Chapter 887: Did he suddenly realize the truth?
"Bai Xiaobai! Step forward!" Bai Wuwen looked at the boy in the line and nodded, signaling him to come forward.
Xiao Nian, who had just been talking to Gu Yin, pouted upon hearing this and came out: "Senior Brother."
Bai Wuwen chuckled: "Weren't you very defiant just now? Here, I'll give you a chance. Take out your best talisman, draw it on the spot, and then have Number 00 draw it too. Let's see what you have to be so proud of! Draw it!"
Bai Xiaobai glanced at Lan Yan, coughed lightly, and asked cautiously, "When did you start learning to draw talismans?"
Blue Flame raised three fingers.
Bai Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief: "Three months! That's alright. Let me tell you, drawing talismans isn't just about being able to draw! You also have to understand the principles behind it before you can successfully complete the talisman! I..."
"It's not three months, it's three days. But I don't really understand it, I only know a tiny bit of the basics," Lan Yan interrupted with a smile.
Bai Xiaobai's eyes widened: "What did you say? Three days?! Not three months? No, is drawing talismans that easy now? Only three days? Do you even know what a talisman is and you can already draw one? Senior brother! You must be joking!"
Bai Wuwen was too lazy to waste words with him: "Whether you're joking or not, just draw it. Hurry up, I don't have time to argue with you."
After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and immediately someone brought the things up.
Seeing this, Bai Xiaobai knew he had no choice but to draw it, but he still found it unbelievable: "Then I'll draw a simple talisman, and I won't bully you."
It would be so embarrassing to tell anyone if he won; Bai Xiaobai doesn't like bullying people.
Lan Yan shook his head: "I can already draw simple peace talismans and house-protecting talismans, but as you said, I haven't fully grasped the mystery yet, so the talismans I draw are not very useful. After all, I have lived for more than 30 years and have always been a materialist. I have just come into contact with these things and I still need some time."
That's true. Even though he's been here for a while and has seen many things that have overturned his previous thinking, he's always been a staunch materialist. If he doesn't believe in something, how can you expect him to draw a usable symbol?
Bai Xiaobai hated people who didn't believe in these things the most. Seeing Lan Yan's attitude, he stopped considering it for him and directly drew a lightning-summoning talisman.
Lan Yan couldn't help but admire the other party's smooth and unhindered technique. It was so complex, yet the other party completed it in one go, with perfect fluidity, as if it had been measured with a ruler, neat and symmetrical!
"Beautiful!" Blue Flame clapped and exclaimed in admiration as the other person raised their arm.
Bai Xiaobai wrinkled her nose and snorted, "Of course, it took me a long time to learn it so well. You try it, it's okay if you can't learn it!"
Lan Yan didn't say much. He rolled up his sleeves, picked up a special brush, examined the talisman carefully for a while, and then began to work.
At first, Lan Yan was a little slow at drawing, but after drawing three talismans in a row, just when Bai Xiaobai was about to tell him to give up, Lan Yan drew more and more smoothly!
Bai Xiaobai opened her mouth, speaking with some difficulty: "You really only studied for three days? Didn't you find these drawings obscure and difficult to understand? Didn't you know where to start?"
No, is that experiment so powerful that it can turn someone with no background into a genius? If that's really the case, what's the point of hard work? Everyone would participate in the experiment, everyone would be smart and talented, wouldn't it be better if everyone were the same?
Lan Yan ignored Bai Xiaobai, and his brushstrokes became increasingly fluid, each stroke flowing smoothly. His previously restless heart calmed down, his mind filled with the scene of Bai Wuwen using this to attract lightning to blow them up. The lightning bolts danced wildly in his mind like lines, eventually transforming into the characters under his brush.
"Holy crap! It actually worked! No, how could it have worked?! This is illogical!" Bai Xiaobai's expression changed drastically as he watched Lan Yan finish writing and look at the lightning talisman. He was utterly astonished! He was speechless! Had all his years of hard work become a joke?
Okay, some people's Daoist resolve has become unstable.
Gu Yin quickly asked Lan Yan, "Didn't you say you were a materialist? How come you've become one this time?"
Lan Yan picked up the talisman and looked at it, then chuckled, "When I drew this talisman, my mind was filled with Bai Wuwen."
Bai Wuwen immediately distanced himself from him in terror: "What nonsense are you talking about! I like women!"
Lan Yan rolled her eyes: "Why are you in such a hurry before I finished speaking! I was saying that all I could think about was the scene of you using this talisman to blow me up! It was horrible! When I was being blown up, I kept thinking about how to undo this damn talisman! When I saw this talisman today, I was trying to decompose the lightning in my mind while drawing it, and then I drew it, and that's how it happened."
Gu Yin: "...Just a lucky accident?"
Other scions of prominent families: "!!!!!"
Bai Xiaobai staggered, staring at Lan Yan in disbelief: "Did he have an epiphany?!"
Bai Wuwen was also very surprised: "It really is an epiphany. Try using a peace charm or other talismans."
Lan Yan nodded upon hearing this, picked up the paper and began to draw, but unfortunately, even though he drew very successfully, it was still a piece of waste paper and had no use whatsoever!
Bai Xiaobai didn't believe it, so he drew a rain-praying talisman on the spot and asked Lan Yan to learn how to use it.
After studying for a while, Lan Yan was able to draw the talisman, but he still couldn't complete it. In other words, the lightning-attracting talisman was really just an accident! He had been bombed too many times, which caused him to become obsessed. But Lan Yan was a soldier, and his mind was very calm and composed, so he was not affected. Instead, it gave him an opportunity to have an epiphany!
This is an amazing person!
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