[Good-for-Nothing Protagonist, Lost Art of Painting, Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger, Time-Limited Creations, Sect, Multiple Heroines]
The art of painting has long since vanished, and no one in the world recognizes fine art.
Su Mobai, a menial disciple who works the fields for his sect, is sent down the mountain to sell a pile of battered magical artifacts.
The other damaged artifacts sell out, but no one can activate an ancient, worn-out brush.
If the brush doesn't sell, the loss will be deducted from his monthly pay, so Su Mobai grits his teeth and takes it for himself.
He tries pouring spiritual energy into it, but nothing happens. He tries to bind it with his blood, but it remains silent.
Then one day, he recalls his past life as an art student and sketches the sect's most beautiful woman.
The moment his brushwork captures both her form and spirit, the ruined brush suddenly awakens!
It turns out to be a damaged painting-art Dao artifact, one that can only be unlocked by someone with exceptional artistic talent.
With a single stroke, he paints a tiny bug that can sneak around, scout, and uncover secrets.
With a single stroke, he creates an object, its spiritual light taking shape before fading away on a timer.
Painted spirit stones vanish after fifteen minutes, while objects and spirit rice last at most half an hour before turning into spiritual light.
But if he cooks and eats the spirit rice before it vanishes, he can absorb its spiritual energy and nourish his body.
Limited by both his cultivation and the brush's damage, for now he can only depict basic things.
The objects he paints are all form and no function, with none of a magical artifact's powers. He can't depict the essential medicinal properties of spirit herbs or pills at all.
Only as his cultivation advances and the brush slowly repairs itself will he be able to paint more powerful living beings and treasures.
He stays hidden at the bottom while holding a long-lost Dao.
The ruined brush has divine power, and a menial disciple uses the art of painting to win the immortal beauty's heart.
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