The streets teemed with people. Nearly every shop on either side displayed bright signboards and cloth banners.
"Wow! So this is the Painting World! It's incredible! Everything looks real!" Sun Yao felt her body tremble slightly, then her vision abruptly changed. She had truly entered this place and could not help crying out in excitement.
The passersby around her all cast strange looks at the young girl.
But Sun Yao noticed none of it. Her eyes were wide and shining as she constantly swept her gaze over her surroundings, her face full of excitement and curiosity.
Sun Yao was a Gu Master of Spirit Affinity House, a key target of the sect's cultivation and a Gu Immortal Seed.
Originally, Spirit Affinity House's slot had belonged to Feng Jinhuang. But Feng Jiuge's open betrayal had caused Qin Dingling to hesitate.
Spirit Affinity House promptly changed its recommended candidate, and Sun Yao took Feng Jinhuang's place.
However, the sect's cultivation arrangements were rather different from what Sun Yao had expected. Spirit Affinity House merely told her the origins of this painting before sending her inside.
For a time, Sun Yao lingered among the streets and shops, reluctant to leave.
She had grown up in Spirit Affinity House from childhood. Her daily life had been senior brothers and senior sisters, cultivation, sect rules and precepts; she had rarely come into contact with the mundane world.
Everything before her now was so fascinating and fresh to her.
She bought many skewers of candied hawthorns with primeval stones, eating as she walked and watched.
In an alley, she saw a papercutting artist. Sheets of red paper swiftly turned beneath his scissors into lifelike butterflies and flowers.
She entered a theater to enjoy an opera. The performers wore colorful painted masks and gorgeous, exaggerated costumes, their