Just as the cultivators of the Divine Brush Sect were plunged into despair, the next thing that happened filled them with even greater fury.0

Sect Leader Chu Youhong, with complete disregard for the lives of the sect disciples, seized the sect's supreme treasure along with numerous artifacts from the treasury and fled into the sky.0

His escape did draw away some of the Dot-Painting School's forces. But for a sect leader to abandon his post so utterly—it filled the surviving Divine Brush Sect cultivators, still fighting desperately for their lives, with burning resentment.0

Had their enemies not been so ruthless, leaving no survivors, they might have surrendered on the spot and defected to the Dot-Painting School then and there.0

By the end of that battle, aside from Chu Youhong and a handful of lucky individuals who managed to slip away,...0