Free Web Novel“Junior Brother, please don’t think of doing anything rash.”
Hearing Li Mo say he wanted to learn painting and draw himself, Ouyang leaned back slightly, his expression changing drastically.
“Is there a problem?”
Li Mo didn’t know why he suddenly changed his expression.
“He who advises others to learn painting deserves to be cut into a thousand pieces; this thing is purely for the unlucky!”
Ouyang’s face was serious, and he rattled off the disadvantages of learning painting like pouring beans from a bamboo tube:
“First, to learn the art of painting, one must have talent in this area, which is even harder to come by than having a high-grade root bone for martial arts practice.”
“As for talent, there’s no need to worry.”
Li Mo thought to himself that it couldn’t be worse than his talent in the Dao of the Sword.
He could just pile Martial Arts Comprehension on it.
Besides, he didn’t intend to become a Grandmaster of painting.
Being able to barely draw a rough shape would be enough.
The rest could be handled by the Creation Seal!
Ouyang twitched the corner of his mouth, and couldn’t help but persuade him again:
“Learning to paint is also very expensive.”
“When I first started learning painting, my family thought I had gotten into something illegal.”
“It’s laughable, illegal things are not as expensive as high-grade brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones.”
In response, Xiao Li smiled shyly:
“I got a few sets of the Four Treasures of the Study; they should be enough for practice, right?”
He displayed the brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones he had received as investment feedback.
“You’re going to use these... for practice?”
Ouyang’s mouth dropped open.
Li Mo waved his hand: “They’re just sitting there anyway; it’s a waste not to use them.”
Ouyang: “...”
Are you even speaking human language?
qingmai jade jian... Dustless Brush... Pine-patterned Purple Smoke Beast Ink... Qilin Fragrant Inkstone...
Even the greatest scholars of the current era couldn’t assemble such a luxurious set.
Just take that Beast Ink, for example.
His teacher waited more than ten years at an auction before finally getting one, and it cost him almost half of his family fortune to buy it.
His fists clenched; at this moment, he really wanted to hit someone, but unfortunately, he couldn’t win.
When he bid farewell to Li Mo, his face was full of complexity.
“Oh, right, Junior Brother.”
“Hmm?”
“Next time you look for me, just come straight in. Please don’t shout that Elder Shang Wu is here; it scared me so much today that I didn’t dare to paint.”
“Got it.”
Xiao Li politely offered a thousand taels of silver notes, soothing Senior Brother Ouyang’s wounded heart.
“Please take care, sir. If there’s anything you don’t understand about the Dao of painting, please come and ask me!”
Senior Brother Ouyang sent him down the mountain with a beaming smile.
.....
Autumn Water Pavilion.
On the stone table, there was a broken statue and a blurred God-Observing Picture.
After Li Mo returned, he tried to observe the gods again.
And then...
Both the Night Ghost statue and the Flesh Buddha Contemplation Picture were ruined.
He gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and took out the Golden Crow Transforming into Sun Picture.
The picture itself was fine.
But he also didn’t gain any increase in his Yi Soul, let alone condense Form-Concept and break through the Mystic Core Realm.
“Which part went wrong?”
“Is my accumulation in the Xuan Dan Realm still not enough?”
“Or is it because... of the Immortal Body?”
Li Mo couldn’t help but let his thoughts wander.
The former was unlikely.
Then it could only be the latter.
Even the Elders couldn’t understand the Immortal Body, so he could only grope his way forward.
“Now, I can only try slowly myself.”
“God-Observing Pictures are hard to come by; only by doing it myself can I be self-sufficient.”
Li Mo took out the book “Ink Wash Records of Wonderful Brushwork” and began to study it with full concentration. freewebnσvel.cøm
Don’t even mention it.
Painting truly wasn’t a simple matter.
Composition, modeling, and Concept needed to be perfectly combined.
And to draw a God-Observing Picture, one even needed to condense one’s own Yi Soul at the tip of the brush, letting it flow with the ink as one sketched.
