"What do you need my help with, Family Head?"
"Please follow me," Lu Chengyun said, gesturing an invite with his hand.
Mo Hua followed him out, walking through the corridors of the Stone Palace, turning several corners, and arriving at the previous hall.
Inside the hall, Zhang Quan was also present. He snorted coldly when he saw Mo Hua.
But he said nothing, nor dared to strike at Mo Hua.
Mo Hua also "hmmphed" in response, while calculating in his mind how to scheme against Zhang Quan and then steal his ancestor.
Seeing the tension between the two but also their restraint—neither fighting nor exchanging words—Lu Chengyun nodded slightly.
"Brother Zhang, open the door," he said.
Zhang Quan's eyes focused, he nodded and said, "Alright."
Mo Hua was taken aback, wondering to himself.
"Open the door? What door?"
Where was there any door in this place?
Mo Hua frowned, then watched as Zhang Quan walked up to a huge mural on the wall.
The mural was carved with zombies displaying ferocious and cruel expressions, Cultivators with faces filled with horror, countless overturned coffins, and hands stretching out from within them.
Zhang Quan began to chant and make hand seals in front of the painting.
Mo Hua was slightly stunned.
His actions looked so familiar.
It was similar to what Mo had done in front of the Screen in the Corpse Walking Stronghold, though more complicated, and the incantations were longer.
So this mural, like the screen, was the entrance to a secret chamber?
Sure enough, moments later, the lines on the mural became chaotic and intermingled, turning into a puddle of ink. The ink gradually structured itself into clarity, forming a face that was half human, half zombie.
This face was majestic yet harsh, with a gaze full of greed.
And as part of a zombie, it bore ferocity and terror.
After the half human, half zombie face materialized, it opened its mouth wide; the more it opened, the bigger it got, until the entire face became a gaping maw.
The sharp fangs on either side of the mouth were as lethal as those of Monster Beasts.
This mouth was the entrance.
Lu Chengyun said, "Gentleman, please!"
After speaking, he walked towards the mural himself.
Mo Hua hesitated for a moment before following him, entering the gaping maw of the zombie.