The Card Cultivation System
CCS-235

"Wrong!"

A BLAR!

There was an explosion from Xika's room. Black smoke came out from the window.

Xika gave Heiliao a sharp look. "I almost succeeded if you don't scream."

"If I don't shout you'll make a failed pill. Instead of continuing and making pills that were not clear of their usefulness, it was better to just cancel them."

"A very useful advice. Thank you." said Xika annoyed.

"You've tried seven times. Why do you keep failing?" Heiliao urged Xika. He deliberately spoke like that to motivate Xika. No one had managed to create the Forming Cloud Pill in the first ten trials. Heiliao himself, only succeeded after his seventy-sixth trial.

But to distract Xika, she must give him an impossible task, so that Xika is unable to think about anything else but the task.

He knew that Xika was currently in a fragile period. Somehow the complete incident, but certainly Xika suffered a broken heart. He was trying to prevent Xika from doing anything stupid. Like deciding to live without women, or hating women.

Indeed, he himself rejected his lover. And he admitted it was a stupid act. He had every reason to do that. But to be honest, he did not want Xika to take the same path as him. Similar to Huo Bing.

The set!

Heiliao again threw a pill at Xika. The pill that Xika was about to make from earlier, but to no avail. The Cloud Pill.

"Dead again this pill. Remember your previous mistakes, and fix them in the next try."

Xika rolled her eyes hearing that sentence. Heiliao had repeated it many times. The problem is, he himself does not know what his mistake is. He always felt that the previous experiment would work, but the Wolf suddenly shouted and broke his concentration so that the pill exploded.

A BLAR!

The pill exploded. But it feels like Xika caught something different. And this time Heiliao did not shout. So he came back to try. Exploded again, of course. But something he felt before seemed to get closer along with the experiment he did.

Finally, after her eleventh trial, Xika managed to create the Forming Cloud Pill. Admittedly, Heiliao was eager to annoy Xika halfway because of not accepting the child succeeding in just eleven tries. Fortunately, he was able to hold back.

Xika stared at her artificial pill with glittering eyes. He opened his mouth and was about to test the efficacy of the pill, but Heiliao directly prevented it.

"What are you doing?" ask Xika annoyed.

"I should have asked that. Why did you eat your Cloud Pill Forming?"

"Because I want to try the effects of my homemade pills of course."

Heiliao was silent for a moment before returning to speak.

"Make the pill a hundred times. If it fails in the middle, you have to repeat from the beginning."

"What?!"

"Oh, and you have to finish it today."

"WHAT?!"

Heiliao did not answer again. He simply pointed out the window using his head to tell Xika that his time was limited.

Xika was eager to protest from such inhuman duty. But it seemed that Heiliao would not accept the protests. Of course, he's a wolf. But Xika also knew that Heiliao was trying to shift her mind. And he was going to distract his mind. So he did that impossible task. After all he felt, albeit a little, his mind became clearer.

Moreover, Xika felt it grasped another meaning from Heiliao's actions. The wolf asked him to make the pill a hundred times, but he thought the wolf wanted him to 'cook' a hundred times. Each time he concocted a pill, he produced about four or five pills. So after a hundred times of concocting, perhaps Xika could produce four or five hundred pills.

It was easy to produce a hundred pills. But that shouldn't be what Heiliao wanted. It seemed like this action of Heiliao had to do with the competition that was soon being conducted. Although she did not understand, Xika tried her best. Besides, he felt himself quite challenged. And because he didn't like to repeat, so he concocted all his pills well and carefully.

As a result, when the day was almost over, Xika managed to concoct a hundred times and produced four hundred and seventy-two Forming Cloud Pill.

He was relieved to see the results of his hard work. He was sure all these pills could help him go up a level or two. Unfortunately, Heiliao was still not satisfied. After Xika completed the impossible task, the wolf again gave another impossible task.

"Here," Heiliao said as she cast a Hyper Swift Pill on Xika. "You haven't made it yet, have you? Try these pills. Time until tomorrow night. You must produce four hundred and ninety-seven Hyper Swift Pill. Oh, you can go to bed if you want."

