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Chapter 658: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 30

The three temples analyzed by Ruyi and his team were not too far away. Although they searched two places in succession and found that none of them were where the painted murals were, they did not waste too much time. It took them only half a month to reach the third temple.

As soon as they entered the temple, they saw that it was indeed not very spacious as described in the book. It was daytime when Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye arrived. The temple was quite shabby and empty, and they did not see the old monk who received them.

Ruyi came to the main hall and saw that the offerings in front of the Buddha statue were neatly placed, and the incense and candles on both sides were burning quietly. Ruyi touched the table with his hand and found it was spotless.

"It seems that this place is indeed inhabited."

I thought that the old monk might be a monster, but now it seems that he is indeed a human. I just don’t know which side this human is on.

Zhiqiu Yiye came in from outside. He and Ruyi acted separately. Seeing that Ruyi was interested in the main hall, Zhiqiu Yiye volunteered to check out the back hall and the temple's side rooms.

"Senior, although this temple is a little small, it has everything. The pillows and bedding in the side rooms are also complete."

"Have you seen anyone?" The old monk was not here and he didn't know if he was in the back hall.

Zhiqiu Yiye shook his head. "I didn't see anyone along the way. If it weren't for the rice in the kitchen, and the fact that the whole temple is shabby but clean, I would have thought it was an empty temple."

At this point, Zhiqiu Yiye paused, then took out a compass from his bosom, frowned and motioned Ruyi to come over, "Senior, when we first came in, the compass was spinning, which means there are indeed monsters here, but the strange thing is that after we came in, the compass suddenly stopped spinning. I smelled it again and again, and there is indeed no monster in the temple."

"Have we come to the wrong place?" Zhiqiu Yiye was a little unsure. Intuitively he felt that something was wrong here, but his mind told him that there was nothing wrong and he was just overthinking it.

"No, we are not in the wrong place." Ruyi answered Zhiqiu Yiye's question decisively. Without further explanation, he turned his head and looked at the wall on the right side of the main hall. "Zhiqiu Yiye, go touch that wall and see."

Zhiqiu Yiye turned his head and looked at the wall. It was square and clean and looked like an ordinary wall. He wanted to ask Ruyi, but saw that Ruyi was not surprised but looked confident. Then he did not say anything but obediently walked to the wall and touched it with his hands.

"Strange!" The wall was apparently very smooth when viewed, but it immediately felt wrong when touched. The soft touch like jade and the winding lines, as soon as you touched it, you could naturally feel the traces of carving.

"Take another look now." Ruyi reminded.

Zhiqiu Yiye kept his hands touching the wall without moving, and when he opened his eyes, what appeared before his eyes was no longer the ordinary wall before, but an exquisitely carved mural. The mural was very exquisitely carved, with pavilions, buildings, green mountains and waters, and exotic flowers and plants.

The most strange thing is that there are no figures in the painting. Many blank spaces should have been carved with figures, but now they are inexplicably left empty, which makes Zhiqiu Yiye feel regretful when he sees it.

"Senior, how did you find out something was wrong?"

Zhiqiu Yiye took a quick look at the murals and didn't find any hidden monsters in them. Curious, he asked Ruyi to explain. Ruyi raised the corner of his mouth sarcastically, "Although the whole temple is clean, its gate, Buddha statues, and even the table facilities all exude an old atmosphere. These just happen to show that this temple has been built for quite a long time."

"In such an old temple, there is actually such a new wall. Not only is there no trace of time on it, but even ordinary spider webs can't be seen. It's too clean to be fake."

When she came in, she did not see any statue of Zhigong with hands and feet shaped like bird claws. At first, Ruyi did have a flash of thought that she might have come to the wrong place. But after seeing such a clean wall, when Ruyi used her spiritual sense to "observe" it again, she saw the true form of the painting on the wall.

She slowly walked towards the painting wall that had lost its illuminating effect, and carefully observed the details in the painting. Suddenly, she saw the words "Zhigong Temple" printed on one of the magnificent palaces. Looking down along the plaque of Zhigong Temple, she saw the familiar bird-claw-shaped statues clearly engraved on both sides of Zhigong Temple.

"So that's how it is. But senior, didn't you say that there are many monsters in this painting? Why can't I see any? I can't sense any demonic energy or anything like that." Zhiqiu Yiye's cultivation was too low, and he couldn't cultivate his spiritual consciousness. He could only use perception techniques to distinguish demonic energy.

The mural carved on this wall is actually a world in the painting. Even if this world in the painting is weak, it involves the power of space after all. With Zhiqiu Yiye's current cultivation level, he naturally cannot ignore the obstacles of space and sense the evil spirit of the world in the painting.

"Look at these blank spaces. I think there should be a lot of people painted here."

"The two walls are exquisitely painted, and the characters are lifelike. The east wall depicts a goddess scattering flowers, and inside is a little girl, holding a flower and smiling, with her lips about to move and her eyes about to shed tears. Zhu stared at it for a long time, and suddenly his mind was shaken and he was lost in thought. Suddenly his body floated, as if riding on clouds, and he was already on the wall. (Quoted from the original text of the mural painting in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio")."

Without a beautiful goddess, how can we attract the souls of lustful people? However, according to the current situation, I don’t know when Zhiqiu Yiye and I were discovered by the monsters in the painting wall. In order to avoid being destroyed by us, all the monsters in the painting wall have hidden themselves.

Thinking of this, Ruyi frowned. Without a trigger, how could they enter this world in the painting? Could they just use external force to destroy the entire wall?

Ruyi did it right away. He immediately drew spiritual energy and gave it to his hands. He then used the Thunder Palm to slam the mural hard. The entire mural suddenly flashed with lightning, and then quickly returned to calm. After a careful inspection, Ruyi found that his move did not cause any damage to the entire wall.

"It doesn't work. Is it because the stone doesn't conduct electricity?"

What Ruyi didn't know was that the attack just now did not cause any damage to the painted wall when viewed from outside the painting, but it was a different story for the monster in the painting.

In the world of the painting, all the beautiful monsters that were originally carved in the blank spaces to lure souls were hiding in the Zhigong Temple and trembling, looking at the situation outside the painting through the water mirror in the temple. When Ruyi slapped his palm, the whole world in the painting began to shake uncontrollably, and the sky was filled with lightning and thunder as if the world was about to end. If it weren't for the boundary beads in the Zhigong Temple to resist, even the Zhigong Temple might have been shaken down.

"Sister, this guy is so powerful. If he comes a few more times, I don't know if this boundary bead can still withstand it?" The young man in pink leaned against the girl in green with a worried look on his face. The panic in his eyes made people unable to help but be moved.

Although the girl in blue was also worried, she calmed down when she thought of His Majesty Zhigong who was in seclusion. "Don't worry, sister. We have His Majesty here. His Majesty is so powerful. When His Majesty comes out of seclusion, he will definitely defeat that man!"