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

Chapter 451: Can food be the only solution?

There's nothing wrong with saying that a grandson looks like his grandfather when he was young.

But the problem is, isn't Wu Xian the old man's biological grandson?
His parents were adopted by the old man, who never married.

If it were just polite words from Grandma on their first meeting, that would be fine, but judging from the reminiscing look in her eyes, it didn't seem like she was just being polite.

Could it be that... he really is the old man's grandson?
But that doesn't make sense either. According to the information we have so far, my parents were clearly children that my grandfather adopted from the war years ago.
Could it be that our mother was adopted, and our father was actually the child secretly born to our grandfather and another grandmother?

Wow, the old man looks honest and unassuming, but he's quite the expert!
Perhaps sensing the strange look in Wu Xian's eyes, the old man said irritably, "Don't overthink it. I've lived an upright life, and I'm not as complicated as you think."

"Huh? Then why do I look so much like you when you were young?" Wu Xian asked, puzzled.

"..." The old man's forehead darkened and he said, "When a couple lives together for a long time, they start to look more and more alike."

Upon hearing this, the beautiful grandmother beside her covered her mouth and chuckled, her eyes filled with adoration and admiration as she looked at the old man.

Wu Xian was speechless.

If you put it that way, it doesn't seem to make any mistakes.

After all, I was raised by the old man, and in terms of behavior and temperament, I always have some of the old man's shadow when he was young.

It seems that I am overthinking it.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with the old man, the old man didn't bother him much, as Wu Xian had important business to attend to.

Currently, the defensive forces of Yaoyang City have been deployed and are just waiting for the dimensional calamity to arrive.

But compared to the dimensional calamity, what concerned him more was the infiltration of the evil realm and the will of the evil god behind it.

The association and the military have been searching for and investigating Mayor Chen Shih-lung's whereabouts and clues, but have found nothing.

On the contrary, in Yaoyang City, some strange phenomena of being invaded by the power of "flesh and blood" have begun to appear one after another.

In some parts of the city, patches of fleshy tissue began to appear on the ground and on houses, and these patches continued to spread and worsen.

This morning, a small pond in the southern part of the city turned into blood overnight, filling the air with a strong smell of blood.

Fortunately, ordinary citizens had already been evacuated, otherwise it would have terrified many people.

As for tap water, the world of the scroll doesn't use groundwater, so there won't be any issues.

In short, as time went on, the situation in Yaoyang City became increasingly bizarre.

"Brother Wu, something terrible has happened!" Ma Tengyun rushed over. "There's a new situation at the construction site!"

Upon seeing Ma Tengyun, Wu Xian was somewhat bewildered. "Didn't Brother Ma leave?"

After all, he was the young master of the Wanrong Chamber of Commerce and its future successor. Upon hearing about the situation, the Chamber of Commerce immediately arranged for Ma Tengyun to evacuate.

Wu Xian and the people of Yaoyang City expressed their understanding of this.

“Deserting in the face of battle is not the style of a man,” Ma Tengyun said righteously. “Besides, Brother Wu still has a lot of gold scrolls to hand over to me. If he were to die, wouldn’t I be at a huge loss?”

Faced with Ma Tengyun's teasing and jokes, Wu Xian couldn't help but start to re-evaluate the young master of the Wanrong Chamber of Commerce.

It's easy to see from this incident that Ma Tengyun is someone worth getting to know better.

“I’ve gathered some people from the Chamber of Commerce, and they’re on their way,” Ma Tengyun said. “By the way, let’s go to the construction site with me first to check on the situation.”

Without further ado, Wu Xian followed Ma Tengyun to the construction site.

In the past two days, the flesh and blood tissue at the construction site has been growing and spreading like a tumor.

The entire construction site was shrouded in a faint smell of blood.

"Monsters have started to emerge?" Wu Xian's eyes flickered, his interest piqued. "What kind of monsters?"

After all, it hasn't been confirmed which abyssal otherworld is about to be invaded.

The monsters born from the power of the evil god will always have some characteristics corresponding to the abyss and otherworld.

"It's like a monster, or a demon, it's just very strange," Ma Tengyun described.

"A demonic monster?" Wu Xian muttered to himself.

Moments later, they arrived at the construction site where the incident had been sealed off.

Some military and association personnel were also on site, and were easily fending off the strange monsters that were growing out of the "giant tumor".

Puff puff……

One by one, ferocious and ugly monsters, like "squeezing blackheads," struggled out of the giant tumor, their bodies as red as blood, like demons from hell.

Its strength is average, probably only at the level of a level 10 or 15 monster.

