The Card Cultivation System
CCS-32

Xika was sucked into the black hole and then thrown into another place.

A very gloomy place. The place was a barren forest with some dried up wood and the whole land was black.

Xika looked around and found no living beings other than herself. The trees that were sucked before were not around.

"What is this place?"

"Come on, I don't know. I've never seen a place like this in my entire life."

Xika decided to take a walk observing the surrounding place.

"Do you know that black hole that sucked us out earlier?"

".........Why do I seem to have seen it, but I don't remember and there's no picture of the hole at all."

Along the way, all Xika saw was black soil and dry trees. There are no signs of life at all.

"What is this place exactly? Why is the land black and there are no other living creatures?"

Xika asked that question to herself.

Suddenly Xika jumped to the side.

A split second after, a claw landed where Xika was before.

The claw belonged to a black tiger with white spots on its body.

Seeing his attack fail, the tiger looked at Xika carefully, about to measure the strength of his opponent.

"Huo Bing, what kind of creature is that? Why can't I feel his presence at all even though he's in front of me?"

".....possibly because he has the element of space. He hid in a separate room earlier, then waited for you to come and attack."

Xika grew increasingly wary of Huo Bing's words. This would be even more dangerous against the space-elemented animals. The animal can appear and disappear at will, which means it can attack Xika and Xika cannot attack him.

The tiger was a little confused looking at Xika. Because the aura Xika was emitting was completely harmless, yet Xika was able to dodge her attacks perfectly.

The tiger did not bother to think about it because it thought it was not his skill. He opened his mouth and fired a qi.

Xika wants to try her new weapon, so she does not use her father's card. He raised the wand given by Huo Bing to the size of himself.

Xika waited for the attack to come or hit his now enlarged baton, but nothing happened.

Xika wanted to peek a little from her wand, but before she did that, a black beam coming from her wand came and struck her.

"Ohuk...."

Since there was no tree holding her back Xika was thrown further than she should.

Xika bounced around 10 meters away due to the attack and spewed blood.

"Huh.huh..huh....."

Xika changed her body position to sit with great difficulty.

"What...what happened? Why from......my wand came out of attack?"

"It's not from your wand. It was an animal attack. You forgot he's the space element? His attack pierced through your wand so it looked like it came from your wand."

It was only fitting that Xika did not feel any vibration or impact sound at all. The tiger's attack pierced through his cane without being restrained.

The tiger was satisfied to see his attack succeed so it walked slowly closer to Xika.

Huo Bing shouted,

"Xika, dodge!"

Xika rolled to the right and a claw landed not long after.

He was surprised to see the attack coming. There was still about 8 meters between him and the tiger.

Then Xika turned her head and looked at the owner of the claws that attacked her somewhat differently from the tiger that ambushed her.

It turned out that there was one more tiger coming to attack Xika.

"Damn! One is hard, now there are two! Where did the tiger come from?"

The first tiger looked at the second tiger with a sharp gaze.  The second tiger stared back not to lose.

They both jumped and attacked each other. Looks like they're fighting over who's going to prey on Xika.

They swung each other's claws and threw the same attack that made Xika get thrown earlier.

Xika was silent for a while to see the fight of the two creatures in front of him, then he slowly left.

After a while no one attacked, Xika said,

"It looks like the creatures aren't very smart."

And a claw floated towards Xika's face denying her words.

In front of him stood a black tiger that was more or less the same as before.

Xika looked back and saw only one tiger present.

On one hand he was a little relieved because his tiger did not multiply, only two. But on the other hand he was getting anxious because the creature could move his entire body in a considerable distance.

The tiger in front stepped forward slowly just like the tiger in the back. It seems like they reached an agreement that the one who killed Xika first had the right to eat it or they were willing to share.

But to be sure, Xika was surrounded from the front and back by a black tiger that could move space and attack as he pleased.

The tiger behind him leaped over while the tiger in front shot out another black beam.

Xika was still motionless. He waits.

Waiting for the right moment.

