The Card Cultivation System
CCS-184

A look of caution filled the eyes of all the students on the Main Page. But for now all the disciples agreed to finish Xika first.

"Xika, here for a minute." Huo Bing patted Xika on the shoulder.

"What's wrong?"

"Borrow card."

"For what?" Xika took out a few boxes of cards so that Huo Bing could choose her own.

"To be played of course."

"Huh? You're not fighting?"

"No, I'm lazy. Just you. I'm still not satisfied with defeating the Wolf Slack."

"Heh. I should've said that, Half-Brown Bird."

And with that Huo Bing and Heiliao sat on the ground playing Xika cards without caring for the dozens of bloodthirsty gazes.

"........."

Xika could only stare helplessly at the two brothers. He can't say anything anymore.

He turned around and looked at Xingli.

"Well.I guess only the two of us will fight...."

"....."

Xingli did not say anything, as usual, but his gaze said that the girl did not mind.

Xika breathed a sigh of relief Xingli did not turn around and went to play cards as well. At least he has a partner. So he turned around to observe his opponents. But what he did not know was that he had been observed from earlier. Many felt Huo Bing and Heiliao were extremely arrogant and intended to teach them a lesson.

But it can be delayed. Their main focus now is to finish off Xika, who has always been close to the goddess of their dreams.

"Miss Xingli, why don't you come play with us?"

Xingli turned around and Xika knew that the girl was staring at Huo Bing with a questionable look. But instead of answering, Huo Bing instead looked at Xika.

"Aren't you able to see that their views are all directed at you? Even if we all fight, they will only attack you. So instead of spending energy, why not just play with us? Look, I'm almost won."

"Almost lose more precisely."

"What's? Shit!"

Huo Bing refocused on his card game and did not speak anymore, but Xingli instead thought of all Huo Bing said. There was one thing that was troubling his mind. Why would everyone attack Xika? Why not Huo Bing? Or his other friend.

Xika looked at the group of disciples who were starting to approach vigilantly. As Huo Bing had said, all of them were just staring at Xika. No one looked at Huo Bing, nor Heiliao. He breathed a little upset. It seems he really has to finish this alone.

He took a step forward and got a questionable look from the goddess girl beside him. The girl seemed to be a little, a little worried about him. Realizing that, Xika smiled.

"Xingli, I'd like to show you off for a second. You wait a minute."

And with that Xingli turned around sitting awkwardly beside Huo Bing. It was obvious that the girl did not like Heiliao's existence, and vice versa. But neither Xingli nor Heiliao spoke, so Huo Bing pretended everything was fine.

"A cocky boy, you really think you can face us all by yourself? Indeed, stupid and brave are different."

"We must teach it clearly the difference between the two."

The disciples started to take out their weapons and prepared to attack him.

"Huhhh........"

Xika just sighed softly, then took out the Cosmos and started shaking it. After that he threw a few cards to float around while the rest he held. He did not say anything to the disciples, but his vision said that he was ready at any time.

"Hand him!"

I don't know who shouted, but all the disciples immediately ran as soon as they heard the scream. Swords, sticks, spears, knives, axes and other weapons were directed at Xika.

Meanwhile, these two old men who were watching the fight of the disciples from other places had quite a puzzled expression.

"Card? What's he gonna do with that card?"

Whush!

The first attack to reach Xika was a sword thrust. He shifted his head then kicked the owner somewhere and prepared for the second attack that came in succession with the third and fourth attacks.

Knife from the right, spear from the left and sword from the middle. Xika lowered her head and slashed the feet of the three attackers and managed to subvert them. Four were downed and there were still several tens more ready to attack him. But this was not a difficult thing for Xika.

After all, he had fought against hundreds, perhaps thousands of snakes and was still alive today. For him, fighting humans like this was easier than fighting snakes at that time, because most snakes he fought were small so it was easy to launch a surprise attack.

