Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 64 The Hateful Corrupt Scholar

On the tall and sparse tree branches, a cloud of white mist moved left and right, slowly approaching a simple village surrounded by hills.

There are only a few faint blue phosphorescent lights in this village. Although they provide lighting, they are completely insufficient for ordinary people.

Just this little bit of light was enough in Zhao Yifu's eyes.

He slowly shuttled and leaped among the branches, and when he was close to the area within his sight, he began to observe patiently.

He wouldn't approach rashly.

It is not clear what level of cultivation the King of Midnight Kingdom, Ye Luozhu, has, but it is certain that he is stronger than him.

Although the spiritual essence of demons is generally more turbid and complex, the animals' innate perception ability still makes Zhao Yifu very vigilant.

Just like his daughter Yiyi, he could smell the mice and hear the noises from far away, so he couldn't help but be careful.

Therefore, he maintained a distance within which he could see clearly, slowly and continuously switched positions to observe from multiple angles, and finally selected the most appropriate observation position and then squatted down and did not move.

They squatted there all night, and it was impossible to see the mice's specific situation from a distance.

But things will be different after dawn.

After dawn, the rat demons in the small camp came out of their burrows and started moving around.

Zhao Yifu used the secret technique of Mirage to hide himself well. When he was standing still and at such a long distance, no rat demon could notice him.

And his eyesight at this time was able to see everything over there clearly in the morning light.

He didn't expect that the Midnight Kingdom really had a tribal feel.

There are even special mice responsible for cooking.

As he was observing with great interest, he suddenly noticed some movement in the distance and hurriedly restrained his breath more carefully.

He heard the sound of ripples on the water, and then he saw large rats emerging from the water in the distance, some standing and some lying on the ground, walking towards him.

These rats... were undoubtedly scattered throughout the Fairy Lake to explore.

Zhao Yifu took a deep breath when he saw this, and thought to himself that it was a good thing that he had used illusion to hide himself when he came, and that sliding on the water surface with the wooden board under his feet was more like the water pattern of a big fish, otherwise he would have been exposed by now.

These big rats came back for breakfast after coming out of the water.

After breakfast, I hurried into the cave in the camp to rest.

But another group of rat demons that looked thinner came out from another direction.

They even transformed themselves when they went out, and walked out in the form of humans.

Wow, they are disguising themselves as humans to conduct investigations.

Zhao Yifu was shocked and surprised by the "two-shift" system of Midnight Kingdom.

He then stayed on the tree for a whole day, during which time he saw the rat king, who looked like a night cricket, come out and take a walk.

It was not until the Midnight Kingdom had dinner again and was changing shifts that Zhao Yi Fu quietly left, hugging Yi Yi, who had completely exhausted herself and was fast asleep.

He took advantage of the night to walk through the jungle back to Moyang City. At the same time, he took out paper and ink from his cheek pouch, crushed a corner of the ink block with one hand, mixed it with water, and then sprinkled it on the paper with the ink splashing technique.

The next moment, a detailed terrain layout map appeared on the paper. This map not only depicted the surrounding terrain, but also clearly marked the number of rat monsters in the camp.

Any general who sees this map will regard it as a treasure and praise its precision.

Zhao Yifu was also quite satisfied with this, but after hesitating for a moment, he still did not leave his own seal. After all, in his opinion, this was not a work of art.

He quickly folded the topographic map into a paper crane and threw it towards Moshan. The crane flew against the wind and disappeared from Zhao Yifu's sight in an instant.

According to his calculation of the paper crane's speed, it would be able to fly to Moshan in about twenty minutes.

I wonder if Liang Zhongzhi is satisfied with the intelligence he has worked so hard to gather?

After about half an hour of brisk walking, Zhao Yifu became more and more familiar with his "Frosty Steps on the Sky" method of lightening his body and raising his energy.

At this time, the outline of Moyang City could be seen in the darkness, and it was at this moment that a paper crane floated in front of him.

Yiyi jumped up from his shoulder and grabbed the paper crane, then hooked it with her claws and dropped it back onto Zhao Yifu's shoulder deftly, as if it would turn around in mid-air.

Zhao Yifu smiled and took the paper crane from Yiyi's claws, and stuffed two small dried fish into it.

It has worked very hard these two days, so I must reward it well when I get back.

Zhao Yifu opened the paper crane and saw the words on it, and his good mood disappeared in an instant.

Just because this paper says: [What is this drawing?!]

This is a rebuke.

Zhao Yifu was completely confused. Isn’t this military topographic map he carefully drew good?
Well, he came to his senses in an instant. It was indeed not good...if you judge it by the standards of a painting.

He was completely numb. Are these old men in the mountains crazy?

What they are talking about is the true Taoist heritage, and what are the artificial flaws learned from those corrupt scholars...

Zhao Yifu had a lot of complaints in his heart.

With a sense of resentment towards the corrupt scholars, Zhao Yifu rushed to the foot of the city wall, took a deep breath and jumped up, stepping on the edge of the wall in a few steps and climbing to the top of the city wall.

Don't think that he did it easily at this time. The wall of Moyang City is more than 30 meters high. Only the top masters in the world who are good at lightness skills can do this.

Obviously, because of his skill of "Frosty Steps on the Sky", Zhao Yifu's light Kung Fu has become one of the best in the martial arts world.

After he climbed over the city wall, he went down again without alerting the soldiers guarding the city, and returned to his home in a few steps.

He also climbed over the wall to get in.

But after entering, he heard a group of cats calling in baby voices, welcoming him back.

Zhao Yifu said with a sad face, "Everyone go and do your own things. I still have homework to finish."

That's right, he felt like a student who was ordered by the teacher to rewrite his homework...it was very annoying.

Wu Zhong came forward and said, "Master, is there anything you need?"

Zhao Yifu said, "Find me a big table and prepare brush, ink, paper and inkstone. I want to paint."

Although Wu Zhong was a little confused, he still did as he was told.

There was no large table available, but there were a lot of wooden boards from the recent renovation of the house, so they simply put together two large wooden boards to make a table, and then quickly prepared things for Zhao Yifu.

Zhao Yifu was closing his eyes and thinking about how he should complete this "homework".

Finally, he thought of the national treasure painting that he knew in his previous life: "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

This is the only work of the painter Zhang Zeduan that has been passed down to the present day, but it is this one that made him a legend.

Zhao Yifu felt that he might be able to learn this style of painting.

(End of this chapter)