On the Plum Garden Square, three salutes rang out in the sky, and the painting meeting officially began.

The Plum Garden Painting Club is divided into three exams, the first of which is the assessment of copying painting skills, and every year the organizers of the painting will select a painting for display and let the participating students copy it.

After all, it is an exam for teenagers, and the selected paintings will not be too high-level, and master-level paintings are already the most difficult.

Three mahogany Taishi chairs were placed in front of the main hall, and the three old men sat down in turn, looking around the square, the old man in the center pinched his fingers, and a golden light immediately shot into the void.

The golden light flew in the air, spun around for a few weeks like a spiritual wit, and suddenly exploded into a long painting ten zhang square, unfolding in front of everyone in the void like a flag blown by the wind.

Everyone was attentive and carefully observed the paintings floating in the air.

The painting is rich in color, depicting a very ugly middle-aged man, unkempt hair, leopard head and ringed eyes, black face and bull nose, dressed in a tattered fiery red robe, with one arm exposed, leather wrapped feet, holding a three-foot sword upside down, chasing after the two pitch-black imps in front of him in an angry scolding form, at first glance, it seems that he is a fierce ghost.

This strange and ugly man suddenly appeared in the void, and many people outside the garden were frightened to turn pale, and after seeing the painting clearly, they immediately burst into cheers.

"Zhong Kui's ghost hunting map!"

Everyone recognized the painting in the void, which was the heirloom painting made by the painting saint Wu Daozi in his early years.

Legend has it that before Wu Daozi entered the creation, he was a court painter of the Tang Dynasty, one night, the Tang Emperor was seriously ill and slept, a little ghost suddenly appeared in the dream to do evil, wreak havoc, steal treasures, the emperor was furious and could not catch it, just at this time, a strange ugly man suddenly appeared, his head was tied with horns, his face was terrifying, the fierce god was vicious, he grabbed the little ghost with one hand, gouged his eyes and eaten, the little ghost was angry.

The emperor was shocked and asked, "Who is Qing?"

The ugly man replied: "I am Zhong Kui." ”

After waking up from the dream, the emperor summoned Wu Daozi, told him in a dream, and ordered Wu Daozi to draw the man in the dream.

Wu Daozi was ordered to go, it took three days, painted into Zhong Kui's ghost hunting picture, painted into a hand-me-down, auspicious from the sky, Wu Daozi comprehended, broke through the realm in one fell swoop, and achieved a generation of legends.

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty took the painting and looked at it, and sighed: "Qing and I have the same dream?

Emperor Dayue, ordered the Chinese painter to copy this picture of Zhong Kui catching ghosts, distributed to the people, settled in the town of ghosts, after that, it was spread among the people for the Lantern Festival, the people will post Zhong Kui's statue on the door to drive away the tradition of ghosts and evil spirits, Wu Daozi's painting has been handed down to the world, and its reputation has spread far and wide.

The Plum Garden Painting Festival is held during the Lantern Festival, and the title of this picture of Zhong Kui catching ghosts is exactly the right time.

Lin Tianyang knew that Zhong Kui's allusion to the ghost hunting map was similar to that spread in his previous life, but in his previous life, he posted Zhong Kui's image on Chinese New Year's Eve, but Tianyan Continent was fifteen yuan festivals.

"Painting Saint, how did you draw Zhong Kui in the emperor's dream so similarly?" Lin Tianyang couldn't help but ask curiously.

Wu Daozi's flat voice came from his ears: "The emperor said that the dream is a ghost, of course, the uglier the more similar, as long as the painting is ugly enough, even if it is not like in the eyes of the emperor, it will naturally look like it." ”

“...... So you painted a self-portrait?" Lin Tianyang suddenly said coldly.

Wu Daozi no longer had any sound.

The exam question has been released, the Zhong Kui ghost hunting picture in Wu Daozi's hand is a hand-me-down painting, although the picture in front of him is vivid, but the gap is still not small, it is obviously the work of others.

"Masterpiece painting detected, scanning ......"

"Scan Completed ......"

"Copying a painting costs 30 telekinesis ......"

"Improving a painting costs 1,800 Mental Power ......"

