Chapter 329 (2/2)

Why were the murals so peaceful down here, without any depictions of struggle, but then the outside was filled with terrifying mechanisms?

Long Chen couldn’t figure it out . But in any case, the main characters in these images had no meaning to him . Instead, he was deeply attracted to what he saw in the backgrounds of all four murals .

The contents of the four murals were different, but their backgrounds were the same . Up in the sky, there were nine small stars revolving around one large star, lighting up the entire world .

That large star wasn’t like the sun, nor was it like the moon . It was extremely strange . But the background was also extremely harmonious, a scene that caused people to feel comfortable .

As for Long Chen, when he saw those nine stars revolving around the large star, he always felt some kind of familiarity, as well as a trace of grief .

“Boss, come quick!” shouted out Guo Ran out of nowhere .

“What? Did you find the way to open the coffin?” Long Chen put away his thoughts .

“No, but look at this!” Guo Ran showed off a brick .

The brick was around a foot long and completely black . It seemed unremarkable, but there were complicated veined patterns on it that looked similar to ice crystals . Its weight was alarming .

As soon as Long Chen touched it, he realized it was ice-cold and extremely hard . He tried to squeeze it, but wasn’t able to cause it the slightest damage . Instead, it was his fingers that began to feel a bit sore, shocking him .

“Hehe, boss, we really struck gold . This is made of Icecold Blackvein Iron, and its purity is extremely high . In our entire monastery, even senior Cang Ming doesn’t have much of it . But look, now it’s everywhere around us!” exclaimed Guo Ran .

“This is pretty good stuff, but it’s still not as important as the real treasure,” said Long Chen .

“That coffin is extremely bizarre . Somehow the lid is seamless with the rest of the coffin . There’s not even a line demarking where the lid starts . Even now, I still can’t tell what part is the lid . In fact, I’m even suspicious that this coffin is a fake, that it’s just a stone carved into the shape of a coffin!”

Guo Ran had already become obsessed with becoming an expert craftsman . But even with all his studying, he was still unable to tell what part of this coffin was its lid, and even suspected it to be a dupe .

“Ok, then let’s first collect the bricks . If we can’t open the coffin, just these bricks will have made it worth us coming here . ”

The two of them began to collect all the bricks that lined the ground . By the time they gathered them all, their storage rings were completely packed .

Seeing that mountain of bricks in his storage ring, Guo Ran almost starting dancing from excitement . “Hehe, with this material, I can make some really good equipment . But to forge this material, I’d probably need a forging table on the same level as senior Cang Ming’s forging table . But senior Cang Ming has already said that a Forging Master’s forging table is equivalent to their wife, and has to be cherished closely . He probably won’t lend me his wife to use…”

Guo Ran was helpless . A Forging Master without a good forging table was like a chef without fire, rice, oil, or salt . No matter how high their cooking skill was, it was useless .

A forging table required a huge amount of materials . Even Guo Ran’s amateur forging table had required a huge number of points .

Without Long Chen supporting him, then even a core disciple would have been bankrupted by Guo Ran’s expenses .

The formations that smelted special materials all required spirit stones . That was already enough for a person to feel pain . And if a formation wasn’t strong enough, there was no way for it to create a strong enough flame to smelt a material like the Icecold Blackvein Iron, and so Guo Ran wouldn’t be able to make anything with these bricks right now .

“Don’t be discouraged . We’ll find a way,” consoled Long Chen .

Frankly speaking, being a craftsman was like burning money . However, as an alchemist, Long Chen was specialized in making money . Sometimes he felt Guo Ran had come to keep him poor . He would make money, while Guo Ran would spend it all .

Looking around, they saw that there was nothing more of value around them, and so their gazes once more fell to the coffin .

It was just as Guo Ran had said . It looked like one seamless whole, without any lid to speak of .

Long Chen tried smas.h.i.+ng his fist onto it, and after a loud explosion, they both saw that the coffin hadn’t even budged . Instead, it was Long Chen’s hand that hurt .

“How hard, how heavy!” Long Chen was startled . This huge coffin was almost three meters tall, and adding on its length of fifteen meters, its weight must surpa.s.s his imagination .

There was no way to directly absorb such a thing into his spatial ring . Spatial rings all required the master to be able to physically move the thing in order to absorb it .

Long Chen took out a brick and smashed it down onto a corner of the coffin repeatedly .

Bang, bang, bang…!

Long Chen didn’t dare use Devil Decapitator, as that would cause serious damage to it . It was unfortunate he didn’t have a heavy hammer-like weapon, so he could only use one of the bricks they had collected .

After advancing to the Tendon Transformation realm, Long Chen’s strength had reached an unimaginable level . Each time that brick smashed into the coffin, it would cause the entire tomb to tremble .

“I figured it out! This coffin isn’t a flip-top, but a sliding-top!”

After smas.h.i.+ng it multiple times, the top portion had s.h.i.+fted around an inch .

“Keep going boss! Let’s see what the treasure inside it is!” exclaimed Guo Ran excitedly .

Long Chen was just about to continue when his expression suddenly changed . He looked in the direction of the pa.s.sageway, from which many figures were quickly rus.h.i.+ng over .