I rely on talismans to seek longevity

Everyone looked at the young man, and suddenly someone said, "Ah, it turns out that you are Master Wen from the Four Great Masters." It turned out that in Suiyue City, there were four famous young men, and everyone recognized them as the "Four Great Masters", namely Wen, Qi, Hua, and Qin. The one who just spoke was Master Wen, who had a high level of attainment in poetry.

Gu Nantian quickly said modestly: "Mr. Wen, you are too kind to me."

Master Wen said seriously: "I am not exaggerating. This poem fits the mood, the scene, and the people perfectly. It shows the joy of the cherry blossom banquet and the charm of the princess."

At this time, the princess also stood up and said with a smile: "Well, good poem, good poem. In all these years, this poem can take the first place."

At that moment, everyone was praising the poem. Sun Qi, who was standing aside, had a very ugly expression on his face. He had originally wanted to make Gu Nantian lose face, but now he was just swallowing his anger. At this time, Sun Qi secretly glanced at the people beside him, and someone immediately stood up and said, "Princess, the poetry competition is over. How about we start with the painting competition next?"

The princess looked at the people who stood up, and then said, "In terms of poetry, this is already a good harvest, so let's have a painting competition next."

Immediately, another person came out and said, "Mr. Gu has extraordinary literary talent, so I'm sure he'll be good at painting too. How about you paint a picture first?"

When Gu Nantian heard this, he immediately realized that someone was targeting him again, and then he quickly said modestly: "I'm not good at painting, so you should just let me go."

The princess also knew Gu Nantian's ability, so she quickly tried to smooth things over, "How about this, count the pavilions, and each pavilion will send one person to paint. Let's see which pavilion's painting is the best, and then we'll reward one thousand taels of gold, how about that?"

When they heard that the reward was 1,000 taels of gold, everyone immediately became excited. Each pavilion actively sent out its own contestants. In Luo Ling's pavilion, Gu Nantian looked at Gu Nanxin and said, "Xin'er, I asked you to learn more about music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Now you are in trouble."

Gu Nanxin puffed up her lips and said, "Brother, you are the same. If it wasn't for Brother Luo just now, you wouldn't have had the chance to show off."

After saying that, the brother and sister suddenly looked at Luo Ling as if they had found a treasure. Luo Ling felt flustered when they looked at him like that. Gu Nanxin said, "Brother Luo, I see that you are good at drawing talismans, so you should have no problem painting. Why don't you play this round?"

Gu Nantian also said quickly: "Yes, yes, Brother Luo can definitely do it."

After saying that, he pushed Luo Ling out. By the time Luo Ling reacted, he had already been pushed out. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and go ahead.

Soon the stage in the middle was filled with painting tools, and the contestants from each pavilion were in place. Then the princess said, "The content of this painting competition is cherry blossoms. Everyone is required to finish the painting within one stick of incense. Let's start now."

As soon as the contestants on the stage heard the start, they began to sketch their own compositions and ideas. Luo Ling thought about it, and then began to paint. He had not painted much before, but he had painted a lot of talismans. Luo Ling first sketched a branch of cherry blossoms, and then slowly painted the corresponding cherry blossoms. Some cherry blossoms were in bud, showing a light green color; some cherry blossoms were already in full bloom, showing gorgeous flowers. There was one flower that Luo Ling painted particularly carefully, and used the technique of drawing talismans to draw a simple spirit gathering array pattern in it. Then Luo Ling secretly used his true energy to absorb some cherry blossom pollen and injected it into this cherry blossom, and the whole painting suddenly came to life.

"Time is up, please stop painting," the waiter shouted.

All the contestants immediately stopped painting. There were 12 contestants in total, 2 of whom did not finish, while the other 10 had already finished.

Then the waiter walked over, lined up all the paintings, and asked everyone to come up and appreciate them. Luo Ling looked at the painting in Sun Qi's pavilion. It showed a woman standing under a cherry tree admiring the cherry blossoms. Looking carefully, she felt that the woman looked a bit like a princess. However, the level of this painting was still very high, with clever composition and meticulous details. It seemed that they really put in a lot of effort. For a while, everyone was commenting on how well this "flower viewing picture" was painted.

Soon everyone walked to the front of Luo Ling's painting. At first glance, it was just a simple cherry blossom. Although it was well painted, it was too monotonous. After seeing it, Sun Qi said sarcastically: "Hey, what kind of painting is this? How dare you paint a cherry blossom?"

Gu Nantian was too embarrassed to refute, but Gu Nanxin retorted: "How can it not be a painting? The flowers look so real to you. If there is more time, it will definitely be a masterpiece."

Someone immediately said, "A competition is a competition. It has rules. You can't just choose how much time you want. Your level can only be reflected within a certain time."

The people arranged by Sun Qi kept making sarcastic comments about the painting. When the princess saw this, she wanted to come over to help. At this moment, a few bees flew over and landed on the cherry blossoms painted by Luo Ling. Everyone was immediately very surprised, because other paintings also had cherry blossoms, so why didn't the bees go to other paintings?

Suddenly someone said, "Wow, this painting is so amazing that it is indistinguishable from the real thing and lifelike. No wonder it attracts so many bees."

At this time, someone else said, "Could it be coated with honey?"

Someone immediately touched the cherry blossoms on it, licked them with his tongue, and said, "There is no honey, it's just ordinary paint."