"To make talismans, you must first be able to recognize talismans. If you don't know a few runes, how can you talk about the depth of attainments in the art of talismans?" Taoist Zixu pondered for a moment and said solemnly: "This first competition is to recognize talismans."

"Recognize the talisman?" Wuyouzi and others were slightly stunned.

Taoist Zixu smiled and nodded, then waved his sleeves lightly, and a light of inspiration flashed out, flew into the air of the hall, turned into a scroll, and slowly unfolded.

"This is a thousand talisman map, which is a treasure obtained by the old Taoist when he was traveling in the Middle Earth power a hundred years ago." Taoist Zixu introduced: "It is said that there are a total of thousands of Douwen runes hidden on this thousand talisman map, but the old Taoist has studied it for a long time and can only find hundreds."

"You come to recognize the talisman one by one. Which side recognizes more runes, which side wins. However, in order to avoid making up for the numbers, the old Taoist also set a rule that one person can only identify one rune at a time. According to this, the runes that have been recognized cannot be identified again. If you admit your mistake, you must deduct two runes in reverse until no one can recognize more runes."

When Li Muran heard this, he looked at the unfolding Thousand Talismans. He saw a picture of high mountains and flowing waters on it, and there were a few pavilions hidden in it. It looked like an ordinary Taoist temple hidden in the mountains. But if you look closely, the textures of the trees, rocks, and the lines of flowers and trees seemed to have other mystery, like runes.

After talking about the rules, Taoist Zixu smiled and said, "He is a guest from afar. Five nephews, please wait and recognize the talisman first."

Wuyouzi discussed with Yue Xingyun and others, and felt that this competition was a little tricky, because the runes they recognized could no longer be recognized, so we should start with the simplest and easiest runes, and first point out the easily recognizable runes one by one.

"Junior brother, you go and recognize it first," Wuyouzi said. Because this way of identifying talismans will definitely become more and more difficult as he goes, so he let Li Muran, who has the lowest cultivation level, be the first to appear, which is the least difficult.

Li Muran was not polite, so he nodded, walked forward, and pointed at the texture of a certain rock, saying, "This is the first-level gathering of qi and fighting text."

"Very good." Taoist Zixu nodded and signaled that the disciples of the Taoist talisman would come to recognize the talisman.

Immediately, a disciple of the Taoist talisman came up and recognized the flame-burning fight text drawn on a tree.

The sixth senior brother Wang Yue immediately stepped forward to recognize the talisman and recognized the huge waves hidden among the ripples of a stream.

Ten monks came forward one after another to recognize the talisman, one round after another.

At first, they identified it very clearly, and had already seen several runes in their eyes. When they walked forward, they could point out one of them immediately.

However, after more than a dozen rounds, as one conspicuous runes after another were recognized, the remaining runes were either very remote and rare, or were difficult to find when hidden in the painting, and their recognition speed decreased significantly.

At the seventeenth wheel, the early stage monk of the Taoist talisman sect stood in front of the Thousand Talismans, red and sweating profusely, and seemed very anxious, but he could no longer see the new runes.

"You retreat first." Zixu sighed. It would have been too long, so he had to make rules that he had to identify the runes within ten breaths, otherwise he would lose the opportunity for this round of identification.

After the monks on both sides recognized more than 200 runes, it gradually became extremely difficult to recognize the talisman, and it would be very laborious to recognize one more.

At the beginning of the 25th round, Li Muran was about to come forward to recognize the talisman again. Wuyouzi secretly sent a voice message: "My junior brother, the flying eagle feather lines that were swimming in the sky seemed to be a high-level Feng Ling Fighting Text. You might as well recognize this talisman first. When it is my turn to recognize the talisman, see if you have time to recognize other runes."

"No need, leave this Feng Ling Douwen to the third senior brother himself." Li Muran replied with a smile, then walked to the scroll, pointed to a rock and said, "This is a high-level Yinkong Douwen."

Taoist Zixu was slightly shocked, nodded, and praised: "It's great, I'm sure I didn't admit my mistake, but in order to make the recognition of the talisman more fair, the five monks on the side are not allowed to send voices to each other. If you really can't recognize more runes, you can retreat aside for the time being."

When Taoist Zixu said this, he looked at Wuyouzi with a deep look, and the latter's face turned red. It seems that although the sound transmission technique is sophisticated, it is still as useless in front of high-level existences with extremely strong spiritual consciousness. Wuyouzi's voice transmission to Li Muran just now was obviously known by Taoist Zixu.

"Yes," both monks on both sides agreed respectfully, and Wuyouzi would never dare to say more.

In this round, the sixth senior brother Wang Yue, the cultivator of Tianshan Sect, could not recognize more runes a few rounds ago; and Yue Xingyun shook his head and sighed helplessly in this theory, and finally gave up. Only Li Muran, Wuyouzi and the second senior brother Luo Heng each recognized a rune; and for the monks of the Taoist Talisman Sect, except for the early stage monk of Shenyou who abstained early, four of the five recognized a rune again.