However, under the influence of that evil power, these flesh-and-blood monsters are as resilient as cockroaches, making them very difficult to kill completely.

boom! boom! boom!
The tattooed men led by Tattoo Guy and Zhang Mazi were grinding those people to the ground, but no matter how much they fought, they could only turn them into a pile of minced meat.

The fleshy pulp, like a slime of flesh and blood, slowly wriggled back into the "giant tumor" and began to gestate anew.

"What the hell? It's completely unbreakable!"

The tattooed warriors grumbled and complained.

In contrast, some of the beast-themed scrolls and ghostly monster scrolls on site were quite effective.

This strange flesh and blood power, though indestructible, can be directly devoured by some beast-type scrolls and ghostly beasts.

Zhou Qi had obviously noticed this as well, and was currently testing a group of Netherworld Beast Scrolls.

"It seems to be slightly better than devouring normal monsters," Zhou Qi said with a furrowed brow, "but it's more difficult to digest."

"Digest?" Wu Xian asked, puzzled.

"To put it simply, it's the refining ability of the painting spirit itself," Zhou Qi explained. "Theoretically, the Netherworld Beasts can digest all substances, and their digestion efficiency is very high."

But these strange flesh and blood tissues made the Netherworld Centipede feel a bit like it had indigestion.

Fortunately, this flesh and blood wasn't harmful; in fact, it was quite nutritious.

Upon hearing this, Wu Xian's expression turned strange.

Currently, it seems that the only solution for this thing is to "eat" it; other methods are not very effective.

The Bifang Divine Fire could indeed burn it clean, but the "meat density" of this evil flesh was too high, making it too resistant to burning. The Bifang Divine Fire wasn't as effective as one might imagine.

Moreover, the incineration process also generates a large amount of distorted pollution.

Most importantly, this thing is infinitely proliferating and assimilating, and there will only be more and more of it in the future.

"The characteristics and power of this evil god... are they meant to stuff people to death?" Wu Xian joked in a strange tone.

"It does seem to have some merit," Zhou Qi nodded, speechless.

So far, this evil power has not caused any particularly outrageous or severe harm, except for assimilating various substances into bizarre flesh and blood.

The only problem is that it's not easy to deal with these strange flesh and blood.

Moreover, as the bizarre flesh and blood proliferated and spread, the power of "assimilation" also grew stronger. "Bi~Fang—!"

Wu Xian tried to release Bi Fang, which flew forward, picked up a lump of "flesh and blood" slime, and swallowed and refined it.

I must say, their nutritional intake is indeed much richer than that of normal monsters.

It's just not very easy to digest.

It is worth mentioning that after Bifang refined this piece of flesh and blood, his bloodline power seemed to have been slightly enhanced as well.

"It can also enhance bloodline power?" Wu Xian asked in surprise.

"Huh?" Zhou Qi was stunned. "Really? The bloodline power of the Netherworld Beast doesn't seem to have any effect. It seems to only work on the bloodlines of flesh and blood creatures."

While Wu Xian was deep in thought, he silently dialed the number of his second brother, Xue Zhengying, and said, "Well, how about we ask my sister-in-law to send a large army of Zerg over? The more the better."

"Hmm? Is there some special situation?" Xue Zhengying asked seriously.

"Well," Wu Xian explained with a strange expression, "it seems that this strange flesh and blood power can only be resolved by eating, and the more you eat, the better."

Of course, the Zerg may not have a large appetite; they mainly rely on their numerical advantage.

It's like a locust swarm passing through.

When it comes to food, you have to be a gourmet.

However, he doesn't have any suitable raw materials at the moment, so he has to find a way to search for them.

Moreover, given the scale of the influence of this evil god's power, even low-level gluttons might not be enough; at least a Golden Scroll glutton would be needed to deal with it.

"Brother Ma, could you help me collect some special materials from your chamber of commerce?" Wu Xian turned to look at Ma Tengyun.

“Of course,” Ma Tengyun replied without hesitation. “What, Brother Wu, do you have a solution?”

“I have some ideas, but whether they are sufficient remains to be verified,” Wu Xian pondered. “Moreover, this scroll is not easy to make at the moment.”

Moreover, given the characteristics of a gourmand, simply having the materials and the concept of the scroll may not be enough to fully highlight his powerful characteristics.

While pondering, the God of Wealth in his mind suggested, "Perhaps we can start from the level of bloodline."

Wu Xian's eyes brightened slightly, and he immediately made a video call to Xu Qingshan, getting straight to the point: "Brother Xu, let me ask you something. Does your Divine Beast Dojo's bloodline database contain bloodline powers with the characteristics of greed, gluttony, and devouring?"

