Cultivating the Tao: Beginning with Meditation and Liver Experience

Chapter 55 Painted Skin Technique, Darkness and Light!
The next day!

Dingyuan Houfu, in a quiet room.

Holding a paintbrush in his hand, Xu Yan is carefully tracing a picture of a lady.

The picture depicts a young girl in ancient costume sitting on a strange stone and reading a book with her head down.

The girl has beautiful hair like clouds, phoenix eyes and willow eyebrows, a beautiful nose and cherry lips, a dignified and beautiful face, a slender and well-proportioned figure, elegant and elegant clothes, and a quiet and indifferent expression, giving people a gentle and elegant charm, gentle and graceful beauty.

Especially the way of bowing one's head to read a book quietly makes the viewer intoxicated in the gentleness of bowing his head, unable to extricate himself.

The characters are rigorously shaped, with smooth and natural lines, accurate body proportions, and vivid and natural postures.The colors are elegant and smooth, and the color application is transparent and natural, which well expresses the beauty of the characters' skin like creamy skin and spring onion and jade fingers.

Xu Yan has never studied painting, but his powerful spirit and terrifying mental power allowed him to master the painting skills in a very short period of time. Just looking at his painting skills, he has already surpassed most painters.

In particular, the animal skin paper and brush and ink he used for painting are all ordinary. Every time the tip of the pen is tapped and sketched, there is a faint flash of light, which makes the characters in the painting more spiritual.

Paintings are not paintings, talismans are not talismans, painting with talismans, let talismans blend into the painting.

This is the principle of painting skin art.

[Painting skin technique, experience value +1, +1, +1...]

If Xu Yan looked at the system panel at this time, he would find that when he was painting with his heart, the experience value of the technique [Painted Skin Technique] had already started to refresh the screen and was constantly increasing.

The most intuitive manifestation of this situation is that when Xu Yan is painting, various inspirations spring up in his mind like a fountain, making him unconsciously addicted to painting and unable to extricate himself.

The root cause lies in the mechanism of the experience panel.

The experience points Xu Yan gained from performing spells were not static.

In fact, in the initial stage of learning the exercises, the increase in experience value is very rapid, and it is often possible to increase dozens or even hundreds of experience points after practicing it once.

Because Xu Yan's current strength, realm, cognition, perception, wisdom, etc. have a great impact on the experience value of the skills.

It allows him to learn, even understand and master some simple skills in a very short time.

Just like this painting skin technique, ordinary warlocks who haven't practiced mana can learn it. Xu Yan's soul strength and mana have surpassed ordinary Yinshen real people. Now it's strange to learn the painting skin technique not fast.

Only when the skill level of the exercises has been raised to a certain level, his cognition and thinking wisdom can no longer assist him in learning the skills of the exercises, or he can no longer understand the skills of the exercises.

The effect of Goldfinger's Heavenly Rewards will really work. Every time he practices it, he will have extra insights, which will be roughly instilled in his mind and improve his understanding of the skills.

So ever.

When Xu Yan's portrait of a lady was completed.

His level of [Painted Skin Technique] has already surpassed the second level, not far from Xiaocheng.

Painting once directly improved more than 100 points of experience, and it also gave Xu Yan a lot of new insights into the paintings of ladies. When he looked back at his own works, he saw all kinds of shortcomings and flaws. Difficult to see.

Without the slightest hesitation.

Xu Yan directly summoned a ball of water to wipe off all the cinnabar ink stains on the animal skin paper, and started to trace again.

I am ashamed to say it.

Outside Tianjing City, the water control technique can summon a bucket of thick water more than ten meters away with a wave of the hand, but now in Tianjing City, it can only barely summon a ball of clear water.

Not to mention using it to kill the enemy, it is difficult to use it to wash your face.

It is conceivable that the dynasty's dragon spirit suppressed the magic of the immortal way.

It's not that there are no spiritual energy particles in Tianjing City.

On the contrary, there are more aura particles in Tianjing City than outside Tianjing City, and the aura is more intense.

However, due to the suppression of dragon energy, the activity of these spiritual energy particles is not high, and they are all sick and almost in a state of silence. It is more than ten times more difficult for monks to mobilize.

Moreover, after the aura is silenced, the connection between the aura particles and the aura particles is also weakened a lot. Even if Taoism and incantations can be cast, its power is not weakened at 01:30.

This led to the fact that even if the strength of Xu Yan's soul was comparable to that of the real Yinshen, the power of Taoism and spells he cast might not be as powerful as a sorcerer apprentice outside Tianjing City.

The difficulty of making the painted skin has also increased a lot.

The quality of the painted skin can only be said to barely reach the level of a low-level magic weapon, which makes Xu Yan very dissatisfied.

