The Ten Thousand Ways to Hug the Female Protagonist’s Thigh - Chapter 19.1

Painting cultivation is a distinct school, much like sword cultivation, blade cultivation, music cultivation, body cultivation, and soul cultivation.

The Painting Soul lineage focuses on the concept of “soul.” Just as swords have sword intent, paintings have painting intent!

As a branch of painting cultivation, the Painting Soul lineage specializes in creating painting arrays. These arrays are formed with spiritual energy, drawn from the heart, and brought to life with a single ink stroke. The results are both accurate and illusory, akin to the legendary brush of Ma Liang. They blur the lines between reality and illusion, making it difficult to discern truth from falsehood. These arrays can bewitch the mind and even create mental illusions.

The Wen family’s greatest enemy was not a specific faction or sect but a single individual.

No one knew who this person was, what they looked like, or whether they had perished alongside the Wen family’s Dao Integration ancestor. All that was certain was that after that event, the Wen family of Buzhou City vanished from the world, and the mysterious figure was never seen again.

Three hundred years passed, and the new Wen family gradually regained vitality through careful recuperation. Though it was a shadow of its former self, the fact that it still existed meant there was hope.

Wen Shu inherited Buzhou City’s Painting Soul lineage, making her the last direct descendant of the Wen family.

Elder Wen was over six hundred years old and still bore unhealed injuries. In his twilight years, it was clear that his time was running out.

The Wen family’s clan leader looked at Wen Shu and then at Wen Xuening, feeling mixed emotions. These two young women might very well be the hope for the Wen family’s resurgence and eventual return to glory.

That afternoon, Li Yusheng kept his promise.

This time, he didn’t bring an entourage of followers. Instead, he came alone, carrying a storage ring.

Li Yusheng carefully handed the ring to Wen Xuening, though he didn’t regret parting with it.

While it contained most of the wealth he had accumulated in the Eastern Continent, it was a small price to pay to curry favor with a future master alchemist and talisman master. Even if he couldn’t befriend her, he absolutely couldn’t afford to make an enemy of her.

The Wen family’s Nascent Soul ancestor’s current status was still unknown.

If the Li family wanted to neutralize the risk in its infancy, they would need to mobilize their own Nascent Soul expert. However, even in a contest between Nascent Soul cultivators, if one was willing to fight with all their might, they could ensure that Wen Xuening’s safety was maintained, even if the Wen family faced difficult times.

And if Wen Xuening escaped and joined a major power, it would spell disaster for the Li family.

Li Yusheng didn’t dare take that risk or act rashly.

Even though many families in Nanyang had their eyes on the Wen family, Li Yusheng had already discussed the matter with his clan elders. They had decided that the Li family would stand behind the Wen family.

Whether the two families could form a successful alliance would depend on the clan leaders’ negotiations. For now, Li Yusheng’s goal was to mend fences with Wen Xuening. He didn’t expect to turn her into an ally but couldn’t afford to leave her harboring resentment.

Wen Xuening accepted the storage ring. She recognized it as an item only the top sects of the Eastern Continent possessed.