What he saw before him was already vastly different from the scene he had witnessed earlier. The sight outside had merely been conjured by an illusion formation.
The illusion formation was simply too powerful. Even Qin Fengming's Pure Spirit Divine Eye had failed to detect the slightest abnormality.
But that did not mean he had discovered nothing. When he had previously suggested changing locations to enter the complex, he had already used rune patterns to investigate and determined that what lay before them was merely an illusion formation.
This powerful illusion formation should have been the Nine-Bend **Formation Hu Fengzheng had mentioned.
The two characters "**" alone were enough to explain the formation's effect: it could bewilder the divine soul. Divine sense was itself the power of the divine soul, so it would naturally be even more susceptible to falling into it.
However, when they had investigated with their divine sense, only the illusion formation had exerted its power; it had not caused their divine souls to fall into it as well.
What they saw before them now was the true location of the palaces.
This place was likewise a grand complex of buildings, except that there were only nine towering palaces. They were arranged in three rows, with three palaces in each row. Judging from the layout, there was clearly one main hall and two side halls.
Every palace, however, had been built on an extremely grand and magnificent scale. Even the side halls occupied an area more than a hundred zhang wide, while the main hall spanned over two hundred zhang and stood dozens, even hundreds, of zhang high.
With palaces so enormous, even the halls and towers Qin Fengming had usually seen would have found it extremely difficult to compare. Just by looking at these nine buildings,