Chapter 286: Fellow Daoist, Please Wait (1/2)

”Did they put me in the coffin?”

Jiang Li observed for a moment and quickly noticed his current situation.

Wasn't it just stuffed into a coffin? He was familiar with this.

Eh, they even changed his clone's clothes into a groom's outfit. Oh, this groom's outfit was actually an artifact.

This was incredible. If he got a free set of artifacts, he would probably be able to sell it for a high price.

He touched the coffin lid beneath him. The material was also of high-grade, but it was clearly much inferior to his Yin Burial Coffin.

His back would hurt if he slept here for too long.

Jiang Li first pressed his ear against the coffin lid and listened carefully outside. When he used his clone's body to execute the Bodhisattva Heart Sutra, the effect would be greatly reduced. However, this was already his best probing method.

After listening for a long time, there was no movement.

To be cautious, he used the Nine Nether spiritual qi and Liquor Fire spiritual qi to ignite a small cluster of dark green flames on his finger.

With Jiang Li's Nine Nether spiritual qi, the wood spiritual qi fueled the fire, so the might of this small flame was completely sufficient to burn through a Golden Core cultivator.

His finger pressed down on the coffin wall with flames, and the high-grade Yin Wood quickly became charred and fragile on the surface of the contact. Along with Jiang Li's light poke, a small hole appeared on the coffin lid.

Looking out through the small hole, the spiritual hall outside was quiet and empty under the flickering lights.

There were no signs of other ghosts around. There were only two paper effigies that looked like children kneeling in front of the spiritual hall.

Jiang Li heaved a sigh of relief, and then he quietly pushed open the coffin lid from the inside.

This coffin was not nailed shut, saving him some trouble.

He rolled over and landed at the side without making a sound.

In the past, the sword cultivator clone had specially bought a pair of silent boots to go to the Water Element Peak to have a secret meeting with his junior sister. The effect was excellent with a five-star rating.

Looking around, he saw that the spiritual hall that had been completely destroyed had been fixed.

That Ghost King Bride was really quite rich. She smashed her house every day, and the furniture here was all high-grade Yin Wood. Over the years, she had wasted countless cultivation resources.

On the spirit table at the top of the spiritual hall, there were two long green lamps. There were endless joss sticks and golden paper, and spiritual fruits and nectar were offered.

In the middle were two tablets tied together by a red string.

[The tablet of the eldest son, Du Xianzhu]

[The tablet of the eldest daughter-in-law, Yang Ruozhi]

Jiang Li was a Yin-Wood attribute cultivator and knew a little about this kind of ceremony. He understood after a glance.

These two tablets were used to consecrate the two parties of the ghost marriage. In that case, the powerful Ghost King Bride was called Yang Ruozhi.

To be able to come up with such a name, the family should also be well educated.

Jiang Li clicked his tongue twice and started to size up the surroundings with appraisal again.

Now, those ghosts seemed to have gone out to harm people. If he was not here, he would have been in danger for nothing. If he did not take out something here, he would be letting himself down and lying in someone else's coffin.

The clone's eyes were glowing as he sized up his surroundings. Where had the Ghost King's dowry that the husband had brought in been taken?

His eyes darted around and saw the two paper effigies.

Eh? Were their actions different from before?

Jiang Li stared at them for a while and did not discover anything. They seemed to be two ordinary paper effigies.

He turned to look elsewhere, but kept noticing them from the corner of his eye.

There was still no movement. Was he thinking too much?

Jiang Li stepped forward and poked them. There was nothing happening even after poking a hole. He simply raised his hand and burned them clean, but there was still no abnormality.

It seemed that he had been thinking too much.

”The two of you have been together for a long time. Those in the underworld cannot use the possessions of the living. I'll keep them for you.”

After returning to the spirit table, he picked up three sticks of incense and lit them on the green lamp. Then, he pretended to offer incense to the spirit tablet.

However, in the next moment, the flames on the incense stick's head suddenly turned into a black and white Ghost Lantern Cold Flame.

Jiang Li controlled his clone to attack with lightning speed. This flame flickered twice and lit up the two long lamps.

Immediately, the flames on the green lamp rose two meters high, turning into two huge flaming snakes that were about to devour him.

After Jiang Li lit the fire, he turned around and directly lay in the coffin again. The coffin lid closed, and no matter how the two fire snakes wreaked havoc outside, he remained unmoved.

These were two rare Green Lantern Ghosts. It was said that the last time they appeared was in the tomb of an emperor in the cultivation dynasty.

It was unknown where that ghost bribe had found two to guard her spirit tablet.

However, what cultivation method did Jiang Li possess? These two Green Lantern Ghosts were easily exposed in front of him.

This time, the sneak attack did not succeed. Instead, they were sent into Jiang Li's soul.

Their strength was actually not weak at all. Even if Jiang Li's main body was here, he might not be able to obtain any benefits.

Unfortunately, they did not choose to attack directly and were tainted by the terrifying Ghost Lantern Cold Flame. If they did not have another Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire to rely on, they would most likely be unable to escape this calamity.

The black and white flames were originally small.

In just a blink of an eye, it had already spread out, completely matching the surface of the fire snake.

The surface of the Green Lantern Snake turned black and white. It struggled in the air and lashed at the surrounding things from time to time, but it did not leave any charred marks.

The inside of the fire snake was extremely hot, but its surface was already covered in the Ghost Lantern Cold Flame, so it could not ignite anything.

About half an hour later, the movements of the fire snake stopped, leaving only a bit of ash and two extinguished green lamps in the hall. Only then did Jiang Li open the coffin lid again and jump out.

”These two green lamps are good stuff.”

Using appraisal, Jiang Li discovered that these two green lamps were actually high-grade Profound-rank fire attribute artifacts.

They could be used to store and nurture the fire of heaven and earth. After obtaining a certain flame, even if he did not refine it, he could use this green lamp to control it.

To fire-attribute cultivators, this was definitely something that could be used as a core artifact to refine.

After dealing with these two Green Lantern Ghosts, Jiang Li quickly checked around the residence and did not find any more enemies.

While heaving a sigh of relief, he casually found a black cloth and made a simple bag before starting to plunder the land.

Jiang Li had some experience in plundering treasures.

In such an old house, there were actually only a few places to hide things.

He quickly rummaged through the cabinets, looking for tiles that could be opened under the study table, and the hidden compartment behind the signboard.

There were also the secrets buried under the well water in the courtyard and the treasures in the bed in the main room.

Jiang Li took out a few more items and was about to leave.

Because storage artifacts could not be used in this place, even if he found the large baskets of dowry, he could not take them away. He could only pick up some of the most valuable things and bring them away.

”Fellow Daoist, Fellow Daoist, wait a moment. Can you bring me along?”

Just as Jiang Li took out a small box of purple coins from the dowry and was about to leave, a slightly sickly and refined male voice stopped him.

Jiang Li jolted and looked back. At the memorial tablet in the spiritual hall, a translucent figure had appeared out of nowhere and was cupping his hands in greeting.

The figure was wearing almost the same clothes as the sword cultivator clone.