Covering the Sky: Rise Starting with Card Draws

"I have plenty of strength, but Xiaoman alone can't drain me dry. But I'll skip the soccer game; I need to spend time with Xiaoman. Next time, definitely."

Chen Hao didn't care about Pang Bo's teasing, he just smiled and refused, then took Li Xiaoman's hand and left the football field.

There are also basic requirements for drawing cards for special achievements.

Ye Fan and Pang Bo are still just ordinary people, even though one is a Holy Body and the other is a descendant of a demon god.

However, before embarking on cultivation, he was simply strong, without any special abilities.

Even if Chen Hao beats the two of them now, he still won't get a chance to draw a prize. Otherwise, Chen Hao wouldn't mind bullying Ye Tiandi when he was a college student.

"Tsk, Haozi is still as womanizing as ever, neglecting his friends~"

Pang Bo patted his good friend Ye Fan on the shoulder and said, "Don't look at Ye Zi. Li Xiaoman is Haozi's girlfriend now. You can't mess with your friend's wife! There are plenty of fish in the sea..."

"Pang Bo, don't talk nonsense. I haven't seen Li Xiaoman."

Ye Fan shook his head.

"Tch, were you just peeking at Li Xiaoman or Haozi? Stop pretending to be so righteous with me."

Pang Bo put his arm around Ye Fan's shoulder and said.

"Brother, I'm really not looking at Li Xiaoman. Don't you think Haozi seems to have changed? He gives off a very different vibe than before."

Although Haozi wasn't effeminate before, and his interactions with others were always pleasant, he always seemed more beautiful and eye-catching than girls, possessing a strange fragility that made people unconsciously want to pay attention to him and protect him.

Ye Fan frowned, as if he was pondering or savoring something.

Although the Ancient Sacred Body leans more towards the physical body, Ye Fan's talent is by no means solely dependent on the Sacred Body.

Red-haired Strange Old Demon Chen is a die-hard fan of martial arts novels, and his works are full of homage. The protagonists he creates are often gifted and, most importantly, have extraordinary spiritual senses. Among them, Ye Fan has the most elements of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling combined. His spiritual senses are much more acute than those of ordinary people.

"Um?"

Pang Bo looked at Ye Fan with a bewildered expression, and subconsciously withdrew his arm from Ye Fan's shoulder.

Dude, something's off with you!

"But the feeling he gave me just now..."

Ye Fan was still struggling with his wording.

"You suddenly seem much more masculine, right? And you even have the air of a tough, real man and a domineering CEO."

Pang Bo said quietly.

It turns out that Ye Zi prefers the muscular type to the weak man. No wonder there are rumors in the gym that excessive exercise attracts the same sex. Am I in great danger now?

Pang Bo clenched his buttocks tightly.

  

Ye Fan was about to nod when he saw Pang Bo's shocked and terrified expression, as if to say, "Ye Fan, you're actually this kind of person!" He instantly realized that the other man had misunderstood, so he said with a dark face, "Pang Bo, it's not what you think!"

"Hehe, Yezi, I believe you're not the type to like men."

Pang Bo took a step back and chuckled strangely.

He genuinely didn't believe Ye Fan was gay; otherwise, given their close relationship, his own chrysanthemum would have been lost long ago, and his virginity wouldn't have remained until today. However, this didn't stop him from teasing and joking around with Ye Fan.

"Could you please not stand so far away when you say that?"

Ye Fan was speechless.

……

Time flies, and it's the beginning of the month again.

After regaining his memories of his past life, Chen Hao did not rush to drop out of school to find a blessed land with abundant spiritual energy. Instead, he relied on special channels to collect medicinal herbs, refine some pills to strengthen his foundation and replenish his essence, and continue to cultivate with his Daoist partner to make progress together.

The "Cultivating Demonic Power in the Heart of the Dao" technique is a demonic practice that involves getting on the train first and then paying the price later, filled with the demonic sect's mentality of seeking quick success and taking shortcuts.

Although Chen Hao has made some progress in the Dao Heart Demon Seed Technique, he has suffered a great loss of vital energy and essence during the three months of hard work after dispersing his power in order to fake his death. He needs to rest and replenish his energy.

