Chapter 36: Overthinking

"It's odd to say, but this Lanruo Temple was clearly a 'tofu-dregs' project that had been subcontracted multiple layers deep, and ever since it was built, it had stood vacant for over two hundred years, weathered by sun and rain. Yet even today, if you stand in front of the temple gateway and glance inside, you wouldn't notice any signs of dilapidation."

The high ridges and flying eaves, the carved beams and painted rafters, all remained intact.

The stone lions and Buddha statues, the arhats and bodhisattvas, appeared lifelike.

Even the apricot-yellow temple walls and the neatly arranged stone steps were spotless and free of fallen leaves.

Of course, the seven people who had stumbled into the temple in disarray amid the storm had no leisure to stand in the rain to closely examine the temple's facade—it was enough that the temple doors were open, and so they all entered in single file, each carrying their luggage hurriedly.