Empire

Li Banfeng spent two days at home painting clouds. When he took them outside and used the Golden House Hides Beauty technique, he really could turn the paintings into something real—but whether they were clouds was another matter.

The texture and feel, honestly, were more like cotton.

And they were not very large. At first, the clouds he painted had an actual area smaller than a single room in the Portable Abode.

Luo Yuni possessed special painting techniques and could paint a work several times larger than a room inside that room. This was not difficult; all one needed to do was fold the canvas during the painting process. Li Banfeng quickly grasped the knack.

But could Li Banfeng control such a huge painting with the Golden House Hides Beauty technique?

Of all his techniques, Golden House Hides Beauty was one he had never learned particularly well, and it consumed an enormous amount of energy.

In the end, Li Banfeng painted a cloud twice the size of the Portable Abode. Together with Banfeng Bing, Banfeng Ding, and Banfeng Wu, he carried the painting outside.

He used the technique with all his strength, yet only half the cloud became solid. The other half remained within the painting.

Looking at that half-cloud, Li Banfeng found it very strange, as though he had pulled an object from some space—

Only to pull it halfway out and have it get stuck.

What exactly was that space? Was it the world inside the painting?

Li Banfeng reached into the boundary between the cloud and the painting and seemed to touch some viscous liquid.

What was this liquid—

Bang!

The cloud that had just taken solid form scattered away. The canvas fully returned to normal, and the viscous liquid vanished as well. Li Banfeng rubbed his