Card Making: My Card Game Starts with the White Dragon

Item materials: [Tiger Tooth Rift Blade] (purple), [Withered Tree Iron Armor] (purple), [Five-Colored Flying Wings] (purple), [Horned Python Black Poison Whip] (purple), [Thorn Poison Tail Needle] (purple), [Spirit Fox Pill Fire Sword] (purple)...

Monster-type materials: [Splitter Tiger King] (purple), [Millennial Ironwood Spirit] (purple), [Colorful King] (purple), [Hundred-Year-Old Horned Python Spirit] (purple), [Thorn Crystal Scorpion] (purple), [Gourd of Ghost Stories] (purple)...

Scene-related materials: [Mountain Lord's Night Banquet] (purple), [Iron Bone Forest] (purple), [Black Village Snake Well] (purple), [Yellow Sand Cemetery] (purple), [Strange Roaring Gourd Garden] (purple)...

This was the first time Zhou Hao had ever seen purple material cards, and the first time he had ever seen so many.

Purple material cards are produced in very small quantities, and under normal circumstances, they are unlikely to enter the material market.

If there is any production, most of it is snapped up as soon as it leaves the secret realm.

It is also thanks to the support of the Card Masters Association that the East Campus has so many purple material cards.

If Zhou Hao hadn't consulted Zhang Shan before selecting materials, he might have chosen [Raging Wind Tiger Lord] (purple).

After all, according to Zhao Lei, the military training for this year's card-making high school might actually take place in the Ailao Mountains.

This possibility seems even greater, especially given that the enrollment location has been changed to the East Campus this year.

It is important to know that Shanhai City is divided into East District and West District.

The eastern area is adjacent to the B-level [Ailao Mountain] secret realm, while the western area is close to the S-level [West Sea] secret realm.

Over the years, the pressure in the western district has been much greater than that in the eastern district.

There is only one special card-making high school in Shanhai City, and it only has one academic year: the senior year.

The East Campus was originally built to provide a safer learning environment for these valuable aspiring card makers, but it has not been put into use for various reasons.

This year's sea monster infestation was the most severe in recent years, which gave the East Campus the opportunity to start operations.

In addition, given the rumors that this year's military training will include a visit to a secret realm, it seems highly likely that this year's training will take place in the [Ailao Mountain] secret realm.

Furthermore, performance in the secret realm may also affect the number of spots in the "Mountain and Sea Class".

So, in order to better cope with the [Ailao Mountain] secret realm, which is dominated by terrestrial monsters,

Zhou Hao will inevitably need to add a card that excels in land warfare.

It seems that this [Raging Wind Tiger] (purple) is the most suitable choice.

【Riftwind Tiger Lord】(Purple) Since it contains the word "Lord," it means that this tiger spirit was extremely powerful in its lifetime.

It may even have reached the threshold of becoming a [Mountain Lord], which is an absolute elite among [Leader-level] monsters.

If it weren't for Zhou Hao's current mental limitations, he could have used this card as the main material to directly create a powerful purple-quality land combat card.

But Zhou Hao had just asked Instructor Zhang Shan and received more accurate information.

According to Zhang Shan's description, Zhou Hao believed that the [West Sea Jade Dragon Third Prince Ao Lie] he had was more than enough to fight, and there was no need to pursue short-term combat power by choosing this [Rending Wind Tiger Lord] (purple).

Moreover, even if he had purple monster-type materials, Zhou Hao couldn't create purple cards due to his limited mental strength.

It would be better to choose more valuable and harder-to-obtain scene-based materials, which can still be sold even if they are not used.

In reality, most people would probably choose scene-related materials when given the opportunity to select purple materials.

The reason is simple: scene-type material cards are several times or even ten times more expensive than other material cards of the same level.

Moreover, scene-related material cards are the most difficult to obtain.

Regular material cards can be obtained by defeating just one monster.

Scene-type material cards only have a chance of dropping after destroying a demon's lair.

These are purple-quality scene-related resource cards; they are truly not for sale.

If Zhou Hao misses this opportunity, he doesn't know when he'll be able to obtain scene-type material cards of this caliber again.

