I went over my suspicions again, and the more I thought about them, the more convinced I was that my theory was right.
Ye Zhengyi's ability was probably to recreate supernatural events from history.
The so-called Beauty Painting might not have any special power in most cases. Even if it did, it might only reenact the supernatural events that had happened to the beauties depicted in it. Or perhaps the beauties Ye Zhengyi painted had something wrong with them to begin with, which gave his paintings their unusual effects.
Everything he'd said about being killed by Liu Che, about being taken along by Liu Che to alter his paintings, and about investigating Liu Che's identity was just his own account.
His conclusions about Liu Che might be true, but his claims about investigating him were certainly exaggerated.
After all, he was a self-taught practitioner, not the inheritor of some sect. Even if he'd stumbled upon an inheritance, there was no way he could have described Liu Che's history in such detail.
His so-called investigation might simply have been history recreated through his ability.
He'd painted Liu Che before, learned about him, and kept him in mind.
He might also have painted something related to that taboo, and died because of it, rather than being killed by Liu Che.
He might have painted a lot of "truths" and learned about plenty of secret events.
Ye Zhengyi's ability didn't need to rely on the spirit of magic to recover.
My gaze fell back on the painting.
I knew nothing about antiques and had no understanding of them at all.
When I asked Skinny, he shook his head too.
"Can't this painting be layered like an oil painting, with something underneath the picture?" Skinny raised the scroll and examined it carefully, bringing his