The Card Cultivation System
CCS-127

Lang Jin looked at the figure of Shu Mang who seemed to still be suffering. Then he turned his gaze to Lang Yao.

"What did you do to him?"

"Cure him, of course."

"Why does it look more like poisoning her?"

"Yes, that's also part of the plan."

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

"I was just kidding. Wait, you know I'm kidding, right?"

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

Lang Jin did not care about Lang Yao. The wolf seemed to have a problem with his head. So he walked towards Xika who seemed to be more sane, it seemed.

"Is everything going well?"

"Not really."

"Why?"

"Well, Lang Yao slightly messed up. But it shouldn't be fatal. He's been drinking the poison. Now he's absorbing the medicinal properties."

Lang Jin looked back at Shu Mang. His forehead was still puckered and his face was filled with sweat.

"It seemed like he would need a lot of time to absorb the medicinal properties completely."

"Mm.yes. It seems so."

"And he will not have enough qi to absorb all its properties."

"Would he stop the process for a moment?"

"No."

"Then what if he only absorbed half of its properties?"

"Half of the rest he doesn't suck is still more than enough to kill him."

Xika shut up for a moment. Thinks. Lang Jin definitely didn't come here just to talk about it. If he knows the problem, he should know the solution as well.

"So what to do?"

"You can give him your qi."

"Delivering my qi? At him? I don't know, I'm not sure. Only expert cultivators could do that without mistakes."

"Then I will make you an expert cultivator" Lang Jin said as he showed a rare smile. The wolf walked away and asked Xika to follow him.

"Are you going to teach me?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"But I heard the structure of the bodies of humans and wolves is quite different. And that's gonna make it harder."

"If you try, you can."

Xika shrugged her shoulders and chose not to speak anymore. He listened to Lang Jin briefly explain the structure of the human and wolf bodies.

"You're going to put your qimu on someone else. Therefore, enter slowly and do not surprise him. Or it will stop absorbing and die. Now, try to put your qi on me."

Lang Jin turned around and gave his back. Xika placed both hands slowly. He tried to flow his qinya towards Lang Jin.

"Wrong! You're too rude and in a hurry. If I were Shu Mang, you would have made me die. Try again."

Xika repeated the process. He failed a few times and scolded Lang Jin. But every experiment makes it one step more true. Then Xika finally succeeded, and Lang Jin said,

"good. Now try to flow your qi in the same direction as my qi. The young man must have flowed his qinya in a pattern to absorb the efficacy. If you can't follow the direction and make the pattern fuck up, then you'll kill him, too."

"........."

Xika doesn't talk much. He tried to do the thing Lang Jin had previously taught him. First of all, enter the qi slowly and gently. Succeeds. After that flow according to the pattern. Xika tries to find the pattern that Lang Jin did.

"Wrong! You can't check the pattern first. You check it using qi, and it'll mess up the pattern I've formed. Don't try to check it. Try to follow my qi. Find your qi with mine, then let my qi take your qi away. Because our goal is to do this to provide additional qi, right?"

Xika nodded. He tried it again. Don't check the pattern. Just follow Lang Jin's qi flowing. Uh! He managed to find Lang Jin's qi, but he instead banged his qi until both of them exploded.

"Try again."

Xika entered her qinya. Then he waited for Lang Jin's qi to appear. After that he did not immediately meet his qinya. He tried to approach Lang Jin's qi slowly. But Lang Jin spoke again.

"Wrong! Do not slow down or speed up the flow. Follow it naturally. You're trying to approach my qi slowly. But it's too slow. Try again. Remember, we don't have much time."

Xika failed a few more times before Lang Jin finally nodded. He asks Xika to do it one more time to make sure the boy really mastered it. Xika did not refuse. He returned to his qinya. This time Lang Jin flowed his qi with a different pattern.

Xika brought her qi closer to Lang Jin's qi with the same speed. Then he relinquished control over his qi and let Lang Jin take over.

"good. Now try on him. Looks like he can't hold on much longer."

Xika hurriedly approached Shu Mang. He recalled what Lang Jin had taught him and what he had done earlier. He took a deep breath, then slowly pressed his hand. Shu Mang was not surprised by his touch.

Shu Mang's flow pattern is indeed more complicated. But after getting used to it, it was not much different from his training pattern with Lang Jin. Xika was getting used to giving her qi to Shu Mang. A few minutes passed and he began to break his concentration.

Fifteen minutes passed and he could already feel what was happening around him. The sweat of Shu Mang that hit his hand and was trying to hold it, Lang Jin's gaze on him, and the curious and disturbing gaze that Lang Yao gave.

