Chen Lin walked up to Huiye's statue.
After a moment's thought, he took out the Mermaid Sword.
He tried placing it in the statue's hand.
Yet the statue showed no response.
He then took out Niuniu's talisman and placed it in different positions, but none of his attempts activated the statue.
He shook his head slightly.
Chen Lin put the items away.
There were several possible explanations.
One was that the former Huiye had already died, and after reincarnating, she no longer possessed the ability to communicate with this statue.
Another was that he had the wrong token.
Or perhaps it required three bows or something like a secret incantation. Such activation methods should have been set by the person the statue represented, and each one was different.
For example, the Long-Armed Statue required a secret incantation, while the Jet-Black Statue did not.
There was thus no way to deduce the answer.
After pondering for a while,
Chen Lin stopped experimenting.
In truth, even if he established communication, he would not know what to say.
After all, Huiye was Huiye, and Niuniu was Niuniu. In his heart, they were not the same person.
Finally,
Chen Lin came to his own statue.
He picked it up to examine it.
He immediately sensed a faint connection between himself and the statue, but that connection did not seem strong enough to allow him to manifest a clone through it.
Chen Lin considered this for a moment.
He felt that some step remained incomplete. He would need to perform a ritual or bind it through some means before it could take effect.
He had forgotten to ask the hunchbacked old man about this earlier.
But he was in no hurry to experiment. He planned to ask again after dark and proceed once he understood