As soon as the Human Emperor Banner came out, I became the Lord of the Old Ones

Chapter 89 Corrupt Wild Dog
Xu Yan calmed his mind and activated the card's illustration.

Due to the severe damage, the standing image is disturbed and covered with streaks and snowflakes.

It can be vaguely seen that it is a robot dog with a four-axis propeller on its back, which can be used on land and in the air.

However, the scene flashed and switched to a death hound that was rotting all over, with bone spurs exposed and blood dripping.

The two shattered illustrations were like two bloody mouths full of sharp teeth, biting each other tightly, trying to explode from the inside and completely blow the two-star residual card into pieces.

With a card like this, there's no way of establishing a spiritual connection with humans.

Even if you leave it there, it might explode.

Xu Yan stroked the excessively worn and almost disappeared texture on the card surface.

With the help of Leiliana's card-making notes.

Li Tong's experience in card making came to mind, as well as the related entries he had read in card making textbooks and expansion books.

The problem was quickly identified.

Like most of the problem cards he encountered at the Star Shop.

This is also a second-hand card that has followed countless owners and has an unknown number of guardian spirits.

Conditions in the wilderness area are limited, and before capturing a new guardian spirit, it is impossible to completely expel the "old tenants" deep in the structure.

It is normal for residual souls to interfere with each other.

However, the two residual souls that caused interference this time were somewhat special.

Logically speaking, the main soul of this card, which is also the most recently sealed guardian spirit, is the [Collector-15] type robot dog from the Fourth Age.

This intelligent machine was born in the late "Fourth Era, Strange Machine Civilization" and possesses very advanced artificial intelligence. It belongs to the "Gene Museum", one of the top forces at the time.

The preset instructions are "to scan and capture all carbon-based life, and preserve its genes in museums forever, so as to achieve the goal of sustainable civilization."

Even though the artificial intelligence of the past has become a remnant of its former self today, it still faithfully executes this instruction.

The previous seal on this card was the [Corrupted Wild Dog] from the First Age.

These are undead creatures awakened by the wizards of the "Graveyard School" using magical powers. They belong to the same faction as the Skeleton Soldiers.

In fact, the card maker has handled this second-hand card quite well, erasing the remaining soul of the "Corrupted Wild Dog" as much as possible, leaving only a faint ripple.

Logically speaking, after the new guardian spirit enters the seal card.

Or ignore the old residual soul ripples.

Either completely assimilate, merge, and devour the old residual soul ripples.

However, when faced with the "Corrupted Wild Dogs", problems arose with the remaining logical judgment circuits of the "Collector-15".

Are the undead creatures like the "Corrupted Wild Dogs" that are awakened by magical powers considered "carbon-based life"?

There is no magic in the mechanical civilization.

Even if there are undead creatures, they are filled with nanorobots instead of magical elements.

The artificial intelligence of "Collector-15" is not strong enough to awaken 100% free will and ignore the preset instructions.

As a result, it was caught in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat.

Furthermore, it began to execute the instruction of "preserving the genes of the 'Corrupted Wild Dog' and allowing it to survive forever", awakening and strengthening the residual soul of magic that should have been annihilated.

The crux of the problem has been found, and the next step will be easy.

Xu Yan quickly formed seals, and his hands turned into a ball of gray mist.

The fancy moves have no practical meaning.

This "meditation technique" is just an introductory method used by the corpse-drivers of the Ten Thousand Souls Sect to refresh their minds and prevent diseases from entering their bodies. In today's world of exhausted spiritual energy, it is equivalent to radio gymnastics.

Xu Yan simply used the "Calm Mind Technique" as a cover to quietly unfold the Human Emperor Banner.

At a level that no one could see, the spiritual thread extending from his brow instantly grew ten times thicker, transforming from a small earthworm into a prehistoric giant python. Its front end split in two, and it opened its bloody mouth, biting the residual souls of "Collector-15" and "Corrupted Wild Dog" at the same time!

A moment ago, the two residual souls that were as furious as fighting cocks suddenly became silent.

Faced with the Tyrannosaurus Rex-like pressure released by the Human Emperor Banner, they even lost the courage to flee to the depths of the talisman formation.

Xu Yan was not polite at all and tore off and devoured most of their strength.

The evil spirit that had been pent up for tens of millions of years was transformed into the purest primordial purple energy, which made him happy and whetted his appetite.

The remaining souls continued to stand there in a daze, how could they dare to interfere with his drawing and engraving?

Simply repairing the card is simple.

As long as you completely devour any one of the "Collector-15" or "Corrupted Wild Dog", the frightened survivors will naturally obey you.

But after reading Leiliana's card-making notes, Xu Yan developed a new ambition.

He wanted to repair the card and adjust the talisman array so that one seal card could be perfectly compatible with two old souls from different eras.

By activating the card, the spirit master can seamlessly switch between the two states of "robot dog" and "zombie dog".

It even perfectly integrates the robot dog and the zombie dog together. When used, it can "switch stages", input overloaded vitality, and transform into a brand new third form.

