"Those monks from the Magadha Kingdom actually liked playing Go?"
Yan Zhong had spotted the board as well. He remarked in surprise, then plunged into the small kitchen beside the courtyard and rummaged around for a long while before finally finding some dried rations.
Huo Qubing and the others entered the temple one by one, looking around. Chloe curiously poked at the clay Buddha statue in the center while lighting a flame and using it to ignite the red candles offered throughout the temple.
The blizzard mixed with the howling wind, making the broken temple doors creak. Several candle flames swayed in the wind, as if bathing the clay Buddha statue in gold.
"Everyone's starving after all that traveling. Let's eat something here before we set out again." Yan Zhong handed out the rations. "Otherwise, if we really run into that monster's true body later, we'll be too hungry to fight."
Lin Qiye was now a Primordial Spirit Embryo and no longer needed to eat, so he handed his ration to Jialan.
"You eat."
Jialan was chewing on her own ration when she saw Lin Qiye hand her another. She froze for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Aren't you eating?"
"I'm not hungry."
Jialan accepted the ration skeptically. "Just so we're clear, one meal isn't enough to buy me off... You still have to find me the work you promised."
"Yes, yes, don't worry. I won't let you starve." Lin Qiye said helplessly.
After taking two bites of her ration, Jialan seemed to remember something.
"By the way, Lin Qiye."
"What is it?"
"By my calculations, those monsters should be coming after me again soon... What do we do? I ate the Immortal Pill this time. Even if I wanted to destroy it, I couldn't." Jialan's face fell, and even