I'm Really Not a Painting Sage

Xu Ping'an, a failed art student, transmigrates into a Tang dynasty filled with ghosts and spirits straight out of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. He is born in the ordinary town of Qingyang. According to his master, evil spirits roam everywhere in the land, and monsters are as common as dogs.

So Xu Ping'an takes the path of cultivation through painting. He trains diligently for ten years, yet still doesn't dare leave town, and has never once used his abilities for pleasure.

After all, his cultivation is still weak. If he paints plum blossoms, at most he can fill a hundred or so mountaintops in one breath. If he paints fish, he might manage to fill a dozen rivers...

There are great demons everywhere in the world that can swallow an entire mountain range in one bite. With his meager cultivation, he wouldn't even make a mouthful.

It isn't until the Qingping Banquet begins that year, and the young man rides his old donkey leisurely toward Chang'an, that he realizes there's nothing in this world that can't be settled with a single stroke of the brush.