The Card Cultivation System
CCS-144

Heiliao makes several (hundreds) of pills for Xika until she (be told) leaves. Xika did not take many pills. He did not want to rely too much on pills. So he kept the Heiliao pill for a good time. He rested enough before returning to training.

But unfortunately no one wants to practice a match with him. Some wolves who understand the treatment often come to check it out. And if he is caught training against wolves, then the wolf who is his opponent will be punished. So no one wants to practice a match with him. And that was Lang Jin.

He could see the fiery spirit in Lang Jin's eyes when he invited him to practice his match. But Lang Jin refused. Xika can see the wolf trying hard to do so despite not understanding why he rejected it.

"We will fight again. That's certain. But after your body has fully recovered. And I will beat you." he said.

After that he walked away afraid of not being able to hold his words. Xika did not know where Lang Jin was going but she heard some wolf howls in the same direction that the wolf was going.

So all Xika could do was rest and cultivate. What about Huo Bing? Birds rarely talk. It seemed like he spent a lot of energy to withstand the attack of Heiliao earlier so it took him a long time to return it. He only appeared to talk once in a while then returned to his dantian.

Previously, Xika felt Huo Bing's mouth was so noisy and the world would be so peaceful if the bird closed its beak. But he never thought that he would miss the noisy beak of the bird. The world is peaceful without it. Too peaceful.

Suddenly Xika remembered Uncle Kong Yan in Simulocus. He can be a good conversation partner. If you are bored of chatting you can also play cards. So he decided to go see Uncle Kong Yan. In the middle of the road he was reminded of a card box that was in the shape of a stone monument before. He said he could also travel through the box so he intended to give it a try.

"How is it?"

Xika tapped the box a few times. But other than the cold and harsh feeling that touched his hand, nothing happened. He rocked it a few times but still nothing happened. Then he tried to put his head in the card and ended up with a bruise on his head.

A few wolves passing by saw him and giggled to themselves.

"D-shit......"

Xika ran out of sense how to use that card to move space. He recalled when he threw his card to show the map to Heiliao and Huo Bing. He tried to throw the box with his cards which he immediately regretted.

"ah! Damnit damnit! What if I throw it too hard to find? What if the card goes into the pool and gets wet? Ahhhhh!!!!! It's my father's only relic!"

But the card did not fly into the forest and was too far away to search for or sink into the pond. The card rotates and continues to spin until it becomes a portal. He could not see what was behind the portal but somehow he knew that he would reach any place he wanted to when he passed through it.

So he stepped through the ash portal and found Simulocus where his destination was in front of his eyes. The portal was still behind him and waiting for his next order. Xika did not give a verbal order, he just thought about it and the portal turned back into a card and Xika's previous entrance now disappeared.

"Uncle Kong Yan? How are you?"

Xika greeted Kong Yan, but unfortunately there was no answer. That never happened. Usually Uncle Kong Yan always answered his greeting even though it made him surprised. Xika called out a few times but there was still no answer. So he decided to get rid of the boredom by throwing spatial stones that lay and catch them back to form a circle.

A few minutes passed and Xika got tired of the precious stones that would cause a blood storm in the outside world so she tried to explore this place. It was a bit foolish indeed, because he basically already knew all the things regarding this place since Kong Yan had already put it in his head.

But at least he could explore this place with his own eyes. Not just based on what Kong Yan gave. So he stepped his foot through this place. Several times he saw cracks marked blue by Kong Yan but somehow he was not interested.

So he continued walking. He passed through the corpse of the Purple Hand and saw it more fragile than before. It seemed like her bones would be instantly destroyed if Xika blew it but she did not try. He walked again until he was in front of the gap marked by Kong Yan.

This gap was no different from the other gap but somehow he felt he had to go through this gap. Something called him. And he must answer it. So he raised his leg about to enter the gap but a voice stopped him.

"XICA! STOP IT!"

Xika's legs stayed one inch away from the gap, but she managed to stop him. Xika turned her head and found Uncle Kong Yan who looked extremely tense. His gaze did not switch from Xika's legs which were one inch from the gap. After Xika lowered her legs, then Uncle Kong Yan looked better.

Xika approached Uncle Kong Yan who was still calming himself.

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm bored. So I came here. What did uncle do?"

"Just check a few things. Hear me. Never step foot into the gap that is here other than the gap that leads to the place of the wolves."

"Why?"

"When can I come in? At least to the gap that was before." asked Xika while pointing at the gap that she almost entered.

Kong Yan turned his head to look at the gap that Xika pointed at.

"Why do you want to enter that gap?"

"Eitherway. I think someone called me. And I have to answer."

Kong Yan frowned for a moment. Then suddenly he widened his eyes and shouted while looking at the gap that Xika pointed at earlier. Xika doesn't understand all of this. Kong Yan turned around and looked back at Xika. This time, it seemed like I was measuring something.

"How high is your cultivation level?"

"Forming Qi 1. But it looks like it will soon break through level two."

Kong Yan did not take his eyes off Xika and made her feel strange. Normally Uncle Kong Yan had never seen him like that.

"Try to accept this attack."

Finished saying so, the space to the left of Xika rippled and Xika instantly covered her head with Kong Yan's enlarged gift box.

DAR!

The space instantly exploded a moment after Xika covered herself. Not yet finished he thought, ripples re-appeared on his feet and he jumped backwards. The place where his feet were just a moment ago, now exploded. But Kong Yan had not finished yet.He gave off many explosions and Xika managed to dodge them at the last moment even though it did not manage to save her clothes.

This time there was a bigger ripple. And that ria pulled him very hard. If he does not manage to avoid it then he will be severely injured and have to spend months boring without doing anything.

So he had to avoid. But how? The ripples sucked it very hard. Xika waved her hand and a black hole appeared behind her. But this time it wasn't the qi that the black hole was pulling, it was itself. It tried to counteract the pull of that rippling space with the pull of its black hole, and it worked.

"Still not. Use qimu!"

Xika did not understand what Kong Yan was talking about. Suddenly a spear appeared from behind his right. Xika was salting to avoid it. Several other spears appeared and attacked him. Xika was busy dodging to the point of not paying attention to the shape of the spear which looked half real. The spear is translucent and sometimes you can see it sometimes you can't see it.

"Fight my attack Xika!"

After hearing Kong Yan's words, only Xika fought back and destroyed the spears, not just dodging. He fought the spears with his element. Sometimes he combined some of his elements when faced with a powerful spear.

Finally, after facing the thousands of spears that never stopped, Xika got a rest. Kong Yan stopped his attack. He looked at Xika who was panting but did not eliminate the look of caution in his eyes. It made him smile unconsciously.

"Good! You can enter the gap earlier after breaking through the Qi Forming 2. But you must take the bird and the wolf with you. Understood?"

Xika nodded with a cautious look. After being certain that Kong Yan had completely stopped attacking him, only then did he let go of his guard slowly.

"Why did you attack me, Uncle?"

"You'll know later. Take good care of my gift. You're gonna need it, nant. Oh, and his name is Nexus. I forgot to tell you last time. Ah, regarding the other gaps," Kong Yan paused for a moment to look at the twinkle of hope in Xika's eyes before smashing her to pieces, "Forget it for a while. You won't be able to enter it anytime soon."

Xika put on a sour expression. But he did not argue.

"The stone monument is named Nexus. What is this card called?"

Kong Yan smiled recalling the old memories.

"Cosmos."