41. Artist Dad 8

The Chinese Painting Association's official account released a message. The intelligent Dao En has discovered a realm unknown to humanity—the realm within the painting. A fine painting may conceal a realm unknown to humans, a realm we call the "realm within the painting." When creating a painting, the artist imbues it with boundless spatial imagination and creative emotion. If this gift is too strong, it can give rise to a shimmer of phantom consciousness. Once this phantom consciousness emerges, it gradually controls the painting's space, creating the realm within the painting. Artists who can create this kind of painting are called spiritual artists. So far, the only spiritual artist discovered is Cheng Jiu, a consultant to the Chinese Painting Association and the creator of the "Leaf Realm."

Later, the National AA official account also released a message: "Leaf Realm" will soon be open to the public, and a batch of trial keys—Leaf Realm bracelets—will be distributed free of charge. 6,666 participants will be selected through a lottery on the official account. The drawing will take place at 8:00 PM. Please pay attention to your private messages. If you receive a winning message, please reply promptly and include your delivery address. The Leaf Realm bracelet will be mailed to you by courier.

[Shocking news!! What a shocking revelation!]

[Two national public accounts spoke out simultaneously, this is absolutely true! ]

[Guo Dad is quiet, but when he does, he's a force to be reckoned with. He's quiet, but when he does, he's a force to be reckoned with. As Dad's most loyal son, if Dad says something is fragrant, I'll go and smell it.]

[The guy above is Zou Kai, I am Daddy's most loyal son. So, Daddy, is what you said true?]

[A painting? A painted wall?]

So, a realm undiscovered by humans for thousands of years was discovered by an old Taoist priest, bah, a hermit master? As expected, fiction is based on real life, and hermit masters really do exist.

Wait, 6666? Dad is so naughty (*^_^*)

I've also noticed something new. Dad, you've changed. You used to be so reserved and aloof, never able to act cute. Now look how depraved you are. You used three exclamation marks in a row. You're not steady at all, you're frivolous!

Although the government has confirmed the authenticity of the virtual reality, I still feel like I'm dreaming. It's not that I don't trust the government, it's just that this thing is too fucking fantastical.

[Oh wow, 'Yejie' is real. Does that mean the recent uproar over the little anchor incident is going to be reversed? Hahahaha... I've discovered a big melon. Someone, bring my little stool over here.]

[This time those black fans can’t escape, they are allowed to harm people online all day long, these black fans should

Eradicate them one by one. 】

[None of that matters. What matters is tonight's lucky draw!]

[Oh my god, as a single guy who's been single for 26 years, I'm panicking. Even though I'm incredibly handsome, I'm just unlucky! It's been that way since I was little.]

[Dad, although you are very 6666, can you be a little more 6, for example: 666666, if that doesn't work, 66666 is also fine, I accept it, I am an obedient child, a good-talking child.]

[On the top floor!!! I can do it.]

My mind is broken! How can a poor idiot like me, who only drinks water and has a tooth stuck, beat out over a billion of my compatriots and get a free spot?

…

When the Internet was in chaos, Cheng Ye sent a message to his fans, saying that the live broadcast would start at 7:30 tonight, and only members of the fan group would be allowed to enter.

After receiving the news, the fan leader Loquat Donglixia screamed excitedly, "Great, Ye Zi is finally live streaming!" Because of the news released by the country, a group of their fans were showing off in the fan group. They felt that the chances of their two thousand fans drawing fifty places were much higher than the chances of winning on the national dad's official account. Now Cheng Ye has notified them that the live broadcast will be tonight, does that mean that the benefits promised to them last time are coming! Excited! So, Loquat Donglixia immediately sent the news to the group. After that, she sent a verification code to each fan, and with this verification code, they can enter Cheng Ye's live broadcast room. She was not worried at all that fans would leak the verification code, because each verification code can only be used once, and no one is a fool.

At 7:30 in the evening, Cheng Ye started the live broadcast on time.

