Chapter 142: Only Broke People Need To Deliberate
After swallowing several medicines and simply recovering some status, Hong Xiao set off directly to flee.
Emerging from the underground chamber, he headed straight north, without looking back.
However, he had not escaped far before he was blocked by a stern, unsmiling figure.
“Chen Shilong?” A flash of cold intent appeared in Hong Xiao’s eyes.
Mayor Chen Shilong hovered in mid-air, his Ninth Level Spiritual Power Cultivation surging openly without restraint, his calm tone carrying a hint of killing intent, “In this lifetime, Chen has hated most those who do not honor their promises.”
While Hong Xiao was momentarily stunned, he burst into wild laughter: “Interesting, doesn’t Mayor Chen find himself ridiculous?”
Chen Shilong remained completely unmoved, simply staring coldly at Hong Xiao.
“Mayor Chen wouldn’t want to kill me, would he?”
Hong Xiao spoke coldly, as the Evil God Diagram slowly unfolded above his head.
“Today, you won’t get away.” Chen Shilong said calmly.
“Hahaha…” Hong Xiao seemed to have heard some hilarious joke, “You? Qualified? Since you’re so eager to die, this one will kindly send you on your way—!”
With that, countless giant worms burst out from the ground beneath his feet, lifting Chen Shilong into mid-air.
Countless worms intertwined and connected, forming a massive scarlet-red meat ball.
Puff puff puff…
From various parts of the meat ball, as if “diarrhea,” it produced an endless stream of worms.
The surrounding large area was instantly occupied by densely packed worms, and the space around distorted inadvertently, as if one were inside the body of some giant creature.
Countless worms surged toward Chen Shilong like a tide.
“A mere Spirit Tamer, daring to be arrogant before this Seat?” Hong Xiao sneered mockingly, “Truly ignorant of death!”
Chen Shilong frowned and scanned the surroundings, “You seem quite badly injured.”
“…” Hong Xiao’s expression changed slightly, “So what?”
“Having been in politics for so long, I’d almost forgotten what I used to do back then,” Chen Shilong said with self-mockery as he threw out two axial gold scrolls, one left and one right, “When this old man was conquering the depths of the other dimension, you brat didn’t even know where you were.”
The two axial gold scrolls, one left and one right, transformed into two Nine-Star Painted Spirits, emanating a fearsome powerful aura.
The instant he saw those two gold scroll Painted Spirits, Hong Xiao’s pupils contracted, his eyes filled with horror.
“Two Nine-Star Gold Scrolls… Impossible, who exactly are you?”
The mayor of a mere low-level small city actually possessed two Nine-Star Gold Scrolls.
Moreover, they were two Painted Spirits he had never heard of, each emanating an “ancient” aura, clearly different from the spiritual fluctuations of today’s Painted Spirits.
“Inherited scrolls?” Hong Xiao gradually became serious.
Chen Shilong neither confirmed nor denied it, the two Painted Spirits beside him like two powerful guardian gods, Ninth Level Spiritual Power combined with Nine-Star Gold Scrolls, their terrifying might instantly crushing the tidal worms.
The two guardian gods, one left and one right, glared furiously, their spears thrusting straight toward Hong Xiao.
“Damn it, what exactly is your background, you old thing!”
Hong Xiao met the attack in terror, his face unsightly.
…
On the Yaoyang City side.
Although he had forcefully smashed that sinister middle-aged man into meat paste, the killing intent in Wu Xian’s heart had not dissipated.
Because he knew very well that the culprit, Hong Xiao, was still at large.
In contrast, Bai Shiqi not far away was already stunned speechless.
Although the Sun Star Lord had already restored human form, the image of that “colorful” big rooster from earlier was still fresh in his mind.
Another big rooster?
Could it be a high-tier scroll painting of the 【Chicken King Town Protection】?
Moreover, Wu Xian actually had another axial gold scroll, equally formidable, and under the combined assault of the two gold scrolls, in just one clash, they had forcefully slain Hong Xiao’s possessed body.
“Brother Wu, you you you…” Bai Shiqi couldn’t help but doubt his life, “Two axial gold scrolls?”
These two axial gold scrolls were absolutely top-tier, not to mention how he had conceived them, just the heaven-defying production cost and initial trial-and-error cost were beyond what ordinary families could afford.
