My Card Beast Taming Game

Its body suddenly contracted, transforming into the shape of clouds and mist, and then a long-haired kitten with black, white, and gray stripes emerged.

It looks similar to a Siamese cat.

"Meow~"

The cloud witch, transformed into a spirit cat, let out a soft meow.

Zhou Chen immediately smiled and reached out to scratch the cat's chin. "Not bad, not bad, I like you like this!"

He really likes small animals, and their presence helps him alleviate his loneliness when he's alone.

"Giggle?"

The Long-Winged Captain circled the Cloud Mist Witch twice, staring at her with its sharp eyes until it was certain that she was not an evil spirit, before it lowered its guard.

The experience of Qinglintong made it wary of any unfamiliar presence that appeared in its home.

Zhou Chen quickly patted Chicken Brother to prevent it from getting jealous.

Afterward, he would occasionally pet the cat and the chicken, and began to sort out the overall results of his three hundred draws.

Dog food made up 50% of the total, which, according to his estimate, was enough to feed both Changming Captain and Cloud Mist Witch to four stars with some left over.

Various advanced materials accounted for 20% of the total, and the abundance was enough for Zhou Chen to immediately advance the White Ape to the Silver rank after becoming a Junior Card Master.

It's even possible to upgrade it to a gold card later.

Spirit cards accounted for 29%, including 67 bronze cards, 19 silver cards, and 1 gold card.

Finally, there are the spiritual items, which account for 1%, or three items.

Two of the items were bronze-tier, and one was silver-tier, but he failed to draw the corresponding spirit card for either one.

Therefore, Zhou Chen had little interest in them.

Keep up the good work! You're just one step away from the beginner level!

A novice card master who has been in the game for just over two months can be considered unprecedented and unlikely to be repeated.

Having composed himself, Zhou Chen opened the dungeon entrance and decisively chose to enter.

Another day of diligently killing monkeys.

Of course, this time I also plan to test the skills of the Cloud Mist Witch. After upgrading it to two stars, I unlocked its passive skill [Witch's Blessing]. I wonder how the amplification effect compares to that of Hua Ning's Brocade Fairy.

at the same time.

In front of a building in Dianzhou, Hua Ning wrinkled her nose unhappily. "I still think it's not worth it to spend so much manpower and resources on this unstable ape secret realm."

"If we can take it down, we're guaranteed to make a profit."

One of the women in our group said, "The price of the humanoid cards has always been very high, not to mention that they also produce important natural treasures like monkey wine."

Hua Ning was silent for a moment, "The hunt for the boss monster is scheduled for next week?"

"Yes."

Chapter 83: Personal Interview

Zhou Chen was abruptly woken up.

Starting at eight o'clock in the morning, the phone kept ringing, disturbing his rest, so he simply turned off his phone.

At nine o'clock, someone actually came to the door.

Zhou Chen, dragging his tired body, turned around before opening the door and pushed the Changming Captain and the Cloud Mist Witch who had followed him back into the room.

"Don't come out."

"Ah."

"Meow?"

The cloud witch, who had transformed into a spirit cat, was a bit dim-witted and couldn't quite understand Zhou Chen's words, so the long-crying captain grabbed its fluffy, cloud-like tail and dragged it back to its room.

Squeak—

The gate opened.

There were more than a dozen people standing outside.

Zhou Chen noticed the village chief's forced smile and his gaze fell on the chests of the group of people—

The pattern of the Card Masters Association.

"Zhou Chen! We've been waiting for you to open the door!" Standing in front of him was a beautiful woman wearing glasses. She introduced herself, "I'm Zhang, an officer from the Publicity Department of the Fengcheng Association. I'm here to interview you..."

There is no doubt that the Maple City Association wants to promote Zhou Chen, this young genius.

Winning the Yuzhong Cup championship just two months after starting out, and coming from an ordinary family, is a rare feat in the entire Yuzhou region. How could Fengcheng not promote it?

More importantly, discovering geniuses among ordinary people is an important task assigned by the Zhuxia Card Association.

Zhou Chen didn't have a deep understanding of the Card Association's policies, but he didn't intend to refuse.

After all, he didn't have a family background as good as Lu Qingning or Chu Guangzong, and he couldn't always rely on personal connections. If he had to find a powerful backer to support him and develop in peace, the association was undoubtedly the biggest and best.

People tend to seek advantage and avoid harm. Unless killing oneself would bring extremely high benefits, they would not openly target themselves.

The first interview was arranged at a senior activity center. Judging from the leader's words, it seemed that they wanted to conduct a more detailed personal interview with him. Zhou Chen didn't mind and did his best to cooperate with the other party's work.

The process went very smoothly, and the people from the Card Association didn't take up too much of his time, leaving just before noon.

This surprised Zhou Chen quite a bit.

He was prepared to waste several days.

As his phone was turned back on, a flood of messages and texts arrived, and his phone began to vibrate, all from unknown numbers.

Zhou Chen didn't answer. Through text messages, he learned that the callers were either from a club in Yuzhou or a card master academy in Yuzhou, offering various high prices in hopes that he would join.

Even Yuzhou Academy called and messaged him, claiming that he could be admitted without examination this time and hoping that he would reconsider.

There's absolutely no need to consider it.

While drinking with Chu Guangzong yesterday, Zhou Chen learned a lot of inside information about the Card Master Academy from him.

He once said that card masters from poor families should go to the three major academies instead of the local academies, unless they can become the top dog in the local academy. Otherwise, they will definitely be inferior to the bottom dog in the three major academies.

