Card Making: My Card Game Starts with the White Dragon

When Ao Lie appeared, he still had that grumpy swordsman look on his face.

Zhou Hao wondered, "Ao Lie, we're in the water, why don't you reveal your dragon form?"

Ao Lie looked at Zhou Hao, and his cold and arrogant gaze finally softened.

A vague thought entered Zhou Hao's mind. Although he couldn't fully understand it, Zhou Hao grasped the general meaning:

"A mere mortal fool is unworthy to gaze upon the emperor's countenance."

Zhou Hao was not surprised by this idea.

Although Ao Lie's spirituality is currently weak, the pride of the dragon race is indeed ingrained in his bones.

"Alright, the Sage form excels at ranged attacks, which is more suitable for dealing with high-burst melee sea monsters like the [Boxing Shrimp Monster], and it also saves my mental energy."

With that, the Third Prince of the Jade Dragon of the West Sea stepped forward and entered the battlefield.

Zhou Hao, meanwhile, was busy taking out blank cards to seal the low-level sea monsters that had been killed by the aftershocks.

The shockwaves from the surging water rushed toward Ao Lie, but were instantly calmed down, unable to harm him in the slightest.

The boxing shrimp monster, who was originally focused on practicing its boxing, also noticed this uninvited guest.

This hardworking shrimp monster seemed to have some intelligence; it didn't charge straight at the sea monster like ordinary sea monsters.

Its body was trembling slightly, and its huge fists were unconsciously clapping together in front of its chest.

Its biological instincts told it that it was not facing any human being, but a terrifying being unlike anything it had ever encountered before.

This overwhelming pressure from its bloodline almost made the [Boxing Shrimp Monster] arch its body and collapse to the ground in submission.

But years of training in boxing forced it to overcome this instinct, and the nerves connecting its fists twitched excitedly as it found a powerful opponent.

In the end, the shrimp monster arched its body, but not in submission, but in attack!

The will of the fist cannot be shaken!

The boxing shrimp monster bent its body to its limit, and then suddenly burst forth, shooting towards Ao Lie like lightning.

Its fists were already brimming with power, ready to strike its enemy the instant they made contact.

He will use the fists he has honed over more than a decade to smash his opponent to pieces!

"Closer, closer!!"

The shrimp monster watched as its fist drew ever closer to that aloof face.

"But why is the fist getting further and further away from me?"

No, is my body also getting further and further away?

Finally, the view disappeared.

The Boxing Shrimp Monster never managed to touch Ao Lie even in its death.

The Third Prince of the Jade Dragon of the West Sea calmly sheathed his sword, as if he had only done something perfectly ordinary.

After all, the difference between a shrimp and a crab and a true dragon is still too great.

……

Meanwhile, inside a huge villa, large screens are suspended on the walls.

Each screen has a designated person responsible for observation, reporting, and recording in real time:

"Zhou Hao from Class 1 killed one boss-level [Boxing Shrimp Monster] in the Red Cleanup Zone, earning 30 credits."

"Xiao Huohuo from Class 1 killed one boss-level [Electric Jellyfish] in the Red Cleanup Zone, earning 30 credits."

"Ma Ling'er from Class 1 slayed one boss-level [Millennium Flower Demon] in the Red Extermination Zone, earning 30 credits."

"Liu Adou from Class 3 killed 3 elite-level [Centennial Dog Demons] in the yellow clearing zone, earning 15 credits."

"Zhang Yaoyang from Class One, in yellow..."

……

The reports made the entire villa sound like a telegraph room, and in the center of the villa,

A group of people dressed in uniforms of the Card Masters Association or the Jinghai Navy were standing in front of a screen, staring intently at it.

A bald old man in a Jinghai Navy uniform pointed at Zhou Hao's screen and said in a loud voice:

"This kid absolutely must be saved; he has the skill to breathe and move freely underwater!!"

His clothes weren't even wet! Chairman Guo, you really need to promote his card maker level right away!

I can't wait for this kid to keep imprinting skill cards 24/7!!

With him, how many fewer people in our Jinghai Navy would die?!

In the center of the crowd, a middle-aged man tapped his copper pipe and said:

"Old Yu, cultivating talent is like growing crops; you can't force it to grow faster."

