Chapter 19 Unveiling the Coffin

Professor Lu was stunned. "The bronze figures can move on their own?"

Ye Yang leaned down, examining the bronze figure at the entrance of the main hall. "I understand!"

"You understand what?" Professor Lu asked impatiently, "Tell me quickly, what do you understand?"

Seeing that Ye Yang remained silent, Professor Lu's expression changed. "Ye Yang, I know you're a descendant of the Bei Yi Ye lineage. However, the things involved in the Greed Wolf Tomb have exceeded the level of your martial world and must be reported. You..."

Ye Yang ignored Professor Lu. Instead, he raised his hand and knocked on the door of the main hall three times, and the roof of the bronze hall opened in response.

The roof popped open, looking like a coffin lid being lifted at first glance, signaling the imminent opening of the Greed Wolf Tomb's secrets.

Professor Lu practically threw himself at the coffin, looking down at it. Ye Yang suddenly delivered a knife-hand strike to Professor Lu's neck, and the professor fainted on the spot without even a groan.

Ye Yang pushed Professor Lu aside, blocking the front of the hall himself, and looked towards the coffin.

The first thing he saw was an inner coffin inlaid with a compass.

The coffin inside the bronze hall was only about two chi square (a Chinese unit of measurement, approximately 66 cm), and perfectly square. It didn't look like a coffin, but rather a secret box.

Besides the compass on top of the secret box, there were also twelve characters engraved on it.

Ye Yang frowned as he looked at the twelve characters. They were clearly written in the script of the Yin-Shang period, and he couldn't understand their meaning.

Just as Ye Yang was about to make a rubbing of the characters to find an expert to identify them, Nie Xiaochun slipped in from outside. "What are you looking at? Oh… These characters are: Jie Shu Zhi, San Xing Ju, Hun Po San, Tian Ming Xian." (Calamity Arrives, Three Stars Gather, Souls Scatter, Destiny Appears).

Ye Yang asked in surprise, "How do you know the characters on it?"

Nie Xiaochun shook her head. "I don't know, I just know them."

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "Is there a way for you to make everyone forget everything that happened here? I want to take this coffin away. Don't ask so many questions, go and do it quickly."

Nie Xiaochun nodded. "Wait for me, I'll go find Meng Po Soup." (Soup of Oblivion)

Nie Xiaochun quickly altered Professor Lu and the others' memories. As for how many people outside Xiaoshan Village knew about the discovery of the bronze coffin, and how to explain its sudden disappearance, it was no longer within Ye Yang and Nie Xiaochun's scope of consideration.

Their preparation time was too rushed to be comprehensive. As long as they could take the coffin away, they couldn't worry about anything else.

In the car, Nie Xiaochun looked at the coffin in the back more than once. "Ye Yang, what does this coffin mean?"

Ye Yang replied, "I only understand the last two sentences. If I'm not mistaken, the Greed Wolf Star's three souls and seven spirits have already been divided into ten. They are inherited by different people. These people want to become the true Greed Wolf destiny, they have to devour each other."

"There were nine people on the steps of the bronze hall, which represents nine people who inherited the Greed Wolf soul and spirits. The one guarding the entrance of the main hall is the Greed Wolf Star's Celestial Soul."

"Devouring eight of them, walking into the main hall, and gaining the Greed Wolf's approval will open the secret box in the coffin. The secret of the Greed Wolf will be revealed again."

Nie Xiaochun looked back at the bronze coffin again. "One of the bronze statues has already moved, does that mean someone has already devoured the souls of others?"

"No!" Ye Yang shook his head. "It should mean that someone has noticed the secrets of the Greed Wolf, and he has started to move."

"If that person has already devoured the souls of others, then the statues representing the other two souls and seven spirits should have shattered."

Ye Yang took a deep breath and said, "The secret of the Greed Wolf is likely to be earth-shattering!"

"During the Investiture of the Gods, the two representing Seven Killings and Broken Army achieved amazing results. Only E Shun, representing Greed Wolf, performed mediocrely. He was even observing all the time. In the end, E Shun was beheaded by King Zhou. However, E Shun was enshrined as the Greed Wolf Star."

"Don't you think there is some hidden secret in this?"

Ye Yang paused and said, "Also, E Shun was beheaded outside Chaoge, which is now Henan. How could his body be buried in the Northeast? And who built this bronze coffin for him?"

"The Greed Wolf Tomb, the Greed Wolf Coffin, you can't think about these things too much. The more you think about it, the more mysteries there are."

Nie Xiaochun couldn't help but say, "It's a pity, the Zhang family is dead. Otherwise, we could have gotten some clues from the Zhang family."

Ye Yang shook his head. "The Zhang family is just a sacrifice! Zhang Fang is like a key to start the wolf pack competition. He himself didn't get the Greed Wolf's approval."

"The Zhang family mistakenly thought that as long as they changed their fate, they could inherit everything from the Greed Wolf, but they didn't expect that the Greed Wolf's Celestial Soul would test the inheritors. Otherwise, he wouldn't be standing at the entrance of the bronze hall with a whip."

Ye Yang changed the subject and said, "However, Zhang Fang took away the Greed Wolf's ferocity, and his cultivation in secret techniques must be extraordinary."

"If I'm not mistaken, this coffin is a magical artifact to restrain Zhang Fang. If we don't bring the coffin, Li Po might not be able to deal with Zhang Fang."

"Call Li Po and tell him to stabilize the situation and wait for us to come over."

Ye Yang's deduction was correct. In the world of術道 (shudao - occult arts), many things are opposite. The idiom "成也萧何，败也萧何" (cheng ye Xiao He, bai ye Xiao He - Xiao He helps you succeed, Xiao He causes your downfall) is very common.

The Greed Wolf Coffin can create Zhang Fang, and it can also kill him.

However, Ye Yang overlooked one thing.