I'm Already the Richest Man, Why Did My System Just Arrive?

The art style changed starting with the fifth mural.

Zhu was painted together with a Scorching Sun.

Zhu's gaze was locked onto the Scorching Sun.

His two eyes had taken the shape of the Scorching Sun.

The depiction of this Scorching Sun was peculiar. It was unclear whether this was intentional or simply due to a lack of carving skill. The Scorching Sun wasn't circular; its outline was crooked and distorted. They had used writhing, worm-like lines to portray its corona.

The mural's depiction made the perfectly normal Scorching Sun seem somewhat eerie and sinister.

Zheng Xiu took a deep breath. His brows had been tightly furrowed from the start, but he said nothing more and continued looking.

In the next mural, Zhu began chasing the Scorching Sun.

He crossed mountain after mountain.

He crossed river after river.

He stepped over corpse after corpse.

Mural after mural, it was as if Zhu's entire life was condensed before him.

He crossed oceans.

He brought enlightenment to the Barbarians.

He climbed mountains to gather medicinal herbs.

He lit furnaces to refine elixirs.

Zhu's appearance changed in every mural.

Next, Zhu crossed the Great Desert, and the Scorching Sun took up an increasingly large portion of the murals.

He drew ever closer to the Scorching Sun.

However, Zheng Xiu found them exceptionally difficult to interpret, as the events depicted in the murals did not seem to be in chronological order.

In one of the final murals, Zhu was walking through the Great Desert, hunched and stooped, with a thick beard and ragged clothes, leaning on a staff.

At the end of the mural series, Zhu arrived at Richan Valley.

He was attacked by the inhabitants of the Great Desert.

But in the next mural, they had become friends.

A group of naked Great Desert inhabitants were prostrating themselves before Zhu.

Zhu climbed a mountain, and at its pointed summit was that same eerie "Scorching Sun."

Zheng Xiu's gaze moved to the penultimate mural.

Suddenly, Zheng Xiu's breath caught in his throat.

The final mural was incomplete, yet it filled Zheng Xiu with a sudden wave of nausea... an inexplicable revulsion, as if in the instant he saw it, he had already profoundly understood its meaning.

In the mural, Zhu stood hunched on the summit, holding something in his hands. It was precisely this "something" that was missing from the depiction. According to the legends, he should have been holding the Scorching Sun.

But what made Zheng Xiu so uncomfortable was the way the final scene was depicted. In the mural, Zhu's head was drawn to an abnormal size. Inside his two eyes, countless "Scorching Suns" were densely drawn. And Zhu's mouth was stretched into a massive grin that split his face to his ears—an exaggerated and deeply unsettling smile.

Zhu's eyes were no longer normal; they resembled a hornet's nest, riddled with holes. His body was melting, just as the "legend" Zheng Xiu had heard described.

"The Sun Chaser, for getting too close to the Scorching Sun, was melted by the very object of his worship."

Xie Luohe, who had appeared behind Zheng Xiu at some unknown point, uttered a strange sentence in an indifferent tone.

Zheng Xiu whipped his head around to face Xie Luohe, his pupils shrinking. "What did you say?"

Xie Luohe smiled and pointed at the mural. "I'm referring to the mural's contents. It's very interesting, isn't it?"

Zheng Xiu fell silent, his gaze shifting back to the last mural.

Zhu was gone from this mural. All that remained was an ancient coffin.

Countless heads were depicted in mourning.

In the end, the Sun Chaser was dead.

Killed by the Scorching Sun.

"Huh?" At first, Zheng Xiu saw only the coffin and the dense crowd of mourners. But he quickly noticed something else: standing around the scene were three "Pillars."

The Scorching Sun was gone from the sky.

"What are these three Pillars?" Zheng Xiu muttered, his brow deeply furrowed.

"Perhaps," Xie Luohe said, leaning in for a closer look. After a moment's thought, she shook her head. "Maybe they're just ordinary pillars."

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