My Silly, Sweet Wife

The stone coffin was much heavier than they had imagined, at least a hundred thousand jin or more.

Even with the tug-of-war between the flood dragon soul and Ye Guichen below, and Chen Liangce and the others outside, it didn’t budge in the slightest, as if welded to the ground.

Ye Guichen hadn’t expected a stone coffin that looked so ordinary to be this heavy.

But very quickly, Ye Guichen discovered the crux of the matter.

Because during the pulling, lines of Array patterns surfaced on the coffin’s exterior.

The Array patterns were obscure and profound, as if resisting Ye Guichen’s pulling force.

”Could it be that something is sealed inside, and that very thing is the key to the entire Barbarian Demon Arena Array?”

Ye Guichen held his breath, directly summoned the Hundred Swords, and hacked madly at the stone coffin.

The Array formed by the Hundred Swords, after several test runs by Ye Guichen, had become extremely skillful; though it hadn’t reached the level of perfection, it could definitely sever most iron chains.

However, when the Hundred Sword Array struck the stone coffin, it was as if it hit an invisible barrier.

Amid the clanging impacts, the Hundred Sword Array was actually shattered, swords flying wildly in all directions, stabbing toward those fish bones.

Luckily there were no other living beings here, or they would have been easily skewered like hedgehogs.

Seeing that he couldn’t cut it and couldn’t pull it, Ye Guichen simply put away the flood dragon soul and surfaced again.

”Brother Ye, did you find something down there?”

As soon as they saw Ye Guichen emerge, Qin Muge hurried up to him, staring at Ye Guichen with a face full of eagerness.

Ye Guichen gave a slight nod and looked at Feng Zhuo. ”Senior Feng, you have the highest cultivation and the fastest speed here. Please go back and tell the shaman and the others to bring the iron chains over.”

”Mr. Ye, what exactly is down there?” Chen Liangce asked in puzzlement.

Just now, when they couldn’t move it, they had already felt that whatever was below was beyond comprehension.

”There’s a stone coffin down there, but it’s extremely heavy, so I need the barbarians’ help to pull it out,” Ye Guichen explained.

”What, a stone coffin?” Chen Liangce’s face changed at these words.

Seeing Chen Liangce’s reaction, Ye Guichen felt he must know something, and couldn’t help asking, ”What is it, you know about the stone coffin?”

”Mr. Ye, I think I know what this Array is about now.” Chen Liangce’s face was deathly pale, and undisguisable terror flickered in his eyes.

”Hm?” Everyone turned their gaze to Chen Liangce.

Chen Liangce hesitated for a moment, slightly organizing his words before explaining, ”Mr. Ye, this matter probably has to be traced back to when the Daqian Dynasty was founded. Although I don’t know how true it is, judging from what we see now, it’s probably eight or nine parts correct.”

According to Chen Liangce, when the Daqian Dynasty was first established, the entire dynasty was brought into being by an Immortal’s enlightenment, and Dragon City itself was transformed from a giant dragon.

As for whether there truly was a giant dragon that transformed into the city, no one knew, because too much time had passed, and it seemed that the Emperor of the Daqian Dynasty had also had certain memories erased; he only worshiped the True Dragon, but did not know the specifics of what had happened back then.

But one thing was recorded in the unofficial histories.

And that matter was related to this Barbarian Demon Arena.

It was said that back then, the Barbarian Demon Arena was never meant to confine barbarians and Evil People, nor those cultivators who had offended the Daqian Dynasty, but was built to imprison a dragon.

That dragon was an evil dragon, capable of devouring Immortals; with one opening of its mouth, it could swallow all the living beings of a city.

Because the evil dragon committed countless atrocities, it drew the attention of an Immortal. After a battle lasting three days and three nights, the Immortal finally wounded the evil dragon.

However, to kill the evil dragon outright seemed impossible.

So the Immortal had no choice but to exhaust every method to seal the evil dragon away.

And the result of that sealing was to use the destiny of an entire city, even an entire dynasty, to suppress it.

It was precisely for this reason that the existence of Dragon City, and even the Daqian Dynasty, was to suppress that evil dragon.

However, after that Immortal sealed and imprisoned the evil dragon, he discovered that the dragon still showed signs of breaking free.

Once it escaped, the world would again be plunged into a living hell.

In order to completely suppress the evil dragon, that Immortal sealed his own body as well, using his own power to hold the dragon down.

And according to what Chen Liangce said, if there really was a stone coffin at the bottom of the pool, it was highly likely to be that Immortal’s corpse.

In other words, if they brought that stone coffin out, they might very well be able to break this Array and free themselves, but the result would likewise be to release the evil dragon.

By then, not to mention that none of them would escape, even the entire Dragon City would be slaughtered by the evil dragon.

Hearing Chen Liangce’s words, everyone was dumbstruck.

Qin Muge looked even more incredulous. ”Th-then what should we do? If we don’t pull the stone coffin out, we can’t escape; but if we can’t leave this place, we’ll be trapped here forever—what meaning is there in that?”

For a time, everyone was at their wits’ end.

Ye Guichen also furrowed his brows. ”How much truth is there to this story?”

Chen Liangce said blankly, ”It’s merely recorded in the unofficial histories, but from what we’ve seen so far, I feel it’s highly likely to be true. So if we destroy the Array and leave this place, I fear we’ll truly release the suppressed evil dragon. When that happens, all of us will likely be killed by it.”

Ye Guichen fell silent.

He didn’t want to stay here.

But if the price was releasing the evil dragon, it seemed not worth it at all.

For the moment, the situation seemed to have reached an impasse.