Chapter 870: 870

Near the peak, there were fewer coffins, so there were also fewer people . Long Chen randomly picked a coffin . Feeling its powerful defenses, he knew this one hadn’t been opened .

Long Chen personally experienced just how heavy the lid was as he pushed . However, it still wasn’t enough for him to use the divine ring . It popped open slightly .

As it slowly opened, the light within it erupted . Immortal spiritual qi came from within . He knew this spiritual qi had been purified by the coffin’s formation to nourish the weapon . This spiritual qi had been acc.u.mulating for countless years now .

But before Long Chen could really feel this special spiritual qi, it disappeared as if it had been devoured .

“Good stuff . This is something I need,” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell with a pleasantly surprised tone .

“Senior, how about we work together?” Long Chen’s eyes suddenly brightened .

“Little fellow, what evil idea are you thinking of now? Let me warn you, I owe you a single favor, so I can only help you once . That way, the karma between us will be resolved . Don’t get any crazy ideas involving me . I refuse to be affected by karma,” warned the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

Long Chen laughed mischievously, having already expected this response . Although he didn’t know what exactly this so-called karma was or why the Eastern Wasteland Bell was so worried about it, he had his own plans .

“Senior, just think about it . I can open the coffins, and because of my work, you’re absorbing such pure spiritual qi to nourish yourself . You keep saying you’re afraid of karma, but it’s because of my work that you’re getting benefits . That isn’t in accordance with the Heavenly Daos . Reaping without sowing isn’t acceptable, so you’ll still be affected by karma like that . That’s not karma I’m trying to give you, but karma you’re infecting yourself with,” said Long Chen .

“Now that you put it like this, that really does make sense,” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

“So I think it’s better if we work together to get what we both want based on the principles of equality . Then neither of us will be affected by karma,” said Long Chen .

The Eastern Wasteland Bell was silent for a while . It obviously wasn’t so easily fooled . But in the end, it wasn’t able to find anything wrong with Long Chen’s words . It would only make sense if it helped to get what it needed . That would be the only way to not invoke karma .

“Alright, you open the coffins, and I’ll take out what’s inside . But pay attention to safety . I’m only in charge of taking away what’s inside, and in order to not let the Heavenly Daos sense me, I won’t help you out if any difficulties arise because of this . Unless you’re on the verge of death, I won’t do anything,” warned the Eastern Wasteland Bell . Even though it had agreed to cooperate, it was still cautious .

“Good, then I definitely won’t disappoint you . ” Long Chen was delighted and he hastily continued pus.h.i.+ng that stone coffin .

Once the opening was half-a-foot wide, an imperceptible fluctuation stretched into the coffin and then disappeared . Even Long Chen didn’t get a chance to see what had been inside .

Suddenly, a spear appeared in Long Chen’s spiritual s.p.a.ce . It was pitch-black and emitted a powerful pressure that would make people's hearts s.h.i.+ver .

“This is a Treasure item . Through the formation, it’s been nourished for countless years, increasing its power by a great deal . It can count as a high grade Treasure item,” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

Long Chen was delighted to obtain a Treasure item this quickly . He directly went to four other coffins . But they were all empty, and no spiritual qi was emitted from inside .

On his fifth try, he encountered a coffin that hadn’t been opened yet . When he slowly opened it, he saw a rabbit inside .

“Top grade pill?” Long Chen was startled . This pill was a foot tall and looked just like a rabbit . But as an alchemist, he smelled the specific scent of a medicinal pill .

Most medicinal pills circulating throughout this world were split into low, middle, and high grade . For high grade pills, each extra pill ring greatly increased the medicinal effect .

But above high grade pills were top grade pills . The easiest way to distinguish a top grade pill was that they could transform . Top grade pills had their own special spirituality . Once they formed, they would draw pill lightning tribulation, just like a human cultivator’s tribulation . Pills that went through such tribulation would have even greater spirituality .

Different pills refined by different people would all transform into different shapes . Some would transform into creatures, some would transform into plants .

Long Chen had only just gotten a glance at the rabbit when it disappeared . When it reappeared, it was in his spiritual s.p.a.ce .

That rabbit had already become a jade-like pill . There was an image of a small rabbit moving on top of it, looking as if it were alive .

