The Card Cultivation System
CCS-66

The three creatures - humans, birds, and wolves - were quietly in place.

For a while, no one spoke between them.

The previous fight was quite draining, even very draining of their energy, both physical and mental.

After resting for a while, the three of them approached each other.

They look at each other.

They all feel tied to each other. Although none of them speak, but they can know each other's thoughts through the view.

Xika and Huo Bing ate the pills they had stolen in the previous city. Xika divided her pill loot on Huo Bing. While Heiliao recovers using his black hole.

A few days passed without anyone talking.

They were busy recovering their wounds. Huo Bing ate pills to recover the qi he spent during the fight.

After each felt good enough, they spoke.

"So? What do we do next?"

Xika who started the conversation.

"Let's go around this room again. There might still be another exit or another formation" Huo Bing said unhurriedly.

Heiliao was silent. But it seemed to agree with Huo Bing's proposal.

So Xika turned her qinya into fire and floated it around her head.

Huo Bing was still forming her form and did not enter Xika's dantian. Perhaps because he was bored in the dantian continuously all this time, so once there was a chance to get out, he did not waste it.

Heiliao jumped up and sat back on Xika's shoulders.

The three of them walked together, even though only Xika was walking because Huo Bing was flying and Heiliao was sitting on her shoulders.

First of all, they surrounded the middle of this place.

But not many clues or patterns can be found in that section. The floor has been destroyed due to the fall of the upper room where they were before plus the fight the three of them increasingly make the middle floor not because of its shape.

The only useful thing they found was the circle that the snakes had used before.

Xika did not know what he could do with it, but for a while he kept it.

Then they moved to the side of the wall.

There were still many patterns engraved even though in some places it was already cracked and destroyed due to their fight.

Huo Bing and Heiliao looked at the patterns on the wall closely. But there's not much they found. The pattern was still the same as before, other than the pattern Heiliao had changed.

On the wall, there was no writing or drawing like the previous room. There is only a formation pattern.

Suddenly an idea popped into Xika's head.

"Huo Bing, the room above doesn't seem to have been destroyed, just the floor. Can you take us there? Maybe we can find some clues."

Huo Bing nodded then he spread his wings and Xika climbed up onto his body.

He flapped his wings and they flew.

They finally reached the room before.

But since the floor was already destroyed, they had to control Huo Bing to get around.

Xika observed the ceiling.

"Huo Bing, if we destroy the ceiling above that, will we be able to get out?"

Huo Bing did not reply. Heiliao answered him.

"No. Previously in the lava pool there was an element of space. So the pool just brought us here, not right above us."

Xika nodded at Heiliao's explanation.

Then Huo Bing flapped his wings again and drew closer to one of the walls. Previously he was not too comfortable to pay attention to the writing on the wall because he felt someone was watching. So he decided not to read the wall.

Thankfully, he made the right decision. I don't know what would happen if the snakes knew of Huo Bing's whereabouts before Xika revealed them.

Now he can read the writing on the wall casually without worry.

Huo Bing read it with a serious expression to the point of making Xika curious about the meaning of the writing. Heiliao who was sitting on Xika's shoulder also read it, making her even more wondering what the writing on the wall meant.

A while later, after Huo Bing and Heiliao finished reading the writing on the wall, the two of them did not speak.

If Heiliao was still reasonable because he rarely spoke, but Huo Bing? Xika was surprised that the bird's beak was able to close when this was not the time to eat.

Finally Xika could not stand her curiosity anymore so she asked.

"What does that writing mean?"

"Hm? Oh, I almost forgot there was you. I just remember this fat wolf and I'm sure he understood so I didn't mean it."

"Damn it! Quickly tell me what that writing means."

"The place we came to is not just the tomb of the sacred bird. But also the tomb of the damn 'Great Chief' that the snakes were talking about.

The room below, where we fell earlier was the grave of that big goddamn snake, while the room filled with this inscription was the tomb of a sacred bird.

