"Sky Hero year 6065?" Pan Long froze when he saw the inscription.
Sky Hero naturally referred to the Sky Hero Dynasty. It had a long history, perhaps four thousand years. Then came more than a thousand years of the Warring States era, and the Great Xia Dynasty had been established for over a thousand years since then... Added together, a little over six thousand years sounded about right.
But why had this female painter, apparently named Bi Lingkong, dated her work by the Sky Hero Dynasty's calendar instead of the Great Xia Dynasty's?
Pan Long's first guess was that he had encountered this world's version of a chuunibyou.
So-called chuunibyou described young people who, for one reason or another, became hopelessly absorbed in philosophy, fantasy, and other thoughts far removed from everyday life. Its most common symptoms included "thinking without studying," "obsessing over fictional settings," and "enthusiasm for role-playing."
Pan Long had known several such friends back in the day, and he had shown some of those tendencies himself. But as they grew older, life's wind and rain gradually matured them all. In the end, none had truly remained "a boy until the day he died." The dreams and passions of their youth had faded into a soft sigh.
But he immediately dismissed that guess.
Those eyes could never belong to an ordinary chuunibyou. And the speed with which she had appeared and vanished was certainly beyond any ordinary person!
They had been only a step apart. At that distance, even his ancestor Ren Changsheng could not have left without Pan Long noticing a thing.
In other words, this female painter with her unnaturally clear eyes was at least a True Person Grandmaster—perhaps even stronger?
He could not help feeling astonished.
*Could this be a Martial World expert amusing herself