How could Xika sleep when Heiliao gave her another impossible task? So he took a good look at the Hyper Swift Pill in his hand before trying to make it.

"Why should I make it that much?" moaned Xika while trying to unite the ingredients of Hyper Swift Pill.

"You think your wings will heal with just one or two pills? Besides, aren't you going to hurt your wings again in the future? Who's gonna know if you have time to make pills or not?"

And Xika was silent again. He was deep in thought, trying to figure out how to make Hyper Swift Pill. Experiment after experiment Xika did. He no longer cared how many failures he made. All he knew was that he was getting closer to success.

But Heiliao secretly calculated how many failures Xika did until he managed to form the Hyper Swift Pill. The result? Surprising, as always. Seventeen experiments and Xika has succeeded in forming Hyper Swift Pill. It felt like Heiliao opened Xika's head and saw what was inside.

Xika smiled happily to see that she managed to make Hyper Swift Pill. But his smile faded when he remembered he had to make four hundred and ninety-two more. Previous tasks easier. Importantly he had to conduct an experiment and produce a pill in each trial, no matter how many pills he produced.

The task this time, he had to produce a corresponding amount of pills that Heiliao had asked for. He didn't even know how many pills he would take each time. How could he produce a pill according to Heiliao's request?

Slowly, Xika began to realize something. Although all these plants he took in the same place, the same time, and in the same way, but they have different qualities. When a plant of good quality was equally put together, it would produce more pills than average.

Heiliao was surprised Xika understood this sooner than she expected. He suspected Xika would understand it at the end of the day, unfortunately at this time the sun still shines brightly and Xika already understood it. He felt that there was no one worthy of being called a genius other than Xika.

There is more surprising. When the sun started to set, Xika stopped concocting pills. He decided to take a break and sleep. Heiliao thought Xika would not dare to sleep until she finished concocting the entire pill. But his current actions were beyond his expectations.

Actually, Xika did think that way at first. But along with every pill she made, Xika felt more confident. He had already mastered the method of concocting Hyper Swift Pill, so taking a short nap was no problem. After all, he had not slept since Heiliao gave him an impossible task.

At seven in the night, Xika wakes up. After stretching his body for a while, he returned to concocting Hyper Swift Pill. At eleven in the evening, Xika finished concocting. Four hundred and ninety-seven Hyper Swift Cloud. No more, no less.

Heiliao tried hard not to show how shocked she was. Whether it succeeds or not. Xika did not comment. In fact, the boy smiled while looking at him. A confident smile that had disappeared a moment ago.

"What else?"

And Heiliao knew that Xika was waiting for an impossible task from him. His confident smile showed his confidence. And his mouth won't make a protest.

Unknowingly, Heiliao smiled. He asked Xika to take out half of the two pills he had made earlier.

"Eat everything at the same time. And try not to explode to death."

Xika was silent for a moment. He frowned for a moment. Each pill that was in his hands right now contained a lot of qi. It was likely that he would explode once he ate all the pills in his hand. But he guessed this could help him break through to forming qi seven, if he succeeded. And his wings will heal.

So after considering the risks and benefits she would receive, Xika opened her mouth and ate all the pills as Heiliao requested.

SRPR!!!

Xika could feel a surge of qi entering her body. And again the qi that entered his body had a different purpose. First, it must partially flow qi following its four dantian flow patterns. He's done it before, so it's not so hard.

But the real trouble has only just begun. When Xika flowed some of her qi following the flow pattern of her dantian, some of her other qi began to damage the nerves of her body. He gritted his teeth withstanding the pain that appeared.

While trying to keep some of her qi still flowing regularly, Xika tried to direct some of her other qi to head to her wings. The problem was, he did not know which channel was connected to his wings. And it will explode if it doesn't find it as soon as possible.

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An Ice Bear came out from the ground near the ice garden and roared furiously. He stared at a hyena, the first animal to make a movement, and tore it apart until it no longer had a head. After that he looked at the other animals, seemingly aware that they covet his treasure.

