This was the very same mark that the Second King Yanluo had left on the secret memorial, right beneath the design of the initiation module for the second generation Forbidden Arts!

Qin Ye and the Harken stared at each other for a few seconds before Qin Ye finally spoke up, “Did the Second King Yanluo leave us the key to this place?”

“Did the Confucian Family actually intercept and steal the secret memorial precisely because they’d learnt of these secrets? Were they perhaps… after this key? Then, is the design of the initiation module for the second generation Forbidden Arts nothing more than an ancillary surprise?”

There were too many questions and not enough answers. Everything was nothing more than a speculation right now. The Harken also pondered for a long time, before responding in a deep voice, “Then how do you explain that this ‘key’ is drawn right underneath that of all things?”

There was no plausible explanation to this.

Qin Ye shook his head, and then made a grasping motion in the air. At once, what remained of the secret memorial appeared in his hand, and he aligned the mark of the lotus flower carefully against the mark on the door. As soon as he had it perfectly aligned, the scroll spontaneously combusted, and transformed into black ash that vanished in the sky.

“What’s going on?” Qin Ye stared in horror at the sight, while the Harken promptly narrowed its eyes, “Yama-class power… For a moment there, I sensed a fragment...