The Path Toward Heaven

Inside and outside the rain corridor, there is silence.

Countless lines of sight followed He Zhan's pen tip.

People looked shocked and a little dazed.

Not long after, He Zhan stopped writing, looked at it for a moment, and nodded with some satisfaction.

He returned the pen to the painter, took a sip from the flagon from his waist, and let out a big breath of comfort.

The head of Kunlun sneered and left without saying anything.

The painting is not bad, there is no shame.

Nan Wang left such a sentence and left Yulang.

This sentence seemed to be a compliment to He Zhan, but everyone knew that she was talking about Jing Jiu, and she said it to everyone present.

But He Zhan's painting is really excellent.

The cold branch twists and turns and stretches towards the gray sky in the distance. The red plum blossoms on the branch are like scattered flames, which are clearly in front of you, but far away in the sky.

Originally, there were a lot of blanks in this painting, but today there are more plum blossoms that need to be filled in. According to the usual painting method, even the smallest plum blossoms cannot be drawn in. The method he used is very clever, which can also be called ingenuity, and solved this difficult problem. More importantly, the artistic conception is very far away and worth aftertaste.

The practitioners watching outside the corridor came to their senses and stepped forward one after another, looking at the details in the painting and discussing non-stop, it was difficult to dispel the shock in their hearts.

What's going on here? Why are there so many plum blossoms drawn? How many are there?

How does this count?

Practitioners could only see that those plum blossoms all came from the branch of Jing Jiu, but they couldn't count the number of plum blossoms.

The painter was packing up his brushes and paints, and said: I don't know how many paintings Mr. He has painted, but it is clearly written on the file that there are seventy-seven flowers in total.

Hearing this number, the practitioners couldn't help but gasp, thinking how is this possible?

With so many competitions, which contestant can kill so many Snow Country monsters overnight?

Is something wrong?

The painter sighed and said, The Han Haoniao counted them themselves. They only reported twenty.

It was quiet again in front of the rain corridor.

After an unknown amount of time, a faint voice sounded.

I think this year's Dao Zhan No. 1 can be announced in advance.

Before today, Luohuainan and Tonglu had the most plum blossoms, both of which were close to 30, far behind Jing Jiu...

Just like what this practitioner said, there is no suspense about being number one in the Taoist battle. Now it seems that he just needs to wait for other practitioners to complete their plum paintings.

The question is how did Jing Jiu do it?

In the rumors, he is a swordsman of the Qingshan School, and there are even rumors that he may be the descendant of the Guocheng Temple. The problem is that he is too young, and he did not have many amazing deeds before the Meihui. No matter in terms of popularity or weight, he is not as famous as Zhao Layue and Zhuo Rusui, who are from the same sect, nor as Luo Huainan, Tong Yan, Bai Zao and others.

Who would have thought that overnight he would bring such a big shock to the monastic world.

I don't think he will be able to take the first place in the Taoist competition.

A cultivator from the foreign sect of the Zhongzhou School said with a sullen face: The criterion for judging a Taoist war is to complete a picture of plum blossoms. The word completion here is perfection, not excess.

This sentence sounds a little sour, but it actually makes sense.

Many people present still remembered that the sword master participated in the Meihui many years ago as an ordinary disciple of the Fengdao sect, and defeated the Zhongzhou faction, Qingshan sect, and Shuiyue nunnery to win the first place in the Taoist war, which shocked the entire Chaotian Continent.

At that time, there was only one plum blossom in his painting.

How can a plum blossom be called perfect?

Because the plum blossom is too big.

During the Dao battle, he was very unlucky to meet a king-level snow worm that rarely appeared.

Then he was very lucky to kill the king-level snow worm and survived.

That painting is very famous.

If a big plum blossom is allowed to cover the whole painting, of course it will not look good, and it cannot be called perfect.

The method used by that painter back then is somewhat similar to that of He Zhan today. He only painted half a plum blossom on paper.

Half of the blood plum covered the sky, and its grandeur was unprecedented.

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Can Jing Jiu's Meitu be called perfect?

Many people looked at the cultivator with mocking eyes.

Of course perfect.

Perfect if not perfect.

Because this year, it was Zenzi who commented on Meitu.

They all heard Zenzi's evaluation of Jing Jiu that day.

At that time Jing Jiu had no performance at all, but Chan Zi used such words to excuse him, not to mention Jing Jiu's performance is so outstanding now.

If Zen Zi saw this painting at this time, maybe the first place in the Taoist war would have been announced.

You can say that Zen is biased, but who made Master Jing and Zen have a half-teacher friendship, and Jing Jiu is the second disciple of Master Jing.

The cultivator was a little annoyed by the eyes of everyone, and said: In short, his companion doesn't have any flowers yet, so I don't accept it.

Someone said with emotion: Whether you accept it or not, it seems that Luo Huainan really can't get the first place this year. It's really surprising.

He Zhan was admiring his painting, and took a sip of wine after seeing it. After a while, he drank half a pot of wine. The more he looked at the plum blossom, the more he liked it.

Listening to their discussion, he shook his head and said, Tong Yan can't beat Jing Jiu in chess, why do you think Luo Huainan can beat him in Tao?

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I don't know if Zenzi has seen the plum picture, the Taoist battle continues.

The young practitioners who participated in the Dao battle encountered some unexpected situations on the snowy field, just like what Jing Jiu and Bai Zao encountered—those snow beasts that should not have woken up early in the summer, and those extremely cold and frightening dense fogs brought a lot of trouble, and serious casualties gradually appeared.

Bai Zao passed his judgment back to Chaoge City. He didn't know what the teachers of the sects thought about it. Apart from reminding to be careful of the cold fog, there was no other explanation for the time being.

The original intention of the Dao War was to use the test of life and death to strengthen the Dao heart of the righteous disciples, how could it be terminated early because of some dangers.

The previous Taoist war was terminated early two hundred years ago, it was because of the large beast tide, and the situation was infinitely more severe than this one.

The young people who participated in the Taoist war continued to march bravely and firmly into the depths of the snow field.

The team that Luo Huainan and Tonglu were in had already penetrated hundreds of miles into the black mountain range.

Another thing happened at this time, which once again caused a lot of discussion in Xishanju.

Some young practitioners stopped suddenly and did not leave the entrance of the canyon for two whole days.

What are they trying to do?

The most troublesome thing for the masters in the cultivation world was that according to the news from ahead, it was Jing Jiu's intention to stop those young practitioners.

It was Jing Jiu again.