Chapter 271: City God Temple
This was it; after the video connected, he could still see Tattoo Brother and Xu Lu’s figures.
“How about it, disciple? What do you think of Tattoo Brother’s human scroll painting art?” Wu Xian teased.
“It can be called a masterpiece of supernatural craftsmanship,” Xu Cunxin could hardly conceal her amazement. “When I first saw it yesterday, I almost thought someone from the upper world had come down.”
“Upper world people?” Wu Xian was surprised.
Xu Cunxin explained, “This kind of situation where scroll painting power is integrated into oneself is quite similar to the cultivation methods of the upper world, but now that I understand it, it’s clearly not quite the same as the upper world.”
“Oh, oh,” Wu Xian smiled knowingly. “Your master has a question he’d like to ask you.”
Hearing this, Xu Cunxin was inevitably filled with trepidation. “To resolve your doubts is the disciple’s honor.”
“It’s like this,” Wu Xian pondered as he organized his words. “There’s something your master has never quite figured out. All the major otherworlds can be incorporated and shaped by domain scroll paintings, so why can’t the dimension we humans inhabit do the same?”
“Are you referring to domain scroll paintings that develop based on the heaven and earth laws of the human world?” Xu Cunxin hesitated as she asked in return.
“That’s right.”
“This probably won’t work.” Xu Cunxin pondered.
“Why?”
“It’s most likely related to the upper world,” Xu Cunxin sighed lightly. “The upper world controls the last piece of pure land in the human world and seems to have imposed a certain degree of blockade and restriction on the heaven and earth laws of the human world.”
“I see.” Wu Xian suddenly understood.
So after all this time, it turned out the upper world had used special means to blockade and monopolize it?
No wonder only they could establish so many new cities.
And Yaoyang City’s group of original cities, as cities established before the “monopoly,” were naturally not valued by the upper world.
But thinking from another angle, didn’t Yaoyang City’s group of original cities come with their own “licenses and permits”?
In that case, starting from 【Yaoyang City】 was undoubtedly a good way to bypass the upper world’s monopoly restrictions.
After ending the call with Xu Cunxin, he immediately threw himself into drawing the City God Temple.
In a word, first fill Yaoyang City with Earth Temples and City God Temples.
After a day and night’s effort.
Finally, at noon the next day, the drawing of the 【City God Temple】 was completed.
Unlike the Sea of Consciousness imprint of the Earth Temple, although the City God Temple also formed a point of incense and faith in the periphery of the Sea of Consciousness, it simultaneously condensed the City God’s scroll painting imprint within the six case officials system of the 【Underworld Divine Diagram】.
At this point, following the Ten Great Yin Marshals, the only ones left among the superior six case officials were the two from the 【Department of Reincarnation】.
The beautiful girl version of Meng Po had now also received enthusiastic sponsorship from the pure-hearted college girl Xiao Yu.
But for now, no rush; wait until Xiao Yu’s dad arrives.
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Holding the City God Temple scroll painting, he went out into the city to find a suitable placement spot.
Unlike the Earth Temple, which had a farm function and was thus suitable for unmanned wasteland in the suburbs.
But the City God Temple was more suitable for placement in the bustling downtown area.
He contacted Mayor Chen Shilong, asking him to scout and plan some locations and plots in advance for subsequent City God Temple placements.
Meanwhile, Wu Xian thought it over and decided to place his own 【original】 City God Temple on a plot near the club.
This plot originally belonged to the Underworld Club, so there was no need to greet anyone.
Buzz~!
The exquisite City God Temple model rose into the air, rapidly enlarging, gradually blending with the aura of Yaoyang City’s heaven and earth scroll painting.
The surging might inevitably attracted some club members to come out and watch.
The City God Temple slowly landed. At first glance, it looked like an ancient county yamen, with two stone lions at the entrance and an underworld official in an underworld official robe enshrined inside.
“Feels like no special changes?”
Wu Xian curiously probed the surroundings, but there was no purification effect on the land like with the Earth Temple.
