Lu Feng put away his shock and suspicion. He did not linger by the thirteen bound iron figurines, but left the Stone Chamber and continued deeper inside.
Compared to the entrance at the center of the cliff face where they had first entered, their current position should have been approaching the level of the outside ground, perhaps even already beneath it.
Lu Feng knew that this depth alone was clearly far from the entirety of this tomb realm.
Further ahead was another adjoining Stone Chamber, connected to the Iron Figurine Chamber by a two-way door.
Unlike the dim Iron Figurine Chamber, the newly opened Stone Chamber before them was considerably brighter. A torch-shaped Illuminating Jade Pillar stood in each of its four corners.
Judging from the traces, they were not foreign objects, but something like eternal lamps originally installed within the Stone Chamber. Huo Qiu's group had intruded, triggering their radiance once more.
Through the light cast by the jade pillars, they could see dense images carved across the surrounding stone walls. They had beginnings and ends, like a series of linked illustrations, serving to tell a story.
Out of caution toward the dangers of the tomb realm, Lu Feng surveyed the Narrative Murals on the surrounding stone walls.
Battlefields, slaughter, captives, death by a thousand cuts, mass burials...
Men and women, young and old, even mounts and livestock...
None were spared!
Every mural depicted scenes of incomparably brutal killing. From the scenes alone, they had already claimed tens of thousands of souls.
Yet the protagonist of it all was a man wearing a savage Evil Ghost Mask, clad in Scarlet Armor, and wielding a Mountain-Splitting Great Axe.
The reason he could tell the figure was a man was that, in one mural, he was bare-chested, with two alluring women