The Card Cultivation System
CCS-68S

"All right, I'll repeat. Take a good look."

Huo Bing was showing Xika how to forge.

These few days Huo Bing was teaching him forging, yet Xika was still unable to. Because forging with Huo Bing techniques required an unusually great elemental control. Although Xika was quite great, but he still had not reached Huo Bing's level.

Huo Bing burned a few Spirit Beast bones until they melted, then formed them using his qi. After that, he used ice.

"You're too fast. I don't have the ice element anyway. How am I supposed to cool my gun?"

"Use the water and wind elements then. Not too different."

Xika tried to do the thing that Huo Bing had just demonstrated. But just as he lit a fire, the water element had devoured him to the point of exhausting. Then he tried to start a fire first new water, the result is not much different, the fire burns the water element until it evaporates.

Huo Bing sighed looking at that disciple. Inwardly she was grateful that Xika had not touched the Spirit Beast bone, otherwise it would have been wasted by Xika.

"alright. You learned to control your element first. Haven't you ever used two elements at the same time?"

"Ever, but never the opposite element. Like fire and wind."

"Then try now with the opposite element."

Xika nodded. He tried to use two opposing elements.

He opened his right hand and a fire appeared. Then he opened his left hand and filled it with water. Not long after, the fire in his left hand dimmed a few times and finally died.

Xika did not give up. He tried it again.

Huo Bing and Heiliao were just observing from the side.

Heiliao had wanted to teach Xika once he was done with Huo Bing, but pill making also required qi control that was not inferior to Huo Bing's forging technique, so Heiliao let him practice.

Occasionally Huo Bing and Heiliao would talk to each other. But because of the competition between them, usually only 'yes' or 'Mmm' or 'right' answers are heard'.

A few hours passed and Xika still could not. He fell asleep on the floor to clear his mind.

After sleeping for a while, Xika was still not sure she could master the elemental control that fast, so she tried something else.

He stood up and spread out his wings, then flapped them.

Xika can fly without running first.

Although Huo Bing and Heiliao taught him to forge and concoct pills, he still practiced using his wings.

Xika flapped her wings faster and she flew higher and higher.

Huo Bing and Heiliao were just staring at him. Xika has done something like this. Whenever he was confused by their lesson, he would do something else as refreshing. At most, he would fall after flying so high.

And it proved to be true.

WHUSH!!!

THE DUAKK!!

Xika down. This time with the supine position, so his entire body hit the ground at the same time.

But he got up with an excited look.

This time he fell after 1 meter higher than the previous experiment.

Xika tried to fly as high as possible several times. The result is always the same, falling.

He stopped flying as high as he could, and now he tries to fly as long as possible.

Xika spread her wings and spread them. This time he flew around the room.

It's not really that hard to fly as long as possible, it's just that.........

WHUSHES!

THE DUAR!

Huo Bing shot fire from his mouth and almost hit Xika.

Xika spread her wings to stop her flight so that Huo Bing's attack only hit the wall beside her.

But it's not done yet.

Heiliao disappeared and appeared again above Xika's head. He was immediately shaken because of the burden that came suddenly. Just as he was starting to balance himself, Heiliao disappeared from his head and appeared hugging his left leg.

Xika came back and it made her head hit the wall.

But Xika still hasn't fallen. He flapped his wings and refused to fall.

Then Heiliao ran all over her making the load on Xika's body move around.

Xika was still floating in the air even though her position was already quite tilted. Huo Bing shot out an ice ball.

And finally Xika fell.

"Damn it!"

This was what Heiliao had always done with Huo Bing. They never bothered him while learning to fly, but when he finished studying and tried to relax, they started to bother him.

Perhaps only in this case would Huo Bing and Heiliao be able to work together.

Xika fell down with her back facing the ground. Now he looks at the ceiling. It was only in this position that he could truly relax.

He was silent and enjoyed the silence and view of the ceiling that had trapped him for two weeks.

Xika maintained that position for a while. Then he sat down and went back to practicing controlling the elements.

In that place, they could not know day and night, so they ate only when they were hungry.

This time Xika managed to light a fire and water simultaneously without anyone dying. Even though it only lasted for a minute.

But that progress made him even more excited.

He tried it again. But after reaching five minutes, he could not hold the two anymore.

And now Xika turned to face Heiliao. He wanted to listen to Heiliao's explanation of refining pills again.

Heiliao explained how to do it, what elements were needed, and in what parts he had to focus.

A few days passed with the same day.

Now Xika is quite adept at controlling the elements. It can use three elements simultaneously no matter what the element is. But only the basic elements.

Heiliao told him that he could also use space elements like the other four elements, but it seemed Xika was still too far away to reach that stage.