What local colleges can offer, the three major colleges can also offer; but what the three major colleges have, local colleges may not be able to offer.

Chu Guangzong chose the most intuitive example: spirit cards—

"Students in the three academies can freely buy and sell gold cards; the Zhuxia Card Master Association has granted them this authority."

The ability to buy and sell critical controlled materials without restriction may seem unrelated to students who generally possess Silver-rank spirit cards, but in reality, there are many intricacies involved.

Furthermore, Chu Guangzong also mentioned that the pinnacle of students at local academies is junior card masters, while the pinnacle of students at the three major academies is intermediate card masters.

Those outstanding individuals are figures worthy of admiration by all young card masters.

"Let me tell you, some of them became intermediate-level professionals before they were even twenty!"

"twenty?"

"Isn't there a big difference between this and the official records? Because their real information is kept secret! You don't yet understand how many bizarre spirit cards there are in this world. Which of the countries outside of China isn't ambitious and eyeing us covetously? Our chosen ones are thorns in their side!"

Chu Guangzong said earnestly, "If you want to live a long life, protect all information related to you. Otherwise, you won't even know if you're cursed from afar one day."

In conclusion, the three major colleges completely overwhelmed the local colleges.

If Zhou Chen wants to climb the ladder, there's no reason not to apply to the top three universities.

Therefore, he ignored all the solicitation text messages.

Besides this, there are also people who want to buy the White Ape King's spirit card, offering a sky-high price of five million.

Why not seek to purchase Qinglintong?

He felt it was a bit of a pity.

The Qinglin Tong card was originally intended as a backup plan, but unexpectedly, it was only used once throughout the entire Yuzhong Cup.

What a waste of such a good card with such a great skill set.

Find an opportunity to sell it.

He has no feelings for Qinglintong and usually doesn't even summon it.

The chat software was flooded with red dots, and he was bombarded with various group chat mentions and exclusive red envelopes, while the vast majority of his private messages were from former classmates.

Zhou Chen basically ignored them, only paying attention to the pinned friends on another account, casually browsing through them before going back to sleep.

Last night he tested the strength of the Cloud Witch, and he can only say that she truly deserves to be called an excellent gold card.

The passive buff skill is described as providing a slight boost across all aspects, but it is actually calculated based on the Gold Tier values.

The Silver tier is incredibly satisfying.

Even the seemingly strange active skills have a large range and high damage, but the types of clouds seem to be a continuation of the normal attacks.

—The Cloud Witch's normal attacks cause her "hair" to change, from the fiery hair of a burning cloud, the thunderous hair of a thunderstorm cloud, the snowy hair of a hail cloud, and finally the black hair of an acid rain cloud.

Active skills involve launching a corresponding attack based on the hairstyle type.

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However, the controversy surrounding his victory was actually greater than Zhou Chen had imagined.

At the same time, the large-scale apprentice card master competitions in Yubei and Yunan regions also came to an end, and the final winners were all veteran card master academies from prestigious families and over twenty years old.

In comparison, Zhou Chen, the sixteen-year-old champion, appears all the more precious.

The Maple City Card Masters Association recognized this and spared no effort in its promotion, publishing articles and videos filled with praise that would make people blush.

Official publicity led to more and more people in the Yuzhou area becoming aware of Zhou Chen's existence, drawing attention from all sides.

As the main player in the merger of the two cities, Fengcheng was already a matter of great interest to the entire Yuzhou and even the Zhuxia region. Now, with the emergence of Zhou Chen, it's impossible not to pay attention.

These two things seem completely unrelated, yet someone has managed to make a fuss about them.

"A talented son emerging from a humble family in Fengcheng—this is an auspicious sign! But it could also be some kind of omen!"

“That’s right, I think the merger of the two cities may need to be considered in the long run.”

"You have to believe in fate; don't forget that auspicious Qilin!"

"That makes sense!"

There are supporters of merging the two cities, but there are also many opponents.

After all, merging into one represents a complete reshuffling of power at the top. For thousands of years, powerful families have firmly controlled local power, and frankly, it's not easy to get them to willingly relinquish their power.

Back in Jincheng, Yue Yong was quite dismissive of the rumors and gossip.

"A noble son from a poor family? I'm afraid that's not necessarily true!"

He narrowed his eyes again. "Besides, this card isn't just for you guys."

Chapter 84: Childhood Sweetheart Emerges from Seclusion

The noise from the outside world had nothing to do with Zhou Chen.

He was focused on reaching Lv.20 and didn't care about anything else. During the day, he cooperated with the association to produce a personal interview, and at night he diligently farmed dungeons to accumulate experience.

During the interview, the person in charge asked him if he would like to show off the white ape, but when Zhou Chen hesitated, he quickly changed his mind and said it was okay if he didn't show it off.

The excessive politeness surprised Zhou Chen somewhat.

Is Lu Qingning's reputation so powerful that even people in local associations are wary of her?

But it's fine as long as you don't pry into the details.

After all, he couldn't produce the corresponding card at all; the spirit item was only displayed on the game panel, and the White Ape itself remained unchanged.

After the finals in the Silver Division, Zhou Chen received the championship prize money.

Two million in cash was transferred.

Without a doubt, he directly cashed out those two two-star bronze cards, at a price that was the maximum value of a regular bronze card: 500,000.

The Spirit Card Shop would never allow people to choose two-star super rare cards or mutated cards, as these two items are extremely valuable.

The fourth day after the competition ended.