The Card Cultivation System
CCS-272

Li Tang and Xika observed in silence the approaching crowd. Even if the group they were fighting against before was weak, their sheer number was an indisputable fact. If the opponent was roughly as strong as the previous group and numbered 400-san Xika was still quite confident facing them. Unfortunately, he had already faced a group with even greater abilities. And Xika was sure the men in white clothes he was fighting against were not the strongest.

"Be careful! Beware of the surrounding! They had just finished off three groups, they definitely did not have much energy anymore. Quickly search for them before they recover their strength!"

Xika looked at the man who gave the order. Even if his clothes were different from the group that came this time, but no one disputed the man's words. Does that guy have a certain position?

"That man," said Li Tang who also noticed the same man, "he was in the first group chasing us. He is the type who makes the analysis. After I defeated his group, he chose to retreat instead of advancing with the injured members. But I didn't expect him to come back again, even though it made sense that he was the only one who managed to dodge all my attacks."

"What's? It doesn't seem like good news. That means a little bit he already knows your abilities."

"It seems so." Li Tang nodded. "Can you handle it?"

"If you can get in the way of the other men he's carrying, I think I can" Xika said half-jokingly. But apparently Li Tang took his words seriously just now.

"I'll try. When do we start attacking?"

"Wait a minute. Let's confuse them first. Can you attack from behind the man? I want to see how he reacts."

Li Tang did not answer. He poured the qi into his hand then a black thorn appeared behind Nan Hai ready to stab his stomach. Unfortunately, Li Tang's thorn did not hit its target.

Half a second before Li Tang's spines reached his body, Nan Hai realized something was wrong and immediately dodged. Fortunately, he followed his premonition. He immediately put up a position of vigilance against the direction of the thorn but other than the darkness of night, he found nothing.

Nan Hai was just about to tell his troops when a pierced voice along with a cry of pain rang out. He was about to help his partner but three more sounds of pain were heard in three different places.

"Everyone, don't panic! The real culprits are hiding while preying on us one by one! Form a group of four people, each guarding the direction of front, back, left, and right while continuously searching for their whereabouts!"

"Ck, he's pretty good, huh?" xika said half angrily and half-critically.

"............."

"You know, if Liang Jihua was here it might be more helpful. We can harness its ice power to make them slip and their four-man formation shatter, then you can stab them."

"But the moonlight could have bounced off the ice making the enemy aware."

"Rubber too. Well, we better think about what we have now. From my vision, they sent about three or four groups. Any advice?"

"I distract them, you attack from behind?"

"Good idea. I will be reunited with the wind. You keep hiding and use your thorns or arrows to attack from a distance. Don't let them know your position. I will attack them while they blend in with the wind. In the worst case, if your position is discovered, they won't dare to be rash for thinking you're capable of using shadow techniques and mastering the wind element at once."

"..............." Li Tang honestly did not expect Xika to think that far. He only suggested a simple step, who would have expected Xika to turn it into a pretty good plan?

"Before we start, I want to ask."

"What's wrong?"

Li Tang felt somewhat horrified because currently Xika was invisible but could still talk to him. But he tried to be ordinary and asked, "Why should we fight with them? Why don't we just back off with Yun Xingzhao and the two idiots and then unite forces?"

"Em, technically it's two questions. But, okay. I get your point.

You remember the group I was with before? Like I said, they are stronger than these groups. When fighting with them, I managed to detect a rough estimate of their numbers. About four hundred. Before we start the peak battle, I intend to reduce their numbers as much as possible, as well as find out how powerful they are."

Li Tang nodded silently then returned to floating the thorns randomly. Of course, the group of opponents who were now gathered four-four could avoid those thorns easily. But after that Xika instantly gave an attack until the four-four formation started to fall apart.

Next, it was Li Tang's turn again. He stabbed the group whose formation was in a mess. But this move was quite time-consuming as only Li Tang could finish them off. Xika who was fused with the wind could only give an attack through his physique, so he could not deliver a bloody attack.

Using weapons would make his technique disrupted. In addition, if for example he tried to make a weapon from the wind, then the wind gathered in one place will make the enemy suspicious and know of its existence.

