Chapter 62: Ore Vein Depletion Incident
This discovery filled Wu Xian with both surprise and joy.
It meant that from now on, he could cultivate and incorporate a batch of Yin Soul Abyssal Monsters to form a Yin Soul army?
Before he could be happy for long, a terrifying aura rippled through the air above the mining area, accompanied by an angry roar.
“Who dares to cause trouble here?!”
A figure hovered high in the air above the mining area, with a Soul Divine Diagram above their head.
The terrifying pressure made Wu Xian shudder even from far away.
Fortunately, he had withdrawn in time and slipped away.
For safety, it was best not to come to the Abyssal Realm for a while.
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Deep in the mine.
Master Yang and the mayor’s team were covered in dust and filled with lingering fear.
After confirming that the Abyssal Monsters had dispersed, they finally relaxed and took out Spirit Crystals and medicine to restore their Spiritual Power.
“Damn it, what was wrong with those Abyssal Monsters just now? They acted like a bug swarm, too terrifying.”
“If not for the boss’s Scroll Painting being so powerful, we might all have died here today.”
The leading Level Five Spirit Tamer looked grim; as the saying goes, something abnormal must have a cause, and his intuition told him something was off.
At that moment, Master Yang suddenly exclaimed in surprise beside them, “No, no, look quickly!”
The survivors then noticed that all the mine veins in the mine had turned into grayish rocks.
“The vein over there has turned black too!”
They incredulously checked around.
“What exactly happened? Why are all the mine veins gone?”
“Could it be those Abyssal Monsters from earlier?”
“Not good!”
The leading Level Five Spirit Tamer looked shocked and uncertain, suddenly having a bad premonition, and hurriedly returned to the Thunder Fiend Stone latent snow area.
The entire Thunder Fiend Stone latent snow area had all its Dark Yin Ore veins and Earth Fiend Ore veins withered into ordinary stones.
There were also many fresh excavation marks in various places.
Most importantly, Master Yang sensed residual energy fluctuations of Thunder Fiend Stone from those excavation marks.
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Wu Xian, who had withdrawn from the Abyssal Realm, acted as if nothing had happened.
He calmly returned to the North Street District and went to Boss Hu’s shop.
He bought some materials needed by Master Ma to fill in any gaps, as well as some ordinary Mechanical Monster Materials.
“By the way, Boss Hu, do you have any higher-grade ox-shaped Monster Materials here? Rare Materials would be best.” Wu Xian asked casually.
“Yes! Just right, I do,” Hu Deyou eagerly pulled out an Exotic Beast’s ox head, “This came from Dongyang City yesterday, a Tier 4 Elite Destruction Barbarian Ox. Unfortunately, I only got the head; the most valuable ox horns were bought on the spot by an Appliance Scroll Painter.”
“Give me a real price.”
Wu Xian’s eyes lit up slightly; the ox horns weren’t that important to him.
A Tier 4 Elite Monster’s head as the main material was enough to make a Silver Scroll Ox Master.
“Eighteen eight.” Hu Deyou quoted.
“Eighteen.” Wu Xian bargained.
After some hesitation, Hu Deyou agreed to the price considering Wu Xian’s status as a young Scroll Painter.
After all, for those in the materials business, Scroll Painters were always quality customers.
Back home.
He carefully took out the three pieces of Thunder Fiend Stone and pulled out the God of Wealth Scroll.
Spiritual Power seeped into it, guiding the God of Wealth to absorb the Spiritual Substances within.
The three pieces of Thunder Fiend Stone directly raised the God of Wealth’s Spirituality to 81 points and showed a trend of soon condensing the second Life Mark.
This greatly improved the God of Wealth’s various performances.
Unfortunately, due to the God of Wealth’s special nature, it wasn’t convenient to go to the association for Five Dimensions testing.
“If only I could get a Five Dimensions testing instrument myself.”
He checked the instrument’s price online and silently closed the page, giving up the idea.
The cheapest one cost twenty-three million, just outrageous.
While thinking, he messaged Xue Lingling: “Master Sister, besides the association, where else can I get Scroll Painting Five Dimensions testing?”
