134: The largest mine rat in Yaoyang City

Chapter 134: Yaoyang City's Biggest Ore Scavenger

Although the competition had ended, its impact and popularity continued.

Bai Shiqi's Emperor Mummy series, thanks to its excellent quality, officially entered Yaoyang City's scroll market.

However, due to its price, sales were not particularly outstanding.

But at least it had earned high recognition from the people of Yaoyang City.

In addition, the chicken king and divine tiger scrolls, which had previously received little attention, also began to see an explosion in sales, especially the Chicken King, which almost became an essential scroll for expeditions into the insectoid copy.

Even the army stationed in the insectoid copy purchased a batch of Chicken King scrolls and temporarily formed a Chicken King Cavalry Camp.

According to subsequent news reports, this Chicken King Cavalry Camp had gone wild on the front lines of the insectoid copy.

Divine Fire Club.

Bai Shiqi placed the Wu Xian series scrolls he had bought at a high price, one by one, into a five-dimensional scoring instrument for testing.

Each test result made him gasp in surprise.

Almost every scroll's five-dimensional score was much higher than he had anticipated, and also significantly superior to his own scrolls.

This was no longer a gap in background or talent; it was purely a technical disparity.

Judging from the scores of these scrolls, Wu Xian's drawing skill and artistry were incredibly profound, as if he was born to paint.

One must know that ever since he could remember, he had been arranged by his Family to study various painting knowledge and hone various techniques.

Yet, in front of Wu Xian, it all seemed so ridiculous.

"President Yang, have you taken care of the matter I entrusted to you?"

Bai Shiqi calmed down after a long while and turned to look at the President of the Divine Fire Club beside him.

"Reporting, Young Master, it has been handled," the President of the Divine Fire Club replied. "The Family that rented Wu Xian's shack has already moved out. You can move in anytime. It's just... are you sure you want to live in such a chaotic place?"

Bai Shiqi remained silent, merely getting up and heading towards... the North District, inside a small villa.

Wu Xian, who was studying and researching Divinity Factor synthesis technology, suddenly received a call from his former neighbor, Old Wang.

"Idle kid, this morning a Spirit Master adult paid a large sum of money to rent your shack. I'll transfer the money to you later."

"Ah? Wasn't that house already rented out?" Wu Xian's expression was strange.

"I don't know. That person insisted on renting your house. The previous Family was directly paid off and asked to leave," Old Wang said cheerfully. "I reckon it must be one of your fervent fans, after all, our Idle kid is a celebrity now."

"Alright, I understand. You old fellows can keep the rent; I don't lack that bit of money now."

Wu Xian's expression was peculiar; for the first time, he felt the terror of the "sasaeng fans" from his previous life.

"Ah? That's too embarrassing. Thanks to you, our lives as old fellows are already very good now."

"If I tell you to keep it, then keep it."

Hanging up the phone, Wu Xian didn't put the matter to heart.

He continued to delve into the mysteries of Divinity Factor synthesis technology.

The deeper he understood and studied, the more he could feel Third Master Xue's "Genius" qualities.

However, Third Master Xue seemed to have neglected his research lately, often running off to explore copies. Not just Third Master Xue, but Shifu-jie Xue Lingling also seemed quite busy recently.

Wu Xian thought about it and guessed it was because of the expansion of the three major dimensional control zones, and the Xue Family was also seeking development.

As members of the Xue Family, both of them naturally had to contribute their share.

The vastly expanded control zones of the three major dimensions now resembled a blue ocean for the various forces and Families in Yaoyang City.

Everyone wanted a piece of the pie.

The Tang Family and Zhou Family, where Zhou Qi was, were also quite busy recently. Even Du Yifan and other Club members participated in this "great change unseen in a hundred years" opportunity.

However, compared to those Family forces, these individuals were more about riding the wave of the times to earn more money.

Conversely, Wu Xian, who had no ties other than the Old Master, was quite idle.

