"This is the Rivers and Mountains Illustrated Record."
Inside the room, Yu Lingxin returned and presented the treasure. Uchiha Madara slowly unfurled it.
Before his eyes lay an immensely majestic freehand landscape painting. Mountains rose in grandeur, waves surged toward the heavens, and the brushwork danced like dragons and snakes, gathering every kind of beauty within it. Even if it were not a martial arts manual, it would still have been a priceless work of calligraphy and painting worthy of collection.
Ding Peng stood by like a subordinate at this moment. Uchiha Madara had not driven him out, and his eyes widened as well.
"Well? Can you see anything?"
Uchiha Madara turned to him with a smile.
"No, no. I can't."
To be honest, the Blazing Sun Sect had also been one of the factions coveting the Rivers and Mountains Illustrated Record, and Ding Peng had heard of this painting before. Yet no matter how he examined it, it still seemed like an ordinary landscape painting, nothing like a martial arts treasure.
"Our Blazing Sun Sect's ancestor once comprehended a cultivation method while studying painting—the Prajna Duoruo Art—and entered the Earth Origin Realm in a single stroke because of it. But our ancestor said that learning this art depended entirely on chance and affinity; it simply could not be conveyed through words. Even he himself had broken through by luck. Yet when later generations tried to cultivate it, every one of them suffered qi deviation and fell into demonic deviation. No one has ever been able to understand why."
Yu Lingxin's face darkened with sorrow at those words.
Needless to say, in order to restore the Yu Family's standing, countless ancestors and elders had risked their lives trying to forcefully cultivate this art. In the end, however, they had merely