[Simulations in a Painting] [Full Inheritance] [Violent Cultivation] [Folk Custom of Retrieving Bodies from the Water]
Zhou Tao spent sixty years retrieving bodies from the river.
After transmigrating sixty years into a cultivation world, he had no spiritual roots or cultivation, making him the lowest of the low: an "old has-been."
That is, until the Shan He She Ji Tu, a painting scroll that had been with him for sixty years, drained his heart's blood as he lay dying.
Ten thousand years of simulation inside the painting, all in the blink of an eye outside!
Within it, he had become a stubborn stone and comprehended thunder, and transformed into a demon beast that breathed in the sun and moon.
Most importantly, when each simulation ended, he inherited every bit of the cultivation, combat experience, and insights into the painting's mysteries that he had gained over ten thousand years!
"You're at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and your spells are exquisite?"
Zhou Tao shook out his scroll, and the blank paper he had spent sixty years refining spread across the river in an instant.
"Sorry, I've spent two thousand years practicing this 'Thousand-Thread Water Snare' inside the painting. How exactly do you plan to block it?"
The sect's prodigies sneer at him for being old and feeble?
Zhou Tao smashes one of them's life-bound flying swords with his frozen, withered hand, then pries up the sect's floor tiles on his way out.
"This is fine-grade Xuanyin jade. I can trade a piece for two pigs. What a waste to leave it here."
Revenge, slaughter, demolition, and bargain hunting.
From corpse retriever to lord of mountains and rivers, Zhou Tao wields the Brush of Creation and redefines this vast land.
"Don't look down on a young man for enduring hardship. Keep at it long enough and you'll shake heaven and earth! I'm here to collect the principal on this blood debt today!"
