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

Chapter 422 Characteristics of the First Generation Domain

"Does the mayor have a solution?" Wu Xian's eyes lit up slightly.

“We can try, but it might not work,” Chen Shilong pondered. “After all, those evil god scroll painters have already noticed something. After it’s done, we’ll notify all parties. If they don’t fall for it, we’ll think of other ways.”

"Okay, thank you for your trouble, Mayor."

"Of course," Chen Shilong waved his hand and chuckled, "But speaking of which, Master Wu, are you sure you don't want to consider succeeding me as mayor?"

Looking at Yaoyang City, Wu Xian is undoubtedly the most suitable person to succeed as mayor.

If all else fails, we can hand over the mayoral position to that girl Xue Lingling.

"No way~ Being a local official is too stressful," Wu Xian jokingly refused. "You're only in your forties, you should at least work until you're sixty, right? If you feel your body can't handle it, I have all sorts of magic pills here, I guarantee you'll be full of energy again."

Being a local official is no easy job; the more you try to do it seriously, the harder it becomes.

“That’s true, but we still have to make way for the younger generation.” Chen Shilong said helplessly. “Are you sure you don’t want to consider it? We’re not going to let Master Wu take over right now, let’s settle things first.”

Wu Xian politely declined.

He really can't do this.

Chen Shilong didn't press the matter further. After exchanging a few pleasantries, he hurriedly left.

In the following days, he handed over the hastily made rubbing of Huaguo Mountain to Chen Shilong, asking him to help place it in several surrounding cities.

Now all that's left is to wait for those rubbings to slowly collect the energy from the otherworld.

Although the collection efficiency is not as good as that of a real otherworldly outpost, the quantity is large enough.

In addition, the overall level of Yaoyang City and surrounding cities is constantly improving, and the efforts to conquer the dimensional control zone are also increasing, which in turn improves the collection efficiency of the Tuoben Outpost.

In addition, temporary outposts of Huaguo Mountain were specially set up at several interdimensional teleportation points of the club.

In the future, when club members and citizens of Yaoyang City travel to the Endless Sea, the Elf Realm, and the Green Abyss, they can also accumulate a lot of otherworldly energy for [Huaguo Mountain].

As long as we accumulate enough otherworldly energy to unlock the first wave of Tier 3 dungeons, we can immediately upgrade and advance Flower Fruit Mountain.

Having the whole script in hand makes you so carefree.

“Strange,” Wu Xian couldn’t help but wonder. “Logically speaking, the first generation of scroll painters in Dead Mountain Town should have had the complete script. Why didn’t they just upgrade Dead Mountain Town to its maximum level? Why leave it for future generations to solve?”

It can't just be a purely morbid sense of humor, can it?
Or perhaps, when they created those first-generation domain scrolls, their time was already up?

Even so, how could the entire script be recorded and passed down?
Wu Xian was completely baffled, so he went to ask his father and sister for help.

During this time, my master sister has been burying herself in studying the "Ghost Emperor" series, preparing to condense the Ghost Emperor Divine Diagram in one go.

Faced with Wu Xian's doubts, Xue Lingling chuckled and explained, "If everything goes according to your script, there will naturally be no difficulty. But the problem is that the first generation of the Domain Scroll may not go according to your script."

"Huh?" Wu Xian exclaimed in surprise.

"When you were drawing up the concept, your plot was just a general outline, right?" Xue Lingling asked with a smile.

"Yes."

"Because the plot was not designed to be perfectly seamless, various deviations are bound to occur, and it may even lead to a completely different path."

"But if the plot is designed to be perfectly seamless, then it becomes a normal world scroll painting," Xue Lingling said.

Wu Xian didn't understand, "Why is that?"

"This involves the core principles of the Domain Scroll," Xue Lingling explained in detail. "All the scrolls today are essentially based on other-dimensional power, so they will inevitably be affected by other-worldly power."

Especially the first-generation domain scrolls that directly ascended through otherworldly energy.

"You mean, different otherworldly abilities will have different effects on Flower Fruit Mountain, leading to various unpredictable directions and developments?" Wu Xian was stunned. "That's right, that's the idea." Xue Lingling said, "Unless you can adjust the ratio of different otherworldly energies to perfectly match the plot of Flower Fruit Mountain when collecting them."

But that's clearly unrealistic.

Hearing this, Wu Xian finally understood.

To put it simply, otherworldly energy is like the "pigments" of the domain scroll. Different pigment components will have a corresponding impact on the development and improvement of the domain scroll.

The first-generation Domain Scroll is a special domain type that is entirely based on this characteristic.

"If that's the case, wouldn't the current domain scroll be better?" Wu Xian wondered.

“Each has its advantages and disadvantages,” Xue Lingling said calmly. “Theoretically speaking, the first generation of the Domain Scroll has a higher upper limit and better compatibility for future development.”

Most importantly, the original Realm Scroll is more in line with the current scroll world, rather than the world you imagine in the background.

So, can you understand?"

Wu Xian was slightly taken aback, then suddenly realized.

Simply put, the design concept of the first-generation Realm Scroll had a longer-term vision, directly considering the possibility of harmonious coexistence or even integration between the human world and other dimensions in the future.

The fact that all the major guilds use the first-generation domain scroll as their "general outline" is probably based on this point.

The current mainstream design concept for scroll paintings is still based on the idea of ​​independent development by various parties.

We will focus on developing the type of otherworldly energy relevant to the specific field we are in.

"So, in theory, Flower Fruit Mountain can absorb all the extradimensional energy from other dimensions?" Wu Xian asked with a strange expression.

“That’s right,” Xue Lingling nodded, “but the more mixed the otherworldly energy absorbed, the more chaotic and unpredictable the subsequent development will be. It all depends on your own judgment.”

Take the Dead Mountain Town in the Necropolis Gym as an example. Overall, it focuses on absorbing the strange abyss and some abyssal and death-related otherworldly energy.

It also absorbs some otherworldly energy, but primarily in a supporting role.

Wu Xian nodded knowingly, "It seems necessary to set up a number of temporary Flower and Fruit Mountain outposts around the Underworld outposts."

"Huh?" Xue Lingling asked, puzzled. "Would that be appropriate?"

After all, in her opinion, Huaguo Mountain had absolutely no necromancy or death theme.

"Don't worry~ there'll always be a use for you." Wu Xian smiled mysteriously.

When Monkey King goes to the underworld later, he will definitely need the otherworldly energy from the strange abyss.

It's just unclear how it will be presented in the future.

However, on the other hand, wouldn't absorbing too much energy from the Ghost Realm increase the difficulty for Monkey King to go to the Underworld later?
Thinking about it this way, we still need to control the number of temporary outposts in the Ghost Realm a bit.

On the other hand, as the difficulty of descending into the underworld increases, the output will naturally be better, which will also benefit the development of the underworld series.

As for how to weigh the pros and cons, that's entirely up to Wu Xian himself.

Of course, Monkey King hasn't even gone to find a master yet.

Even after completing their apprenticeship, they still need to go down to the Dragon Palace to obtain the complete set of equipment before returning to the Underworld to officially begin the "Havoc in Heaven" storyline. At that time, they can recruit some heavenly soldiers and generals to assemble a force of 100,000 heavenly soldiers.

But this is on the premise that everything follows the original plot.

It is currently unclear what specific plot deviations might occur, and what subtle impacts they might have on the subsequent storyline.

(End of this chapter)