The Card Cultivation System
CCS-27S

Two days had passed since Huo Bing had made Xika a wand that had still not been given to Xika.

As of now, Huo Bing had already attacked him many times. While she was sleeping, when Xika ran out of qi, even a few times while Xika was fighting with the Spirit Beast. Once upon a time when Xika was fighting a Red Spirit Beast 2. The fight is fierce but balanced. The Spirit Beast made a mistake, and Xika who saw the opportunity did not waste it. However Huo Bing blocked him and attacked Xika.

The opportunity to finish off the Spirit Beast passed by. Huo Bing instead joined the Spirit Beast and attacked Xika. Xika was very overwhelmed at that moment.

Xika won that fight with great difficulty. After that fight, Huo Bing did not stop and went back to attacking Xika.

Xika received about a hundred blows back then.

The next day after Xika's body had been refreshed and her qi was full again, she attacked Huo Bing with all her might. He made a mistake at that time. He paid no heed to the staff at all and only attacked Huo Bing with all his strength. Though Huo Bing was quite surprised when he got an attack from Xika, Xika could have snatched the stick.

The outcome? Huo Bing defended his best and attacked Xika after he expended all his qi and energy.

In the middle of Xika's fight with Huo Bing - though not exactly dikatan fight because Xika was only beaten by Huo Bing without being able to retaliate or dodge - a Spirit Beast came.

From that fight Xika learned to always prepare for any possibility and not be too easily carried away by anger to lose focus. From that day on, Xika more often collected plants that could be used as weapons and checked the poison supply. Moreover, Xika broke through to the Qi Gathering level 8 during her fight with Huo Bing yesterday.

During the day, while Xika was walking leisurely looking for the Spiri Beast, she found a group of Spirit Beasts in the form of wolves.

The group of wolves also saw Xika and each of them had put up a position to attack Xika.

Xika took a deep breath then she released her elemental aura.

The wolves were silent. Then seeing Xika who was stronger than them not attacking them, they concluded that Xika did not want to fight with them and decided to leave.

"Why don't you attack those wolves?"

"When I was little my father used to tell tales about wolves. Since then, wolves have been my favorite. As much as possible I don't want to attack them, just like you don't want me to kill birds."

Huo Bing nodded hearing Xika's words. Well, it's okay to have a few exceptions in one respect, precisely that's good because it can show good self-control.

Regarding aura, Huo Bing taught Xika how to use it during their first 3 months.

Xika had learned that there were all sorts of auras in this world. The most common aura encountered is the aura element. Cultivators can emit elements that they master to suppress enemies based on how deep their mastery of the elements is, those weaker in elemental mastery will feel depressed and difficult to move.

There was also the aura of kings and the aura of nobles that only kings and nobles had. Unlike the aura of an element that was based on mastery of an element, the aura of a king was quite difficult to explain. But the aura of the king makes the opponent tremble and it is easier to control the opponent, just as a commoner meets a king, generally the people will do whatever the king commands. It's like that's how the king's aura works.

There was also a murderous aura frequently encountered by criminals and assassins who had taken the lives of many people. This aura made the enemy tremble in fear, instead of trembling respectfully like the aura of a king, but trembling in fear. Moreover, this aura gave people a feeling of fear that they did not dare to move. A murderous aura is usually encountered by people who have taken many lives. The more lives taken, the stronger the aura.

But the aura that Xika possessed was different from most people. Although he only had the most ordinary elemental aura among the other auras, he managed to master the 4 elements so he had 4 different auras. By combining the four auras can produce an aura that is not much different from the aura of a king or a murderous aura.

Xika walked back.

After about 20 minutes, Xika found a cave.

Xika did not feel the existence of living creatures around the cave, but he felt a lot of living creatures in the cave.

Xika walked leisurely entering that cave.

After 10 meters of walking he began to hear strange sounds that sounded like hissing. However Xika ignored him and continued walking.

The longer the hissing sound the more it sounded to disturb Xika.

Xika wanted to form a fire element to light her way, because the sunlight had already not reached this part, but something passed through Xika's feet.

Something long and slippery.

Is correct. It was a snake.

