The Card Cultivation System
CCS-64

Now the whole pattern on the floor is lit up.

At first nothing happened.

Even some people thought the three old snakes were crazy.

But then, they felt the entire qi in their bodies being sucked in.

"OAHHHHH!!!!"

"URGHHHH........."

A wide variety of shouts filled the room, and this time the cause was the three old snakes.

Xika also felt her qi sucked in by the strange pattern on the floor, but somehow, the pattern seemed to have difficulty absorbing it.

Unlike others whose qi was continuously sucked, then blood, continued into the flesh and left only bones, the qi in Xika's body was sucked in at a speed that was three times slower than that of other cultivators.

The few people Xika had met in the lava pool earlier turned to look at Xika. They wanted to know if this formation worked on Xika as well or not.

"Spread the black hole throughout your body. Don't look at anyone else."

In a crucial moment, Heiliao gave Xika a suggestion.

Xika followed Heiliao's advice.

It is quite difficult, because usually the hole just appears in his hand without him thinking about the shape or size. Now he must change the shape of the black hole in order to cover his entire body.

Either because Xika was indeed talented, or because she was in a difficult situation, surely Xika managed to do it quite quickly and exceeded estimates, both Huo Bing and Heiliao.

Now Xika was able to move and breathe normally without any difficulty, but for safety, she had to pretend to kneel in pain and scream.

Previously, he wanted to fight against the three old snakes with the help of all the cultivators in this room. But who would have thought, that the snake was moving faster than he imagined.

Xika guessed that he could destroy this formation if the core was destroyed. And the circle in the middle of that floor was the core of this formation. The snakes also fired their attacks at the circle.

With great difficulty, Xika moved towards the middle.

But the snakes realized it.

One of them moved closer to him while opening his mouth wide.

"Sad."

Xika must reveal her power now.

He stood up and no longer crawled.

The serpent is coming.

From his tongue, it seemed like he was the old man standing on the right. He was about to attack Xika many times but was stopped by the middle man.

This snake has a striped motif with red and yellow colors.

Now that her identity is revealed, Xika uses Space Shifter and her father's gift card simultaneously.

Although desperate, but he did not use all the elements.

He believes there is still hope to live. After all, Huo Bing and Heiliao had yet to show their strength. So Xika was unwilling to reveal all her secrets, because if the cultivators present in this place managed to survive, they could turn around and attack her. You can also go out and spread the secret, then come back with an army.

Xika threw five cards and made them float in the air. While his hand pulled the Space Shifter that he had previously stored on his back.

Previously, while in the lava pool, after seeing so many people who had bad thoughts of him, he no longer kept the Space Shifter. He left it stick-shaped and put it on his back for easy reach.

The striped snake pointed its fangs at Xika.

Xika jumped back.

As the snake approaches, Xika directs her card to interfere with the creature's vision.

The size of the card is quite small when compared to the snake that makes it a pretty effective attack.

The snake stopped its movement as it was interrupted by the Xika card.

Xika did not waste that chance. He gathered the qi at the end of the Space Shifter and then blasted it firmly toward the snake's stomach.

The snake's body was slightly wobbly and lost its chance, but other than that it did not suffer any significant injuries.

Xika looked at the cards that each disturbed the snake.

Around the snake's eyes, visible wounds in the form of small scratches caused by Xika cards.

In terms of sharpness, it looks like the Xika card is sharper than the Space Shifter. So Xika put the Space Shifter on her back, then used the card to attack her.

Right now Xika was attacking the snake with many cards, so her mind was completely focused to the point that she was unaware of the people around her and tripped over their bodies.

"Damn!"

Xika turned around and saw the distance between herself and the snake's mouth was less than a meter.

He turned his gaze away, hoping for a miracle to happen even if it was impossible.

But the miracle really happened.

Xika did not feel the coldness of the snake fangs on her body nor did she hear her body in the translucent.

Instead, what he heard was the sound of iron clashing.

He turned around and saw a large man with a shield that was almost the size of his body standing in front of him protecting himself from the snake.

"I didn't mean to save you, but if you die it looks like our hope will be wiped out. So I'm doing this for myself and you don't have to thank me." she said turning to Xika with a body that shook from holding back the snake and the pressure from the formation.

Xika did not think too much about the man's words. What matters now is that there is additional help. Instead, he instead thought about how the man could protect himself and talk to him.

Other cultivators were not even able to speak when the snakes were running this formation.

Then he turned his head and saw some other cultivators already standing up.

Xika was silent for a while then only realized the reason those cultivators were able to move.

Previously, the three snakes had worked together to run the formation. And as a result they sucked the qi of the entire cultivator and made them have trouble moving the body.