"The host's current telekinesis is insufficient, and it can only be copied, not improved......"

The Heavenly Sage Illustrated Book quickly reacted.

"There is a full sixty times difference between copying and improving?" Lin Tianyang was shocked when he saw the Heavenly Sage Illustrated Book give such a huge difference in options for the first time: "After this improvement, will it reach the Inheritance level or the Heavenly Level?"

With his current telekinesis, he couldn't verify the answer, so he could only silently choose the only option, copy.

In the blink of an eye, Zhong Kui's ghost hunting picture has been completed on the blank drawing paper in front of him, which is vivid, no different from the painting in mid-air, and it is a perfect copy of the painting.

Lin Tianyang had just finished copying the painting, and the three old men in front of the main hall looked at him together, their eyes shining.

"Perfect copying, you can make the list. The old man on the left seemed to see his painting and spoke leisurely.

The old man on the right smiled with a smile in his eyes: "This son's means are amazing, it must be a godsend painting skills, a stroke into a painting, a genius." ”

"With our strength, we can't spy on this sub-qi, it's a strange thing. The old man in the center frowned slightly, with his cultivation, he couldn't even explore the depth of Lin Tianyang's strength, and was surprised: "Could it be that there is a spiritual treasure to help him cover his qi?"

Lin Tianyang was completely unaware of the attention of the three old men, because Wu Daozi in the sea of knowledge appeared again.

"What kind of means are you, why can you be so magical!" Wu Daozi's voice was full of shock.

Even the most powerful painting saint in the past ten thousand years was impressed by the means of the Heavenly Sage Illustrated Book, and Lin Tianyang couldn't help but say proudly: "Haven't you seen the heavenly painting skills?" ”

Wu Daozi said: "You kid don't want to hide it from me, I am in the sea of your knowledge, even if it is a god-given painting skill, you have to use the telekinetic technique to perform it, but you just looked at it a few times, and it has been perfectly copied, which is definitely not something that the heaven-given painting skill can do!"

Lin Tianyang was speechless for a moment, just thinking about using the heaven-given painting skills as an excuse to hide from the world, but he forgot to use his mental power to cooperate, but fortunately, Wu Daozi could only stay in his knowledge of the sea, and he was not afraid that he would reveal the secret.

"Painting Saint, you know and I know about this matter, and you don't need to delve into it. Lin Tianyang couldn't find a suitable explanation, so he had to pretend to be vague.

Wu Daozi was silent for a long time, knowing that he would not tell him the truth, so he stopped pestering, and asked, "You can also draw the Heavenly Rune?"

"Yes. Lin Tianyang had no intention of hiding this from him, and he would have to draw countless heavenly talismans in the future, so it was absolutely impossible to hide Wu Daozi who was in the sea of knowledge.

“...... If you have another twenty years to grow, maybe my position as a painting saint will be surrendered. Wu Daozi seemed to sigh.

Wu Daozi's sudden high evaluation did not make Lin Tianyang let down his guard, and said vigilantly: "Do you want to say next that I can become a painting saint in twenty years, and after cultivating for another few decades, my strength will be far superior to you, and I may not lose a battle with Heavenly Dao?"

“...... How do you know?" Wu Daozi's voice weakened a little.

"I know you're not at ease!" Lin Tianyang ended the conversation angrily and didn't pay attention to him anymore.

There was still half an hour before the copying exam was over, and Lin Tianyang had nothing to do, and he regretted that he had finished the painting too early, and under all kinds of boredom, he began to look around, guessing who would be the opponent in the next game.

All the geniuses of painting in Mobei City gather here today, painting on the spot, all kinds of forms are in full bloom, some students are calm and relaxed, concentrated, some students bite the pen, nervous and trembling, and more students are like Wu Xiaoling, braving cold sweat to paint, the more white the face is.

Looking at the other students in the Qingjiang Art Gallery, almost all of them were bloodless, the painting paper was blank, and the boy who had been Wu Xiaoling had not even dipped in ink.

"If the students in previous years were of such quality, it would be strange for Qingjiang Art Museum to have students on the list. Lin Tianyang couldn't help but sigh, and silently felt sorry for Lu Huanyu.