After a few more rounds, Wuyouzi focused his attention for a long time, but finally he could not help but abstain. Only Li Muran and Luo Heng recognized a rune on the Tianshan Sect, and there were three monks on the Daofu Sect who could continue to recognize the talisman, and the gap further widened.

During the thirtyth round, Luo Heng shook his head, indicating that he could not recognize more runes; however, at this time, the monks on the Taoist Talisman Sect were only the Taoist priest in the late stage of Shenyou.

Taoist Zixu smiled and said, "I didn't expect that among the disciples under Brother Feng, the one who persisted until the end was the lowest-cultivation nephew Li. Now, only you and Yuan Mingzi from this sect have not given up yet, so you can continue to recognize the talisman. Then you two went forward to recognize the talisman in turn, and the time for each recognition of the talisman was relaxed to thirty breaths."

"Yes" Li Muran walked forward, and said very quickly on the flowers and plants, saying, "This is a high-level wood spirit fighting literature."

"Ah" Wuyouzi shouted in surprise and joy: "It's indeed Mu Ling Dou Wen, but this Dou Wen has slightly changed, which is different from the common Mu Ling Dou Wen, and is hidden in a pair of messy lines. I didn't see before that the little disciple really has a sharp vision."

Yue Xingyun and Wang Yue were also very happy. Even the second senior brother Luo Heng, who had always been silent and serious, nodded with a smile, and expressed his approval.

The Mu Ling Dou Wen is not a particularly remote rune. These monks have seen this kind of rune, but there are many variants of this rune. Only one of them appears in the scroll, and it is covered by other lines. Therefore, unless you are extremely familiar with this rune, it is difficult to see. However, once someone points out it, it is easy to identify. People who understand it will know at a glance that Li Muran has not admitted his mistake.

Sure enough, Taoist Zixu nodded and signaled Li Muran to answer correctly, and asked the Taoist priest Yuan Mingzi of the late stage of the Taoist talisman to come to recognize the talisman.

Yuan Mingzi stood in front of the Qianfu Picture for a while, watching motionlessly. When there was little time left, he finally pointed to a rock and said, "High-level Digging Dou Wen."

Wuyouzi and others suddenly felt a slump in their hearts, and they all knew this Dili Douwen himself, so why didn't they recognize it? I didn't expect that Yuan Mingzi could continue to recognize the runes. I wonder if their junior brother still has this ability.

Li Muran walked forward, without thinking, just one point in the scroll, and said, "Rich the Soul Fighting Text"

"Huh" Taoist Zixu was shocked: "This soul-burning battle text is an extremely rare ancient rune. Did Nephew Li actually recognize it?"

Li Muran replied: "I like to read various ancient books and have seen some ancient runes, and I happen to recognize this soul-burning battle text."

After saying this, Li Muran stepped aside without moving. In fact, in his eyes, there were still a lot of runes on this scroll that had not been identified yet.

After all, Li Muran first obtained the rune jade slip from Taoist Cangxia. The jade slip recorded the rune hard work of Yuanfu Sect for more than a thousand years. The types of runes were extremely complete, which made him have far surpassed that of ordinary monks in the Divine Travel Period. Not long ago, he obtained more high-level rune information from the mysterious Qianhuan Fairy, including many very rare ancient runes that have even lost their inheritance. Although he had not yet studied this information one by one, the number of rune types he had seen was already amazing.

"Yuan Mingzi, it's your turn again," said Taoist Zixu.

Yuan Mingzi walked forward as he spoke, frowned, stood in front of the scroll for a long time, and finally sighed and said, "Master, the disciple cannot recognize more runes for the time being."

"You have recognized nearly 300 runes, which is already quite amazing." Taoist Zixu praised, without any intention of blaming the disciples.

He turned to Li Muran and said, "Nephew Li, I wonder if you can recognize more runes, but my disciples performed better before and were ahead of two runes. You have to recognize three runes in a row before you can turn defeat into victory and surpass my disciples in total."

Wuyouzi and others all looked solemn and pessimistic. At this time, it would be extremely difficult to recognize one rune more, let alone recognize three runes in one breath, which seemed that they would definitely lose in this competition.

"Try your best to try" Li Muran walked to the front of the scroll.

He pondered for a moment, then pointed to three places and admitted one by one: "This is the battle of returning the soul, the battle of gods, and the battle of Huiyue."

Wuyouzi frowned when he heard this, thinking that this little junior brother must be randomly identifying, trying his luck, returning the soul-combat text, and the god-combat text, he has never even heard of it.

Unexpectedly, when Taoist Zixu heard this, his face changed slightly in an instant, and he was obviously shocked.

He was silent for a moment and said in an unconcealed tone of surprise: "Mr. Li is indeed very knowledgeable, and he has not admitted his mistake in these three runes."
Chapter completed!