Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 2424: Chapter 2327: Miniature Coffin

"To successfully possess someone, or as you often put it, to borrow a corpse to reincarnate, the most crucial point is that the physical body and the soul must fully match to prevent the body from rejecting the soul."

"For instance, a man and a woman are not compatible, people with the attribute of metal and wood are not compatible, those born at a yang hour and those born at a yin hour are not compatible. Achieving a hundred percent non-rejection is extremely difficult."

Huo Sining was bewildered upon hearing this: "Doesn’t this mean that Xiao Yu and Ge Hong must have the same constitution?"

Bai Buzhi smiled bitterly: "It’s indeed a coincidence, but I reckon that being a hundred percent identical is impossible; it’s highly likely they are similar, which allowed for a successful possession."

"I just realized during my confrontation with that entity that he was somewhat powerless, which I estimate is also related to the mismatch with the body."

"Thus, I speculate that even if he successfully possesses the body, adapting to the new body will consume a great deal of energy, and when he fully adapts, he might have to exhaust all his cultivation, making him nearly indistinguishable from an ordinary person, making it easy to capture him."

Huo Sining felt speechless and somewhat confused and asked:

"In that case, why did this person go through all this trouble to possess a body? Isn’t it a waste of effort?"

Bai Buzhi laughed: "This might be his miscalculation; I reckon he thought he could ascend, but unexpected changes occurred midway, forcing him to foster his soul in the ebony."

"But after waiting for thousands of years, he’s likely running out of patience, and if he continues to wait, he’ll deplete his cultivation, leading only to the dissipation of his soul and total obliteration."

"He’s uncertain whether he’ll encounter a more suitable candidate or whether he’d have to wait another thousand years."

"Hence, he was driven to seize Xiao Yu’s body, despite knowing it’s not the most suitable."

Huo Sining was suddenly stunned and instinctively turned her head to look at the wooden box previously thrown on the ground in Xiao Yu’s panic.

Upon closer inspection, she realized that the wooden box was indeed made of ebony, as Bai Buzhi mentioned. It’s no wonder the wooden boxes containing other burial items in the tomb chamber had decayed while this box remained intact — it’s crafted from ebony.

It makes sense; ebony itself is carbonized after being buried underground for tens of thousands of years, and this thing wouldn’t rot even if buried underground for thousands of years. Plus, its yin nature indeed makes it most suitable for housing a soul.

However, after glancing a few times, Huo Sining became curious about the box’s design and subconsciously asked:

"Why does this box look so strange? What exactly is it?"

Huo Sining seemed to want to pick it up but feared it might still be harmful, hesitating a bit.

Seeing her hesitant expression, Bai Buzhi chuckled:

"Don’t worry, that thing is safe now. Go ahead and pick it up; it’s not dangerous."

Upon hearing this, Huo Sining quickly walked over and picked up the box.

As soon as she touched it, she indeed felt no lingering death energy on the box, only a rich purple spiritual energy enveloping it, indicating it’s at least several thousand years old.

However, once she picked up the box, Huo Sining couldn’t help but furrow her brows.

It was after picking it up that she realized just how peculiar it was.

This was a small black rectangular wooden box, roughly thirty centimeters long, ten centimeters wide, ten centimeters thick, weighing about one or two kilograms, denser than ordinary wood but lighter than metal.

The entire box seemed to have been polished, jet black and shiny; even after thousands of years, it remained smooth, delicate, warm, and bright.

But this was merely the essence of the ebony and not the part that Huo Sining found strange. She felt odd because, upon bringing the box closer for inspection, she discovered the carvings on the box were identical to the patterns on the stone coffin in the main tomb chamber — a complete replica of that stone coffin!

This discovery surprised Huo Sining, and she faintly guessed what the box might be.

"Looks like you’ve already figured out what this thing is. Yes, it’s indeed a miniature coffin."

Bai Buzhi explained directly.

Although Huo Sining had heard of miniature coffins, there had been instances where miniature coffins were excavated in previous archeological work.

Generally, miniature coffins were used for underage tomb owners, were very young or premature infants, and usually made of jade.

This was the first time Huo Sining had seen a miniature coffin carved from ebony.

It seemed Huo Sining wasn’t the only one; even Zhou Shitao’s interest piqued upon hearing "miniature coffin," and he immediately stopped pressing Bai Buzhi about the ’borrow corpse to reincarnate’ matter, quickly walked over, snatched the ebony coffin, and began to examine it carefully.

Huo Sining smiled helplessly, not competing with Zhou Shitao, and directly stepped aside, letting the professors gather to observe it. Meanwhile, she crouched down to help Bai Buzhi stand, and asked concernedly:

"Mr. Bai, are you alright?"

Bai Buzhi waved his hand, looking at Huo Sining with a meaningfully probing yet understanding tone:

"Magic artifacts and spiritual springs, Huo girl, you’re quite hidden; no wonder back then Elder Qin had cancer, and you could even gather ancient prescriptions. Your mentor behind all this must truly be an extraordinary expert."

Huo Sining was startled, instinctively raising her head to look at Bai Buzhi, but after seeing his expression clearly, her tight emotions unconsciously relaxed.

Because she only saw a faint teasing and playful look in Bai Buzhi’s eyes, absent of any greed or possessiveness, just a joke between a senior and a junior.

Having interacted with Bai Buzhi before, Huo Sining knew although his actions were sometimes strange, she could see he was an upright person.

This was why she didn’t completely conceal herself, even though she knew it might arouse Bai Buzhi’s suspicions; she still gave him the mineral water infused with spiritual energy.

She believed that despite any suspicions, Bai Buzhi wouldn’t delve too deep, nor would he covet her identity or the items she possessed.

In hindsight, she indeed made the right gamble.