106: Chapter 105 The Secret of the Timeline and Card-Making Strategies (Second Update, 3k words)

Chapter 105: The Secret of the Timeline and Card-Making Ideas (Second Update, 3k words)

[Card-Making Material Analysis]

[demon pill]

Quality: [Gold 1-Star]

Description: [The demonic aggregate of Nezha, the Third Lotus Prince]

This material has no compatible cards to load. The description is very brief, and the content is something Sun Po already knew about.

However, the last line of text reminded Sun Po

that it was time for him to continue making cards.

The quality of the two cards Sun Po currently possessed was not low.

[Wuzhiqi] is an ancient deity among the [deity card]s,

and also the "Six-Eared Macaque", one of the four spiritual monkeys of heaven and earth.

It can be said to have truly boundless potential.

The other [Double-Pupil Warrior] is also about to awaken its true name, possessing similarly huge potential.

Both of these cards are typical examples of defying the heavens and changing fate by loading a mod, and they also provided ideas for Sun Po's subsequent card-making.

In fact, he had considered long ago whether his development of the mod loading system was too rough.

Especially after seeing Li Tiance's development of [Heavenly Khagan], he felt this way even more in his heart.

Being able to use [Heavenly Khagan] to attach the power of fate to arrows

and achieve a prophetic effect—such creativity is truly astonishing.

And attaching the Power of Time to complete cross-space-time tracking and positioning is similarly a genius creation.

Moreover, it can be foreseen that Li Tiance is just young right now; given time,

his talent here probably won't be weaker than [Ranger Xuanyuan] and that flat-headed middle-aged man.

Then what about his own mod loading system? Its core competitive point is that it doesn't need to consider card-making sequences,

allowing cards of extremely low quality to also have the chance to defy the heavens and change fate through correlated high-quality materials.

From the current perspective, the mod loading system isn't a straightforward combat-oriented exclusive talent like [Heavenly Khagan], but rather a creation-type talent that relies heavily on development.

And the premise for him to maximize its role is to have enough mod loading opportunities.

Aside from material limitations, the most important thing is to have enough cards, preferably with a rich variety of types.

Judging by his previous manufacturing experience, if he wanted to make enough cards,

the best way was to make more cards with lower initial quality.

Because the higher the card quality, the greater the pressure placed on the Card Maker's spiritual space.

During combat, high-quality cards are certainly immense in power,

but the consumption of the Card Maker's spirituality also increases exponentially.

Yet even so, everyone still tirelessly pursues high-quality cards,

except for exceptions like Liu Shengsheng's family.

However, the zombie households of Liu Shengsheng's family also cooperate with unique family secret arts

to achieve such an effect, and they also use blue quality as a base.

Yet Sun Po didn't want to follow such traditional thinking anymore at this moment.

As long as his mod loading system has materials, it can make low-quality cards stronger.

Even if the quality gap between high-level materials and low-level cards is too large at that time, leading to repeated loading failures, it will merely result in the destruction of the materials.

If he encounters extremely precious materials, he can at worst sacrifice European dog Liu Jianren to cast a lucky buff; it can always be resolved.

The [Spirit Monkey] of [Gray 1-Star] being able to load all the way to the current [Gold 1-Star] [Wuzhiqi] is the best example.

What is especially heaven-defying is that during combat, the [Gold 1-Star] [Wuzhiqi]

still consumes spirituality according to a [Gray 1-Star], although Sun Po completely doesn't understand how the mod loading system managed to do that.

But this doesn't affect [Wuzhiqi] slaughtering in all directions.

"Therefore, I must prepare to focus hard on making low-quality cards, prioritizing sheer quantity and fullness."

Sun Po has already made up his mind that during the gap between the provincial competition and the national competition,

he will fiercely search for low-tier cards of gray-white quality!

The banquet proceeded until midnight, and everyone relaxed their minds a bit.

After all, these past few days have been filled with matches and abyss explorations,

not to mention the [Sinful Dragon] and the [Mutated Deep One].

Everyone's mental string has been stretched to the limit, so the crowd stayed at [Prince Qins Mansion].

When everyone else dispersed, Li Tiance sought him out:

"Brother Sun, apologies for the disturbance, but there is truly a matter I must ask you about."

