Who said this card is outrageous?

In the remaining time, Zhang Che fused together two fourth-tier cards and several third-tier cards. After consuming all the materials he had prepared, he tidied up the card-making room and slowly walked out.

It wasn't too late this time, it looked like it was just past dusk, just in time to have dinner.

However, just as he was about to leave the Adventurers' Guild, he discovered that wave after wave of people were heading west.

At first, he didn't take it to heart, but as he met more and more people, Zhang Che couldn't help but become a little curious.

"If I remember correctly, that should be the direction of the training ground, right?"

Could it be that some famous figures have started a war there?

Chapter 233 Brawl

As one of the few who went against the grain along the way, Zhang Che eventually couldn't suppress his curiosity and followed the main group to the Adventurers' Guild's training ground.

He walked in the middle of the crowd, slightly towards the back, following at a leisurely pace, occasionally turning aside to avoid people squeezing up from behind.

The training grounds of the Adventurers' Guild in Qi'an City are so vast that ordinary people who come here for the first time really feel like they can't see the end of it.

In addition to the basic training facilities, the venue also features several standard combat arenas for people to spar or settle personal grudges.

At this moment, the largest crowd had gathered around the ring in the very center of the training ground, forming a dense, impenetrable circle, with cheers and chatter mingling together.

Zhang Che didn't rush to push forward. Instead, he walked to a less crowded spot at the edge of the arena and stood there, looking over the shoulders of the people in front of him towards the ring.

Two groups of people, totaling about twenty, were gathered around the standard combat arena. They were all lower-level superhumans of the second or third tier, glaring at each other from half a meter apart, spittle flying as they argued.

A crowd of onlookers had already gathered around the arena, and the whispers and murmurs rose and fell like waves.

"What's going on?" Zhang Che casually asked a burly man next to him who had his arms crossed.

The faint, fourth-order spiritual energy fluctuation emanating from him was not deliberately concealed. The burly man was taken aback for a moment, then quickly and politely explained, "Reporting to you, sir, they are supporters of Su Muxue and Jiang Lan."

“Su Muxue? Jiang Lan?” Zhang Che raised an eyebrow.

"You're new to Qi'an City, aren't you?" The burly man chuckled, pointing to the group of young people in Qi'an University uniforms with the university emblem on the left side of the arena. "Those are the supporters of Lady Su Muxue. She's Qi'an University's most outstanding student in recent years. She advanced to the fourth rank before she was even twenty, and she's a swordsman who has mastered the power of lightning. She's incredibly powerful!"

As he spoke, he turned to the group of adventurers on the right wearing standard leather armor: "These are the supporters of Lord Jiang Lan, from Yunzhou City near the provincial capital. Lord Jiang is a veteran adventurer, who is said to have been navigating the rifts for more than ten years and is very experienced."

Yunzhou City is a first-tier city under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital of Southeast Province. Its comprehensive strength is significantly stronger than that of Binhai City, and it is also the biggest challenger to Qi'an City's status as the provincial capital.

Moreover, both of them are people who have publicly announced that they will lead teams to explore the Rift, meaning they will be Zhang Che's future companions.

Zhang Che raised an eyebrow, but in his heart he thought that this was probably not simply because of different supporters, but most likely because of some accumulated conflicts between the two cities.

……

On the arena, the two sides argued heatedly, their faces red and necks bulging. The young man on the left patted his chest and said, "Talent is the key! Senior Sister Su advanced to the mid-level extraordinary realm at the age of nineteen. Her talent and combat power are both top-notch! If we really enter the rift, strong strength is the key to survival!"

Someone on the right immediately sneered: "What do you know, someone who hasn't even grown a beard yet? There are countless twists and turns in the rift. Last time we went to the Misty Rift, if it weren't for Lord Jiang's experience in seeing through the illusion, the exploration team would probably have been wiped out!"

"Experience is the only true measure of success!"

"Heh, experience can help you dodge a lightning tribulation beast's attack? Senior Sister Su can cleave a fourth-tier transcendent creature in two with a single sword strike. Does that strength require experience to compensate for?"

