Chapter 259: The Emperor Is Unhurried, But The Eunuchs Are
Wu Xian pondered for a moment and decided to inquire with Xu Cunxin about some information regarding the Upper World.
After all, Xu Cunxin could also be considered someone with half Upper World bloodline.
“Speaking of which, how much do you know about the Upper World?” Wu Xian asked seriously.
Xu Cunxin was slightly stunned, hatred flashing in her eyes, “Master is interested in the Upper World?”
“Sort of,” Wu Xian nodded with a smile: “Earlier, I unintentionally offended a dog from the Upper World, and now that Gouzi is harassing me quite annoyingly. You and I as master and disciple can be considered sharing a common enemy.”
“A dog from the Upper World?” Xu Cunxin was puzzled.
“A small family in Tianfeng Province, said to be a dog raised by some big shot in the Upper World…” Wu Xian briefly outlined the situation with the Wang Family.
“I see,” Xu Cunxin then understood, “Disciple’s knowledge of the Upper World is limited. What does Master want to know?”
Wu Xian thought and asked, “Are those people the same as us, or do they have some essential difference?”
“There is no difference at all, just a distinction in terms of power.”
“Are they… very strong?”
“Some are strong, some are weak,” Xu Cunxin said: “At least disciple’s enemy is very strong.”
“Compared to the current Three True Gods?”
“Hard to say,” Xu Cunxin analyzed: “The top-tier people in the Upper World similarly control the power of gods. It can be said that except for not being recognized by the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, they possess all the power that True Gods have.”
“So fierce?” Wu Xian was secretly shocked, “Then how do they master this kind of power?”
Xu Cunxin shook her head bewilderedly, “They seem to be refining the power of Scroll Paintings and Divine Power Factors, similar to… the way Otherworldly Monsters devour Painted Spirits to improve.”
“Is that the path?” Wu Xian understood, “If that’s the case, why haven’t they received the recognition of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao?”
“Humans are not quite the same as Otherworldly Beings,” Xu Cunxin said: “Otherwise, there would be no need to develop the Extraordinary Scroll Painting System.”
Wu Xian was puzzled: “How are we different?”
“Not clear,” Xu Cunxin shook her head, “But the most direct manifestation is that after humans improve in this way, their own spiritual structure’s resistance to twisted pollution becomes weaker and weaker. This is also the fundamental reason why they huddle in the Upper World and are unwilling to come down.”
“I see.”
Wu Xian suddenly realized, and couldn’t help but have various questions about the underlying logic of this world.
The current Extraordinary Scroll Painting System was like a “helpless choice.”
Because humans are not suitable for directly absorbing spiritual substances and divine power substances to improve, they have no choice but to split the process of pursuing top-tier power into two parts: Divine Diagram and Scroll Painting.
In theory, when the Divine Diagram condenses to a certain extent and the Scroll Painting terminal develops to a certain extent, combining the two can still forge a True God.
It’s just that so far, the development of the Scroll Painting terminal is still a bit lacking.
On the contrary, in terms of Divine Diagrams, with the emergence of various Divine Realms, 【Divine Positions】 have already begun to be born.
“What about Evil Scroll Painters?” Wu Xian was puzzled.
“The same,” Xu Cunxin smiled: “It’s just that they have completely abandoned themselves and fully embraced the erosion of distorted power.”
Wu Xian smiled knowingly.
It seems that those people in the Upper World still have some “bottom line”.
…
Returning to the North Street District Small Villa, after a bout of emotion, he continued his various research.
The Hero Tower side had already become the current focus of public opinion.
Especially after the various T4 big shots successively failed, it pushed the popularity to another height.
Originally thought that with the former T4 big shots taking action, it would be easy to clear Level Thirty-five, but the result left all sectors of society dumbfounded.
It must be known that these current T4 big shots are all old seniors who cleared the Thirtieth Floor many years ago, and their strength has been continuously improving over these years.
