Luo Yu and the two women thought that this trip to the side chamber would again be in vain.
However, as soon as they stepped into the side chamber, they saw a purple crystal coffin placed in the center of the bluestone floor, with its lid tightly sealed.
Under the illumination of the night pearls, they could clearly see a dark shadow lying inside the crystal coffin.
"Hiss——"
"There's someone!"
Bai Xiao'e exclaimed in surprise.
"Shh!"
Luo Yu immediately covered her rosy little mouth, "Keep it down, do you want to wake up whatever's inside?"
Bai Xiao'e blinked, looking slightly scared.
The mechanisms outside were already more than she could handle; if the being in the coffin turned out to be an ancient existence that awoke, she definitely wouldn't stand a chance.
Zhen Fu'er, on the other hand, showed a look of joy on her face.
The previous two empty burial chambers made her feel a sense of emptiness, with no clue at all about her lost memories.
Now that they had finally found someone, although there might be danger, there was at least some hope.
"Both of you back off, I'll go have a look first," Luo Yu declared, taking the lead as he slowly walked forward, trying to make no noise.
Zhen Fu'er and Bai Xiao'e obediently nodded. Having a big boss lead the way, the most important thing was to stay put.
Blindly messing around could easily lead to the death of everyone.
Luo Yu approached the purple crystal coffin and felt a faint chill. The material seemed identical to the previous three coffins.
He didn't try to open it right away, instead peering intently inside.
But the interior of the crystal coffin seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, blocking Luo Yu's view. He could only make out a slender dark shadow lying inside.
There was no other option but to open the coffin, unless he turned around and left right then.
Luo Yu turned and waved his hand at Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er, signaling them to hide further back as he was about to open the coffin.
"Swoosh!"
He carefully activated the Five Emperors' Domain, the power of his spiritual power and stamina on standby, ready to erupt, while summoning the Slay-Immortal Sword in his left hand.
If the person inside dared to play dead, he would slash at them immediately.
His right hand pressed against the edge of the lid, feeling the icy smoothness beneath his touch. Applying force with his arm and fingers, he cautiously lifted the lid.
"Creak, creak——"
It seemed that the coffin had been sealed for many years, making an eerie creaking noise as it opened.
Bai Xiao'e felt goosebumps on her scalp.
Zhen Fu'er, however, looked forward with eager anticipation, although the tightly clenched jade in her hands betrayed her inner tension.
As a gap appeared between the lid and the coffin, a gust of cold air spilled out, first touching Luo Yu's fingertips.
"Not good!"
Luo Yu's expression changed as his fingertips started to go numb, as if his blood was about to freeze, becoming somewhat unresponsive.
With his current physique, he could stay in a place with temperatures tens of degrees below zero for days and nights without fear of frostbite. What was the origin of the dark shadow inside the coffin?
Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er were startled, but they didn't rush over, fearing they might get in the way.
"Whoosh!"
Five Emperor Flames appeared at Luo Yu's fingertips, dispelling the chill.
"I want to see for myself who is enshrined inside," he said.
He no longer chose to open it slowly, suddenly using his strength to flip the lid open. Clutching it tightly, he lifted it above his head before even looking down.
He then felt a terrifying chill envelop him, and a layer of frost instantly covered the entire side chamber, likely dropping the temperature by more than a hundred degrees.
And it was getting colder and colder.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
Blue frost began to freeze the side chamber and continued to spread outward.
The Five Emperor Flames at Luo Yu's fingertips were directly extinguished by the frost, and he felt as if his very soul was about to be instantaneously frozen.
Even the domain he had set up could not block this astonishing cold.
"Damn!"
Luo Yu hadn't expected the entity inside to cause such a terrifying disturbance without even making a move. He hurriedly pushed the Five Emperor Flames to emerge with full force from within his body, while mobilizing the entire Power of Heaven and Earth in the Five Emperors' Domain to aid the flames' burning.
The spread of the chill slowed down momentarily, but Luo Yu felt his immense spiritual power being consumed at an alarming rate, depleting by twenty percent in just a few breaths.
"What kind of chill is this? So frightening," he thought.
Bai Xiao'e and Zhen Fu'er had already been using their spiritual power to resist the cold as soon as they sensed movement. The Baize, a mythical creature with the head of a dragon and the body of a tiger, appeared, its body radiating white light, but it was quickly frozen by the chill.
Zhen Fu'er waved out a string of jade beads, which emitted a luminous defensive glow, but they were directly shattered by the cold.
The two women's faces turned pale, feeling the breath of death encroaching upon them.
"Crash!"
Just then, a fierce fire blazed within Luo Yu's domain, helping the two women avert the crisis of death.
Bai Xiao'e breathed heavily through her red lips, looking towards Luo Yu's direction full of gratitude.
"You've saved me once again," she said.
Zhen Fu'er also bowed deeply, her demeanor radiating a fragile charm.
"Thank you for the rescue, young master," she said.
But Luo Yu didn't have the leisure to talk more with them, as the spiritual power inside him was being crazily depleted. In just a few moments, he had lost twenty percent.
He looked into the coffin and his pupils contracted.
There were no zombies or mummies; inside the frost, there was an absolutely stunning white-haired beauty lying there, akin to a goddess descended from heaven.
There was a breathtaking beauty.
She lay with her pale lips tightly closed, delicate eyelashes coated with a layer of white frost, and a jade hairpin embedded in her waterfall-like white hair, quietly resting in the coffin, wearing a purple dress with flowing tassels, belted around her slender waist.
Luo Yu keenly sensed that the remarkable chill was not coming from any strange treasure, but was all emanating from the white-haired goddess.
Moreover, this woman instilled in him a sense of palpitation. Her sublime beauty was one thing, but the real reason was the cold power inside her was just slightly overflowing. Should it fully burst forth, it would surely be earth-shattering.