Finally, it was Yun Huang who broke the silence first.
She slowly withdrew her hand, stiffly pushing the door shut again.
"You two... carry on with your sparring."
"It's nothing urgent. I just happened to pass by and wanted to say hello..."
"My apologies for interrupting."
Bang.
The door closed.
......
Some time had passed since that incident, so perhaps it was best to leave it be for now.
The more pressing matter at hand was spending his accumulated points.
He needed to convert these numbers into tangible combat strength.
A batch of card-making materials Su Qi had purchased through official channels a couple of days ago had just been delivered.
Carrying two large bags of card-making supplies, Su Qi glanced at his younger sister sprawled on the couch, engrossed in her phone.
Her attention was laser-focused on the tiny screen, as if she’d stumbled upon something fascinating.
Her little feet kicked idly in the air, accompanied by faint dingling sounds.
Based on Su Qi’s recent sparring experience, there was a fifty-fifty chance she wouldn’t notice if he snuck over to fiddle with her equipment cards right now.
Then he could slip away unnoticed, leaving no trace behind.
Half an hour later, he’d inevitably hear an indignant shout: "Damn you, Su Qi!"
But Su Ji felt the intensity of their recent training sessions had been a bit excessive.
As the saying went: "Teach your apprentice everything, and you’ll starve to death."
Su Qi had even lost two or three pounds lately.
Not a significant amount, but he needed to rein it in—he couldn’t afford to exhaust himself every time he taught her.
"Liu Yuan, I’m going to craft a few cards. Unless it’s urgent, don’t disturb me for the next two and a half hours."
Liu Yuan continued scrolling on her phone, responding with a noncommittal hum to acknowledge she’d heard.
Whether she’d actually registered his words, Su Qi couldn’t say.
Oh well.
No point worrying about it.
His sister wasn’t the type to barge into his room recklessly anyway.
Yet, as he passed the couch on his way back, a thought flickered through his mind.
What’s so captivating about that tiny screen?
What’s she looking at?
Maybe I should sneak a peek...
Su Qi’s eyes darted sideways for a quick glance.
The layout and colors of the app looked familiar—it was a popular online shopping site.
Ah, just browsing shops. No wonder she’s so absorbed.
But as he withdrew his gaze, a line of text caught his eye unintentionally:
"Herbal Juice Temporary Tattoo Stickers – Waterproof, No Ink Stains."
Su Qi: "......?"
Hold on, does this seem right to you?
As her guardian, Su Qi felt obligated to remind her that tattoos weren’t exactly the best choice.
Then again, these were probably washable, and Liu Yuan was already an adult with her own judgment.
Being overly controlling would just ruin the fun.
Eh, let her buy it if she wants.
With that, he carried the materials into his bedroom.
His fingertips traced a light arc through the air, activating the card-crafting process.
Su Qi’s current card inventory included:
- One cultivation manual: [Heavenstring Forge]
- One passive defense: [Earthbound Resonance]
- One single-target burst: [Tidal Moonfall]
- One AoE clear: [Mountainwood Starlight]
Plus a handful of unremarkable filler cards—commonplace items available on the market.
His combat style leaned heavily toward burst damage.
What he needed now were a few overpowered cards for sustained engagements.
Against specific scenarios—like group battles or prolonged suppression—he still lacked adequate tools.
Time to create a card with both area coverage and sustained damage.
Focusing his intent, he commanded:
"I need a skill card with seventh-tier destructive power and continuous AoE capabilities."
Almost instantly, he received a response:
[Minimum requirement: [Joy] x1.]
Compared to the staggering 230,000 points he possessed, spending 1,000 [Joy] was trivial.
But the memory of its side effects made his stomach churn...
"Switch to [Spark]."
[100 Spark]
After some careful adjustments and selecting three suitable materials, he managed to reduce the cost to [61 Spark].
Unlike the grueling process most cardmakers endured, Su Qi’s crafting was effortless.
A single tap to confirm.
Even AI-generated art couldn’t match his speed.
[Spark -125]
[Brilliance: 2]
[Joy: 0]
The Spark points began burning away.
Pale golden motes of light materialized from nothingness, swirling and condensing around Su Qi’s fingertips.
A gentle yet inexorable wave of energy rippled through the air.
The luminous particles swiftly wove intricate patterns, forming the outline of a card.
