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

Chapter 378 A Battle of Wits?

"Imagine that all new scrolls in the future will start with a five-star combat power."

Upon hearing Ma Tengyun's description, the scions of prominent families fell into deep thought, their eyes gradually brightening.

"You know what, it seems like there's actually something there!"

"Low-tier scrolls are fine, but the key is high-tier scrolls. The initial five-star scrolls are still very valuable."

"After saying so much, we haven't even talked about the price of this Spirit Nourishing Pill. If it's too expensive, it won't be very meaningful."

Ma Tengyun smiled slightly, "This is another advantage of the Spirit Feeding Pill: it's high quality and inexpensive. Based on current testing, the cost of upgrading a two-star scroll to a five-star scroll is around 70,000."

"Seventy thousand? That's certainly possible."

The young men from prominent families present were all intrigued and full of enthusiasm.

"Brother Ma, you really are something else. Why didn't you bring out this good stuff sooner? You should place an order for me worth over a billion yuan first."

Ma Tengyun waved his hand and smiled, "I'm sorry, the production of this pill is currently limited, and it will be some time before mass production. The main reason for releasing it today is to let everyone have a taste."

"Let me know when mass production starts; our demand is huge."

Can I make a reservation in advance?

"This elixir seems to have a promising future."

As Ma Tengyun responded with a light laugh, he began to show the second bottle of pills. "The next medicine is more important. It is called the Spirit Gathering Pill. As the name suggests, it can gather the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and greatly improve cultivation efficiency."

The key point is that the medicinal effects do not conflict with the assistance of various spiritual objects; in fact, they can even have a mutually beneficial effect.

The better the effect of the spiritual item, the greater the efficiency boost from the Spirit Gathering Pill.

This caused quite a stir among the scions of prominent families present.

After all, spiritual power cultivation has always been a long-standing and difficult problem.

Even though they have been aided by various spiritual objects since childhood and have received constant spiritual energy amplification liquid, they are only at the sixth or seventh level of spiritual power cultivation.

Therefore, these aristocratic scions pay close attention to any drugs on the market that can improve cultivation efficiency.

"How about improving efficiency?"

Ma Tengyun said unhurriedly, "Taking one Spirit Gathering Pill is equivalent to nearly a day's worth of regular cultivation improvement, and absorbing one Spirit Gathering Pill only takes a little over two hours."

Furthermore, with the assistance of spiritual objects, the absorption time of the medicine can be further shortened to about an hour.

These words caused an instant uproar in the audience.

All the scions of prominent families became breathless, including Bai Shiqi and Zhao Qinghe.

Even the goddess Xu Cunxin was deeply moved, but after seeing Wu Xian and Xue Lingling's calm reactions, she vaguely understood something.

"Is this true?"

"One pill is equivalent to a day's worth of regular cultivation progress?"

"So, you've compressed a normal day's training into two hours?"

"Good heavens, that's equivalent to twelve times the cultivation efficiency! That's incredible!"

"More than twelve times, didn't Brother Gangma say that spiritual items can further improve efficiency?"

"Make an offer! Make an offer! Quickly, money is no object!"

"So the question is, how many pills can you take a day? What are the side effects?"

Ma Tengyun patiently explained: "Such miraculous medicinal effects naturally come with some side effects, namely, the absorption of the medicinal effects will place a great burden on the body and meridians."

Theoretically speaking, as long as one can endure this kind of torment, eating without stopping for a whole day is not a problem.

"That's it?" Everyone looked at him strangely. "Aren't there any other side effects?"

"No, it's just this one side effect."

Upon hearing this, the entire audience gasped in shock.

"Doesn't that mean there are no side effects?"

At least in their view, compared to the dangerous new drugs on the market, this side effect is nothing, at most a threshold for use. "Don't be too happy yet. From my personal experience, this side effect is not without its problems." Ma Tengyun said seriously, "With my current physical condition as a fourth-stage body cultivator, I can only take four pills in a row before I can't take it anymore."

Therefore, people with poor physical health may not even be able to enjoy one.

After hearing what Ma Tengyun said, the young men from the aristocratic families finally calmed down.

Even so, it was impossible to resist the temptation of such high cultivation efficiency.

As for the price, they didn't care.

With such an incredible improvement, it's reasonable for it to be a bit pricey.

"So, if you want to take this kind of medicine, you have to go through physical training and cultivation?" Several young masters from aristocratic families grinned.

Although the children of these aristocratic families generally receive some physical training from a young age to strengthen their physique.

But very few people actually delve into physical training.

One word: bitter!

Moreover, as a noble scroll painter, one simply doesn't have that much time and energy on a regular basis.

Most importantly, in their minds, physical training was something that only military personnel without access to resources practiced.

With such a powerful aid as the Extraordinary Scroll, few people would pay attention to physical training.

"I've reminded you all more than once to pay more attention to physical training in your daily lives; it will only bring benefits and no harm, but you just wouldn't listen," Ma Tengyun sighed with emotion. "Now you regret it, don't you?"

While everyone was enthusiastically discussing the Spirit Gathering Pill, Wu Xian and Xue Lingling had already lost interest.

As for the copy simulation device, he showed even less interest.

If it were some interesting reward, that would be fine, but it just happens to be the Spirit Feeding Pill and Spirit Gathering Pill that they have no shortage of.

After saying goodbye to Ma Tengyun, Wu Xian prepared to leave with Xue Lingling.

Instead of wasting time like this, I'd rather go back and spend some time with you.

However, before the two could even leave the banquet hall, they heard a strange, sarcastic voice coming from behind them.

"Are Brother Wu and Junior Sister Xue leaving already? Aren't you going to stay and play in the simulator together?" Senior Sister Qin was filled with resentment, and jealousy had already made her lose her mind.

"No fun," Wu Xian replied, raising an eyebrow.

"Brother Ma, how can you say this simulated instance, which you prepared with so much effort, is uninteresting?" Zhao Jun exchanged glances with Zhao Qinghe, then slowly stood up. "Are you worried about revealing your true form?"

"What do you mean by that, senior?" Xue Lingling's face darkened.

Zhao Jun smiled slightly, "It's nothing, I just think that Her Highness's friend must be someone important, and everyone probably wants to see what you're capable of, right?"

"Haha, that's more like it!"

Wu Xian smiled with great interest and silently gestured for Xue Lingling to take a few steps back.

Here it comes, the brainless villain has finally arrived.

After all, he came here to fight and show off, but unfortunately, his eldest disciple Xu Cunxin was too arrogant, and he was silenced by those aristocratic scions as soon as he appeared.

Seeing that things were not going well, Ma Tengyun and Xu Cunxin were about to step in to stop it, but Wu Xian stopped them with a look.

"Forget about the dungeon simulator, let's just have a little competition between the two of us," Wu Xian grinned.

"Want to spar with me?" Zhao Jun was clearly prepared, and asked with a squinting smile, "A martial arts duel isn't quite appropriate right now, how about a literary contest instead?"

"A battle of wits?" Wu Xian asked, puzzled.

"Isn't this senior a bit shameless?" Xue Lingling's face was ugly. "He's over thirty years old, and he's arguing with a newcomer. Isn't he afraid of losing face if word gets out?"

Wu Xian raised his hand to signal Xue Lingling to calm down, and then secretly inquired with his divine sense before understanding the method of "literary battle".

To put it simply, it's a special form of confrontation between divine diagrams, essentially a contest of soul, spiritual power, and level of understanding of laws.

The focus is on battles between pure divine image imprints, without relying on scrolls as a medium.

Therefore, even if it hasn't been made yet, any spirit created from the divine diagram can participate in the battle.

(End of this chapter)