"【Mountain Lord's Night Banquet】(Purple) This card is clearly from the same series as 【Raging Wind Tiger Lord】(Purple). If you build a deck around the demon race later, this card might be worth using, but for me, it's too limiting and has too low a ceiling, PASS..."

"【Iron-Bone Forest】(Purple), the only route I can think of is the 【Black Mountain Demon】, but the potential is too low, PASS..."

"【Kuromura Snake Well】(Purple), I don't play with snakes, PASS..."

"【Yellow Sand Cemetery】(Purple), no corpse keeping, PASS..."

When Zhou Hao turned his gaze to the last purple material card, his memories were involuntarily stirred.

"【The Howling Gourd Garden】(Purple)?"

In the original owner's memory, there were many card makers in Shanhai City who used gourds as a card element.

The main reason is that the [Ailao Mountain] secret realm in the eastern region is rich in gourd-type materials.

When he first transmigrated, he saw many gourds while browsing the online resource library. There were all kinds of gourds, such as the "Hit-and-Smash Gourd," the "Gourd of Ghost Stories," the "Gourd of Iron Gallbladder," and the "Gourd of Miasma."

Legend has it that the reason there are so many gourd spirits in the Ailao Mountains is because there is a gourd ancestor with extraordinary Taoist cultivation deep in the secret realm, and these gourd spirits are all the "gourd descendants" of that gourd ancestor.

"gourd?"

Zhou Hao fell into deep thought.

In Chinese mythology, the gourd is indeed a very prominent element.

In the Chinese Taoist system, the gourd is a Taoist artifact, a spiritual object rich in spiritual energy and capable of carrying the Tao.

Therefore, gourds are a common sight in various mythological and supernatural tales.

The Purple Gold Red Gourd in Journey to the West can grant any wish, and anyone who speaks of it will be able to enter.

As long as the enemy's name is called out and the enemy dares to answer, it can be directly put into the gourd and turned into pus in a short while.

In the novel *Investiture of the Gods*, Lu Ya Dao Ren's most treasured weapon, the "Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife," was hidden inside a red gourd.

Its power is usually unseen, but once unleashed, it goes straight for the enemy's Niwan Palace, specifically targeting the primordial spirit, and its karmic consequences are inevitable.

In addition, there is Chong Heihu, the younger brother of Chong Houhu, the Marquis of the North, who also carries a "secretly bestowed red gourd," which is said to contain infinite supernatural powers.

The ninth of the Ten Deadly Formations, the Blood Water Formation, also has three Treasure Gourds placed on its formation platform.

The gourd contains a vast expanse of blood; even an immortal who gets stuck in it will instantly turn into blood.

Even the goddess Nuwa possesses a golden gourd, within which lies a demon-summoning banner capable of summoning all demons in the world.

In Chinese mythology, the gourd appears countless times.

"If we had this [Gourd Garden of Roars] (purple) paired with the diverse gourd spirits in the [Ailao Mountain] secret realm, we might actually be able to create a pretty good [Field Card]?"

He had long heard that "Field Cards" were often the core of a card maker's deck.

Just as the Endless Fire Domain is to the Flame Emperor, and the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool is to the Thunder God.

The first "Field Card" created by these legendary card makers is often closely related to their decks and titles.

In Zhou Hao's eyes, the gourd element has a very high potential, making it qualified to be the core element of his first [Field Card].

However, in Chinese mythology, the gourd mostly appears as a magical artifact.

In the card maker's rule system, such magical artifacts and items can only be [equipment cards].

While both consume mental energy, [Equipment Cards] are far less cost-effective than [Summoning Cards].

After all, only [Summoning Cards] can provide a card maker with a random skill.

If Zhou Hao wants to connect the gourd in Chinese mythology with the gourd in the [Strange Roaring Gourd Garden] (purple),

It's highly likely that this can only be achieved by crafting [equipment cards].

However, lacking [Summoning Cards] and skills, his combat power will lag far behind that of card makers of the same level.

When we enter the secret realm, we won't be able to use the cards with peace of mind, and we'll have to protect this burden.

However, Zhou Hao felt it would be a great pity not to choose such scene-based materials that fit his own mythological system perfectly and had a high potential.

"Gourd, [Summoning Card]?"

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Zhou Hao's mind.

A familiar children's song melody echoed in his memory.

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