The Mysterious World Within the Painting

In the blink of an eye, several months passed.

After Northern Star Great Emperor set out to pursue Great Emperor Xuannan, Li Zhōujūn also left Moon Yao Domain.

At that moment, Li Zhōujūn was leisurely fishing beneath the shade of a tree beside a lake in a place surrounded by green mountains.

Wild beasts often passed nearby, while birdsong drifted from the forest. Frogs croaked all around the lakeside.

It was afternoon, and the blazing sun hung overhead. Li Zhōujūn felt a wave of drowsiness coming over him.

[ Ding: It has been detected that someone intends to drag the host's soul into a world within a painting.

The system has issued a mission: the host's soul must enter the world within the painting. Upon completion, the host's cultivation will break through to the Fourth-Rank Dao Emperor Realm.

Note: Whether the host is using a clone or his soul, he may use the Fifty-Fifty ability.]

The system's notification jolted the sleepy Li Zhōujūn awake.

However, as he looked at the mission the system had issued, when drowsiness swept over him again, Li Zhōujūn simply leaned against the tree and drifted into dreamland.

When Li Zhōujūn opened his eyes again, he found himself atop a mountain shrouded in clouds and mist.

Looking into the distance, he saw that the mountaintop was surrounded by mountains, all of them towering into the clouds.

Everything here was breathtakingly beautiful, as lovely as a painting.

[ Ding: Congratulations, host. Mission completed. The host's soul has entered the world within the painting.

The host's cultivation has broken through to the Fourth-Rank Dao Emperor Realm!]

The system's notification rang out in Li Zhōujūn's mind.

Li Zhōujūn asked in surprise, "Is this the world within the painting?"

"Where is this?"

Just then,

a puzzled