The fans who had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed into the live broadcast room impatiently, and the live broadcast room suddenly became lively.

[Long time no see! Ye Zi, the big red flower expresses my deep love.]

【Ye Zi, welcome back! Big fireworks.】

[Ye Zi Ye Zi, I miss you so much. Do you miss us? If you do, I'll send you a rocket launcher!]

[biu999 Little Red Flower, Leaves, look at me, I'm here! ]

[Ye Zi, you're finally live streaming! I've been waiting for you for so long that my hair has turned gray... one strand at a time. Hahahaha... biu salute combination!]

The barrage was suddenly filled with red flowers, fireworks, and colorful cannons.

Seeing the fans' enthusiasm, Cheng Ye was obviously very happy in his heart, but on the surface he was very reserved and said, "Long time no see, everyone. Well, of course I miss you."

"Thank you everyone, no need to send gifts. We are not live streaming games today, so no need to send gifts."

The drama queen in the live broadcast room began to get restless.

[You disappeared for so long and didn't even send us a safety message or anything. You're a complete scumbag!]

[Don't explain. Explanation is covering up. Covering up is making excuses. Making excuses is cheating. Ugh, making excuses means you don't love us anymore.]

[Yes, you don't even need to give me a gift. Just tell me, have you found a mistress outside? Is she as sweet as us?]

Cheng Ye was so embarrassed that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He said, "It's not true. It's not an excuse. You all know that 'Yejie' will be open to the public soon. I've been doing trials in the new block these days. It's really not an excuse, and there's no Xiao Mi."

[Has Ye Zi also entered the 'Leaf Realm' trial? Is it a new block? No wonder I've never run into you there. However, Sister Loquat, Brother Ali, and I often run into each other there.]

[I never dared to ask, what is the relationship between leaves and the 'leaf world'? ]

Actually, I also want to ask...

[Plus one]

"Well, it's a big deal. The creator of 'Yejie' is my father. You have seen him too. The man who sat next to me during the live broadcast was my father." Cheng Ye shrugged and replied while looking at the barrage.

After the revelation of Cheng Jiu, the creator of the virtual world "Yejie," many netizens began speculating about Cheng Ye's identity. As the first person to expose the virtual world, and sharing the same surname as Cheng Jiu, speculation arose.

Brothers? Father and son? Relatives? There are many different opinions.

[Holy crap, I won! Ladies and bros, give me some money! WeChat or Alipay?]

"Ahh, I don't believe it. Why isn't it my brother? Which father looks so young?!"

WeChat or Alipay?

Ah, what WeChat or Alipay? Did we make a bet?

【No! 】

[No, I haven’t heard of it!]

【Absolutely not! 】

【…People do things! 】

Cheng Ye held his forehead with his hand. They were indeed joining in the fun just like the netizens.

"Okay, okay, let's get back to the main topic of this live broadcast. Don't you want the bracelets I promised you last time?" They were so engrossed in chatting that they forgot everything else.

[Yes, the Leaf Bracelet is the highlight, let's put the others aside for now.]

[Okay, next, look at my little red hand and make the winnings even more intense! I'm not afraid anymore!]

[Leaf, look at me, look at my longing eyes! You must pick me.]

"There's no lottery this time." Cheng Ye said as he opened a large box next to him, revealing a box full of bracelets, "Because everyone gets one this time."

With the strong support of a big backer, the Yejie bracelet quickly entered the production stage. These two thousand bracelets were just delivered today.

Ah! Happiness

It came too suddenly! 】

[Leaf, I love you!! Biu color cannon combination. ]

[66biu big red flower, only big red flower can express my deep love for you. ]

[I have to take it slow. Others are vying for the slim chance of winning the lottery on the Guobaba official account. I just need to cling to Ye Zi's thighs! This feeling is so fucking good! Big red flower!]

Why give gifts again?

Seeing that they were happy, Cheng Ye let them go.

