Playing cards, I am your ancestor!-Chapter 342: Selection Tournament: Battling Guiqing (Part 4)
Previously, Wen Jiang had always relied on herself.
Now she’s interested in the system’s cards as well.
But she doesn’t want to draw.
Not to mention that each draw requires a large amount of points, and what’s worse, most of them might be useless cards.
Wen Jiang found out last time that system points are very important, and negative points can even affect this world.
They can even influence the existence time and combat ability of Xing Wu, so she only plans to use them at critical moments.
Since the cards produced by the system don’t enhance the fate value of this world, she doesn’t need to use the system’s cards for now.
Not wanting to draw doesn’t mean she’s not interested.
She can ’borrow’ them for research.
Why spend money when you can get something for free?
It’s just that getting Guiqing to agree is a difficult task.
Sheng Hongying and Du Zhaiyue were the last to select cards.
Sheng Hongying has the only output Poison Card ’Bound Moon.’
The name is beautifully chosen, and the card spirit is equally beautiful.
The card ’Bound Moon’ was the inspiration for the A-Level Output Card Seven-Star Butterfly.
The card spirit of ’Bound Moon’ is the Moon Flower, which seems to radiate a holy glow.
But then, the moonlight intermittently emits a huge glow, and whenever it shines, tiny moon flowers grow on the card spirit being illuminated, beautifully clinging to green vines.
’Bound Moon’ can target sand, because its main toxicity comes from light, and when moon flowers grow on the opponent’s card spirit, these tiny flowers emit increasingly bright light. Once they reach a pinnacle of brightness, they explode, and the explosion’s light can scorch the nearby card’s spiritual power.
The more moonlight strikes a card, the stronger the explosion light becomes later on.
This sand can’t handle it.
Early on, the bombing impact is small, but it can continually release and can’t be blocked.
But it can be healed.
It’s a Poison Card because the longer the battle goes, the harder it is to withstand, focusing on who can endure the spiritual power consumption longer.
The opponent certainly can’t outlast Sheng Hongying.
Du Zhaiyue again played a support card this time to enhance ’Bound Moon’s’ power, but since it’s bound with Sheng Hongying, and Song Jue and Song Yi cooperate with each other, this makes Wen Jiang’s decision to take the Wind Guiding Flower quite abrupt.
It’s neither an output nor a control.
What else can Wind Guiding Flower do?
Just stand by and cheer?
Plus, this was also Wen Jiang’s official debut in the S match, as previously, she mostly played against weak teams, so it was hard to see her strength.
Guiqing is at least considered a strong team and did exert some pressure on Mount Flower in card selection and banning.
Though mocking and underestimating were customary, now that the match had formally started, no one paid attention to that.
The match officially began.
Guiqing followed a defensive route, stalling into the sand’s late stage, so they didn’t act first.
Du Zhaiyue softly said, "Song Jue, make the first move."
One side has to test the waters first, and Song Jue’s Swamp Maze was most suitable.
Since this card is ineffective against sand, Song Jue naturally wouldn’t use it against the sand.
His target was the Pied Piper, a support card.
The Pied Piper can move, but its massive SSR card form always appears slow in its movement.
While Song Jue took action, Song Yi, his twin brother, had extraordinary telepathy, so even before Du Zhaiyue gave commands, he coordinated with the Mantle to bind the Pied Piper.
The Mantle took action, causing giant earth spikes to grow under the Pied Piper, forcing it upwards and immobilizing it.
The Swamp Maze appeared beneath Song Jue’s feet, turning the ground into a mass of rolling black soil, bubbling like boiling water, as if something was about to emerge.
The Ghost Vine appeared in a flash; its growth speed was astounding.
The Guiqing support’s eyelid lightly twitched.
The teammate shepherd card controlled by the replacement player reacted too slowly to Song Jue and Song Yi’s rapid coordination, and thus could not intercept the Mantle in time once the Sheep Spirits responded.
They hadn’t expected to target a support card first.
Early damage like this is just tickling for a card that can heal itself. Guiqing’s assassin played by Yan reacted swiftly, slashing through the Ghost Vine at the first moment it appeared, precisely timed.
The Pied Piper took no damage, only a little residual damage from the Mantle, not even requiring a healing card.
An assassin card can’t one-shot an SSR card, but slicing through such growths is simple.
But there was no time for the support to relax.
Sheng Hongying made her move.
The Bound Moon card spirit doesn’t resemble conventional flowers, with its massive, intertwined luminous blooms glowing with moonlight, resembling a shining moon tree from afar.
At the moment the Moon Flower light intensified, blinding brightness erupted across the scene.
It was truly dazzling.
Only now do they realize why the card is unavoidable: simply dodging it isn’t an option.
The opponent’s cards, illuminated, each sprouted tiny blooms resembling the main one.
Those blooms swelled and exploded, instantly unleashing another burst of blinding light.
It was, honestly, quite glaring.
At least the viewers watching the stream were practically blinded by the brilliance.
[Every time Bound Moon appears, I feel my eyes suffer unprecedented damage.]
[The Spirit Card Master is truly strong; to withstand such intense light with the naked eye, a normal person would be blinded eight hundred times over.]
[Bound Moon goes off like a strobe at a light show from afar every time it appears.]
[Am I the only one watching with intense anxiety? The twins cast skills so quickly, Guiqing seems slow by a half beat, but the sand won’t be easy, what will Wen Jiang do with this card?]
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As Sheng Hongying acted, Song Yingchen furrowed his brow and immediately activated the sand.
The sand needs to grow.
But it continuously consumes spiritual power, and what Guiqing Association must do is ensure the card spirit isn’t obliterated before the sand develops.
Sand and rocks swirled around the Pied Piper, while sand vortexes appeared not far from Sheng Hongying.
Endless flying sand and stones, mixed with black shimmering light and occasional starlight, appeared like a small expanding universe.
This clearly aimed at the Bound Moon.
After all, it was the only output card here.
The sand can swallow attacks, and the Bound Moon’s arena-wide ongoing damage was continuous.
The Pied Piper and the Shepherd quickly moved to protect the sand, and at the same time, after the Bound Moon’s flowers burst, Yan was prepared for action to harass—Wen Jiang’s Wind Guiding Flower.
The Wind Guiding Flower can moved freely when not creating a storm, but it’s slower than Yan, and Wen Jiang hadn’t done much.
As Yan’s silver glow flickered momentarily and its shadow reappeared, a Mantle Stab suddenly emerged beneath its feet again.
The assassin controlling Yan’s pupils shrank.
Damn!
What kind of prediction is this? How did they know I was targeting Wen Jiang?
With the Mantle’s Stab, Song Jue acted once more, and this time Yan directly suffered from a Ghost Vine.
The Shepherd quickly summoned the black sheep spirits, and along with the Pied Piper’s healing, Yan cleaved away the Ghost Vine and retreated from the Swamp Maze to safety.
Having successfully intercepted Yan, Song Yi proudly asked Wen Jiang, "So how’s my preemptive move? Pretty sharp, right? I just knew that sneaky Yan was going for you."
Wen Jiang’s gaze was on the sky.
The Sky Giant Eye had yet to open.
Clearly waiting for the right moment.
On hearing this, she uttered a word, "Impressive."
Song Yi: "...How did I get sincerity and insincerity from your words at the same time?"
