"Goo goo..."
The Big Squirrel made a strange sound, indicating that it was for them. It could sense their low spirits, but said they would feel better after eating this.
Though it looked somewhat fierce and not especially clever, its manner was incomparably gentle, much like the bearing of those Immortal Realm Primordial Beings from when the Immortal Realm had first opened.
"Thank you."
"Moo moo~"
"Hehe."
He Ling smiled like a blooming flower and was the first to accept the fruit.
After some thought, Chen Xun said, "Since that is so, little fellow, I shall give you something as well."
Before the words fell, he lightly swept his arm.
A sheet of paper floated in the air. Chen Xun looked around, grabbed a handful of dust and sand from the ground, and scattered it across the paper. Then he used sand and stone as his brush and their original earthen hues as ink. At first, the painting was a complete mess; one could not even tell what he was drawing.
But very soon.
The Big Black Ox's gaze was instantly drawn in, while a trace of surprise appeared in He Ling's eyes.
As Chen Xun continued moving his arm, the painting gradually took shape. The blank spaces on the white paper became morning light, Mountains Rivers Grass and Trees appeared stroke by stroke, and even the outline of the Star City beyond the cliff, its streets and alleys, were painted into it.
In the end.
The Big Squirrel, which looked incomparably tiny in the painting, became the finishing touch. As Chen Xun's sand-and-stone brush came down, two fallen leaves happened to drift into the painting. With a casual tap, the fallen leaves transformed into the hues of the vegetation within it, and all the autumnal spirit of mountains and