Others did not know who had donated the Ten Brocade Pictures, but Qiu Shuijing did. He also knew that the person who had donated them was no so-called senior master. Back then, that person had been a youth just like him—and was not dead.
"Back then, Songyan and I were young and ignorant. We forced our way into Tianmen Ghost Market within Tianshiyuan and ventured more than ten miles deep into the Ghost Market. Songyan was competitive and made a wager with me. He accepted a spiritual weapon and a commission from an ancient Great Sage."
Qiu Shuijing recalled the past. In those days, they had been classmates in their youth, high-spirited and full of vigor, pointing at the land and speaking with unrestrained passion. Their hearts had boiled with hot blood. How could they have been like now, stripped of their edge and ambition?
Back then, both Zuo Songyan and he had accepted commissions from ancient sages. What Zuo Songyan obtained was the Great Sage Spirit Weapon, the Ten Brocade Pictures!
After accepting the commissions, the two of them each tried to fulfill the sages' requests. Otherwise, they would face pursuit by the sages' heroic spirits. If they failed to complete the commissions, death was the natural outcome.
Qiu Shuijing completed the sage's commission. To his surprise, Zuo Songyan had completed his as well, becoming the new master of the Ten Brocade Pictures.
Yet what Qiu Shuijing had never expected was that Zuo Songyan turned around and donated the Ten Brocade Pictures to the Northern Frontier authorities!
Zuo Songyan possessed an innate chivalrous sentiment, one so strong that Qiu Shuijing felt his old classmate was somewhat naive.
To the Zuo Songyan of that time, the importance of a Great Sage Spirit Weapon like the Ten Brocade Pictures needed no