The Card Cultivation System
CCS-44

Xika waited for Huo Bing by cultivating. Actually he wanted to spend time with Xingli, but the girl continued cultivating from earlier, so Xika also went into cultivating with no other choice.

Thus, for a day Xika was cultivating to wait for Huo Bing.

The next day Xika stopped cultivating. He tried to sense Huo Bing and called out to her.

But there's no answer.

He wasn't too worried about Huo Bing, being quite confident about Xingli's pills. But he did not continue his cultivation.

Lately, it's been going up quite fast. So he did not want to rush up the level again. Instead, he wanted to get used to his strength. It can also strengthen the foundation. Huo Bing also reminded not only to pursue cultivation levels, but also to hone skills.

So Xika stood up and turned the Space Shifter into a stick.

Then he practiced and swung the Space Shifter.

He attacked several trees and then jumped several times to change the direction of his attack. Every now and then he would toss his cards and add elements.

Xika stopped for a moment. He recalled what Huo Bing had taught him before.

The most basic difference between Qi Gathering and Qi Forming is the use of qi. The Qi Gathering stage cultivator could not take out the qi from his body. At most, he could only coat his body, or the thing he was holding. While the Forming Qi was already able to take out qi from his body and use it for attacks.

Xika sat down and tried to take out her qi. He needed to concentrate, but eventually he managed to do so. After successfully extracting his qi, he tried to aim it at the grass not far from him. Qi Xika flew for 5 centimeters before finally evaporating and disappearing.

Xika was still surprised to see that. He had thought at least his qi could cut or blow away the grass, but even reaching that grass alone he could not. Though the distance between himself and the grass was no more than two meters.

Xika turned her head to look at Xingli, making sure she was still cultivating. Then refocus directed his qi at that grass. He would be embarrassed if Xingli saw him unable to direct his qi more than 5 centimeters from his body.

But Xingli did see it.

Not long after Xika made sure Xingli was still cultivating, Xingli opened her eyes and saw Xika who was struggling touching the grass with her qi from a distance of about two meters.

He felt someone's gaze so he opened his eyes and examined it. But he instead found Xika who was doing something quite embarrassing according to Xika. For some reason, Xingli did not continue his cultivation, nor did he know why himself. He would rather watch Xika touch the grass than cultivate.

After struggling for an hour, Xika finally managed to shake the grass a little.

"Good!"

Xika cheered happily. Then he turned his head to make sure Xingli was still cultivating.

And he found Xingli staring at him.

"........."

"........"

"Su-how long have you been cultivating?"

Xingli did not answer.

"W-did you see what I just did?"

Xingli nodded.

Xika immediately turned her face away. His pride has been destroyed. He showed his weak side to Xingli.

"What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do?"

After struggling quite heavily, Xika finally tried to get Xingli to play cards, she intended to make Xingli immediately forget the scene earlier.

When Xika turned around and saw Xingli, Xingli directed her energy and made the grass that was just swayed slightly by Xika become fast-moving several times and ended up being up being uprooted and flying somewhere.

"......"

Xingli himself did not know why he did that. But he quite enjoyed the expression that Xika was displaying at the moment.

Xika did not know how her face was now and what she should do.

"You can too......I am also practicing this technique.....Uh! How about we play cards for a second? You can play cards, right?"

Then Xika sat down and Xingli also sat face to face with Xika.

Xika took out the card she had used to attack Xingli before. And Xingli looked at Xika with a strange look mixed in vigilance.

"No need to look at me like that. Although I often use it as a weapon, I also often use it to play cards."

And Xingli looked at Xika with an increasingly strange look. Normally cultivators would not use their weapons for small or insignificant matters. Especially if the weapon is a top-class artifact.But not with Xika. He uses cards that are his weapon for various things that are not too important, such as cutting meat and playing cards.

Xika did not know what a cultivator was used to, but even if he knew he would not care. Xika's way of thinking was somewhat different from other cultivators. For them it was a valuable weapon, but for Xika it was a playing card that happened to be a weapon.

