Everyone in the Gray Mist Sea was utterly stunned. For a moment, silence fell.
The dead True Ancestors had actually reappeared.
And every one of them had become Painting Venerable's slave...
"How is this possible? Is Painting Venerable really that heaven-defying?"
"She can actually bring dead True Ancestors back... How are we supposed to fight now?"
"It's over..."
The Gray Mist Sea's army was beginning to lose heart, too.
The Ten Venerables and Two Fiends grew stranger and stranger as the battle went on. Their methods were endless, and each one was more bizarre than the last.
"What... did she do?"
"She's a demon! She has to be!"
"The dead are coming back to life..."
The group of True Ancestors was just as... unable to understand.
"Did she... did she use paintings to bring the dead True Ancestors back to life?"
Feng Tiangu, however, had thought of a terrifying possibility.
At his words, everyone's expressions changed.
If that was really what had happened, it was far too heaven-defying...
A Divine-Seer cultivator could actually turn True Ancestors into her slaves?
Across from them, Ziling smiled faintly.
"Congratulations. You guessed right."
"Now, I'm going to start painting you all."
A pile of jade bottles appeared in her hands. Each bottle held a different kind of gray blood.
She had used the True Ancestors' blood to paint them!
During the battle just now, the True Ancestors had all suffered injuries to varying degrees. Ziling had moved through the battlefield, gathering their blood.
Using blood as ink made it easier for her to control those True Ancestors' laws of life.
Then, with her Scroll, she had painted True Ancestors such as the Sky Devouring Python into existence.
Of course, these True Ancestors hadn't truly come back to life. They depended on her paintings; when