CHAPTER 343: CHAPTER 63: JIAO LONG DUAN, REBIRTH AND TRANSFORMATION

The moment the stone coffin closed, the ancient text on the stone coffin emitted a blinding bright light, like that from the clouds above, resembling the dragon chant of an ancient Jiao Long.

Ming Rendie did not dare to approach, only flapping its wings to keep a significant distance away.

This stone coffin had been kept in the cave for a millennia. Ming Rendie was merely a parasite that grew from a piece of rotten flesh left outside the coffin when the Evil Jiao was injured, and had gradually grown into the Eighth Rank Peak Profound Insect it was today with the power of faith and continuous offerings from the ignorant villagers.

The entire cave had gradually become its nest, but only this coffin was beyond the reach of Ming Rendie. External force could not break it, nor could it be pushed open or moved. Except for a faint sound heard from outside the coffin years ago, there had been no other disturbances since.

Earlier, when Yue Jinghua and the others entered the cave, Ming Rendie had long wanted to consume Yue Jinghua’s soul, only to find that this young-looking Demon Summoner, whose cultivation seemed quite ordinary, was actually able to open the stone coffin.

Ming Rendie, observing from the side, was overjoyed. When it was a mere maggot, it had only obtained a small piece of rotten flesh from the Evil Jiao, which greatly impacted its cultivation.

It had thought that once the stone coffin was opened, it would be able to obtain the corpse of the Evil Jiao and take its cultivation to the next level. But to its surprise, upon opening the coffin, only half a coffin of incubation liquid was left—the corpse of the Evil Jiao had long since decayed completely, leaving only a skeleton that could neither be chewed nor swallowed.

And in the end, this damned broken coffin thwarted its plan. Anger and resentment spread across the old face of Ming Rendie, "Demon Summoner, I refuse to believe that you can hide in there for a lifetime."

Inside the stone coffin, Yue Jinghua felt her body quickly enveloped by the incubation liquid.

Strangely enough, this incubation liquid, stored in the stone coffin for a thousand years, was still as warm as ever today. If she had to guess, it was about thirty degrees Celsius, like the temperature of a Jiao Long mother’s body during incubation.

When Yue Jinghua fell in, it felt like she had plunged into a warm swimming pool.

However, her movements were too sudden, and without anticipating that the seemingly shallow stone coffin was as deep as a deep pool, she jumped in and was quickly submerged.

The water-like incubation liquid continuously poured into her mouth and nose, seeped into her collar, and permeated through her pores.

When swallowing the incubation fluid, Yue Jinghua felt an intense burning sensation as if she had gulped down several mouthfuls of spicy chili water, flailing her arms and legs nonstop.

But the incubation liquid was like it weighed a thousand pounds; no matter how much she thrashed, she couldn’t surface.

In the end, unable to breathe and almost exhausting the last bit of air in her Dantian, Yue Jinghua’s movements in the water gradually slowed down, and her body sank with the incubation liquid.

Inside the stone coffin, the incubation liquid began to swirl as if a giant hand was constantly stirring it within the liquid.

The warm yellow incubation liquid permeated through the blood vessels and meridians of Yue Jinghua’s body, not sparing even the tiniest capillaries.

With the infiltration of the incubation liquid, Yue Jinghua felt a tyrannical Dark Power growing inside her body.

That Dark Power caused her originally frail body to undergo a significant transformation.

The joints in her hands and feet crackled like popping beans, and blisters rose on her skin. Her already robust muscles, under the effect of the incubation liquid, became like carved jade, radiating a crystalline sheen.

"Hiss, hiss," finally, the clothes on Yue Jinghua’s body couldn’t withstand the powerful fluctuation of Dark Power inside the coffin and shattered into pieces.

Her mask on her face also fell off, washed away by the incubation liquid.

Once the Demon Mark on her right cheek came into contact with the incubation liquid, it immediately began to transform, sprouting scaly flakes.

Those scales grew as if they had eyes, constantly expanding from Yue Jinghua’s right cheek to her left, and long nails, about two inches in length, grew from her slender fingers.

As the scales grew, they continuously shed, and the once hideous Demon Mark on her right cheek slowly seeped into her skin, as if it had completely disappeared.

With eyebrows like distant mountains and skin dyed in honey, a peerless beauty emerged anew.

Yue Jinghua’s shoulder-length black hair, following the flow of the incubation liquid, looked like a sudden splash of ink, silently spreading in the water, reaching past her waistline.

Her body was slowly changing, seen through the water as if she were a Jiao dragon shedding its shell.

On the side of her neck, the dark mark left by Fa Xiaoyi’s bite was also changing, with a new mark forming.

As Yue Jinghua’s body changed, the color of the incubation liquid became lighter and warmer, as if someone had added a pile of wood to a fire outside the stone coffin, and half of the incubation liquid in the coffin began to boil.

Inside and outside the stone coffin, it was like two worlds of ice and fire.

After the stone coffin closed, the Ming Rendie retracted its split body and returned to its original kite size.

Its eyes, which had grown under the wings, were staring fixedly at the stone coffin.

From the outside, the stone coffin, after its initial glow, showed no more movement.

Wait, the Ming Rendie reminded itself, it must be patient enough to wait.

Just then, the Ming Rendie felt the stone coffin visibly tremble.

The Ming Rendie was highly vigilant, not daring to get too close to the stone coffin, and started to circle around it, flapping its wings.

Another tremble, this time, the stone coffin, which looked like it weighed a thousand pounds, shifted a whole inch to the left, as if a giant beneath it was dragging it forward.

Foolish Demon Summoner, you shall not escape the cave like this.

The Ming Rendie angrily fluttered its wings furiously, creating gusts of pale blue hurricanes in the cave, which hit the cave walls and left irregular marks.

But these gusts of wind, blowing on the stone coffin, were like a mayfly shaking a tree, utterly ineffective.

It was at this moment, the sharp-eyed Ming Rendie noticed that a small opening had formed on the stone coffin, and a white light was trying to burst through it.

"Heh heh, foolish, you think you can escape the prohibitions of my cave," the Ming Rendie gloated, its wings glowing brightly with Dark Light, intending to completely seal the cave’s prohibitions. By then, even if Yue Jinghua wanted to escape, unless she could fly through the skies or burrow through the earth, otherwise...

The Ming Rendie overlooked one thing; even though it was a High-level Profound Insect, whenever it tried to activate a prohibition, its defensive capabilities would be at their weakest.

"Boom—" The stone coffin, which had only a small opening, suddenly burst open as if hit by a cannonball, the lid instantly flying off.

In the instant the lid flew off, a shadow surged out of the coffin like an oppressive dark cloud.

The Lianyun Great Sword, shimmering with a peculiar sword pattern, came slashing down furiously.

"Foolish, knowing that I am a Split Body, you try and try again, truly the pinnacle of foolishness," as Yue Jing faced the oncoming sword, the Ming Rendie, unafraid, boasted, standing its ground and waiting for her overconfident strike.

In the blink of an eye, a Six-star Array descended upon the Ming Rendie.

"Summoning Contract Array? Heh, I, who have the Power of Faith of tens of thousands, am no longer afraid of the bindings of the Summoning Array," the Ming Rendie sneered, not taking Yue Jinghua’s Summoning Star Array seriously at all.

The next moment, a look of confusion crossed the Ming Rendie’s arrogant face; it found that it could no longer move its wings, and it suddenly understood that this was not a regular Summoning Contract Star Array.

What Yue Jinghua had conjured was a new Star Array, one she had only seen Qing Pu use once before, the Sealing Demon Array.