenly looked at the man in black and smiled. “Are you going to try again for us?”

The man in black’s face darkened, but seeing Dai Zong’s increasingly cold expression, he slowly approached the statue.

This time, he became—cautious and humble rather than arrogant.

Everyone watched as the man approached the statue, and astonishingly, the statue didn't move.

The man in black sighed in relief and quickly moved near the blood-red coffins, giving Ye Guan a cold look at the same time.

Ye Guan merely smiled at the man in black.

Just then, Dai Zong's voice echoed from afar. “It seems that we need to be humble here. Everyone, let’s go!”

Dai Zong turned to look at the lady in white and the others.

The lady in white started walking toward the nine blood-red coffins, and the experts of the Asura Civilization followed closely behind her.

As she walked past the statue, she looked up with curiosity, but she didn’t stop, heading straight for the coffins.

Soon, everyone arrived at the coffins.

The lady in white released her divine sense, but it vanished without a trace as soon as it touched the coffins.

The others had the same experience as her.

The lady in white walked up to one of the coffins, carefully examining the mysterious symbols on it. After just a few moments, she frowned deeply.

The people from the Junlin Civilization also began studying the coffins.

Meanwhile, Ye Guan pulled Yi Nian to the side. He was interested in the coffins as well, but he knew that he'd be in trouble if he were to obtain one of them.

They were from a Tier Four civilization, after all.

They were objects that would drive many civilizations mad, and he was currently too weak to contend with civilizations.

Ye Guan surveyed the surroundings. The endless starry sky was empty, except for the nine blood-red coffins and the statue.

Everywhere else was pitch-black and terrifying.

Yi Nian glanced to the right of the starry sky but remained silent.

Ye Guan transmitted, "Master Pagoda, can you see what's inside these blood coffins?"

His divine sense couldn’t penetrate the coffins.

Little Pagoda replied, "I can't see what's inside of them."

Ye Guan was speechless.

"I'm not omnipotent!" Little Pagoda exclaimed, "I’m just a pagoda with no special abilities whatsoever!"

Ye Guan. "..."

Just then, the lady in white extended her right hand and began doing something.

The blood-red coffin in front of her trembled slightly, and the mysterious symbols on it transformed into tens of thousands of runes, which rearranged themselves under her control.

Ye Guan’s expression changed. She was trying to break the seal.

Everyone was transfixed on the lady in white.

After an unknown amount of time, the lady in white's pupils suddenly contracted into pinpoints.

Ye Guan immediately grabbed Yi Nian and retreated.

Rumble!

A powerful deluge of sword intent erupted from him, forming a protective barrier in front of him.

Just then, a terrifying force burst out from the symbols on the blood-red coffin, blasting everyone away.

Boom!

Ye Guan was prepared, but he was still blasted several kilometers away.

When he stopped, he was stupefied to see that his Invincible Sword Intent was actually dissipating at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Ye Guan’s face darkened. He had tempered his sword intent using a Universe Tribulation, so it was supposed to be indestructible.

Ye Guan reckoned that even a supreme elite with a hundred percent divinity couldn't break it.

Ye Guan wasn’t severely injured, and it was all thanks to the barrier he made at the last second.

Meanwhile, the lady in white was unscathed despite being the closest to the blast.

A mysterious shield had sprung up, protecting her from harm.

However, the people behind her weren’t as fortunate as her.

They were all blasted kilometers away, cutting sorry figures in midair.

The man in black suffered the worst injuries. His fleshly body had cracked open, and he was bleeding from all orifices.

He was in a mess, and his head was buzzing as if he had been struck by a hammer.

Dai Zong was no longer smiling. His expression was solemn, as he could smell the thick miasma of danger in the air.

Ye Guan looked up at the nine blood-red coffins. They lay there quietly, but alarm bells were ringing in his head, informing him of the impending danger.

Ye Guan had been uneasy since he arrived here, and he also felt like he was being observed from somewhere.

He looked around the desolate starry sky but found nothing.

Setting his worries aside, he grabbed Yi Nian and said, “Let’s go!”

He was curious about this Tier Four civilization, but he was too weak to have anything to do with it.

With that in mind, he decisively chose to leave.

Yi Nian glanced at Ye Guan and didn’t object, letting him lead her away.

Just as they were about to step out of the stone door, it abruptly closed, and the light from the nearby stars vanished, plunging the region into complete darkness.

It was so dark that only the nine coffins—glowing in a sinister blood-red hue—in the distance were visible.

Ye Guan’s face turned grim.