"It shouldn't be, search again," said the Heavenly General in a deep voice.
The group continued to search around the dilapidated temple. There wasn't much ground to cover, and it did not take long for them to finish, yet they found nothing.
The Heavenly General stared at his comrades returning empty-handed, muttering to himself, "It shouldn't be, could it really have been taken by someone?"
He wandered restlessly around the temple. Thinking of returning without success, he could already imagine the look of disappointment on his Marshal's face.
For someone eager to advance, such failure was hard to accept.
At that moment, he turned his gaze to the statue sitting on the stone dais. Unlike the statues back in Luzhou in the North, this one bore no trace of ferocity. Instead, it seemed somewhat ethereal and out of this world, quite akin to the Immortals worshipped in the Three Pure Ones Daoist Temple.
