The Card Cultivation System
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"HHHHH!!!"

"Xika! Stop that!"

Huo Bing and Heiliao shouted hoping that Xika would stop chasing Heiliao with the knife in her hand, but it seemed that the child did not care.

"Stop! Stop that!! I'll get the lizard out!" heiliao said gasping.

Heiliao was quite surprised Xika could make him desperate. The boy was completely unyielding. He followed Heiliao wherever the wolf went. Even when Heiliao moved places, Xikapun also moved places.

"Hoekk!! Gee! Geeh!"

Heiliao let out some strange sounds from his mouth, then took out the lizard that he had swallowed round and round before.

But unfortunately the lizard is no longer alive.

When Heiliao lifted his head from the carcass of the lizard towards Xika, he found two pairs of eyes that shone so brightly.

"Bring me some lizards. Life-to-life. If you fail I'll split your stomach to find another lizard you've eaten."

Heiliao hurriedly ran in search of the remaining lizards. For some reason, only Xika dared to behave like that to Lang Heiliao, the mighty wolf descendant of the black space ruler.

"And you!"

Xika pointed at Huo Bing after seeing Heiliao running in search of a lizard.

"Don't dare to eat worms again."

"What?"

Huo Bing was not acting the same way as Heiliao. He did not obey Xika's words.

"So you refuse to stop eating worms?"

"Of course."

"How about we play capsah? If you win I'll find you an extra worm. If you lose, you have to stop eating worms and find worms to test them in that formation. How's it?"

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

That's a pretty tempting offer. Huo Bing could eat as much worms as even Xika would help him, but if he lost, he would not be allowed to eat worms anymore. Even he had to find it for formation trials.

The prize is quite large, but the risk is also quite large. Huo Bing was quite hesitant to accept Xika's challenge. Moreover, the boy was amazing in capsah. But that doesn't mean he's invincible. He also defeated him twice.

Huo Bing finally accepted Xika's offer.

"alright. I agree."

"3 rounds. Deal?"

"Deal."

Xika took the card from under her cloak and started shuffling.

"wait. Let me shuffle." Huo Bing said.

He was afraid that Xika would cheat. But Huo Bing did not know that Xika could still cheat even though it was not her who shuffled the cards.

But for this game, Xika would not cheat.

The cards were shuffled by Huo Bing. Then he divided it into four piles. Even though there were only two players because Heiliao was still busy, he still split them into four. That's how he usually plays. Xika also has the same habits.

First round.

Huo Bing had two cards of the same number in his hand. Xika still has 7 cards.

It's Xika's turn. Previously Huo Bing took out two cards with A written on it. The card in his hand has a number 2. He is confident he will win this first round.

Then Xika took out two cards as well. Huo Bing widened his eyes when he saw the card that Xika had issued.

The card issued by Xika is a card that also reads 2. It's just that what Xika put out was a higher level than the one in Huo Bing's hands. So Huo Bing could not fight Xika.

For that round he was forced to cus, which means passing his turn and letting Xika take out the card first. But he is not small-hearted. He still believes he can win this first round with the cards in his hand.

But her confidence faded when she saw the smile on Xika's face. Incidentally, the cards in Xika's hand totaled 5 pieces.

And Xika took everything out simultaneously. That way, the cards in his hand run out and he wins the first round.

Huo Bing still could not believe he could be defeated when victory was so close. But he calmed himself.

There are two rounds left, her mind.

However Huo Bing lost a landslide in all three rounds. Xika finished him mercilessly.

Several times, Huo Bing had hesitated to take out a large number card, and then he regretted it. In the next round, he tried not to repeat his mistake. But instead he pulled out his big card too early and he lost again.

"As per agreement. Find a worm and don't eat one."

Huo Bing flew with no spirit.

Perhaps in this world, only Xika dared to behave like that to the legendary saint beasts. Well, he doesn't really care about the name 'holy animal'. He even said that even sacred animals can be farmed. Every time Huo Bing recalled Xika's words back then, he coughed himself so bitterly.

As long as Huo Bing and Heiliao searched for lizards and worms for formation trials, Xika cultivated. He tried to move to the next stage, but it seems that for now he still can't. His current speed was also already worthy of being called a genius in the outside world. So he doesn't bother about it too much.

A few moments passed. Heiliao and Huo Bing returned with quite a lot of lizards and worms in their mouths. Both tried very hard not to eat the creatures.

Xika stood up and approached them.

"good. Now what should we do?"

"What?"

Heiliao and Huo Bing looked at Xika in confusion. He was most busy dealing with materials for formation trials, but after the materials had gathered, he did not even know what to do?

"wait. So all this time you didn't know what to do to activate the formation?"

"Of course not. You guys think I'm a formation expert or what?"

"So why did you ask us to gather formation trial materials from earlier?"

"If I don't do it, then there won't be any living creatures left to be used as trial materials."

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

Heiliao and Huo Bing could not answer Xika's words.

Then they discussed for a while. And the three of them did not know how to activate that formation.

In fact, there were many ways to activate the formation. But since no one knew what formation it was, so they were not sure what means to use to activate that formation.

Finally they decided to try the most common and primitive methods.

Touching formation.

The three of them walked over to the corpse of the huge snake. They stopped when their distance with the formation under the snake was quite close.

"So........which one shall we use?" xika asked as she glanced at the animals Huo Bing and Heiliao gathered.

It makes them float for easy carrying while preventing them from escaping. Why did Xika bring the animals? Because he was not sure of Huo Bing nor Heiliao. They can eat these animals at any time.

"We just use this one first" Huo Bing said pointing to the dead lizard Heiliao had taken out earlier.

Xika nodded. Then he threw the carcass of the lizard into the formation in front of them.

Thank goodness!!!

Pluck up!

The carcass of the lizard landed within that formation. Then the formation lit up.

WHOSHS!

And when the formation dimmed again, the carcass of the lizard was gone without a trace.

The three stared at the formation with their mouths open. They are equally confused where the lizard disappeared.

"Let's try with the worm this time." proposed Xika.

Incidentally, the worms they managed to catch were quite fat.

When Huo Bing was about to throw a fat worm with an unwilling expression, Xika stopped him.

"Wait!" said.

Huo Bing instantly stopped his claws. He stared expectantly so that Xika could let him eat the worm.

"No need for one-on-one. Just throw all those worms."

But Xika's next words made Huo Bing even more disappointed than before.

With a heavy heart, Huo Bing threw all the worms he gathered into the formation.

The formation was again lit up brightly.

This time the three tried hard not to close their eyes and see what was really going on in that formation.

It was quite difficult, because the light released by the formation was very eye-piercing. Although Xika managed not to close his eyes, he could only see a little of what was happening within that formation.

Faintly he saw the worms........... shrinking?

After the light faded, the three creatures took a while to get their eyes used to it.

Before, they were used to looking at a dark place. Now that quite a piercing light shone into their eyes, it was only natural that their eyes were not used to it.

"Huo Bing, Heiliao. Did you guys see anything?"

"My eyesight is not very good. I'm used to living in dark places, so I can't see very well in the blinding light" Heliao said, shaking her head.

"I managed to see it. But it makes my feelings worse."

Among the three, Huo Bing was the one who was the most able to see clearly. He was a spirit, so the physical laws had no effect on him.

"really? So what are you looking at? I just saw the worms shrink. But I'm not sure if it's true or not."

Huo Bing was silent for a moment.

"Yes, right. What you saw is true. The worm shrank. More precisely absorbed."

"What?'

"What is that shape exactly?"

"I don't know.

But to be sure, this formation is more terrifying than the formation used by those damn snakes before."