Forty minutes later Xika managed to open her eyes and began to observe her surroundings. He looked at Lang Jin who gave a surprised look. The wolf approached in confusion as well as a bit of panic.

"What's wrong? Done already? Or have you failed?"

Xika did not answer. It takes more concentration to do that. Ten minutes later he managed to do it.

"No............All....good." said Xika somewhat stammered. He can already talk, but does not surf if he does not help Shu Mang.

Lang Jin was silent. He did not try to get Xika to talk because he knew the child needed more concentration. But Xika wanted him to do it.

"Continue..talk...."

"You sure?"

".......Yes....."

Lang Jin was silent again. This time, it was because of confusion. What should he talk to Xika.

"To be honest, I don't know what to say."

"What."

"I really don't have an idea. Can you give me a topic?"

"Tales....masa."

And thus, Lang Jin recounted his childhood to Xika rather rigidly. Well, the black wolf wasn't very good at talking. Several times he used the word wrong. And slowly, Xika's concentration began to improve. At first he could not hear Lang Jin's story well.

Then he started to hear it in its entirety. After that, he began to try to talk. Still a bit stiff at first. But slowly it got better. Several hours passed and now Xika could do it while chatting with Lang Jin. He chatted normally as if he did not do activities that confiscate concentration such as giving his qi to Shu Mang.

After Lang Jin realized Xika could already chat casually, he tried to give a question that bothered his mind all night yesterday.

"I think you're a little too trusting of him. And why does he believe in you so easily?"

Well, what Lang Jin said was true. As the one who had tricked him, Shu Mang trusted Xika too easily. But he has a guess about it.

"I'm not sure. But I think we're going through the same thing."

Lang Jin seemed interested.

"Oh? What'sthat?"

"Abjection."

Lang Jin was silent. He asked Xika to continue.

"I don't know how your life is and I don't mean to exalt myself or humble you. But I've lived a life of humiliation for ten years. I've lived with my uncle since I was five. And for ten years, I have been constantly receiving insults. No matter where I am, no matter what I do, good or evil, right or wrong, I always get humiliation."

"..................WHY?"

Xika smiled.

"Because I can't cultivate."

And instantly Lang Jin widened his eyes. He looked at Xika in disbelief. Then check Xika with her qi.

"Don't lie. You're full of qi now."

"Now. Not eleven years ago."

"So......you just started cultivating........?"

"I just started cultivating a few months in the forest. Then in the tomb for a year. So less than a year and a half. In a few months, I'll have a birthday. Perhaps back then, I had been cultivating for two years."

Lang Jin looked at Xika closely. Especially eyes. He was still unsure that Xika had only been cultivating for a year and a half. Is he lying? But what was in Xika's eyes was pain and pain that could not be faked. The real pain. So Xika was right. He's not lying. He had only started cultivating for a few years.

And just then, Lang Jin felt like he had completely lost to Xika. Previously, even though he had lost the fight, he still considered it a proud defeat. Indeed Xika had managed to defeat him, but he had also sealed his cultivation.

But when he found out that he who had absorbed qi since birth lost to Xika who had just absorbed qi for a year and a half..............he doesn't know how to describe his feelings. His heart seemed to be torn apart. His speed, genius, and strength that he had always been proud of was nothing in front of Xika.

"wait. You said you had humiliation for a year? Then why did you say it eleven years ago?"

"I lived with my uncle from the age of 5 to 15. I lived in humiliation. Then after I. After that I lived wandering for a year and a half."

Lang Jin nodded in understanding. And he doesn't talk anymore. He was busy thinking about what to do in the future. His pride as a wolf did not allow him to lose to Xika. He really wanted to win from Xika, very much. But what could he do? Rehearses. Since he got a lot of praise, he began to rarely practice. Moreover, all wolves of the same age he could defeat even though he did not train. So what is he practicing for? He is the strongest.

But after meeting Xika he only realized that he was wrong. He is not the strongest. There are still people stronger than him. Above the sky there is still the sky. All this time, it is the one who puts limits on himself. Now he knows his mistake. He will be back in training. And he will defeat Xika.

"Eh, I also seem to be running out of qi. Any advice?" ask Xika.

Lang Jin came out of his mind. He thought about what Xika could do. And he found it.

"You can talk in a relaxed manner, right? Now try to cultivate. Soak up the qi around you. So you're not gonna run out of qi."

Then Xika started to attempt to cultivate.