The small courtyard fell quiet once more. Of his seven art skills, Li Hao chose the Painting Dao as the first to tackle.
Previously, both his ascension to sagehood and his advancement to Immortal Lord had relied on breakthroughs in his Painting Dao state of mind. Li Hao planned to continue using this path as his first art skill to break into the thirteenth rank.
Moreover, he could study the Painting Dao alone, efficiently and without any other requirements. Unlike sculpting, which required wood, angling, which required a fishing ground, or cooking, which required combinations of ingredients.
Although painting powerful beings or extraordinary sights would help him gain experience and insights faster, those were precisely what Li Hao had no shortage of on Extreme Dao Mountain.
Li Hao visited his master and asked to paint him. He had expected to spend some effort persuading him, but after hearing his request, the Dao Source Immortal Emperor merely waved a hand and said, "As you please."
Delighted by this, Li Hao did not stand on ceremony. Every day, he painted the Dao Source Immortal Emperor in the Main Hall.
He studied his master through his Painting Realm Eye, and the more he looked, the more astonished he became.
The chance to scrutinize an Immortal Emperor so closely was exceedingly rare. After all, one could not gaze directly upon an Immortal Emperor. Even the personal disciples of other Immortal Emperors might not dare look at their masters for long, as doing so was a sign of great disrespect.
As he painted, Li Hao increasingly sensed how terrifying and unfathomable an Immortal Emperor was.
Numerous chaos laws were like the hairs on his body, released naturally with every breath. Beyond the power of those chaos laws, an obscure, supreme power surrounded him. It resembled