"Ah, if only His Majesty would bestow this painting upon this old servant."
The eunuch murmured on the cushioned couch. Yi Shuyuan came back to himself and turned to look. Judging by that distinctly unusual voice, the man half reclining there was probably a eunuch. His face was flushed, and he smelled of wine; he must have drunk quite a bit.
Yet despite being a eunuch, he gave Yi Shuyuan the impression of someone brimming with potent yang energy. Clearly, he was no ordinary man either. Like the guards outside, this eunuch appeared to be another important line of defense protecting the painting.
Yi Shuyuan turned back to the Mountain and River Immortal Furnace Diagram and did his utmost to calm the emotions churning within him. This was a heaven-sent opportunity on the Immortal Dao, so he had to find a way to obtain the painting.
But however much he yearned for it, Yi Shuyuan could not simply steal it from here. That would violate not only his principles as a person and his aspirations on the Immortal Dao; he even felt that the painting itself would leave him.
Yes, that was exactly the feeling he had. It was strange and peculiar, but Yi Shuyuan distinctly felt it now. And that very feeling strengthened his conviction that this painting was extraordinary.
One must keep a reverent heart when cultivating immortality. With such towering figures on the Immortal Dao, even if I, Yi Shuyuan, hold a great Dao in my heart, I must never look upon the world with arrogance!
At that moment, Yi Shuyuan's understanding of the world's immortal cultivators rose to an entirely new level. Before coming here, he would never even have dared imagine a painting like the one before him.
Yi Shuyuan had now embarked upon cultivation