Chapter 285: Second Sister-in-law, This Palace Isn’t Up To Par
Originally, Wu Xian was quite expectant, but when he saw that “Imperial Palace,” he froze up completely.
“Is this the palace of you, Empress?” Wu Xian looked at Kun Youniang in astonishment.
“What’s wrong, not grand enough?” Kun Youniang asked doubtfully.
“Well… as long as you’re happy.”
Wu Xian smiled awkwardly, not wanting to directly say that her Imperial Palace was trash.
But in his view, rather than calling it a palace, it was more like a nest.
Looking around, it was just like a nest piled up from various insect carcasses.
For the Insectoid Race, liking this style of nest was perfectly reasonable, but Kun Youniang was already a shapeshifted Great Demon.
In the mythological legends of his previous life, any Great Demon had their own cave dwelling.
Looking at the construction around the Empress’s “palace” along the way, it was basically still in a primitive state.
“Huh, what’s this place?”
During the tour, Wu Xian couldn’t help but be attracted to a human building ruin in the insect carcass ruins.
“That… that’s an outpost left by your human scroll painters,” Kun Youniang introduced. “It seems to have been there for some years.”
“Can you give it to me?” Wu Xian instantly became interested.
After all, ancient outpost materials were still very useful to him.
“If you want it, just take it.” Kun Youniang didn’t mind.
Wu Xian hurriedly thanked her and happily stored every blade of grass, every tree, every brick, and every tile from the ruins into his Qiankun Bag.
Afterward, he followed Kun Youniang into the palace interior.
Compared to the “Insectoid Race style” outside the palace, the palace interior finally showed some palace-like scenery. Right in front was a throne crafted from high-tier Insectoid Race corpses, and the internal scenery of the entire palace slightly showed some “human touch.”
It was probably Xue Zhengying’s merit.
“By the way, are the palaces and cave dwellings of you otherworldly Great Demons all like this?” Wu Xian asked curiously.
“What else?” Kun Youniang replied without thinking. “We otherworldly beings don’t have that kind of leisure elegance like you humans.”
“Got it, livable is fine.” Wu Xian understood.
Xue Zhengying teasingly chimed in: “You can’t use human thinking to view otherworldly beings. To them, such a palace is already very luxurious.
Many surrounding Great Demons have long coveted Youniang’s palace.”
“Really?” Wu Xian couldn’t help but smile. “How about I build a proper cave dwelling for Second Sister-in-law?”
Obviously, otherworldly Great Demons also had pursuits in this aspect; they just hadn’t tasted anything better.
So Kun Youniang’s cave dwelling had become a coveted prize in their eyes.
“Isn’t this pretty good?” Kun Youniang asked puzzled.
“It’s good, but it can’t highlight your status as an Emperor-level Great Demon!” Wu Xian analyzed seriously. “As the saying goes, clothes make the man and saddle the horse. You’re already a shapeshifted Great Demon; you can’t still be like back then, right?”
“That’s true.” Kun Youniang pondered.
Xue Zhengying helplessly interrupted: “I’ve thought about this before, but later found it impractical. In a place like the Insectoid Realm, human-built facilities and buildings simply can’t last.”
Wu Xian naturally understood this point.
“What I mean is, use a domain scroll painting to shape a cave dwelling.” Wu Xian explained.
“This…” Xue Zhengying looked odd. “Not quite appropriate, right? And otherworldly beings might not accept it.”
“Why wouldn’t they accept it?” Wu Xian smiled and asked. “Isn’t the Underworld suitable for abyssal monsters to live in?”
Hearing this, Xue Zhengying was speechless for a moment.
He, who had always guarded the Underworld Outpost, naturally noticed this too.
In fact, within Taoshi Mountain territory, abyssal monsters could often be seen secretly settling down, and living quite comfortably.
This showed that otherworld domains created by humans with scroll paintings were actually suitable for corresponding types of otherworldly beings to procreate and thrive.
It was just because of the hostile state between humans and otherworldly beings, and the lack of demand from otherworldly beings in this aspect, that no one had ever tried it.
Besides, there was another very important point: domain scroll paintings weren’t cabbages, especially those that could take root in the otherworld—they were the favorites of various factions, and they didn’t even have enough for themselves.
On Kun Youniang’s side, after living in the human world for a while recently, though she didn’t say it, she had obviously subconsciously started wanting to modify her own cave dwelling.
“I’ve heard that in the distant central Insectoid Realm, many Great Demons take pride in occupying your human outposts,” Kun Youniang said. “But truly suitable human outposts for us Insectoid Race life are actually not many.”
Wu Xian had been waiting for her to say this. “Don’t worry about that; it’ll absolutely make you not want to leave once you live there.”
“But I might not be able to gather the materials you need here in the Insectoid Realm.” Kun Youniang said worriedly.
“Barter with goods.”
“Alright, then it’s settled,” Kun Youniang said joyfully. “Oh right, I happen to have some plant-based materials; you might be able to use them.”
With that, she opened her small mouth and spat out a large pile of assorted materials.
“Where did you get so many plant-based materials?” Wu Xian exclaimed in admiration.
“There are quite a few plant otherworld penetration areas in various parts of the Insectoid Realm. Before, I teamed up with some surrounding Great Demons and went to the Plant Dimension once.”
Wu Xian suddenly understood, his heart surging with excitement. “Like this: in the future, give me all such materials you have, and I’ll arrange a Laurel Tree Rubbing in your cave dwelling.”
“Really?”
Kun Youniang was overjoyed, momentarily forgetting her Empress demeanor.
“Would I trick you?” Wu Xian replied cheerfully, his heart blooming with joy.
To put it simply, just this pile of plant-based materials in front of him was already a huge profit.
Perhaps this was the value and charm of “trade.”
Many things were worthless in your hands, but in another place, they were priceless treasures.
Afterward, he followed Kun Youniang for a simple tour in her “palace,” then under her lead, went to collect several earth vein mineral resources within the territory.
“Speaking of which, Little Xian’s scroll painting concept really gave me deep insights,” on the way, Kun Youniang couldn’t help but bring up Great Immortal Pansil’s scroll painting concept. “How did you do it?”
“Just like Second Brother discussed with me before: you otherworldly beings and human scroll paintings are essentially pursuing the same goal, so naturally, there are some commonalities between them.” Wu Xian laughed.
Kun Youniang understood. “So, us otherworldly beings gaining improvement from devouring scroll paintings is essentially drawing nourishment from your scroll painting concepts?”
“Pretty much,” Wu Xian analyzed. “But the scroll painting concept itself has no substantial power; it’s more about guiding your cultivation and evolution direction.”
“Then why not directly make this scroll painting and let this Empress eat it? Wouldn’t that be better?” Kun Youniang’s eyes flashed.
“…” Wu Xian smiled wryly. “Theoretically yes, but not realistic.”
“Why?” Kun Youniang asked puzzled.
Wu Xian’s mouth twitched. “Unless you can find a spider Great Demon as excellent as you, whose divine power core law framework is similar to yours, or directly give me your own divine power core as material.”
“Aren’t your human scroll paintings tiered? Just make a copper scroll or silver scroll.”
“It could, but it probably wouldn’t have much improvement effect for you.”
To put it bluntly, as an Emperor-level spider Great Demon, Kun Youniang’s divine power core was already similar to Great Immortal Pansil’s.
Low-tier scroll paintings simply couldn’t reach the height to improve her.