"Send me your delivery address later, and I'll send you the bracelets tomorrow." Cheng Ye thought for a moment and continued, "Oh, by the way, for those fans who received bracelets last time, your bracelets will be eliminated soon. The new bracelets are made of a new material, and all the old ones will be eliminated. The eliminated bracelets are unusable."

"Also, the Leaf World will be closed from midnight until three days later. If you receive your package and find you can't get in, don't panic. Wait patiently for the official reopening of the Leaf World. The official national account should also announce this later."

By then, the online winners should have received their Leaf Realm bracelets. With around 9,000 trial participants entering the Leaf Realm at the same time, it's likely to be quite lively.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the National AA official account lottery started on time. In just half a minute, the list of winners appeared in the top information column of the official account.

After the lottery results came out, the internet went wild again. The winners were excited and posted about it, while the non-winners, after scolding the overly boastful winners, turned to the official account of the lottery to demand more entries, or even to buy them out, so as not to make them itch.

Of course, their cries did not receive any mercy from the cold-blooded father.

Cheng Ye’s fans were very happy when they saw this, but they did not show off everywhere, for fear of leaving Cheng Ye with some bad things to say about him.

***

On the third night, around midnight, many people were tossing and turning, and many were anxiously waiting while wearing their Yejie bracelets.

Guan Yanzhu was one of those anxiously waiting, wearing a bracelet. He was an ordinary office worker with no hobbies other than reading novels. Fantasy novels were his favorite genre; who doesn't dream of becoming an immortal? When the young anchor incident first happened, he had some vague thoughts and quietly watched the situation unfold, but the young anchor and his fans simply shut themselves off, and the matter was left unresolved.

The launch of the 'Leaf Realm' made him ecstatic. It turned out that there were really fantasy events in this world! Fortunately, he stood out from the billions of people and got the first batch of trials.

The quota for the winner, nice! For the first time, he felt very nice!

Guan Yanzhu lay in bed, silently reflecting on his journey through fantasy. When the alarm clock rang at 12:00 PM, he reached out and flicked off the alarm, then with trembling fingers pressed the button on his Yejie bracelet.

A very ethereal male voice asked: "Do you want to enter the fantasy world?" If you don't answer, you will automatically enter after ten seconds.

I said to myself: Yes.

After a dizzy spell, he came to a small lawn.

With his heart pounding, Guan Yanzhu touched his clothes and preliminarily determined that they were made of burlap. He wiggled his toes and found that the straw sandals were a bit uncomfortable. He reached out and tugged at the high ponytail on his head. Hiss, it was real hair! Guan Yanzhu put down his hand in disappointment and began to observe his surroundings.

The peach trees in the peach grove in front of Guan Yanzhu, behind the small lawn, were already laden with fruit, emitting a sweet peach scent. Guan Yanzhu swallowed his saliva and forced his eyes away from the huge peaches. "I can't eat them anyway, so I'll just stop looking!" Guan Yanzhu cursed himself inwardly.

He turned and looked towards the front of the small lawn. Hmm, it was different from what the previous poster had described. The stone with the words "Leaf Village" was gone, and there was no portal at all. There was only a long wooden bridge, the kind with a roof.

Guan Yanzhu walked closer and took a look. Damn, this is terrifying! Is that the legendary thousand-foot cliff below the bridge? There's no bottom to be seen. He forced himself not to look down, steadying his weak legs. He looked at the wooden bridge again. There was a plaque on the roof that read: Bridge of Inquiry.

Here it comes, the question of self-examination before cultivation that always appears at the beginning of a novel about cultivating immortals.

Guan Yanzhu stepped onto the wooden bridge with excitement. The other side of the bridge was shrouded in thick white fog, so the end of the bridge could not be seen. Guan Yanzhu felt that he had been walking for a long time, at least seven or eight minutes, and couldn't help but wonder: Are we not there yet? Just as he finished thinking, the white fog dissipated and he was back to the small lawn. The difference was that the Bridge of Inquiry was gone, replaced by the stone with Ye Zi Village written on it and the portal that the poster had mentioned before. It turned out that what he had just done was an illusion within an illusion. Guan Yanzhu had some idea of ​​the power of illusions.

