Card Making: My Card Game Starts with the White Dragon

For some reason, the latter half of Xin Hai's memories is more blurred than those of Xia Wudi and Aoshan Taro.

Even so, Zhou Hao still saw through the past of this "Princess of the Heart Sea".

【Xin Hai】 was once the princess of Fuxian Kingdom, a small country in the lake. She was cursed from childhood, losing both legs and having her lower body grow in a seashell.

But this curse also gave her a powerful force: the pearl that had formed in the shell over many years.

Pearls can create illusions and possess a mysterious power that makes them seem close yet always out of reach.

However, Xin Hai is gentle and kind, and has never used this power for evil. She only helps out quietly when Fuxian Kingdom is in danger.

Until Fuxian Kingdom encountered its most powerful enemy in history—the Remnant Dragon King.

The King of the Broken Dragons had a keen eye and noticed the extraordinary nature of the pearl inside the seashell.

It forced the Fuxian Kingdom to hand over Princess Xinhai and promised to spare the Fuxian Kingdom.

Princess Xinhai used the magical properties of the clam pearl to block the Remnant Dragon King.

However, King Fuxian, fearing the infamous reputation of the Remnant Dragon King, took advantage of his daughter's sleep to dig the pearl out of the shell that was connected to Princess Xinhai by blood and flesh, and presented it to the Remnant Dragon King.

Having obtained the treasure, the Remnant Dragon King directly broke his promise and destroyed the Fuxian Kingdom, even claiming that eating Princess Xinhai's flesh would grant him immunity from death.

In the end, the people of Fuxian Kingdom, whom Princess Xinhai had protected all her life, devoured her flesh and blood, but she still could not escape death.

However, Princess Xinhai's lingering resentment in protecting Fuxian Kingdom was inexplicably preserved and transformed into the spirit of this lake.

Years have passed, and even though the Fuxian Kingdom has long been destroyed and Princess Xinhai's pearl has been taken away by the Remnant Dragon King, her lingering resentment still guards this dilapidated royal city.

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Zhou Hao's feelings were somewhat complicated, and he didn't know how to evaluate it for a moment.

Compared to [Invincible Shrimp]'s adversity-stricken growth and his death alongside his clan, Princess [Heart Sea] is undoubtedly more heartbreaking.

The miraculous pearl was both a gift and a curse from heaven, for the process of nurturing the pearl was an endless torment.

But she remained gentle and kind, willing to use the strength gained from this pain to protect her people.

In the end, the powerful enemy did not defeat her, but she fell to the knife of her own father.

Her subjects, whom she had protected all her life, devoured her flesh and blood in order to survive.

Even so, her lingering resentment continues to protect the kingdom.

"well……"

Throughout history, there have been countless examples of loyal ministers and generals dying under incompetent and weak rulers, and Zhou Hao could only sigh in response.

However, Zhou Hao also obtained a lot of key information from this memory.

"Illusion, power beyond our reach—this is surprisingly similar to the legend of the Mirage Dragon. It's a pity that the pearl was taken by the Remnant Dragon King."

But then Zhou Hao thought again, if the pearl were still there, then [Heart Sea] wouldn't just be a boss-level special monster anymore, and he wouldn't be able to get this material card.

It can only be said that every sip and every bite is preordained.

The connection of all the material cards has been completed. Next, we need to depict that mysterious and complex spiritual circuit on the material phantom of [Heart Sea].

Looking at the seemingly real illusory image of the [Heart Sea] material in front of him, Zhou Hao felt that this step was quite difficult.

For some reason, the [Heart Sea] that had transformed into a lake spirit no longer had her large seashell and had completely reverted to human form.

At this moment, her eyes were closed, her pale pink eyelashes trembled slightly, and her delicate oval face was lowered slightly, making her look pitiful.

What's worse, [Xin Hai] was completely naked at the moment, with only streams of water surrounding her, making it impossible to conceal her curvaceous figure.

Zhou Hao then had to transform his spiritual power into extremely fine brushstrokes to imprint spiritual pathways on this seemingly real material phantom, completely disregarding the principle of "do not listen to or look at what is improper."

He suddenly remembered that in ancient mythology, the most famous River God Feng Yi of the Yellow River was said to be a handsome man.

Zhou Hao felt a chill run down his spine, and the image of Guo Chen imprinting a mental circuit onto a naked, handsome man inexplicably popped into his mind.

"Why does this thing feel like it's gotten a bit frivolous?"

Zhou Hao quickly gathered his thoughts, adjusted his breathing, and concentrated his mental energy.

The next second, the huge brushstroke in front of Zhou Hao disappeared, replaced by an extremely solid silver needle that looked like a real one.

"That's not enough, it can be made even finer."

After a long time, Zhou Hao finally felt that he had reached the finest level of control, and then began to prepare to engrave the mark according to his memory.

"The belly area has the least undulation and is the flattest, while the back area has a larger surface area..."

Zhou Hao thought about it and felt that it was not quite right to have the spiritual path engraved on his stomach, so he finally chose to have the spiritual path engraved on his back.

He was very focused, and when the engraving was finished, it felt like time had passed in the blink of an eye.

But when he looked at his mental energy reserves, he found that one-third of them had already been consumed.

"Indeed, the more delicate the work, the more terrifying the consumption of mental energy."

Fortunately, I've already advanced to the intermediate card maker level. If I were still a beginner, I probably wouldn't have much mental energy left after imprinting this mental circuit.

In the following period, Zhou Hao was finally able to officially begin the basic card-making process.

"Alright, now I can finally choose a real name and start writing the story."

In these familiar areas, he acted much faster.

The scroll flutters, and the enormous brushstrokes reappear.

With effortless and freehand strokes, the true name of the West Sea Dragon Palace shines brightly on the paper.

Without pausing, Zhou Hao continued writing: "The West Sea Dragon Palace, built atop the eye of the West Sea, is one of the four great water palaces."

Fishermen in the Western Sea often see giant cities floating on the horizon, radiating thousands of rays of light and boundless brilliance. Some chase after them day and night, but never manage to enter, even unto death.

A wise man once said that the Dragon Palace of the West Sea was rebuilt on the site of the ancient Fuxian Kingdom, and it is said to possess divine powers that are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

It contains countless treasures, and is guarded day and night by shrimp soldiers, crab generals, fish monsters, clam spirits, and water ghosts.

Zhou Hao paused here, recalling the contents of Guo Chen's notes.

"One of the secrets to creating bonds when creating cards is to add your own cards to the background story, and you can even set two cards as relatives."

However, it's important to note that when setting this up, it's best to summon existing cards and use their blood mixed with elixir to write the story, as this makes it easier to gain approval from the card-making rules.

Zhou Hao originally wanted to turn the [Heart Sea], which has shellfish characteristics, into a Mirage Dragon Summoning Card, which would require purchasing the corresponding material cards and remaking the card.

But after reading Guo Chen's notes, he decided to try this novel method.

In Zhou Hao's opinion, Ao Lie was the most suitable person to be set as a relative when creating the Mirage Dragon.

First of all, Ao Lie is the third prince of the Jade Dragon of the West Sea, possessing pure dragon blood.

Since the Mirage Dragon is a dragon, if [Heart Sea] obtains Ao Lie's blood, it will greatly increase the success rate of creating the Mirage Dragon card.

Moreover, Zhou Hao remembered that Ao Lie also had a characteristic: his method of use was related to blood.

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