Not to mention that Wu Xian was a poor kid from the bottom ranks.
“Good luck~ good luck,” Wu Xian grinned honestly, “This time, it was all thanks to Brother Bai’s help.”
“…” The corner of Bai Shiqi’s mouth twitched slightly.
Help? Had he ever properly made a move?
Or rather, had he ever had a proper chance to make a move?
“As expected of the prodigy of Dengfeng Dojo,” Wu Xian praised righteously, “I’ll definitely report Brother Bai’s contributions truthfully to the association later.”
“Ah? I…”
Before Bai Shiqi could speak, Wu Xian had already stepped onto his flying sword and bid farewell.
Now that the evil insect disaster had been settled, the follow-up matters would be handled by all parties.
Inside the Ghost King Club, it was empty.
Wu Xian silently arrived at the Five Dimensions testing room and placed the Sun Star Lord scroll painting inside.
On this trip, the strength displayed by the golden axis Sun Star Lord had shocked even him; even setting aside its restraining ability against insect types, the Sun Star Lord’s performance in all aspects far exceeded his expectations.
Moments later, the test results came out.
【Sun Star Lord】 Golden Axis Four-and-a-half Star
Type: Character Scroll Painting
Color: 199
Detail: 199
Charm: 199
Art Style: 199
Overall: 199
The uniform Five Dimensions ratings left Wu Xian dumbfounded.
Although he had expected the Sun Star Lord’s Five Dimensions attributes to be high, he was still deeply shocked.
Recalling the process of drawing the Sun Star Lord back then, that state and feeling of enlightenment still lingered endlessly in Wu Xian’s mind.
He could clearly feel that after creating the Sun Star Lord, his scroll painting level had been pushed to a whole new realm, also giving him new cognition and insights into the Way of Scroll Painting.
If he were to draw such a 【Sun Star Lord】 now, it obviously wouldn’t be possible.
That mystical state could no longer be recorded and preserved by the “scroll painting imprint.”
Subsequent drawings of the 【Sun Star Lord】 would also be hard to reach this level.
Perhaps this was the charm of “art”?
Returning to the North Street District Small Villa.
Using the remaining materials to reconstruct and upgrade the 【Chicken King Town Protection】 to silver axis also served as an explanation to President Cui.
【Chicken King Town Protection】
Version: Original （Gold Embroidery Border）
Rank: Silver Axis
Painted Spirit: ★★★★★★
Spirituality: 46
Talent Traits: Demon-Subduing Evil-Repelling, Rooster’s Five Virtues
“Has the scroll painting level indeed improved?”
The entire upgrade reconstruction process was effortless, without any pressure.
In Wu Xian’s view, the Chicken King Town Protection absolutely had gold scroll potential, but after having the 【Sun Star Lord】 as a high-tier alternative, there was no need.
Unless later his resources seriously overflowed, only then would he consider pulling the Chicken King to golden axis.
After all, the production cost of gold scrolls was really too high.
As Xue Lingling would say: Most low-level scroll paintings have no need to upgrade to gold scrolls; resources should be prioritized for high-tier scroll paintings.
This was undoubtedly the most reasonable development approach for conventional scroll painters.
But Wu Xian’s situation was rather special.
He had countless scroll painting concepts on hand, and each one was exceptionally excellent; any single scroll painting concept was a top-tier conception that other scroll painters could only dream of.
Take the 【Ten Great Yin Marshals】 for example; in other scroll painters’ hands, it would absolutely be treated as a top-tier high-tier scroll painting to cultivate into gold scroll.
But in Wu Xian’s hands, it could only exist as an “entry-level” low-level scroll painting.
“Take it slow, upgrade when there’s a chance.”
In the end, it still came down to making money.
Only when money is insufficient does one need to agonize over resource allocation; when money is plentiful, there’s nothing to agonize over.
In one sentence: Laozi damn well wants them all!
His consciousness sank into the 【Twenty-Eight Mansions】 Divine Diagram in his Sea of Consciousness.
During the previous creation of the Sun Star Lord, even the Law Condensation Degree of the Divine Diagram had gained substantial enlightenment and improvement during the drawing process.
It was a mystical state of creation carrying the power of Heaven and Earth.
