44: Five-dimensional scoring performance

Perhaps for them, becoming an Apprentice Scroll Master had already become an obsession.

Wu Xian looked at the large instrument analyzing and testing the scroll, and couldn't help but wonder, "What does this machine test?"

"The scroll's Five-Dimensional Performance Rating," Xue Lingling said without hesitation, "Only if the Five-Dimensional Performance Rating meets the standard can it pass the assessment."

"Five-dimensional? Performance Rating?" Wu Xian was completely confused.

As they spoke, the thirty-year-old man had finished his test.

Beep! Beep!

The painting spirit's astrological sign appeared on the instrument screen, and a series of scroll data popped up:

【Sand River Warrior】bronze scroll One-Star

Type: Character scroll

Color: 8

Detail: 7

Aura: 9

Art Style: 13

Overall: 11

Final Result: We regret to inform you that your scroll does not meet the association's standards.

"See~ This is the scroll's Five-Dimensional Performance Rating," Xue Lingling said, pointing at the screen and explaining on the spot: "We Scroll Masters are essentially painting, so the strength of the painting spirit naturally depends on these indicators.

The upper limit of each Performance Rating determines the potential value of the scroll, and also reflects the Scroll Master's ability and skill.

Take this scroll, for example; a bunch of single-digit ratings clearly belong to the kind that no matter how good the painting skill, it can't be saved."

Wu Xian listened, dumbfounded.

He had originally thought that scrolls only had differences in grade, Rank, and spirituality, but he didn't expect there to be so many detailed numerical standards.

"Even if a top Great Master were to create this scroll concept with top-tier pigments, it would still be worthless. The upper limit is just that high; any more effort would be futile," Elder Chen added, explaining.

To put it simply, not all scroll concepts, once drawn, have value.

Most of the painstaking works of Scroll Masters actually have no cultivation value.

Although scrolls are entirely conceived and set by Scroll Masters out of thin air, it's not that any setting you casually make can be realized; it must be recognized by the scroll Law.

It's like if you drew a dog and set it as a powerful deity with immense power.

But these settings cannot be recognized by the scroll Law, so they naturally cannot take effect or manifest.

In the end, it can only be an ordinary dog.

This made Wu Xian realize that 【Extraordinary scroll】 is by no means as simple as just conceiving it out of thin air!

Or, like Sister Tiao's 【Jade Rabbit Elixir Grinding】, does it have to at least roughly approach a certain "standard" to be recognized by the World Law for its corresponding power settings?

"Why... why does the great Sand River Warrior only have this rating?"

Perhaps their words were too direct; the thirty-year-old man broke down crying on the spot.

"I can't accept this—!"

"I know, I have to bribe the examiner."

The man was clearly a bit deluded, clamoring to bribe Elder Chen.

Little did he know, a Performance Rating is a Performance Rating; even if he bribed Elder Chen to raise the numbers, it would just be self-deception.

"Get out!"

With an angry shout from Elder Chen, the man was dragged out by two staff members.

Next, another female scroll student took out a bronze scroll and nervously placed it in the detection area.

Wu Xian continued to ask, "How is the Five-Dimensional Performance Rating calculated? Is it really that accurate?"

"The instrument essentially analyzes and calculates the strength of the various spiritual indicators of the painting spirit. There will be some deviation, but it's generally accurate," Xue Lingling said without hesitation, "Good is good, bad is bad; there's nothing to doubt."

The strength of the painting spirit's own spiritual indicators?

"So what exactly is the purpose of the Five-Dimensional Performance Rating?" Wu Xian continued to ask.

"The higher each rating, the more outstanding the painting spirit's abilities and potential naturally are. It can be understood as the painting spirit's Aptitude, and most directly, it will affect the painting spirit's various abilities," Xue Lingling explained unhurriedly: "For example, increasing the Color rating can enhance the painting spirit's Aura, as well as Spell damage and Spell defense.

The Detail rating can increase the painting spirit's physical damage and physical defense.

