All-rounder Artist

Chapter 1649: Chapter 1318: Magical Brushwork

Literature reaches the peak!

Dance reaches the peak!

If you count the achievements under the alias Shadow, you also have a painting peak.

Lin Yuan was planning inwardly: "Among the top publicly released charts of Blue Star, the only ones I haven’t topped are the music chart and the film and television chart. The latter can be put aside for now because the life extension quest does not include tasks related to the film and television chart."

Lin Yuan’s next goal is very clear!

To top the Blue Star music chart this year!

If I succeed, the longevity will be mine!

The person at the top of the music chart could never imagine I want to challenge him to the death, right?

This is truly a life-and-death challenge.

With this thought, Lin Yuan called Yang Zhongming and went straight to the point:

"Do you know Qin Zhen, teacher?"

"Yes, I do."

Yang Zhongming curiously asked, "You want to find him?"

Lin Yuan nodded, "I want to top the Blue Star music chart."

Yang Zhongming didn’t seem surprised and had a slight laugh in his voice: "Looks like you’re prepared. But you may not know, Qin Zhen called me three hours ago and said he’s ready to duel you anytime at Zhong Continent Theater with a symphonic piece. However, I must remind you if you don’t have a piece on the level of ’The Fate Symphony,’ you’d better not challenge him right now."

Zhong Continent Theater.

It’s one of the five major music halls on Blue Star, considered the most prestigious among them, making it fitting for such a showdown between the world’s top two musicians.

It’s just that Lin Yuan didn’t expect:

Qin Zhen to challenge him first.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Yuan seriously said, "Let’s set the duel for two months later. I’ll prepare over these two months first."

"Confident?"

"A bit."

"Then I’ll be waiting. I’ll give him a call back in a while."

"Thank you, teacher."

"Just having you call me ’teacher’ is enough."

The corners of Yang Zhongming’s mouth curled up. After hanging up the phone, he contacted Qin Zhen again.

Top musicians on Blue Star generally know each other, especially among the top ranking ones, who admire each other, even if they don’t often keep in touch, there’s a kind of mutual admiration.

The call connected.

Yang Zhongming said directly to Qin Zhen: "Two months later, symphonic structure at Zhong Continent Theater, he’s waiting for you."

Qin Zhen’s voice was steady: "I’m waiting for him."

"So confident? Have you seen the news? He recently topped the literature and dance charts."

Yang Zhongming’s voice carried a hint of pride.

Qin Zhen laughed: "What does that have to do with me?"

"Not afraid?"

"Even if you and Luo Su joined forces, I wouldn’t be afraid, why would I fear him?"

"Maybe he’s stronger than both me and Luo Su combined."

"Why do I feel you have so much confidence? There are rumors outside that he is your closed-door disciple, is that true?"

"He calls me teacher."

"Many people call you teacher."

"He’s different."

"If he beats me, will you tell people I’m inferior to your disciple?"

"I might say that, but I would never forget to add, I’m not as good as him either."

"Hmph."

Qin Zhen smirked, "Childish."

Yang Zhongming said: "Winning you in this way isn’t bad either. After you lose to him, we can discuss the ownership of the second place."

"What, you want a master-disciple tag team?"

"If this works out, don’t you think it’s a good story in the music world?"

"Haha."

Qin Zhen hung up the phone.

...

The outside world naturally doesn’t know what Yang Zhongming and Qin Zhen talked about, nor do they know Lin Yuan and the top person on the Blue Star music chart have already arranged a showdown in Zhong Continent.

Thanks to Lin Yuan topping the literature and dance charts, his fan base and social influence skyrocketed once again.

Many of Lin Yuan’s classic works have exploded in popularity once again!

The reason is quite simple.

It’s nothing more than Chu Kuang’s fans suddenly starting to binge-listen to Xian Yu’s music——

Among them, many interesting stories emerged that nobody previously knew about.

For example, when everyone heard the song "Fairytale Town."

Chu Kuang’s fans were amused and exasperated to discover that Lin Yuan gave himself a song for his work!

Everyone says Xian Yu understands Chu Kuang the most, and isn’t that true? Who knows oneself better than oneself?

At the same time.

Xian Yu’s fans suddenly started purchasing Chu Kuang’s novels for reading——

When they saw "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils."

These Xian Yu fans smiled knowingly.

So Lin Yuan was self-mocking with the Southern Murong and Northern Qiao Feng.

It can only be said.

Many things only become evident when you know the truth and look back, revealing countless overlooked details.

These details intertwined, making it an undeniable fact, just that people never dared to connect the dots in this direction before.

Under this trend.

Lin Yuan’s old songs, after years, have again become the most popular of the time, just slightly less than Zhao Ying Ge’s new album.

Lin Yuan’s old novels have also climbed back to the top of sales charts!

Especially those with high readability, such as the Sherlock Holmes series, the Harry Potter series, and the martial arts series, etc.

And during this process.

At home.

Lin Yuan suddenly received a system notification: "Congratulations to the host for completing the quest: Martial Arts Revival."

Quest Reward: [Artistic Touch]

Lin Yuan was momentarily stunned: "I haven’t written martial arts recently, have I?"

The delayed completion of this quest made Lin Yuan think he hadn’t written enough martial arts stories. He was even considering whether to write Old Man Jin’s "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer."

If that doesn’t work, maybe add "The Deer and the Cauldron."

If that still doesn’t work, I’d only consider using Gu Long’s masterpieces.

But unexpectedly, having done nothing recently, he received the quest reward.

However, Lin Yuan quickly figured it out.

It should be the fusion of his two major aliases that led to a chain reaction. After all, his old songs and old books have exploded in popularity recently.

It’s only natural that martial arts benefit as well.

This is a good thing, so there isn’t much to worry about.

According to the system’s introduction, the Artistic Touch skill is a special skill corresponding to Paintfection, and its effect is extremely versatile, allowing the audience to perfectly perceive the intent of their calligraphy.

Lin Yuan immediately wanted to try it.

Unfurling a piece of rice paper, Lin Yuan casually wrote in cursive script. With his master-level calligraphy skill, he was perfectly deserving of this skill.

Suddenly.

The brush strokes in front of him seemed to materialize, condensing with meaning, that feeling of elegance and power in the brushworks was overwhelming, and Lin Yuan felt as if he had entered the world of calligraphy!

At this moment.

Lin Yuan was convinced.

Regardless of whether you understand calligraphy or not, it’s hard not to be moved when you see such lettering!

It’s truly worthy of being the skill introduced by the system as the same type as "Paintfection," following a mystical and reason-defying route!

On Blue Star, there’s talk of ten arts.

Apart from music, literature, painting, dance, and film and television, which Lin Yuan has already ventured into, there’s also calligraphy, sculpture, theater, architecture, and gaming.

Gaming might not be officially acknowledged above.

However, calligraphy and sculpture are certainly top-level arts.

Now, Lin Yuan has also acquired calligraphy and sculpting skills.

At this rate, he might really become the legendary "full-time artist" in the future.

The path has to be taken step by step.

When the opportunity arises, Lin Yuan plans to formally enter the fields of calligraphy and sculpture!

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ps: Looking back at how many loose threads are left, I realized the Artistic Touch skill hasn’t been given yet, which is indeed a mistake on my part. Actually, this skill should have been awarded after the release of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils." Fortunately, there aren’t many such oversights. In about twenty Chapters, we can officially conclude the story. Things like architecture and theater won’t be expanded on since I lack knowledge in those areas, and writing them would feel too hollow. They could be considered for external Chapters.