Chapter 314 — Between Father and Son
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
He heard Shen Mu's footsteps moving away outside the room; the youth was saying softly to the old man in the painting: "Painting Elder, after I am gone, look after him for me. " In the study of the treasure ship, the Painting Elder drifted to the bookshelves. The books on the shelves had already been swept clean by someone, every one of them taken away.
"That wretch Ban Gongcuo — has he come to my home to rob me?
" Shen Mu blazed with fury.
All at once the Painting Elder darted into a painting, then beckoned to him from within it.
Shen Mu hesitated a moment, then stepped toward the painting. A marvellous thing happened: he found that he had truly walked into the painting and become a figure within it!
In the painting, a man in white stood waiting in silence, as though he had been waiting for him to come.