The Mysterious Card Maker: Starting with Zhang Jiao's Deification

Lin Fan, riding the Red Hare, led Su Wanqing to the entrance of the secret realm first.

A pungent smell of blood filled the air.

The ground was already stained dark red, with pools of congealed blood spread out, and even the tree trunks nearby had splattered bloodstains.

"What... happened...?"

Looking at the scene before her, Su Wanqing lowered her voice and a hint of worry appeared on her face.

Lin Fan didn't speak. He squatted down and wiped the blood off the ground.

Viscous and dark in color.

"The blood is starting to dry," he said in a low voice. "It's been going on for quite a while... With this amount of bleeding, if it's not treated promptly, the person might..."

He stopped mid-sentence, knowing that Su Wanqing would understand what he was about to say without him having to.

Su Wanqing's face paled as she looked at the locator she was clutching in her hand. At this moment, the location of Xiao He and the others could not be located at all.

"Stop looking." Lin Fan pointed to the ground not far away, where a broken locator lay, exactly the same as the one in Su Wanqing's hand.

Su Wanqing's hand paused. If one party loses the locator, it's useless for the other party to hold it.

"Has something happened to them?"

"They're not here, they might still be alive," Lin Fan comforted him. At this moment, his mental energy had already quietly spread out, but he found nothing.

Lin Fan continued, "Don't you still have the radar card? Maybe you can find them!"

Su Wanqing took a breath and quickly took out the radar card. The moment the card lit up, several red dots appeared on the image.

"There's a response!" She jerked her head up, pointing in one direction. "Over there!"

After saying that, she rushed out, and Lin Fan summoned the Red Hare spirit to chase after her.

The two pushed aside a bush, and the next moment, a figure appeared in front of them. The person was covered in blood and staggered towards them.

At this moment, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength. After taking a few steps, he collapsed directly into the mud.

Even so, he continued to crawl forward desperately, gripping the soil with both hands, his eyes constantly glancing behind him as if he were hiding from something.

Su Wanqing held up her flashlight and shone it on his face.

"Xiao He!" Su Wanqing recognized him at a glance, her voice instantly rising as she rushed over.

Xiao He struggled to lift his head, his face deathly pale, his pupils filled with terror.

"Sister Su..." Upon seeing Su Wanqing, a glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes.

Su Wanqing grabbed his shoulder and asked urgently, "Where are the others? What happened?!"

His lips trembled, and he uttered broken words: "Xiang Qian...it's that person named Xiang Qian!"

Su Wanqing's pupils contracted: "Xiang Qian, did he cause you trouble? Not with you..."

Before Su Wanqing could finish speaking, Xiao He blurted out urgently, his body trembling uncontrollably: "He... he's not human... he ate them... all of them..."

The sound stopped abruptly the next moment, and several lumps bulged on Xiao He's back, as if they were about to burst open at any moment.

"Ah!" Xiao He let out a roar.

Upon seeing this, Su Wanqing immediately released her grip and took a step back. "What... what is this?"

Lin Fan's eyes instantly turned cold. He remembered what Xiao He had said about the strange tumor-like thing. "Don't go near him!"

The voice just fell

"laugh!"

On Xiao He's shoulder, a gash suddenly appeared in his skin.

A thick, purulent substance mixed with blood flowed out, a sight that was extremely nauseating.

With a "whoosh," a figure was peeled off Xiao He's body. He was like a lump of mud, emitting a foul stench, and behind him was a back full of tumors.

"A deadly monster!" Lin Fan recognized the strange creature in front of him. It usually liked to attach itself to people who were about to die. How could Xiao He have attracted such a monster?

Just then, the sound of footsteps treading on branches came from deep within the forest.

"Click-clack"

Lin Fan and Su Wanqing looked up almost simultaneously at the source of the sound.

A figure slowly emerged from the shadows, a faint smile on his face.

"Money," Lin Fan said.

"Xiang Qian! What have you done to them!" Su Wanqing gripped a long knife, the tip pointing directly at Qian.

"It's nothing, I was just passing by, I didn't do anything!" Xiang Qian raised his hands, looking completely innocent.

The demon chuckled and looked at Lin Fan and Su Wanqing.

"Delicious, Card Master is indeed different." Gao Huanggui's gaze couldn't help but turn to Lin Fan: "The scent on you seems even more unique!"

Just as Lin Fan and Su Wanqing were focused on the incurable monster.

"Whoosh!"

A faint, almost inaudible whooshing sound came from the side.

Lin Fan instinctively turned to the side, but a tiny needle still grazed his shoulder and pierced through!

at the same time

Another needle was aimed straight at Su Wanqing, but she reacted extremely quickly, wielding her long sword horizontally to block the thin needle!

But the next moment, "snap!"

The flying needles exploded, turning into a cloud of colorless mist that directly hit her face!

"Hold your breath!" Lin Fan whispered.

But it was too late; by the time Su Wanqing raised her hand, the mist had already been inhaled.

"Damn it, what is this thing!" Lin Fan thought to himself, then felt as if something had stabbed him hard in the mind.

The mental energy that had been spread out was forcibly severed at this moment!

"His mind... is sealed?"

His heart sank; with his mental power sealed, he could no longer summon the cards.

Lin Fan looked at Xiang Qian, only to see him withdraw his hand, a smile on his lips, as he showed Lin Fan the few remaining fine needles in his hand.

"A mental blocker, specially made, designed to deal with card masters. It works pretty well, doesn't it?"

Lin Fan didn't speak; he was already trying to readjust his mental energy.

On the other side, Su Wanqing gritted her teeth. Mental strength didn't have much of an impact on someone like her who relied on weapon cards to fight.

She glanced back at Lin Fan, then took a step forward and charged straight at Qian!

The speed was still astonishing; in almost two breaths, Su Wanqing arrived in front of Xiang Qian.

"Whoosh!"

Without a moment's hesitation, the longsword fell swiftly towards the money.

Xiang Qian simply smiled slightly, and then the demonic creature instantly blocked his way. The long knife slashed across the demonic creature, but it did not cause him any real harm.

"What kind of 'incurable ghost' is this? It's more like a 'mud ghost'!" Su Wanqing cursed, and a purple light flashed from the long sword in her hand.

A chill burst forth from the blade, and a layer of fine ice crystals rapidly spread outwards.

"Click...click click..."

Frost began to form on the ground beneath her feet.

Lin Fan's gaze sharpened.

The weapon card has been activated!

It doesn't require mental energy, only card energy, which is the only means they can still use right now!

"Freeze!" The body of the monstrous, mud-like creature was frozen in place, now a lamb to the slaughter.

But there was no panic in Xiang Qian's eyes; his face still wore a smile, as if he didn't care about anything at all.