The Card Cultivation System
CCS-271

"What's going on? Why did they fall suddenly? Were they attacked?"

"really. At first glance I saw something black that stabbed the six people. It's unclear, but I'm sure that black stuff is what made our friend fall."

"Then how did those two fools disappear? I'm sure they even have trouble standing, let alone running."

"Winds. Didn't you feel the strong wind that blew before? The timing is very precise. First, the enemy launched the black object. After that it blows a strong wind, and the next? Two fools are gone."

"What's? Wait for. Then you mean.....they're not alone?"

"It seems so." said the first man who made the analysis to answer his friend.

"Heh, it's useless. Coming one or two is the same. Even the eight of them coming together will still not be able to defeat us. At most we just need to call for reinforcements."

"Chong Shi, don't underestimate the enemy. Don't you remember why our group was formed? To compensate for an overly strong group of opponents, that was the reason our group was formed. Although arrogant and stupid, but the two people who were also not ordinary people. Even in such battered state they could still knock down five to six of our men. Can you do that when you're dying, Chong Shi?"

The man called Chong Shi just silently did not answer the analysis man. They had only entered a few meters into the forest when someone shouted.

"Revelation!"

From above, there were hundreds of black arrows pointing at the chase group. The night sky was quite dark, but the moon was still shining. But hundreds of black arrows are now covering the moonlight so that the lighting is getting minimal.

"Dodge!"

I don't know who said that, but certainly only one word managed to make the chase team confused and panicked. The absence of the moon was something they did not expect. While the analytical man frowned. He felt something else coming.

"Something's wrong. Ignore that arrow! The arrow is just a trap!"

But he's late. A moment after he shouted, the rest of his group who managed to dodge the black arrow was pierced by the black thorns from below. Nan Hai, the man who made the analysis earlier, managed to dodge both from the arrows and from the thorns, but the rest of his group were not as lucky.

"Ck." Nan Hai clucked irritably at the sight of the other members of his group. Those arrows and thorns gave a hefty wound to his group. For the lucky ones, those arrows and thorns did not hurt the vital point. For the unlucky ones, their vital point was injured, and they would only become a burden if they continued to chase.

Moreover, even if it did not hit a vital point, but those arrows and thorns were enough to reduce their combat power. Gritting his teeth in annoyance, Nan Hai shouted,

"Retreat! Let the other group chase them! Recover yourself first!"

No one refused, of course. Most of the members of his group only had average combat strength. If you don't join another group, chasing Xika is tantamount to suicide. So the rest of Nan Hai's group retreated obediently.

From behind the bushes, a pair of eyes observed the retreat of the first group. A sigh of relief escaped from his mouth as soon as he saw the opposing group retreat. Li Tang gave a mark to Xika before taking out a pill to recover her qinya. Next, he had to prepare for the next attack.

Srak!

Li Tang re-emerged the various shadows and formed a trap. Right after he finished, the next group appeared. This time three groups at once. Li Tang swallowed his saliva. It seemed that this time there would be many who escaped his trap.

Shuts!

He retreated to find a more comfortable place to fight. Fortunately, his black clothes made it easy for him to move without being seen by the opponent.

"Find them! They must not be far away! Don't be fooled by the many attacks that come! Remember that they are only eight people! Minus two people who had previously fought, they could not give a meaningful attack. That wide-impact attack is just a trick to make us tremble!"

Li Tang gnashed his teeth as the opponent quickly realized his stratagem. But in his heart he smiled. Their current number is not maximal, but let him show that it does not need full strength just to sweep anchovies.

A SHOCK!

Various figures shot to and fro looking for the whereabouts of Xika and the others. But it was not Xika whom they met a moment later. It can be ascertained by the sound of roaring cries and pain here and there.

JLB!

SLASHY!

BRET!

"Sial.......actually what........stabbed me......?"

"There....traps....be careful...be careful....be careful........."

"There's traps! Be careful there are traps! The darkness of the night makes its shape disguised. Search carefully, don't get stuck!"

Li Tang smiled faintly. Since the trap had already been discovered, then he should have pulled the trap. When the enemy is being careful because he does not want to be hit by his trap, that's when he gives an attack from an unexpected direction. After all, traps were not his main goal from the start. Error, Xika's goal.