When he was gloomy, a student in the northeast corner also stopped his brush, causing him to look at it again.

The student, dressed in a pale blue gown, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, was full of heroism, about fifteen or sixteen years old, and his eyes were full of confidence, and he seemed to be very satisfied with his paintings.

"This person was like a water-stopping painter just now, and he was holding the pen steadily, but now he has completed it early, and it seems that he is very strong. Lin Tianyang secretly remembered this student in his heart.

As if sensing that someone was watching him, the student looked over to him.

Lin Tianyang did not avoid his gaze and looked at him from a distance.

Seeing that he was also a student, and it was a boy, he was obviously stunned for a moment, but he seemed to have a good temperament, so he didn't turn his head immediately, but bowed his head lightly, which was regarded as a greeting.

The other party was polite, and Lin Tianyang also nodded in return, so he stopped looking at him.

After another half an hour, the sound of golden gongs sounded in the square, and the examination time ended.

The old man in the center got up and waved his hand, and the drawing paper in front of everyone's eyes disappeared immediately, causing a large number of ghosts to cry and howl.

Almost all of them are students who haven't finished drawing, or haven't started drawing yet.

Under the supervision of ten Meiyuan guards, more than 300 students packed up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table with joy or sorrow, and began to leave one after another.

Lin Tianyang withdrew from the Plum Garden Square, there was already a sea of people outside the door at this time, the students who finished the exam and the waiting family members gathered together, the voices of the people were boiling, deafening, and occasionally a few sharp wails pierced the sky, shaking the plum blossoms all over the ground.

He wasted all his strength before squeezing to the place where the carriage of the Qingjiang Art Museum was, and Lu Huanyu and others were already waiting for him in front of the carriage at this time.

"Tianyang, how are you doing?" Lu Huanyu frowned deeply, worried.

Lin Tianyang took a look, and the faces of the other nine students were like ashes, and even Wu Xiaoling, who had opened her mind, had tears in her eyes, presumably because she had not performed well.

"Don't worry, the owner of the museum, I have placed a heavy bet of 20,000 taels on myself, and I will definitely win the title of the Ten Masters of the Plum Garden!" Lin Tianyang already had a transfer plan in his heart, so he naturally wanted to earn face for Lu Huanyu at the Plum Garden Painting Meeting.

Lu Huanyu's eyes flashed, and he praised loudly: "Okay, ambitious, worthy of being my student!"

The other nine students were dumbfounded when they knew that he had placed a heavy bet of 20,000 taels on him, but when they thought that this man was leaning on Wang Ziyan behind him, they suddenly showed a relieved expression.

"Hmph, foolish dreams, even your Qingjiang Art Museum can teach students to become the Ten Masters of Plum Garden?"

A disdainful snort came, and everyone in the Qingjiang Art Gallery looked at it, only to see a middle-aged man with acne marks on his face walking over with a group of students, with a proud expression.

"Cao Ruohai, what do you have to do with our Qingjiang Art Gallery?" Lu Huanyu looked at him coldly.

This person's name is Cao Ruohai, his former classmate, and now he is working as a steward in the Xuanmo Painting Museum in Mobei City, and he has always been at odds with Lu Huanyu.

Although his own strength is not as good as Lu Huanyu, the Xuanmo Painting Gallery where he is located is the most powerful painting gallery in Mobei City, and there are many prodigies in his disciples.

And the Qingjiang Art Museum has lost face at the Plum Garden Painting Meeting all the year round, Cao Ruohai seized this point to play on the topic, and ridiculed Lu Huanyu for misleading people for many years.

Lu Huanyu is so eager for Lin Tianyang to shine in the Plum Garden Painting Meeting, most likely because of this person's relationship.

Cao Ruohai held his head high and looked at Lin Tianyang with his nostrils: "I heard that you were a well-known waste before, but now that your painting skills have only grown a little, do you dare to start hoping for the quota of the Ten Masters of Plum Garden?"

"Cao Ruohai, there is a kind of coming at me, what kind of ability is it to play tricks on my students!" Lu Huanyu pulled Lin Tianyang behind him, his expression solemn.