"Is strength useful? There was a fourth-tier superhuman who relied on his ability to withstand attacks to force his way into the poisonous fog zone, but in the end, he only survived because of Lord Jiang's help."

The two sides argued back and forth, from the strength of the two team leaders to the strategy for exploring the rift, and finally it escalated into personal attacks on each other, with one side saying that the other side said that the young people were arrogant and the other side said that the other side said that the other side said that the young people were arrogant and the other side said that the other side said that the old people were inflexible.

In the end, unable to win an argument with anyone, he decided to resolve the issue with his fists.

The battle broke out quickly, but at the beginning everyone was still somewhat rational, so they did not act recklessly and instead chose to send someone to fight one-on-one first.

Zhang Che glanced around the ring and then looked away. This level of fighting wasn't interesting to him; the idle chatter of the surrounding audience was more valuable.

He listened intently and quickly pieced together a lot of useful information, mostly about the teams that went to explore the rift.

This naturally included the joint team from Binhai City and Hezhou City, but because the two members of the latter had not yet arrived in the provincial capital, and Zhang Che and the others had been keeping a low profile recently, there was not much information about their team.

Zhang Che silently memorized this information, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the card box in his pocket.

Now that the card-making project is temporarily finished, it's good to learn more about the other teams.

Just then, the situation on the stage suddenly changed.

It's unclear who started it, but an adventurer from Yunzhou City pulled out a dagger and slashed the arm of a college student opposite him.

The college student, in pain, roared and summoned the Flame Wolf card. The situation instantly spiraled out of control, with both sides unleashing their skills, turning what was originally a friendly spar into a chaotic melee.

If this continues, and things escalate into a fight, who knows what the consequences will be?

However, this is the Adventurers' Guild after all, and someone will definitely take action before things get irreversibly bad.

But no one expected that the change would happen in a different way.

A pale purple bolt of lightning suddenly shot out from the direction of the guild hall and landed with a "thud" in the center of the arena.

As the smoke cleared, a young girl dressed in a purple outfit stood there, holding a long sword crackling with electricity. Her long, black hair was tied in a high ponytail, and she looked coldly at the people on the arena.

"Senior Su... Senior Su?!" The students froze instantly, their weapons clattering to the ground.

The adventurers in Yunzhou City were also stunned, clearly not expecting the main character to suddenly appear.

The girl didn't speak, but with a slight flick of her wrist, the lightning on her longsword instantly formed an electric net, enveloping everyone on the arena.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Screams rang out one after another as everyone was paralyzed by the electric current, collapsing to the ground, their weapons and summoned creatures forcibly deactivated.

In just three seconds, the chaotic arena fell completely silent.

Su Muxue sheathed her sword and glanced at the people wailing on the ground.

Her supporters, though feeling numb all over, were excited, with some even whispering cheers: "Senior is amazing!"

The honor in his tone made it sound as if he had received some kind of reward.

The adventurers in Yunzhou City hung their heads, their eyes filled with awe. With his mid-level extraordinary strength as proof, no one dared to utter a single complaint.

Zhang Che was somewhat surprised. This girl's control over lightning was quite good, and her attacks were fast and accurate. She was clearly not a reckless young man who only relied on talent.

But now that he had seen the excitement, he turned to leave.

But just as he lifted his foot, a thin bolt of lightning suddenly flew past him and struck a distant stone pillar with a "crack," exploding into a cluster of sparks.

The attack did not touch Zhang Che's body, but the trajectory of the lightning clearly pointed to the location where he was standing.

The people around him fell silent instantly, and subconsciously took a few steps back, leaving Zhang Che all alone in the same spot, exposed to the sight of more people.

Zhang Che took a deep breath, slowly turned around, and looked at the girl on the stage: "Is there something you need?"

The girl's gaze fell on him, and a hint of surprise seemed to flash in her clear eyes, but she quickly regained her composure.

