In the end, Xia Fei was fooled by Slaughtershadow as the passageway collapsed, trapping him in the secret chamber.
Xia Fei's acute sense of touch let him feel that more text could be found behind the plate, so he turned it around and took a look.
'How's that? Got scared shitless by it, right? There's actually another path that leads outside; it's up to you to discover it, though.'
Xia Fei flung the metal plate with a flick of his wrist
It followed an arc and sank into the wall with the precision of a surgical incision.
He gritted his teeth. Not only was Slaughtershadow cruel, he was also apparently a prankster, for him to come up with something like this to torture his inheritor. There was another passageway outside, but where was it? He had checked this hall twice and discovered nothing out of the ordinary; if there really was a passageway it should be incredibly well-hidden.