“Amazing, a top grade Dragon Tiger Heavenly Explosion Pill!” Long Chen was startled . This was a kind of self-destructive medicinal pill . Once a Sea Expansion expert consumed it, if they didn’t immediately explode, they would be able to release over ten times the power .

The main ingredients of this pill were the Evil Dragon’s blood and the Berserk White Lines Tiger’s Neidan . They both contained extremely berserk energy, and even an innate rank three Celestial would immediately explode if they tried consuming it in the Sea Expansion realm . There was no way they could bear that powerful medicinal energy .

Furthermore, after so many years of nouris.h.i.+ng, this pill’s energy had almost reached perfection . Its power was even more terrifying than a normal one .

Long Chen hastily found a jade case to store it in . An Evil Dragon was something he had heard of, but it had long since gone extinct in this world . This pill was perhaps one of the last of its kind, and it was extremely valuable .

Once he put away the pill, Long Chen decided to directly spread his divine sense to all the coffins around him .

“Fool, do you not want your life?! The coffins have formation runes that will injure you if you try to probe them with Spiritual Strength,” scolded the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

Originally, it had felt that Long Chen was a mature and steady person . But as soon as he obtained two treasures, he became perturbed .

“Hehe, don’t worry senior, I’m not so foolish . I don’t need to extend my divine sense into the coffins . Just from the outside, I can tell if the coffins have been opened before or not,” laughed Long Chen . How could he be so stupid as to stretch his divine sense into such terrifying coffins? His divine sense didn’t go into them . Instead, he was circulating the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art to sense danger .

The empty coffins did not have any defenses, so he naturally wouldn’t sense any danger from them . But those coffins from which he could sense some slight danger were very likely ones that had never been opened .

The facts proved that the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art would never disappoint him . He opened three coffins in a row, and none of them had been opened before . Long Chen obtained a ring, a soft armor, and a sword from them .

The ring was a storage tool, but it wasn’t a spatial storage tool . It stored energy, and once activated, it could release a shocking and instantaneous attack .

He obtained five treasures in a row, causing him to feel like flowers were blooming in his heart . This was his first time feeling like his luck wasn’t so bad . He even felt like his luck really had taken a turn for the better .

The other experts were also doing their best to open coffins . What these people didn’t know was that originally, one person could only open one coffin . Once the treasure was taken out, the coffin’s runes would transform into a transportation formation and send them away .

But Long Chen and the others hadn’t entered through proper channels . It was only by chance that they had destroyed the core formation that had controlled everything . All those transportation formations had lost effect now, allowing them to crazily search for treasures .

Rather than saying Long Chen’s luck was good, he should have given Yu Changhao the credit . It was he who had managed to open this treasure house for everyone through sheer chance .

“Long Chen, we should act low-key . We’re going too fast and drawing too much attention . Be careful of other people’s greed,” warned the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

For others, fully opening the coffin took two incense sticks’ worth of time . Only then would it not immediately close . Once the treasures were taken, the coffins would slowly close . Right now, people had only just finished taking their first treasure, but Long Chen was on his seventh .

Although Long Chen was only opening the coffins slightly, while the Eastern Wasteland Bell took the treasures and absorbed the spiritual qi, others were unable to see that . Thus, quite a few people found this strange .

Each time, Long Chen would spend over ten breaths pus.h.i.+ng open the coffin by just a crack . Then he would run to the next . That action was too strange .

“It’s fine . Don’t you see me shaking my head every time? That’s to mislead them into thinking that whatever inside was garbage and didn’t satisfy me, so I’m not wasting time . Let’s continue . Time is treasure, and we can’t waste any . ”

Long Chen continued working . After going through another two coffins, Yue Xiaoqian arrived next to him .

“Xiaoqian, how was it? Did you get anything? Or did that crazy woman trick you?” asked Long Chen .

Yue Xiaoqian was full of delight . “She didn’t trick me . This is extremely important to my entire race . I’m extremely grateful to her-”

“No, don’t be grateful . Next time, she’ll probably want to cut off our heads . Quick, help me out . Let me tell you what to do…”

Long Chen wanted her to open the coffins he pointed out, while he opened his own . In front of her startled eyes, the treasure inside the coffin disappeared . She didn’t even know what to say .

With Yue Xiaoqian helping, their efficiency doubled . In less than two hours, they had obtained over a hundred treasures .

Just as Long Chen was working rapidly, a terrifying and evil aura erupted .