Chapter 347: The Temple (4)

Luo Qi nervously felt along the wall, and sure enough, just a few steps away, he felt a recessed slot on the wall. He stopped and grabbed a light orb to illuminate the area. He did not expect to discover any ingenious mechanism or a keyhole composed of riddles. They were Mages, the least imaginative species on this planet, with absolutely no interest in doing such impractical things.

The light source created by the Mage illuminated this wall, and Luo Qi saw that there were four such recessed slots in total, distributed symmetrically within a half-square-meter area, looking as if something had once been fixed to the wall. So even if this place had previously only been used to dock the Mages' pegasi, this underground hall must have also had many things installed, not the empty, hollow appearance it had now.

The cause of the current situation was not hard to guess; this place was not very far from the residence of the Highland Mages. The Highland Mages had lived here for at least several thousand years, and they had plenty of time to discover this place and dismantle it completely.

These Mages kept the secrets they inherited within Gushan, and the Highland Mages naturally kept their own secrets as well. Although he did not know where they kept their secrets, Luo Qi knew clearly in his heart that trying to approach such a place was extremely difficult, equivalent to stealing collection items from a museum's storage room. So if he had the chance to approach an excavation site and didn't try his luck, wouldn't he be a big fool?

Even if it was just to see the environment and gain some experience, it was a good thing.

Zhou Quan seemed to possess the basic qualities of all Qionglin practitioners, all of whom were like squirrels storing winter food, wishing they could move all the nuts in the entire forest back to the caves in Gushan to hide them. And they also seemed to be as bad at counting as squirrels, having no idea how many secrets they had actually dug up and hidden in Gushan.

Regardless, Zhou Quan's goal was at least consistent with Luo Qi's; Luo Qi had been waiting for him to convince himself just now until he was almost impatient.

Luo Qi carefully inspected the wall, hoping to find some residual text. No matter what kind of text was here, even if it were just an instruction manual, it would be of immense value to Luo Qi.

Now he somewhat regretted not studying hard. If Du Zhengyi were here, or any other top student, they could completely use information extraction methods to instantly extract and obtain all the residual text in the hall. There would be no need to be like Luo Qi, relying on his own two eyes to inspect it square meter by square meter.

After Luo Qi had worked for about a few minutes, he suddenly felt something strange. Zhou Quan seemed to know better than him what to look for here; after they separated, Zhou Quan also walked straight in one direction. Since the two of them were busy with their own tasks and not disturbing each other, it meant that both of them actually had their own clear goals.

Luo Qi was a bit curious and began to turn his head to look for Zhou Quan's shadow. Within these few minutes, Zhou Quan had already crossed the entire hall and walked to the end directly opposite the door.

In such a vast hall, even with light orbs floating everywhere, Luo Qi could only barely distinguish Zhou Quan's shadow.

"Did you find anything?" Luo Qi asked him loudly.

"Buddy, come over and give me a hand," Zhou Quan shouted.

Luo Qi abandoned his plan to search the wall in order and ran straight toward Zhou Quan. Zhou Quan had produced a larger light orb over there, thoroughly illuminating the space a few meters around him.

"Look at this," Zhou Quan said excitedly.

In the center of the wall, there was a relief carving depicting a complex pattern. Luo Qi realized that this was actually what he wanted to find too. The Highland Mages might have taken away all the Magic Artifacts here, but they could not hide all the marks. Since the wall here was cast from the sturdiest metal, the pattern etched into this metal was not something the Highland Mages could destroy.

"This is..." Luo Qi hesitated. "If I'm not hallucinating, I think I see a..."

"A Metatron Cube," Zhou Quan finished for Luo Qi excitedly. "I'm sure that's what you're seeing too."

"Yeah," Luo Qi muttered, "this is even the center of my world."

"This is the center of all of us, the center of all our worlds," Zhou Quan corrected him. "This is the Metatron Cube, the origin of the world. It can represent everything, express infinity, and even express the evolution that humans believe in. This is an ancient symbol; ancient Mages loved to use this symbol to represent the entire world, an entire world in infinite time. Didn't you take the fifth-grade Ancient Mage Studies? The Metatron Cube is the first chapter, describing the origin of Mages."

"You're fishing for my age," Luo Qi said casually; in fact, he just wanted to end this topic. Of course, he hadn't taken the fifth-grade Ancient Mage class, but Du Zhengyi had, and he had a deep impression of this course, with a deeper understanding of this symbol than Luo Qi. He now recalled that Du Zhengyi wasn't joking with him; his true intention was to hope that he could overcome the Anchor Point problem sooner, using everyone's common origin to replace his original Anchor Point. Perhaps in Du Zhengyi's hope, a person could reach such a height. Luo Qi would treat his meaning as a kind of blessing, but he had no interest in this realm at all. He was just a person, and he knew himself very well.

Zhou Quan did not notice his dullness and was so excited he couldn't calm down. "But the most important thing is that the Metatron Cube has a special meaning; it represents the energy structure of the world. This energy structure is called the Merkaba Field. This force field is responsible for releasing and absorbing energy, maintaining the operation of the entire world. It's empty here, the walls are smooth as can be, only this! So the appearance of the Metatron Cube symbol here must have a special meaning."

As Zhou Quan spoke, he reached out to touch the complex and highly regular structure.

Energy structure, force field, Energy Field... Luo Qi suddenly reacted and reached out to stop him. "Don't, don't touch it casually."

He was still a step too slow. Zhou Quan touched the Metatron Cube, and Luo Qi's mental world was shaken as if by a thunderclap. The Yajian that had been lingering and playing behind the door until just now suddenly amplified, and Luo Qi clearly realized the existence of a complex consciousness.

It was as if a person was already standing behind them.

The hairs on the back of his neck stood up, and he shivered as if he had needles pricking his back.