Fortunately.

Xu Yan didn't think that he would become fat with one bite.

He is now making painted skins and practicing repeatedly on a piece of animal skin paper. The purpose is not to make high-quality painted skin magic tools, but to improve the experience value and level of painted skins.

When your [Painted Skin Art] level is high, you can make a few painted skins for the ghosts in your hands and let them do things for you.

Doing business to make money, working in workshops, purchasing medicinal materials, trading in the black market, etc., there are enough trustworthy people available.

At that time, Xu Yan will be able to make money lying down, without having to take the risk of trading in the black market.

Therefore, Xu Yan still attaches great importance to [Painted Skin Technique]. After buying so many spell cheats in the ghost market, the first one he wanted was [Painted Skin Technique].

Ok.

That's it.

It's not for the purpose of allowing the female ghosts in the Feixian mirror to go to work as soon as possible and perform their duties as maids and dancers.

Thinking this way, Xu Yan kept waving the Langhao brush in his hand, and he was full of motivation.

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Sunrise and sunset, dusk falls!
Xu Yan practiced [Painted Skin Technique] like a madman in his own room, and never got tired of it. He was so addicted to [Painted Skin Technique] that he couldn't extricate himself, and he didn't notice the passage of time at all.

Tatata!
Just as Xu Yan was trying his best to indulge in the drawing and production of the painted skin, suddenly, a slightly heavy footstep sounded outside the room.

"Third Young Master, my master invites you to go to the study."

A middle-aged man in a gray management robe knocked on the door and reported loudly outside.

Awakened Xu Yan who was addicted to [Painted Skin Technique].

"I see!"

Xu Yan raised his head, glanced at the already dark sky, and at the few pieces of animal skin paper scattered on the table, and couldn't help rubbing his sore wrists.

[Painted Skin Lv4: 280/400]

After a day of crazy practice, Xu Yan's painting skin technique has reached the level of Xiaocheng, and he can make a qualified painting skin magic weapon.

Honestly.

Xu Yan was not very satisfied with this speed.

Because he is not a novice operator learning [painted skin technique], but a majestic Yinshen real person learning a low-level technique.

This is like college students taking painting courses for elementary school students. Even if they have never studied painting specifically, it will not be difficult to improve painting to the level of elementary school graduation.

Most of the Yin God monks learn low-level spells, and they can often master and master them at a glance.

Like Xu Yan, it took a full day of practice to master the technique to a small degree, which is a disgrace among the yin gods.

"It seems that Tianjing City is really not suitable for cultivating Taoism."

"In addition, only relying on the tracing and painting of a single portrait of a lady has limited improvement in the skin painting technique. It is impossible to say that we should try other skin productions, and draw inferences."

"In the end, practice can reveal the truth. Only by actually making a few painted skin instruments can you discover the shortcomings of your own painted skin skills, instead of simply using animal skin paper as practice materials, just theoretical experiments, without practice."

Xu Yan closed the system panel and summed up the shortcomings of practicing [Painted Skin Technique] during the day.

He felt that there were two main reasons why he could not fully master the [Painted Skin Technique] in one day and reach the level of Dacheng.

The first one is that the environment I am in is not good. The dragon energy in Tianjing City suppresses Taoism too much. Even if he, a great monk who is comparable to the real Yinshen, makes painted skins, under the suppression of dragon energy, he can only produce Low-level magic weapon, but can't fully exert its own strength.

The second reason is the problem of theory and practice.

During the day, he repeatedly used [Painting Skin Art] to draw pictures of ladies on the animal skin paper. Not only was the painting of the skin single, but there was no final cut.

It's only practice, but there is no practice at all. It's no wonder that the experience value gained from actually making the painted skin magic weapon is high.

Except for these two issues, of course.

Xu Yan thinks that there may be other problems, such as [Painted Skin Technique]'s production materials, brush and ink painted utensils, etc., will have an impact on the [Painted Skin Technique] experience value.

All kinds of factors add up.

It directly made Xu Yan a disgrace among the real Yinshen. In a day, he didn't even master a low-level spell, and he practiced the spell to the level of great success.

Xu Yan sighed, and he couldn't help thinking of moving out of Tianjing City.

Because the dynasty dragon spirit in Tianjing City suppressed Taoist practice too much, like chains, which made him feel a little bit bound.

If he hadn't experienced the activity of the aura particles outside Tianjing City, the freedom and the recovery of powerful power outside Tianjing City, he might not have felt anything.

But when he really stepped out of Tianjing City, and then returned to Tianjing City, all he could feel was endless oppression and restraint, which prevented him from having any freedom.

As Emily said: "I could have borne the darkness if I had not seen the sun, and yet the light has made my desolation a new desolation!"

(End of this chapter)