29 Portrait of Martial Emperor's Beloved

People who went out to sea all tacitly know that they might not be able to return. Under such circumstances, how could an ordinary person like Yan Bang protect himself?

Furthermore, once she left this ship, she would be exposing Yan Bang to danger.

If anything should happen to the ship, she would not be able to return in time. Even if she risked her life to obtain the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, it would not have any meaning. By then, Yan Bang would already be gone and staying in this place would no longer hold any attraction for her.

"If you're worried about me, then take me with you to the bottom of the sea."

Yan Bang smiled indifferently and said, "Besides, I'm also worried about you going down alone. We have an agreement that when the time comes to die, we'll die together. Besides, the sect master of the Dual Polarity Sect is also a ninth-stage Martial Sage and Chu Feng is just an ordinary person."

"They've already scouted the way so we have nothing to fear, isn't it?"

"Even if I'm unlucky enough to die at the bottom of the sea, I'll willingly go through that. Otherwise, I won't be happy in a lifetime without you even if I live to be 100 years old!"

Seeing Yan Bang's unusually firm expression, Weidai He was not aware that she was already crying..

"Okay, I agree."

At this moment, Chu Feng and Ji Rui had already entered the deepest part of the ravine. Their surroundings were pitch-black. Even the light emitted by the Water Repelling Pearl in their hands was not enough to disperse the surrounding darkness.

Chu Feng could only barely use the weak light of the Water Repelling Pearl to investigate his surroundings.

However, what he could see with his naked eye was too limited. If his current cultivation level was higher, then he could be like Ji Rui and use his divine sense to detect the danger around him.

A warrior at the level of ninth-stage Martial Sage would be able to cast the divine sense out like a net and easily detect everything within a hundred miles.

Unfortunately, he was still one year's worth of check-in away from reaching the Martial Sage realm.

At this moment, Ji Rui had closed her eyes to focus and was carefully checking her surroundings. No movement would be able to escape her divine sense.

She finally opened her eyes after an amount of time it took an incense stick to burn.

Chu Feng immediately looked at her and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Ji Rui shook her head in disappointment.

"There's nothing under here."

There's actually nothing?

Chu Feng was stunned for a moment. Clearly, he could not accept this outcome.

"Could Xu Yi's guess be wrong? This isn't a Martial Emperor's tomb but just a mark left behind after a battle… But this destructive power is really too terrifying."

"It's just that even a Martial Emperor might not be able to withstand such a killing move."

He mumbled on, lost in thought as he stared into the darkness ahead.

No, it's not right.

If it was really just the ruins of an ancient battlefield, why did that Martial Emperor carve the words "Underworld Road" they saw on the way here?

Thinking of this, it really did not make any sense.

Chu Feng felt strongly that there might really be secrets in this sea area that they had yet to discover.

"We put in so much effort to get here, we can't go back like this. Let's look around first."

Chu Feng said to Ji Rui.

The two of them had the same thought and quickly began to search along the smooth stone wall. Although the light emitted by the Water Repelling Pearl was weak, it could still illuminate a portion of the stone wall when they approached and they made full use of the opportunity to observe their surroundings.

Chu Feng patiently accompanied her in the search.

Slowly, words the size of mosquitoes and flies started appearing before his eyes. Given that tens of thousands of years had passed, these words were no longer as clear as they had been.

However, traces of the carvings were very obvious. This was the clue they were looking for!

Chu Feng hurriedly called out to Ji Rui. The two of them continued forward and carefully observed the place where the traces were found.

These chisel marks actually converged into a scroll of calligraphy and painting. Using a knife as a pen and a stone wall as rice paper, a picture was carved out. It was impossible to see the entire picture with the naked eye.

Chu Feng could feel his heart tighten.

"My wife, this scroll of painting is too majestic. It's impossible to see it completely with just our eyes. Can you note it down with your divine sense?"

Ji Rui was stunned. She did not expect Chu Feng to make such a suggestion. However, there was indeed a huge painting in the direction he was pointing to.

When she casted her divine sense earlier, she actually did not notice anything strange about this area.

However, it was also possible that the stone walls were too roughly carved. Without a good sense of imagination, it was easy to mistake these marks for patterns formed by the erosion of seawater.

Ji Rui looked at Chu Feng in surprise. She had thought that by bringing him down with her, she might need to spare some effort to protect him. However, she did not expect this guy to be able to render help to her instead.

Chu Feng's intuition was actually even sharper than hers.

No wonder her father praised him like that…

"I can use my divine sense to copy it but it will take a little more time."

Chu Feng smiled and said, "That's fine. We just need to have an overall view."

Ji Rui nodded slightly and quickly enveloped the entire stone wall with her divine sense. She closed her eyes tightly and showed signs of strenuous effort for the first time.

She shrank the painting on the entire stone wall to around ten feet and made a copy on the smooth stone wall in front of them.

It was just enough to allow them to see the gist of it. Although some details were lost, it did not matter much.

In the time it took to drink two cups of tea and as Ji Rui's forehead was covered in sweat, a copy of the entire painting was finally completed. However, when the two of them had a clear look at the content, their hearts skipped a beat.

The painting on the stone wall was not a treasure map, but just an ordinary portrait of a lady.

However, the painting was really too big. If Chu Feng had not discovered it, no one would be able to tell that there was a drawing of a woman on the wall!

What exactly did the painting represent?

"It turns out to be just an ordinary painting, but who would come to the bottom of the sea to paint for no reason? And by using such a secretive method, what's going on in this person's head?"

Chu Feng quickly tried to work out the purpose of that person's actions back then. He did not think that the person had created a deep abyss just to depict this woman's appearance.

However, the painting in front of them was really quite ordinary. Even the woman in the painting did not belong to the type of woman with breathtaking beauty. Although her appearance was very pleasing to the eye, it lacked a stunning effect.

In the painting, she was just looking out quietly with a hint of a smile on her lips and with an approachable air.

Was this the person that the artist liked?

Although the woman on the stone wall was not breathtakingly beautiful, she had a very elegant temperament and the painting showed her in a state of smiling slightly.

Even the fine hair on her temples were drawn out. If not for the fact that this Martial Emperor's chiseling technique was too messy, this painting must be a close likeness of this woman.