Now that one of the snakes had stopped running the formation to attack Xika, the strength of the formation was reduced. So some cultivators who were strong enough could already move his body despite still trembling from withstanding the pressure.

When Xika only understood the reason those cultivators were able to move, the big-shielded man had already crashed and crashed into the wall.

The yellow red snake did it. Because his fangs didn't make it through the man's shield, so he attacked using his tail.

"Capsah Technique: First Way,"

Xika took a card from under her cloak.

Then he slashed using that card.

"Singles."

A huge wave appeared and attacked the snake fiercely.

Single enough to hurt the snake. The attack managed to give a deep enough wound to the yellow red-striped snake.

The snake screamed in pain.

Meanwhile, Xika shouted at the entire cultivator.

"Try to break the circle pattern in the middle of the floor. It should have destroyed this formation."

Almost the entire cultivator instantly moved to the middle. But it wasn't easy.

Although the pressure had been reduced due to only two snakes controlling the formation, but for a Cultivator Forming Qi 3 down the pressure it was still heavy enough to prevent them from moving.

So the ones moving to the middle were only cultivators who were at the level of Forming Qi 3 and above.

The snake stopped writhing in pain after hearing Xika's cry. He looked at Xika with a look full of anger, then he spat out poison on Xika.

Xika jumped back.

But the snake was no longer after Xika.

He realized that he could not let the circle in the middle crumble. So he rushed towards the cultivators in the middle area and blew them all away.

"Damn it!"

Xika tried to get close several times to lure the snake into chasing after her, but it didn't work.

It seemed that, no matter how angry the snake was at Xika, he was still able to use his wits.

But not all cultivators in the central area had been knocked down by the snake.

The snake only threw those who were able to stand alone, because he thought only they could be a threat.

But he was wrong.

One of the cultivators at the Qi Gathering level 9 was trying to make a move ever since Xika shouted.

He was indeed unable to stand up like a cultivator who had already reached the Qi 3 Forming stage, but he managed to crawl.

It was slow, but he finally managed to approach the circle in the middle of that floor.

He took out a knife from his spatial ring.

Then with all the energy he had, he lifted the knife and pointed it towards the circle.

JLB!

The man's knife managed to break through the circle in the middle of the floor. But the man was unable to move anymore due to running out of energy.

The snake who was upset because it felt fooled to lift its tail and throw down the poor man who had contributed to it.

Xika did not know how the man's fate was.

Although he had performed great merit, but it was as if no one cared about him.

Everyone was focused on looking at the center of the floor.

The circle that had shone the brightest, slowly dimmed after being stabbed by a knife. Then the surrounding parts also began to dim.

And finally all the patterns on the floor dimmed.

All cultivators had happy expressions on their faces. Xika is too.

But the danger is not over.

From the floor that had now dimmed without any light began to appear a line of cracks.

Then the next blink, the ground split apart and the whole creature fell into a deep enough hole.

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Xika did not know how long he had fallen. But as soon as he landed, he felt a tremendous dizziness in his head. Probably because his head hit a rock several times when he fell.

He stayed quiet for a while to get rid of his dizziness. When the dizziness in his head disappeared, he tried to look around.

But nothing could be seen because there was no illumination in that place. When he fell down, no one took the torch.

Xika squinted her eyes trying to see the situation.

The most problematic thing was the existence of the three snakes.

Although these holes were deep enough, Xika was sure they would not die that easily.

But Xika doesn't need to look to know where the snakes are.

Not far from Xika, there was the sound of loud laughter and full of satisfaction, but also evil.

Xika tried to walk closer. Quite difficult as there was no illumination plus the uneven ground, he stumbled several times, before finally being able to see the faint shapes of the snakes.

Meanwhile, Heiliao and Huo Bing did not speak at all.

Usually, they would continue to argue in Xika's mind and it was very disturbing to her. So Xika learned a new thing to turn off one of her senses. But not this time.

Xika wasn't too worried about that.

The snakes also seemed to be aware of Xika's presence, visible from those who set their sights on Xika.

Xika took the card from under her cloak and narrowed it between her fingers. He immediately took a standby position.

"Hahahaha!"

Xika frowned in confusion hearing the serpent's words.

"If it wasn't you who had the idea of breaking the middle circle and bringing us down, we wouldn't have found the Great Elder's body."

Xika's facial sharpness worsened.

"Hehehe."

The snake pointed its head telling Xika to take a look.

Xika looked at the direction the snake was pointing at.

Faintly, he could see a fairly large snake corpse lying on the ground. It was about twenty-five meters in size. It was just the large diameter of its body, not its length. Xika did not know how long it was because it was quite dark.