To put it bluntly, it’s not that they can only reach the Thirtieth Floor, but the Hero Tower has always had a maximum of only Thirty Layers.
But now, numerous big shots have successively failed. Not to mention Level Thirty-five, currently only one person has reached the Thirty-third Floor, while the other big shots are basically stuck at Level Thirty-one and Level Thirty-two.
This made all sectors of society strongly curious about the difficulty of the Hero Tower above the Thirtieth Floor.
The internet is full of discussions about this issue.
“What the hell? Is the difficulty span above the Thirtieth Floor that large?”
“Maybe the big shots are still in the exploration stage and not quite adapted?”
“Didn’t a T4 big shot just post a message? Said that above the Thirtieth Floor is a Domain Instance dominated by the Undead System. Without targeted top-tier Scroll Paintings, it’s hard to cope.”
“Currently, only a few big shots who specialize in dealing with the Undead System have decent results.”
“Undead System? Don’t tell me 【Immortal Yin Soul】 also affects Hero Tower instances?”
“Uh, no, if it really had an effect, the big shots wouldn’t be able to play at all.”
“Know some common sense, Domain Instances are equivalent to independent small worlds with one law, not affected by 【Abyss Demon Lord】.”
“Tsk~ I don’t know who created this Undead Domain Scroll Painting?”
“Some master from the Undead Dojo?”
“I doubt it. This update clearly comes from Tianfeng Province side, probably a Undead-type Scroll Painter master from Tianfeng Province.”
“Really want to experience the difficulty of the Hero Tower Level Thirty-one.”
“Unfortunately, I can’t even reach the Twentieth Floor yet.”
“Better to first care about the Otherworld situation. Nowadays, all three major Otherworlds are almost unplayable.”
“By the way, does anyone still have spare grain at home? Damn, the supermarkets have been cleared out.”
“Please, my child has already been hungry for a day.”
“The grain price has risen really outrageously recently. Only some grain-producing cities are doing a bit better.”
“No way around it. With the Intercity Space Channels sealed, logistics will inevitably be affected.”
…
Wu Xian naturally also noticed this problem.
Yaoyang City is naturally as steady as an old dog. Now with the seven Earth Temple Farms growing larger in scale, there is already a comprehensive surplus in grain.
It’s just that due to the Intercity Space Channel blockade, the surplus grain can’t be sold.
On City Lord Chen Shilong’s side, grain transport teams have already been dispatched to support the surrounding brother cities.
At this moment, he was discussing with Wu Xian whether to take this opportunity to develop the Earth Temple Farms to several surrounding cities.
“Are the surrounding cities also independently autonomous?” Wu Xian asked.
“That’s right,” Chen Shilong said noncommittally, “Our several brother cities are all among the first batch established in the Disaster Era, and have always been worried about the grain problem.”
“That can be considered,” Wu Xian pondered and nodded, “Specifically, trouble you to negotiate and contact.”
Although the Earth Temple can collect incense and faith, for now, stability is the priority, with these independently autonomous cities as the main focus.
His intuition told him that those new cities under the government system definitely have issues.
If Earth Temples are established there, it would likely attract the attention and high focus from the Upper World.
No need to think, competing for incense and faith, competing for believers, this matter will inevitably touch the core interests of the Upper World.
“By the way, has the Wang Family made any follow-up moves?” Wu Xian inquired.
“Not for now,” Chen Shilong smiled: “Instead, they’ve been probing our situation from the side, probably waiting for me to go beg for mercy?”
…
Tianfeng Province, Divine Dog Club.
Wang Zhi has been in an extremely bad mood recently. On one hand, because Yaoyang City side has been slow to react, and on the other hand, because of the sudden birth of the “Three Gods”.
As the master’s beloved dog, he naturally stands on the side of the Upper World.
After all, the appearance of the three Otherworld Gods is definitely not a good thing for the Upper World.
“Damn Otherworld evildoers, how dare you become gods?”
At this moment, he somewhat had the feeling of the eunuch being more anxious than the emperor.
