Who said this card is outrageous?

"Next time we meet, I hope you can give me a different answer..."

Chapter 278 Card Making

Ruan Ruoshi's departure seemed to trigger a chain reaction. A few days later, Song Ruolan and Fu Xing also bid farewell to everyone and left Qi'an City.

With the rift exploration mission completed, Song Ruolan naturally had no reason to stay any longer.

Fu Xing originally came to the provincial capital with his father for a visit and to see Zhang Che.

But I never expected so many things to happen afterward.

Yu Xingye has already returned to Binhai City, and after a week's delay, Fu Xing is also eager to go home.

“Sister Qing should be going back soon, I can’t keep her waiting too long.” Fu Xing gave a very practical reason.

Zhang Che naturally wouldn't force the person to stay, and he even reminded him to send his regards to his friends on his behalf when he returned home.

"Hehe, don't worry, big brother, I definitely won't forget." After giving Zhang Che a positive response, Fu Xing left Qi'an City the next day.

Next was Song Ruolan. Initially, she didn't intend to leave at all, but after receiving a phone call one day, she put on a long face:

"Sigh, that guy surnamed Fan has been urging me to go back these past few days, saying that new students will be arriving at the school soon and all the deans have to be present."

Although she was very reluctant to cooperate with the president of the state university, if she wanted to continue to work in the college alliance circle, she could only wait until the end of her two-year term.

"Hmph, you always bully me because of your seniority? Just wait until I outlast you!"

After uttering these harsh words, Song Ruolan officially embarked on her journey back to Hezhou City.

According to her, she used the two reward coupons to exchange for something that could help her break through to the fifth rank as soon as possible.

However, since Song Ruolan had only been promoted to the fourth rank for less than three years, she didn't need that thing yet, so she had to go back and endure for a while.

At this point, only Zhang Che, Pan Tingting, and Li Yao remained on the Qi'an City side.

The former had other matters to attend to and needed to stay a while longer, at the very least he had to say goodbye to Lin Jiming.

Not to mention he also needs to learn how to create mid-level extraordinary purple cards.

This is an incredibly time-consuming task. He has been studying the materials he got from the Adventurers' Guild for several days now, but he is still stuck at the beginner level—that is, the pre-processing of materials.

It's not that a huge provincial adventurers' guild headquarters can't find a card maker who can make purple cards, but rather that all those big shots just happened to be out of town, or had other things to do.

Otherwise, with Lin Zhaoli's endorsement, the Adventurers' Guild wouldn't have been so bold as to target Zhang Che.

Pan Tingting stayed on the grounds that she wanted to learn card making from Zhang Che, and Li Yao, as the former's follower, would not leave anytime soon either.

For convenience, Lin Zhaoli directly granted Li Yao the right to live in the villa, instantly boosting the girl's favorability to the max, making her exclaim that she had never idolized the wrong person in her life.

Life quickly began to settle into a routine, and Zhang Che's life gradually became more regular: he would teach Pan Tingting how to make cards in the morning, and in the afternoon he would bury himself in studying the production process of purple cards, occasionally even trying it out himself.

The results weren't very good.

Meanwhile, to make things more convenient, after obtaining Lin Zhaoli's permission, Zhang Che transformed Fu Xing's room into a temporary card-making workshop to verify Pan Tingting's and his own learning progress.

When two card makers work at full capacity in the production process, the consumption of resources is astonishing.

In just one month, Pan Tingting had already used up the two batches of extraordinary materials her family had prepared for her.

Although most of them were only lower-level extraordinary materials, it was still a considerable expense.

Meanwhile, the third batch has also arrived, but it's unclear how long it will last.

Only a large city like Qi'an City, a provincial capital, has such a huge market for extraordinary materials. Otherwise, in other places, it would be difficult to gather enough materials for the third batch.

Fortunately, the final result was good, because just five days ago, Pan Tingting finally succeeded in creating a [Static Field] card, officially reaching the entry level for making purple cards.

Moreover, it must be admitted that her talent in card making is indeed much better than Zhang Che's. In addition, after advancing to the fourth rank, the awakened trait called "Extension" allows the awakened person to apply a certain card making technique more skillfully to cards that require the same technique.

Pan Tingting quickly grasped the basics and, in less than a week, was able to guarantee a success rate of over 30% in creating second-tier purple cards.

She was even familiar with making third-tier purple cards, but the success rate was just too low. After several forced attempts and repeated failures, Pan Tingting finally gave up in the face of a large pile of wasted rare materials.

Otherwise, if she continues to practice in this way, she can indeed increase the success rate of creating third-tier purple cards, but the Pan family will probably be close to bankruptcy.

In the end, Pan Tingting could only calm down and follow Zhang Che's daily tasks to learn and make some ordinary fourth-tier green cards, as well as a small number of first and second-tier purple cards.

The advantage of doing this is that the success rate can be maintained at a very high level, and the extraordinary market in Qi'an City can easily absorb this output, thereby quickly recovering funds.

Another month passed, and Pan Tingting not only recouped all the funds her family had previously invested, but also made a considerable profit.

The highest returns are definitely for the first and second tier purple cards, whose selling price can reach tens or hundreds of times the cost.

It's true that fourth-tier cards are more expensive, but the returns are pitifully small; even a profit of two or three times is considered a big win.

It can only be said that once a production-related extraordinary profession is established, it is basically a money-printing machine for everyone.

Of course, the premise is that one can survive the huge initial investment. After all, no matter where you are, there are always those who eventually fall before dawn.

That's considered good; many people can't even make it to dawn, dying right after midnight.

As for Zhang Che, although he has a considerable fortune, he has devoted almost all his energy to researching purple cards recently. So far, he has only barely managed to get through the card-making process and understand how cards of this quality are made.