"Do you know capsah?"

Xingli shut up and thought, then he nodded.

Xika started handing out cards.

They played a few rounds and Xika won all the rounds decisively.

"Squeak!" xika said with a big smile on her face.

Xingli kept silent for a moment looking at his card and shook his head.

Xika puts the last card in her hand and wins again.

"........"

Xingli stared at the pile of cards in front of him for a while. Then he stood up and drew his sword.

"He-hey.... What the fuck is this? You can't accept being defeated by me huh?"

Xingli did not reply, but he looked into Xika's eyes sharply. And Xika understood the meaning of that gaze.

But Xingli still pointed his sword at Xika.

"Hahh..... If you don't believe me, you can shuffle the card to prevent me from cheating."

Xingli still stared at Xika sharply for a while then lowered his sword and shuffled the cards. He still does not believe Xika is not cheating, because from earlier Xika was the one who shuffled the cards.

After all the cards have been dealt, Xika takes her cards. But before he saw his card, Xingli gave him a sharp look.

"......."

Xika pretended not to see that gaze and drew up the cards in her hand.

"alright. Because I won before, I'll walk first."

Xika took out 5 cards at once and all of them had the same emblem.

Xingli thought for a while then he also took out 5 cards at once. But the cards do not have the same symbols, but the same numbers.3 numbers 10 and 2 numbers 7.

"Hmmm.....Threespair....."

Xika saw the card.

Xingli wished Xika could not take out any more cards and let her walk first in the next round, but her hope did not happen.

Xika issued 4 cards with the same number and 1 card with different numbers.

"......."

Looking at Xingli who did not take out any more cards, Xika assumed he had given up. So Xika took out another card from her hand.

The card reads 2 with an inverted heart image in black and has a small line underneath it.

Xingli's eyes widened looking at the card that Xika took out.

While Xika was just smiling looking at the surprised Xingli. Then he took out the remaining two cards in his hand with a wide smile.

"I won."

Unlike Xika who was smiling widely, Xingli's face did not show a smile at all.

Xingli looked at Xika with a look as if she wanted to eat it.

"W-how about we just practice?"

The proposal was immediately greeted by Xingli who pulled out his sword and slashed it at Xika.

The cards that had been piled up in front of Xika were now flying and blocking Xingli's attack.

Xingli drew his sword and slashed at Xika from a different direction. The slash was restrained by the Space Shifter who was now in the shape of a stick.

Xika and Xingli clashed with each other for a while. Then Xika aimed the card that had previously been a shield to attack Xingli.

Xingli was forced to retreat to avoid the Xika card.

Xika walked forward and aimed her cards to attack Xingli from different directions.

But Xingli slashed at Xika's cards firmly and advanced with his sharp gaze.

"It looks like I'm in danger."

The morning was spent with Xingli who attacked Xika mercilessly. No matter what Xika says or does, she does not stop attacking Xika until her attack hits Xika.

When the sun was at its peak, Xika was sitting tired with sword slash wounds all over her body.

Xingli sat not far away from Xika but still with a piercing look at Xika.

"Hey hey.you've already made my whole body full of your sword strokes. Is that still not enough?"

Xingli did not answer Xika and shifted his gaze.

Xika could only sigh.

After resting for a while, he got up to look for lunch.

He walked to the river where he had bathed before. He caught fish for lunch.

He rolled his pants up to his knees and then went into the river.

After successfully catching a few enough fish for the lunch of the two of them, Xika was about to head back towards Xingli.

But a creature with a long and full body pattern attacked Xika.

Xika caught the creature that attacked him. It was a water snake.

"Snake yes.lumayan too. It must taste good."

Suddenly Xika recalls what he did before being sucked by Heiliao's black hole.

"Damn!"

Xika immediately rushed towards Xingli.

"Xinelli! Lefs go. Hurry along! We don't have much time. Hide your aura."

Xingli did not understand what Xika was saying, but did.

So Xika and Xingli left without having time for lunch.

But Xika forgot that the water snake she was holding was still not dead.