He checked inside the room again and, finding no trace of any outsiders, finally relaxed, locked the main door again, and his footsteps faded away in the distance.
Mo Hua sneered in his heart:
"Do you think these little tricks can fool me?"
Every move Zhang Quan made was within his divine sense.
Once Mo Hua was certain through his divine sense that Zhang Quan was indeed far away, he gracefully dropped down from the roof beam.
The room was silent, and the screen bore no hint of any special aura.
It appeared to be just a regular screen.
Mo Hua examined the screen closely and had a sudden realization.
This screen unexpectedly turned out to be a high-quality spiritual artifact, and its refinement method was very special, no wonder it had eluded his perception.
It probably was worth quite a lot of spirit stones...
"How did Zhang Quan get it?"
Mo Hua was somewhat curious.
Was it stolen, robbed, gifted, or passed down from his ancestors?
But now was not the time to dwell on this.
He had to find a way to open the screen, enter the altar, and steal the copper bell.
Mo Hua remembered that before Zhang Quan entered the screen, he chanted some spells and performed some gestures, and then the ink on the screen opened up, revealing an entrance.
Mo Hua also tried to mimic the spell, performing gestures and stomping his feet, mumbling gibberish.
He himself did not know what he was chanting, just taking a blind chance.
But obviously, this was not a matter of luck.
The screen didn't budge.
Mo Hua scratched his head.
Was that incorrect...
But he couldn't go and ask Zhang Quan to demonstrate the gestures and incantations again.
Mo Hua pondered for a moment.
He remembered Mr. Zhuang once mentioned that everything has its appearance and its essence.
Performing gestures and chanting spells was just the appearance.
The essence was the circulation of internal spiritual power.
So it seemed, the screen had its own essence of spiritual power circulation.
And on a spiritual artifact, what controls the circulation of spiritual power is the formation...
Mo Hua looked closely once more and finally found subtle formation patterns at the corners and edges of the screen.
These patterns were very tiny and discreet.
What made it more troublesome was that Mo Hua didn't recognize them.
Even with divine sense, after deducing and calculating the complete patterns, Mo Hua still didn't know what formation it was.
He could only roughly guess based on his knowledge of formations.
The screen's formation seemed to be related to sound and visualization.
Chanting spells represented sound, while performing gestures symbolized visualization.
Only by getting both the spell and the gesture right, with correct sound and motion, could the formation be activated.
But as for the specific principles of the formation used, whether it involved the Five Elements or other formation method rules, Mo Hua was unsure.
"Formations are profound and intricate; it seems there's still much I need to learn..."
Mo Hua took out paper and pen, noting down the patterns for later study and contemplation when he had time.