"Miss Yu, I won't decline this painting any longer. As for your enemy, I will naturally deal with them for you."
Uchiha Madara pondered for a moment. "When I viewed this painting just now, I seemed to gain some insight. It also gave me a sense of integrating the texts I had studied before. You two may withdraw for now. I need some time in seclusion to digest this."
"As you command, Senior."
Since Uchiha Madara had said so, Yu Lingxin and Ding Peng did not dare linger. They bowed and withdrew from the room.
Before long, Uchiha Madara was the only one left in the spacious room.
With a flick of his sleeve, the painting floated into the air and unfolded once more.
Within this majestic and magnificent landscape painting, the secrets of acupoint circulation and the routes for circulating qi were laid bare before him.
However, a look of surprise appeared on Uchiha Madara's face. "Mountains are not mountains, and water is not water. This is merely the second layer of the painting's mystery. There is an even deeper one: seeing mountains as not mountains, yet still mountains; seeing water as not water, yet still water."
Uchiha Madara had not been deceiving the two of them earlier. The Seven Mountains Eight Rivers Meridian Circulation Method was indeed one of the secrets hidden within this scroll. If warriors like those two obtained it, it would be enough for them to achieve extraordinary strength in this world. Reaching the Earth Origin Realm would be no issue, and even attaining the Heavenly Manifestation Level would not be impossible.
Perhaps this was the limit that the forebears of Yu Lingxin's sect had been able to reach.
"But to perceive this deeper layer, one must view it differently—once again as an impressionistic landscape