Of course, that was only on the surface.

Every time night fell, he would transform into Yaoyang City's biggest "Ore scavenger," heading to the periphery of the three major dimensional control zones to search for various high-quality Ore veins.

Any Ore veins useful to the Laurel Tree were completely drained.

Even those not needed by the Laurel Tree would have their rare Ore thoroughly swept through, and the highest quality Ore from the core area of the Ore vein would all be collected into his cosmos sack.

After all, drawing Domain Scrolls would consume a large amount of Ore resources.

After a few days, having absorbed several mining areas, the Laurel Tree had already reached five and a half stars, its Spiritual Qi gathering effect significantly improved, and even its Spirituality had increased to 51 points.

【Innate Laurel Tree (Incomplete)】

Edition: original (Gold embroidered edge)

Grade: bronze scroll

painting spirit: ★★★★★☆

Spirituality: 51

Innate Trait: Taiyin Spiritual Root

It was strange; after absorbing so many Ore veins, it still couldn't advance to silver scroll, let alone shed the "Incomplete" label.

Clearly, it still lacked some crucial plant-based spiritual substance.

I heard that a large dimensional Fusion Zone was recently discovered in the insectoid copy, which includes a plant dimensional Fusion Zone. Tonight is a good opportunity to try my luck, and rare Ore veins are also more likely to appear in Fusion Zones... Insectoid copy Gate Port.

The dimensional port was still brightly lit and bustling with trade late at night.

After all, with the expansion and exploration of the dimensional control zones, and the popularity of the Town-House Chicken King, the resource output of Yaoyang City's three major dimensional control zones was also increasing.

As the saying goes: territory is the most fundamental resource.

This holds true for cities in the scroll world as well.

The larger the dimensional control zone, the more various resources it produces, which are then converted into economic development through trade with other cities.

The happiest person recently was undoubtedly Mayor Chen Shilong.

With Yaoyang City's economy taking off, he, as Mayor, naturally reaped immense profits.

With the Association's special pass, Wu Xian no longer needed to pay admission fees to any copies.

Exiting the high-Rank copy outpost of the insectoid copy, he stepped onto his Flying Sword and headed directly beyond the high-Rank defense line.

Unconsciously, he could already vaguely see the outline of that large dimensional Fusion Zone, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Its sheer scale was astonishing.

In the dark, twisted sky, various magnificent spatial lights twisted and mingled together.

In the future, this place would undoubtedly become the main economic lifeline of Yaoyang City.

One area, densely overgrown with various strange plants, was the Fusion Zone of the plant dimension and the insectoid copy.

He slowly descended into it on his Flying Sword, where various peculiar plants blotted out the sky.

Thick vegetation naturally breeds various insects, and coupled with its Fusion with the insectoid copy, this area had become a paradise for insectoid dimensional monsters.

For example, at this moment, in the weeds, there was a giant caterpillar with two large, adorably clumsy eyes.

One second it was staring at him, and the next, it opened its hair-raising mouthparts, fine, pointed teeth spiraling deep into its maw.

Crucially, this caterpillar was actually a Rank seven monster.

Pfft!

The Laurel Branch flashed with a cold light, piercing through the caterpillar's forehead, splattering a pool of greenish-yellow viscous liquid.

The current Laurel Branch had been nurtured by him to four stars, and with its silver scroll Grade and excellent foundation, dealing with ordinary seven or eight-Rank monsters was very easy.

According to Shifu-jie Xue Lingling, this was the quality a high-end, premium scroll should possess.

As mentioned before, the painting spirit Rank corresponds to the Rank of dimensional monsters.

However, strictly speaking, one star does not correspond to one monster Rank; rather, half a star corresponds to one monster Rank.

For low-grade scrolls, one star can only deal with a Rank one monster, but for premium scrolls, one star can often deal with a Rank two monster.

This is also a standard for measuring whether a scroll is excellent.