So Huo Bing started teaching Xika.

He only gave one bone small enough. When Xika asked why it was only one and that it was small in size, Huo Bing replied,

"Because I don't know if you're gonna make it or not. If we start with a big bone and a lot at once and you fail, then all that bone will be wasted. Better be careful."

"Well, first lift the bone."

Xika needed a few minutes to successfully do just that.

Then Huo Bing continued.

"good. Now point your fire at that bone slowly. I said!" huo Bing said as he watched Xika aim her flames swiftly at the bone.

Xika maintained that position for a while.

"Preserve that position, right, right. Wait until the bone melts completely. You just formed."

A few minutes passed and now the bone had melted completely into a white liquid.

"Now the shape of the bone is becoming the weapon you love."

"Ehhh..........how to shape it?"

"Use your qi."

Xika tried it but it was quite difficult. He wanted to make a knife because it was small and only that thing could be made with such a small bone. But he even dilated the liquid.

He tried it for a while but it still hasn't worked. Unknowingly, Xika kept her fire away from the bone melt and it started to harden.

"AHHH!! Don't let the bones cool and harden, use your fire!"

But it's too late. The melt was already too hard to form even though it was still wet.

"Aahaha............"

Xika laughed while scratching her head while Huo Bing only sighed.

"Let's try again" said Huo Bing who was replied by Xika's nod.

He removed another bone from his spatial ring and repeated the previous process.

This time it's actually pretty good. Xika did not keep the fire away, but because she was still confused about how to form the bone melt, she lost concentration and the melt dripped onto her legs.

"HOT!"

And instantly Xika lost her concentration. Fire's disappeared. By the time Xika had refocused, the melt had already hardened as before.

Now there are two unformed objects that are the products of Xika's failure.

He did not give up and tried again.

But after he took out six bones and it all ended in failure, he paused for a short break.

Huo Bing looked at him with a natural look. There was no humiliation at all on his face because forging was indeed difficult. Using a furnace alone is quite difficult, especially without a furnace.

But Xika was upset. Not to Huo Bing, but to himself.

So he stood up and tried something reckless. He collected all his failed products into one pile and then burned them.

Huo Bing quite admired that idea. It was never thought for him to use the failed product so many times. But it seems Xika is using quite a lot.

"Isn't that too much?"

"No" Xika replied in a tone that told people that she would not change her decision.

So Huo Bing let him. If it fails, it can melt it down and use it again. In addition, Huo BIng found a new look in Xika's eyes.

A look that says he must and must succeed. Previously only the gaze was convinced that he could do it, but did not know when he could. This time it's not like that. The gaze this time implied that he would definitely succeed this time around.

Xika takes longer than ever to turn all of those failed products into liquid. It was only natural that he was melting an object that was six times the amount of before.

After that, it forms the liquid slowly.

"What do you want to do?"

"Miss."

"With all that liquid?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"How much?"

"One."

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

Huo Bing could no longer speak. He did know that Xika was intent on forming a knife from previous experiments, but he did not know Xika would be so persistent that he formed a knife out of six bones.

Xika was already more able to form the liquid into the shape he wanted thanks to his previous experiments. First of all, he collected all the liquid and condensed it. After that, he formed a knife.

This time he formed a knife. Then he paused and asked Huo Bing.

"What do I do next?"

Huo Bing had not taught the next stage because Xika had not succeeded.

"uh? Ah, cooling. You can use the elements of water and wind to cool it down." Huo Bing replied as she was still stunned Xika managed to form a knife in the middle of her recklessness. He does not teach Xika how to cool the weapon because the elements he uses with Xika are different.

But it doesn't seem necessary. Xika tried it herself and it worked. He used the water that had mixed with the wind to surround his knife.

All this process he did with focus without any carelessness or mistakes.

It takes a long time to cool the knife because it only cools through the aura, not touching the knife with water directly. But it's the right process. It could have been destroyed if the water element touched the knife.

Half an hour passed but the knife was still not completely dry. Xika's qi supplies are dwindling.

But Xika was not out of ways. It uses the black hole to absorb the qi around it and fill its dantian. That way he finally managed to cool his knife completely.

Black holes, wind and water disappeared. Then Xika held her first artificial knife slowly.

He only saw the knife for a moment and then everything went dark.

Bruk!

Xika fell asleep. For a few hours he spent all his energy. Both physically and mentally exhausted, so it was only natural that he immediately fell asleep.

Huo Bing looked at Xika with a smile as it was glad Xika finally managed to make her first weapon.

Heiliao approached him and asked.

"You didn't check it?"

Huo Bing was silent for a while then shook her head.

"No. That's the gun, so let him check it."