The morning mist had not yet dispersed when Lu Yao’s startled cry shattered the silence of Jiang Pier.
Xiao Yu was the first to rush out of the guest room, sword drawn three inches from its scabbard. He found the youth pressed against the stone wall behind the ancestral hall, his fingers clawing at a nearly invisible seam.
"It’s hollow behind here!" Lu Yao looked back, his face bright with excitement, a smudge of moss on his cheek. "I noticed the irregular arrangement of symbols on the wall last night. This morning, I tested it with Sister Shen’s medicinal powder—"
Chapter 99