Many descendants

Su Yan used the system map to search the entire palace thoroughly, but still couldn't find the skull lock.

【Xiaomei, it looks like we can't find it.】 Picking up a key randomly and then following it to find the lock... Only Xiaomei would do something like that; she would have thrown it away long ago.

[Sigh!] Xiaomei sighed, but still wouldn't give up. [Host, think it over again. Is there any clue we haven't discovered yet?]

Su Yan found a rock to sit on, yawned, and recalled the whole incident.

Finally, he abruptly stood up and said to Xiaomei, "Well!"

Then they headed straight for the well where the girl had thrown away the skull key.

Unlike a thousand years ago, this well is now filled with silt and sand.

Su Yan used a ground-splitting talisman to split the well open.

Dozens of meters below, they saw a golden coffin.

[A golden coffin, is it for royalty? Xiaomei, bring it up.]

【Good host. 】

Seeing that she hadn't returned for a long time, and that the nearby demons had already retreated, Rong Ruo teleported over to search for Su Yan.

"Oh? You like digging graves too?" Rong Ruo examined the golden coffin.

Su Yan shook her head. "I don't really like it. Unless it's a special case, there might be something I need in that tomb. But Xiao Qi likes digging tombs, maybe he learned it from Xiao Shiyi."

"Yes, she has looted all the tombs on the continent of Luoya."

"Uh... that's a bit too much. How can you dig up your own ancestral graves?" Su Yan was speechless. She would have to give this little girl a good talking to later.

Rong Ruo replied, "It's alright, I won't get scolded for digging up my own ancestral graves to find treasure."

Su Yan couldn't help but chuckle, "You just spoil her."

His gaze returned to the golden coffin. "Look at this, isn't it interesting?"

Rong Ruo replied, "Those inside should be princes and nobles. The deceased of ordinary status would be depicted in red, black, white, and yellow, not gold."

“I think so too, you can open it,” Su Yan said with a smile.

Rong Ruo nodded, "Okay."

A long chain weapon appeared in his hand, which wrapped around the coffin. With a low shout, he yelled, "Break!"

The entire golden coffin was shattered into pieces, revealing what was inside—a box.

There was a lock on the box, the very skull lock that Su Yan was looking for!

Su Yan did not open it rashly, but instead asked Xiao Mei to find out who locked the skull lock and what was in the box.

Soon the surrounding environment changed again.

The girl placed a blood-red heart into the box and then affixed a black talisman to the top inside the box.

Rong Ruo said to Su Yan, "That's a curse talisman, cursing the owner of this heart to be devoid of love and ruthlessness for all eternity. As for the skull lock, judging from its material, it should be ten-thousand-year-old cold iron. It's a saint-level refining material."

"Wow~" Su Yan looked at Rong Ruo with eyes full of admiration, "You know so much! Even more than Xiao Mei!"

Xiaomei: [...]

Rong Ruo said somewhat shyly, "No, Zong Sili knows more. I only have a superficial understanding."

Su Yan waved her hand, "No need to be modest, I'll teach all of this to your daughter later."

Rong Ruo replied, "Yes, this ten-thousand-year-old Yin Cold Iron is not only hard in texture, but it can also be reinforced with seals. There are bright red blood streaks on this lock, which is a blood curse. In other words, to open it, besides the key, only the person who has sworn blood to the master can open it with living blood."

As soon as she finished speaking, the girl who had locked the box suddenly slit her own throat and committed suicide! But after she died, she turned into a wisp of deathly energy, leaving no remains behind.

“Very good, I can only use the key.” Su Yan took out the skull key from the system space.

Rong Ruo looked at the key with a serious expression. "This female ghost has cursed the Lord of the Heart. If you open it, the curse will be broken."

"Xiaomei, do you want to open it?" Su Yan asked Xiaomei. She had been insisting on finding something, so naturally she was asking her.

Xiao Mei replied listlessly, "It seems there's no need to open it anymore."

Don't you want to know whose heart that is?

【In no mood!】

【…】

Su Yan nodded to Rong Ruo, "Open it and take a look. I'm quite interested in that talisman."

