All-out Tower Defense: My Card-Drawing Talent is a Bit Strange

The dim sky contracted rapidly in a funnel shape from the center of the two beams of black light, like a jellyfish shrinking. The red lightning transformed into beams of red paint, which gradually etched eerie runes representing the storm onto the smooth black tower as the storm subsided.

After everything had completely calmed down, a thing resembling a wind gauge, consisting of three semicircles, gradually formed at the top of the tower and slowly rotated with the breeze of the sky island.

"Get some rest." Looking at the two tall defensive towers in front of him, Yang Fei said to them silently. From the moment he established contact, he knew that these two "little guys" were not very mature and liked to cause trouble.

However, these are golden defensive towers from the abyss, equivalent to cultivators in the Core Formation stage. The energy in my own sky island environment is not enough for them to replenish naturally. If they want to accumulate energy, they can only be forced to go into a deep sleep, which is unavoidable.

After settling the three defensive towers, Yang Fei smiled. Now, his two tentacle towers could attack three times and solve three problems together. Around nine o'clock today, he could add four more attacks.

With the addition of the two Infernal Storms that can be unleashed by these two Infernal Storm Towers, Yang Fei has been able to resolve nearly ten major troubles, which can be described as giving him a full sense of security. Moreover, the number of troubles he has resolved is still increasing.

Defending for one more day increases the number of attacks by four or six. This way, when participating in events organized by the Heavenly Dao in the future, one might be bolder and strive for more tangible rewards.

In a good mood, Yang Fei looked at the remaining three cards. Although these three cards were not defensive tower building cards, their actual function made Yang Fei's eyes light up again.

First up is the resource building card that Yang Fei values ​​most. It's a gold-quality orchard building card called "Blue Seven Fruit Vine". Yang Fei had never heard of this fruit before, but since it's gold-quality, it must be pretty good.

Unfortunately, the orchard is different from the defense tower. The orchard has no intelligence and cannot shut down its energy by going into a dormant state. Even if it could be built without any cost, Yang Fei would not be able to control the orchard's ability to absorb the surrounding energy. If it were to drain the energy of the entire sky island, then everything would be a loss.

Since he didn't need it for the time being, Yang Fei didn't bother to check its specific effects and simply put it away. He'd deal with it later when his sky island had enough energy. He wasn't sure if building this thing now would be able to grow the blue seven-fruit vines, and other crops on Yang Fei's sky island, or even defensive towers that could absorb surrounding energy to automatically recover, would all suffer.

The last two gold cards are construction cards for two modes of transportation: a wooden sailboat called "Abyss Chanter" and a tin train called "Lightless Fortress".

Similarly, these two things also require additional requirements to build. They do have a certain level of intelligence and can regenerate energy on their own, but building the vehicles themselves requires corresponding auxiliary buildings.

For example, the Abyss Singer, a black sailing ship that looks like a medieval ghost ship, requires a "Void Harbor" to be built on a sky island, plus a corresponding giant dock. Yang Fei didn't have either of these, so he had to give up.

The Fortress of No Light is even more outrageous. Although the description says that this ridiculously large train can fly in the void and does not need the rails of a normal train, it still requires a giant platform, a giant maintenance workshop, a corresponding production line for the carriages, and an energy crystal ore of at least silver quality called the "core ore" as the train's energy core.

The platform, workshop, and production line are all easy to find; these are buildings you can acquire after becoming a formal lord. At most, this huge additional requirement will require some time to upgrade. But where is Yang Fei going to find the mineral core? He's never even heard of it. How is he supposed to find it?

Moreover, since I've managed to find a silver-quality energy crystal ore, I'll definitely prioritize protecting it and then secretly mine the energy crystals to supply my golden defense tower. The ore core is obviously the foundation of the crystal ore; once it's harvested, the crystal ore itself will probably be gone, which would be a complete waste.

Although these two modes of transportation can be stored in the system grid, and Yang Fei can forcibly construct them, they cannot replenish energy within the system grid. Therefore, Yang Fei can only temporarily abandon them.

He had a need for transportation before, and when he saw these two transportation construction cards, Yang Fei thought things would improve. But he didn't expect that these seemingly costless cards would have such limitations. It was truly a bitter laugh!

It seems I'll have to find a way to get transportation from Qianwu Star.

Having acquired so many gold coins, Yang Fei will definitely summon slave traders and sell them all to quickly expand his warrior team. Sending them to explore Qianwu Star to find the various items they need, while also fighting zombies to earn money, is an inevitable step.

The last six items in the golden gift pack were six glittering golden stones. Based on past experience, these stones were often the most powerful and precious, so Yang Fei placed them last to check, showing his confidence in them.

As expected, the six stones were two gold-quality secret realm stones, two gold-quality core stones, and two gold-quality level stones, all of which were considered good items by Yang Fei.

Yang Fei briefly examined the two secret realm stones. One was a gold-quality resource secret realm called "Emotional Grain." According to the description, this was not ordinary rice or wheat, but a special crop that grew on the spiritual level of intelligent beings.

Its magic lies in the fact that it does not rely on sunlight and rain, but rather on the "emotional fluctuations" emitted by living beings as nourishment.

Its function is quite simple: when the "Emotional Food" that generates different emotions is consumed by cultivators, it can produce corresponding emotions, which is conducive to seeing through one's state of mind, helping cultivators overcome their inner demons, and break through to a higher level of spiritual cultivation.

Yang Fei didn't know what this thing was, but he figured it must be extremely valuable. Unfortunately, Yang Fei still couldn't use this secret realm stone. It was simple: Yang Fei couldn't afford the cost of entering. It actually required 10 silver-quality magic cores, 10 farmers at the Foundation Establishment stage, and a psychologist at the Core Formation stage.

Let alone farmers in the Foundation Establishment stage and psychologists in the Core Formation stage, there isn't even a single Qi Refining stage lord on the entire Azure Star. How could they possibly enter? Even if they were built, it would be a waste.

Moreover, given how precious this thing is, if it were discovered by a high-ranking native who happened to be passing by, it wouldn't do me any good.

The other secret stone is a battle secret realm called "Forge Abyss". It contains "Quenching Demon" and "Slag Guardian", which are equivalent to the Core Formation Realm. Defeating them will drop semi-finished magic weapons.