"Brother Chu, look over there," Liang Yuan said, leaning close to Chu Ming and pointing at a wall ahead. He lowered his voice. "That's the challenge. The painting beside it is the County Vice-Magistrate's entry."
Chu Ming followed his gesture. Two scrolls hung on the wall, and they were vastly different from each other.
The scroll on the left depicted a terrifying wolf, its body as enormous as a pavilion, its limbs as thick as pillars, and its fur standing on end like steel needles.
But that wasn't what drew the eye. What was truly terrifying about the wolf were the five eyes that looked so terribly out of place.
Each eye had a fierce glint of its own, scattered haphazardly across the wolf's head. They gave Chu Ming the feeling that they had been... forced together.
That feeling was not unfounded.
Because beside this painting hung another scroll, one depicting nothing but five black spheres.
The enormous scroll held nothing but those five black spheres.
Comparing the two paintings, one could see that the eyeballs of the wolf's five eyes on the left were exactly the five black spheres in the scroll on the right.
Their size, shape, fierce glint, and position were all exactly the same.
Chu Ming stood where he was and activated [Sword Gourd Spiritual Sense], studying them intently.
But before long, his brow furrowed slightly, and a flicker of surprise passed through his eyes.
With [Sword Gourd Spiritual Sense] observing every detail and the two effects of [Reading]—integration and drawing inferences—guiding him, a third painting began to take shape in his mind.
The Five Kui Oxen Painting?!
Those five black spheres were actually the five right eyes from the Five Kui Oxen Painting he had seen earlier in the Painting Gallery.
But the positions of