[Past Li Ping's entire argument seemed to boil down to just one conclusion—the [Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable] was plotting against you!]
[Seeing that further questions would get you nowhere, you let the matter drop, and this conversation between you ended on a sour note.]
[To be honest, you admitted that you might indeed harbor doubts about Senior Lin Feng now, but certainly not because of what Past Li Ping had said. Rather, it was... all your earlier conjectures.]
[But whatever the case, at least Senior Lin Feng had not actually harmed you thus far...]
[You could only leave it for another day. Right now... you still knew far too little!]
[After the conversation, you had yet to use the [Imagined Mountains and Seas Painting of Yore] (Painting Dao Imprint Version).]
[Because, to be safe, you still planned to wait for [golden talent: Listening] to trigger, lest anything unexpected happen...]
[On the fifteenth day, in the pre-dawn hours, all was silent.]
[Clang!]
[Clang!]
[Clang!]
[Clang!]
[Clang!]
[Clang!]
[Six-Ring Intelligence, the Great Dao's Voice rang out:]
[Did you know?]
[This [Imagined Mountains and Seas Painting of Yore], bearing a Painting Dao imprint, had been deliberately placed by the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] into the hands of the being assimilating the [Longevity Realm]. Furthermore, he was the Painting Dao Founder and a close friend of a certain Penglai Island Lord.]
[[The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] was that Painting Dao Founder?!]
[You could not help recalling how, when the being assimilating the [Longevity Realm] first took out this supreme treasure, that being had muttered:]
[—"I obtained this 'by chance' back when I had only just entered the game. Although I once suspected that the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] had secretly given it to me, at this point, it makes no