The Card Cultivation System
CCS-159

A week passed quickly. Xika was still cultivating like before. Not much difference happened. In addition to reducing the portion of their meals so as not to make the residents restless and some residents who try to attack them, the rest is ordinary.

Xika was already at the Qi Forming stage. He had already trained his aura while with the wolves, but Huo Bing had asked him to practice again.

The bird explained that sometimes the fight between two high-level cultivators was not done with an attack but rather just pitted against the aura. For that Xika must be on guard if someday he needs to use his aura.

Huo Bing started from the basic thing, which was to widen his aura to check the surroundings. Although this technique is the most basic, but this technique is quite important. Especially when you're about to check somewhere without getting caught.

If your aura is strong enough then you won't be caught. But if there is someone stronger than you in that place, then he will feel your aura and know your existence. Therefore Huo Bing asked Xika to expand her aura as wide and thin as possible so as not to be caught.

Occasionally, he managed to trick his higher cultivation opponents with that technique. So Huo Bing insisted on teaching Xika that technique.

"Close your eyes. Focus senses. Spread the aura slowly. Remember, slowly. After that....."

Xika sat on the ground closing her eyes. He only listened to some of Huo Bing's words, the rest he ignored. For some reason, he was not in a good mood to study, so he did not listen to Huo Bing too much.

Slowly, Huo Bing's voice - according to Xika - was extremely noisy starting to disappear. All around him became quiet. From that silent state, slowly came the sound of a mantis singing. Continued with the flapping of dragonfly wings that sounded like rhythm.

Xika quite enjoyed the sensation. He started to relax and did not try to focus too hard. His body he was slowly laying down made Huo Bing who was looking glared wide.

"Ahahaha.catch me...."

Suddenly there was a child's laughter. And not just one, but two.

"Fan Mu, don't run too far!"

Actually, the sound of a child's laughter can make the mood better. But unfortunately Xika does not like children too much. Because they reminded him of his burning village. Plus, these kids were the same age as her when her parents left.

Srats!

Xika opened her eyes immediately. The corner of his eye caught two children chasing. She had wanted to chase them away, but seeing their happy smiles, Xika could not bear to ruin them. It is not easy to smile so beautifully, especially after experiencing various problems in life. So while he can, he will let them.

His eyes closed again, still ignoring Huo Bing who was nagging beside him. The sensation came back. A sensation in which he feels quite close to nature. And more, with his mother. The sound of laughter was still there, but not too loud so Xika still ignored it.

"Sister, come after me....."

"Fan Mu, slow down..."

But...why is the sound getting louder?

"Look, I'm a butterfly!"

"Hey, don't do it!"

Nope, no. Ignore it, ignore it.

"Now I'm a grasshopper. Look, I jumped!"

"Slow down, your head will get dizzy!"

Let them laugh happily.

"Ahaha...you can't catch me....!"

"Fan Mu, don't go there!"

Let's just say there isn't. Let's just say there isn't.

"AW!"

Xika immediately opened her eyes and saw the little creature that stepped on her feet.

Bruk!

"God......."

"Mu Fan!"

The little girl fell down from stepping on Xika's feet. His sister ran away worriedly.

Xika desperately wanted to give the little girl a bloodthirsty look, but then again, she tried to ignore them.

"Fan Mu, are you okay?"

"Huwaa.gendong.." said the little girl as she stretched out her arms asking her brother to carry her.

The brother crouched down and let his sister climb on his back. At that moment he realized Xika's existence. He greeted Xika politely.

"Sister, are you okay?"

Xika was about to raise the corner of her lips to form a smile, but she could not lift more than an inch until she formed an insincere smile.

"Yes, it's okay."

The sister looked at Xika. He realized that he had never seen Xika. Although he was a child, but he remembered the faces of all the residents who lived in the village.

"Sister, where are you from? Why haven't I seen you?"

"Well, because the people of your village kicked me out. So you never see me."

The older sister put on a confused expression, while the younger sister only looked at Xika with her big curious round eyes.

"I think I should have asked. I've been to your village twice. Why have I never seen a kid like you? Do the villagers have no more children?"

Xika spoke rather harshly. He just wanted the boy to leave quickly. Unfortunately, his hope was not fulfilled. The older sister sat her sister next to Xika, then she sat not far from her sister.

The brother spoke again, but this time with a sad face.

"Other than the two of us, there were only four other people who were the same age as us. The rest are adults."

"Nobody my age?"

The older sister looked at Xika for a while trying to guess her age, then shook her head.

"none. Of the six of us, I am the oldest. I'm thirty years different than my youngest uncle."

Xika's annoyance began to disappear replaced by curiosity.

"Hm? Why is no one younger? Don't the villagers want to have children?"

This time not only the brother who put on a sad face, his sister also bent his face.

"It's not that you don't want to, it can't."

"can't? Why?" asked Xika while frowning.

The older sister turned to the left right to make sure no one heard, then approached Xika. His sister also approached.

"I've heard my father talk to my mother. She said many aunts could not give birth anymore. It was all because of the ferocious beast invasion all those years ago. Brother don't tell anyone? I'll be scolded by you."

The little girl nodded in support of her brother. The two looked at Xika with pleading gazes.

"Why should I tell the others? I can't go in your village anyway."

