Martial Master

Qin Chen had always firmly believed in his sixth sense.

When he first entered, although he felt a bit uncomfortable, he didn’t notice anything unusual. However, after his breakthrough, he checked again and had a different feeling.

These stone pillars felt very abrupt in his perception, with strange patterns engraved on them. At first glance, they seemed like ordinary designs, but upon closer inspection, these patterns were far from ordinary, giving him a sense of endless mystery and familiarity.

“Familiar? Why do I feel a sense of familiarity?”

Qin Chen furrowed his brows. He was certain that this was his first time here, and it was also the first time he had seen these patterns.

Logically, it shouldn’t feel familiar.

But he was sure that he seemed to have seen these patterns somewhere before.

“Where exactly?”

Qin Chen frowned in deep thought, racking his brain.

“Ancient Southern Capital!”

Suddenly, Qin Chen’s eyes lit up, shooting out two sharp glints.

He finally remembered where he had seen these patterns on the stone pillars. It was the Ancient Southern Capital; the style here was very similar to the style presented in the ruins of the Ancient Southern Capital.

“Ancient Southern Capital, located in the land of the Five Kingdoms, while this Black Death Marsh is at the border of the Dawi Dynasty. The distance between the two is not very far. Could there have been some connection between them in ancient times?”

His heart shook; it was not impossible.

With such a close distance, for the Nineth Level Martial God experts capable of traversing the void, it would be a matter of moments. If both were formed in ancient times and had some connection, it was definitely possible.

However.

The Ancient Southern Capital was a force established by the top experts of the ancient era to resist the invasion of foreign tribes.

But this Black Death Marsh gave off an evil and strange feeling. What kind of connection could there be between the two?

Qin Chen thought for a long time but had no clues.

“Regardless of the connection between the Ancient Southern Capital and this Black Death Marsh, since these patterns are extremely similar to those of the Ancient Southern Capital, why not use the secret patterns inherited from the Ancient Southern Capital to deduce a bit?”

Thinking of this, Qin Chen immediately went to the stone pillar and began analyzing the patterns on them.

At first, he was a bit confused, but as the analysis progressed, Qin Chen’s heart shook. The patterns indeed responded as he expected; he could use the secret patterns from the Ancient Southern Capital's inheritance to deduce them.

In the entire great hall, there were a total of forty-nine strange stone pillars. Each pattern on these pillars was different, as if they formed a formation.

But Qin Chen knew that this was definitely not a formation; it was merely similar to a formation.

And the stone pillars served a similar function to formation flags.

“Could it be that these stone pillars are a passageway for departure?”

Qin Chen was very clear that even if these stone pillars formed something akin to a formation, it might not be a passageway, but it could be key to another place.

The entire great hall had no exits at all. If he wanted to get out, aside from deciphering these runes and operating the 'formation flags' formed by the forty-nine stone pillars, there was no other way.

Qin Chen immediately approached one of the stone pillars and began to pour his true power into it.

In his view, any formation was driven by true power, and these stone pillars were no exception.

However, to Qin Chen’s surprise, no matter how much true power he poured in, these stone pillars showed no reaction at all. He even tried with all the pillars, but there was not a single response.

“Could it be because my true power is too weak?”

Qin Chen’s face darkened. His current cultivation was only at the peak of the fifth level late stage, while the existence that set up this palace must be no weaker than a Nineth Level Martial God. With his cultivation, it was clearly impossible to drive this stone array.