When the distance between Xika, the black radiance, and the tiger mouth behind her stayed a meter away, Xika immediately dodged to the side. He used the wind element to speed up his body.

The black light hit the tiger behind him, but he did not appear to have been hurt much.

"Sad. It seems like the attack didn't hurt him too much."

Xika changed her wand into a bracelet then wore it on her hand. He took the card out of his robe.

The five cards he threw and floated above, the ten cards he formed into a stick and the rest he used to cover himself.

The hovering card he used to attack the tiger is now on his left while he himself advanced and attacked the tiger on the right.

Xika fights while controlling her five cards to attack the other tiger.

The tiger in front of him was quite agile as it managed to dodge all of Xika's attacks.

Xika released some cards that became his protector and used them to attack.

As the tiger was diverted with his card, Xika came forward and smashed her stick.

BUAKK!!

Xika's attack hit the tiger successfully, but the tiger only stepped back and slightly staggered. Other than that, it seemed that he was not too injured.

CRAT!

The Xika card facing off against another tiger managed to tear off its skin and black-colored blood flowed.

Xika was a little distracted looking at the other tiger so that the tiger in front of him managed to attack him.

BUKK!!

Fortunately the attack hit the part of his body covered with his card, so he was not too injured, only his internal organs were slightly shaking and he retreated a few steps.

Xika refocused her gaze to the tiger in front of her.

The stick he formed from the card now he changed the tip slightly so sharp and now shaped spear.

He realized that his card could hurt the tiger, although it was not necessarily able to hold it. But at least he can fight.

Xika turned her spear then jumped forward.

Seeing Xika advance, the tiger opened its mouth.

"Damn!"

Xika planted her spear and then jumped.

The black light almost hit him, only a few millimeters away.

Xika landed, and when she looked back she saw a jaw not far from her.

He turned his spear and stabbed the tiger in the mouth.

JEREBB!!!

His spear successfully penetrated the tiger's mouth. Blood dripped from his mouth.

Xika pulled her spear and soon the tiger fell.

While the other tiger who still faces his card screams to see his people die.

He immediately ran towards Xika and ignored the Xika cards that kept attacking him.

"I don't understand this thing. They fought each other, now when his friend died he was angry. Shouldn't he be happy to be able to prey on me himself? That's if it manages to eat me."

Xika took off a few more cards from her body and pointed them towards the tiger that was running towards her.

The Xika cards continued to attack him and eventually the tiger fell out of blood.

Xika walked up to the tiger. Although he fell from blood loss, he was not dead.

"Gerrr....."

The tiger growled to see Xika walking closer.

"Don't look at me like that. You were also about to kill me earlier. So all I do is defend myself."

Then Xika raised her spear and ended the tiger's life.

JLB!

The tiger's eyes grew slightly and then shrunk and finally closed forever.

"Well.huh...huh....."

Xika fell down.

Although he did not use any elements at all and his qi did not diminish, but his mind was very tired from having to fight while controlling the cards to attack and make weapons along with body armor.

"Hey Xika's. You can't sleep now. I don't know where the creatures came from, but there's a good chance they can smell each other. You should skin them or at least insert them into the spatial ring."

"......"

Xika did not reply as her mind was still tired, yet she understood what Huo Bing had said.

He did not want to bother so he chose to insert the corpse of the tiger into the spatial ring.

The body did not enter his ring.

Xika frowned.

He tried again a few times, but it didn't work.

Then Huo Bing spoke,

"It seems that because they have space elements so they cannot be put into the spatial ring."

"So what am I supposed to do?"

"Save what you can keep, which you can't burn."

Xika actually wanted to sleep right now, but she knew that she could not just leave the corpses.

So he cut the claws and teeth of the tigers then wrapped them in cloth.

After that he cut the body of the tiger and burned it. Xika had already seen Huo Bing cut off the Spirit Beast meat for them to eat so more or less he was able to do so.

The plan was that they would eat as much meat as they could while the rest of them would burn, but since Huo Bing did not have the physique, he could turn his food into energy, so all the meat was eaten up.