But he's still a long way from actually making a proper card game.

These experiences were all built up from a large number of failures, which directly led to him not only gaining nothing during this period, but also losing a lot of money.

Even the two fifth-tier spiritual plants obtained in the Flame Dragon Rift had to be sold, with one of them being sold to the Adventurers' Guild.

Chapter 279 People from the Southwest

That afternoon, Zhang Che, as usual, hid in his studio studying the production process of the purple card in his notes, and unsurprisingly, failed again.

"Sigh, working in isolation is such a hassle. I wonder when those seniors will finally have some free time." Zhang Che looked at the pile of precious materials on the table that had been completely ruined. His initial excitement had turned into numb indifference.

Moreover, he did achieve some results; at least now, each failed step is moving forward.

At this rate, after another twenty or thirty tries at most, he should be able to create his first Tier 4 purple card by hand.

"Twenty or thirty times..."

Thinking of his deduction, Zhang Che couldn't help but clutch his chest and gasp, "How much material will this waste!"

He is indeed getting closer and closer to success, but this also means that if he fails in the card-making process, he will have to scrap more materials than before.

At the same time, due to Zhang Che's continuous purchases, the same type of materials on the market have begun to become scarce. If he could not purchase these materials through his connections with the Adventurers' Guild, the cost would probably have already increased.

Even so, this was still a very heavy blow to Zhang Che's wallet.

A production-oriented extraordinary profession that only takes in and never gives out; his ability to spend money is never less than his ability to make money in the future, and may even be better.

"If all else fails, don't rush it. Let's make some other cards to recover some losses first..." A new plan began to emerge in Zhang Che's mind.

Card making is a very energy-consuming process, especially making purple cards. Zhang Che basically only had enough energy to do anything else after trying it once or twice a day.

Therefore, if you want to sell cards to recoup your losses, you have no choice but to stop researching how to make purple cards.

“It just so happens that Pan Tingting is already able to learn how to make fourth-tier blue cards, so I’ll have her help me out for a while.” Zhang Che recalled when he was learning card making from Grandpa Yun, so he naturally wouldn’t let go of this free labor.

Without hesitation, Pan Tingting quickly entered a completely new life as a slave, spending almost all her time helping Zhang Che process materials for card making.

However, she herself had no objections, after all, the results of learning card making from Zhang Che during this period were quite obvious.

In just a few months, she has become a formal fourth-level card maker, and a large part of the credit goes to Zhang Che, who is a good teacher!

That's how Pan Tingting feels, anyway.

The only slight disappointment was that most of the card recipes Zhang Che taught him were ones he had collected from other places.

Although there were no issues with the quality of the cards, what Pan Tingting really wanted to learn were the cards that Zhang Che himself created.

Even strictly speaking, without Zhang Che's additional cost reduction effect, the cards he created were not much stronger than other cards.

But for Pan Tingting, the meaning was quite different—if Zhang Che was willing to teach her, it meant that he considered her one of his own.

If you don't teach, you might just be an ordinary student, not even a formal disciple.

Pan Tingting still vividly remembered the scene when Zhang Che rejected Ruan Ruoshi, so she never dared to ask him why he was so protective of his possessions, for fear of offending him by accident.

Then there will be no more chances.

……

At the Adventurers' Guild in Qi'an City, Zhang Che and Pan Tingting were working together to process the cards they had created in the past few days.

Zhang Che naturally had to reciprocate by using their channels to purchase affordable materials, and the Adventurers' Guild barely made a penny more in commission.

Tier 4 cards aren't particularly valuable in Qi'an City, but once they reach blue quality, they become quite sought after.

Therefore, the Card Makers Guild will naturally not neglect any partner who can reliably supply this kind of goods.

"Brother Zhang, please have some water."

Jiang Chen eagerly handed over a cup of freshly brewed tea before explaining, "You've come at a really bad time. A big shot has recently come from the Southwest Province, and Fifth Uncle has been sent there to receive him. He probably won't be back until this afternoon at the earliest."

Please bear with me.

"People from the Southwest Province?" Zhang Che took the teacup, but the word kept echoing in his mind.

He couldn't help but recall Su Muxue's warning to him, saying that the matter of Mirage was far from over, and that sooner or later someone from the Southwest Province would come looking for him because of it.

Of course, it's highly likely that they are people who had a grudge against Shen Ji back then. Not only would they not make things difficult for Zhang Che, they might even thank him for avenging them.

However, people's hearts are unpredictable, and no one can guarantee that everyone will think this way. What if there is a guy with a weird way of thinking?

Mirage Princess has countless blood debts on her hands; those who have deep grudges against her are all victims burdened with a blood feud.

After all these years of hardship, it's actually quite normal for my mind to be impaired.

So Zhang Che began to ask Jiang Chen for more information, and the latter naturally answered all his questions.

As a non-direct member of the Adventurers' Guild, Jiang Chen, although a mid-level transcendent, was not responsible for reception work, so he didn't know much.

All I know is that more than one person came, and the leader seemed to be very powerful; even the guild leader didn't dare to underestimate him.

If it weren't for his inconvenience, he probably would have gone to greet him in person.

"That person is most likely a sixth-tier extraordinary being, and one of the best among them," Jiang Chen whispered, offering his guess.

After spending these days together, he felt he had gained a considerable understanding of Zhang Che and knew that as long as he didn't offend him, Zhang Che was quite easy to talk to.

Zhang Che, however, was thinking: the person who can sit in the position of the adventurers' guild leader in Qi'an City is probably sent to do these management tasks because they have no hope of breaking through to the level of extraordinary.

But this doesn't mean they are weak, and someone who is valued by such people is certainly not an ordinary person.