But he was sure bad things would happen if they managed to resurrect the snake.

"And now you cannot stop us" said the wisest snake, revealing a circle pattern on the floor that had now been separated from the rest.

Without speaking Xika knew that the circle was still the core of the formation.

He immediately ran to take the circle.

But his actions were read by the snakes.

One of them swung his tail and hit Xika's body.

Xika could not see well in a place without this kind of illumination. Unlike the snake that sees with the body temperature of its enemy, this is a good hunting ground for snakes.

Xika crashed far enough away. He was thrown for a few meters before finally stopping because he hit the wall.

He felt pain all over his body.

In the place of the snakes, one of them chanted a strange language that Xika did not understand and made the circle she bit shine.

Then the walls around started to shine.

It turned out that the place they fell in had a wider size than the previous room.

The walls of the place were also etched into patterns and those patterns started to shine.

"Xika, walk until you reach a symbol similar to a clam after that"

"- Huo Bing."

Xika cut off Huo Bing's words.

"It looks like I can't move for a while............"

Xika's body was quite burdened by the impact of the snake's tail. In addition, his mind was also quite tired of having to control his cards and keep thinking about how to defeat the snake.

Huo Bing was silent for a while then spoke to Heiliao.

".........................I have to hand this over to you, a charred wolf."

Heiliao only snorted in response to Huo Bing, but he jumped from behind the robe of Xika where he had been hiding all this time and walked towards the shell symbol.

He attached his claws to the symbol then the symbol dimmed for a while and then lit up again.

After that Heiliao walked towards the other symbols and did the same with the previous symbols.

The snakes were unaware of what Heiliao was doing.

Heiliao, who was a descendant of the space ruler, had a different body structure from other creatures.

The snakes that were looking based on body temperature were unable to sense Heiliao's presence. So Heiliao walked to and fro casually and quite smoothly.

Xika did not know how the other cultivators were doing, but it seemed like they had sustained heavy injuries. The pressure from the previous formation plus it fell with a distance of somehow many meters, enough to make them unable to move.

Xika guessed so because from earlier there was no sound from humans. All that was heard was the sound of the three snakes filled with excitement.

They were still doing some more preparations, so Heiliao was able to touch all the walls and execute Huo Bing's plan before the snake ran its formation.

Right now, Xika who was still unable to move listened to Huo Bing's plan.

Just like Xika's plan, Huo Bing's plan was also quite dangerous. But Xika agreed to do just that. Huo Bing had already informed the risks of this plan and Xika remained in agreement.

After the preparation was finished, the snakes did the same thing as before, opening their mouths and collecting qi, only this time more and longer than before.

Xika could only watch helplessly from the side. So too with other cultivators.

"HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!"

The snakes laughed crazy.

"You are lucky to see the resurrection of the Great Elder!"

"After the Great Elder rises, you will have the honor of being a part of him."

Everyone understood what the snake meant. 'The 'Great Chief' that the snakes were talking about would make them food.

Xika laughed a little from the side.

"really?"

The three snakes had confused faces.

"What?"

"Are your Great Elders really going to rise?"

The snakes were confused, then they realized something was wrong.

The patterns around the body of the huge snake did not light up, instead the patterns on the walls were lit up, and the longer it got brighter.

"DAMNIT!"

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!"

The snakes shouted furiously.

They were about to stop the formation, but could not. Although they had already stopped firing qi into that circle, but the channeled qi was enough to run the other formations present in this room.

"I? I just changed some formation patterns in this place.

Then the qi that you were supposed to channel towards the corpse, I turned the flow towards another formation.

A teleportation formation that would bring all those who had no interest out of this place."

"DON'TKK!!!!"

The snake cried out with anger, disappointment, and fear.

While the other cultivators put on joyous faces hearing Xika's words.

But not with Lian Minjie, Qin Mo, and Lin Zhu.

More or less they understood what Xika was saying. He had activated a teleportation formation to move others away from danger, including them.

But not with Xika.

They were convinced that Xika had an interest in this place, especially with the snake.

The three of them, who happened to fall in an adjacent place, looked at each other.

Although there was no illumination, but they saw the same gaze in each other's eyes. A look of disbelief, unwillingness, disappointment, and sadness.

Coincidentally, Xika also set her sights on the three of them. Then he smiled sincerely.

The symbol on the wall is getting brighter.

The three friends stood up and tried to get close to Xika, at least to say the last word or just 'goodbye'.

The symbols on the walls shone brighter than before until they had to close their eyes.

Then came Xika's voice.

"STELLAR JOKER!

Stellar is a star

The joker is a card

Shining brightly

Because we are one."

WHOOOSH!