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

Chapter 147 The Four Little Gods of Wealth
Faced with Zhao Qinghe's question, Bai Shiqi felt complicated, and also a little embarrassed.

After all, he was full of confidence before he came, thinking that he could easily restore the dojo's reputation, and even asked Zhao Qinghe about Xue Lingling's information.

But now, instead of regaining its reputation, the dojo has been driven to the brink of collapse by Wu Xian, this grassroots scroll painter, and is questioning its very existence.

Regarding the club's scroll painting.

Although his ideas for several lower-level scrolls have been recognized by the people of Yaoyang City, they cannot compare with the sales of Ghost King Club.

There was no way around it; the prices of Wu Xian's scrolls were simply outrageous.

Even though the price has recently increased, it's still much lower than his.

In his view, Wu Xian must have some unconventional methods to significantly reduce the cost of the scroll.

These scraps and bits in front of him gave him a vague clue.

Perhaps Wu Xian used these scraps to reduce the cost of the scroll?
The problem is that the more impurities there are, the lower the success rate of drawing. How did Wu Xian solve this problem?
"It's alright, it's just that some things didn't go as I expected," Shiraishi Qi replied, trying to sound relaxed.

"Really?" Zhao Qinghe asked in surprise. "I heard that a few days ago, the Mechanical God Realm personally descended and took away an extraordinary little girl from Yaoyang City, which has caused quite a stir."

“I was there at the time,” Bai Shiqi nodded. “That little girl named Tang Tiaotiao is indeed not simple.”

"Tch~ It's just a mechanical scroll, how powerful can it be?" Zhao Qinghe scoffed. "But those guys at the Mechanical Dojo seem pretty confident lately."

"Isn't there going to be an invitational tournament? We'll see what happens then."

Zhao Qinghe chuckled and steered the conversation back on track, "Where do you live? Send me your location."

Bai Shiqi casually sent the location and continued studying the scraps in his hand.

Soon after, Zhao Qinghe's voice arrived before he did.

That sharp, slightly devastating voice was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"Brother Bai? Brother Bai—!" Zhao Qinghe appeared at the door, covering his mouth and nose. After confirming that Bai Shiqi really lived here, he was completely dumbfounded. "You...you...how come you live in a place like this?"

"Please make yourself at home, as space is limited," Bai Shiqi said calmly.

"No...you..." Zhao Qinghe looked at the dirty, worn-out sofa and couldn't bear to sit down. "Has your Bai family gone bankrupt? Such a big thing, and I haven't heard a word about it?"

"..." Bai Shiqi said irritably, "What are you thinking? My Bai family is doing just fine."

"Then what...?"

“It’s a long story,” Bai Shiqi sighed sadly. “I encountered some difficulties on this mission, and it wasn’t as smooth as I had imagined.”

Upon hearing this, Zhao Qinghe was stunned and looked serious. "What do you mean? Didn't you win over my junior sister? Well, that makes sense, since it's a league-level competition, it's purely about the quality of the scrolls."

Although Xue Lingling was certainly no match for these scions of aristocratic families.

However, the competition between the club's scrolls has little to do with the scroll artist's own ability.

"It's alright~ Brother Bai, there's no need to be too upset," Zhao Qinghe said with a smile, "My junior sister comes from the family of the first founder of my Necromancer's Guild, so her scroll is of some quality. It's normal that Brother Bai can't get it right away."

"The founding family of the first generation?" Shiraishi Qi was shocked.

Previously, I had been so focused on Wu Xian that I had overlooked Xue Lingling.

Looking back now, Xue Lingling's Ghost King Scroll seems to have been quite excellent, but it was overshadowed by the Ten Great Yin Marshals.

Unexpectedly, the Xue family was the founding family of the Necromancer's Guild.

“It’s just a founding family that was eliminated back then,” Zhao Qinghe mocked. “It’s a miracle that it has survived until now. But that girl has indeed shown some signs of leading the family to rise again.”

"Could it be..." Bai Shiqi's expression shifted between light and dark, "Why didn't Brother Qinghe tell you this earlier, given how important it is!"