The Aura rating can strengthen mental-level abilities.

The Art Style rating strengthens the painting spirit's characteristics, including innate talents and hidden traits.

The Overall rating affects the painting spirit's spiritual body strength. The higher the spiritual body strength, the more robust and resilient the painting spirit."

The more Wu Xian listened, the more amazed he became; he hadn't expected scrolls to have so many details.

It was somewhat similar to the pet Aptitude System in some games from his previous life, where the higher each Aptitude, the better.

He wondered what the "various Aptitudes" of the God of Wealth and Black and White Impermanence were.

He certainly didn't dare to test the God of Wealth, so he could only let Black and White Impermanence, Chicken King, and Divine Tiger go up and be tested first.

As they spoke, the female examinee had also completed her test, and a series of rating data popped up on the screen:

【Seed Beast】bronze scroll One-Star

Type: Animal scroll

Color: 17

Detail: 15

Aura: 19

Art Style: 23

Overall: 20

Final Result: Congratulations, your scroll has passed the test!

The moment she saw the result, the female examinee was so excited that tears welled up in her eyes.

"Spirit-type or plant-type? This rating is barely acceptable; at least it has some cultivation value," Xue Lingling commented with interest.

Elder Chen echoed from the side: "It's a bit lacking for fighting against dimensional invasions, but it's pretty good as a pet. Many people would probably be willing to buy it."

Wu Xian, however, looked at the painting spirit's image on the screen with a strange expression.

It was a large green garlic head, with a nose and eyes, and it was quite cute, like a scroll concept combining spirit-type and plant-type dimensions.

But no matter how Wu Xian looked at it, it seemed familiar.

"Is it considered passing as long as there are no single-digit scores?" Wu Xian asked, regaining his composure.

"Sort of," Xue Lingling nodded, "If one or two ratings are particularly excellent, it can also pass the test."

"Oh, oh."

Next, it was Wu Xian's turn. Seeing Shifu-jie's expectant little eyes, she was clearly looking forward to the performance of Black and White Impermanence.

Elder Chen also cast a curious gaze, after all, he was a little guy whom Xue Lingling had taken a liking to, so he must have something special about him.

"Is it a undead-type scroll like yours?"

Feeling the eerie Aura emanating from the Black and White Impermanence scroll, Elder Chen also secretly began to look forward to it.

At the same time, Wu Xian had already placed the 【Black and White Impermanence】 scroll on the instrument's scanning platform. The female examinee who had just passed the test didn't rush to leave and watched curiously from the side.

Buzz, buzz, buzz... The instrument emitted bursts of high-frequency energy vibrations.

"So long?"

Seeing that no result had appeared for a long time, Elder Chen couldn't help but be surprised.

Typically, the higher the Performance Rating, the longer the instrument's detection time.

Xue Lingling was relatively calmer, knowing that the Performance Rating of Black and White Impermanence would certainly not be low.

But as time went on, she too began to lose her composure.

Soon after, the instrument finally emitted a belated beeping sound, and the test results popped up.

The netherworld images of the two lords, Black and White Impermanence, appeared on the screen, arousing curiosity in Elder Chen and the female examinee.

Then, looking at the series of rating data displayed below, the three people present were instantly stunned.

【Black and White Impermanence】bronze scroll Three-Star

Type: Character scroll

Color: 43

Detail: 60

Aura: 93

Art Style: 108

Overall: 101

Final Result: Congratulations, your scroll has passed the test!

The female examinee watching from the side immediately gasped, unable to believe her eyes.

Xue Lingling and Elder Chen, however, breathed rapidly, exclaiming in surprise: "Over... over a hundred?!"

One must know that for scrolls in the bronze scroll stage, a single rating above 30 was already considered excellent.

Even Xue Lingling's 【Soul-Devouring Ghost King】 only had a Five-Dimensional rating exceeding forty points, with a single item breaking fifty.

"Is it the enhancement of painting skill or Heaven-Defying Aptitude?" Elder Chen's heart pounded, "Or... both?"