One wonders just how much hardship the third master must have endured back in the day to possess such consummate skill in painting by his early thirties.
If he had not burned each painting immediately after setting down his brush, leaving none for the world to see, Wang Anfeng would surely have been able to produce one or two paintings that would shock the entire lineage of Great Qin's painters and send those complacent masters tumbling from their seats.
In his spare moments, upon reflection, he realized that although his mentors in the Shaolin Temple were unsurpassed in martial arts, having reached the pinnacle of their craft, they also dabbled in other fields with extraordinary proficiency, transcending the mundane.