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

Chapter 225 Earth God Temples and Incense Burning
Inside the miniature model of the Earth God temple, the Earth God's face is kind and remarkably lifelike.

He looks exactly like an adorable little old man.

"Little guy, what have you come up with?" Third Master Xue asked in surprise. "I've lived most of my life, and today I've finally seen something amazing."

"Who says a scroll has to look like a scroll?" Wu Xian asked jokingly.

Since the appearance of Tattoo Guy's human body scroll and Tang Beng's iron lump scroll, Wu Xian realized that the form of the [Extraordinary Scroll] is not absolute or fixed.

The focus is on the conception of the scroll and the artists' depiction of it using various spiritual powers.

"Hiss~ It doesn't even have a level," Third Master Xue clicked his tongue in amazement. "Is it of any special use?"

"Farming."

Third Master Xue was stunned: "Farming?"

Ignoring the bewildered Third Master Xue, he rode his flying sword to the shantytown and found a suitable open space nearby.

The barren land had long been corrupted by the invasion from another world a thousand years ago, leaving it devoid of life. Coupled with the distortion and pollution over the past millennium, nothing could grow there anymore.

There are some landscape plants and trees along the streets of the city, but those are all things created by the grassroots scroll painters.

It has little practical value, but it's quite nice for decorating the city.

It is said that some landscape plants in large cities can reduce urban noise and purify the air.

"Lord Earth God, I hope you won't let us down!" Wu Xian took a deep breath: "Whether the people of Yaoyang City can overcome this crisis depends on you."

It's not just the current crisis.

As long as the local deity can take effect, it will become their trump card in resisting and dealing with the upper world.

When the time is right, promoting the [Land Temple] will be a direct and radical move to undermine the ruling framework at the top.

Once the problem of survival is solved, who would willingly be oppressed by the upper class?

Of course, this excludes those trashy people who are born with a crooked backside and dream of becoming the elite by serving as their lackeys.

Take a deep breath and solemnly activate the "scroll" of the land temple in your hand.

boom!
The miniature earth god temple model quickly enlarged, transforming into an earth god temple more than three meters tall, and landed with a thud on the open space.

In an instant, the surrounding spiritual energy began to naturally converge towards the Earth God Temple.

The mysterious power of the laws within the Earth God Temple began to take root in the earth, perfectly blending with the laws of heaven and earth in the human world today, or rather, it was a kind of supplement to the broken laws of the world in the past.

The surrounding land began to be purified at a visible rate, clearly distinguishing itself from the polluted land.

A short, kind-faced old man with white hair and a white beard appeared above the earth god temple, holding a wooden staff. He first bowed deeply to Wu Xian from afar, and then began to use his divine power to transform and purify the surrounding land.

"Wow, it actually has some consciousness!"

Wu Xian was startled by the Earth God's bow from afar, but after careful investigation, he discovered that the Earth God only possessed some "instincts" and "functions".

Even so, it was enough to shock Wu Xian.

Unbeknownst to them, the Earth God had already purified a large area around the temple and returned to his seat, transforming into a statue.

"Can it only purify this small area?" Wu Xian frowned. "Impossible, there's definitely room for improvement!"

His gaze fell upon the incense burner in the earth god temple.

He then took out some incense and candles from his Qiankun bag and offered them to the gods.

These incense sticks and candles were originally small props used by Wu Xian to worship the God of Wealth, but now they have some other uses.

As it turned out, his approach was correct.

The moment incense was offered, the aura of the Earth God temple and the Earth God noticeably increased.

Most importantly, the tiny point of light on the outer edge of the sea of ​​consciousness also seemed to have generated a mysterious power, which was stored in the void of the sea of ​​consciousness.

"Is this the legendary power of incense and faith?"

In contrast, the "insightful energy" provided by the users of the scroll painting is more like a shared power of understanding the principles.

Wu Xian squinted at the scarred sky, lost in thought. If nothing unexpected happened, the upper echelons must also be gathering this power through some means.

He immediately called Cui Wenxuan and Chen Shilong.

Soon after, Cui Wenxuan, Chen Shilong, and some scroll painters from the association arrived at the scene.

The moment they saw the land surrounding the Earth God Temple, everyone's faces lit up with barely suppressed excitement.

"Hahaha, I knew you could do it!" Cui Wenxuan laughed heartily. "What are you waiting for? Give it a try!"

Chen Shilong could not hide his excitement, "The aura emanating from this land is absolutely enough to grow crops."

It turns out that this land can indeed grow food, but the soil is not very fertile at present.

The scroll painters from the association really broadened Wu Xian's horizons. Wow, they had all sorts of cutting-edge scroll painting techniques related to grain cultivation.

After the grain seeds are sown, there are special scrolls to water and fertilize them.

Then, under the influence of several silver-axis plant scrolls, the seedlings grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

From the time a tooth erupts to when it's fully mature, it takes less than an hour.

Of course, the reason it can grow so quickly is essentially due to the spiritual power of the scroll painters; normal planting and production would not be able to achieve such a rapid growth.

"How much did this farm scroll cost?" Chen Shilong asked with concern.

"It's alright. Excluding the initial trial and error costs, it'll be around three million," Wu Xian estimated.

"Only three million?" Chen Shilong and Cui Wenxuan were agitated. "Are you sure you're not joking?"

Wu Xian quickly added, "The cost of some domain materials and otherworldly outpost materials has not been included in the calculation."

After all, these materials were obtained for free.

"That's still very cheap."

Chen Shilong was so excited that he couldn't stop smiling as he stared at the crops in the field.

From then on, Yaoyang City's finances no longer needed to spend so much money on ensuring people's livelihoods, and they no longer had to be at the mercy of those people.

But then, as if remembering something, a look of sadness appeared in his eyes.

Cui Wenxuan's eyes flickered uncertainly, and he naturally realized the significance of the [Land Temple], which was absolutely a devastating blow to the dominance of the upper world.

"Perhaps we could also try those other-dimensional control zones that were previously cleared out," Wu Xian added.

"What? A dimensional control zone will do too?"

Chen Shilong and Cui Wenxuan both exclaimed in unison.

Wouldn't that be even more defying the heavens?
In this way, Yaoyang City will probably have more food than it can eat.

Of course, setting up a farm in a dimensional control zone would naturally require a massive defense force.

“Oh right,” Wu Xian continued, “the land temple needs people’s faith and incense offerings to maintain and improve it. As the incense offerings increase, its scope of influence will also expand further.”

"The scope of its effect can be expanded?" Cui Wenxuan was surprised again.

After all, in his view, the area of ​​influence of the Earth God Temple was already quite powerful at this moment.

"Faith and incense? What are those?" Chen Shilong asked seriously.

Wu Xian gave the two a brief explanation.

I initially thought it was some special resource investment, but I was secretly surprised to learn that it was just a matter of ordinary people burning incense and making offerings.

As for faith and such, if it can help people solve their food problem, why worry that people won't have faith?

"So, people's worship can actually generate power?"

Cui Wenxuan clicked his tongue in amazement, seemingly lost in thought.

“Just like the energy of perception generated by users of the scroll,” Wu Xian explained, “the will of ordinary people can also generate a kind of mysterious power. The power generated by one person may be insignificant, but the power of hundreds of millions of people combined is a different story.”

(End of this chapter)