CultivationOngoing
2018—Painting the Mists
Patrick G. Laplante
Once, there was nothing, and the Mists were lonely. A simple brush painted all of creation. The Clear Sky Brush vanished for countless ages. Now it's back. Cha Ming, an engineering student from Earth, is thrust into a Xianxia world where might makes right, cultivation realms decide fate, and demons trade souls. Gifted with the five-element affinity and the legendary Clear Sky Brush, he must paint his own Dao from the ground up—surviving sect tests, bandits, demon mountains, and immortal auctions—while his sworn brother Huxian the Godbeast fox grows from cub to mountain lord. Across eighteen volumes, Cha Ming forges pills, talismans, paintings, and friendships into a path of creation that defies heavens.
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