I Turn Out to Be a Grand Master - Chapter 2

Chapter 2: A Breakthrough After Seeing a Painting?
Translator: Simple MTL Editor: Simple MTL

“Please feel free to take a look through this shabby store.”
A gentle voice suddenly sounded behind Yu Linglong. She turned her head to look at the voice. It was a handsome young man with a delicate face and a tall figure.
The young man wore a white robe that was spotless. His temperament was gentle and approachable. It was easy for people to have a good impression of him.
When Yu Linglong saw the newcomer, she subconsciously glanced at the other party’s cultivation. She could not help but mutter in her heart, “What a pity that such a handsome young man is only a mortal!”
“A woman, and a cultivator…”
Liu Changgong sized up the two female guests in front of him without leaving any trace.
These two people had extraordinary temperaments, and they looked as if they were immortals. It was obvious that they were cultivators.
The gold and silver in the mortal world were not of much use to cultivators of earth, but they had a lot of them with them. Therefore, cultivators had always been generous when buying things from the mortal world. In addition, the two of them were female cultivators, so women had always been unrestrained when buying things.
Liu Changgong was in a good mood when he thought that he would be able to earn a small sum of money soon.
As expected, the girl in the light yellow immortal-retaining dress was very fond of the clay figurine that he had casually made to pass the time, as if she had no choice but to buy it. The older girl could not persuade her junior sister, so she obediently took out the gold and silver from her storage bracelet and prepared to pay the bill.
But just as he was about to happily take it over…
The older female cultivator was holding the gold and silver in her hand. She suddenly froze and stared blankly at his back.
Liu Changgong followed the girl’s line of sight and found that she was looking at the painting he had just completed this morning — ‘The sun rises and the mountain shadows’.
Ever since Yu Linglong entered this small shop, she had felt that something was not right.
This small shop was decorated in an ancient style. It was simple and elegant. Everything inside seemed to have been in their respective places for thousands of years. It was very natural, as if it should have been there in the first place.
It was natural!
Yu Linglong felt as if she had come to her master’s cave abode. It was harmonious, natural, lively, interesting, and very comfortable.
She felt as if she was soaking in a spring of spiritual energy. Even her cultivation base, which had not broken through for a long time, was beginning to stir.
Yu Linglong initially thought that it was because her master had said that the cultivation path had a certain degree of relaxation. However, the spiritual energy in her body was circulating faster and faster, and it was becoming smoother and smoother.
This should not be something that could be explained by a certain degree of relaxation.
“Senior Sister Yu, just buy a few clay figurines. They look pretty good on the table…”
“Yes, alright…”
Yu Linglong could not help but agree to her junior sister. When she was about to take out the gold and silver stored in the universe bracelet to pay the bill, she was still trying to figure out the reason for her active spiritual power.
When she took out her bracelet and was about to pay the bill, her gaze inadvertently swept across the wall of the store. When she swept her gaze across a painting hanging on the wall, she was stunned.
Suddenly, she was completely stunned.
Her entire mind was immersed in that painting.
It was as if a towering mountain appeared in front of her eyes, surrounded by clouds and mist. Wasn’t that the Mount Taiyin that she was most familiar with, where she lived every day?
She lived on Mount Taiyin every day, but this was actually the first time that she had seen the entire Mount Taiyin in depth.
The sky had not yet brightened, and the Taiyin Mountain was lying dormant in a dark and gloomy cloud.
Silence! Solemnness!
Yu Linglong could clearly feel the deep and reserved silence within.
It was like a ferocious beast that had been hibernating here since ancient times. Its half-opened eyes were looking at her coldly, looking at the people on Mount Taiyin.
Yu Linglong felt an icy coldness on her body. This kind of coldness could not be dispelled even by circulating her own power.
However, as she looked at the painting, the coldness was quickly dispelled.
A dazzling light pierced through the darkness.
A red sun rose from the top of the mountain, dispelling the darkness that seemed to have existed since ancient times.
The transformation from extreme yin to extreme yang.
It seemed to contain endless magical principles that surged into Yu Linglong’s mind, causing her cultivation base that had not changed for a long time to produce a slight movement. Most importantly, her Dao heart had unknowingly undergone a miraculous transformation…
“Huff, huff, huff…”
Yu Linglong panted heavily. Her chest rose and fell violently, and there was a layer of sweat on her temples and back.
Then, she looked inside her body. A golden inner core that was like vermillion jade was slowly rotating in her dantian!
She had broken through? False Golden Core stage?
Yu Linglong was stunned at first, but then she revealed an ecstatic expression.
She was originally at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and had yet to reach the completion of Foundation Establishment.
Foundation Establishment to inner core was a big threshold for immortal cultivation. Only by entering Golden Core stage could one be said to have reached the next level. Once one entered Golden Core stage, they would be of the same generation.
It was very normal for an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator to be stuck at this level for tens or even hundreds of years. There were even some who couldn’t break through until they died of old age. Even her master, Daoist Master Zhu Zhao, who was extremely talented, had spent a whole five years at that time.
As for her?
It only took her a quarter of an hour!
In order to make a breakthrough, others would seek medicine, ask about the Dao, and cultivate arduously. However, she had only seen a painting!
If this news were to spread, it would definitely shock the entire cultivation world!
Yu Linglong gradually calmed down from her excitement. She didn’t forget why she had made a breakthrough.
A painting.
It was an ordinary painting that didn’t have any spiritual fluctuations.
She had made a breakthrough just by taking a look at the painting on the wall?!
If it wasn’t the truth, Yu Linglong wouldn’t have believed it even if they said it out loud. However, the truth had really happened, and it had happened to her.
Yu Linglong was shocked. When she looked back at the painting, she felt that it was difficult to understand. It was as if there were mysteries hidden everywhere, and the truth was hidden everywhere.
Her gaze moved and met a pair of eyes that were as warm as jade.
The shop owner, who originally looked ordinary and had no cultivation at all, had now become unfathomable.
The light yellow girl pulled Yu Linglong’s arm and asked, “Senior Sister Yu, Senior Sister Yu… What happened to you?”
Liu Changgong also frowned and looked at Yu Linglong in puzzlement. He didn’t know what had happened to this female cultivator.
Could it be that she liked the painting he had just made?
“May I ask the shop owner…”
Yu Linglong took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down. She asked Liu Changgong, “Who is the person who signed this landscape painting, Liu Changgong?”
Liu Changgong was suddenly stunned, but he still answered honestly, “It’s me. This painting is the work of my casual doodle today.”
It was this handsome young man with a refined temperament?!
No! It could just be that his cultivation level was heaven-defying and he had the ability to retain his youth and looks.
Yu Linglong finally understood after thinking it through.
No wonder she felt that everything in this shop was harmonious and natural when she first came in. There was an indescribable charm.