The two creatures had already had enmity for many years so they finally met together to finish it off. And this is the place they chose.

Previously, this place was just an ordinary cave. But when both sides were dying, they used up the remnants of their energy and turned this place into a tomb.

In his final moments, the sacred bird wrote on this wall and told future generations what had happened.

In contrast to that sacred bird, the damn snake instead used his possessions and made his tomb a precious place for other cultivators to go to. He was convinced that one day his people would come and look for him, so he left behind a monstrous formation that served to absorb the vitality of living beings and transfer them to other creatures.

But the sacred bird also knew the plan and formation that the damn snake left behind. Luckily, as the snake was writing various formation patterns on the wall, it was depleting its energy faster than the holy bird.

So the sacred bird was still alive a while after the damn snake died.

He used the rest of his life to study the formation that the damn snake left behind and attempted to foil his plan.

Incidentally, when I appeared even for just a moment, I found some patterns and it was written 'change'.  So I bet that this pattern could derail the snake's plan and ask the wolf's help to change the formation pattern.It turns out that pattern managed to thwart the plans of the damn snakes. Lately I've found out that this is the sacred bird's plan."

Xika nodded her head at Huo Bing's explanation while Heiliao just kept quiet as usual.

"Did the bird not tell you how to get out of this place?"

Huo Bing looked at the walls filled with fleeting writings then shook his head.

"No" he said.

"He just told her that he left behind a little pattern to change the formation of that damn snake and turn it into a transportation formation to move all those who had no interest."

"wait. How can the formation differentiate between myself and the others? How could he know that I was still 'interested' while the others weren't?"

"That's. I'm not the one who made this formation."

"Of course it's because of this" Heiliao said as she pointed at the small wings on Xika's back.

"Oh yes! I forgot that I have wings too. Can you train me to use Huo Bing?"

"Sure." Huo Bing said as he nodded.

Then he tilted his body and made Xika fall.

"BreakassFUCK!"

Xika tried to flap her wings but was useless. After all, if it works, such a small wing will not be able to stop it from falling.

And finally.........

A BRUAKKK!!!

Xika fell to the ground with her face first. While Heiliao formed a black hole as the distance between Xika and the ground drew closer, then he moved.

"Fucking bird!"

Huo Bing came from above then stared in bewilderment.

"What?"

"Why did you drop me?"

"So did you ask" Huo Bing said still with a puzzled face.

"I'm not asking you to drop me. I'm asking you to teach me how to use wings."

"And that's how I learned how to use my wings."

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

Xika could not answer anymore.

He had read a book telling him how a mother bird taught her to fly. But he never thought that one day he would actually experience that way.

Huo Bing was still staring at Xika confusedly and there was no feeling of guilt on her face.

But then he realized something.

"wait. Why are your wings so small? I remember it wasn't that small."

"How do I know! I just thought about it and-"

Xika snapped her words.

He closed his eyes and hoped the wings would return to their original size.

And his hope came true.

The wing was back as big as its previous size.

But the larger size of Xika's body made her lose her balance and fall.

Huo Bing immediately laughed out loud seeing Xika fall with the same foolish expression when Xika first tried to get to know the wind element.

Heiliao just looked at him expressionlessly.

Xika tried to wake up again. But when he straightened his legs, his wings again weighed down on his body.

And he fell again.

Huo Bing laughed even louder. While Heiliao also started laughing looking at Xika's stupid expression.

Xika tried a few more times, but it all ended in failure and was laughed at by the two friends.

He no longer tried to stand up. It starts with sitting down first.

Previously, when he tried to stand, he could only hold his wings with a sitting position for a while then immediately stand up.

Now he wants to try to survive in a sitting position first. If it was better, he would try to stand up.

Sitting is also quite difficult. It constantly falls.

The laughter of the other two creatures was getting louder and louder.

So Xika tried to adapt to her wings as long as she was trapped in the tomb.