Card Creator: My Cards Unlimited Chain.

Chapter 866: Promoted to the Nation
"This card..."

Gu Jieshuang took the Primal Longsword, looked at the simple and unadorned panel description, and blinked gently.

The boss made himself a... Tier 1 Soul Card?

Logically speaking, Tier 1 Soul Cards are definitely the worst of the worst. Even a Tier 1 Soul Card Master might not include such Soul Cards when building a deck, let alone use them for full connection.

If someone manages to fully connect a Tier 1 Soul Card, they'll be laughed at by other Soul Card Masters.

Even if you have a deep affection for this Soul Card, you can find another card maker to upgrade its quality to Legendary – as long as you pay enough, there will definitely be a card maker willing to do so.

However, this soul card was given to him by the boss, and the boss certainly wouldn't joke about something like this.

This card must have something unusual about it.

Thinking this, Gu Jieshuang took a deep breath and slowly inserted the card into the card holder.

She thought it would be easy to do this, but to her surprise, the Soul Card in her hand encountered an unusually terrifying resistance. The card surface was faintly hot, and the star background on it kept changing, making it almost impossible for Gu Jieshuang to hold the Soul Card!
Bang!
A surge of power erupted from the Soul Card. Caught off guard, Gu Jieshuang was forced back three steps by the force, and her right hand, which was gripping the Soul Card, went numb, almost causing the Soul Card to fly out of her hand.

However, Gu Jieshuang held onto the card tightly, preventing it from actually flying away.

“This…” Gu Jieshuang’s eyes widened.

How can the resistance be so great!

This is completely different from the Tier 1 Soul Card she had imagined!

Yu Cang said from the side, "Jie Shuang, be more serious."

This Soul Card has a very low star rating, and Gu Jieshuang could definitely put it into her deck, but its attributes mean she must first prove that she is qualified.

Gu Jieshuang is absolutely qualified.

Her talent was already outstanding, and she was chosen by Wuqu and comprehended her own sword intent. If she wasn't qualified, then no one was.

Upon hearing this, Gu Jieshuang understood the seriousness of the matter. She nodded solemnly and then took a deep breath.

next second.

Zheng!
A sword's cry burst forth from Gu Jieshuang's body, as if a long sword had been drawn from its sheath!
At this moment, Gu Jieshuang had already activated her own sword intent!

hum!
The soul card in her hand trembled as if responding to Gu Jieshuang's sword intent, and slowly floated into the air.

Upon seeing this scene, Yu Cang's eyes brightened slightly.

Is this Gu Jieshuang's complete sword intent?

Judging from the quality of this sword intent alone, if Gu Jieshuang wanted to, she could probably advance to the Myth level at any time using her pendulum.

There are no more obstacles on her path ahead.

……

hum!
The trembling sound suddenly intensified, and the primordial longsword floated up from Gu Jieshuang's palm, bursting forth with dazzling starlight!

As soon as Gu Jieshuang unleashed her sword intent, the soul card immediately obeyed.

When it comes to equipment cards, Sword Intent is still far too authoritative.

At one moment, Gu Jieshuang's eyes narrowed, and she immediately reached out into the starlight, her fist already grasping a sword hilt.

"drink!"

Gu Jieshuang gave a soft shout, and with a wave of her arm, her longsword was summoned!

Yu Cang's expression changed instantly, and he leaped up without hesitation. The next second—

boom!
The sword light, like ocean waves, suddenly spread out, instantly sweeping away the clouds within a range of thousands of miles. In the far distance, layers of clouds were rolled up and lifted upwards!
"Goodness." Yu Cang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Fortunately, he jumped fast.

...No, it's still jumping too slowly.

Yu Cang looked to his side.

Dragon's Azure Scale sensed the attack and automatically jumped out of the deck, hovering beside it. It had absorbed a large amount of the sword energy aftershocks in that instant, and its star level had now jumped from 17 to 19.

The Holy Mage's Lament has already been automatically sealed and is ready for use at any time.

Fortunately, the illusion of the annual rings wasn't triggered, otherwise I would have truly walked on the brink of death.

"what?"

Gu Jieshuang herself was startled.

She only waved her hand when she summoned it, how could it generate such great power?
She rushed forward and caught Yu Cang as he fell from the sky.

"Boss, how are you?"

"Don't worry, it won't hurt me." Yu Cang coughed lightly.

He now possesses numerous life-saving soul cards, so even if Gu Jieshuang were to appear, or even if a mythical figure were to arrive, they wouldn't be able to kill him instantly.

"Boss, you didn't even tell me..." Gu Jieshuang was terrified.

Yu Cang could only shake his head at this, and then jumped out of Gu Jieshuang's arms.

He... really didn't expect it either.

