On the mottled rock wall, countless runes had long since fractured into indistinct marks, as though the windblown sands of time had worn away most of their luster. Lin Feng slowly extended his hand, brushing his fingertips against the incomplete patterns. Warmth instantly spread through him, as comforting as basking beneath the blazing midday sun, dispelling the biting chill of the void.
The power contained within these runes was ancient and immense, faintly resonating with the God Emperor power within him. Yet it possessed a little more unpolished rawness and roughness, and a little less of the refinement and weight of God Emperor power.
"Could this... be the ruins of the God Emperor Sect?" Lin Feng's gaze shifted slightly as a suspicion quietly stirred in his heart. His eyes swept over the surrounding broken walls and rubble with growing sharpness.
He bent down to examine the scattered wreckage carefully, and more traces of the God Emperor Sect emerged one after another. On one broken wall, the words "God Emperor" remained faintly visible. Though their edges were chipped and their strokes weathered, they still exuded a majesty that looked down upon all beneath heaven. The lettering had actually been inlaid with a rare kind of Star Essence Gold. Even after countless ages of erosion, it still shimmered with a faint golden light, its radiance undiminished.
Not far away, only half of a statue's body remained. Its broken surface was riddled with the marks of time, yet its former appearance could still be discerned: a stern, imposing face and a figure standing as straight as a pine. Though the sword in its hand had snapped, a trace of its former edge remained. It was clearly a likeness of one of the God Emperor Sect's past sect masters.
Numerous shattered magic treasures also