Mythical Scroll Artist: Starting with the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming

Chapter 185 Gold Rank Challenge

Wu Xian nodded thoughtfully, then asked doubtfully, "What if they don't come down?"

"Don't worry, they'll come down." Cui Wenxuan smiled confidently. "I have faith in you, kid."

Seeing that Cui Wenxuan was so confident, Wu Xian didn't press the matter further.

Then, changing the subject, he said, "By the way, I heard from Vice President Huang that you seem to have been researching distorted pollution?"

"What, you're interested in distorted pollution too?" Cui Wenxuan teased.

“I am somewhat interested,” Wu Xian nodded, “How exactly is the power of distortion generated?”

Cui Wenxuan pondered and said, "I always thought it was something created by the upper class, but based on my current research, it seems to be more than that. It's more like a negative force generated by the world itself."

Those people at the top seem quite annoying and wary of the twisted power, which is the main reason they're reluctant to come down.

"The higher-ups are afraid of the distorting power?" Wu Xian asked in surprise.

"As far as I know, yes."

Wu Xian nodded thoughtfully and continued, "After years of research, have you found a way to solve the problem of distortion pollution?"

"The only known effective method is that of those evil god scroll painters." Cui Wenxuan sighed helplessly, "However, the appearance of that kid Lin Yang has given me a breakthrough."

Tattoo Guy's "human body scroll art" can only suppress the worsening of the distortion disease, but does not fundamentally solve the problem of distortion pollution.

Even Wu Xian's natal ancient scroll and the laurel tree can only help him clear the twisted power out of his body, so that he is not affected by the twisted pollution.

However, the distortion and pollution itself still exist.

"The Evil God Scroll Master?" Wu Xian asked, puzzled.

“Some powerful evil god scroll masters seem to be able to use the distortion and pollution to cultivate and create even more powerful evil god scrolls,” Cui Wenxuan said. “So from a certain perspective, evil god scrolls can also be regarded as purifiers of distortion and pollution.”

This information left Wu Xian both amused and exasperated.

Who would have thought that the Evil God's Scroll would be the only way to combat the Twisted Contamination?

However, this does not mean that the evil scroll painters are good people. After all, they absorb the distorted pollution only to make the evil scrolls more powerful and then harm more people.

Upon returning to the Underworld Club, Wu Xian immediately began creating the [Lou Jingou].

The idea for the scroll painting was readily available, as were the materials.

The entire production process was naturally effortless.

The only regret is that I couldn't find that profound sense of enlightenment that I had when I created [Pleiades Star Lord].

Lou Jinxingjun

Version: Original (with gold embroidered border)

Grade: Gold Axis

Painting Spirit: ★★★☆

Spirituality: 65
Innate Traits: White Tiger's Protection, Heavenly Prison's Burning Salvation, Profound Gold True Body
Under the original astrological chart, Lou Jinxingjun is naturally exceptionally handsome.

Next, I also made the Four Judges, but due to material limitations, I can only make the Silver Axis Four Judges for now.

Several days passed in the blink of an eye.

Yaoyang City has long since returned to its former tranquility and is developing rapidly under the leadership of the Underworld Club.

In the Silver Rank League, the Underworld Club is almost dominant.

Sales of the Yin Shuai series of illustrated scrolls are increasing daily, putting Wu Xian under immense pressure, but the benefits are also obvious.

As the number of users of the Top Ten Yin Generals increases daily, the "enlightened energy" condensed in the Divine Diagram also continues to increase.

Nourished by these insights, the cohesion of the Ten Yin Generals' Divine Diagrams has advanced by leaps and bounds.

At this moment, Wu Xian had just completed the condensation of the divine diagram of the Four Judges.

As soon as the divine diagram condensed, it connected with the law network of the Ten Great Yin Marshals' divine diagrams and began to obtain a portion of the energy of enlightenment from the "believers" of the Ten Great Yin Marshals.

Outside the door, the sounds of laughter from Master Xue Lingling and the others could be heard. "Master, you've finally come out of seclusion!"

