After a simple lunch, Chronicle and Shen Fei entered the venue through two different entrances, urged by the broadcast.

 

"Shen, long time no see."

 

Chronicle said in a light voice, with a gentle and friendly appearance.

 

Shen Fei subconsciously touched the wig on his head, hesitated for a while, and finally blurted out, "Good afternoon."

 

Chronicle smiled at his words, summoned the two cards "Mountain Ghost Coin" and "Colorful Play – Fairy Rope" on the machine, and entered the battle after the original creation was approved.

 

Shen Fei hesitated for a while, and finally drew a blue-quality equipment card called "Mountain Bandit's Raiding Knife" and a blue-quality skill card called "Five Dogs Chase Technique."

 

The former was originally a green equipment card called "Mountain Bandit's Misfortune Knife."

 

On the "Surprise Night" more than a month ago, he had wielded this weapon and fiercely attacked Zongzi Brother, who was still "Leaping Green Zombie" at the time.

 

The blade broke, and after a lot of mental effort, it was barely restored, and a large amount of fine steel and grudge blood was invested to reforge it into its current shape.

 

As for the latter, it was a skill card he had developed in the past half month.

 

In a recent unified training, he found that his advantage lay in close combat, and when fighting opponents of the same level, he had to find a way to get close to them.

 

But the opponent was not an inflatable toy and could not stand there to be attacked.

 

If they were strong and healthy, and their heads were kicked by a donkey, they would stay in place.

 

At this time, there must be a few fast and fierce helpers to intercept them.

 

So, he used the legion card he had developed during his training, "Land of Peach Tearing Evil Five Dogs," to polish this skill card.

 

"Two blue cards, isn't that stable?"

 

Shen Fei grinned, feeling quite proud as well.

 

This year's Qingshan Cup is divided into two rounds of qualifiers and six regular matches.

 

According to the previous year's rules, those six regular matches would basically require the card masters to go to a certain place to collect materials and complete the card-making within the specified time for a showdown.

 

But due to various reasons, this year's rules have changed a lot.

 

Although it is still an eight-round competition, those six regular matches will no longer be limited to the three basic card types of summoning cards, skill cards, and equipment cards as before.

 

In addition to the known fields, there may also be special card types such as vehicles, supplies, and legions, and the competition will take the form of "Vehicle Racing," "Supply Rating," "Legion PK," and so on.

 

And according to some rumors, the final may even adopt the cruel form of "Mystery Realm Seizing City," which used to exist only in the internal martial arts competitions of Zhenyuan Army.

 

That is, the two players who make it to the final will be sent to the mystery realm in advance, where they will each set up and arrange "anchor scenes."

 

After the preparations are complete, they will enter each other's territory to capture and occupy it, and the first to "seize the city" will win.

 

After the competition, if the winner has reached the level of silver-grade mental power, they can keep the anchor scene they have captured without returning it.

 

Thinking about the various benefits after winning, even Shen Fei, who comes from a good family, couldn't help but drool.

 

Although it's all hypothetical, at present, only about half of the players in these two qualifiers have produced four blue cards.

 

Looking at it this way, even in the talent-rich Qingshan Cup, he is still one of the top players in terms of talent.

 

If he could win against Chronicle, he might really reach a high level.

 

But there is never an "if" in the world. Lu Shiping is also a top player among his peers, and he also has spiritual intelligence in card-making. He was eliminated in the first round of the qualifiers.

 

Many times, how far a card-making competition can go depends on what kind of opponents you get in the early stages.

 

And Shen Fei's luck… is really worrying.

 

"Are the two players ready?"

 

It was still the big-haired referee from this morning. After seeing Chronicle's name, he couldn't help but glance at Shen Fei and sighed silently.

 

"I can't wait!"

 

Shen Fei adjusted his wig and was full of fighting spirit.

 

"Ready."

 

Chronicle nodded and held the two cards in his hand.

 

"Then… the match begins!"

 

With a piercing bell, Shen Fei's eyes sharpened, and he threw out the equipment card with a blue light shining, and a large knife nearly half the height of a person suddenly appeared in mid-air.

 

Shen Fei, with his strong physique, exerted force with both arms, and grabbed the beheading big knife, charging fiercely in the direction of Chronicle.

 

But at this moment, Chronicle had already activated "Color Drama · Immortal Search" by using his mental power.

 

The surrounding airflow surged, and the deep gray mist condensed in his palm, spreading to the entire venue in the blink of an eye.

 

Shen Fei, who was charging forward with gritted teeth, choked, his steps suddenly paused, and the big knife in his hand also fell to the ground with a "clang."

 

This was the effect of the "Fog" from Immortal Search, which consumed a certain amount of mental power and could cause the enemy to fall into negative effects such as "sluggishness" and "paralysis."

 

If it weren't for this, with the "long" casting prelude of Immortal Search, Chronicle would probably have been caught up and chopped down before he had even walked two meters.

 

"Hey, can I make a move now?"

 

Chronicle had a clever idea.

 

Although Immortal Search is a displacement-type skill card, it doesn't prevent him from using it as a support card.So the Mountain Ghost Coin on the red rope, wrapped it around his palm, stretched out his hand in a claw shape, chanted a spell, and gave Shen Fei a "palm thunder."

 

"Zap!"

