The Card Cultivation System
CCS-21

The next day, Huo Bing started training Xika in a new way.

"From today all you need to do is take the spirit beast's precious object and deal with it."

"Isn't it the same as before?"

"Finish but not the same. Before you just stole a plant without thinking whether it was useful or not for you, besides you just ran away, whether it worked or not."

Xika laughed embarrassedly for her actions.

"This time we will take spiritual things that are really useful to you. Then you're not allowed to run. You have to face it."

"All right......" Xika felt confident when she faced a Spirit Beast level White 3 to White 4. Yet Huo Bing's subsequent remark shattered his expectations.

"But we're going against a Red-level Spirit Beast. We're not going against White's level because they're too easy for you."

"You kidding? A few days ago I was still Qi Gathering 1 and now you directly told me to fight against the Red level? You serious?"

"But now you've Qi Gathering 7. If you don't believe, try it. Find one White 4-level Spirit Beast and try to fight it."

Xika followed Huo Bing's words.

He walked for a while then found a Winged Frost Tiger. And it just so happened that the animal was at the White 4th level which was equivalent to Qi Gathering 9.

Just as Xika was aware of the existence of the Winged Frost Tiger, so was the Winged Frost Tiger who was aware of Xika's existence.

The tiger stared at Xika for a second then immediately flew to aim its jaws towards Xika's head.

Xika who saw the tiger did not panic or fear. He stood quietly waiting for the tiger to enter its attack range.

Just as the tiger was entering his range, Xika directly kicked the tiger's jaw until it was tightly shut.

The tiger was thrown up a few meters. He then spread his wings stopping himself from being thrown any further. After balancing her body, the tiger looked at Xika back.

This time he did not attack. He kept his distance from Xika. Realizing the melee attack did not succeed the tiger tried a long-range attack. He shot Xika with feathers on his wings.

"really? Do winged animals have no other attacks?"

During the fight with Huo Bing, Xika had already faced this kind of attack often. He had also learned how to avoid and fend off attacks like this.

This tiger only shot himself with 100 fewer feathers. It was different with Huo Bing who had thrown at least 300 feathers.

Xika lowered her body avoiding some feathers, then she brushed off the other feathers using punches and kicks.

In an instant, Xika managed to escape the tiger's attack.

The tiger was growing more alert with Xika. He was quite surprised that a creature that had a cultivation level below him managed to dodge his attacks.

Then the tiger opened its jaws and began to gather energy.

"The tiger will use his ultimate attack. What are you gonna do?"

Xika did not answer Huo Bing, but at her right foot the flames started to gather, along with the fire symbols that appeared in Xika's right eye.

After the Winged Frost Tiger gathered enough energy, it shot the ball in its mouth towards Xika.

Xika also sent out fireballs that had already gathered at her feet along with the Winged Frost Tiger that unleashed its attacks

Fire and ice meet. The two of them clashed for a while and then disappeared.

The Winged Frost Tiger was puzzled as his attack was overcome that easily.

Xika made use of the Winged Frost Tiger's confusion to attack him.

Xika sent out several waves of wind emanating from her hand.

By the time the tiger was aware of his confusion, he was already caught in the middle of the wind wave that Xika sent so that he could not escape.

The wind gathered on Xika's soles and he began to close the distance between himself and the tiger quickly.

Xika kicked the tiger's head then hit him with a hand that was already covered in fire elements.

"GRAURRRRN"

The tiger groaned in pain. Not long after that his groans shrank along with the fading of the rays in his eyes.

Bruk!!

The tiger fell. His life has disappeared.

Looking at the Winged Frost Tiger that was now dead, Xika looked at her own hands. He still could not believe what he had just done.

He had managed to kill the Winged Frost Tiger that had a cultivation level above his own.

"I told you, didn't I? After all, you've only fought with me so it's only natural that you feel strong fighting with the weak after fighting with the strong" huo Bing said proudly and emphasized the strong word that referred to himself.

"alright. Since there are no more protests, the exercises will continue. About 800 meters away from us there's a Spirit Beast."

"Which direction? What animal? What level?"

"That's what you decide. I only helped you this once. Next you'll find yourself."

"Sad."

Xika walked forward towards the direction she thought was right.

"And you're forbidden to eat if you don't manage to find Spirit Beasts or fail to steal spiritual objects from them."

"What?"

"So, he's approaching"

A creature came closer to Xika.

"Damn!" Xika lost fast. The enemy finds himself before he finds his enemy.

Xika could only stand vigilantly guessing what kind of creature came attacking her.

After the distance between Xika and the creature stayed 300 meters, Xika began to be able to see the creatures that approached him.

