"What?!"
When he saw the calligraphy and painting in Li Zhōujūn's hand and sensed the aura emanating from it, shock appeared on Azure Ink Painting Saint's face.
Distant memories surfaced in his mind.
Beneath the firmament, the aura of an old man soared into the heavens, as though it would pierce the sky.
When the old man faced the countless high-grade Dao Saints surrounding him, he nearly killed one with every slap. Those high-grade Dao Saints were all terrifying experts at least at the level of a seventh-grade Dao Saint!
In the end, the high-grade Dao Saints were scared witless by the old man and fled the Central Continent one after another.
That old man was Qin Tianyi.
At the time, Azure Ink Painting Saint had not long since broken through to become a First-Rank Dao Saint. He could only watch from afar as Qin Tianyi fought against the many high-grade Dao Saints.
When the aftershock struck, Azure Ink Painting Saint used his magic treasure to block it. He survived, but his magic treasure shattered. Immediately afterward, he fled in panic, without even having time to take the fragments of his magic treasure with him.
"Master, what's wrong?!" Ink Mountain Painting Immortal asked when she saw Azure Ink Painting Saint standing dazed.
She had been created when Azure Ink Painting Saint was a second-grade Dao Saint, so she had naturally never experienced the catastrophe of Dao Saints that had taken place on the Central Continent. She had merely heard bits and pieces of it from Azure Ink Painting Saint from time to time.
Naturally, she did not recognize Qin Tianyi's aura.
"Y-Your calligraphy and painting... where did you get them?" Azure Ink Painting Saint asked Li Zhōujūn in a trembling voice.
Seeing Azure Ink Painting Saint in such a state,