Cracks spread across the surface of the stone coffin like living things, and fine stone chips fell with a rustling sound onto the Blue Stone Slab. Ye Fan's Adam's apple bobbed; the pale green gemstone inside his Inner World was so hot it felt as though it would burn right through his palm. Ever since his rebirth, this gemstone—which had awakened alongside his memories—had never been so restless, and even his dormant consciousness was emitting a piercing, warning shriek from the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.
"Brother," Su Qingxue's fingertips lightly hooked onto the edge of his sleeve, her sweet, soft voice wrapped in a freezing chill. "This mummy's fingernails..." She pointed her crimson-painted nail toward a gap in the stone coffin. "Are growing the wrong way. They're piercing from the back of the hands straight into the flesh of the palms."
Ye Fan followed her guidance and looked. The ghastly white figure inside the stone coffin was finally fully revealed: the mummy sat cross-legged, its skin shriveled into the dark brown texture of tree bark, while its ten grayish-green fingernails protruded right through the backs of its hands, coagulating into dark red scabs in the palms. The most bizarre thing was the red gemstone embedded between its brows; it was growing slightly hot as Ye Fan drew closer, vibrating at the exact same frequency as the green jade in his palm.
Chapter 278