Like a rushing stream filling a parched riverbed, the energy poured into the framework.
The card’s back bore the standard design—a starry expanse of deep cosmos.
On the front, an image gradually took shape:
A zone of creeping shadows, within which countless threadlike chains of void energy slithered and intertwined.
A single card now hovered before Su Qi.
[Card Name: Shadowrealm Cage]
[Type: Skill · Illusion]
[Rarity: Legendary]
[Energy Tier: ??????? (7th)]
[Attributes]
[Strength +5]
[Agility +5]
[Magic +5]
[Dark Dominion: Continuously drains spiritual energy to transform a 30-meter radius around the caster into a shadowrealm. Hostile targets within suffer gradual shadow damage and movement impairment. Attempting to exit the realm triggers a heavy burst of shadow damage.]
[Die, Insects!: If any unit dies from shadow damage within the realm, triggers a 5m x 5m explosive shadow burst, dealing spillover damage.]
No special one-star card appeared this time—as Su Qi had expected.
The "newbie benefits" period was over, after all.
Spending [61 Spark] for a solid AoE control/damage card wasn’t a bad deal.
This would effectively shore up his weakness against multiple enemies in certain situations.
Su Qi stored [Shadowrealm Cage] into his soul sea’s card slots.
As a seventh-tier Dawnbreak-tier card, he couldn’t wield it beyond his current realm yet.
But breaking through to seventh-tier was only a matter of days.
For most scenarios, this one skill card would suffice for crowd control.
Next, he addressed his equipment gaps.
Cost: [67 Spark].
[Card Name: Mindjade Pendant]
[Type: Equipment · Illusion]
[Rarity: Legendary]
[Energy Tier: ??????? (7th)]
[Attributes]
[Strength +75]
[Agility +75]
[Magic +75]
[Final Reserve: Stores 30% of the wearer’s max spiritual energy. Automatically activates when the wearer’s energy is depleted. Requires a 7-day cooldown after each use before recharge.]
Another expenditure: [58 Spark] + [Joy] x1.
[Card Name: Path’s End Spear]
[Type: Equipment · Illusion]
[Rarity: Mythic]
[Energy Tier: ??????? (7th)]
[Attributes]
[Strength +450]
[Agility -20]
[Magic +1]
[Spear’s Soul: Doubles all ability values related to ‘spear’ techniques.]
【Encountering Me Means Your Road Ends Here: Throws the Road's End Spear to pierce the target, forcibly executing any hostile unit hit. (Maximum of ten tiers. If the target's strength is lower than the user's, they will enter a state of fear and be unable to evade.)】
【Spear Obsession: When provoked, there's a chance you'll lose control of your urge to strike with a spear. (It can be any spear—not necessarily this equipment.)】
As expected, adding points to the "Joys" stat made the skills turn out weird.
While it seems like three skills, only two are actually useful.
Su Qi tried imagining a scenario where someone pointed at her nose and mocked her—then pictured herself unable to resist drawing her spear in response…
This trait… is more troublesome than expected.
But clearly, the points are already spent, and a complete reset isn’t realistic.
At seventh tier, she could only equip four cards at once.
Su Qi had to keep 【Earthbound Harmonic Seal】 active to prevent being ambushed and instantly killed, then two equipment cards would take up most slots, leaving one free for skill-swapping.
Of course, this was just the first step.
The bigger headache was the summoning ritual the Descenders might attempt.
If that thing succeeded, it would pose a massive threat—not just to the martial exam grounds, but to all of Jiangxia.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
or! A blessing for those who struggle with love, a guidebook for dating novices. Quickly match with your dream goddess! Complete walkthroughs earn rewards, and perfect walkthroughs unlock limited achievements!】 Shen Yi, an ordinary office worker, accidentally downloads a mini-game called Dating Simulator. The mini-game is simple: randomly search for dating targets, simulate dates, and receive rewards upon successful confession. Rewards include but are not limited to money, attributes, and skills. The higher the evaluation, the better the rewards, with perfect ratings unlocking mysterious achievements. Shen Yi plans to use this mysterious mini-game to continuously pursue targets and improve himself, making his life better and better. ...... However, after several successful walkthroughs, Shen Yi suddenly notices something strange - the targets he previously simulated dating seem to be searching for him in real life?
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
