The main hall was utterly silent.
After so much time, practically everything in the temple had been rummaged through to exhaustion. No cultivators came here anymore.
Chen Lin had thought Qin Muya would come, but he saw no sign of him either.
He took out the Image Retention Stone and began comparing its images with the Buddha statues in the hall. After making a full circuit, he found that none had changed.
He glanced at the night sky. There was still some time before the Rat Hour, so he strolled toward the back.
Passing through the side door, he arrived at the entrance to the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.
There was no one here either. All was quiet.
In the darkness, the entrance to the stone stairway resembled a monster's gaping maw, poised to swallow everything.
Chen Lin stood before the stone stele, pausing to observe.
After watching for a while without detecting any unusual movement in his talent origin, he returned to the main hall.
This time, he remained in the hall, waiting before the Buddha statue corresponding to the first Buddhist Prayer Bead.
The night deepened.
Soon, the Rat Hour arrived.
Suddenly, Chen Lin noticed the hand of the Buddha statue before him, which held some sort of Buddhist mudra, slowly move.
There were no energy fluctuations, no light, and no sound. Its hand gesture simply changed without warning.
Just as Qin Muya had said, anyone who was not paying attention would never have noticed.
"Grass, how are things on your side?"
Grass was stationed by the Buddha statue where he had obtained the second Buddhist Prayer Bead. These were the two statues he was focusing on.
"Master, this Buddha statue's finger moved. It looks like it's pointing at something now."
As she spoke, Grass leaned closer, then immediately added,