The towering ancient tree watched the conversation between Su Mo and the Brush of All Living Beings, one man and one brush, seemingly finding it very interesting.
A gentle breeze blew past. Its verdant branches swayed, making a faint rustling sound like a woman's soft laughter.
Swaying upward, fluttering its leaves.
It seemed to carry a gentle expression, saying something to the person before it...
Led by the Brush of All Living Beings, Su Mo walked beneath the ancient tree and pointed lightly at the open ground between two thick branches.
"Open!"
Rustle!
The fallen leaves on the ground parted, revealing a gleaming ring beneath them.
The ring looked utterly new, as though someone had been guarding it throughout those countless years.
"Yes, yes, yes, that's the ring." The Brush of All Living Beings' eyes immediately lit up at the sight of it. "Old Codger treasured it to no end back then."
"Don't underestimate this ring. It's a Sacred Artifact."
"Though you don't really need Sacred Artifacts anymore, this is something Old Codger left behind."
Why were Sacred Artifacts no longer particularly important to Su Mo?
Because Su Mo had too many things that surpassed Sacred Artifacts... the Book of Life and Death, for instance, or that Jade Seal, or the brush itself... the Brush of All Living Beings.
Which of them wasn't something beyond the Saint Realm?
The Brush of All Living Beings considered itself... well, an imperial artifact!
Only the title of an Immortal Emperor's artifact could be worthy of its transcendent excellence!
Of course, though it was unwilling to admit it, that tattered book in Su Mo's Spirit Sea also looked very formidable.
Only a tiny bit inferior to itself... or so it believed.
Su Mo picked up the ring with a strange expression. "A Sacred Artifact,