Chapter 147: Four Little Money Gods
Facing Zhao Qinghe’s inquiry, Bai Shiqi felt complex emotions, along with a bit of slight embarrassment.
After all, before coming, he had been full of confidence, thinking he could easily restore the dojo’s face, and even asked Zhao Qinghe for some intelligence on Xue Lingling.
But now, he hadn’t restored the dojo’s face; instead, he had been driven to a mental breakdown by Wu Xian, this grassroots scroll painter, doubting his life.
On the club scroll painting side.
Although his several sets of low-level scroll painting concepts had already gained recognition from the Yaoyang City populace, in terms of sales volume, they couldn’t compare to the Ghost King Club.
No way around it, Wu Xian’s scroll paintings had outrageously low prices.
Even after a recent price increase, they were still much lower than his.
In his view, Wu Xian definitely had some unconventional path clever move that could drastically reduce the cost of scroll paintings.
And these scrap materials in front of him vaguely gave him some clues.
Perhaps Wu Xian used these scrap materials to lower the cost of scroll paintings?
But the problem was, the more impurities, the lower the drawing success rate. How did Wu Xian solve this issue?
“It’s fine, just some situations were a bit out of my expectations.” Bai Shiqi pretended to be relaxed in response.
“Is that so?” Zhao Qinghe was surprised over there. “I heard that a few days ago, the Mechanical Divine Realm personally descended, taking away an extraordinary little girl from Yaoyang City, and now it’s causing an uproar.”
“I was there at the time,” Bai Shiqi nodded. “That little girl named Tang Tiaotiao is indeed not simple.”
“Tch~ Mechanical scroll paintings alone, no matter how powerful, how powerful can they be?” Zhao Qinghe scoffed. “But recently, those guys from the Mechanical Dojo seem full of confidence.”
“Aren’t they holding an invitation tournament? Whether it’s a mule or a horse, we’ll know then.”
Zhao Qinghe chuckled mockingly and pulled the topic back. “Where are you staying? Send me your location.”
Bai Shiqi casually sent the location and continued studying the scrap materials in his hand.
Not long after, Zhao Qinghe’s voice arrived before he did.
That sharp voice laced with a hint of breakdown sounded just 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 you… how are you living in a place like this?”
“Conditions are limited, sit wherever.” Bai Shiqi calmly welcomed him.
“It’s not… you…” Zhao Qinghe looked at the dirty old sofa, really unable to sit down. “Did your Bai Family go bankrupt? Such a big event, and I didn’t hear even a whisper?”
“…” Bai Shiqi irritably said, “What are you thinking? My Bai Family is doing just fine.”
“Then this this this of yours…?”
“This matter is a long story,” Bai Shiqi sighed dimly. “This brother encountered some small difficulties on this mission; it hasn’t gone as smoothly as imagined.”
Hearing this, Zhao Qinghe couldn’t help but look serious and stunned. “What do you mean? You didn’t manage to win over my junior sister? Fair enough, after all, it’s league-level competition, purely about scroll painting quality.”
Although Xue Lingling definitely wasn’t a match for noble family disciples like them.
But competition between club scroll paintings wasn’t closely related to the scroll painter’s personal strength.
“No worries~ Brother Bai doesn’t need to be too annoyed,” Zhao Qinghe teased in consolation. “My junior sister comes from the initial founding family of my Undead Dojo, so her scroll paintings naturally have some quality. It’s normal for Brother Bai not to take her down right away.”
“Initial founding family?” Bai Shiqi was shocked.
Previously, his attention had been drawn by Wu Xian, overlooking that Xue Lingling.
Now thinking carefully, Xue Lingling’s Ghost King Scroll Painting performance seemed quite excellent too, just overshadowed by the Ten Great Yin Marshals.
He hadn’t expected the Xue Family to be the founding family of the Undead Dojo back then.
“A founding family that was eliminated back then,” Zhao Qinghe mocked. “For it to cling on until now is a miracle in itself, but that girl has indeed shown some signs of leading the family to rise again.”