This time, Guan Yanzhu did not hesitate and stepped directly into the portal.

Changing the perspective, I see streets, shops, vendor stalls, children, dogs, and pedestrians dressed as farmers. Haha, I finally came to the right place.

Guan Yanzhu walked towards the cloth shop mentioned by the poster without hesitation. Sure enough, he saw the task sign at the door. He walked into the cloth shop and accepted the task of gray rabbit fur from the owner.

The gray rabbit's nest was indeed not easy to find. He searched for a long time before he found it.

He arrived at one, picked up a stick he'd found in the woods, and started poking rabbit holes. After being chased, scratched, and bitten by the rabbits, he successfully collected ten rabbits. He then turned in his quest, trading in his uncomfortable straw sandals for his shoes. He then took on another quest to gather herbs, using up three small shovels before finally completing the task and receiving a large knife and sixty copper coins.

After admiring his first weapon with great pleasure, Guan Yanzhu was thinking about taking advantage of his victory and accepting more quests when he discovered that all the quest signs outside the shop had been removed. In other words, all the quests had been taken! Reality poured down like a bucket of cold water. How could he have forgotten that he couldn't be the only trial-taker in the illusion? Others would definitely be vying for quests too. Sigh.

After wandering around the streets, Guan Yanzhu still didn't see any quest boards. This was too bad. It's only the first day and there are no quests to take on. Oh my god, how can I even play this? The experience is too easy, isn't it? Guan Yanzhu sat on the steps in front of the closed shop and sighed. Alas, so dejected.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

Guan Yanzhu just realized that there was a little boy of seven or eight years old next to him. He had a pigtail and a cute round face. Where did this child come from?

Wait, didn't the poster say that people in the fantasy world wouldn't greet those undergoing the journey? Could it be... the person who issued the quest? Guan Yanzhu was instantly excited at the thought. He quickly forced a smile and asked in a voice more gentle than ever, "Where are you from, little one? Are you lost? Do you want me to take you home?" These kinds of quests for kids usually involve getting lost or something like that, right?

The little boy giggled happily and said, "Brother, your smile looks like a kidnapper."

Guan Yanzhu: ...

How do I look like a human trafficker? I'm a dashing, handsome man... Never mind, I won't bother with a kid, especially since he might be the one carrying out the mission.

Guan Yanzhu laughed and said, "Brother is not a kidnapper, he is a good man."

The child was unconvinced: "Bad people don't admit they are bad people."

Guan Yanzhu: The child knows so much.

The child changed the subject and said, "But I believe my brother is a good person, because bad people are smarter."

Guan Yanzhu: ...

I thank you for your trust, really.

If the mountain doesn't come to me, I will be the mountain. I asked directly: "Little friend, do you know where there is a place to receive tasks in the village? Just talk to your brother and your brother will buy you candied haws." As he said that, he pointed to the vendor selling candied haws next to him and began to bribe the child.

The child listened to his eyes.

Liang said, "Then brother buy it for me first."

Guan Yanzhu choked and thought, are you afraid that I will default on my debt? He said, "Okay."

I spent three copper coins to buy a string of candied haws for the little clever ghost. The little clever ghost took a bite impatiently and smiled with his eyes curved with joy.

Guan Yanzhu: "Little friend, you've eaten the candied haws, now can you tell me where I can take on the quest?"

The child asked suspiciously, "What is a mission?"

Guan Yanzhu: "Well, it's about doing things for others and getting paid... well, take the medicine shop next door for example. The medicine shop needs herbs, so they post a task, and I can take it and help them collect herbs, and then they pay me. Or, the cloth shop next door needs rabbit fur, and I can take it and help them catch rabbits."