However, given that it was a Soul Card with "Primordial" as its field of reference, and was a completely blank card with no abilities, he was not surprised at all that it could have such destructive power.

"Alright, let's familiarize ourselves with this soul card first and see if we can get used to using it."

Gu Jieshuang took a deep breath.

She lowered her head and looked at the long sword in her hand.

Ordinary, nothing special.

However, the longsword's dimensions perfectly matched Gu Jieshuang's own body measurements, and it was quite comfortable to hold. Both its center of gravity and size were at the point where she could exert force most comfortably.

I don't know if the boss made the adjustment on purpose, or if this longsword was originally like this.
With that thought in mind, she composed herself, raised her longsword, and looked ahead.

When she drew her sword just now, she had no control over her strength at all. The sword light seemed to cover a very wide area, but in reality, it only stirred up the clouds. Only a small area at close range was actually lethal.

Um... it's the area where the boss is located.

Now, she was going to use the sword seriously.

With all distracting thoughts gone, Gu Jieshuang raised the Primal Longsword to her front.

At this moment, a layer of frost had already covered the longsword.

It was the "Sword Intent" card that came into play, giving the longsword the attribute of ice and adding the ability "Extreme Cold". As a result, every attack of the longsword can be accompanied by a huge amount of sword energy.

Seeing this, Yu Cang nodded slightly.

That's a good point.

Although the Primal Longsword was very powerful, it was completely susceptible to the influence of external abilities.

Grandma could easily add a card back to it, and—the [Extreme Cold] on the Primal Longsword looked even stronger than the power Grandma herself could unleash.

It's as if... it wasn't that the great-aunt gave the primordial longsword [Extreme Cold], but rather that the primordial longsword saw the effect of [Extreme Cold] and thus evolved this ability on its own.

This ability, which comes directly from the original evolution, is naturally stronger than the original.

Speechless.

Just as Yu Cang was pondering, Gu Jieshuang had already drawn her sword.

Zheng!
With a horizontal slash, the condensed sword light suddenly spread out, as if a cold, clear moon had appeared out of thin air!
The sword was aimed at the open ground, and even though Yu Cang was not directly in the line of fire, he couldn't help but feel a faint pain in his skin, as if he were being cut.

He was certain that a level seven Soul Card Master would have absolutely no way to deal with this sword strike.

This attack power is terrifying... and it's purely numerical; the cold aura added by [Extreme Cold] is purely incidental, and it wouldn't affect the damage even without it.

Even the Holy Mage's Lament couldn't withstand this sword strike; he could only endure it with the Ring of Time Bubble.

However, just when Yu Cang thought that was all there was to it.

Ding!
Suddenly, a sound of metal clashing echoed through the void!
Yu Cang was taken aback. He looked up and saw that Gu Jieshuang's sword light suddenly stopped in mid-air, and a bright light shot out, as if... there was an invisible person there who drew his sword and exchanged blows with Gu Jieshuang's sword light.

"Who?" Yu Cang immediately became alert.

The next second, a voice came from the bottom of my heart.

"The summoner is me." Hmm?
Yu Cang was stunned.

枫？
Gu Jieshuang, standing to the side, was also stunned.

She couldn't hear anything, but now she was getting nervous again.

There should be no enemies inside the Heavenly Gate; those here should be mythical beasts.

What if she accidentally hit someone again?

Yu Cang looked left and right but couldn't find Feng anywhere, so he simply asked in his mind, "What happened? What just happened... Did you come to the real world?"

"...The summoner was Gu Jieshuang's sword strike that struck Chaos."

Yu Cang: "...Huh?"

Cutting down to chaos? Is that really necessary?

But as he looked around, the space didn't seem to be damaged... He couldn't find any spatial rifts in front of him.

And then, at that very moment.

Another voice came:
"Yu Cang, Gu Jieshuang also hit me."

Yes, that's right.

Yu Cang: "..."

“I think I know what’s going on.” After a moment of consideration, La said, “The present world, the realm of consciousness, and chaos are overlapping. A place in the present world can be found in the chaos and the realm of consciousness.”

"And the sword you made for Gu Jieshuang... its attack is directly targeted at an absolute position, which means that she is simultaneously attacking three overlapping layers of space at that position... If there are more overlapping spaces here, then the area she can affect will be even greater."

Yu Cang: "...Is that so?"

It also has this hidden ability.

That's incredibly awesome.

Generally speaking, attacks are difficult to cross spatial boundaries.

That's why the forbidden spell "Etheric Ascension" of the Roland Void Realm is so powerful.

By directly uploading his physical body to the realm of consciousness, attacks from the mortal world would have no effect on him; only abilities targeting rhythm would be effective.

