Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 753 - 214: The Girl in the Coffin! Great Flame Holy Fire Guard! (9600 words~)_2
But for some reason, news of such a treasured artifact was leaked. Coincidentally, an official from the Holy Fire Guard in Heling County got wind of it!
The Holy Fire Guard... is somewhat akin to the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Imperial Astral Division, with a similar rank structure.
The official in the know from the Holy Fire Guard was a Chief Flag Officer within the ranks.
Under his command were dozens of Holy Fire Guards, equivalent to holding power over dozens of cultivators! Such a force was immensely powerful within this county.
It was an entity no one dared to provoke!
Even Liu Weng, backed by the Liu Family from the Imperial City, wouldn’t dare to stir trouble with such an existence; after all, the mountains are high and the Emperor is far away. Moreover, the Liu Family in the Imperial City wasn’t considered a significant power, merely a minor clan.
But it was such a treasured artifact that forced him to provoke a Holy Fire Guard Chief Flag Officer.
That Holy Fire Guard Chief Flag Officer sent people to demand Liu Weng to hand over the jade artifact to the Holy Fire Guard.
Would Liu Weng be willing to comply?!
What followed was a series of events, essentially the Holy Fire Guard using the influence of the Imperial Court to attempt to seize the treasure by force. Unexpectedly, they encountered someone with a stubborn and unyielding character; thus, one party tried to seize by force, while the other refused to give in at all costs.
The seed of discord... was sown like this and, at a critical moment, this seed of contradiction grew into a towering tree.
Since Liu Weng didn’t feel reassured, he decided to personally take action when preparing to transport the artifact to the Liu Family in the Imperial City.
His concerns proved to be well-founded, as someone indeed tried to snatch the artifact en route.
It was none other than the Holy Fire Guard!!
Without explanation, they forcefully seized the artifact and detained Liu Weng directly in the Holy Fire Guard’s prison, where he was held for half a month!
He has yet to be released even now.
During this time, Liu Feng’s wife had been trying to leverage all her connections to get her husband out.
But who could have imagined... the local Holy Fire Guard was impervious to influence, they wouldn’t even let her visit her husband.
With the loss of the primary pillar of the household, the consequences were self-evident.
The businesses of their family were encroached upon by many competitors, none of whom showed mercy.
"This is outrageous!!" Liu Feng exclaimed angrily after hearing the beautiful woman’s account, slamming his fist down on the table.
He gritted his teeth and said, "These corrupt officials, relying on their little bit of power, have done such things. Have they no respect for the law? For the laws of the Great Yan Dynasty?!"
How could he not be enraged? After all, it was their family business at stake, and the treasured artifact was also their inheritance.
Moreover, the person who had been thrown into jail and still hadn’t been released, whose life or death was unknown, was his childhood playmate, his close friend, his relative.
Both emotionally and rationally, he couldn’t stay calm.
And he couldn’t calm down.
Just then, Xing Fengzi suddenly interjected, "That jade artifact... besides being impervious to blades and unharmed by fire and water, does it have any other special qualities?"
The beautiful woman was startled, thought carefully, and then answered, "It seems... there’s nothing particularly special about it, and I’m not very clear on it; my husband didn’t allow me to handle the jade."
Xing Fengzi stroked his chin, "That’s odd, a piece of jade that seems to be just a bit tougher, is it worth tearing off one’s disguise and committing such acts?"
Unless the Holy Fire Guard of the Great Yan Dynasty has no shame at all.
Otherwise, no matter how you look at it.
It doesn’t really add up to normal human logic.
To go to such lengths over a jade artifact whose specific functions are somewhat unclear... one side willing to pay any price to seize it; the other side risking their own life to protect it—this all sounds quite strange.
Xing Fengzi put forth a hypothesis, "Either that artifact possesses some special power known to all, coveted by all,"
"Or that piece of jade isn’t an ordinary treasure at all, and the reason both parties have become so strangely fixated is very likely due to the influence of the jade itself."
"Of course..." Xing Fengzi added, "This is all just a guess of mine, I’m not too clear on the actual facts."
"Based on what the layperson described, the ones who have done wrong are clearly the Holy Fire Guard."
Just as Xing Fengzi finished speaking, a cry of alarm suddenly came from outside.
"The coffin... the coffin... the coffin moved!!!"
It was the shriek of a maid within the large residence.
And the coffin she mentioned.
It was none other than the Destiny Coffin!
When everyone left the house and came to the courtyard, they saw a maid collapsed on the ground, sitting in a disheveled duck pose, pointing at a nearby coffin and stammering, "It... it, it... it moved!"
During the daylight, the sudden presence of a coffin in the courtyard was already quite frightening.
Now, to see such a coffin actually move—how much more terrifying could that be!