"What does Brother Wu want with this bloodline?" Xu Qingshan asked, puzzled.

"Just tell me if you have it or not?"

“I do recall a few similar bloodlines,” Xu Qingshan pondered, “but generally no one cultivates or applies them in depth, except for the Devouring bloodline, which is still somewhat popular.”

However, judging from some current cases of integration and implantation, the results are not ideal.

"Do you have it?" Wu Xian's eyes brightened slightly. "Could you send it to me? If possible, it would be best to send me all the bloodline structure data of this type."

"Sure, but you have to tell me what you're planning to do, right?" Xu Qingshan asked with a smile.

Wu Xian didn't waste any words and simply explained the current crisis facing Yaoyang City, as well as the peculiarities of these strange flesh and blood organizations.

"What? Dimensional invasions are still happening these days?" Xu Qingshan was both surprised and suspicious, but also very interested. "That's quite a rare experience. Wait, what did you just say?"
"Does the strange flesh and blood generated by the evil god's power have a certain nourishing effect on bloodlines?"

“That’s right, it’s just not very easy to digest,” Wu Xian confirmed.

In the video, Xu Qingshan's eyes gleamed. "Please wait patiently, Brother Wu. I'll go and join in the fun. If it really has such a miraculous effect, my grandfather and some elders at the dojo should also be very interested."

After saying that, she hurriedly ended the call and went to explain the situation to her grandfather.

"What? There is such an excellent evil god?" The old headmaster has recently been obsessed with the Bifang bloodline and couldn't extricate himself. Last night, he simply constructed and drew a scroll of a fire-attribute bird.

Unfortunately, in the end, it only integrated less than one percent of the Bifang bloodline's bloodline structure.

Even so, the fire attribute ability of this bird scroll has surpassed that of many other fire attribute scrolls of the same level.

“Judging from Brother Wu’s expression and reaction, he doesn’t seem to be joking,” Xu Qingshan analyzed. “He even asked me for some bloodline data on greed, gluttony, and devouring characteristics, which should also be to deal with this kind of evil flesh.”

The old headmaster's eyes lit up. "Let's go! We'll go there ourselves. We happen to have some questions about the Bifang bloodline that we want to ask that kid. We'll also take him on as an apprentice while we're at it."

"Uh, shouldn't we inform the dojo leaders?" Xu Qingshan asked, bewildered.

"It's better to confirm the situation before notifying them, so as not to disappoint them."

……

Wu Xian also began to collect materials related to the [Taotie] through various channels.

While Wu Xian was busy with research and preparation, the situation in Yaoyang City began to deteriorate rapidly.

buzzing...

The entire city of Yaoyang was like a machine that was about to break down, with humming sounds emanating from the spatial and celestial forces from time to time, causing inexplicable unease.

The evil realm from the depths of the earth has also completely infiltrated.

The air was thick with the stench of blood, and the sky was shrouded in a crimson mist.

The streets and ground in the city are no longer ground, but soft, strangely textured flesh and blood.

Inside a small villa in the North Street area.

Wu Xian was studying and discussing the corresponding laws and powers in the design of the [Taotie] scroll with Third Master Xue. Although Third Master Xue was not yet able to artificially synthesize the [Divine Power Core], it was still easy to synthesize some related divine power factors.

In particular, the bloodline structure that Wu Xian had compiled also provided some inspiration for Master Xue.

As the two were discussing, a series of muffled thunderous sounds erupted, causing the heavens and earth to tremble violently.

It seemed to come from the depths of the earth, or perhaps from the sky.

"?!"

Wu Xian and Master Xue exchanged a glance and rushed out of the house together.

As soon as my hand touched the doorknob, I found that it had been 50% stained with blood and flesh, and was soft and mushy.

Left with no other choice, Hao used violence to kick the door open.

boom!
The moment they kicked open the door, the extraordinary scene of the world unfolded before their eyes.

Above the dark sky, the already scarred spatial distortion began to twist wildly, as if a brand new dimensional vortex was forming.

The three dimensional gates trembled violently, clearly becoming unstable due to the pressure from the fourth dimensional force.

The situation in Yaoyang City is alright, as it is protected by the power of the Heaven and Earth Scroll.

The most dramatic changes occurred in the dimensional control zone outside Yaoyang City. Similar to how the Domain Scroll was shaped by the power of heaven and earth in another world, large areas began to undergo literal upheavals.

A brand new and powerful dimensional force squeezed in from the gap between the three other dimensions.

However, Yaoyang City has not yet established a dimensional seal for this dimensional force, so this dimensional force can directly flow into the interior of Yaoyang City.

(End of this chapter)