He walked around the temple inside and out, even guiding Chuyi along with him, but as expected, they found nothing.
However, when Chen Yan returned to the courtyard and stood in front of the meditation room, he suddenly felt a stirring inside. He took a few steps up the stairs, then raised his phone's flashlight and shone it onto the ground in the courtyard.
After a day of snowfall, the ground in the courtyard was already covered in white!
Especially around the meditation room, the ground was covered in a layer of snow.
After looking around, Chen Yan's mind became clear!
There was a problem with the footprints!
The footprints in the snow, upon careful inspection, all belonged to places he and Chuyi had walked earlier!
And around the meditation room, there was only a circle of footprints—those left by Chuyi when he discovered the old monk had gone missing and searched around the meditation room!
Other than these...
There were no other footprints!