"Ehhh....? Why?"

"Your uncle and aunt kicked me out. They're scared of me."

"Fearful? Wh why? My sister looks good."

"Because I'm a brother to him," Xika pointed at Heiliao, "And my brother wants to eat your sister," Xika said while putting on a smile that was made scary.

The brother immediately looked down in fear.

"K-sister.please don't eat my sister. I will be scolded by Dad. Just eat me.....but fast huh?"

But the little girl instead ran up to Heiliao with a big smile forgetting that her injured leg had fallen off earlier.

"Dog! Yei! Cute dog!"

Heiliao who had already bared her ferocious fangs fell silent in confusion.

"Mu Fan!"

The little girl ignored her brother's call and kept running until she hugged Heiliao.

"........"

"........"

"BAHAHAHA.............I told you your look wasn't creepy! BAHAHAHAHA......."

Heiliao looked at Huo Bing in annoyance. The wolf was about to reply to Huo Bing's words but was held back by a small hand that hugged his mouth. I don't know since when the girl moved into her mouth, and now the girl's butt covered Heiliao's face.

"GHOST!"

"AHHH!"

"........."

The cry of the little girl and her older brother made Huo Bing speechless. He did think he was cooler than Heiliao, but he did not expect this reaction.

The little girl still hugged Heiliao's mouth tightly, while her brother hugged Xika's leg and hid behind her.

"Sister....."

"Ehh...yeah....."

"What's? So brother is a ghost too? Huw......"

"N-that's not what I meant....."

But the older sister was already crying and whatever Xika said did not manage to stop her crying. Her sister also looked at Xika with watery eyes.

A SHOCK!

Xika turned around and gave a sharp look at Huo Bing.

"W-what?"

"Consolor him! Hurry along!"

"But...."

"Hurry up!"

Huo Bing forced her to raise her sister on her back, then carried her flying around. At first the older brother was frightened, but after a while, he enjoyed the scenery on the back of this ghost. The dichromatic bird turned its head and found Heiliao was also doing something similar to that little girl Fan Mu.

It didn't take long, the two liked the creature on their backs. Huo Bing could already give a slight smile, as well as Heiliao. While Xika again enjoyed the sensation that had been disturbed after seeing the two children stop crying.

The sun was already about to set but Huo Bing and Heiliao were still stuck with the two creatures on their backs. The two boys did not give them a break. Huo Bing was about to ask Xika for help, but the elder sister did not let her. Likewise when Heiliao was about to approach Xika, the younger sister forbade him.

So Xika can relax for hours without being bothered. Sometimes he heard cries for help from wolves or birds, but he ignored them.

"Mu Fan! Fan Ao! Where're y'all?"

Xika opened her eyes. Not far from him, he felt some citizens approaching.

"Dad! Mama! Ghost brother, let's go there!"

Little girl Fan Mu also gave a pleading look to Heiliao. But Xika stood up and banned both of them.

"Fan Ao, Fan Mu!"

"Ah, I'm awake!"

"Ekhem! Yeah, I'm up. Comeondown. You guys should go home."

"No way!"

"Fan you want a dog! It's tender!"

Xika thought for a moment. It seems like Fan Ao-si big brother-is more easily persuaded. So he approached Huo Bing.

"Fan Ao, come here for a second."

Fan Ao tried to stay away but Huo Bing flew close to Xika.

"Listen, little fella. Do you want to ride the ghost sister again later?"

"Yes, I want to!" Fan Ao nodded excitedly.

"good. Then go home. Take your sister, okay? Don't say anything to your parents or the other villagers. No one knows you've met us. Okay?"

Fan Ao shook his head.

"don't want. If I leave, I won't be able to see you again."

Xika stroked the top of Fan Ao's head.

"Sister will stay here. Okay well? If you don't come back now, you can't play with the ghost sister anymore."

Fan Ao moved her lips, but she did not reply.

"If you come back now, tomorrow big brother will show you something interesting. How's it?"

"More interesting than ghost sister?"

"Of course!"

Finally, with an unwilling face, Fan Ao descended from Huo Bing's back. He persuaded his sister to come down. The two children came home after Fan Mu plucked Heiliao's fur, unwilling to part with her.

Not long after the two left, Xika felt the citizens start to move away. He smiled with relief. After that it turned around and found two sharp gazes directed at him.

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A man dressed in a robe with a snake scales casually walked over regardless of the guards staring at him vigilantly.

The man continued walking until he arrived in front of the middle-aged man who was emitting an overwhelming aura. The middle-aged man's face was not much different from Tian Yin's, like the older version of Tian Yin.

"Didn't I forbid you to come?"

"I found what you asked for."

The man with the overwhelming aura frowned.

WHUSHES!

A SHOCK!

He caught the paper the robed man threw, then looked at him fixedly.

"The location of the village you asked for." added the man in the serpent's scales.

"How long is your army ready?"

"I'm not your subordinate. You're just an ally. Don't look for me." The cloaked man was still smiling, but his eyes did not show a smile.

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

"About a few days. But the trip will take about a few months."

After being silent for quite a while, the middle-aged man spoke up again.

"Don't leave one."

"I told you not to order me."

Finished speaking, the cloaked man walked away. The back of his robe fluttered showed the same image that was on the middle-aged man's clothes.

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