Chapter 9 The Divine Bird Left in the Painting by Chance_1

A red sun gradually descended in the ever-changing winds and clouds.

The mountain range, blanketed in red, was as if cloaked in a golden mantle.

A cool breeze, filled with a gentle infinite sadness, suggesting the good scene was fleeting.

On the rice paper, the tip of the brush had already laid down the first stroke.

At this moment, Li Fan's heart was quiet to the extreme, his mind focused solely on that sunset.

He felt with his heart the passing of time.

And at this moment.

A momentous event was unfolding within this boundless mountain range!

Deep within the earth, it was as though a giant heart was pulsating.

Countless beasts, in that instant, felt an endless panic and were fleeing rapidly from the woods.

Birds and beasts, at this very moment, had triggered a massive tide of creatures!

In the shadows behind this torrent of beasts, a few flying creatures coldly drove the hordes onward!

The stampede of beasts was in turmoil!

Within the herd, a small white tiger's body transformed into a streak of light, outpacing numerous spirit beasts!

Following behind were three fearsome birds of prey with terrifying auras!

The three birds of prey were enveloped in flames, and each feather was as sharp as a steel blade—clearly, they were no ordinary spirit beasts!

"Catch her, our master will definitely need the White Tiger Ancestral Blood in her body!"

"Stop running, or we will not spare your life!"

These three birds of prey were actually speaking human language!

But the little white tiger just kept desperately running!

Seeing that the three birds were getting closer and closer, she was about to run out of places to escape.

And ahead, a mountain peak suddenly appeared.

All the wild beasts in escape surprisingly avoided this mountain.

She felt even more so that upon this seemingly ordinary peak, the essence of dao was evolving continuously, with the laws of the dao circulating non-stop!

Spiritual beasts of the world are most sensitive to such auras.

Generally speaking, this means that within the mountain peak, there must be a presence that was extraordinarily unordinary.

It inspired a natural fear in countless fierce beasts!

Just by approaching, the small tiger felt a trembling from her soul, as if facing an ancient and unparalleled terrifying being.

However, at this moment, with the pursuers too close behind, she had no choice. Biting hard, she turned into a streak of light and soared toward the mountain peak!

Seeing the small tiger rushing up the mountain, the three birds of prey immediately halted in their tracks!

"Wait, this place... why do I feel such terror?"

"This mountain is strange..."

The stronger their cultivation level, the more palpably they felt the pressure that touched their souls.

"What shall we do? Are we going to let her escape just like this?"

The three birds of prey discussed amongst themselves.

"No way! Our master is at a crucial juncture in his revival, desperately in need of a large number of ancestral blood creatures. There's a trace of ancestral blood in this White Tiger's body, we absolutely cannot let her go!"

One of the birds of prey revealed a gleam of icy light in its eyes: "Let's go up and take a look. On this land, there is nothing stronger than our master!"

Instantly, the three birds of prey soared at high speed!

The small tiger transformed into a beam of light and charged upwards, finally landing on the mountain's peak.

When she became three

Looking ahead, she saw at the top of the peak, next to a boulder, a youth, oblivious to everything else, was painting!

In the distance, the setting sun was boundless, its rays painting the world in a desolate but stunningly beautiful scene. In the foreground, a youth focused on his painting, utterly absorbed, each movement seeming to merge with the essence of the world around him...

"Such a rich essence of dao, the laws of heaven and earth are flowing with his brush..."

Xiao Bai the tiger was astonished. Who was this incredibly powerful being?

As she was shocked, the three birds of prey also landed behind her.

However, in their eyes, there was a look of horror.

They were fixated on the youth in front who was painting.

"So terrifying... such a terrifying presence, I feel like my soul is about to be directly subdued..."

"Impossible, how can there be such a being in this place?"

The three birds of prey were trembling!

In their eyes, each stroke and line drawn by Li Fan seemed to encompass the entire dao of the world.

The sunset that Li Fan painted did not resemble a painting at all, but a real sunset!

It was as if the gradually setting sun had simply entered his painting.

As Li Fan's artwork approached completion, it seemed as though the Dao was also converging within the entire mountain peak!

"Boom!"

At this moment, the bodies of the three birds of prey resounded with a thunderous Dao melody!

Within their bodies, thin runes began to emerge from their blood, gradually brightening and taking shape!

"This... This is the call of the Dao, the faint Divine Beast symbols within our beings are actually reemerging?"

"Heavens, are we... going to restore the bloodline of the Golden-Winged Peng of our ancestors?!"

"This is a defiance of the heavens, a chance against the heavens!"

The three birds of prey were excited at this moment, thoroughly excited!

Merely by watching the man before them paint, they had activated the faint Divine Beast rune imprints within their bodies!

And Xiao Bai also let out a low growl. At this moment, she radiated light all over, as if transformed into a Divine Beast!

She distinctly felt the mixed blood within her transforming into a pale golden color!

That was... the White Tiger Ancestral Blood!

...

Li Fan was fully engaged in his painting, completely oblivious to everything around him.

When the sunset finally dipped below the clouds, his brush also conveniently came to a stop!

The sunset between heaven and earth had disappeared, but the sunset he had painted had just perfectly formed!

"Huff—"

Li Fan breathed out gently and, with a smile, admired the sunset on the paper.

To capture the beauty of this world with ink and brush was indeed a joyful thing.

When he turned around, he noticed that on the other side of the mountain peak, three unusually remarkable birds and an adorable kitten had appeared at some point.

"Hmm?"

Li Fan suddenly felt something. It was the first time that living creatures had appeared while he was painting.

It is said that some exceptionally skilled musicians could attract birds of all kinds and even Phoenixes with their music. Could painting also have such miraculous effects?

Li Fan was taken aback. He thought it was indeed an event worth commemorating.

Thus, he picked up his brush again and declared, "Since you've appeared, then I shall keep you in the painting—"

He added the birds to the painting, right among that round of sunset.

The large birds spread their wings as if flying towards the sunset.

Vivid and lifelike, indistinguishable from the raptors, his simple strokes conveyed the spirit!

His first stroke was laid down!

Xiao Bai suddenly sensed something and quickly turned her head, only to see a terrifying bird of prey behind her with panic-stricken eyes, seemingly controlled by some incomprehensible power. In the next moment, it vanished on the spot!

Li Fan's first bird had just taken shape!

Li Fan picked up his brush to paint the second one.

"No..."

The remaining two birds of prey showed terror in their eyes. An unknown, mysterious, and terrifying power petrified them; they wanted to flee with their wings but were immobilized!

The instant Li Fan's second bird took shape, another bird of prey disappeared.

The third bird of prey collapsed onto the ground, trembling as it stared at the terrifying youth.

But this did not change its fate of vanishing along with Li Fan's brushstrokes!

Li Fan finally finished painting the third bird, and all three birds of prey... were gone!

Xiao Bai looked at Li Fan, her intelligent tiger eyes filled with fear.

Good heavens, what Great Demon King had she encountered? What kind of terrifying being?

With just a few brushstrokes, three Divine Birds beyond the Hollow Void Realm were directly... drawn into the painting?

If word got out... it would scare a tiger to death!

No, he was going to paint her next...

No, I, Bai Xiaoqing, don't want to, don't want to disappear... don't want to enter the painting...

Whimper, what to do...

Her tiger eyes were frantic with fear when she suddenly remembered, humans are said to love cats...

Gathering all her courage, she directed the most humiliating sounds of her life toward the terrifying human;

"Meow meow~~~~ Meow meow meow~~~"