Chapter 148 A bald chicken lays eggs to exchange for food! Drawing the universe in art class.
As the morning light broke, Qingyun City welcomed a new day.
In the master bedroom of the Mortal Dwelling, Lin Yuan stretched lazily and pushed open the door to the courtyard.
"Another peaceful and serene day," Lin Yuan breathed in the fresh air, feeling in high spirits.
In the courtyard, the two new pets had already begun their humble working lives.
The little white cat, transformed from the Four-Winged Chaos Tiger, was sticking its butt up and frantically digging holes in the corner, trying to prove it was a hardworking mouser. Meanwhile, the plucked chicken, transformed from the Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix, rushed back to the chicken coop like it had been injected with chicken blood as soon as it saw Lin Yuan come out.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck!"
Accompanied by a loud clucking, the plucked chicken's face turned red as it forcefully condensed the pure Nirvana Origin within its body, laying a "red-skinned farm egg" that radiated warmth. Then, it carefully rolled the egg to Lin Yuan's feet with its featherless wings and lifted its bald head with a fawning expression.
"Oh, this free-range chicken is quite professional. It's already producing results on its first day of work."
Lin Yuan smiled as he picked up the egg and patted the plucked chicken's head. "Well done. This egg looks nutritious. Old Wan, give this chicken two extra handfuls of rice today; don't let it get thin from hunger."
"This old servant obeys!" Demon Venerable Wanhua quickly ran over carrying a bowl of Creation Golden Wheat, though his heart was twitching frantically: Feeding rice to a Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix of the Half-Step Immortal Emperor level to make it lay eggs? If the Immortals of the Upper Realm saw this, their Dao Hearts would likely collapse collectively.
After breakfast, there was a knock at the door.
Holy Lord Zixiao and the Nine Nether Devil Emperor, these two newly promoted Immortal King giants, acted like two ordinary old farmers sending their children to school. They respectfully delivered Goudan and Tiezhu to the door and then scurried away with their tails between their legs, not even daring to breathe loudly.
The five little kids sat in a row in the east wing.
Lin Yuan walked onto the podium, holding several simple charcoal pencils made from charred willow branches and a few sheets of Xuan paper that Old Wan had cut.
"Yesterday, we went on a spring outing to Qingfeng Mountain, saw the scenery, and gained some experience."
Lin Yuan distributed the charcoal pencils and Xuan paper to the five children. "Today, we're having an art class. The theme is 'Spring Outing Memories.' Use the pencils in your hands to draw the most impressive scene you saw in the mountains yesterday."
Drawing?!
Goudan and Tiezhu gripped the black charcoal pencils in their hands and looked at each other, both seeing the gravity in each other's eyes.
In their view, how was the teacher teaching drawing! This was clearly asking them to use the pen as a sword and the paper as a formation to copy the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth and recreate yesterday's Divine Might of the Laws!
Moreover, this black charcoal pencil... Goudan swallowed hard. This was made from the heartwood of the Archaic Lightning-Struck Divine Wood! Holding it, he could feel the power of the destructive Lightning Tribulation contained within.
"Begin, no whispering." Lin Yuan patrolled the classroom with a teacup in hand.
The little fatty was the most straightforward; he drew a large circle on the paper with a few wavy lines next to it—that was the grilled meat skewers he ate yesterday.
Xiao Yuer and Xiao Lian drew flowers and grass all over the ground, along with the "little white cat" lying on the grass.
Walking to the back row, Lin Yuan stopped.
Goudan was drenched in sweat, his hand shaking as he held the charcoal pencil. He drew a great mountain composed of five fingers on the paper, with a blurry human head pressed beneath it.
This was exactly the scene where Lin Yuan had casually thrown a piece of chalk, which transformed into the Five Elements Divine Mountain to suppress the Nine Heavens Immortal King!
As Goudan's pen moved, a sliver of Immortal King-level Extreme Dao Pressure that suppressed the heavens and locked down myriad worlds actually began to emanate from the thin sheet of Xuan paper! If this classroom hadn't been enveloped by Lin Yuan's invisible aura, the aura from this drawing alone would have been enough to crush all of Qingyun City into dust.
Then he looked at Tiezhu next to him.
Tiezhu drew the plucked "Divine Phoenix." He tried to use Destructive Devilish Qi to outline the Divine Phoenix's Nirvana Fire, resulting in the entire paper being pitch black, like a mass of burning black devilish flames that seemed ready to suck in one's Soul at any moment.
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Lin Yuan's forehead was covered in black lines as he tapped their desks with a wooden ruler.
"I asked you to draw the scenery of the spring outing. What kind of ghastly things are you two drawing?"
Lin Yuan pointed at Goudan's drawing. "What is this you've drawn? A potato pressed under five big radishes? The lines are stiff and completely lack aesthetic sense!"
Then he pointed at Tiezhu's drawing. "And you, I told you to draw, and you're here blacking out a wall? It's a mess of tangles; I can't even see a shape!"
The two peerless prodigies were scolded until their faces were flushed red. They quickly stood up to admit their mistake. "The teacher's lecture is correct. Our Comprehension Ability is too low; we cannot even draw one-ten-thousandth of the teacher's Divine Might..."
"What Divine Might or not? Drawing is about the Concept, about discovering the beauty of nature."
Lin Yuan shook his head helplessly, picked up a charcoal pencil, and walked to the blackboard.
"Watch closely. I'll demonstrate to you what a real landscape painting is."
Lin Yuan focused his mind and calmed his breath, the serene and distant scene by the Lingquan Lake yesterday surfacing in his mind. His wrist turned, and the charcoal pencil quickly sketched on the blackboard.
"Shhh, shhh, shhh..."
Accompanied by the sound of the charcoal pencil's friction, a serene and far-reaching landscape scroll slowly unfolded on the blackboard.
There was no world-shaking slaughter, nor any terrifying gods or demons. There was only a pool of clear lake water, a few strands of purple bamboo swaying in the wind, and the distant green mountains shrouded in mist.
But in the eyes of the five little ones, this painting was filled with incredible ultimate Profound Truths.
The moment Lin Yuan finished the last stroke!
"Boom—"
An irresistible Creation Law flowed within the scroll. The lake water on the blackboard actually seemed to be rippling, and the purple bamboo seemed to be rustling in the wind. This wasn't a painting at all; the teacher had actually used a piece of charred willow branch to forcefully open up a flawless, self-contained real miniature Universe on the blackboard!
A world in a grain of sand, a Universe in a painting!
Creation! This was already the true power of creation!
"Phew... just a casual sketch, the feel was alright."
Lin Yuan clapped the black dust off his hands and turned to look at Goudan and Tiezhu, whose Souls had already been shocked into Soul Emergence by this "Creation Divine Might."
"Did you see? Drawing isn't about deliberately depicting something scary, but about having a peaceful heart. When the heart is calm, the things you draw will naturally have spirit."
Goudan and Tiezhu fell to their knees with a thud, tears streaming down their faces.
"A calm heart... self-contained Universe..."
The two little ones roared frantically in their hearts. They finally understood the teacher's teachings! Blindly pursuing destruction and suppression was a lower path; only by returning to simplicity like the teacher, viewing the Laws of all things as clearly as the lines on one's palm, could one reach the supreme Realm of creating a world with a single stroke!
"This student has learned!"
Seeing this group of obedient students, Lin Yuan also felt a sense of satisfaction. He smiled and waved his hand. "Alright, everyone sit down. Follow the Concept I spoke of and draw another one!"