But he could clearly feel a peculiar energy field forming around the City God Temple, though he didn’t know what it was for.
Above the City God Temple, the City God’s illusory shadow slowly condensed, bowing to Wu Xian from afar.
The club members who came to watch the excitement clicked their tongues in wonder. Although they didn’t understand it, they knew that anything from the vice president was definitely extraordinary.
“Such a strange feeling,” Du Yifan said curiously. “It’s like one of our underworld series temples.”
“That’s right,” Wu Xian nodded with a smile. “In the future, burn incense and worship when you have time; it’ll ensure you live a long life.”
“Really? Then I must worship properly.” Du Yifan was eager and headed straight into the temple to pay respects.
But as soon as Du Yifan approached the City God Temple, he was enveloped by its might, forming a peculiar imprint that merged into Du Yifan’s soul Sea of Consciousness.
At this sight, everyone present was dumbfounded.
“What’s going on?” Wu Xian hurriedly asked. “What just happened?”
“It feels like it formed some kind of soul contract with me,” Du Yifan carefully sensed the imprint in his Sea of Consciousness. “Granting me management of some underworld affairs in the surrounding urban area.”
Wu Xian was slightly stunned; he hadn’t expected the City God Temple scroll painting to operate this way.
It seemed like a direct granting of an underworld official position and authority to Du Yifan himself.
In other words, Du Yifan had directly been appointed within the underworld system.
“Whoa, where did all these abyssal monsters come from?” Du Yifan’s gaze shifted, as if he saw something. “Wait, that’s not right; that doesn’t seem like abyssal monsters? It’s our human lost souls.”
The others nearby were baffled. “What lost souls? Where? Why can’t we see them?”
“There~ there~ there~, so many; can’t you see them?” Du Yifan was puzzled.
The crowd exchanged glances and shook their heads in bewilderment.
Wu Xian gradually understood, patting Du Yifan’s shoulder earnestly. “Cheer up and do a good job. You’re now the City God’s general in the human world.”
“Ah?” Du Yifan was both shocked and delighted.
“It’s similar to your Defense Team’s work, just specifically handling underworld affairs,” Wu Xian laughed. “Just lead those human lost souls to our Underworld Outpost.”
Du Yifan’s expression was odd, but he immediately summoned Black and White Impermanence to perform soul-guiding.
Sure enough, those human lost souls wandering in Yaoyang City obediently followed him.
Seeing this, the other club members rushed to worship at the City God Temple, but unfortunately, they didn’t receive that kind of “power grant.”
However, as these club members worshiped the City God Temple, the Natal God of Wealth’s aura of wealth operations seemed to undergo some changes in the ether.
This discovery left Wu Xian both surprised and delighted.
“Xiao Li Zi, try making a gacha pull wish at the City God Temple; decide what to pull for yourself.” Wu Xian reminded him.
The new member Xiao Li Zi looked bewildered, then burned incense and worshiped while making a wish.
Moments later, he pulled out his phone for a gacha pull—a single ten consecutive draws hit the target right on.
“Whoa~ I actually pulled a Ghost King Yin Commander?”
The other members, seeing this, were both surprised and delighted, and they all began making wishes to the City God, most of them pulling the scroll paintings they desired.
Of course, wishes at the City God Temple only worked for the underworld series card pools.
But this situation invisibly sparked Wu Xian’s thought process.
“Tsk~ If only we could combine the gacha system with the City God Temple; then we’d never worry about the City God Temple lacking incense.”
Wu Xian grew more excited the more he thought about it.
In his previous life, such an outrageous operation would naturally be unrealistic.
But this was the extraordinary scroll painting world; anything was possible.
If the God of Wealth’s aura of wealth operations could subtly influence gacha pull probabilities in the virtual network, then combining the gacha system with the City God Temple was equally feasible.
After all, this world’s virtual network was built on scroll paintings.
By a stroke of luck, this world’s virtual network was held by the Mechanical Dojo, which was a major reason why the Mechanical Dojo, despite its weaker strength, could still rank among the Nine Great Dojos.