She nodded slightly in Zhang Che's direction: "I'm sorry."

As soon as she finished speaking, her figure transformed into a bolt of lightning and disappeared into the shadows of the guild hall in the blink of an eye.

The remaining people in the training field looked at each other, unsure how to react.

Chapter 234 Two Women Competing

Zhang Che frowned, clearly unable to understand what Su Muxue was trying to do.

Provocation? Or a demonstration?

Unfortunately, the person had already left, and he couldn't confront them directly. He could only shake his head and walk out of the Adventurers' Guild.

Once Zhang Che's figure disappeared, the people left behind in the training ground immediately began to discuss among themselves, wondering who that person was that could make the currently popular Su Muxue treat him in such a way.

Having spent too much time in the card-making room and neglecting his appearance these past few days, Zhang Che inevitably looked somewhat slovenly, making it hard for unsuspecting people to underestimate him.

However, his strength at the intermediate level of the extraordinary realm was genuine, so apart from a very few people muttering amongst themselves, not many dared to speak ill of him directly.

Since it involved two mid-level extraordinary beings, including Su Muxue, the events that occurred in the training ground quickly spread in a small circle throughout Qi'an City thanks to the efforts of the onlookers.

Chang Cheh has managed to ride the wave of popularity.

As for the two groups of students and adventurers who initially stirred up the trouble, they gradually became background figures in the subsequent spread of the story, and were basically ignored except for the occasional mention from someone.

Everyone's focus was on the two mid-level extraordinary beings, especially the speculation about Zhang Che's identity, which became a topic of conversation for some people.

However, none of this had much to do with Zhang Che. After more than a week of working on card production, all he could think about was getting a good night's sleep.

While advanced meditation techniques can replace sleep, they ultimately cannot change a person's habits that have been ingrained for decades.

……

On his way back, before Zhang Che even reached his doorstep, he sensed a violent energy fluctuation coming from the direction of the villa.

However, he was not worried about this and continued to move forward at the same pace.

There was no other reason than that the energy fluctuations I sensed were all too familiar.

At this moment, in the training grounds that come with the villa, a black crow-man wearing dark light armor and holding a bladed spear is hovering in the air.

The crow-man held the bladed spear to his chest, his eyes fixed on a strangely shaped, large purple squid in the distance.

"Oh!"

After the gunshot, a jet-black energy bullet shot towards the Squid King at an astonishing speed, but the latter was not afraid at all. Its eyes shone with a faint blue light, and then its powerful mental energy built up layers of defense in front of it, almost in the blink of an eye, it exhausted all the kinetic energy of the energy bullet.

Unable to proceed further, the energy bullets dissipated.

The Squid King also launched a counterattack, but the result was the same as before. As soon as it made a move, the [Wings of Weapons] in the sky disappeared from the spot.

Flying units simply cannot match each other in this respect, and the Squid King did this simply to avoid being completely passive in battle.

Zhang Che stood at a distance watching the two women direct their respective cards in a battle. Although it looked like they were fighting fiercely, as the creator of these two cards, he knew very well that it was just a small skirmish.

The two cards probably didn't even reach half their potential.

On the other side, in a corner of the training ground, Fu Xing was wearing a white vest and carrying out the daily training of a soldier.

If you look closely, you can also see a small yellow lizard standing beside him, cheering him on.

Zhang Che watched as Fu Xing lifted a barbell weighing at least 200 kilograms with one hand, seemingly without any effort, and even his vest was only slightly damp. Zhang Che couldn't help but twitch his eyes.

These guys who are working out their bodies are all savages.

Zhang Che felt that if he weren't wearing the Black Rhino Armor, he would probably be taken down in no time if he fought Fu Xing, a third-tier warrior, in close combat.

Thinking of this, Zhang Che subconsciously touched the muscles on his arm: although they were not bad, they were clearly not a level below Fu Xing's well-defined and large muscles.

"Tch, what am I, a card maker, supposed to do with a warrior's muscles? That's ridiculous!" Zhang Che silently criticized himself in his mind.