When he came to his senses, Liu Chuanxi could not help trembling all over. The excitement deep within him almost spilled out onto his face. With barely contained eagerness, he told the others, "Check whether there are any seal restrictions on the door. We'll open it and explore inside."
"Yes!"
Among his companions were people skilled in such matters, and they began inspecting it. Liu Chuanxi himself had some knowledge of the Formation Dao and stepped forward to help. Before long, they confirmed that apart from a restriction that opened and closed it automatically, the stone door had no other defenses.
Still, that suited the abode's owner. If the owner truly was a mighty practitioner who had attained immortality, their own presence would have been deterrent enough. Such cave abodes and blessed lands often needed defenses only at their core, not at the main entrance.
Liu Chuanxi soon found a circular relief at the center of the stone door, set into the seam. It was shaped like a Yin-Yang Fish Diagram and measured roughly a foot across. He brushed away the loose dirt and, sure enough, found a rotating trigger mechanism within.
Liu Chuanxi told everyone to step back a little, then personally pressed his palm against the trigger mechanism and pushed down hard.
The mountainside trembled, and the stone door slowly but steadily opened to either side. Before long, it revealed a flight of stone steps leading inward.
A cave abode was, in truth, a residence within a grotto heaven. It often contained a grotto heaven within, forming a domain of its own with a spatial structure independent of the outside world.
These stone steps clearly lay at the grotto heaven boundary wall, forming a passage through the mountain that served as decoration and concealment. The hollow space within