Mythical Scroll Artist: Starting with the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming

Chapter 89 Strange Holy Spirit Island

Compared to Dead Mountain Town, Holy Spirit Island is much larger.

Xue Lingling calmly explained, "The Holy Spirit Island instance is known for being huge, and it will become even larger as it is upgraded and transformed. It's like an independent miniature other world inhabited by all sorts of strange creatures."

"What's the plot?" Wu Xian pressed.

"It doesn't seem to have a clear plot, and it's not the same type as Dead Mountain Town," Xue Lingling said. "But under certain circumstances, it can summon even more powerful holy spirit creatures, so the setting is quite complex."

How to summon it?

"Let's talk as we go," Xue Lingling said, stepping on the coffin lid as she led the way. "There is a kind of human on the island who claims to be descendants of the Holy Spirit. They are divided into more than a dozen tribes of varying sizes, and they are constantly fighting each other."

Destroying them will summon some holy spirit creatures that protect them.

In addition, the island is home to various strange and wondrous creatures, some gentle, others highly aggressive.

Wu Xian nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

Since we're here to run dungeons and farm materials, we can just kill them all.

"There seems to be a group of sea turtles over there on the beach, should we go over?" Wang Xiaocong said with his sharp eyes.

Wu Xian's eyes lit up slightly, and he immediately changed direction and swooped down.

Let's test the quality of these turtle-like creatures first.

The laurel branch flew past with a sword, its defense quite high.

On the other side, Wang Xiaocong, already clad in silver armor and wielding a spear, was locked in fierce combat with a sea turtle, exclaiming in shock, "Wow, that's powerful? It feels much stronger than an elite monster from another dimension."

"A third-tier scroll copy, what do you think?"

Amidst her playful banter, Xue Lingling effortlessly manipulated the Soul-Devouring Ghost King to deal with the siege of several sea turtles.

After a brief maneuver, Wu Xian unleashed the [Fish Gill] general to counter the attack.

The image of the Fish Gill Commander is that of a ferocious and ugly fish-man with bloodshot eyes, holding a hammer, and covered with fine fish scales.

The spirits of the dead who are in charge of aquatic creatures.

Although sea turtles are amphibians, in classical Chinese culture, they are also considered aquatic creatures, such as the turtle prime minister of the East Sea Dragon Palace.

However, the Fish Gill General is only a two-star Silver Axis, making it somewhat difficult to fight against the turtles in this Tier 3 dungeon.

In the end, it was the God of Wealth who unleashed a thunderbolt, easily ending the battle.

After the turtle monster died, it left behind a piece of broken turtle shell, which was extremely rich in spiritual energy.

Let's just use the God of Wealth directly to save time.

The eight turtle monsters were quickly and easily dealt with.

"Oh my god, I'm exhausted!" Wang Xiaocong gasped for breath, having finally killed a sea turtle after a long time. Looking at the turtle shell in his hand, he was very excited. "It feels like it would be perfect for making weapon scrolls."

Just as they were preparing to search for other monsters, a group of primitive-looking, bronze-skinned humans rushed out of the jungle behind them.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Before the three could react, a barrage of powerful poisoned arrows had already been fired.

"Is this the descendant of the Holy Spirit?"

Wu Xian nimbly dodged on his flying sword, and with his wealth protecting him, he remained calm.

Xue Lingling then directly held the coffin lid in front of her, saying, "That's right, they're quite strong, so be careful."

Wang Xiaocong brandished his spear, his silver armor providing excellent defense, which managed to block the poisoned arrows.

"Wow, they all look just like real people."

Wang Xiaocong clicked his tongue in amazement, then a cold glint appeared first, followed by a spear thrusting out like a dragon, engaging in a fierce battle with one of the Holy Spirit descendants.

Xue Lingling's Soul-Devouring Ghost King, on the other hand, is quite ruthless, killing people indiscriminately.

On Wu Xian's side, the God of Wealth unleashed a thunderbolt, but it was neutralized by the power within the Holy Spirit descendant's body.

"Immunity to lightning?"

Surprised as they were, it was nothing serious. The God of Wealth rode his black tiger and charged forward, lashing out with his steel whip and sending the descendant of the Holy Spirit flying.

