Giving Them a Way Out

After being awakened, a painting's power would rise dramatically. As a Lifebound awakened painting, it would also possess the potential to grow in the future. If other materials could be fused into it and your painting inspiration added to raise its grade, it could remain by your side for far longer.

All along, it was not that you had ignored the matter of a Lifebound Painting. Rather, you wanted your painting to begin from a higher starting point. Otherwise, if it was merely a low-grade Immortal Artifact upon completion, then no matter how much you assisted it, the painting's upper limit would still be limited. Raising it would also consume a massive amount of resources and waste your one and only chance at a Lifebound awakening.

A Heaven-Piercing Immortal Grade painting, however, had a far higher starting point. The fundamental reason was that the painting contained Dao Qi from the moment it was born. In that case, it could potentially become a Creation Immortal Treasure at its peak. After all, a Creation Immortal Treasure merely contained enough Dao Qi; in essence, there was no gap between the two.

After thinking it over for a long time, you ultimately decided to give this Sun and Moon Shine Together a chance. After all, it was your first Heaven-Piercing immortal painting, your maiden work, and it happened to possess the control-and-binding type of power you currently lacked.

However, to raise its grade to the Second-ring Dao Qi level, you would still need an Immortal Material of the same grade with no small degree of compatibility...

In the 858,936th year, although the Essence Source granted by the Art God Trial was inferior in purity to that of the Sea God Trial, you had received greater favor from the "Art God" this time. Thus, you