Top Grade Pure Beauty CEO-Chapter 339 - The Man in the Coffin and a Letter
Chapter 339: Chapter 339 The Man in the Coffin and a Letter
The stone platform was a hundred meters tall; looking up from below, it resembled a circular pyramid and was quite magnificent.
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As he stepped onto the stairway of the platform, an ancient and vast breath emanated from the top of the stone platform, causing the space around it to ripple like water waves, continuously spreading outwards.
“Roar!”
The roar came from behind him, and Li Xiaoyao turned his head, slightly surprised.
Zhu Jiuyin had appeared from who knows where and seemed to have been following them all along. Now, seeing Li Xiaoyao step onto the stone platform, it sped up to its limits and charged toward him.
Nie Xiaoqian stepped forward half a step, unleashing her mighty presence in an instant, but before she could attack Zhu Jiuyin, its massive body slammed into a space above the platform and was violently bounced back.
Li Xiaoyao watched in surprise as Zhu Jiuyin collided with the space; there seemed to be an invisible barrier there, separating him from Zhu Jiuyin.
Zhu Jiuyin continued to howl, its voice full of unwillingness and its eyes filled with rage.
Mockingly glancing at Zhu Jiuyin, Li Xiaoyao speculated that the beast probably wanted to climb onto the stone platform as well.
It seemed that this stone platform was indeed quite extraordinary.
Without any hesitation, Li Xiaoyao turned and walked upwards.
The higher he went, the more terrifying the pressure from the depths of his soul became.
By the third level, Nie Xiaoqian was already pale, slightly bending over as she said, “Young Master, I can’t go any higher, the pressure is too much for me to breathe.”
Li Xiaoyao felt quite strange. Nie Xiaoqian spoke of a pressure that he did not feel at all; could it be because his cultivation level was too weak?
“You go down and rest first,” Li Xiaoyao helped her to the second level, then continued upwards alone.
His unimpeded, leisurely ascent was somewhat surprising to Nie Xiaoqian.
Even with her peak Spirit Cultivation Realm power, she could only make it to the third level, yet Li Xiaoyao, whose cultivation level was much weaker than hers, seemed to be entering an uninhabited domain.
Li Xiaoyao had a strange feeling that everything here seemed familiar to him; it was as if he’d been here before.
This feeling became stronger as he got closer to the top of the stone platform.
With only three levels remaining, Li Xiaoyao’s steps began to slow.
That feeling of familiarity kept surging in his heart.
As he caressed the white stones, each scratch on them symbolized their past experiences.
Li Xiaoyao swore he had never been to Kunlun, nor had he ever come here.
The sense of familiarity was absurd, and he felt an inexplicable anxiety.
This sudden, eerie sense of familiarity gave Li Xiaoyao a sense of uncontrollable fear.
“It must be an illusion.”
Continually comforting himself in his mind, Li Xiaoyao clenched his fist and his gaze towards the summit gradually hardened as he continued upwards.
The stone platform had seventy-three levels, and Li Xiaoyao had reached the seventy-second; one more level would take him to the top.
“Thud!”
Stepping onto the last stairway, he reached the top.
A very crude coffin came into view, and next to the coffin on the right, hovered a black arrow feather.
The arrow feather was entirely dark and a meter long, much longer than normal feathers.
Li Xiaoyao looked at the coffin bewilderedly and murmured, “Is this really an altar?”
A hundred-meter-high stone platform, with a simple, deteriorated coffin; however you looked at it, it seemed like an altar.
Taking a few steps forward, Li Xiaoyao’s pupils slightly constricted as he saw a body inside the coffin.
From this angle, he could clearly see that the body in the coffin hadn’t decayed; the skin and hair on the arms were visible.
A living sacrifice?
The ritual had just ended?
Information kept leaping into his mind, and as he stood next to the coffin and saw clearly the person lying inside, his brain went blank in that instant.
Lying in the coffin was a man, clad in a moon-white robe, with a jade belt tied around his waist, his eyes tightly shut, and a handsome face.
His long hair lay neatly to the side, and even without breath, one could sense that this man must have been a highly refined gentleman when he was alive.
These were not what shocked Li Xiaoyao.
What truly shocked and made Li Xiaoyao disbelieving was the man’s appearance.
If Nie Xiaoqian were here, she would certainly notice that the man in the coffin looked exactly like Li Xiaoyao.
Unless one saw it with their own eyes, it would be hard for the average person to believe that there could be two such identical people in this world.
“Thud thud thud!”
Li Xiaoyao retreated several steps, his face drained of color, his pupils contracted, out of focus, and he sat on the ground in a daze, still in disbelief.
“Impossible, impossible…” The scene before his eyes, like a heavy hammer, shattered Li Xiaoyao’s worldview.
“What in the world is this place?” Getting up from the ground, feeling the excitement from the black ring, Li Xiaoyao pulled off the ring and threw it hard onto the ground.
Nie Xiaoqian couldn’t see Li Xiaoyao’s actions from below, nor could she hear his voice. Merely a hundred meters short, yet it felt like two different worlds, severing all connections between the two.
Li Xiaoyao didn’t know what he was thinking, nor did he know what he should think.
Anyone who encountered such a bizarre event wouldn’t be able to think straight.
Having sat in place for as long as an hour, Li Xiaoyao felt he should do something.
He stood up, walked back to the coffin, and his gaze involuntarily fell on the corpse’s face, giving him the sensation of looking into a mirror.
Unable to know the information of the corpse’s owner, Li Xiaoyao forcibly shifted his gaze, searching inch by inch inside the coffin, trying to find something useful.
An aged parchment scroll caught his attention.
The scroll lay quietly next to the corpse’s side, as if it had always been there.
His hands trembling, he picked up the scroll and slowly unfolded it. The ancient aura struck him, causing Li Xiaoyao to be slightly dazed.
…
You’ve come, I’ve finally waited for you.
You must be very puzzled, right?
I know you have many questions in your heart, and those questions will eventually be answered, but not now.
Now, take this body back with you, and then leave this place.
The enemy is strong, let us become stronger, and take back what belongs to us.
…
A letter that seemed dubious, yet Li Xiaoyao knew that this letter was meant for him.
He knew I would come, but what exactly is all of this about?
The letter fell to the ground and immediately ignited, turning into a pile of black ash, with the words on it disappearing as well.
No second person would ever get to see this letter.
Li Xiaoyao vigorously rubbed his face, trying to clear his mind, but it was futile.
He still couldn’t understand what was happening, nor could he discern whether he was in illusion or reality.
The only certainty was that this corpse was powerful, powerfully so even in death.
[These few chapters were exhausting to write, as they need to resonate with later parts. Both the outline and detail outline were exhausting to write. Children who complain about slow updates, take a look at the total word count of this book before speaking. Don’t talk without understanding the effort; “Jia Ren” is part-time, six thousand words a day, and to keep it free until now has not been easy. “Jia Ren” doesn’t know when the book will go on sale, up until now, the earnings from this book haven’t even been enough to cover a month’s internet bill, and sometimes it’s truly hard to keep going. So, I also hope you kids can understand “Jia Ren” a bit, stop rushing her, and when the book goes on sale, there will be a big explosion of content. Also, kids, please cast your daily recommendation votes to “Jia Ren,” so she has more motivation to create the following plot.]
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