"Community of Shared Interests"

After meeting them, the first thing you did was offer an explanation. Its general meaning was that you had merely used a Secret Art this time, adding precious treasures to reshape the painting, which was how it had improved. It was not because your skill was particularly extraordinary.

Although your explanation sounded convincing, the few of them still wore expressions that said, "I understand," giving you a terrible headache. Fortunately, they were not outsiders. If your own people knew, then so be it.

Though the status of a Dao Painting Immortal Master was noble, you were only a First-ring Dao Painting Immortal Master at present. So long as others did not know your true age, it was not terribly heaven-defying. Besides, you were no longer without backing or connections. With your ties to the Old Dragon King and Jin Feng, no one would go so far as to abduct you over this.

You had originally planned to reveal it after breaking through to the True Immortal Realm. Now, you could simply treat it as revealing it ahead of time. It was not a major problem.

Yet unexpectedly, this accidental exposure also brought you certain benefits. First was Shen Xing. Afterward, he brought you a Cloudlike Dream Fruit. It was a Heaven-Piercing Immortal Grade fruit that enhanced cultivation. Though it only contained the equivalent of one ring of Dao Qi, it was better suited for Golden Immortals to consume.

Shen Xing had not thought to give you this fruit himself. It had been the Old Dragon King's suggestion. The Old Dragon King saw farther than these juniors, so he mistakenly believed your skills had already reached the level of a second-ring Immortal Master. However, as an elder, it was inconvenient for him to personally step in. He also wished to further