The man stood before the enormous painting for a long time. At last, his gaze fell once more on its missing corner, and he murmured.
"Where did the Long-Haired Ghost go?"
As he muttered to himself, the man unconsciously began searching the floor, the corners, and elsewhere again. From the look of it, he seemed to think the missing corner had remained in the room when the painting was torn.
Or perhaps that family's unruly child had told him so at the time, only to hide the torn piece and take it home.
Judging by the conversation between the old Temple Keeper of the Land God Temple and that family, they had never visited this relative again after falling under an evil influence, so the painter still knew nothing of it.
The Long-Haired Ghost?
Yi Shuyuan also looked at the little corner of the painting. The missing section matched the scrap he had obtained, and the ghost Chen Han had sealed with Borrowed Magic also closely resembled the one in the painting.
The painting as a whole looked fine, but wisps of an evil aura still lingered along the torn edge of the missing corner.
Clearly, whether it was what had happened in the river outside the True Lord Temple or the influence upon the Earth Goddess, everything indicated that this painting was no ordinary thing.
Yet its aura was so still that even Yi Shuyuan's divine sense could not discern it clearly.
The man searched every corner of the room, evidently not for the first time, seemingly intent on recovering the missing piece. Yi Shuyuan remained where he was, watching the painting throughout.
After a long while, Yi Shuyuan turned toward the black cloth hanging from the bamboo pole and met the eyes of the Manifest Holiness True Lord