Free Web NovelRuyi Peak, Bamboo Forest Dwelling.
Ten minutes ago, this place was quite lively, but now it was incredibly desolate.
For some reason, it suddenly became deserted.
Li Mo sat in his room, examining the various paintings within.
High Mountain Flowing Water, Spring Snow, portraits, birds, and beasts—there was no end to them.
All of them were masterpieces that could be used as God-Observing Pictures.
Of course, most were lower forms, with few mid-forms.
“So, Senior Brother Ouyang, since your God-Observing Pictures are so good, why did you pick up a side business?”
“Ah, Junior Brother, you don’t know how poor artists are.”
Ouyang opened up and poured out his grievances.
A good God-Observing Picture was not achieved overnight.
It required a flash of inspiration and the waste of a large amount of precious Materials.
Even after it was painted, it wasn’t guaranteed to find the right person.
For example, that High Mountain Flowing Water painting, which contained the Concept of mountains and water, cost three thousand taels, and to this day, it hadn’t met anyone suitable for observing the mountain and water Concept, so it could only sit here gathering dust.
After listening for a long time, Li Mo fell into thought.
How come in a different world, being an artist still didn’t make money?
“So Senior Brother Ouyang, you had to find a side business to support your painting?”
Li Mo asked.
“That’s not entirely it.”
Ouyang chuckled.
Li Mo: “Senior Brother, your drool is about to drip.”
“Awooo...”
Ouyang wiped the corner of his mouth, then said seriously:
“Junior Brother, are you preparing for the Guan Shen Realm?”
Li Mo nodded:
“I still don’t know what kind of Concept I should observe.”
“Then you’ve come to the right place by finding me!”
Ouyang guaranteed.
Li Mo was half-convinced.
He always felt that Senior Brother Ouyang didn’t seem that reliable.
To be safe, he should first use the Tianming Divine Eye to take a look...
【Name: Ouyang】
【Age: 27】
【Bone Root: Master Painter.】
【Realm: Guan Shen Realm Four Orifices.】
【Destiny: Blue-Gray】
【Evaluation: Born with a poor destiny, his paintings became famous after his death, and his unique understanding of the Dao of painting was gradually appreciated by the public.】
【Recent Encounter: To support his Senior Brothers and Junior Brothers in the Painting Institute, he often earns money through side businesses.】
Li Mo: “...”
So the biggest reason why paintings weren’t valuable was that the person was still alive, right?
However, not every deceased painter’s work became famous.
Senior Brother Ouyang indeed had something.
“I have quite a few God-Observing Pictures here, Junior Brother, feel free to look.”
“If you can make the painting successfully ‘move,’ it means you can bear the Concept within the painting, and that would be suitable for you.”
Move?
Li Mo didn’t quite understand what that meant.
Ouyang stood up, his face mysterious, and said:
“This is my unique Dao of painting. You’ll know soon.”
He took down a painting of a fierce tiger descending a mountain from the wall.
“This God-Observing Picture is the first God-Observing Picture I made, and it contains the Concept of a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests.”
“Although this is only a lower form, those who observe this Concept, after entering the Guan Shen Realm, will have tiger might in their every move, making them very powerful.”
Li Mo raised an eyebrow slightly and focused his gaze.
His mind seemed to be drawn into the painting at this moment.
Suddenly, a vast mountain forest appeared before his eyes, shrouded in mist.
As if in a trance, Li Mo had already arrived in the depths of the old mountains «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» and forests.
Vaguely.
The leaves rustled, as if something was approaching...
A gust of foul wind struck him in the face.
It was a striped fierce tiger, its tiger eyes half-closed, carrying a fierce aura that seemed to devour people.
It stepped on a bluestone with one claw, patrolling the mountain forest; this was the king of beasts patrolling its territory!
It was majestic and fully revealed its ferocity!
It coldly scanned everything, seemingly searching for prey!
It saw Li Mo!
It opened its bloody maw!
It let out a roar:
“Meow...”
It crouched down, its whole body trembling like a sieve, its hair standing on end in terror.
The fierce tiger instantly turned into a weak little cat weighing several hundred pounds, as if it had seen some terrifying flood beast.
