The Painting Immortal

Rain poured down in torrents as a scholar stood beneath the eaves, paintbrush in hand. Behind him crouched a strange woman. She was breathtakingly beautiful, but her hair hung loose, her body was covered in black blood, and she wore a red wedding dress. The scholar's legs went weak, and his teeth chattered. Just as he thought he was done for, he tried to reason with her. “Junior Sister, don't get worked up. It's not that I won't marry you. I just wanted to paint a private portrait of you as a keepsake first... There, be good and get down. Stand over there.” My name is Zhao Kuo. After I transmigrated, I discovered that as long as I had good subjects to paint, I could gain the fortune of Heaven and Earth. Alchemy and forging became effortless, and even incomplete cultivation techniques could let me master the arts of the immortals! I thought I was finally on my way to the top, but then a Junior Sister appeared out of nowhere and forced me to dual cultivate with her. She's an immortal, known as the Head-Turning Immortal, also called the Look-Back-and-Die. The first thing she did was climb onto my back. But it's fine. I have a way to seal her inside a painting. As long as I look back at her once, I'll survive! Paint immortals, paint gods, paint mad immortals! Paint these thousand miles of rivers and mountains, these strange wonders of the world. Paint these lovely sights and scenes, this vast sea of mortal life. Paint the mad immortals, demons, and Buddhas, and every monster and demon under the sun! My brush is my sword, my ink is my wine. I shall awaken to the Great Dao and ascend to immortality! A thousand miles begin with a single step, and that step begins beneath the brush. Zhao Kuo's path to becoming a painting immortal starts with the Head-Turning Immortal.