No one would have guessed that this short man, who looked like a farmer from the countryside, would actually be the president of the Shanhai City Card Masters Association.

The bald old man showed no embarrassment at being refuted; he simply stroked his smooth head and chuckled:

"I was just saying that casually. If you can't give me the guy, fine. I'll go talk to him about cooperation myself after military training, okay?"

"Has the 'Eye of Surveillance' in the sea behind the Stone Forest not been deployed yet!?"

A sudden voice interrupted the bald old man's words.

The staff member immediately replied, "Principal Zhu, not yet. The new [Eye of Surveillance] cards just arrived, and my colleague went to pick them up."

The visitor was none other than the obese Principal Zhu. He didn't say anything after hearing the staff member's words.

Instead, with a stern face, he stepped forward and looked at the bald old man who had spoken earlier, saying:

"Yu Guangtou, I told you when I was teaching you that you were a good-for-nothing, and that you haven't improved at all in all these years."

This is a once-in-a-century talent; if you dare to use that dirty money to hinder his cultivation progress...

"Old man, I don't mind letting you recall the class rules again."

As soon as Principal Zhu spoke, the old man in the Jinghai military uniform immediately shut his mouth.

After a while, Chairman Guo said to Principal Zhu:

"Teacher, no problem, this kid's cards use the top-tier skill—Divine Power!!"

The people around immediately began to whisper among themselves:

"A supernatural ability? So this kid's first card already has the potential to be at least a red card?"

"Doesn't that mean he's guaranteed a Grandmaster rank from the very beginning of his card-making career?"

"The younger generation is truly formidable; I haven't even reached the threshold of becoming a grandmaster yet."

"It's fine if he gets a regular skill randomly, but what if this kid gets a supernatural power? There's no limit to how much potential this top-tier skill can have."

"Didn't Master Ma win the duel between the two Mas because he randomly got the [Divine Power - Nanshan Invincible]?"

Chairman Guo, smoking a pipe, looked at Zhou Hao on the screen, who was busy packaging materials, and sighed with satisfaction:

"Born with knowledge, favored by Ancestor Ye, a blessing for the mountains and seas..."

However, Zhou Hao, far away at sea, was unaware of what had happened; he was simply happily sealing those low-level sea monsters.

I had just finished packaging one sheet when I suddenly felt the surging water shockwaves stop.

Turning around, I found that the head of the ferocious-looking "Boxing Shrimp Monster" had been ripped off.

Even more frightening was that Zhou Hao felt that his mental energy hadn't been depleted much.

"Using the [Divine Power - Overturning Rivers and Seas] in the sea seems much easier than on land, perhaps because Ao Lie's range of use wasn't as large this time?"

But it wasn't just because the energy consumption had decreased, but also because Zhou Hao's own mental strength had increased.

The two cards in his mental space were constantly enhancing him in every aspect, including his mental strength.

His foundation was already very solid, and with two high-quality blue cards refining him day and night, his mental strength grew even more rapidly.

Even though Zhou Hao's mental strength is still some distance from that of an intermediate card maker, it's not too far off.

Not to mention that this is the sea, although not the Western Sea, which prevents the health and mana restoration effects of [Hidden Dragon in the Abyss/Avoiding Water Technique] from triggering.

But ultimately, it was a true dragon entering the sea, and the boost to combat power was more than just a little bit. Zhou Hao even suspected that Ao Lie could now go toe-to-toe with [leader-level] monsters.

After finally sealing all the low-level sea monsters that had been killed by the shockwave, Zhou Hao was about to step forward to seal the [Boss-level] [Boxing Shrimp Monster],

Suddenly, they saw the usually aloof and proud little white dragon manipulate a stream of water to pull a bead the size of a glass marble from the giant shrimp monster's body.

Then, he swallowed it whole.

Zhou Hao was wondering why Ao Lie, who seemed so arrogant and self-important, would eat the corpse of a sea monster. After thinking about it carefully, he understood the reason.

When he used his spiritual power to examine the panel of [West Sea Jade Dragon Third Prince Ao Lie], he indeed saw that the "Current Year" column in the [Jade Dragon Pearl] had changed from "1" to "3".

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