Martial Master

In the narration of the black slave, the forbidden area he mentioned was within this lake; as long as one entered this lake, they could find the location of the underground ruins.

However, in the Black Death Marsh, water bodies like this were the most dangerous because no one knew what might be hidden within.

It was very likely that some terrifying blood beasts were lurking.

Moreover, in the Black Death Marsh, the penetration ability of a martial artist's perception was extremely weak, making it impossible to probe what was within this lake.

Therefore, even a sixth-level Martial Venerable would rarely dare to dive into such lakes unless they were seeking death.

The black slave had only entered the lake a few years ago after an accident and had seen the underground ruins.

After doing some reconnaissance.

Qin Chen did not hesitate and directly released his soul power. In a place like the Black Death Marsh, soul power was more reliable, and its penetrating ability was far stronger than spiritual power.

What puzzled Qin Chen was that this lake appeared to be extremely ordinary; no matter how he probed, it was just an ordinary lake, and there was not a trace of the ruins to be found.

The black slave shouldn’t be lying to me; if what he said was false, it would be exposed as soon as I arrived here.

Thinking of this, Qin Chen did not hesitate, his figure flickered, and he directly plunged into the lake.

Splash!

Water splashed, and Qin Chen felt a chill all over him, but the next moment, he no longer felt the resistance of the water, as if he had entered a void.

Qin Chen immediately understood that this was indeed a high-level concealment array, and its level was even higher than he had imagined; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been unable to detect any clues.

Looking around, what lay before him was not the bottom of a lake but a genuine underground world.

A stifling environment, dense natural energy, and the surrounding hard black rocks grew ruggedly, creating a stark contrast to the feeling of the Black Death Marsh.

But Qin Chen understood that they were still beneath the Black Death Marsh, just underground.

After landing, Qin Chen couldn't help but marvel at the perverse individual who set up this concealment array. To arrange such a high-level concealment array was definitely not the work of an ordinary array master; it wasn’t even set up by a modern array master. It seemed this place had been here for countless years.

However, what puzzled Qin Chen was that since this person had set up a concealment array, why didn’t they set up a defensive array as well?

With that array master’s cultivation, even if they only added a simple defensive array, let alone the black slave, even a seventh-level Martial King entering the lake would only rush into the real lake and not arrive at such a place.

The underground world that appeared before Qin Chen was not large; it resembled a massive plaza, roughly only a dozen miles in size. However, it was filled with bizarre rocks, and enormous stone pillars loomed chaotically.

In the very center of this underground world, there was a dried-up small pond, and in the center of the pond stood a large brown stone, which even had a small groove in the middle.

Qin Chen immediately understood that this was the place where the black slave found the Qinglian Demon Fire and the black gourd.

The black slave had previously told him that his Qinglian Demon Fire was found in the groove on this black stone platform, and the black gourd was nearby the Qinglian Demon Fire. The black gourd even contained methods to control fire refining insects and other spirit insects.

Qin Chen approached the pond, preparing to thoroughly examine the environment, when suddenly his gaze sharpened because he discovered that there were extremely fine prohibitions on the stone platform.

These prohibitions were very unique and hidden atop the brown giant stone; only someone with exceptional skill in prohibitions could possibly discover them.

In fact, if Qin Chen hadn’t learned a brand-new method of prohibition crafting in Ancient Southern Capital, he wouldn’t have noticed such a prohibition.