“You want to test Scroll Painting Five Dimensions?” Xue Lingling replied quickly.
“Yeah, I reconstructed and retouched the Scroll Painting, but I don’t know how much the Five Dimensions improved.”
“Hehe, you reminded me. How can an excellent club not have a Five Dimensions testing instrument?” Xue Lingling sent a smug grinning emoji, “I’ll order one right now; it should arrive in a couple of days.”
Wu Xian replied with a thumbs up in surprise.
“There are also Cultivation Pods and such; we’ll arrange those gradually later,” Xue Lingling continued, “The club needs to look like a proper club.”
As expected of a Scroll Painter who studied abroad at the dojo; she was rich.
He wondered when he could be as carefree as his Master Sister.
After the daily worship of the God of Wealth, he pondered over the pieces of Dark Yin Essence Iron.
“What weapon should I make?”
Directly drawing divine artifacts from mythological legends would definitely not be enough with just Dark Yin Essence Iron.
It might be better to first make a Flying Sword from immortal hero novels, which could both attack and fly.
Having participated in so many game projects in his previous life, he had countless Flying Sword images in mind, though the background concept and settings were a bit tricky.
“No rush, let’s get Ox-Head and Horse-Face done first.”
After all, the concepts and materials for Ox-Head and Horse-Face were already prepared.
He listed all the materials, seeped Spiritual Power to extract various Spiritual Substances one by one, and through the Divine Diagram Law Framework, reverse-engineered and mixed the corresponding Spiritual Pigments.
Once everything was ready, he condensed the concepts in his mind and began drawing on the Spiritual Drawing Paper.
Under the night sky, two Axis Scroll Paintings took shape one after another.
Ox Head
Version: Original Gold Embroidery Border
Rank: Silver Scroll
Painted Spirit: **
Spirituality:47
Talent Trait: Netherworld Divine Power, Soul Suppression Severing Evil
Horse Face
Version: Original Gold Embroidery Border
Rank: Silver Scroll
Painted Spirit: **
Spirituality:55
Talent Trait: Yin-Yang Dharma Eye, Soul Suppression Judging Evil
The materials produced from the Death Mountain Town Scroll Painting Instance were clearly higher quality, so Horse Face had slightly higher Spirituality.
These two brothers’ abilities were quite similar, especially the second Talent Trait, which like Black and White Impermanence had a joint collaboration characteristic.
After incorporating Ox-Head and Horse-Face into the Ten Great Yin Marshals Divine Diagram, he focused entirely on researching Flying Sword production.
Time flew by to the next day.
Wu Xian holed up at home researching weapon Scroll Paintings as if nothing had happened.
Little did he know, the entire Yaoyang City had boiled over because of the mining area incident.
News of the mysterious depletion of Abyssal Realm No. 7 mine vein from yesterday had spread rapidly, with major mining companies suffering heavy losses and demanding explanations from the mayor.
The mayor attached great importance to this and joined with the Scroll Painter Association to launch an investigation.
Rumors spread wildly in Yaoyang City, and people were panic-stricken.
Wu Xian, who was researching Appliance Scroll Paintings, was interrupted by a WeChat message from Old Brother Mo, “Big trouble, brother. Yesterday the mining area was like haunted; most of the mine vein depleted instantly, and the whole mining area is in chaos.”
“Real or fake? A mine vein that big, gone just like that?” Wu Xian feigned surprise.
“You bet,” Old Brother Mo replied, “I just finished being questioned; almost got arrested. Do you think this could be the mayor’s doing?”
Wu Xian was puzzled, “How so?”
“Those people we encountered in the Thunder Fiend Stone latent snow area yesterday have been arrested. I saw the mayor didn’t look too good at the time.”
“Possibly.”
Wu Xian replied simply and ended the chat.
He continued to immerse himself in researching his Flying Sword Scroll Painting; making Appliance Scroll Paintings was far more complex than he imagined and seemed to require a method similar to constructing Mechanical Principles.
At least for now, just relying on concepts and settings clearly wasn’t enough.