The Shadow Dragon's [Forbidden Spell: Dragon Ascension] can also transport a person into the realm of consciousness to evade attacks.

Now, as long as one wields the Primal Longsword, spatial differences become irrelevant. As long as you're standing in front of me, no matter which dimension you're in, I can still strike you down.

The same principle applies to chaos.

When facing Yaoqi, Feng launched an attack from outside the chaos, but Yaoqi could not sense Feng's location at all. Even if it could sense him, its attack could not reach him.

Just now, Gu Jieshuang unleashed a sword strike... simultaneously hitting Feng in the chaos and La in the realm of consciousness!

They are both legends, they can easily handle it.

But for others, it's a different story.

Having figured all this out, Yu Cang looked at the long sword in Gu Jieshuang's hand again and couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

Wasn't it supposed to be a basic equipment card? How does it have such an overpowered hidden ability?
But thinking about it, it makes sense.

This is, after all, the "primordial state." In the eyes of the primordial state, chaos, the realm of consciousness, and the present world are all indistinguishable.

From a higher perspective, the whole world is a flat blank sheet of paper, without any distinction between this space and that space.

The function of a longsword is simply to cut; this is the basic function, not an additional ability.

And this basic ability is quite extraordinary.

Many Soul Card Masters enjoy manipulating space and using void-attribute abilities to evade attacks... such as becoming ethereal.

Now, to dare to use that ability in front of Gu Jieshuang would be tantamount to courting death.

Your etherealization is as ridiculous as your defense.

Yu Cang and Gu Jieshuang briefly explained what had just happened.

Gu Jieshuang's eyes immediately lit up.

Amazing!
As expected of a soul card made by the boss, even a first-tier one is this strong!
However, it's a bit of a pity.

Even if she could cut through the chaos, she couldn't sense it.

If there's an enemy outside the chaos, she can only hack and slash randomly.

"Let's try synchronization again," Yu Cang said.

The most important function of this Soul Card is to be used for adjustments.

The original sealed holy sword could accommodate many sword intents, but as Gu Jieshuang's understanding of sword intents deepened and their power became more extreme, it became difficult to use a single sealed holy sword to coordinate all sword intents.

But now, the Primal Longsword can definitely meet this condition.

"Uh-huh!"

Gu Jieshuang nodded, and then, with a thought, she placed a Sword Intent: Heavenly Abyss Star Shift behind her back. Then, using the Primal Longsword as the coordinator and the Sword Intent: Heavenly Abyss Star Shift as the adjuster, she synchronized them!
boom!
As the sword intent erupted, Yu Cang felt his body sink, as if the gravity around him had suddenly become countless times heavier!
"This……"

His expression changed slightly.

Gu Jieshuang's synchronization just now was 1+19=20, which summoned a longsword that surpassed the limit of the legendary rank.

But... why does it feel like the Star Shift Sword Intent swirling around this longsword is even at a higher level than the Star Shift Sword Intent that Ning Xingyi himself possesses?
When Yu Cang departed from his divine form, he used his divine power and imperial heart to temporarily borrow a wisp of Ning Xingyi's sword intent and kill that transcendent demon.

Therefore, he was still aware of Ning Xingyi's sword intent ability.

Now, although the longsword in Gu Jieshuang's hand is only at the Transcendent level, it is in no way inferior to Ning Xingyi's Mythical Sword Intent, and may even be slightly superior...

"Boss, that soul card is amazing..."

Gu Jieshuang also noticed this. She placed the longsword horizontally in her palm and gently brushed it across the blade.

"I feel that Senior Ning's sword intent was strengthened during the synchronization process, and new possibilities emerged..."

Upon hearing Gu Jieshuang's confirmation, Yu Cang was momentarily speechless.

A replica that's better than the original? That's ridiculous!

Well... after all, it's the original state, so it makes sense.

This synchronization seems to be similar to the previous [Extreme Cold].

It wasn't the shifting starlight and sword intent that changed the original longsword.

Rather, it was the original longsword that, after understanding the Star Shift Sword Intent, evolved into something exactly the same, or even better.

Speechless.

Yu Cang could only shake his head.

Go ahead.

"Ok!"

……

After Gu Jieshuang used the original longsword as a guide and tested it in harmony with all the sword intents, she was finally able to confirm it.

This longsword is perfectly suited to be used as Gu Jieshuang's complete soul card connection.

Gu Jieshuang's fully connected soul card is quite difficult to choose, since it needs to adapt to so many sword intents at the same time, which is quite challenging.

But for the Primal Longsword, this was nothing.

the next day.

boom!
A powerful aura suddenly rose from the fifteenth floor.

Gu Jieshuang, with the help of the Primal Longsword.

Successfully promoted to the rank of National Protector!

(End of this chapter)