The Card Cultivation System
CCS-57

Xika along with the other cultivators who had gathered in front of the city gate immediately shot away as soon as the guards stepped aside.

Some people had already started fighting because they were about to come out first, but the ones doing that were only low-level cultivators.

Xika and the other cultivators had the same mindset.

Why fight when there are no treasures?

So other than a few lowly cultivators fighting in front of the city gate, Xika's journey towards the sacred bird tomb was quite smooth.

Now he arrived in front of the cave which is the tomb of the sacred bird in legend.

But somehow, Xika felt that something was wrong, so she did not go straight into the tomb.

Some other cultivators also felt the same way as Xika. They also did not go in right away.

The other cultivators who had come later also stopped because of following the cultivators who had arrived first.

Yet there were also stupid cultivators who felt nothing.

"Hahaha."

Then the poor stupid cultivator went straight into the cave.

And his entire body was instantly burnt.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"

He tried to retreat but something was holding him back.

And finally, the cultivator burned to death.

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

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

The other cultivators silently watched this.

"What the fuck?"

"Why did he burn to death?"

"Everyone, please calm down.

I'll try to check this cave."

As the other cultivators started to fuss and panic, a man of the same age as Lin Zhu, Qin Mo and Lian Minjie came forward and checked the door of the cave.

The others paved the way for him.

The man stared at the cave intently for a while.

"Is there something ahead?"

"really. There seems to be a barrier here."

"What's? Hasn't that barrier been lost?"

"Based on my vision, this barrier is different from the previous barrier.

I've never seen a barrier before guarding this tomb, but it definitely feels old and not energized anymore.

Unlike this barrier, it did not feel old and filled with energy. Looks like someone put down this barrier before we come."

The man's words again made the crowd stir.

Amidst the furore, a small creature leaped off the ground and attacked the man who was inspecting the tomb earlier.

The man dodged easily, but the creature instead attacked the person behind the man.

"AHH!!!"

It turned out that the creature that attacked the man was a small, bright yellow snake.

As the crowd was confused to see the snake that appeared suddenly and attacked one of them, various other attacks appeared and targeted their feet.

Xika's feeling was already uneasy when she saw the bright yellow snake and it was now even more unpleasant to know that the creatures that attacked the cultivators from below were the same kind of snakes as the ones that were firstly.

Xika immediately jumped back to the nearby tree.

Some other cultivators also retreated to avoid the attacks of these snakes. While the rest are fighting, there are also those who have been sprawled lifeless because of the venom of the snakes.

"First, the city guards blocked the road, after that the barrier in front of the tomb, and now the attack from the snakes. After that what else?"

Xika heard one of the cultivators who was in the tree next to her speak.

It turned out that he was the same man who checked the barrier earlier.

Suddenly, Xika found something strange.

"Wait a minute, why did those guards beat us earlier?"

The man next to her replied while shrugging his shoulders.

"The city lord's order maybe?"

"yes too. None of us saw the city lord's soldiers. Did you see the city lord's army?" xika asked the man next to her.

"No."

"That means the city lord has already left before us. Which means -"

"is it the city lord who placed the barrier?"

Xika and the man next to her looked at each other.

"Han Mang." said the man introducing himself.

"Xing Xika's."

Xika also introduced herself.

"Can you break that barrier?"

"Let's go. As soon as I finished breaking the barrier, perhaps the treasures inside were already depleted by the city lord."

They both stared for a while.

Currently Xika was separated from Lian Minjie, Lin Zhu, and Qin Mo. They separated when the snakes started attacking.  Each one is going in a different direction.

When Xika was still busy thinking, there was a loud bang.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The sound came from Qin Mo who slammed his hammer several times into the ground making the snakes difficult to attack because the ground shook.

Then Lin Zhu and several other cultivators with fire elements burned the snakes.

Now the snake problem is sorted out, Xika thought.

The cultivators regrouped in front of the tomb. Xika also gathered with Qin Mo, Lian Minjie, and Lin Zhu.

Han Mang and the few others who seemed to understand about the formation advanced and discussed for a while.

Then they tried to break the barrier together.

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Half an hour passed and the barrier was still not broken.

One of the bored cultivators waited forward and threw his axe towards the barrier.

Luckily Han Mang and a few others managed to dodge the axe.

!!!!!

"HAHAHA. Just destroy it." said the man arrogantly.

Some people who understood about the spiritual formation were quite offended by his words, but Han Mang's expression was ordinary.

One of the cultivators advanced and set one of his feet into the cave.

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Xika also ran away with the other three people.

The cave was pointed downwards and after running for a while, Xika and those cultivators encountered many passageways and each passageway had many doors as well.

The cultivators dispersed and when they found the treasure, they started fighting.

Xika and the other three people took a fairly quiet passageway and entered the door that was at the very front.