It's certainly difficult.

Xu Yan activated "Dr. Hyde's Meditation Method", imagining the gears in his brain spinning rapidly and entering a state of "high concentration".

The efficiency of reading Leiliana's card-making notes suddenly increased threefold.

"Hua hua hua hua." Accompanied by the sound of pages turning continuously.

Mysterious and complex formulas, exquisitely structured symbol arrays, and never-before-seen decomposition diagrams.

In addition, there are the comments, insights and summaries that Leiliana has painstakingly thought out.

It turned into a myriad of information streams, madly pouring into Xu Yan's mind.

He spent a whole hour thinking about how to transform the most basic two-star bronze card.

The knowledge and theoretical system involved far exceed the scope of "bronze level".

"Crack"!
After trying seven times, the seal card could no longer withstand the repeated engraving and finally shattered like glass.

From the secret room came the sound of the mechanical dog's overload and the zombie dog's roar from its broken throat.

Both voices contained infinite fear.

Xu Yan collected the fragments expressionlessly, analyzing the extraordinary materials that could still be used. By the way, he absorbed the residual soul ripples that had nowhere to escape into his palm and sent them into the Human Emperor Banner.

It's not just the merit points that are increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Congratulations! Your proficiency in Colin Hyde's Card Making Skill has increased by 1%. Your proficiency level has surpassed 100%, reaching the "Master" stage.

You gained more wisdom and strength from Dr. Hyde's recollections.

["Dr. Half-Brain's Meditation Method", Proficiency +1%]

[Basic Talisman Making, Proficiency +0.6%]

[Congratulations, you have initially mastered the card making skills of the Wild Card Creator Leiliana. New skills have been unlocked.]

[Leliana's Card Making Technique, Current Level: Beginning to Glimpse (7%)]

The pleasing flow of information made Xu Yan's mouth curl up slightly.

He went to the bathroom to wash his face, and in the process, changed his joyful expression into a slightly morbid excitement.

He worked tirelessly from day to midnight, processing a total of twelve cards.

His eyes were bloodshot, his face was pale, and his brain was like a machine overloaded with high temperature, emitting wisps of white mist.

Several times, the residual soul ripples and extremely unstable supernatural elements in the residual cards escaped and corroded his hands, forcing him to put his ten fingers into the medical potion with ice cubes added to cool them.

As he paced back and forth along the diagonal of the card-making room, thinking, his whole body was shaky and he looked like he would trip over himself at any moment. He could not hold on any longer and fell on the camp bed and took a nap for half an hour.

Out of the twelve cards, he repaired one.

Seven pieces were disassembled.

Four more were completely scrapped.

If a more conservative maintenance plan is adopted, Xu Yan is confident that the repair rate can be doubled, and perhaps not even a single card will be scrapped.

But he wasn't really working for the Rolling Stones, so of course he had to choose the most radical option that would best hone his skills.

By the way, you can also use the guise of scrapping the card to devour the old soul inside without anyone noticing.

The merit points accumulated from hunting down evil spirit masters and devouring the banned evil spirits.

Plus the income from these few days.

For the first time since his rebirth, Xu Yan had tens of thousands of points of Hongmeng purple energy at his disposal.

He saved when he should and spent when he should, and he started spending lavishly again.

Half of the merit points are poured into "Lin" and "Jelly", which directly enhances their levels and stimulates their own life index, causing them to make rapid progress in a short period of time.

The other half of the merit points were all converted into the highest difficulty "Battle Replay".

The ultimate showdown between the eldest brother and Dr. Hyde at the gate of the Wanhun Sect replayed in his mind again and again.

When he slowly opened his eyes and entered the next round of study, research and maintenance, his merit points had not yet been fully consumed.

He simply "left it alone" and let the two guardian spirits continue to face the eldest brother and Dr. Hyde in the Human Emperor Banner, constantly improving their skill proficiency and awakening new skills.

I focused on "Leliana's card making technique".

Four stacks of card-making notebooks are a summary of Leiliana's skills and even life over the past twenty years.

Between the long formulas, runes and structural diagrams, there are occasionally a few daily records, which are all her expressions of depression and pain when she was wandering in the wilderness and struggling to survive between natural disasters and man-made disasters.

On the cover of one of the blood-stained notebooks, Leiliana wrote:

"Day 33 of being held captive by the Red Thorn Gang. Goal: survive, at least 100 days."

In another notebook, interspersed with long sections of algorithms, Leiliana wrote:

"Vivian died, and luckily I found a place to bury her."

Xu Yan didn't know who Vivian was.

But I felt an unfathomable sadness.

After that, Leiliana made the most basic calculation errors in two very simple equations and had to repeatedly scribble, leaving behind a bunch of confused and bewildered fly heads.

There was another pattern that recurred throughout her notes.

At first, Xu Yan thought it was an ancient magic seal.

It wasn't until "The Remembrance of Dr. Hyde" flashed through his mind that he realized that it was the emblem of Dawn College.

(End of this chapter)