Surprisingly, these descendants of the Holy Spirit are quite clever; they even knew to prioritize attacking the scroll painter.

During the battle, poisoned arrows were constantly being shot at them.

Moreover, more and more descendants of the Holy Spirits are arriving to provide support. One of the muscular men roared, an unknown power surging around him, and a huge phantom of a sea serpent materialized around him with a dark blue energy, roaring with overwhelming power.

"Martial Soul, right?" Wu Xian asked in astonishment.

At the same time, Wang Xiaocong screamed and was swept away by the tail of the blue sea serpent phantom.

Before Wang Xiaocong could land, the sea serpent phantom spat out a lightning attack that resembled both thunder and water, striking Wang Xiaocong precisely.

Then, Wang Xiaocong's figure disappeared from the instance.

"See that? These are warriors of the Holy Spirit Clan. Their combat power is quite formidable."

But Wu Xian's expression was strange.

They immediately released the Black and White Impermanence to verify it, and sure enough, the Soul-Summoning Banner and Soul-Binding Chains were effective against the sea serpent phantom.

And so, under Xue Lingling's astonished gaze...

The Black and White Impermanence quickly suppressed the illusory sea serpent and bound it firmly with the Soul-Binding Chains.

The Holy Spirit Warrior, as if bound, struggled and could not move.

Then, Commander Fish Gill reappeared. The moment the iron hammer struck, the illusory spirit of the sea serpent dimmed, releasing a large amount of clear soul energy, which Commander Fish Gill absorbed into his mouth.

After absorbing the illusory sea serpent, Commander Fish Gill's painting spirit experience increased significantly, and he even subtly improved the condensation level of the divine paintings of the Ten Great Yin Commanders.

It's incredibly nourishing!

It's important to know that scroll dungeons generally don't provide upgrade experience for the painting spirits; they only provide an increase in spiritual power for the scroll painter.

But this strange Holy Spirit Island instance seems a bit different.

Then look at that Holy Spirit Warrior, he was as if his strength had been drained, he collapsed to the ground in pain, turning into a wisp of special remnant soul material.

“What a great place!”

At this moment, Wu Xian's eyes gleamed with a cunning light, wishing he could live in this Holy Spirit Island instance.

"Master Sister, this Holy Soul is a great tonic for our Undead Painting Spirits!" Wu Xian hurriedly shared, "It even slightly improved the refinement of the Divine Diagram."

"Really?" Xue Lingling was both surprised and doubtful.

All she knew was that powerful undead scrolls could suppress the "Holy Spirit" of the Holy Spirit Warriors to some extent.

But I never imagined that thing could be directly swallowed.

Excited, Xue Lingling immediately began to try. She locked onto the second Holy Spirit Warrior who came to her aid, and after a few moves, she easily forced out his Holy Spirit Martial Soul.

This time it was a demonic, ghostly blue phantom of a holy spirit.

With the help of the Black and White Impermanence, they easily suppressed and bound it, and allowed the Soul-Eating Ghost King to attempt to devour it.

"It's really good!"

Feeling the changes in the Ghost King's Divine Diagram, Xue Lingling was extremely excited.

"It's just that the absorption is a bit slow, which seems to be related to the laws behind the Soul Devouring Ghost King. The more complete the law framework, the easier it is to absorb."

Wu Xian couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is the core idea of ​​the Holy Spirit Dojo to create this kind of being called a Holy Spirit?"

“That’s right,” Xue Lingling said, “Some of the top Holy Spirits are extremely powerful.”

The master and apprentice, immersed in their excitement, had long forgotten about Wang Xiaocong, who had been "cleared out" of the instance.

……

Holy Spirit Dojo.

The two elderly men opened their eyes one after the other, their eyes filled with horror and confusion.

"Who? Who is stealing the power of my Holy Spirit Realm?!"

The two old men exchanged surprised glances and both immersed their consciousness into the Holy Spirit Realm, but they could not sense where that power came from at all.

It was as if it had been taken away out of thin air.

Although it was only a negligible amount of power, it sent chills down the spines of the two old men. After all, they couldn't sense the other's presence at all, nor could they sense how the other had stolen that bit of power.

(End of this chapter)