Martial Master

“No…”

Wu Shuang Wang's face showed terror as he tried to mobilize his true essence to resist the black demonic energy, but it was useless. The black demonic energy instantly enveloped his entire body, and as a peak Martial King at the initial seventh level, he had no means of resistance whatsoever.

“Puff!”

Silent and without a sound, Wu Shuang Wang was instantly obliterated. Under the corrosion of the black mist, nothing remained; he completely turned to ash and dissipated.

What the hell is this thing?

Qin Chen's expression was one of shock. This black demonic energy was too terrifying, even filling him with fear, as if once it wrapped around him, it could bring him unbearable harm.

“Run!”

After collecting the few true treasures scattered in the hall, Qin Chen grabbed the ancient cauldron and shot upward toward the ruins.

Boom!

The ancient cauldron was enormous, exuding a vast pressure, as heavy as a mountain. While refining the cauldron, Qin Chen looked down in horror.

He saw that below the hall, the ground shattered and instantly collapsed into a massive pit.

“What on earth is this?”

Xue Shou Wang also followed Qin Chen into the sky, gazing at the deep pit below in shock.

The pit was bottomless, a pitch-black void. Within that pit, strange lights flickered, forming mysterious patterns. At the same time, there was a cacophony, as if some phenomenon was resounding beneath the ground, making it impossible to discern the situation through the black mist.

Rumble!

At the same time, the entire ruined palace began to tremble. Following the previous lightning tribulation's strikes, the palace had already been left in tatters. At this moment, it was completely shattered, forming a massive ruin on the desolate land of the Heavenly Demon Secret Realm.

“This is…” Qin Chen stared at the countless passages and pits below, his face paled as he struggled to swallow and said, “What kind of seal is this?”

Looking down from above the ruins, he saw that the winding passages below the palace coalesced into a tremendously mysterious seal. This seal was immensely large; each passage was a pattern of the seal, obscure and mysterious. As Qin Chen descended, he felt dizzy and disoriented, unable to discern anything clearly.

This feeling was similar to when he had seen the mysterious seal at the bottom of the Black Death Marsh, far exceeding his ability to recognize.

The passages leading to the hall were the patterns of the seal, and the bottom of the hall was the center of the seal, the core of the entire formation.

This entire ruined palace was actually a colossal ancient seal. After the black mist dissipated and the palace was destroyed, it was clearly presented before Qin Chen and the others.

This entire gigantic palace was indeed a massive seal. Who set it up?

Qin Chen was shaken, feeling an inexplicable fear.

At this moment, he recalled that the patterns in the hall were also quite strange, especially the positions of the three black spheres. Every time they attacked the black spheres, it seemed that the patterns on the ground in the hall absorbed a part of the power.

At that time, Qin Chen was solely focused on breaking the restrictions on the spheres and hadn't thought too much about it. But now, reflecting back, he found it somewhat unusual.

What shocked Qin Chen even more was that if it weren't for the earlier lightning tribulation, which shattered the top of the palace and the ground of the hall, he would never have discovered that the entire ruined palace was actually a gigantic seal.

No…

Suddenly, Qin Chen's body stiffened, as if a flash of lightning had struck through his mind.

The previous lightning tribulation had targeted him, but the vast majority of its power had struck the hall, even a few bolts of heavenly lightning had struck nearby.

Previously, Qin Chen thought it was because he had mastered the concept of spatial intent that the lightning tribulation had deviated.

But now reflecting back, it seemed that the lightning tribulation intentionally struck other parts of the hall, as if it wanted to actively unlock this seal.