Forget it, I’d better practice with green-level paper first.

Xu Xin immediately made a piece of mahogany paper.

The paper is very large, only slightly smaller than the engraving and painting workbench, and can be placed completely on the workbench.

The paintbrush only needs to be dipped in water to paint. Xu Xin prepared a small dish of water and picked up the paintbrush.

The moment he picked up the paintbrush, he felt the same sense of immersion as when he picked up the carving knife.

Lightly dip the tip of the pen into water.

The hairs on the tip of the pen were originally silver and red, but after being dipped in water, they turned black, as if they were dipped in ink.

Xu Xin picked up his brush and pondered, what should he draw?

Well, let’s just draw a silver king. After all, it has made great sacrifices for Xu Xin’s painting career, and the tip of its tail is bald.

Ink painting isn't as delicate as sculpture, so there's no need for Silver King to be a model. Xu Xin picked up his brush and began to paint freely on the mahogany paper.

With just a pen dipped in water, Xu Xin was able to draw different shades of gray and black, outlining wild lines on the mahogany paper.

Xu Xin has been completely immersed in painting.

He didn't know how long it had been, but the Silver King on the mahogany paper and the jungle behind it had become increasingly complete and were almost finished, but his spirit was beginning to wane.

Like a student falling asleep in class, his head drooped and almost hit the table.

...The consumption of mental energy is too huge, even greater than carving.

Because he wanted to compare the mental energy consumption of painting and sculpting, Xu Xin did not eat oranges to maintain his mental energy before painting. He did not expect that the consumption of painting would be so great.

Trying hard not to fall asleep on the table, he quickly took out an orange and ate it.

After eating the orange, Xu Xin's spirit instantly became full. The difference before and after was like a shot of adrenaline.

Really good! The artist's talent and the orange are perfect!

I glanced at my watch and realized that nearly two hours had passed since I started painting.

Time flies so fast?!

He waved the brush vigorously and felt that he was painting very quickly, but he didn't expect that so much time had passed.

Taking advantage of the duration of the orange's effect, Xu Xin continued painting.

The painting was quickly finished. When the last stroke was completed, Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

On the paper, a wolf ran towards him. Although it was an ink painting and not very realistic, so the Silver King's appearance could not be seen, it was full of tension, as if the wolf was about to jump out of the paper.

The effect didn't trigger. Xu Xin thought for a moment, made a wooden frame, placed the ink painting of Silver King inside, and mounted it on the bedroom wall.

[Detected a framed Wolf King Attack painting in the tree house, tree house decoration level +10, current tree house decoration level: 106.4]

This time a prompt to increase the decoration level appeared.

This is a Green-grade painting that comes with its own name. As for why it is Green-grade and not Blue-grade, it is probably because of the drawing paper. The drawing paper is Green-grade, so no matter how good the painting is, it can only play the role of Green-grade.

However, even a green-level painting has a ten-point bonus to decoration, bringing the tree house's decoration level to over a hundred.

But it seemed that nothing special happened.

Xu Xin checked the contents of the [Decoration] option again, but there was no change.

Is the decoration not enough, or are there any effects that I need to discover myself?

Perhaps it’s because the second phase hasn’t started yet, so the decoration hasn’t had any effect yet.

Since there is nothing else to do now, let's continue.

Xu Xin took out a red crystal, which was one of the blue-level crystals he got from the wooden box in the vortex.

He wanted to try carving blue-grade crystal. After all, his carving knife was blue-grade and could be used to carve blue-grade crystal.

As soon as he fixed the crystal on the table, Xu Xin's tree house watch began to vibrate.

It was Li Wenxi who called him.

After the call was connected, he saw Li Wenxi sitting on the back of a cow.

The little beauty was very leisurely at the moment, and even imitated the cowherd boy by holding a piece of dogtail grass in her mouth.

"You just finished mining?"

"Yes, I'm on my way back. Ah Niu helped me carry a lot of things. This time, I have to carry more than I have done many times before." Li Wenxi spat out the grass in his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and frowned. "This grass is so astringent..."

"Are you bored on the road and want to chat with me?" Xu Xin put down the carving knife and said with a smile.

"Hey, what's wrong with chatting for a while?" Li Wenxi slumped back on the ox's back, the camera pointed at her face, and her voice became much lazier. "It's not just a chat, I found something strange in the mine."

Strange things in the mines?

Xu Xin became interested instantly.

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