The little boy's eyes widened and he laughed loudly, "Brother, you are so stupid! The drugstore has special herbalists and they won't ask outsiders like you to collect herbs. The rabbit hairs from the cloth shop are also directly collected from hunters, hunters like my dad." His expression seemed to be saying, this brother must be a fool, right?

Guan Yanzhu was stunned and argued, "How is that possible? I just accepted a quest... Wait." He'd seen all the quests disappear, and thought another participant had taken them. But... His heart skipped a beat. He hadn't encountered anyone resembling a participant since he'd arrived! Furthermore, his experience had completely mirrored the poster's previous experience. He'd searched for a rabbit hole for ages, been chased by rabbits, gotten injured...completed the quest, accepted the herb-gathering quest, died three times, and lost three small shovels...

Guan Yanzhu almost screamed in fear. He stood up suddenly. In other words, everything he had just experienced was fake! Even this place was fake! Just as he finished saying fake in his heart, his eyes went black and he fell to the ground.

When the black fog in front of him dissipated, he found himself back on the wooden bridge.

But he didn't know that when he left Yezi Village, the kid finished eating the last candied haws, threw away the bamboo stick, and said, "What a fool! If I don't remind him, I don't know how many days this fool will waste." After that, he jumped away.

At this point, Guan Yanzhu couldn't help but realize that he had just entered a fantasy within a fantasy! The name "Wenxin Bridge" was so damn right. He had read so many fantasy novels, but he actually fell for it!

Then why did he enter the small fantasy world of Leaf Village? He must have studied the post too thoroughly, and subconsciously thought that Leaf Village was the first map of the "Leaf World"! Damn, it's terrifying to think about it. He looked at the front of the bridge, nervous

He clenched his fists, determined not to enter the small illusion within the illusion this time.

No matter how much he tried to remind himself, as long as Guan Yanzhu's thoughts went astray, he would immediately enter a small illusion.

The second small illusion Guan Yanzhu entered was his family's chicken farm. When he was very young, his family had a small chicken farm, but after his mother passed away, they abandoned it. Even though he knew it was an illusion, Guan Yanzhu's heart ached at the sight. He indulged himself by looking at every part of the farm, then closed his eyes and silently said, "This is fake!"

When he opened his eyes again, Guan Yanzhu was indeed back on the Bridge of Conscience. He took a deep breath and said to himself, don't think about anything this time, just keep moving forward.

When he reached the end of the wooden bridge again, he looked at the archway in front of him and took a deep breath. He said, "This time it should be real."

He stepped through the archway, and the view opened up. Ahead of him lay a wide, straight street, bustling with people. The shops on either side were all ancient buildings, three stories high and taller. The street was so long, wide, and long that it seemed as if the end was nowhere in sight. Is this a metropolis? Like the metropolises you see in TV dramas. He looked around for any signage. Sure enough, behind him was the city gate, with the words "Forget Worry City" inscribed on it.

Guan Yanzhu encouraged himself and walked straight forward. No matter what, he would first look for any practitioners. As long as he found a practitioner, he would know whether it was a small illusion.

After wandering around the area, he finally found a young lady who looked a bit like a practitioner. Guan Yanzhu happily stepped forward to stop her and said with a smile, "Miss, please tell me, are you human?"

The young lady was stunned: "Ah?" What did this idiot say?

Guan Yanzhu was a little nervous because the young lady's expression was a little fierce. He swallowed and said, "Excuse me, are you human?"

The young lady heard it clearly this time. She crossed her arms, laughed, and said, "I'm not only a human, I'm also the queen of this city! Kneel down and call me Queen!"

This time it was Guan Yanzhu's turn to be stunned. What?

The young lady suddenly thought of something and gave him a pitying look. She thought, "Never mind. He must have gone through so much on the Bridge of Inquiry that he's lost his mind." Luckily, I only had to enter this little illusion once to discover the clue.

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