So this is the Spirit Sealing Coffin.

Zhao Qingcang stood on the sea surface, gazing at the huge stone coffin rising from the seabed, his heart surging with emotion.

The teacher had long anticipated that things would come to this.

Sealed spirit coffin.

Like the pendulum of life, it is a forbidden artifact.

To use it, one must pay with their life.

Zhao Qingcang's eyes instantly welled up with tears.

He finally understood what his teacher meant by saying, "I am someone who should have died long ago."

He wasn't wallowing in self-pity; he was heading towards a death that was already destined for him.

What is this?

Qin Zeduo's eight enormous snake heads simultaneously uttered questions, and for the first time, solemnity and apprehension were revealed in his sixteen golden vertical pupils.

For some reason, when this simple stone coffin appeared, his soul, as the fully formed Yamata no Orochi, felt an unprecedented sense of dread.

An idea popped into his mind.

A magical artifact?

Is this some kind of magical artifact?

Yes.

Only a divine artifact could make his current strongest body feel a real threat.

But what about divine artifacts?

Today, I, Qin Zeduo, will use this unprecedentedly perfect body to challenge the majesty of the divine weapon!

High in the sky, Deng Qihe's hair and beard stood on end, and his faded old military uniform fluttered in the strong wind.

He ignored Qin Zeduo's shouts and simply stretched out his withered hand to gently stroke the cold, rough surface of the stone coffin.

His eyes were filled with determination.

"Qin Ze, although we cannot kill you, we will seal you into this Spirit Sealing Coffin today!"

After saying that, he slammed his palm on the lid of the Spirit Sealing Coffin!

"open!"

boom--!!!

As the palm struck, Deng Qihe's already aged body rapidly withered away.

His once silver hair turned dry and yellow, losing all its luster, like wild grass in late autumn.

His facial skin quickly became loose and wrinkled, and the radiance of life faded rapidly from his bright eyes.

He poured his last life essence into this stone coffin without reservation.

"Crunch... crunch..."

The incredibly heavy stone coffin lid, emitting a teeth-grinding scraping sound, slowly slid open to one side.

A bottomless rift, capable of devouring souls, appeared between heaven and earth.

A terrifying suction force erupted from the crack!

The winds and clouds changed color, and even ghosts and gods wailed!

The entire sea was stirred up by an invisible hand, turning into a huge whirlpool.

The waves were torn into a mist that filled the sky, only to be swallowed up by the terrifying suction.

Even the thick clouds in the sky were stretched and deformed, taking on a spiral shape.

Inside the temporary command post at Changmen Port.

"Sizzle... sizzle..."

The massive remote monitoring array light screen flickered violently a few times, filled with blinding static.

The screen went black, and the signal was completely lost.

"What's going on?!"

"Quick! Repair the formation! What's going on over there?!"

"Why did you mess up at the most crucial moment!"

Several staff officers responsible for monitoring the formation were sweating profusely, frantically operating the control panel, but to no avail.

"No good, General! The energy fluctuations ahead are terrifying, far exceeding the limits of our monitoring array! The spatial structure has become unstable!"

Damn it!

The bearded lieutenant general was so anxious that he slammed his fist on the table, making the water glasses on the table clink loudly.

"What exactly happened just now? And what is that stone coffin that Marshal Deng took out?!"

No one could answer him.

Inside the command center, all the generals were extremely anxious.

Only Qi Zhenyun retreated to a corner, his back to everyone, looking out at the night sky.

Information about the Sealed Spirit Coffin was a top-secret secret of the Great Xia military, known only to him and Zhao Qingcang.

He couldn't say.

I can't say either. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Qi Zhenyun straightened his back, slowly raised his right hand, and gave a silent military salute towards Tokyo.

He closed his eyes, and two streams of hot tears silently slid down his aged cheeks.

Marshal Deng.

Rest in peace.

...

On the sea surface.

As soon as the sealed coffin was opened, Qin Zeduoyilang sensed something was wrong.

The suction force emanating from the coffin was not a simple physical pull, but a forced separation of the soul from the very essence of life!

"You want to seal me away? Dream on!"

The Yamata no Orochi let out a deafening roar, and its eight enormous heads simultaneously turned, spewing out devastating beams of energy at the stone coffin!

Venom, fire, frost, lightning...

Eight different types of attacks converged in mid-air into an energy torrent powerful enough to destroy a city, slamming fiercely into the Sealed Spirit Coffin.

However, the torrent of energy that was powerful enough to pierce through mountains was completely swallowed up by the crack when it approached the Spirit Sealing Coffin, without causing any ripples.

Qin Zeduo's heart sank.

His massive body was pulled ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) precariously by the terrifying suction force, sliding little by little towards the stone coffin.

"Freeze! Freeze!"

Qin Zeduoyilang became fierce, his eight thick snake tails plunging into the seabed, gripping the deep-sea rock layers, trying to stabilize himself.

But all of this was in vain.

Faced with the immense power of the divine artifact, his pride in his physical strength seemed utterly laughable.

"No--!"

With a roar filled with resentment, the massive body of Yamata no Orochi was uprooted and flew uncontrollably toward the stone coffin of death.

On the sea.

The body of the Yamata no Orochi was being dragged little by little into the endless darkness of the Sealing Coffin.

Half, two-thirds...

Just as the enormous body was about to be completely swallowed up, the coffin lid began to slowly close.

At this critical moment!

"roar--!!!"

Qin Zeduo let out a desperate roar, and the power within his body exploded out without reservation!

Boom! Boom!

Two terrifying energies exploded inside the sealed coffin, creating a powerful backlash that caused the coffin lid, which was about to close, to freeze for a fraction of a second.

It's that one tenth of a second!

Two enormous snake heads covered in purplish-black scales emerged from the gaps in the coffin!

"Hahaha...hahahaha!"

Qin Zeduo's wild laughter, a sound born of his survival, echoed through the sky, filled with mockery and smugness.

The two snake heads jammed the coffin lid, preventing it from closing even slightly.

"Deng Qihe! You've grown old!"

"Even if you use a divine artifact, you can't completely seal me away by yourself!"

Deng Qihe's figure had become semi-transparent. He had exhausted all his strength and could only watch helplessly as all this happened.

The old man's eyes revealed resentment and despair.

Could it be that... all our efforts have ultimately failed?

However, at that moment...

A calm voice suddenly rang out on the battlefield.

"What if I were included?"

Before the words were finished, a spatial rift tore open in front of the Spirit Sealing Coffin.

Zhao Qingcang's tall and straight figure stepped out from the middle.

He didn't even glance at the two hideous snake heads, but instead focused his gaze on Deng Qi and the dissipating remnant soul, revealing a dashing smile.

"teacher."

Deng Qi's illusory face was filled with shock.

"Qing Cang...you..."

Zhao Qingcang said no more.

He turned around, facing the stone coffin that exuded an aura of death, and without the slightest hesitation, he stretched out his large palm and pressed it heavily onto the cold coffin lid.

"If my teacher can die for the Great Xia, so can I!"