Shuts!

JLB!

"Be careful! The trap can move! Be careful around!"

"There! I saw! The man in black! Maybe he's the one who put this trap out of tad-"

JLB!

Before the man finished his words, Li Tang had stabbed him first. Then, he jumped out of his hiding place. Since it's been discovered, then there's no point in hiding.

"There! Surround him!"

Shuts!

A punch floated towards Li Tang's head. He tilted his head and then kicked back. Unfortunately, his opponent this time was more formidable than the previous members of Nan Hai's group. All of his attacks were successfully avoided or at least avoided by the opponent.

But things got increasingly unfavorable for Li Tang as more and more enemies gathered. Fortunately, he fought at night disguising his technique. While dodging enemy attacks and giving occasional counterattacks, Li Tang launched a shadow thorn from behind his opponent.

The darkness of the night made the thorns and other shadow techniques almost invisible.

Shit!

THE DUAK!

But of course, after all Li Tang was outnumbered. Right now he was fighting twenty people. His face and body were full of bruises. Now he understood why Xika had asked them to retreat. Has Xika also faced them before? He could not imagine what kind of enemy Xika was fighting and how he had escaped.

'Xika, where are you? Hurry up because I'm not sure I can last much longer!' inner Li Tang in his heart.

Whush!

A punch targeted the back of Li tang's head. He realized it, but he couldn't realize it. He was busy fending off another attack.

The set!

Li Tang closed his eyes. A few moments later the sound of a punch was heard, but he felt no pain. When he opened his eyes, a man fell down. Li Tang spontaneously grinned.

"HEY!"

He returned to attack. This time, his defense was well preserved, also he could deliver attacks more effectively. This made his enemies confused. The one who fought was only one person, but why were the sound of punches heard so much? Why did it feel like they were fighting with the crowd?

Shuts!

Another blow hit his opponent in a landslide. Now only five or six people from a total of three groups are pursuing. Xika's strategy worked. But there are also other factors that make Xika's plan run smoothly. But we'll discuss that later.

"Reverse! Call for reinforcements!"

Li Tang dropped one more person before Xika stopped him. In front of her eyes, Li Tang saw Xika suddenly appear when she was not there before. He almost screamed in shock.

"That's enough. We need to back off now and make some distance with them. The farther away we are from them the harder they find us."

Li Tang nodded then followed Xika's steps and went into the forest. He chatted with Xika using a small voice on the way.

"So it was quite stressful. But don't you think it's too easy? Or is their strength just this?"

Xika frowned hearing Li Tang's question. Honestly, he also did not expect his plan to run this surfing. He was even prepared with one or two unwanted possibilities. The plan this time went smoothly because their opponents were too easy. Unlike the white-robed men that Xika had fought before.

"There are two possibilities" Xika replied after a moment of silence. "I've fought them before. They're tougher than the group we just fought. Liang Jihua and I barely even managed to escape."

Li Tang widened his eyes in disbelief. It was hard to imagine Xika who was full of this plan could barely escape, let alone she was accompanied by Liang Jihua back then.

"I'm not lying." Said Xika who realized the meaning behind Li Tang's gaze. "But of course I also made a mistake." After hearing that sentence Li Tang immediately exhaled his breath. "I just spent my energy and was chasing a runaway.

Who knew that this man had led me to his enemy's headquarters? Me and Liang Jihua back then had already used up most of our Qi so we had enough trouble escaping. But the fact that the ability of the opponent I fought before with the one now was different did not change."

"Then? You said there were two possibilities, right? Explain it to me."

"First of all, they deliberately made their members strong enough to fight me, who were probably their first opponents. It seems like they know I can spread the word to you guys, so they made me fight a member strong enough for me to think that there are still many other members who are as strong as they are and bring you guys back."

Li Tang nodded. "Quite reasonable. The second?"

"The second thing is, they deliberately make us fight with their weak members. The goal is between making us feel proud and thinking 'Oh? Just this is their ability?' then stab us while being off guard with their powerful members or make us dizzy so that we can't draw conclusions."

This time Li Tang frowned. "This makes sense, too. Which one do you think is right?"

"I have a guess. But let's make sure with the next group." Xika stopped staring at the crowd of people who were quite far away from her.