In normal Taoist practice, the formation of the Golden Elixir is a natural process, like water overflowing from a full container. If one's foundation is insufficient, one will naturally be unable to form the elixir, and there will be no hidden dangers or crises.

The cultivation of the Dao Heart Seed Demon is a crooked approach, attempting to reach the heavens in one step, forcibly demanding it when the foundation has not yet reached the natural state of spontaneous elixir formation.

Completely ignite all your essence, energy, and spirit, forcibly gamble your life on everything to accelerate the formation of the Golden Elixir, and highly rely on the stimulation of "resurrection" between life and death to harmonize the two extremes and smoothly transform into yin and yang, thereby avoiding yin-yang imbalance.

If the formation is successfully induced, even an underdeveloped golden core will possess high essence, and the cultivator will experience a leap in life level, with supernatural powers naturally arising, accompanied by all sorts of strange and bizarre supernatural abilities.

Even in a state of kidney deficiency, the Evil Emperor, a Golden Core cultivator, could still easily defeat a Qi Refining cultivator.

After that, all that is needed is to strengthen the foundation and cultivate the underdeveloped golden elixir until it matures and becomes complete.

The advantage is that the brave enjoy it first; the disadvantage is that it's exhausting.

Moreover, the vast majority of gamblers can't survive the first round of all-in betting before losing everything.

In a small number of cases where someone experiences a miraculous "resurrection," if their foundation and fortune are insufficient, they may actually die and not be able to come back to life.

While it's said that one should be eager for quick success and instant benefits, it actually depends on whether one's foundation is solid and resilient, whether one's birth chart is strong enough, and whether one's luck is good enough.

Since regaining his memories, Chen Hao has felt that this cultivation technique is a bit too difficult to master, and he is not in a wheelchair.

How could I have been so confident and stubborn that I could succeed before I even regained my memories?

In his previous life, he mostly focused on high-risk, high-reward opportunities and rarely became blinded by greed.

They are not certain that they will succeed or win, and they never look at the results of failure, only focusing on the rewards of success.

How come I became so stubborn and unconvinced after being reincarnated into the world of "Covering the Sky"?

However, he felt that compared to the Battle Saint Emperor's attempt to become a Battle Immortal in one lifetime and the Supreme Human Being of the Prison Green's self-establishment of the Immortal Realm, he was far superior.

He's still considered a normal person; he's not actually that kind of ordinary or stubborn.

Fortunately, his cultivation of the Dao Heart Demon Seed did not damage his deeper origins, so as long as he finds a way to replenish his temporarily depleted physical body with enough essence, he can recover to his full strength.

These days, he has already recovered his health to almost the same extent and is full of energy and vitality again.

At this moment, he has just completed several rounds of preaching and instruction for Lin Jia, Li Xiaoman, Liu Yiyi, and Xu Qiong.

He guided them in cultivating the sword manual and understanding the essence of the Dao embryo, leading them to comprehend and practice the profound mystery of the Mingyu Gong's vortex suction force.

As a primordial Dao embryo with boiling imperial blood, Chen Hao is exceptionally intelligent and insightful.

Aside from some martial arts techniques that he resisted due to special conditions, resource limitations, and consequences, he could learn most normal martial arts techniques in no time and master them quickly.

Even with an ancient and peerless martial art like the Mingyu Gong, Chen Hao had already comprehended the ninth level early on, and could share his insights and experiences with his Daoist partners to help them cultivate.

However, Chen Hao has always only looked at and never practiced the healing and life-extending divine skill "Double Scroll of Meridian Cleansing" that only eunuchs can practice, and the "Shennong Glazed Skill" that can transform a man into a woman or a woman into a man when practiced to its extreme.

I only consider it as increasing my knowledge of martial arts and enriching my foundation. At most, I rely on my own comprehension and talent to draw inferences from similar cases and extract some useful nutrients and inspiration.

Right now, it's time for the monthly card draw again. Chen Hao didn't hesitate to start drawing, not planning to hoard cards, because his card pool doesn't have a pity system for ten draws, so there's no need to delay drawing.

As Chen Hao focused his thoughts, a golden light slowly emerged from the endless vortex of the card pool, accompanied by a dark, demonic shadow effect.

After the special effects faded, Chen Hao could see that the card he had drawn was a martial arts manual of the knowledge inheritance type - "Summoning Demon Scripture" (Martial Canon).