Chapter 40 - Ink Wash Painting: The Hundred Palaces of the Immortal Realm

【Hahaha, the boss has come to tease the streamer.】

【He even specially took the name of a Demon Sovereign.】

【The boss is really willing to spend money, sending a rocket worth over 600 just like that.】

【The boss is foolish!】

【…】

The bullet comments in the stream became lively again, but Long Yue couldn't help but let out a light sigh, propping her face on her hand in disappointment.

Receiving a gift worth over six hundred yuan should have been a very happy occasion, but she couldn't feel happy at all.

Because the one who sent her the gift was none other than the Demon Sovereign…

She had heard that live streaming platforms take a cut of the gifts. A portion of this gift money of over six hundred yuan would be taken by the platform, and only the remaining part would be hers. Thinking of it this way made it even more unbearable.

It would have been better to just transfer the six hundred plus yuan directly to her…

However, compared to the loss from the gift commission, she was now more troubled by how she could prove her identity as the Empress of the Immortal Realm to everyone.

Never mind making everyone believe her, at the very least, she didn't want these mortals to look down on and belittle her anymore!

But after thinking for a long time, she really couldn't figure out what method she, who was without any spiritual energy, had to prove herself…

Just as Long Yue was engulfed deep in her troubles, a bullet comment in the stream caught her attention:

【Her Majesty the Empress has lost her cultivation, but surely she must have some special skill or ability that doesn't require cultivation, right?】

Hmm… a special skill and ability that doesn't require spiritual energy…?

Long Yue’s expression was pensive as she repeatedly pondered if she had such a skill.

In the Immortal Realm, almost everything required spiritual energy. Even for a sip of water, a flick of a slender finger would make the water float directly to her mouth, without needing to move at all.

But if she had to think of something that could be done without any spiritual energy at all, it seemed she really did have one!

“I’ve got it! Besides immortal arts and magic treasures, pill and artifact refinement, This Empress is also quite confident in zither, Go, calligraphy, and painting, as well as singing, dancing, and playing music!”

Long Yue excitedly declared to the people in the stream.

When she thought of the special skills she was good at, the first things that came to her mind were always cultivation skills like immortal arts and magic treasures, pill and artifact refinement, and so on. After all, in the Immortal Realm, one couldn't do without these skills, and she spent almost every day delving into her cultivation.

When Zhou Yan had asked her what special skills she had, she had subconsciously only thought of those cultivation skills she was best at, completely forgetting that she was actually not bad at all in zither, Go, calligraphy, and painting. It was just that her talent in these areas was not as prominent as her talent in cultivation.

It wasn't until she saw this bullet comment reminder that she remembered these skills she rarely displayed.

The people in the stream immediately became interested upon hearing this.

【Zither, Go, calligraphy, and painting; singing, dancing, and playing music? The streamer knows so many things?】

【For real? I don’t believe it, unless you perform for me to see.】

【Why not show us one?】

【Stop talking so much, just show us your talent!】

【…】

Long Yue was just considering whether to turn on the camera and show off her dancing skills to the crowd when she turned her head and saw Zhou Yan and Lin Fan staring with wide eyes, having switched from melon seeds to watermelon, a look of eager anticipation on their faces as they waited for her to perform...

For some reason, she didn't want to dance in front of these two at all, let alone in front of the Demon Sovereign...

For her, the majestic Empress of the Immortal Realm, to perform a dance for the Demon Sovereign was just too strange...

“Mmm… This Empress does not have a zither or other musical instruments on hand right now, and the room is rather small, so my dancing will be constrained.”

“I’ll just show you all my calligraphy and painting skills instead~ ! You all just wait!”

Long Yue made up a random excuse, got up from the computer desk, and strode with her long legs over the space between Lin Fan and Zhou Yan, rummaging through the bedroom.

Lin Fan and Zhou Yan took a disappointed bite of their watermelon.

What a pity, they wouldn't get to see the Empress’s (sister-in-law’s) dance...

“Found it!”

After finding an ink brush and Xuan paper, Long Yue gleefully strode past Lin Fan and Zhou Yan again, returned to the computer desk, slightly adjusted the camera to aim at the desktop, and then turned the camera on.

At this moment, in addition to her original empress avatar on the stream, a small window showing her desktop also appeared.

It was inevitable that one would encounter times like this during a stream when it was necessary to turn on the camera, so Lin Fan had already taught her this necessary streaming skill beforehand.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd in the stream, Long Yue held the ink brush. Her brush moved like a roaming dragon as she sketched and painted on the Xuan paper, one stroke at a time.

At first, the people in the stream would still post a few teasing bullet comments from time to time, but as the scene gradually took shape under her brush, the crowd couldn't help but become engrossed, gradually forgetting to send bullet comments.

During the painting process, Long Yue was focused and in a meditative state, single-minded, without the slightest pause or hesitation, completing it all in one go!

“Finished!”

The moment she laid down the final stroke, she let out a light breath and held up the finished work in her hands towards the camera.

In an instant, a magnificent painting of the Hundred Palaces of the Immortal Realm was displayed before everyone’s eyes!

Although it was only an ink wash painting, it vividly depicted over a hundred immortal palaces and jade pavilions standing amidst the clouds. The immortal aura was boundless, as if a splendid and glorious scene of the Immortal Realm was presenting itself before their eyes!

Seeing this scene, the silent stream instantly exploded.

【Holy shit! She can actually do it!】

【This painting is too beautiful!】

【She painted so fast, and it’s so beautiful!】

【Oh no, the streamer actually has talent.】

【With this kind of painting skill, why are you being a virtual streamer?】

【Streamer, streamer, is the painting for sale?】

【…】

The bullet comments in the stream suddenly increased, almost all of them exclamations of amazement and praise.

Long Yue’s face was full of pride. She proudly lifted her snow-white, jade-like neck and said in a sarcastic tone:

“Aiya~ you mortals just make a big fuss over nothing. This is just something this Empress painted casually, using only thirty percent of my seriousness. It’s not worth mentioning~”

“Now you all know how amazing this Empress is, right? Hohoho~”

Lin Fan: “…”

Looking at Long Yue, who was just short of having the words "arrogant and smug" written all over her face, Lin Fan couldn't help but feel speechless.

Just a moment ago she was humiliated and enraged because she was being doubted by the bullet comments, and now that she had the chance, it was her turn to mock the crowd in the comments, looking completely like a small person who had found success…

It seemed the Empress was exceptionally good at holding grudges and was quite petty…

However, watching the whole process, she indeed had the qualifications and strength to be smug.

An ordinary person could not have painted the Hundred Palaces of the Immortal Realm she held in her hand, and even a true master who could paint it absolutely couldn't do it in such a short amount of time!

“Lin Fan, if sister-in-law is so amazing at painting, you should have said so earlier! Would I have even needed to find a job for her?”

Zhou Yan couldn't help but stand up from his stool. Looking at the painting of the Hundred Palaces of the Immortal Realm on Long Yue’s desk, he was so shocked he forgot to take a bite of the watermelon in his hand.

When he asked sister-in-law what her special skills were earlier, she said a whole bunch of strange things, which made him think she couldn't do anything…

If she had just casually shown her painting skills, he wouldn't have needed to search his entire network to find her a job.

With this level of painting skill, any random painting she made and put up for sale, there would be plenty of people willing to buy it for thousands or even tens of thousands!

“I also just found out that she could paint,” Lin Fan said flatly.

He truly did not know that this formerly high and mighty, cold and proud Empress knew skills like zither, Go, calligraphy, and painting, in addition to fighting.

Looking at it this way, he really had underestimated this Empress…

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