The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family novel Chapter 5858

Moreover, these stone pillars were numerous and placed in a disorderly manner, resembling a stone forest. Upon seeing these seemingly randomly placed stone pillars, Fleur did not look surprised at all.

Instead, she touched them somewhat emotionally and murmured, “Master, Elijah, I’m back.”

With that said, she stepped into the stone forest and navigated through it according to a specific pattern.

This stone forest was the Nine Palace Formation set up by her master, Marcius, before his death. The brilliance of this formation lay in the fact that without knowing the method to break the formation, it was impossible to find a real exit from any position within the stone forest.

The only way for outsiders to break the formation was to destroy all the stone pillars, leaving none behind. However, this formation was originally set up by Marcius to protect his secret dwelling. According to his plan, as soon as someone forcefully intruded, he would be informed immediately even before the intruder had the chance to destroy all the stone pillars.

If the intruder's strength was inferior to his, he could secretly attack and kill them. If he encountered someone stronger than him, he wasn't afraid either because the stone forest formed by these stone pillars was vast and numerous, and each pillar was extremely robust and heavy. It would take a considerable amount of time and effort for the intruder to destroy them all, giving him enough time to escape. By the time the intruder destroyed all the stone pillars, he would have already fled.

Marcius had hidden his secret dwelling using this formation, and for hundreds of years, no one had been able to break in. The only two people who had entered before were Fleur and Elijah.

Now that Fleur had returned here once again, she chose a familiar path and swiftly navigated through the stone forest. After several traversals, she suddenly flashed and found herself facing the exit of the Nine Palace Formation, which was a manually carved arched stone door.

Inside the door was a roughly forty-square-meter stone room which Fleur was very familiar with. She and Elijah used to cultivate here all day long. There were still two cushions in the room where they used to cultivate, and even the ground bore the dried blood stains from when she wounded Elijah with a sword three hundred years ago.

Fleur was a little dazed and stunned. She reached out to touch the dried blood which had been there for over three hundred years, and she murmured, “Elijah, the sword wound I inflicted on your heart still pains me deeply to this day. If you had agreed back then, how could we have been separated by life and death for three hundred years? If we had joined forces back then, we might have even driven out the Qing army long ago, and the world would have belonged to the two of us. It's a pity you didn't recognize the situation and couldn't enjoy the blessings.”

As she spoke, she couldn't help but mutter in a low voice, “Aside from Elijah’s dried blood stain from back then, it seems that nothing has changed from how it was three hundred years ago. In other words, no one has returned here in the past three hundred years…”

She paused slightly and furrowed her brows. “In that case, the person who brought out Master’s portrait has never been here. Curtis Wade and his wife have never been here either. Who exactly is this person, then? How did Curtis Wade and his wife find the secret to longevity?”