He now strongly suspects that Wu Xian's idea for drawing the scroll came from the founder's mindset passed down from the Xue family.

No wonder Wu Xian's scrolls are of such high quality; it turns out he also has a powerful backer.

In this way, many things can be explained.

Wait, how do you explain that dazzling Pleiades star that blinded him a few days ago? That Pleiades star clearly doesn't follow the necromancy logic.

"Uh, what's wrong?" Zhao Qinghe was completely bewildered by Bai Shiqi's intense reaction.

"In the Xue family's framework of inheritance, are there other types of scroll painting ideas?" Bai Shiqi asked solemnly.

"How would I know?" Zhao Qinghe's expression was strange, and he was confused. "However, since it is the founding family of my Necromancer's Guild, it must be mainly based on the necromancy system, but we cannot rule out the possibility that there are other ideas."

Why are you suddenly asking about these things, Brother Bai?

Bai Shiqi's eyes flickered uncertainly. "You might not believe it, but Xue Lingling is actually quite easy to deal with. The problem right now is that a huge unexpected variable has occurred."

"Variables? What variables?" Zhao Qinghe frowned. "Other dojos have gotten involved too? That shouldn't be the case. Could it be that the other dojos of my Necromancer Dojo have secretly gotten involved?"

“Neither,” Bai Shiqi shook his head. “He is a local scroll painter from Yaoyang City, known as a grassroots genius scroll painter, and has now been taken as a disciple by Xue Lingling.”

Zhao Qinghe, who had just been frowning, suddenly had a strange and distorted expression.

"Local? Grassroots? Genius?"

Bai Shiqi remained noncommittal.

"Brother Bai, please don't joke~" Zhao Qinghe looked speechless.

Seeing Bai Shiqi's serious expression, Zhao Qinghe gradually became serious as well, and said with a strange look, "Don't tell me you got humiliated by that so-called grassroots genius?"

What a joke! The proud son of the Peak Dojo was actually humiliated by a grassroots scroll painter from a small place?

Who the hell would believe that if I told them?
“It’s not that bad,” Shiraishi said awkwardly, “it’s just that we can’t compete with them in terms of sales and public recognition.”

Judging from the result of that battle, it wasn't exactly a crushing defeat, just that the gap was quite large.

But the series of shocks and confusions that Wu Xian brought him afterward were even more unbearable than being directly tortured.

"Really?" Zhao Qinghe was incredulous. "A scroll from the prestigious Bai clan, and it's just a piece of cake in this wretched place?"

"The problem is, it's really impossible to achieve a dimensional reduction attack."

Without further ado, Bai Shiqi immediately pulled out several scrolls of Yin Shuai that he had bought at a high price and showed them to Zhao Qinghe.

……

Ghost King Club.

Wu Xian placed the four newly created Little Gods of Wealth into the instrument for testing one by one. Although they were all just copper scrolls, he was satisfied with their five-dimensional scores. The key point was the enhancement of the bond between the four Little Gods of Wealth and his natal God of Wealth.

As the original creator, he possesses the Five Gods of Wealth divine image, so as long as the God of Wealth is included in the divine image, the synergy enhancement can be directly triggered, without even needing the other four minor Gods of Wealth to appear at the same time.

This is one of the reasons why scroll painters and spirit tamers are not on the same level.

Ding!
Soon after, the God of Wealth's stats, boosted by the Bond buff, appeared on the screen.

【Zhao Gongming, the True Lord of the Mysterious Altar】

Color: 147 (Number of bonuses +30)

Details: 151 (Natural Buff +30)

Shen Yun: 170 (Born with a bonus of +30)

Art style: 159 (Specialist bonus +30)

Overall: 168 (Natural Blessing +30)

Compared to the data from the last test, the God of Wealth's five-dimensional scores have all improved by about ten points.

Don't underestimate this 10-point five-dimensional improvement; after all, a life mark only provides a 10-point five-dimensional improvement.

(End of this chapter)