The creature has a body measuring about 3 meters with a body color in the form of orange gradation yellow and has roses throughout its body which is also the same color as the color of its body. But it was not the color of his body that made him have the name 'evening', but rather because of his ability. Evening Rose Snake could emit a light bright enough to make an ordinary human blind, whereas for a light cultivator it could result in an illusion deep enough. The light that came out of his eyes was like sunlight in the afternoon, that was what made him have the name 'evening'. Roses throughout his body also contained toxins that could result in illusions.

Xika created some ice blades and threw them into the Evening Rose Snake.

Evening Rose Snake easily dodged Xika's attack. He attacked back by throwing some roses on his body.

Xika also dodged the Evening Rose Snake attack easily, but the attack was only a distraction. The actual attack came from the eyes of the Evening Rose Snake who had now started to shine.

"Be careful, don't look into his eyes!"

However Huo Bing's warning was late. Xika had already seen the eyes of Evening Rose Snake.

It was actually not too late, but it was Xika who deliberately entered into the illusion of the Evening Rose Snake. He already knew what kind of creature the Evening Rose Snake was and had already guessed what illusion would appear.

And the guess is right.

Now Xika stands in a village that has been destroyed by fire with corpses around him.

"It turns out that I can't forget this..."

Tears started to flow on Xika's face.

He is in the village of Crucosyta, the same place that happened 10 years ago and the same thing is playing out in front of him.

Then Xika closed her eyes and the scene turned into a 1 meter jaw that was about to eat her head.

Xika held the mouth of Evening Rose Snake with her two hands.

Then he created a spear from the wind and directed it into the mouth of the Evening Rose Snake. At the moment he created the wind spear, a wind symbol appeared in his eyes.

However the Evening Rose Snake used its tongue to destroy Xika's wind spear. After that he tried to stab Xika with his tongue.

Xika was forced to let go of the Evening Rose Snake.

After being released by Xika, the Evening Rose Snake retreated 1 meter away and looked at Xika warily.

The two of them stared at each other for a while.

Xika attacked first. He formed 7 wind spears and held one in his hand while the other spears floated around Xika.

But before Xika could lift her wind spear, Evening Rose Snake shot out poison from her mouth.

Xika deflected the attack using the wind spear that was in her hand. The poison hit the tree next to Xika and punched it deep enough.

Xika gulped looking at that. It was fortunate that he had managed to dodge the poison, otherwise his fate was finished.

Evening Rose Snake did not wait for Xika to be ready, he immediately jumped to attack Xika while Xika was still shocked by her poison power.

Xika regained her senses. He threw wind spears around him towards the Evening Rose Snake.

Yet the Evening Rose Snake easily destroyed those spears.

Evening Rose Snake was getting closer to Xika. There was no other choice, Xika threw the spear that was in her hand.

Again the Evening Rose Snake dodged Xika's attack easily, while Xika now had no weapon.

Suddenly Xika smiled. He clenched his hand and now the symbol of the ground lit up in his right eye. Suddenly the body of Evening Rose Snake caught the ground.

Xika had been waiting for this moment daritadi. He had been setting up this trap ever since the Evening Rose Snake started to approach towards Xika, only that Xika had not found the right time to trap the Evening Rose Snake.

"Don't be happy, the snake is still alive"

"I know"

This time the fire symbol lit up in Xika's right eye.

Flames began to appear and burn the Evening Rose Snake

"Fire alone is not enough to kill the snake"

"I just want to make his body a bit stiff"

Xika did not intend to kill the Evening Rose Snake using fire. His qi may run out before he can kill the snake.

This time he made a spear from the water with fire surrounding him.

Xika jumped up then threw the spear.

Whush!!

The spear pierced the Evening Rose Snake from its head to its tail, making it look like a snake satay.

Xika sighed and wiped away the sweat that had been flowing since when.

"All right, good-bye."

Huo Bing did not comment on anything regarding Xika's fight. He was about to eat the Evening Rose Snake that Xika had just burned, even though Xika did not burn the snake intentionally. It was just a spontaneous movement that flashed through his head.

"A pretty good fight. But I have one question."

"What's that?"

"You already know what creatures are attacking you and you already know what the main ability is. Why did you accidentally get into his illusion?"

"Because I also already know what illusion will appear"

Xika spoke with all sorts of mixed expressions. And among them Huo Bing saw anger, resentment, sadness, and?

"?"

"To this day, I still dream about it. Happened 10 years ago. And I deliberately entered the illusion to return to that place, to that time to remind myself of the grudges I had not yet avenged and also the sins I had borne. Sometimes the dream will mix with the events of 3 months ago, when Shaking Card was attacked by Hei Sha's group."

Hearing Xika's words, Huo Bing suspected that the events of 10 years ago were memories that reappeared when Xika had only mastered the wind element.

Curious, Huo Bing ventured to ask.

"Hey Xika, I know it's hard, but....may I know what happened 10 years ago?"