Weak, pitiful, and helpless.
“This isn’t right.”
Li Mo was utterly confused.
Why don’t you perk up? If you don’t perk up, how can I observe?
Xiao Li was puzzled; his mind just wanted to get closer.
The striped fierce tiger became even more terrified.
Poof—
It dissipated.
Li Mo: “...”
This was inexplicable.
Was there something wrong with this God-Observing Picture?
It was at this moment that the Concept was completely broken.
Li Mo opened his eyes and saw the God-Observing Picture, its ink messy, as if it had been defaced by someone, clearly ruined.
He looked up again and met Ouyang’s stunned and bewildered gaze.
Senior Brother Ouyang was clearly also doubting life.
“What’s going on?”
Li Mo’s eyes were full of doubt.
“Junior Brother Li, you are indeed in the Inner Breath Realm, right?”
Ouyang asked with a pained expression, lost in thought for a long time.
Li Mo nodded: “Just recently formed my Mystic Core.”
“Then that’s strange.”
Ouyang frowned and put away the painting of the fierce tiger descending the mountain:
“My painting of the fierce tiger descending the mountain wouldn’t even be damaged if Master’s Yi Soul entered it...”
He had shown this painting to other fellow disciples before.
Some couldn’t bear the tiger’s might and were expelled, while others simply couldn’t immerse their minds in the painting.
Both of these indicated that the person was not qualified to bear the Concept of the fierce tiger.
What kind of situation was it for the painting to be damaged?
Li Mo said somewhat awkwardly:
“How about we try again?”
Ouyang: “Huh?”
That one painting just now cost over a thousand taels of silver!
His heart was bleeding right now.
Again?
But he had just promised, saying there was absolutely no problem.
If he went back on his word now, would Junior Brother Li pull out a hammer?
“Ahem, it seems I need to bring out something from my hidden collection.” freewebnoveℓ.com
Ouyang took a deep breath.
He rummaged around in the room for a while, and soon returned with a scroll.
The painting was unrolled.
On it, there was a lifelike, incredibly divine exotic beast.
“I was once fortunate enough to encounter an exotic beast that had a trace of the Baize Bloodline.”
“I spent a lot of effort to depict it on paper, forming an upper form, and I broke through my Realm because of it...”
“Senior Brother...”
“Hmm?”
“Sorry, I accidentally immersed my mind again just now...”
Ouyang froze for a moment, then looked down.
The God-Observing Picture containing a trace of the Baize Bloodline met the same fate as the painting of the fierce tiger descending the mountain.
It was scattered into turbid ink stains.
The paper, which had originally contained a profound Concept, now felt light and flimsy.
Ouyang plopped down on the ground, as if he had lost his Soul.
“My painting...”
“Senior Brother, how much is this painting worth?”
Li Mo was a bit embarrassed.
“Wuwuwu... This is my painstaking work. I didn’t close my eyes for ten days and nights to track that exotic beast.”
“Ten thousand taels?”
Li Mo pulled out a silver note.
“Wuwu... I even got kicked by that exotic beast and broke a few ribs because of it.”
“Twenty thousand?”
Another silver note was placed before him.
“Junior Brother, this is a work of art. Do you know what art is? If it’s sold to someone who doesn’t understand...”
“Fifty thousand.”
Li Mo was expressionless, directly taking out three notes.
“Junior Brother, you clearly have an artistic talent.”
Ouyang’s face changed like a Sichuan opera mask, revealing a smile.
The cost of his painting was actually only ten thousand taels, and if he met a suitable buyer, it would sell for at most thirty or forty thousand taels.
Fifty thousand taels was already a huge profit.
Li Mo was a little speechless, but he wasn’t at a loss either.
【Congratulations to the host, successfully invested fifty thousand taels of silver in ‘Ouyang’】
【Investment Feedback: “Ink Washing Record of Miraculous Brushwork”】
【“Ink Washing Record of Miraculous Brushwork”】: “A unique painting method that can mimic the essence, Qi, and spirit of objects and imprint them on paper.”
The reward looked good.
But Li Mo was a bit dispirited now.
How could he not even observe the upper form?
What to do about this?
Does he really have to paint it himself?
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