Chapter 48: Divine Bird

Chapter 48: Divine Bird

Unbelievable! To give up your future and join the Music and Art Hall just because of a Ye Yong! Women are so unreasonable! a male cultivator complained angrily.

The cultivator behind him asked, And why are you lining up here? Is it not to get close to those unreasonable women?

The female and male cultivators who were interested in joining the Music and Art Hall lined up in two lines, waiting for their turn to show their talents in music or art.

Of course not! To tell you the truth, Im actually a talented artist. I chose to join the Heavenly Luo Sect because of the Music and Art Hall, the male cultivated said.

Oh really? It was obvious that the bystanders did not believe him at all.

Soon, it was that male cultivators turn to demonstrate his talents.

The senior female disciple from the Music and Art Hall asked him whether he wanted to demonstrate his talent in music or art.

Art! the male cultivator said confidently.

The female cultivator handed him a pen, ink, and paper.

The male cultivator picked up the pen and ink and drew violently on the paper.

Phew. After he was finished, he wiped away the nonexistent sweat from his face, as if he had just completed some extremely difficult task.

Everyone took a look at the drawing.

A crudely drawn chicken was pecking at rice.

Please look! This is the Divine Bird Phoenix that I drew! as soon as the male cultivator finished speaking, a senior female disciple from the Music and Art Hall slapped him away using spiritual energy.

The senior female disciples were in a bad mood as they had already tested dozens of male cultivators, but not a single one of them actually had talent. All of them just wanted to join the Music and Art Hall for the female cultivators in the hall, just like the past male cultivators, which was why the Music and Art Hall consisted purely of female cultivators.

If any one of you dares to draw and show off some Divine Chicken Phoenix or Flying Insects in the Sky again, dont blame us for not being polite! With these words, the amount of male cultivators that were lining up instantly decreased by a lot.

Though they hadnt found any male cultivators with talent, they had found some female cultivators who had good musical or artistic talent.

Xiao Xiao, why do so many people want to join our hall this time? the senior female disciple at the 8th layer of the Golden Core Realm asked Lu Xiao Xiao after seeing that the situation had been stabilized. The other senior female disciples also gathered around for the answer.

The male senior disciples from the other halls also hated Ye Yong. Its okay that youre handsome, but why do you have to be so good at music, too? Dont you know that being good at music and having a handsome face is a killer combination to womens hearts? But just wait. The Music and Art Halls hall masters assessment will definitely make you ashamed and ruin your reputation. Thinking that, the senior male disciples felt much better.

To understand why they thought that, one had to know that in the past, there had been many male cultivators who had tried to join the Music and Art Hall. While some of them did have talent for music or art, they had to go through the hall masters assessment, and as for the assessment well, it was a consensus that no normal man could pass the assessment. The past male cultivators who tried and failed all became a laughing stock.

Senior sister, senior sister, I think he also knows art, too, Lu Xiao Xiao said, remembering how Ye Yong had said that he knew a bit of both music and art. If knowing a bit of music is this impressive, then his art skills must be pretty good too, right?

Oh? Yi Bai focused on the Dao of Art, so she was interested. She looked at Ye Yong with her beautiful eyes, saying, Youve passed the music portion, but I would like to your art skills. Can you satisfy this little request of mine?

Alas, Ye Yong silently sighed in his mind. Its not that I want to show off, but that the people around me are forcing me to show off.

Of course. Ye Yong took the ink, pen, and paper from the shy Lu Xiao Xiao, rolled up his sleeves, thought for a bit, and started drawing.

As the contents of the drawing started to slowly reveal themselves, the gazes of the surrounding people were filled with shock, seriousness, envy, and worship.

Yi Bai didnt watch the painting as Ye Yong drew- she was waiting for the final result. This was because for a good piece of art, if one watched it get created from start to finish, the surprise they would get from seeing the finished artwork would be much lower compared to if they only saw the finished artwork.

The female cultivators who understood art all waited without watching the painting as it was being drawn, but it was getting hard for them to resist the temptation of looking at the painting. They wished for Ye Yong to finished drawing quickly so that they could see the finished artwork.

Swoosh! As Ye Yong made his last stroke, the onlookers all sucked in a breath of cold air.

Theres no way its another Divine Chicken Phoenix or Flying Insect in the Sky, right?

Finished? Let us take a look? Yi Bai and the other female cultivators who were waiting for the finished painting walked over and were immediately attracted to it.

This- this is our Heavenly Luo Sect?

24 summits, towering into the clouds like giant beasts in the sky, with a majestic and immortal aura. This was only the macro part- the bigger picture. Looking at the micro part, the details, one could see that in the montane forests, there were living beings, with some of them sleeping and some of them catching food. They were lifelike, as they were actually alive and living. Words were simply not enough to describe everything.

After looking at the painting for a while, Yi Bai felt as if she was about to break through. What kind of joke is this? I have been doing art since I was a child, and Ive done it for over 200 years already. My cultivation had been stagnant at the 8th layer of the Golden Core Realm for a few decades, and now Im having signs of breaking through just because I looked at a painting made by a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Realm? Doesnt this mean that Ye Yongs understanding of art is even better than mine?

Translators Notes:

Very likely referring to a very poorly drawn dragon. (Flying Dragon in the Sky).