Xika started to feel alert and made flames float in front of her.

"!"

Xika was very surprised to see that the cave was filled with snakes.

The top of the cave was filled with snakes that were hissing about to attack Xika but were held back by something. The ground around him was also filled with snakes. From then on he could walk freely because the snakes got away every time he stepped.

Xika was silent and stared at the snakes around her.

Although these snakes stared at him with a bloodthirsty look, they did not attack him. He was sure this snake had seen and surrounded him since the first time he entered the cave. They could even attack him before he regained consciousness. But they didn't do it.

And that's what made Xika suspicious.

While Huo Bing had not said anything up until this point, it made Xika feel that something was wrong.

But Xika continued to advance into the cave that was filled with snakes.

Finally Xika reached the deepest part of the cave.

There he found a two-headed snake with a body size of about 5 meters and a body length of about 15 meters.

Xika stopped in front of the snake.

There was silence between the two of them.

"Human.." the snake began to speak, but Xika immediately cut it off.

"Just go. I don't care what you want and I won't give it to you. I'll attack first or you first?"

Why don't you listen to me for a second?"

"Not interested." Xika took out a card from her robe.

The snake sounded like it was sighing and then it spoke again,

"It looks like I'm gonna have to use a little bit of violence to get you to hear me human. I hope you're not offended."

Then the snake hissed and instantly all the other snakes stared at Xika with a bloodthirsty look directly at him.

But Xika had expected this siege and was already preparing to face it.

He took out 15 cards from his robe then threw them into the air and formed a circle.

The fire symbol lit up in Xika's eyes.

"Flame Wheel."

The cards that formed the circle were on fire, then Xika directed the fire wheel to spin and towards the snakes that attacked her.

The fire wheel killed about half the snakes.

Then something sharp and long flew towards Xika.

It was the tail of the two-headed snake earlier.

Xika fended off the tail with a card she took from under her cloak.

"What an interesting human being. Successfully finished off a quarter of my army in an instant. Why are you in such a hurry? I just wanted to ask you about the familiar aura I feel from you."

"It's not something special. Before I arrived at this cave, I had already killed many snakes. Maybe their blood is still on my body." Xika answered casually although she was quite surprised because the snake she killed turned out to be only a quarter of the whole. But that action was quite formidable in Huo Bing's eyes.

The snake was silent for a while and then spoke again.

"It is not the blood of my people that I feel.

I feel a mixed aura from you."

Although the snake spoke in a rather frightening tone, Xika felt a hint of fear emanating from the snake as she spoke of the mixed aura.

Xika thought for a while then replied,

"I do often mix snake meat with other animal meat."

Xika paused for a while, then spoke back, but with a gaze filled with fighting desire.

"The snake's flesh is very tasty. Too bad I burned some of it out. But I wonder what about you...."

The snake was silent for a moment. He discussed with the other head who was just silent.

They spoke in a small voice and were filled with hisses so Xika could not hear their conversation clearly. He only caught a few words like 'seems right' or 'already useless' or 'kill it'.

When Xika heard the last word, she immediately took out two cards, each in one hand, then coated them with elements, and threw them towards the two-headed snake earlier.

Wind on the left card and fire on the right card. The two cards spin then produce a small but deadly firestorm.

The daryitadi left head invited Xika to speak spit out towards Xika's attack.

The firestorm that Xika created disappeared instantly. He pulled back his card.

Xika and the snake were both shocked.

Xika is surprised that her attack can be easily defeated while the snake is surprised because her spit that turns poisonous does not succeed in destroying Xika's card.

Xika and the two-headed snake faced off.

But the two-headed snake did not give Xika time to think. He ordered his troops to attack Xika.

Xika was surrounded by thousands of snakes that attacked her from various directions and two-headed snakes in front of her.

He used all his cards to cover himself, but it wasn't big enough.

"Damn."

Xika took one card that he had previously used to defend.

He slashed the ceiling of the cave using the card.

"First Way: Single"

The roof of the cave split open and Xika jumped out.

"Don't think you can run away from me, man."

The two-headed snake chased Xika out of the cave, as well as his army.