So the Ice Bear roared loudly as if challenging the remaining spiritual beasts to steal his treasure.

If only Ice Bear had woken up, Huo Bing could still handle it. Unfortunately, next to the Garden of Hell, a fiery lizard appeared out of nowhere and let out a screech that kept some Spiritual Beasts away.

Huo Bing started to count. Two tails, okay. He could still defeat them with the help of the other Spiritual Beasts. But just as he was thinking like that, an ice crocodile reappeared and challenged the Ice Bear. In the Garden of Hell, the Hellhound group appeared and made the atmosphere even heavier. Still not enough, a group of Alfbee appeared and split in two directions. One went to the Ice Garden while the other went to the Garden of Hell.

That Hellhound and Alfbee might not be as powerful as the Ice Bear or the fiery lizard, but each of them had an advantage of number so as to cover the difference in strength.

Finally unable to bear it any longer, Huo Bing shouted and became the first to advance. Silly act, indeed. But he had no other choice. After all, they will fight in the end as well. What's the difference now or later?

"HEY!"

Fire and ice appeared respectively in Huo Bing's left and right hands. The bird fires fire and ice to obscure the view of other animals. Unfortunately, the more powerful Spirit Beasts like Ice Bear and the fiery lizard did not care and directly rushed at Huo Bing.

Ice Bear roared and formed dozens of ice needles that led to Huo Bing. On the opposite side, the fiery lizard spewed out a burst of lava. Moreover, there were still hundreds of Alfbees brandishing their stings and Hellhounds aiming their fangs.

Luckily, Huo Bing had wings. He flew away. The ice needles still followed him along with hundreds of Alfbee. Huo Bing spun around as the ice needles approached so they bounced around and dispelled some of the damn bees.

The rest? It flew into the midst of the weaker Spirit Beasts gathering and using them to become its meat shield.

A wild boar shot out from Huo Bing's flames and saw the hundreds of Alfbees approaching. He took it as a challenge, so without realizing it, the boar held off Alfbee for Huo Bing. Several other Spirit Beasts were also doing the same.

Huo Bing smiled happily. He turned slowly towards the Flaming Dragonfruit as the fiery lizard was preoccupied with many other Spirit Beasts. Unfortunately, when he was about to grab the fruit, the ground shook and spouted lava.

He was lucky to have avoided that burst of lava, but he had not managed to retrieve the Flaming Dragonfruit. He glanced down and found the ground spinning. Then a strange pattern emerged from the ground. The patterns continued to rise and finally revealed their true form.

Burning Tortoise's.

The tortoise with its explosive shell. The burst of land that prevented Huo Bing from obtaining the Flaming Dragonfruit came from one of its shells. The tortoise hissed furiously at Huo Bing before staring at the other Spirit Beasts.

He stomped his feet and lava fountains shot out from the ground surrounding the Garden of Hell. Although the fiery lizards and Hellhounds had a certain resistance to fire, but the lava fountains that Burning Tortoise formed exceeded their endurance. If they come near, they will burn.

Unable to stop, Huo Bing watched the Flaming Dragonfruit he wanted be devoured just like that by Burning Tortoise. He knew he couldn't stop the turtle. If he flew and entered the Garden of Hell, the turtle would definitely shoot a barrage of fireballs. In addition, there were still attacks from other animals.

After all, he was the first to start the movement, so many made him the main target. Holding back the anger in his chest, Huo Bing flew towards the Ice Garden.

Ice Bear is now fighting with an ice crocodile that appeared some time ago. Of course, many Spirit Beasts joined them. Huo Bing also came. He flew while shooting out a burst of fire that became the main enemy of the ice beasts.

Due to their natural reflexes, those Spirit Beasts instantly stepped aside from Huo Bing's flames. Of course that opportunity would not be Huo Bing wasted. He flew off and grabbed Blizzard Peach. Fortunately, this time it worked.

Or maybe not.

Huo Bing immediately became the main highlight of the Spirit Beasts as he was now holding one of the most valuable spiritual plants in the area.