The room was filled with stone lions, and the murals on the walls told the story of the origins of the Mogu.
The Mogu were originally half-mechanical, half- Magical Creatures created by the Titans. Due to the Curse of Flesh of the Old Gods, their bodies became half-flesh and blood, and they gained independent consciousness.
Unwilling to submit to the Titans, the Mogu relentlessly pursued power after the Titans left this world, including imprisoning the Titan Keepers Ra-den.
After passing through a room filled with stone lions, we entered a larger, more spacious room, which displayed rows of tall Mogu stone sculptures, each statue being seven or eight meters high.
These stone sculptures are generally dressed in armor and holding various weapons.
The murals on the wall once again attracted the Pandaren. All the Mogu were born strongmen, possessing powerful magic from birth. Their specialty was insidious Soul Magic, which they often extracted the souls of creatures and sealed them into stone carvings to create weapons of war.
Using Soul Magic, the Mogu created intelligent races such as Saurok, Jinyu, and Hozen.
"This is impossible!" exclaimed a Pandaren.
One of the stone carvings depicts the Mogu creating the Mogu Cloud Serpent, capturing giant eels from the Abyss sea and extracting their souls.
Then, a Cloud Serpent shape was carved from jade, and the eel's soul was sealed inside. Finally, Curse of Flesh was used to corrupt the jade into a flesh and blood creature. This is the origin of the Cloud Serpent.
The Cloud Serpent are friends of the Pandaren. If the Cloud Serpent were truly merely creations of the Mogu, it would be disrespectful to Cloud Serpent, and the Pandaren refuse to acknowledge the depiction in this mural.
"This must be a despicable lie. The great Cloud Serpent, like us Pandaren, are among the oldest races in Azeroth. Millions of years ago, we lived on this land."
An elder Pandaren stated this with certainty.
A strange and oppressive sense of terror suddenly overwhelmed the Pandaren, as if countless eyes were staring at them, and the chattering Pandaren immediately fell Anjing.
After a long while, without noticing any movement, the Pandaren breathed a sigh of relief and continued to admire the Mogu murals with a critical eye.
The murals depict the lives of the Mogu, who invented amazing magic that enabled them to communicate across vast distances and created a disc-shaped flying object that could carry Mogu.
The Mogu fought against the Mantid, drove Mantid away, forced Mantid to retreat to the Dread Wastes, and improved the land that had been Corruption by the Mantid.
The Pandaren chattered amongst themselves, unanimously criticizing the authenticity of the murals.
It is clearly recorded in the history of the Pandaren that the brave Pandaren defeated the Mantid. The Pandaren also built the Serpent's Spine to block the expansion of the Mantid. The Pandaren spared no effort in mocking the unscrupulous behavior of the Mogu.
The third room contained only a few hundred Mogu statues, but these statues were much taller, generally exceeding ten meters in height, clad in magnificent armor, and wielding weapons that gleamed with gold, clearly belonging to the nobles of the Mogu.
The dozens of Pandaren elders who had entered earlier stood in front of a mural and began to curse.
The Pandaren followed the sound of cursing and, upon seeing the content of the mural, joined in with their own cursing.
It turns out that the mural depicts the process by which the Mogu created the August Celestials.
The August Celestials Pandaria Celestials— Yu'lon, Xuen, Chi-Ji, Niuzao —are generally believed to be Titan-forged used to Sha, a claim even the Sha themselves hold.
However, another theory suggests that the August Celestials existed before the Titans entered Azeroth. They were similar to the Loa, the gods of the Troll race, and were native to Azeroth. They were mistaken for Titan-forged because they had received help from the Titans.
History is so ancient that even the August Celestials themselves could not explain it clearly.
However, this mural reveals another origin of the August Celestials: the Titans used special materials to create four decorative statues in the Vale of Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
The Mogu Emperor Lei Shen destroyed four powerful creatures that plagued Pandaria, extracted their souls, erased their memories, and sealed them within statues.
Under the influence of the Curse of Flesh and the magical springs of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, the four statues gradually came to life, and Lei Shen helped them understand this world.
"Ridiculous! What a ridiculous lie!" The Pandaren cursed incessantly.
"Destroy these murals! We absolutely will not allow the Mogu to slander the noble August Celestials."
"We Pandaren are the greatest race in Azeroth, August Celestials are the noblest deities," a Pandaren proudly declared.
"Run! The Horde is coming!" the Pandaren behind urged.
Hearing that the Horde was coming, the Pandaren were terrified and, forgetting to curse the murals, quickly fled to the next room.
This room is much smaller than the previous rooms, containing only four tall Mogu statues representing the four great Mogu: the Tien the Endless, the Mad King Meng the Demented, the War King Qiang the Merciless, and the Bandit King Subetai the Swift.
The murals depict the life stories of the four kings, who were inherently cruel and ruthless, and who once treated the enslaved Pandaren cruelly.
In a corner of the room, the old scholar, dressed in colorful robes, who had been the first to enter Mogu'shan Palace, knelt before a mural, his eyes bloodshot, muttering to himself as if he were insane:
"Lies, lies, this is absolutely not true, you damned Mogu, you fabricate history, how insidious and vicious you are."
This unassuming mural tells a terrible story.
The Mogu once created a vast empire; long before the rise of the Night Elves, the Mogu nearly conquered all of Azeroth.
However, the Mogu have never been able to solve a problem: as their lifespan increases, the Mogu become increasingly fleshy and bloody. When their bodies are entirely flesh and blood, they lose their innate magic and soul abilities, and their tall bodies gradually shrink, turning into chubby, weak creatures.
The Mogu called them Pandaren.
To prevent themselves from becoming Pandaren, the Mogu used a petrification curse to turn themselves into stone statues, freezing their lives.
So the Mogu built secret bases such as the Mogu'shan Palace to house their people who had been turned into statues, hoping to find a solution in the future.
"Our ancestors were actually Mogu, haha, that's ridiculous."
Many Pandaren laughed until they cried.
"That's utter nonsense. Everyone knows that the history of the Pandaren far surpasses that of the Mogu. We created a great history," some Pandaren scholars said righteously.
The Pandaren condemned the lies fabricated by the Mogu, but with the Horde army in pursuit, they had no choice but to continue their escape.
Deep within the Mogu'shan Palace, Lao Xianglong arrived before a towering throne.
Seated atop the throne was a Mogu wearing a crown. Unlike the statues outside, this Mogu was alive, gazing lazily at the small Pandaren below the throne.
"Great King Xien, I have found a way to stop the Curse of Flesh. According to the ancient covenant, the Mogu should awaken from their slumber and unify the world."
King Xien said with displeasure, "I've heard too many lies already, how can I believe you?"
Lao Xianglong said confidently, "I brought the Antidote into the Mogu'shan Palace. They are Orcs. Orcs possess a mysterious power that can stop the Curse of Flesh."