Chapter 203: Spirituality And Proficiency
“That’s right,” Bai Shiqi could hardly conceal his admiration, “On him, this son has witnessed what it means that there are people beyond people and heavens beyond heavens.”
Hearing this, Bai Qifeng was both surprised and suspicious.
A self-taught scroll painter was already outrageous enough, yet he could make a son from a noble family give such a self-deprecating evaluation.
“There really is such a magical young person?” Bai Qifeng asked curiously, “Tell me about it.”
Bai Shiqi slowly recounted his experiences in Yaoyang City, and by the way, also displayed the Yin Commander Scroll Painting in his hand.
The more Bai Qifeng listened, the more shocked he was. After carefully observing the Yin Shuai Instance in front of him, he even drew in a sharp breath.
Genius! Absolute genius!
“You’re sure this is a scroll conceived by a grassroots self-learner?” Bai Qifeng could hardly conceal his shock.
“At first, this son couldn’t figure it out either, but after learning about the Xue Family’s situation, my mindset finally stabilized a bit.”
“Xue Family?” Bai Qifeng was puzzled.
“It’s the family behind Xue Lingling,” Bai Shiqi said seriously, “That Xue Family is one of the founding families of the Undead Dojo. In this son’s view, the Xue Family’s rise is already inevitable.”
Bai Qifeng was startled in his heart, his eyes flashing wildly, “A founding family of the Undead Dojo? No wonder?”
Then, upon learning that Zhao Qinghe had secretly gone to Yaoyang City and targeted the Xue Family, a strange radiance emerged in his eyes.
“Interesting~ It seems this Xue Family might be worth winning over.”
“Ah?” Bai Shiqi said in astonishment, “Founding families can be won over too?”
“Of course, it’s just a bit troublesome,” Bai Qifeng’s brows and eyes revealed a meaningful smile, “We’re just short of a pillar in our Peak God Domain’s Undead System. If we can win them over, it would be an excellent addition to the Peak God Domain. It’s just that Yaoyang City…”
“Just what?”
“Nothing,” Bai Qifeng shook his head with furrowed brows and changed the subject, “By the way, our family does have a half-dead gold medal club in Tianfeng Province. How about arranging you there later?”
Hearing this, Bai Shiqi’s eyes lit up, “Our family has a club in Dongfeng City too? How come I didn’t know?”
“It’s an industry left by your maternal grandfather’s line,” Bai Qifeng explained, “You know the situation with your maternal grandfather’s line—no decent scroll painter has emerged for several generations. Clubs and such are basically outsourced to other scroll painters for operation.”
Bai Shiqi suddenly understood and immediately made a decision, “This son is willing to go.”
“Very good,” Bai Qifeng nodded gladly, “I’ll contact your uncles right now. Though your uncles have no scroll painting talent, they’ve done pretty well on the spirit tamer route.”
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Yaoyang City, Underworld Club.
A couple of days ago, the five alliance big shots gathered materials to visit the Underworld Club, and by the way brought the initial team from Yaoyang City Alliance.
Having successfully obtained the Gold Scroll, they were full of joy. After learning that the Underworld Club had established an otherworld outpost, they immediately joined with the association to dispatch professionals to help the Underworld Club open the space channel to the otherworld outpost.
Now, the club side can directly teleport to【Underworld】 outpost.
Originally, the five alliance big shots were going to head straight back to the provincial city, but after experiencing a【Underworld】 day trip, they were like possessed, staying inside for days on end and unwilling to leave.
Wu Xian wasn’t stupid—the【Underworld】 must hold some high-level benefits for the five big shots.
He just wasn’t quite clear on what exactly those benefits were.
“Are the seniors still inside?” Early in the morning, Wu Xian, who had come to inspect the network department’s work progress, curiously asked the members beside him.
“Yeah, we a few got curious and went in to observe, but we couldn’t understand at all what they were doing.”
Wu Xian nodded thoughtfully and said no more.
At the alma mater high school, the two diligent good disciples were already in position and now seriously studying the Yin Commander scroll painting concepts authorized to them by Wu Xian in the club.
It probably wouldn’t be long before the two little ox-head and horse-faces could share his burdens.
In addition, after negotiations between Wu Xian and Master Sister, they successfully lured Tang Beng’s good big brother to the Underworld Club.
Of course, the low-end Autobots scroll painting remained under Tang’s Vehicles’ industries, and Tang Beng was mainly responsible for the high-end evolution version of the Autobots scroll painting.
In the past few days, online public opinion had escalated, with all sorts of rumors flying everywhere.
Some were even suspecting if the Underworld Club was about to run away with the money?
The voices of doubt and concern online were growing louder, putting no small pressure on the Underworld Club.
Fortunately, the gacha system was basically complete and had entered the testing phase.
Arriving at the network department side, under Director Du and others’ demonstration, he checked and experienced the current gacha system—it was more or less as he expected, just some details needed polishing.
“Right, the system’s safety must be done well—that’s the top priority!” Wu Xian said seriously.
“You can rest assured about that,” Director Du said confidently, “We brothers still have some status in the circle. If you’re not reassured, I do know a few big shots in network security—want me to dig them over for you?”
Wu Xian didn’t hesitate at all, “Dig them—anyone who’s talent, dig them all over for me. Money’s not an issue!”
“Got it, I’ll go dig people right away.”
Afterward, Wu Xian checked the gacha system’s source code and underlying program, and under the incredulous gazes of everyone, summoned the God of Wealth and used a large amount of aura of wealth to perform a series of optimizations and modifications on the code.
This way, the aura of wealth’s subtle influence afterward could better act on the gacha system.
Director Du and the others looked at the code optimized by the God of Wealth’s divine power, each one stunned beyond belief, incredulous, completely immersed.
…
Exiting the network department, through the outpost teleport channel, amid the twist of space, he was already outside the Ghost Gate.
He happened to run into Zhang Zihao and others escorting a group of yin souls back, with neatly uniform yin soldiers beside them.
“How’s the expansion of the yin soldier team going?” Wu Xian stepped forward to inquire.
“Just waiting for you to inspect,” Zhang Zihao and the others joked as they led the way, “Speaking of which, it’s strange—ever since coming to the outpost side, my Ox Head Yin Marshal seems to be getting stronger day by day, even the spirituality value has seen some growth.”
“Spirituality growth?” Wu Xian was surprised and stunned.
After inquiring with the other members, he discovered everyone had experienced something similar.
Upon careful investigation, the several old members’ Yin Commander spirituality values had all grown to varying degrees, with Zhang Zihao’s Ox-Head and Horse-Face showing the most obvious increase.
“Could it be that same-series domain outposts also improve the proficiency of same-series scroll paintings?”
He had only recently learned the “proficiency” concept from Xue Zhengying’s mouth, and hadn’t expected to witness it firsthand so soon.
Proficiency, plainly speaking, was the scroll painting’s spirituality growth.
As mentioned before, spirituality value was like the scroll painting’s performance benchmark score—the higher the spirituality, the more excellent the scroll painting’s performance.
But unlike five dimensions ratings,【spirituality value】 was more like a value produced from the interaction between system and hardware, inherently quite metaphysical.
Just like phones and computers’ benchmark scores in his previous life.
Two identical phones, identical hardware and system, might not produce the same score, and even the same phone run twice could have deviations.
For scroll painters, spirituality value reflected the scroll painter’s level.
For spirit tamer users, spirituality value wasn’t fixed—with the generation of soul resonance, and cumulative understanding and joint combat with the scroll painting, the spirituality value could be continuously optimized and improved.
It just required a lot of time precipitation and accumulated tempering.