"Hmph, what kind of teacher really teaches what kind of student, your student is just like you, I don't know how thick the sky is!" Cao Ruohai looked disdainful, turned around and greeted back: "Ye Qiu, come here!"

A student in a light yellow robe walked out, and it was the boy who had greeted Lin Tianyang in the examination room earlier.

Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment when he saw Lin Tianyang, but he still respectfully walked to Cao Ruohai's side: "Cao is in charge." ”

Cao Ruohai pulled Ye Qiu, full of pride: "Take a good look, Ye Qiu is the most outstanding student of our Xuanmo Painting Museum this year, and now he is in the realm of enlightenment, the leader of this year's Meiyuan Painting Club is none other than him, you better pack up and go home as soon as possible, so as not to lose face again in front of so many people!"

Lu Huanyu's face turned red, he couldn't speak for a long time, he could see through Ye Qiu's realm at a glance, and he had the heart to fight back, but there were only two enlightened people in the Qingjiang Art Gallery, how could he compare with Ye Qiu, who was already a painter!

"Is it very strong?" Lin Tianyang suddenly said.

No one understood the true meaning of his words, thinking that he had no concept of the strength of the painter to ask such a question, and they frowned.

Cao Ruohai laughed loudly and said sarcastically: "Lu Huanyu, look at the students you teach, you don't even know what it means to be enlightened, and you dare to become one of the top ten masters of the Plum Garden, it's just laughing to death, Qingjiang Art Museum is really rubbish!"

Lu Huanyu was so angry that he trembled all over, and he wanted to kick his hateful face to pieces!

"Are you strong?" Lin Tianyang looked at Ye Qiu and asked again.

Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment, he had read poetry since he was a child, although he was not ashamed of Cao Ruohai to humiliate others like this, but Lin Tianyang asked so directly, his pride as a painter made him not polite, and nodded as a matter of course: "Compared with you, I should be very strong." ”

"Ye Qiu, how can this useless waste be compared to you, let's go, don't talk to the people in this garbage art gallery!" Cao Ruohai has already achieved his goal, and he doesn't want to waste time here.

"Slow," Lin Tianyang took a few steps forward and said, "Since you think you are better than me, how about we compare with each other?"

Cao Ruohai said disdainfully: "You are also worthy?"

"Don't you know if you compare it?" Lin Tianyang smiled slightly, and said excitedly: "Could it be that the people in the Xuanmo Painting Gallery can only play lip service, and dare not compete with others openly?"

"What did you say?" Ye Qiu's face sank, and his eyebrows raised: "Are you humiliating my Xuanmo Art Gallery?"

Lin Tianyang looked directly into his gaze and said, "Then what do you think this Cao Steward was doing before? He has humiliated my Qingjiang Art Gallery as garbage, I still need to be polite?"

Cao Ruohai was so angry that he gritted his teeth: "Waste, do you believe that I killed you?"

"If you have the ability, you can try!" Lu Huanyu took a step forward, his momentum erupted, Cao Ruohai was shocked by him, and suddenly lost his voice.

"Okay, since you have the heart to compete with me, how about I compare with you!" Ye Qiu also became angry and said, "How do you want to compare?"

Lin Tianyang glanced at him with great appreciation, seemed to admire his courage, and said: "It's very simple, Cao Ruohai said that you are the leader of this painting meeting, then who can win the championship than you and me!"

As soon as these words came out, it seemed that the whole audience fell silent.

Everyone looked at him with incredible eyes, even Lu Huanyu, who had great hopes for him.

Ye Qiu is the chief hero of the Xuanmo Art Gallery, and he is also an open-minded painter, he can be regarded as a leader in the same generation, it is reasonable for him to compete for the first place, but what are you Lin Tianyang?

He has not been able to get started for ten years in the lowest-ranked art gallery like Qingjiang Art Gallery, and he is notoriously weak and useless, and now he suddenly wants to compete with Ye Qiu, pointing at the leader of the Meiyuan Painting Association, as soon as these words came out, no one really dared to believe it.

If it weren't for the clarity of his eyes when he spoke, others would have thought that he was suffering from madness.

"It seems that you are not only insulting the Xuanmo Art Gallery, but also insulting me. Ye Qiu's face was expressionless, and there was anger surging in his voice.