Wu Xian hurriedly went out to greet him; he, as the acting president, could finally relax.

"With the Gold Rank Challenge just around the corner, it's impossible for your master to remain in seclusion forever," Xue Lingling said with excitement in her eyes. "Our Underworld Club can finally make its official debut in the Gold Rank League."

"This time, I'm going to personally lead the battle. Having an additional Gold-rank player will allow the club to advance to Gold rank much faster."

Wu Xian smiled knowingly.

Soon after, Xue Zhengying, Xue Qingyang, and Huang Lili also took their places.

With the addition of Wu Xian, a total of five people will participate in this Gold Rank Challenge.

The so-called Gold Rank Challenge refers to the process by which Silver Rank club players, after obtaining Gold Scrolls, participate in a series of challenges to be certified as Gold Rank League players.

The challenge consists of three rounds, each a huge test that eliminates a large number of contestants.

To put it bluntly, those who don't have a certain level of skill don't qualify for the Gold League.

Seeing everyone's confident and spirited demeanor, Xue Zhengying solemnly reminded them: "The competition in the Gold Rank Challenge is extremely fierce, commonly known as the Gold Scroll Meat Grinder. It is common for scrolls to shatter during the challenge."

Wu Xian and his companions were aware of this as well.

Because the challenge matches are all high-difficulty scroll dungeons, the difficulty is extremely high, and the contestants will also fight each other because of the competition. After all, the fewer competitors there are, the more chances there is to advance.

The quality of the five people's gold scrolls was naturally not a problem, but their disadvantages in terms of painting spirit level and spiritual power cultivation could not be ignored.

According to statistics, the average spirit level of the Gold Rank Challenge is five stars, while the average cultivation level of the participants is as high as level six.

Therefore, apart from Xue Zhengying, the spiritual power cultivation of the five people is below average.

This is a significant disadvantage in a challenge where advanced spirit masters are commonplace.

It should be understood that any scroll that can be displayed on the gold scroll is no ordinary work; ordinary people don't even have the qualifications to be promoted to the gold scroll.

"Speaking of which, which master created the challenge dungeon, and what type of dungeon is it?" Wu Xian asked curiously. "I didn't see it mentioned clearly on the league's official website. Is it also one of those randomly selected dungeons?"

“No,” Xue Zhengying said solemnly, “The Challenge Tournament only has one instance space, which is the so-called Alliance instance [Hero Tower]. It integrates and merges many instance areas, but it is divided into different levels according to the difficulty.”

Upon hearing this, Wu Xian was secretly alarmed.

"Can domain instances be combined together?"

“Normally, of course not,” Xue Lingling chuckled. “But the Hero Tower is a special dungeon device, a veritable museum of domain scrolls. It can integrate various types of domain dungeons and fundamentally unify the standards. It is the masterpiece of the first president of the association, and no one has been able to replicate it to this day.”

Wu Xian clicked his tongue and nodded.

Although the association's scroll painters are generally not very skilled, they always manage to come up with some amazing "black technologies".

"Second Brother just mentioned that the Alliance dungeons are divided into layers. How many layers are there in total?"

"I'm not really sure about that," Xue Zhengying said, spreading his hands. "Back then, the highest I ever reached was the fifth level."

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at Huang Lili with curiosity.

“My dad said the tallest one is currently around thirty stories,” Huang Lili said.

"Thirty floors?!"

Xue Zhengying was secretly alarmed. He had thought that he was already very impressive to have reached the fifth level at such a young age, given his extraordinary talent back then.

I never imagined that the Tower of Heroes would have a full thirty floors.

It was only at this moment that he realized he still had a long way to go before reaching his true peak.

Wow, thirty floors!

Given the increasing difficulty of each floor in the Hero Tower, the difficulty of the 30th floor is simply unimaginable.

"Currently, the maximum is thirty floors?" Wu Xian keenly grasped the key point. "Does that mean there will be more floors added later?"

(End of this chapter)