Painting the Night Emperor, the Painter's Scheme

The six hundredth year of the Jade Word Dynasty.

Of the Nine Continents of the World, seven were known as the Seven Paths of Luck.

As they continued to develop and take shape, people discovered that most systems were not meant for direct combat, but were merely auxiliary.

For example, Feng Shui Masters selected tomb sites, sought dragons and punctured acupoints, gathered the flow of luck, and brought blessings to a household or sect.

Blessing Masters and diviners were both purely auxiliary.

Only four could truly fight.

Word Spirit Masters wielded Golden Mouth Jade Words. The strongest among them could slightly interfere with reality.

But they were mostly balanced and comprehensive, rather than powerful.

One path gradually grew into the mainstream. It was called the Scholar Path. Its practitioners cultivated Literary Qi and Scholarly Aura, spoke with brilliant eloquence, and changed the heavens and earth. Before long, many became ministers and embarked upon the scholar's path.

Curse Masters excelled at killing from the shadows, but were extremely weak in direct combat.

Spell Masters focused on pure luck bars. They directly used luck bars to strike their enemies—a pure contest of whose was bigger!

The strongest path in battle belonged to the Daoists.

They could cultivate luck-inscribed talismans, curses, and misfortune, while also dabbling in other paths. They could even transfer fortune onto corpses and skeleton soldiers.

Those zombies that gathered luck became terrifying beyond measure. After several centuries of development, they had gradually developed a unique Corpse Refining Method.

They refined their ancestors into corpses!

The Metal Divine Ability Stones scattered everywhere were all Metal Tombs—the remains of various ancient cultivators.

They used Metal Stones to refine corpses, forming Bronze Corpses, Silver Corpses, Gold Corpses, and other ranks.

These zombies gathered fortune within their bodies. They neither lived nor died,