With Zhong Yi deliberately choosing the Vulnerability-focused playstyle, his deck was quite strong.
Even on the second floor, the pressure wasn't much.
After every battle, Zhong Yi's most anticipated moment was the card selection phase.
Because the first-floor boss had dropped [Hell Rager], Zhong Yi frantically began searching for cards related to "Strike."
"Prepared Strike? Old friend, take it!"
"Double Strike... Hmm, a bit weak, but if it's free... take it!"
"No Strike... Another copy of Bully? A zero-cost card, why not grab it? Haha, lucky me!"
"What?! Perfect Strike, +2 damage for each Strike in your deck? Is there a more perfect card than this? Take it, take it!"
"Whoa! Another Perfect Strike! With cards this good, I'll take as many as I can!"
...
Every time Zhong Yi cleared a combat room, his face lit up like it was New Year's in the mortal realm.
"Haha, fellow cultivators, my deck already has 28 powerful cards! I'm terrifyingly strong now!"
Zhong Yi proudly displayed his deck, showing off without restraint.
The livestream chat immediately buzzed with discussion.
[Whoa! Wait, let me save this screen—I have to copy this deck!]
[So, are we playing the Vulnerability build or the Strike build?]
[No brainer! Play whichever cards you draw—just focus on never losing value with any card!]
[Lao Zhong's a genius!]
...
Basking in the flattery of the chat, Zhong Yi grew incredibly cocky, feeling like he could stomp on anyone.
"I feel invincible!"
With that, he walked into the next monster room.
"Damn! Four enemies!!"
The moment four little monsters leaped out, Zhong Yi broke out in a cold sweat.
The four wriggling eels from the last run had left him with quite some psychological trauma.
He instinctively glanced at the room attributes in the top-right corner.
"Oh... just small fries... okay, no big deal..."
Zhong Yi patted his chest, then looked at the four ugly cockroaches.
Facing new monsters, Zhong Yi's first instinct now was to check their special buffs.
[Tenacious: All damage and life reduction effects dealt to the Exoskeleton Bug cannot exceed 9 points.]
"..."
Zhong Yi took a deep breath.
A single hit couldn't deal more than 9 damage, and each cockroach had around 26 HP. That meant killing one cockroach required at least three cards.
And there were four such cockroaches.
Worst of all, Zhong Yi had been obsessed with grabbing Vulnerability and Strike cards—these cards focused on high single-target damage but had very few AoE or multi-hit attacks...
Looking at the damage values of the four cockroaches, Zhong Yi felt like the sky was falling.
"Seriously!! How are these small fries on the second floor tougher than the elites on the first floor!!!"
...
After losing 22 HP, Zhong Yi barely managed to take down the four cockroaches.
"Damn! I need to grab some AoE cards after all!"
With this hard lesson, Zhong Yi kept optimizing his card choices, immediately picking an AoE card from the new drops and stuffing it into his deck.
"Oh right, I also need to grab some defensive cards..."
"Our deck needs to be well-rounded!"
"The key is to be ready for anyone we face!"
...
After the cockroaches, he entered a random room, then a shop room, a campfire, and finally the big demon boss room.
"Hahaha! Jackpot! An encounter just gave me 63 spirit stones!"
Shaking a small pouch of spirit stones, Zhong Yi walked out of the random room overjoyed.
The next room was the shop.
So getting the spirit stones now meant he could buy more cards and artifacts!
Zhong Yi rushed into the shop without waiting.
Now holding a fortune of 413 spirit stones, he started browsing the shop's goods.
"I feel like I'm a bit short on defense..."
"No defensive cards... Wait! Iron Wave? Iron Wave is great! Deals damage and gives defense... Buy!"
"Wow! Another Perfect Strike! This perfect card is sold so cheap? What a waste... Grab it, buy!"
"What!? [Demonic Form], which I couldn't play last run, is here and on sale?!"
"Good heavens, buying a gold card for 74 spirit stones? Where can I find more deals like this?"
"Whoa, this card? A zero-qi AoE card with 8 damage? Awesome, awesome! Buy!"
"Delete cards?? These are cards I fought tooth and nail for. Only an idiot would delete them! And it costs 50 spirit stones... Add a bit more and I could buy a discounted gold card!"
...
Zhong Yi bought everything in sight, thinking every card was incredible.
"As long as it doesn't consume my cards, it's a good card!"
Zhong Yi admired his thick, stacked deck and left the shop feeling satisfied.
He showed off his heavy pile of cards to the livestream chat.
"See that, fellow cultivators? The deck has already broken past thirty cards, almost at 35!"
The chat erupted in awe and envy.
Zhong Yi arrived at the campfire.
This was the fixed bonfire before the final boss. After resting here, he would have to face the ultimate boss of this floor.
Zhong Yi's health was barely above 50 points, but he didn't plan to rest and recover.
"I've got so many cards, no Great Demon is going to mess with me... I'll just upgrade a card instead!"
Zhong Yi had full confidence in his combat strength.
In his eyes, his deck was now absolutely perfect!
The three-part vulnerability combo for single targets was a piece of cake!
If the boss had too much health, he had a [Hell Raider] card, running an auto-play system.
Every turn, it would automatically play a bunch of "Strike" cards—should the boss be scared or what?
If this boss was a swarm type or could summon minions, he'd just gotten two AoE damage cards—nothing to fear either!
Summing it all up in two words—
Invincible!
"Hahaha... thirty-four cards, there shouldn't be any opponent in the tower, right? Hahaha~~"
Zhong Yi upgraded his Perfect Strike, then laughing wildly, he walked into the boss room.
"[Great Demon: Prophet Fiend]? Doesn't look that threatening... pretty average."
"It wants me to make a choice? Lose health every turn, or draw fewer cards every turn??"
"Obviously, drawing fewer cards!"
"Dammit! Where's [Hell Raider]? Where's [Provoke]? Come on, show up!"
"Crap, no [Dismantle] to chain combos. Is Old Zhou watching my stream right now??"
"Tch... why is it asking me to choose again?? If I draw one less card, I'm screwed!"
"I'll pick health loss... ow, that hurts!!"
"[Hell Raider], [Hell Raider]... please, just come already!"
"Three [Perfect Strikes]?? Can you just get lost!!!"
"Damn it!! [Hell Raider] is really the very last card!?"
"Why does it keep making me choose?? Can you just give me a quick death???"
"How the hell was this Great Demon designed?? This is insane!!!"
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.”
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
