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

Chapter 203 Spirituality and Cultivation
“That’s right,” Bai Shiqi said, unable to hide his admiration. “From him, I have seen what it means to be outmatched by others and to have a world beyond our understanding.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Qifeng was both surprised and suspicious.

It's already outrageous that a self-taught scroll painter could be so skilled, but to have a son from a prestigious family make such a self-deprecating assessment is truly remarkable.

"There are such amazing young people?" Bai Qifeng asked curiously, "Tell me about it."

Bai Shiqi calmly recounted his experiences in Yaoyang City, and also showed off the Yin Shuai scroll in his hand.

Bai Qifeng became increasingly alarmed as he listened, and after carefully observing the Yin Shuai instance before him, he gasped in shock.

Genius! Absolutely a genius!

"Are you sure this is a scroll painting conceived by a grassroots self-taught artist?" Bai Qifeng could not hide his shock.

"At first, I couldn't understand it either, but after learning about the Xue family's situation, I calmed down a bit."

"The Xue family?" Bai Qifeng asked, puzzled.

"That is, the family behind Xue Lingling," Bai Shiqi said solemnly. "The Xue family is one of the founding families of the Necromancer's Guild. In my opinion, the rise of the Xue family is inevitable."

Bai Qifeng was startled, his eyes flashing wildly: "The founding family of the Necromancer's Guild? No wonder!"

Later, upon learning that Zhao Qinghe had secretly gone to Yaoyang City to target the Xue family, a strange light appeared in his eyes.

"Interesting~ It seems that it's possible to win over the Xue family."

"Huh?" Bai Shiqi exclaimed in astonishment, "You can even try to win over the founding family?"

“Of course, it’s possible, but it will be quite troublesome,” Bai Qifeng said with a knowing smile. “Our Peak God Realm’s undead system is currently lacking a pillar. If we can win him over, it will be an excellent addition to the Peak God Realm. It’s just that Yaoyang City…”

"Just what?"

"It's nothing," Bai Qifeng shook his head with a furrowed brow, changing the subject: "Speaking of which, our family does have a struggling gold-medal club in Tianfeng Province. How about we arrange for you to work there?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Shiqi's eyes lit up. "Our family has a club in Dongfeng City? How come I didn't know?"

"The business left by your maternal grandfather's lineage," Bai Qifeng explained, "you know the situation of your maternal grandfather's lineage. For several generations, not a single decent scroll painter has emerged. Clubs and such are basically outsourced to other scroll painters for operation."

In a moment of realization, Bai Shiqi immediately made a decision: "I am willing to go."

“Very good,” Bai Qifeng nodded with pleasure. “I will contact your uncles right away. Although your uncles don’t have much talent for painting scrolls, they are doing quite well in the path of spirit tamers.”

……

Yaoyang City, Underworld Club.

Two days ago, five bigwigs from the alliance gathered their materials and visited the Underworld Club, bringing along the initial team of the Yaoyang City Alliance.

Overjoyed at successfully obtaining the gold scroll, they learned that the Underworld Club had established an interdimensional outpost and immediately joined forces with the association to dispatch professionals to help the Underworld Club open up a spatial passage to the interdimensional outpost.

Now, the club can directly teleport to the [Underworld] outpost.

Originally, the five alliance leaders were going to return directly to the provincial capital, but after experiencing a day trip to the "Underworld," they became obsessed and stayed there for several days in a row, not wanting to leave.

Wu Xian wasn't stupid; the Underworld must offer some kind of high-level benefit to the five big shots.

I'm just not quite sure what the specific benefits are.

"Are the senior colleagues still inside?" Wu Xian, who came early in the morning to inspect the progress of the network department's work, asked the members around him curiously.

"Well, a few of us went in out of curiosity to observe, but we couldn't understand what they were doing at all."

Wu Xian nodded thoughtfully, then said nothing more.

Back at their alma mater's high school, their two diligent and studious disciples were already in place, now earnestly studying the Yin Marshal's Scroll design that Wu Xian had authorized them to use in the club.

It's estimated that it won't be long before the two young bulls will be able to share his burdens. In addition, after Wu Xian negotiated with his master sister, he successfully lured Tang Beng, his good brother, to the Underworld Club.

Of course, the low-end Autobot Scrolls are still part of Tang's Vehicles business, while Tang Beng is mainly responsible for the high-end evolved versions of the Autobot Scrolls.

In recent days, online public opinion has intensified, with all sorts of rumors flying around.

Some people even suspect that the Underworld Club is about to run away.
The growing number of doubts and concerns online has put considerable pressure on the Underworld Club.

Fortunately, the gacha system is basically complete and has entered the testing phase.

Upon arriving at the Network Department, he reviewed and experienced the current card-drawing system under the guidance of Supervisor Du and his team. It was largely as he had anticipated, although some details still needed refinement.

"By the way, system security must be ensured; this is of utmost importance!" Wu Xian said solemnly.

"You can rest assured about that," Manager Du said confidently. "We guys have a certain standing in the industry. If you're still worried, I know a few top experts in cybersecurity. Do you want me to help you poach them?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Xian said, "Poach them! As long as they are talented, poach them all! Money is no object!"

"Okay, I'll try to poach them later."

Afterwards, Wu Xian examined the source code and underlying program of the card-drawing system, and under the incredulous gazes of everyone, he released the God of Wealth and used a large amount of wealth energy to optimize and modify the code.

In this way, the influence of future wealth can be better applied to the gacha system.

Manager Du and his colleagues stared at the code optimized by the God of Wealth's divine power, finding it astonishing and unbelievable, completely absorbed in it.

……

Emerging from the network department and passing through the outpost's teleportation channel, the space twisted, and the person found themselves outside the gates of hell.

They happened to run into Zhang Zihao and his group escorting a group of ghosts back, accompanied by a neatly organized army of ghost soldiers.

"How's the expansion of the ghost army going?" Wu Xian asked as he stepped forward.

"We've been waiting for your inspection." Zhang Zihao and the others joked as they led the way. "It's strange, but ever since we arrived at this outpost, my Ox-Headed Yin General seems to be getting stronger every day. Even my spiritual value has increased a bit."

“Spiritual growth?” Wu Xian was surprised and stunned.

After asking other members, it was discovered that everyone had experienced similar situations.

Upon closer examination, it was found that the Yin Marshal spirituality values ​​of several veteran members had increased to varying degrees, with Zhang Zihao's Ox-Head and Horse-Face showing the most significant increase.

"Could it be that outposts in the same series also improve the skill level of scrolls in the same series?"

I only recently learned about the concept of "training level" from Xue Zhengying, and I never expected to witness it firsthand so soon.

The so-called "training level" simply means the spiritual growth of the scroll.

As mentioned before, spirituality is like a performance benchmark score for a painting scroll; the higher the spirituality, the better the performance of the painting scroll.

However, unlike the five-dimensional score, the "spirituality value" is more like a numerical value generated by the interaction between the system and the hardware, and its existence is rather mysterious.

It's just like the benchmark scores of mobile phones and computers in the previous life.

Two identical phones with the same hardware and operating system may not produce the same benchmark scores, and even the same phone may produce scores that differ between two benchmark tests.

For scroll painters, spirituality is a reflection of their skill level.

For Spirit Master users, the Spirit Value is not fixed. As soul resonance occurs and the understanding and teamwork of the scroll accumulates, the Spirit Value of the scroll can be continuously optimized and improved.

However, this kind of improvement requires a lot of time to accumulate and practice.

(End of this chapter)