“Could it be…” Bai Shiqi’s expression flickered uncertainly. “Such important information, why didn’t Brother Qinghe tell me earlier!”
He now strongly suspected that Wu Xian’s scroll painting concepts came from the founder thought framework inherited from the Xue Family.
No wonder Wu Xian’s scroll painting quality was so high; he was backed by a “big tree” too?
This explained a lot of things.
No, how to explain that Sun Star Lord from a few days ago that blinded him?
That Sun Star Lord clearly wasn’t an undead system concept.
“Uh, what’s going on?” Seeing Bai Shiqi’s intense reaction, Zhao Qinghe was baffled.
“Does the Xue Family’s inherited concept framework also include other types of scroll painting concepts?” Bai Shiqi asked solemnly.
“How would I know?” Zhao Qinghe’s expression was odd, completely puzzled. “But since it’s my Undead Dojo’s founding family, it must mainly be undead system, though it can’t be ruled out that they have some other concepts.
Why is Brother Bai suddenly asking about this?”
Bai Shiqi’s eyes flickered uncertainly. “You might not believe it, but Xue Lingling is actually quite easy to deal with. The current problem is an unexpected huge variable.”
“Variable? What variable?” Zhao Qinghe frowned. “Did another dojo get involved? That shouldn’t be. Could it be some other families from my Undead Dojo secretly interfering?”
“Neither,” Bai Shiqi shook his head. “It’s a local scroll painter from Yaoyang City, hailed as a grassroots genius scroll painter, now taken as a disciple by Xue Lingling.”
Zhao Qinghe, who had just been frowning, instantly had a strangely distorted expression.
“Local? Grassroots? Genius?”
Bai Shiqi neither confirmed nor denied.
“Brother Bai, don’t joke~” Zhao Qinghe looked speechless.
But seeing Bai Shiqi’s serious expression, Zhao Qinghe gradually became serious, saying with a strange face, “Don’t tell me you got crushed by that so-called grassroots genius?”
What a joke, the favored son of the Dengfeng Dojo, actually crushed by a grassroots scroll painter from a small place?
Who would believe that if word got out?
“It’s not quite crushing,” Bai Shiqi looked embarrassed. “Just that currently, in sales volume and public recognition, I can’t compete.”
From the results of that battlefield match, it wasn’t exactly crushing; just the gap was a bit large.
But the series of shocks and confusions Wu Xian brought him afterward made him feel even worse than a direct crushing.
“Real or fake?” Zhao Qinghe was incredulous. “The scroll paintings of the Bai Clan, in this rundown place, aren’t they a dimensional reduction strike?”
“But the problem is, it’s not really a dimensional reduction strike.”
Bai Shiqi didn’t talk nonsense and immediately pulled out several Yin Commander scroll paintings he had bought at high price to show Zhao Qinghe.
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Ghost King Club.
Wu Xian placed the four freshly made Little Gods of Wealth into the instruments for testing one by one. Although they were just Copper Axis Scroll Paintings, the five-dimensional scores were still satisfactory, especially the bond improvement they brought to his Natal God of Wealth.
As the original creator, because the【Five Paths of Wealth God】 divine diagram was on him, as long as he incorporated the God of Wealth into the divine diagram, he could directly trigger the bond amplification, without even needing the other four Little Gods of Wealth to appear together.
This was one of the reasons why scroll painters were not on the same level as spirit tamers.
Ding!
Not long after, the God of Wealth’s data under bond amplification emerged on the screen.
【Xuantan True Lord – Zhao Gongming】
Color: 147（Natal Bonus+30）
Detail: 151（Natal Bonus+30）
Charm: 170（Natal Bonus+30）
Art Style: 159（Natal Bonus+30）
Overall: 168（Natal Bonus+30）
Compared to the last test data, the God of Wealth’s five-dimensional scores had basically all improved by around ten points.
Don’t underestimate this 10-point five-dimensional improvement; after all, a single life mark was only a 10-point five-dimensional boost.