This move lasted about half an hour, longer than Xika expected, then the opposing group discovered Li Tang's whereabouts. Of course the man would not give up obediently. He stabbed four people simultaneously and made the rest of his opponents retreat.

Although somewhat scared, but slowly his opponent began to surround Li Tang. He glanced left and right to check the number of opponents. There were about thirty more. Plus the group they had fought before, more or less Xika and Li Tang were already facing fifty people.

Shrak!

A beam of wind passed through Li Tang's ears. Message from Xika. He had Li Tang pretend to control the wind element. Just move her hand and leave the rest to Xika.

"So we're in trouble just because of one person?"

"It's a shame, but the game's over. Let's teach him a lesson. Not always were large sect disciples more talented than middle and small sect disciples!"

Li Tang waved his hand and instantly the three people who spoke crashed into a tree.

"D-he's a wind cultivator! He could also use wind elements in addition to those strange black objects!"

If Xika was in Li Tang's current position, he would definitely speak a word to provoke the opponent. However since the one standing at the moment was Li Tang, then the man simply gestured for his enemy to advance with a finger. But just such a gesture was enough to provoke his opponent.

"Damn it! Don't think we're afraid of you!"

"Really! We are over twenty while he is alone. No matter how great he was, he would be exhausted in the end. Let's go, guys!"

"Heah!"

"Eat this!"

"Campus you!"

Shush!

Another message from Xika. It: no need to move.

Thirteen elemental attacks, four spears, three swords, five blades and five arrows. Everything was successfully repelled by Xika until her enemies grew more vigilant with Li Tang.

While Xika and Li Tang were playing this charade, Nan Hai frowned. It is different from its colleagues. He felt something was wrong. If this man was indeed a wind cultivator, why had he not used wind-based attacks since the start of the chase? Why did he only use black things from earlier?

Moreover, he did not feel the wind aura from the man. The wind spirit did not know him. Is he pretending? Does that mean there's someone else hiding?

This Xika plan might be able to go smoothly if Nan Hai did not participate in the chase this time. Even more unlucky, just as Nan Hai was beginning to realize Li Tang and Xika's theatrics, Xika came out and revealed herself. He wanted the enemy to feel threatened. One is that strong, and there are two? At least that's how Xika thought.

Unfortunately, his appearance instead made Nan Hai confirm that Li Tang was not a wind cultivator.

"Yo, brother. You seem to be in trouble, right?" xika said while walking leisurely undaunted towards the enemy entourage. Li Tang just silently looked at her. For now, it was better for him to be quiet than talk and get their plans uncovered.

The enemy entourage paved the way for Xika so that she could arrive beside Li Tang. Xika's plan worked. The enemies began to fear. One Li Tang alone they had trouble defeating him, let alone plus one more partner.

To make Li Tang's figure even stronger, Xika turned to the enemy entourage then smiled disdainfully. "What'sthis? Only two-thirty people? And they think they can beat you? Stop playing around, man. I'm sleepy. Let's get this over with quickly then go back to sleep."

But before his opponents grew even more fearful, Nan Hai advanced to stop Xika's plan.

"That's you, right?" ask her to Xika.

"What?" xika did not understand.

"That's you, right? A true wind cultivator and one who gives invisible attacks from the darytadi."

In Xika's heart he cursed. This analysis guy seems pretty smart. "really? I am a wind cultivator?" Xika looked at his hand in disbelief.

Li Tang clucked in annoyance because it seemed like Xika's plan had been discovered. But then again, Xika sent a message through the wind. How did that man do it in front of Nan Hai and his troops, Li Tang had no idea. So he just did what Xika asked.

He waved his hand and instantly a wind spear appeared attacking Nan Hai.

WHUSHES!

A SWHIRR!

Unfortunately, that wind spear was successfully captured by Nan Hai. And for a moment, Xika forgot to hide her expression and frowned. Wind weapons could not be captured except by fellow wind cultivators. The same goes for other elements. That meant that Nan Hai was a wind cultivator.

"Hehehe........" Nan Hai chuckled. He patted his hands together as if the wind spear was nothing. "I'm right, right? Looking at the faces of the two of you, if the man in black was indeed a wind cultivator it should be him who was surprised instead of you" Nan Hai said on target.

"Unfortunately," Xika gritted her teeth, "it seems that we should end this game sooner than I expected."