"Nothing. I just felt that the images appearing on these walls resembled omens, and not auspicious ones."
Ji Yuan came back to his senses and withdrew his hand as he spoke to Xuanjizi and the others. They all sighed as well.
"Just as Mister Ji said, that is what we thought too. All living beings were woven into heaven and earth, their auras tangled too deeply. It was both a tribulation for all beings and a tribulation for heaven and earth."
As Xuanjizi spoke, his aura churned for a moment, though he still managed to suppress it. This was thanks to the Heavenly Secrets Hall and the Heavenly Secrets Wheel under its control, but also because nearly everyone present had sensed something. They could be considered informed.
While Ji Yuan and Xuanjizi spoke, the other three Long-Bearded Elders, whom Ji Yuan found rather unfamiliar, had been staring at the murals.
"Sect Leader True Man, Mister Ji, don't you feel that the colors of these murals seem somewhat off?"
"Yes. Though the colors have Energy Signatures Entangled within them, they seem somewhat too dark."
Ji Yuan turned his head in surprise. The Heavenly Secrets Hall itself was an extraordinary Treasure Chamber, and the murals had not been painted onto it. What possible meaning could there be in darker colors?
One of the Long-Bearded Elders had already copied Ji Yuan, reaching out to touch the murals. At once, the spot touched by his hand began to turn murky again.
Another Long-Bearded Elder reached toward a different spot, and those areas likewise began to cloud over, as if hands had stirred up the silt beneath a pond.
Ji Yuan frowned as he watched, sending a low voice transmission to Xuanjizi and Lian Baiping.
"Who are these three Fellow Daoists?"
Things had happened rather