The Card Cultivation System
CCS-126

Forestland. Natural habitat of wolves full of dense trees. The sun penetrated in from between the leaves that have various shapes and hit the plain face of a 15-year-old teenager. The teenager squirms and then changes his sleeping position to avoid the sun.

Beside him was another young man. He lay in the middle of the strange purple grass. The young man opened his eyes. He looked at the plain-faced young man without any burden beside him with a frown, as a wolf approached him.

The gray-haired wolf that looked at Xika curiously. He brought his face closer to Xika until his muzzle almost touched Xika's nose. He sniffed Xika several times, and made Shu Mang even more confused. It seemed that Xika was also bothered by Lang Yao's actions.

He opened his eyes several times before he realized what was in front of his eyes. And he immediately swung his hand towards that big face.

Buk up!

"Aw! Why did you hit me?"

"Why is your face so close to mine?"

Lang Yao did not reply. He stroked the part of the face that Xika hit. Xika looked at the wolf in confusion at once strangely.

"What are you doing here?"

Lang Yao brought her face closer again, then asked with a mysterious smile.

"You think?"

Buk up!

"Not close to my face."

Lang Yao grimaced softly.

"And quickly tell me what you're doing here. Otherwise I'll beat you up. I don't want my sleep disturbed."

Beside them, Shu Mang looked at the two confusedly without speaking. More precisely he could not speak seeing the actions of the two. And again, what kind of reason is that? Striking the wolf for not wanting to have his sleep disturbed? Shu Mang really did not understand Xika's thoughts.

"I came here to check on him" Lang Yao said as she gave a sign using her head pointing at Shu Mang.

"Then why are you even looking at me?"

"I'm only interested in humans who have become part of wolves. The man who had defeated Lang Jin, and who had also made the greatest wolf into 'your nanny'."

Shu Mang widened his eyes looking at Xika. Everything the information Lang Yao released was extremely shocking. He had expected Xika to have an unusual relationship with the wolves, but he did not expect the wolves to consider him part of the wolf pack. The other two pieces of information were no less surprising either.

In contrast to Shu Mang who was very surprised, Xika did not care about Lang Yao's words at all. He even rolled his eyes as Lang Yao spoke. Normally, people always want to look better than others. So Xika should be proud of Lang Yao's words flattering her, it should be. But as we know, Xika is not a normal human being. No, it's far from normal.

"Quick check on him."

"I need your help. There's still poisonous grass around him."

Xika sighed in annoyance. This grass is very disturbing. Grass is the main cause of all these problems. From the start he lies to Shu Mang, until he is appointed from the spokesman of the wolves. Then he stood up and plucked out all the poisonous grass that surrounded Shu Mang.

Both Shu Mang and Lang Yao were speechless at what Xika was doing. They are confused to the point of not being able to talk. A few minutes passed, and Xika finished plucking out all the poisonous grass. Now there is no more 'luxury mattress' Shu Mang.

"alright. The grass is cleared. Please check it yourself. I'm going to sleep again."

Shu Mang looked at Xika strangely. He believed plucking the grass was more tiring than treating it. But before Xika could return to her dreamland, Lang Yao stopped her.

"Ah, do you have a bowl? I need a container to put the drugs I'm concocting."

"Where did you concoct your drugs before?"

"In bowl. Unfortunately I forgot to bring it."

Xika was really upset with Lang Yao.

"Why don't you forget to bring the medicine?"

"Hm? Ah, right too. How do you know that? Justjust wonderful. I'll come back to get the medicine with the bowl."

Xika could not speak seeing the strange wolf. But Shu Mang who was more surprised to see Xika was about to continue his sleep. He will not be able to go back to sleep after waking up. He spoke long enough to wake up. But Xika is not. In fact, the child did not need much effort to fall asleep.

So Shu Mang just kept waiting for Lang Yao to come back, or Xika to wake up. But it seems the last option is more impossible. About fifteen minutes later Lang Yao returned by biting off a pack. He put the package down and opened it under Shu Mang's curious gaze.

The package contained a variety of plants, either intact or that had become a powder, bowl, tool to mash, and some other tools that Shu Mang did not know. Without speaking, Lang Yao started concocting.

He put the intact plants into a bowl to mash it, then after becoming a fine powder, he added a little water and stirred it. The water and powder combine to form a yellow liquid. But Lang Yao was not finished yet. He put some other plant powder in and stirred it until it fused. The liquid was constantly changing color. And now, the liquid no longer has a clear color. It looks cloudy like old water washing clothes.