Unlike the case with these disciples, although it cannot be said to be large, but not as small as a snake until it can enter his sleeve.

"Ohhhh..it's started, it's started!" huo Bing was excited. He watched Xika fight while eating snacks.

"You?" hail the bird. Xingli shook his head slowly while Heiliao went along to eat Huo Bing's snacks and left their card game to watch Xika who was currently in a cornered position. Xingli just looked at the two in confusion.

Realizing her current position was less favorable, Xika opened her wings and flew to a wider place. But his wings were different now than usual. Still the same, greenish-blue in color, but it does not look real and has a physical shape, on the contrary it looks unreal and seems to be formed from qi.

Huo Bing had taught this before they left. He said, however, that wings are their strength and pride. Not using wings is tantamount to smearing their own pride and weakening their wings, no matter what the reason.

So the bird taught Xika the method of using her wings without being discovered by many, which is by enveloping her wings with qi so that it looks as if her wings are not real and are the result of a secret technique.

The method proved successful at seeing the eyes of the disciples shining with greed, not just shock. That meant they thought that Xika had managed to form wings using a secret method. They are definitely looking for that method.

As expected, when Xika moved places, all those disciples followed her and no one cared about Heiliao, Huo Bing, as well as Xingli.

Xika did manage to move to a wider place and change her position, but not much different. From a cornered position to be surrounded.

He turned around and threw his card. Half the disciples who surrounded him managed to fall down while the rest managed to hold back the cards. It was proven that the students who did want to participate in the Ranking Exam had the ability, not just the confidence alone.

"Forward!"

"Dad!"

"HUH!"

After looking at each other for a few seconds, the disciples again attacked him. Xika greeted them ready. Five people came attacking him at once and dozens of the rest launched long-range qi attacks that would definitely leave Xika severely injured if hit. But it's not easy to hit Xika.

While fighting against five people at the same time, Xika made a half-circle shield from her cards and occasionally the shield fired a card that managed to take down one or two people.

"Crazy! He managed to fight on balance with the five senior disciples? Besides that he also controlled the shield to withstand the incoming attacks and could still provide a counterattack at the same time?"

"Actually who is that guy? How could he be that strong?"

"No wonder the goddess Xingli was always with him. His power is well worth it."

At that time, the students who were originally spectators but had already sprawled were watching Xika fight. They were lucky enough not to be knocked unconscious by Xika. And as a result they were astonished to see Xika's ability that was so unexpected.

The double!

Xika kicked a senior disciple right in the face and managed to keep him from waking up again. After that he stood motionless and just stared at the rest of the disciples.

Thinking Xika was exhausted, a senior disciple came forward and let out his punch, but when it was an inch away from Xika's face, her hand stopped no matter how hard she tried to move it.

Swoshis!

A strong wind blew the senior disciple back a few steps. It was obvious that the student was surprised. Not because of the strong wind, but because of who caused the strong wind.

"The number of remaining disciples had already reached twenty people. The fight's stopped." Elder Fen spoke.

Other than Heiliao, Huo Bing, and Xingli, all the disciples were shocked when they heard Elder Fen. In disbelief, they look around and find their fears turning into reality.

Xika, alone, managed to defeat more than half of the existing disciples until there were only twenty left. At first they thought of each other as rivals. However they decide to cooperate for a while, until Xika is defeated. Once Xika is defeated, they will return to be rivals.

But somehow since when, perhaps ever since they realized how powerful Xika was, they started to regard each other as partners to defeat Xika. When Xika dropped them one by one, they hoped that there were other disciples strong enough to succeed in taking Xika down.

So of course they don't expect that their colleagues will be reduced that fast. Many were surprised to find such an outcome. Eventually one of them shouted.

"Damn it! Who are you really?!"

Xika smiled at the question, as not only were many disciples curious about her identity, but also the elders including Elder Fen wanted to know the answer.

"Just a kid in the middle of nowhere."