The door opened easily.

When Xika looked inside, the room was already empty.

"Sure, this must be the fucking city lord's doing."

Then Xika came out and checked the other doors.

Some were empty, while others still had treasures, but not particularly valuable.

"Xika, run to the seventh door from the front on the left."

Xika called Lian Minjie and the others then they headed for the door that Huo Bing said together.

"Be careful."

Xika had wanted to open the door straight away, but Huo Bing's words stopped her.

Qin Mo picked up a stone on the ground then threw the stone right into the middle of the door.

NAH!

Qin Mo's throw seemed to have triggered a trap.

Moments after the stone hit the door, hundreds of arrows flew in front of the door, making the person standing in front of the door instantly receive the arrows.

Luckily Xika had been warned by Huo Bing and her friends as well not to get too close to that door.

After waiting for a while, Xika was sure that there were no more traps and stepped forward.

He opened the door, keeping alert.

But it seemed like the trap was just an arrow just now, and Qin Mo had triggered it so there were no more traps.

Xika looked inside and found there was a pile of pills in that room.

He looked to the side, but nothing else.

It seemed that those pills were the only treasures in this room.

Lian Minjie counted the number of pills quickly.

"There's a total of five hundred Nirvanna pills."

"Ehh...five hundred divided by six......."

Qin Mo instantly calculated the division of the numbers, but Heiilao flicked it.

"I don't need those pills. You guys share it yourself."

Qin Mo who heard Heiliao's words smiled happily because there was no need to count the things he disliked the most.

"No need for ration division. Everything here is mine. You guys leave before I change my mind."

The same man who threw the axe earlier appeared from the door that had forgotten to be closed again by Lin Zhu who entered last.

The man took a step forward and Qin Mo directly kicked him.

Qin Mo's kick successfully threw the man out of the room.

As he walked out, he said,

"Lian Strange, you're the one for the pills. Leave this guy to me."

Lin Zhu remained inside accompanying Lian Minjie in case there was any other danger, while Xika went out to help Qin Mo.

The man stood face to face with Qin Mo.

They stared at each other for a few moments.

Then the man weaved his axe after Qin Mo's head, while Qin Mo swung his hammer to hold the man's axe.

The axe and hammer met and created a fairly strong impact wave.

Qin Mo and the man swung their weapons at each other, while Xika watched from the side and helped out when needed.

The man kicked a stone and disturbed Qin Mo's vision. He directly swung his axe towards Qin Mo's head.

Xika ran with the wind element at her feet and jumped kicking the man's axe to change the direction of her attack.

The man's axe slid and hit the ground beside Qin Mo and made him crack.

"Curtain, dammit."

The man raised his axe, was about to attack the closest Xika, but he had not had time to swing his axe, Qin Mo had already punched his hammer to the ground until it trembled so much that the man lost his balance.

Xika directly attacked the man as fast as she could use the knife Lian Minjie gave her.

The man continued to retreat due to Xika's attack while Xika did not stop his attack.

The man's body was quite large, perhaps that was the reason for using an axe, but it made him slow. Xika whose body was smaller could attack the man easily.

Xika ended his barrage of attacks with a jumping kick.

The big man stepped back several times because Xika's kick then came the sound of a trap being triggered.

And a formation shone beneath the man.

The formation shut him down as well as attacked him.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

The man tried to get out of the formation by all means, but to no avail.

It was not long before the large-bodied man lost his life inside the formation he had despised before.

From behind the boulder near the formation shone before, out came Han Mang's figure.

"Heh, how does it feel to be killed by a formation you despise?" he said while kicking the man's already lifeless large body.

Xika was quite surprised to see Han Mang helping her.

He stood up leisurely, but his gaze was filled with vigilance.

Then Han Mang turned his head and looked at Xika.

"Ah, no need to thank me. I didn't mean to help. Just a personal vendetta."

Xika just silently looked at Han Mang.

"No need to worry, I'm not interested in the treasure you found. See you." said Han Mang walking away while waving his hand.

Qin Mo came and stood next to Xika.

"Do you know him?"

"We're just talking for a minute."

"He's a dangerous man."

Xika nodded in agreement with Qin Mo's remark.

The power of the big man was quite strong as it was able to break the barrier of the tomb earlier. However Han Mang was able to kill the man with his formation without being caught by Xika and the others. Plus, the formation was quite deadly as it did not take long to kill the man.

Qin Mo stared briefly at the corpse of the big man for a while then walked back to Lian Minjie. Xika also followed.

"This is your part."

Lian Minjie had already left three separate piles, for Xika, Qin Mo, and Huo Bing, while her parts and Lin Zhu's parts had already been saved first.

'With this, keel is already my debt with Xingli.' Xika thought.

After storing the pills, they came out and looked for other treasures.