At the end of the path was a door. It swung open the moment the three of them drew near. They stepped out, and the door clicked shut behind them. When they looked back, the wall was bare; the outline of the door had vanished completely.
"Has the ground stopped shaking?" Xiao Chengyu asked, scanning his surroundings.
They were in a corridor within the ancient castle, its layout identical to the floor where their guest rooms were located. Shang Yu tried to probe the wall again, but he could only perceive that a tearoom lay on the other side. Beyond that, the path dissolved back into a wall of black fog—the suppression that limited them to magic alone had returned.
Chapter 291