Then Lang Yao looked at Shu Mang and said,

"Drink."

Gluey!

Shu Mang gulped his saliva watching the water carefully. He believes that used water washes his clothes cleaner than the water in front of him. Lang Yao understood Shu Mang's gaze. He sighed.

"All right, I'll prove it."

"Hold it."

Before he could ask, Lang Yao had swung her claws right into Shu Mang's wound and made the line on his body open wide.

"AHHHHHHH!!!!!"

And this time what woke Xika up was the hysterical cry of Shu Mang. Xika rubbed her eyes a few times, then looked at Lang Yao. The wolf stared at his claws which he had just used to tear Shu Mang apart. His claws are purple.

"Look, my claws are also poisoned, right?"

Even though his wide-open chest was screaming in pain half-dead and making his head dizzy as well as his gaze blurry, Shu Mang forced himself to look and as the wolf said, his claws were purple, purple, he was also poisoned.

"Now I'll dip my paws."

The purple claws are put in a bowl of water used to wash clothes. He left his claws submerged for a few seconds before lifting them back up. And the poison. But it's starting to diminish. Little by little, the purple poison shrank. But his speed shrank very slowly. Even snails are faster than that.

"Eh, since you dipped your paws, shouldn't that liquid be smeared on my wounds, instead of drunk?" shu Mang asked, hoping he wouldn't have to drink the dirty water.

"Normally so. But if applied topically will only work for external wounds. I don't know how deep your wounds are. So just in case, just drink this liquid."

Shu Mang's expression was getting darker. It was bad enough to drink the water from the laundry, now the wolf had dipped its paws in there and it had to drink the water from the wolf. Lang Yao noticed Shu Mang's gaze and realized that the boy was looking at his claws.

"Hm? My paws, huh? Don't worry, it's clean."

Shu Mang felt even more relieved after hearing that. But his perception again changed when he heard Lang Yao's next remark.

"I'm just stepping on some shit at best. Two or three may.......Ah, and I accidentally stepped on the wet ground, it looks like someone urinated there before."

Shu Mang did not know what to do. He could already imagine what would happen if he drank the contents of the bowl. He looked at Lang Yao with his innocent face, and knew that the wolf would continue to force him until he gulped down all the contents of the bowl.

Then he looked at Xika who had woken up from this moment but had not spoken. Unfortunately, the boy did not give much hope either. He just watched quietly and peacefully. Shu Mang sighed. It seems he must drink the bowl.

"There won't be any side effects, will there?"

"Of course."

"Eitherway? Why don't you know? When did you make poison, uh I mean this drink?"

"A few minutes ago. Didn't you see it for yourself?"

"That's not what I meant. When did you test that filthy water? Or when did you practice making it?"

"Hmmm. That was my first time. Congrats! You were the first to try it. Wait, or is that me?"

Shu Mang pointed at Lang Yao. His mouth opened and closed but did not manage to find the sound. Unfortunately Lang Yao misunderstood Shu Mang's actions.

"Are you ready?"

And he floated his bowl with qi and made all its contents flow into Shu Mang's throat. The young man choked a few times with his bulging eyes.

Xika walked over to Lang Yao.

"Have you really never tested it?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"Will there be no side effects?"

"Fright."

"Why are you so sure you haven't tried it yet?"

"I've never tried it. But my teacher has. He is the most skilled wolf in spiritual plants. So, just relax."

"Why didn't you tell Shu Mang?"

"Hm? Oh, tha. I want to make it less tense to more easily absorb the medicinal properties."

"I think you're making it even more tense."

"really? Hahahaha. After all, he would not die from choking. Wait, that's right, right?"

".........."

Meanwhile Shu Mang who heard the conversation of the two from the side, tried hard not to die from choking and stared at Lang Yao very widely as if he was about to eat her alive.

Finally after passing through the seconds and minutes that felt so long in his life, Shu Mang managed to swallow all the water used to wash the clothes. But the process is not finished. A considerable amount of energy flowed in from his throat towards the place where his wound was.

And he had to control the energy slowly so as not to go too fast or slow because, the wound was very close to his dantian. A little wrong then he will be a disabled person for life. Xika and Lang Yao simply stared at the young man in silence.

Then a wolf came from behind the forest and looked at the figure of Shu Mang who was suffering quite a bit.