A brush could be used to write words, to compose splendid essays.
It could be used to paint, to depict magnificent mountains and rivers,
And it could also be used to write talismans.
One-Thatch Studio was most renowned for its calligraphy.
To work magic through writing was to create talismans.
Without the support of these scholars' Talisman Dao, how could the Jing Dynasty's Divine Guard Army withstand the tide of Snow Nation Monsters in the North?
People who wrote fine calligraphy were not necessarily good people.
There was, for instance, an old scholar from One-Thatch Studio in the Never-Old Forest.
His cultivation realm was rather high, and his origins somewhat mysterious.
After the old scholar came to the Never-Old Forest, the tool he used most was still his brush.
But he rarely used his brush to kill anymore. He merely recorded and analyzed case files at the Cloud Terrace, and had also brought in a few newcomers he liked.
Liu S sui was one of those he had brought into the Never-Old Forest.
What Liu S sui did not know, however, was that his remaining at the Cloud Terrace all these years had also been the old scholar's recommendation.
Over the past few years, the old scholar's brush had finally fallen idle.
Perhaps it was precisely for this reason that he had actually begun meddling in other people's affairs.
"Things have already come to this. Why kill one more?"
The old scholar looked at the Western Prince as he spoke.
"In the past, I might have shown you that courtesy, sir," the Western Prince said. "I am very fond of this child myself, after all. But not now."
"Why?" the old scholar asked.
"Because in the past, killing you would have been somewhat difficult. It would have taken time, and