"This is... my Corpse Controlling Bell?"
The blood cord, exotic Patterns, bell body, clapper... all disassembled, as if it had been "dismembered."
Zhang Quan glared at Mo Hua and demanded:
"Why did you disassemble it?"
Mo Hua thought to himself that it was not him but his junior sister who had taken it apart.
But what his junior sister disassembled was almost the same as if he had done it himself.
So Mo Hua said, "I found it amusing, just took it apart to study it a bit..."
Zhang Quan felt numbness creeping up his scalp.
After a long while, he regained his composure and said word by word:
"And... my Ancestral Master Picture!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Chengyun's expression also stiffened, and his gaze betrayed a hint of desire.
Mo Hua was somewhat reluctant but knew that he could not afford to jeopardize the larger picture at this time, so with reluctance, he took out the wad of the Ancestral Master Picture.
Zhang Quan felt both guilty and ecstatic.
Guilty for having, in a moment of carelessness, lost his ancestor, dishonoring his forebears.
Ecstatic because now, having regained what was lost, he could finally appease the spirits of his ancestors in heaven.
Zhang Quan immediately snatched the Ancestral Master Picture, unfurled it for a look, and a broad smile spread across his face.
There was no mistaking it, it was his Ancestral Master Picture.
But as he kept looking, the smile on his face froze.
Something was wrong...
Why did it seem like there were fewer people in the picture?
Where are they?
Where did they go?
Zhang Quan looked at Mo Hua in disbelief, "Where are my Zhang Family ancestors?"
Mo Hua pointed at the picture in his hands, "Aren't they sitting right there in the picture?"
Zhang Quan angrily demanded, "Why are there fewer figures?"
Mo Hua shrugged, "How should I know?"
Zhang Quan, filled with rage, pressed on, "The picture was in your hands, how could you not know?"
Mo Hua pondered for a moment, then said, "Perhaps they've gone visiting..."
Zhang Quan's mouth fell open, "Visiting... visiting?"
"Mhmm," Mo Hua nodded, as if it were the most natural thing, "After staying put for so long, they'd want to move around a bit, right?"
"It's just that, the Cultivation World is quite dangerous. If you go visiting, you might not come back. If you run into danger and get eaten by some 'nasty thing,' that's also possible..."