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Chapter 104 An Unintentional Act Leads to a Success

After ten minutes of expansion and change, the surrounding darkness receded and condensed into a small chaotic entity with four wings and six legs.

However, the little guy is like an enraged cat, still having a stress response. His fine, soft fur stands on end, and his four little wings flap vigorously without stopping.

"Okay, you did a good job this time."

Ao Peng grabbed the little guy's round body and rubbed it, then took out the strand of Taiyin he had exchanged.

The soft, silvery-white color of the moon, like the light of the moon falling, soothed Little Chaos's emotions and made His fur fluffy and soft again.

After calming the little chaos down, Ao Peng looked at his unfinished portrait of the Kitchen God once again.

The first step in painting is to control the brush, especially in meticulous figure painting, which requires extremely high brush control.

If one method is mastered, all methods are mastered.

Once you've mastered a particular skill, you'll be able to apply that knowledge to other industries as well.

Ao Peng's martial arts have reached the legendary level. His strength can be both hard and soft. Even though he has only been practicing painting for a short time, with the help of his spare time in the small dungeons, he can already be considered a painter who can imitate a cat or a tiger, and has entered the mastery level.

Taking the next level of mastery leads to proficiency.

To master the art of painting, one must naturally imbue the painting with spirit. Generally, those who practice painting, especially those skilled in landscapes, must travel to famous mountains and rivers, admire the sunrise and the moon at night, and comprehend that subtle and profound meaning, integrating it into their paintings.

If one is skilled at depicting figures, one needs to have seen thousands of different people, simplify the complex, and be able to grasp the characteristics of a person at a glance and integrate them into the painting.

Ao Peng studied meticulous figure painting, or more accurately, painting of immortals. The requirements for divine intent are even stricter, especially in this era of extraordinary manifestations. Simply copying a cat to imitate a tiger is definitely not enough; one needs to capture a real tiger!

Ao Peng carefully sketched the image of the Kitchen God in front of him again, infusing each stroke with his own spirit.

The Kitchen God Festival ceremony four days later was an opportunity for him. The God of Wealth had clearly reminded him of this, so of course he had to seize it with all his might.

For the next four days, Ao Peng temporarily set aside his other cultivation practices and focused all his attention on painting what he considered to be the most satisfactory image of the Kitchen God.

At night, they would continue to enter the town of Shoucai to earn incense offerings.

He won two million incense offerings in one night, which was quite a feat in Shoucai Town. However, such a large gambling game would be equivalent to a game worth two billion outside. Shoucai Town wouldn't have such a game every day. So, Ao Peng took advantage of the head dealer arranging new gambling games for him and won big in the small and medium-sized casinos in Shoucai Town.

Even a small mosquito is still meat, let alone Ao Peng, who is blessed with good fortune and accepts almost anything. As long as there is a gambling game in Shoucai Town, Ao Peng dares to participate, and he can win a million incense offerings in one night.

However, he dared not use these incense offerings recklessly. The True Lord of Wealth and Prosperity had reminded him several times that these incense offerings were themselves a karmic consequence, and would ultimately fall on the person behind the scenes of Shoucai Town, thus seizing the entire Shoucai Town.

Compared to long-term benefits, Ao Peng certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to misuse incense now and cause unexpected karmic consequences.

As the days passed, the head dealer, Su Motan, prepared a new gambling game and invited Ao Peng, a distinguished guest, to "enter the trap."

Ao Peng was well aware of this. Gamblers like him had the power to decide when to start a gambling game, so he set the game for the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month!

Time flies by.

On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, we respectfully send off the Kitchen God as he ascends to heaven

With Chu Ge's help in the preparations, Ao Peng's family's Kitchen God Festival was exceptionally grand this year.

The fruits and melons come from all over the country and even come in five colors. Of course, the most important thing is to highlight the sweetness. In addition to the fruits and melons, the most important thing is maltose. The maltose that Chu Ge uses is boiled until it looks like a piece of golden and translucent amber. When you eat it, it can really stick to your tongue. It is a bit like a kind of nougat that Ao Peng ate when he was a child. It takes a long time to dissolve.

Besides sugar, there was also wine. Ao Peng used the information about the Twelve Zodiacs that he had learned from the True Lord of Abundant Wealth to exchange for two bottles of top-grade [Penglai Immortal Wine] with the Empire. He kept one bottle on him for future use in battle, and he would use the other bottle today.

He first poured the Penglai Immortal Wine into a specially made small wine jar, the opening of which was narrowed to the middle.

Then he boiled a fine brown sugar egg, which was originally the Kitchen God's favorite food. Ao Peng was still not at ease, so he took out 50,000 incense sticks and one coin of life money from his own pocket, and with the help of the power of Little Chaos, he rolled them into a small ball and stuffed them into the egg.

Then the eggs were placed in the wine jar and sealed.

Besides offerings to the Kitchen God, the most important thing is to prepare a chariot for him to ascend to heaven.

Most families prepare paper horses, which are burned together with the image of the Kitchen God after the Kitchen God worship ceremony is completed, thus sending the Kitchen God to heaven.

Those who are particular will prepare a large rooster and place it in the kitchen. The rooster is a little phoenix, which can fly faster than a paper horse and can get to the Jade Emperor first to speak well of your family.

Chu Ge then carefully selected a top-quality rooster.

"Does such a colorful celestial rooster really exist?"

Ao Peng was slightly taken aback when he saw the chicken, because he had only seen this kind of chicken in supernatural novels such as Tomb Raider Chronicles. Moreover, he used an appraisal spell to confirm that this chicken was not only strange in appearance, but also a special item recognized by the Old Earth Game.

【Five-Colored Celestial Rooster】(Minor)

The chicken is a phoenix, and the phoenix blood within this pheasant has begun to awaken.

The rooster in front of me was about the same height as a two or three-year-old child. It was covered in black feathers, except for a colorful tail feather on its back. Its comb was as red as blood, and its eyes were gleaming with a fierce fighting spirit.

Chu Ge laughed smugly, "This world has created all things. After the Old Earth Game came out, it wasn't just us humans who benefited. In many remote areas, whether it was mountain birds or beasts, they gradually began to mutate. This chicken was found thanks to you."

"I?"

Ao Peng was somewhat confused. He had indeed reminded Chu Ge about the Kitchen God Festival, but what did finding this five-colored celestial rooster have to do with him?

"Yes, it's you."

Chu Ge explained, "Didn't you ask me to recruit left-behind children from remote mountainous areas to study at our martial arts school? There was a family where both parents went out to work, and only the grandfather was there to take care of the child. When they heard that we provided free room and board and taught them skills, the grandfather went into the mountains and searched for a day. The next day, he brought us this chicken, saying that the child couldn't be without a gift when he became an apprentice. People in the mountains don't have anything good, so he was using this chicken to see if it would work out."

After hearing this, Ao Peng couldn't help but sigh, "It's truly a case of unintended consequences leading to unexpected success."

Although he recruited martial arts school disciples out of personal motives, recruiting hundreds or thousands of people at a time with the intention of nurturing them into talents was ultimately a good deed, which is why it yielded this positive result.