He originally wanted to be polite, but when he heard Lin Tianyang provoke him like this, he only felt that he knew that his strength was insufficient, and he deliberately made this competition a little lower, and he couldn't help but think a little lower on Lin Tianyang in his heart.

"Whether it's an insult or not, you don't know until you compare it. Lin Tianyang ignored the anger in his eyes and said, "To prove that you are better than me, what you say doesn't count." ”

What you say doesn't count, you naturally have to rely on your strength to count!

"Okay, I'll try it with you, I hope you won't regret it then!" Ye Qiu agreed coldly.

Lin Tianyang shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "Since it's a competition, it naturally has to be a little bit of a lottery, if I win, this Cao steward will need to admit his mistake to the Lu Pavilion Master, is there a problem?"

Ye Qiu glanced at Cao Ruohai, saw that the other party nodded again and again, and said, "Okay, no problem, but if you lose, you also need to apologize in front of everyone for insulting the Xuanmo Art Gallery!"

"This kid has a good temperament!" Lin Tianyang saw that his request was not excessive, he just wanted to win back the respect for the Xuanmo Art Gallery, and he couldn't help but have a little admiration.

"Hmph, you waste, Ye Qiu is an enlightened painter, why do you win him?" Cao Ruohai's eyes were fierce, and he said: "If you can win, what if I kneel down in public and apologize to Lu Huanyu and admit my mistake? But is this possible?

"Okay, remember what you said!" Lin Tianyang was very satisfied that he had increased the color head again, there were not enough color heads, how could this breath come out?

"Knock! knock!"

Three gongs sounded, and the audience immediately boiled: "The results of the first assessment are out!"

The crowd immediately swarmed towards the gate of the plum garden, and Cao Ruohai hurriedly said: "Ye Qiu, let's go to see the list first, don't bother with this group of waste!"

Everyone in the Qingjiang Art Gallery hurriedly rushed over, but Lu Huanyu was a step behind and grabbed Lin Tianyang: "Tianyang, your move is too impulsive, I also know Ye Qiu's talent, he is the first among the students of the Mobei City Art Gallery, and now it is the realm of enlightenment, you have no chance of winning at all!"

Lin Tianyang said helplessly: "Pavilion master, don't you have confidence in me either?"

"That's not what I said, but you're just enlightened, how can you compare with Ye Qiu?" Lu Huanyu was worried.

"Pavilion master, relax, will I do something I'm not sure of?" Lin Tianyang winked at him mischievously and said, "Let's go and see the list first, maybe we can find the first surprise?"

Lu Huanyu didn't know why, looking at his running figure, a thought suddenly flashed in his heart: "Could it be that he has become a painter?"

In front of the Plum Garden, there was a sea of people, Uncle Chen had already found a good position on the tree in front of the door, more than sixty people, climbed the tree directly and stood, Lin Tianwan and Granny Chen stood under the tree and looked at him anxiously.

Lin Tianyang saw them from afar, hurried over, looked at Uncle Chen and smiled bitterly: "Uncle Chen, you can take it easy, I can't afford to pay for you if you fall off!"

"Bah, what are you talking about!" Granny Chen glanced at him angrily and said, "It's not to see your grades, little master!"

Lin Tianwan grabbed him nervously and said, "Tianyang, are you sure?"

Lin Tianyang patted the back of her hand and said softly: "Don't worry, I will definitely be on the list!"

"Boom!"

Another gong sounded, and a yellow paper list immediately appeared in the air in front of the door, with the names of fifty students written on it according to their ranks.

The crowd immediately became more crowded, and everyone desperately leaned forward with their heads up, as if they could see more clearly.

"What! Ye Qiu is actually only the second place!" In the crowd, a voice of extreme surprise sounded.

Lin Tianyang heard it, it was Cao Ruohai's voice.

"What? Ye Qiu of the Xuanmo Painting Gallery is actually only the second place?"

"Isn't he already an enlightened painter?"

"Who's the number one?"

There was a lot of discussion in the crowd, and they all looked up at the names at the top of the list, and at a glance, the audience exclaimed!

"The first place in the first assessment - Qingjiang Art Museum, Lin Tianyang, painting master!"