The great hall was silent and deserted.
The dishes on the table had barely been touched. Abbot Xuanzhen and Qi Huang Taoist were both staring at half a painting spread out on the tabletop.
The painting depicted mountains and water, rendered with extreme vividness.
The landscape was a picturesque scene of green mountains and clear water, so captivating that one could get lost in it just by looking, as if it were the work of a true master.
"With this Deceitful Object, the Shadow in the Painting, our work is already half done," Qi Huang Taoist said slowly, stroking his beard.
As the Sect Leader of the Wild Taoist Sect, he oversaw all major affairs in Nanxing Prefecture and wielded immense power.
He was, of course, intimately familiar with the Deceitful Object known as the Shadow in the Painting.
He just never expected that the Shadow in the Painting had been split in two, with each half ending up in the hands of the Wild Buddha Sect and Xinhua Academy.