"What interest does Yan Yan have in this kind of cursed talisman?" Rong Ruo took the key and helped Su Yan unlock the skull lock.

"Didn't I take Xiao Qi and the others to the Ancestral Dragon's Tomb this time? The Ancestral Dragon's Sealing Heart and Locking Desire feels somewhat similar to this. I'll take a look." Su Yan couldn't quite put her finger on it, but the talisman made her feel that it was something special.

A trickle of bright red blood flowed from the skull lock, but as it fell to the ground, it dissipated into a wisp of deathly energy.

The heart inside the box was originally alive, but upon contact with the death aura, it instantly turned into a withered, dry piece of skin.

Xiao Mei was not satisfied with the result, so she did not waste any more energy data to trace the source of the heart.

Su Yan seemed to sense something and turned around to look.

A faint, blurry white shadow stood behind her, holding a book in his hand, remaining as he was before his death.

"You are... the human in the secret room?" Su Yan looked at his silhouette, which resembled that handsome man.

The man spoke up, "Thank you. Consider the treasure map to the end of the world as payment."

"Who are you?" Su Yan asked.

"I was originally Cheng Yangfu, the crown prince of the human race on the Yunxi Continent. Later, I don't know how, I came to the Void Realm and became the adopted son of the Southeast Ghost King. The Northwest Ghost King forcibly abducted me to the Northwest Royal Palace and imprisoned me here."

"You're saying that girl is the Ghost King of the Northwest?"

"Yes."

Su Yan looked at Rong Ruo and said, "You can't judge a book by its cover."

“Well, for example, Yu Hao and the others, their real ages…” Rong Ruo said with a smile.

Su Yan was silent for a moment, then said, "Looks are still the best!"

"Are you free now?" Rong Ruo asked Cheng Yangfu.

Cheng Yangfu bowed respectfully to Rong Ruo, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Oh?" Rong Ruo asked in surprise.

Cheng Yangfu said, "Your Majesty possesses the virtues of an emperor, and must be a supreme ruler."

Su Yan was slightly surprised, "You can see that?"

Cheng Yangfu nodded, "Yes. Neither of you has any death aura, and His Majesty even has the aura of a deity. You must be highly accomplished masters."

“I have one too,” Su Yan said, releasing a wisp of divine power.

Cheng Yangfu was shocked and bowed respectfully, saying, "Cheng Yangfu was blind and has no respect for the goddess."

"Haha~ No, no need for formalities. What are your plans for the future?"

"My past life is gone. I am going to the Sea of ​​Reincarnation to be reborn as a human being. Perhaps I will enter the Taoist sect to cultivate and become someone like Your Majesty and the Goddess."

"Then we wish Your Highness all your wishes come true and that your path is smooth," Su Yan said with a smile.

"Your Majesty and the Goddess offer their blessings together." Cheng Yangfu bowed again and then gradually disappeared.

Rong Ruo did not stop Cheng Yangfu from leaving; the white soul was a kind and innocent soul.

Su Yan put away the black talisman stuck to the box. [Xiao Mei? Where do we go next?]

Xiao Mei replied: 【A treasure map to the ends of the earth.】

[I knew this was what you were going to say.] Su Yan handed the map to Rong Ruo, "Interested in treasure hunting at the ends of the earth?"

Rong Ruo took the map, "As long as Yan Yan wants to go."

"Hmm. Why did that Northwest Ghost King commit suicide?" Su Yan picked up the skull lock with the key still in the lock and examined it closely. "Just to prevent people from opening this box?"

Rong Ruo replied, "Since she is the Ghost King of the Northwest, destroying a key would be too easy, but she threw the key into the well and let it drift. Perhaps she wanted someone to open this box."

Su Yan suddenly thought of something and looked at Rong Ruo's hand, "Let me see if there's anything unclean on this lock."

Rong Ruo let her look through it, and said apologetically, "Yan Yan, I'm sorry."

Su Yan looked up and met his gaze. "Why did you suddenly apologize?"