This undoubtedly increased the difficulty of painting exponentially.
A slight mistake and a painting would be ruined.
“I estimate my talent in painting is only slightly better than my talent in the Dao of the Sword...”
Li Mo shook his head.
After barely finishing studying the entire Ink Wash Records, he tried to use Martial Arts Comprehension.
【Thirty years of Martial Arts Comprehension successfully injected.】
Good news.
Martial Arts Comprehension could actually be used on it.
This was probably because this Ink Wash Records itself was aimed at drawing God-Observing Pictures, and was also categorized under martial arts.
Bad news...
【Thirty years of Martial Arts Comprehension consumed.】
【Your “Ink Wash Records of Wonderful Brushwork” has reached Initial Mastery.】
Li Mo: “...”
In his mind, Senior Brother Ouyang’s heartbroken expression, advising him not to learn painting, flashed.
He who advises others to learn painting deserves to be cut into a thousand pieces.
That saying was truly accurate!
Clearly, Initial Mastery could only produce ordinary ink wash paintings. To draw a God-Observing Picture, at least Major Achievement was required.
【Thirty years of Martial Arts Comprehension successfully injected.】
【In the first year, you recalled all the scenes you had seen in this life and practiced with all your might.】
...
【In the thirtieth year, you felt that you had done everything that technique could do, but you still found it difficult to draw a God-Observing Picture. You felt that this was probably the limit of what you could achieve in the Dao of painting.】
【If you’re not good at art, you’re just not good.】
【You haven’t even found what you want to paint, so how can you pour your spirit into it?】
【Thirty years of Martial Arts Comprehension consumed.】
Countless insights flooded his mind.
“I’m just deducing the art of painting, why is it even mocking me?!”
Xiao Li slammed his fist on the stone table, making the Four Treasures of the ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) Study float.
Another thirty years thrown in, and it hadn’t even reached Minor Achievement!
Is there still justice?
Is there still law?!
“What’s wrong with you?”
The confused voice of a certain Ice Cube sounded in his ear.
He looked up and saw the girl, holding her sword, standing alone under the setting sun, as if she were coated in a layer of Fluorescence.
The evening breeze was a bit noisy.
It made the leaves dance lightly, made the girl’s skirt flutter, and her three thousand strands of black hair float.
Li Mo was stunned.
He had just learned to paint.
At this moment, he suddenly wanted to pick up a brush.
“Ice Cube.”
“Hmm?”
“Can you do me a favor?”
“Besides hot springs.”
“Hmm...”
.....
Dinner.
Delicious dishes were laid out on the table.
Shang Wu looked curiously at a nearby scene, where Li Mo sat upright in front of a drawing board, earnestly wielding his brush and ink, his strokes like Dragons and snakes.
“What is he doing?”
“He said he wants me to help him practice painting.”
Ying Bing retracted her gaze, feeling slightly strange in her heart.
Li Mo was truly focused at this moment.
The feeling of being earnestly drawn by someone with a brush had an indescribable meaning.
“Painting?”
“Did you go to Ruyi Peak and get involved with that thing?”
Shang Wu’s apricot eyes widened, and she rolled up her sleeves, ready to rush to Ruyi Peak.
The beautiful Master was very angry.
This was trying to mislead her Baby Disciple!
“Master, I wanted to learn it myself.”
Li Mo said helplessly.
“Then the problem is even bigger!”
Shang Wu walked over to his side.
She inadvertently glanced at the drawing on the qingmai jade jian, and her expression froze.
Instantly, she stopped making a fuss.
“Hmm?”
Ying Bing was a bit curious, and she also moved lightly to his side.
She saw the girl’s figure leap onto the paper.
Her face wasn’t drawn.
But...
One could still tell it was her.
......
PS: Sorry for the delay. I wrote a chapter, felt it wasn’t right, and deleted it. This little struggling author feels that things that don’t meet the quality standards shouldn’t be presented to the esteemed readers. My apologies, my apologies.
There’s still another chapter tonight, but it will probably be quite late, so you can read it tomorrow.
