Nie Xiaochun finally compromised, "If Ye Yang didn't look so good, I would have strangled you all!"

"Okay, okay... strangle us all!" I said to Nie Xiaochun while helping Lin Zhao chop down trees to make a coffin.

While I was chopping down a tree, I heard Lin Zhao exclaim. I turned to look at the bushes across from Lin Zhao, but Lin Zhao waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, just a bug!"

"You jump at shadows!" I scolded, annoyed. "Next time you see a bug, just eat it. You're so big, can't you even eat a bug?"

Lin Zhao rolled her eyes at me, too annoyed to argue, and quickly crafted a coffin for Nie Xiaochun to lie in.

Lin Zhao led the way, and Ye Yang and I carried the coffin, one in front and one behind.

After walking a short distance, Lin Zhao suddenly raised her hand and tapped the coffin twice. "Lin Zhao, a disciple of the Guiguan Sect, brings this cursed object into the sect, requesting the ancestor to guide the way."

Seeing no reaction nearby, I quickly said, "Xiao Chun, release the aura of a ghost deity and see what happens."

As soon as I finished speaking, the ghost deity's aura burst forth from the coffin, soaring into the sky.

Instantly, blood-red clouds filled the sky, and a ghostly wind howled.

A chilling aura enveloped the surrounding thousand meters, startling the insects and snakes in the mountains into fleeing.

When I looked up again, I saw a towering Buddha statue appear on a distant mountain peak.

Is this an illusion?

I knew it was just a projection covering the mountain, but the Buddha gave me a tangible feeling.

The moment the Buddha's light appeared, I felt the coffin sink slightly, as if something was pressing down on it.

The Guiguan Sect was using the Great Buddha to suppress the cursed object.

I said urgently, "Xiao Chun, restrain your aura a bit, or you'll really be suppressed. That would be a disaster."

As Nie Xiaochun's aura gradually weakened, I saw tears streaming from the eyes of the Great Buddha!

The Great Buddha is crying!

A harbinger of the emergence of a demonic entity!

I said to the coffin, "Nie Xiaochun, tell me, what bad things have you been secretly doing behind our backs? How did you make the Buddha cry? You haven't turned into a demon, have you?"

"Get lost!" Nie Xiaochun cursed from inside the coffin. "Even if I become a demon, it would be because of you, you stupid dog, driving me crazy. Shut your dog mouth!"

"Okay, I won't say anything! Hehehe..." Just as I was teasing Nie Xiaochun, Lin Zhao said, "Hurry, go towards the heart of the Buddha, that's where the entrance to the Guiguan Sect's ancestral land is."

Ye Yang and I gathered our energy and leaped forward, stepping on branches, rapidly approaching the heart of the Buddha when we saw a protruding platform on the mountainside.

From our direction, behind the illusion of the Great Buddha, there was an open space jutting out like a cliff, and behind the open space was a stone temple carved into the mountainside.

Ye Yang and I jumped onto the platform one after the other, and Lin Zhao pushed open the temple door.

I then saw a Buddha statue on the altar that was identical to the Great Buddha projection.

Ye Yang put down the coffin and said, "There's a mechanism under the Buddha statue!"

Lin Zhao groped around for a long time but couldn't find a way to activate the mechanism. Ye Yang stepped forward and tapped the bricks in front of the Buddha statue a few times, and a dark door more than a meter high opened beneath the altar.

I looked down into the door and said, "This isn't a place for people to go. This size is only enough for a coffin to slide down. Could this be a place to lower coffins?"

Ye Yang also walked around the temple. "There are no other mechanisms here. Whether or not we can activate a secret realm for people to descend, we'll have to throw the coffin in to see."

"Xiao Chun, come out!" I called out Nie Xiaochun and threw the coffin into the secret passage.

The sound of the coffin sliding down the secret passage continued for a long time before gradually fading away, indicating that the passage led directly to the depths of the earth.

I waited for a long time but didn't hear any movement nearby, so I frowned and said, "Could it be that the mechanism didn't react because Nie Xiaochun wasn't in the coffin?"

Ye Yang nodded. "That's possible!"

"However, we can't let Xiao Chun go down again this time. It's too dangerous. Perhaps, the end of the passage holds a formation powerful enough to suppress ghost deities."

Ye Yang paused and said, "I think the secret passage for people isn't in this temple."

"Let's go out and take a look!"

"I think..." Before Lin Zhao could finish speaking, Ye Yang and I grabbed her arms on either side and dragged her out of the stone temple. We took her to a secluded spot before stopping.

"Look over there!" I gestured for Lin Zhao to be quiet and pointed to the distant stone temple.

At this time, someone was secretly carrying a coffin up the mountain.

I lowered my voice and said, "Are those people from your Guiguan Sect?"

"Fifth Elder Yao Zhihe, Seventh Elder Xu Song. The ones behind them are all their disciples." Lin Zhao's eyes turned red as she spoke. "Third Elder, Fourth Elder are also here."

"They have all betrayed the Guiguan Sect!"

Nie Xiaochun comforted her, "Don't be sad yet, maybe they're just here to guard the ancestral land of the Guiguan Sect?"

Lin Zhao shook her head. "That's impossible. The ancestral land cannot be entered without the sect leader's decree. Entering the ancestral land by force requires self-gouging of one eye. That's the rule of the Guiguan Sect."

"We were brought here by the sect leader. What about them?"