 

Seeing the purple thunder, which was as thick as a bowl, rushing towards him, Shen Fei instantly burst out with the spirit power of the mid-bronze level, entering a state similar to "bullet time," enduring the numbness all over his body, and narrowly avoiding this attack in a dog-shit-like posture.

 

But before he could catch his breath, several thunderous snakes came at him, with the crackling sound of electric arcs, heading straight for his head, shoulders, knees, and neck.

 

Seeing this, he quickly got up from the ground, at the same time, he flicked his toes, allowing the big knife to flip and block in front of him.

 

Although the metal knife was wrapped in spirit power and did not conduct electricity, the huge impact still made his hands numb.

 

"Phew."

 

For the next few seconds, Chronicle did not use the thunder attack, and Shen Fei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

 

Just as he was about to stick his head out to see what was going on, a size 42 foot came from afar and kicked him in the face.

 

Caught off guard, Shen Fei felt that this kick was even faster than the previous thunder.

 

In just one second, he felt a strange force penetrate his face, his teeth loosened, his head throbbed, half of his face instantly went numb, and he fell straight to the ground.

 

Seeing this scene, Chronicle felt a little embarrassed.

 

He swore that his kick was actually aimed at the opponent's shoulder, but who could have expected that the kid would stick his head out at that moment?

 

But now that things had come to this, there was no point in saying more.

 

Without thinking, Chronicle continued to attack as if the previous face kick was not accidental, but part of his plan.

 

Meanwhile, Shen Fei coughed twice, spat out the teeth that were kicked out, and then stretched his foot to the side, trying to pick up the big knife lying on the ground.

 

At this moment, Chronicle reached out a hand, imitating Iron Man's posture, and instantly fired a thunder cannon, sending the big knife flying.

 

At the same time, Shen Fei unleashed the "Five Hound Pursuit Technique," and several black smoke jets quickly spread into the air, and five fat and strong evil dogs with shiny fur snarled and swiftly approached.

 

"A combination of Legion Card and Skill Card?"

 

Chronicle couldn't help but exclaim at the sight.

 

The so-called combination was a design by a card master that allowed skill cards, equipment cards, and other types of cards to summon card spirits.

 

Strictly speaking, his "Mountain Ghost Coin" was actually a combination of an equipment card and a summoning card.

 

These types of cards generally only appear in certain restricted card competitions, and are a kind of clever strategy.

 

After all, in non-competition battle scenarios, card masters can directly use summoning cards or legion cards.

 

It was pure foolishness to summon a card spirit using mental power when there was an actual card spirit available.

 

"Five green-grade, one-star level card spirits…"

 

Chronicle's gaze swept over, roughly determining the strength of these five evil dogs, and instead of confronting them head-on, he quickly raised one hand.

 

The next moment, a thick layer of pure white clouds condensed in the sky above his head.

 

Following that, he consumed some mental power and summoned the "Sky Soldier" card spirit, throwing down a rope.

 

After about half a second, when the evil dogs were still about ten meters away from him, he grabbed the rope, and his whole body shot up towards the clouds as if riding an elevator.

 

"Wow, he's summoning thunder, causing confusion, and ascending to the clouds. Did he really only use two cards?"

 

Shen Fei looked at the referee on the sidelines, pointing to the white clouds in the sky, his face full of disbelief.

 

The referee had a serious expression, but a hint of pity inadvertently appeared in his eyes:

 

It was pitiful for Shen Fei to share the same city and year with such a genius.

 

"I just hope this experience won't crush him."

 

The referee thought to himself, and then saw Shen Fei covering his whole body with spirit power, grabbing the rope left by Chronicle, and swiftly climbing upwards.

 

The five evil dogs were faster than him, moving effortlessly along the rope.

 

In less than two seconds, they reached the cloud layer.

 

But the next moment, their limbs were thrown into the air, and Shen Fei, looking up, collided with a dog's head.

 

"Cough! Spit!"

 

He turned his face, shook off the dog's head, and his eyes were filled with even more determination.

 

At this point, he already knew that he probably wasn't Chronicle's match.

 

Now that he had ascended to the clouds, he just wanted to muster all his strength to throw a few punches and kicks to save face.

 

So, fueled by resentment, he climbed up to the cloud layer, ignoring the blood dripping from his head.

 

As he looked around with bloodshot eyes, a golden spear with cloud patterns engraved on it was pressed against his neck.

 

He looked up and saw a figure in silver armor and helmet, with a face that couldn't be seen, standing on the cloud, and with a big hand, he grabbed the back of Shen Fei's neck, determining his fate.

 

Shen Fei's earlier confidence and arrogance were gone, and under the control of the divine effects of "Mist" and "Dismember," he instantly became numb, as obedient as a little kitten.

 

So, a few seconds later, the "body" dressed in Shen Fei's clothes was thrown out of the air.

 

The referee frowned and stepped forward to check, only to find that it was stuffed with straw.

 

At the same time, a series of faint sounds rang out behind him.

 

He turned his head and saw Shen Fei barely blocking his body with a red hairband, looking embarrassed and indignant.

 

"Can't I even compare?"

 

“`He was on the verge of crying out loud.

 

There are two more chapters tonight, one before midnight and the other might be very late, so you can read them tomorrow.

 

The mythical monster vehicle cards that the younger brother mentioned yesterday will be sourced, produced, and used in the next chapter's competition.

 

I see that more than one person has guessed it right, so I won't send out individual red envelopes. Instead, I'll give out a big red envelope in the group during the New Year's celebration to liven things up.