Library of Heaven’s Path

”I can tell that Master Lu had used three types of painting techniques and twelve types of painting strokes in his Flowing River Painting. Also, there seems to be the shadow of the renowned painter eighty years ago, Chen Jiao, in his painting.” Huang Yu pondered for a moment before replying.

Chen Jiao was a famous female painter in Tianxuan Kingdom back then. Her strokes were delicate, and she specialized in painting mountains and rivers. In that aspect, she was said to have reached the pinnacle for river paintings, and she was honored as the number one painter in the Tianxuan Kingdom in the last three hundred years.

”I saw that too...” Bai Xun hurriedly said.

”Un, seems like you have good eyes!”

Master Yuan Yu chuckled.

”Three types of painting techniques? Twelve types of painting strokes?”

Zhang Xuan was speechless.

From his perspective, all he saw was Master Lu Chen picking up the brush and drawing randomly. He couldn’t tell anything unique about it at all.

Even though he had infused all of the knowledge from the books which he had flipped through into his head through the golden page in the golden book, they were all mainly related to cultivation techniques, battle techniques, and pill forging. There were barely any painting-related books in the teacher Compendium Pavilion, and as such, he is nearly completely ignorant on the topic.

”Haha, Brother Yuanyu, you are way too humble!”

In a moment’s time, Master Lu Chen completed the Flowing River Painting as well. Chuckling, he walked over and said, ”I have been touring the Benma River these few days and accumulated several days of emotions before unleashing them all on this painting, that’s why I was able to up you one in this painting. Brother Yuanyu is normally busy going around treating others and isn’t as free as me. If you were to be like me and immerse yourself into painting, I’m afraid that I would be far from a match for you!”

”Painting is dependant on talent. It is because I find myself lacking talent that I chose to tread on the path of a physician!”

Master Yuanyu shook his head.

”Alright, we two old folks shouldn’t be praising one another here like that. Speaking of talents, Brother Zhang Xuan is truly a genius. Despite being young, he possesses a unique view and understanding of painting. I believe that his painting ability is in no way inferior ours.”

Master Lu Chen shook his head smiling and gestured Zhang Xuan forward. ”We are already done painting. Brother Zhang Xuan, it’s your turn!”

Huala.

The moment he said those words, everyone’s eyes turned to look at Zhang Xuan.

Master Yuanyu also nodded his head in approval. His eyes were filled with curiosity, he was interested to see what kind of painting Zhang Xuan would come up with.

He had heard Lu Chen spoke of Zhang Xuan’s matter before. Even though he does not doubt his words, he still found it a little unbelievable that Zhang Xuan could reach such an incredible level of expertise at such a young age.

Painting is different from martial arts. It isn’t something one can succeed in just because one has talent. One needs to accumulate a multitude of experience and emotions in order to comprehend life so as to produce good paintings. Even for him, it was due to him treating innumerable patients that he gained the inspiration required for his mastery in painting to soar, reaching the current level he is at.

However, Zhang Xuan is not even twenty. Even if he was born with natural compatibility to painting, at the very most, he only has a solid foundation that allows him to reach the level of Reality Depiction. If he wants to create paintings of the level of Spiritual Canvas and Infused Intentions... He probably needs a lot more training.

Of course, he wouldn’t vocalize these thoughts. After all, it would be impolite.

At that moment, when Master Lu Chen invited him to paint, he couldn’t help but peer over to see what standards that fellow possessed.

Even Bai Xun and Huang Yu looked excited.

Zhang Xuan had performed impressively the previous time he was here, pointing out the flaws and secrets behind Master Lu Chen’s painting, even giving him pointers. They couldn’t help but admire him for that. Right now, they are truly curious to see what kind of level had this Zhang laoshi, who isn’t much older than them, had reached.

”Me?”

Sensing their eager gazes, Zhang Xuan felt his head swelling up.

He thought that the other party was just casually bringing the matter up... To think that he really needed to draw.