Sun Po has experienced one more timeline than everyone present, and he actually has many perplexities as well.

Thus, the two came to Li Tiance's study and initiated a late-night conversation.

Li Tiance truly loves bows and arrows dearly; even his study is hung with all kinds of bows and arrows.

Of course, there are also many precious ancient texts, mostly dominated by various Taoist and Buddhist scriptures,

as well as some copied historical books recorded in ancient times.

Seeing that Sun Po is very attentive to these books, Li Tiance said,

"If Brother Sun is interested in books, I can open a clearance permission for you,

allowing you to enter the Li family's library to read.

Most of my Li family's book collection is concentrated there,

which is much richer than the collection in my small study."

Sun Po is tempted to agree. After all, the learning ability of [Changyou] is obvious to all;

after evolving into [Wuzhiqi], this learning ability has reached an even higher level.

And when looking for forces with a rich book collection, the [Five Surnames and Seven Clans] certainly won't disappoint.

However, Sun Po is somewhat hesitant to go. From the current perspective, Li Tiance,

although somewhat unfathomable in his actions, should still stand on the same front as Sun Po in terms of his stance.

As for the Li family's attitude, that isn't necessarily the case, especially the old man wearing a dragon robe who walked out of the clouds this time together with the spiritual pearl [Nezha].

Judging by his brows, he has many similarities with Li Tiance and [Li Jiancheng], making it extremely likely that he is an elder of the Li family, or even the father of the two—the head of the Li family.

In other words, the other party definitely knows that Sun Po and Li Tiance joined forces to kill the [Sinful Dragon] possessed by [Li Jiancheng].

Especially since he himself traveled through the river of time, returning to the past to take away [Li Jiancheng]'s foundation of becoming a deity, which resulted in his destruction and death.

One could even say that it was Sun Po who personally killed [Li Jiancheng].

That old man might not be able to do anything to Li Tiance, but it's hard to say whether he would do something to Sun Po.

And the Li family's library is located in the same secret realm as the Li family's main hall.

For the sake of caution, Sun Po still didn't immediately agree to Li Tiance's proposal,

but Li Tiance had just mentioned it casually anyway; his main focus was still wanting to ask Sun Po what happened in that modified timeline.

So Sun Po roughly told Li Tiance about those difficult battles. Li Tiance had many mixed feelings after hearing about them.

However, there is one point Sun Po very much wants to ask Li Tiance:

"Brother Tiance, I leaped into the river of time and experienced it personally, which is how I knew the timeline was modified.

How did you find out? And what did you mean when you said this type of event isn't happening for the first time?"

Hearing this, Li Tiance said,

"The matter of modifying the timeline indeed hasn't happened for the first time. I once heard my father mention it when I was young.

The world where ordinary citizens live is extremely fragile because it has experienced too many timeline modifications.

After every timeline modification, the spatial stability of the world becomes even worse,

the world barrier becomes even more fragile, and the spiritual concentration of the world becomes lower and lower.

Therefore, generally, unless encountering an irretrievable situation, no one is willing to use the method of modifying the timeline.

But this world has already been modified beyond recognition. Just now, I checked and saw that the [Power of Time] I had accumulated for many years had disappeared, and at the same time, I had [Military God Li] test it out and found that space was even more fragile than before. Thus, I knew the matter wasn't that simple.

This crisis in [Jinyang City] most likely developed to an irretrievable point, and could only be resolved by modifying the timeline in the end."

Sun Po didn't expect it to be this kind of reason. Knowledge like this is probably hard for ordinary aristocratic families to access,

let alone Sun Po, who had only received ordinary high school education.

At this moment, he deeply feels the deficiency of his theoretical knowledge. Recalling that [Ranger Xuanyuan] had mentioned that universities seem to teach more in-depth content, Sun Po intends to take advantage of the gap after the provincial competition ends to cram in a university library.

Sun Po said,

"Brother Tiance, the Li family's library is too confidential; I won't go there for now.

However, I really want to visit the library of [Li Tang Wanbang University]. Wondering if it's convenient?"

Li Tiance raised an eyebrow and said, "Brother Sun has helped me so much this time; what kind of request is this? Brother Sun, feel free; of course it's fine."

Sun Po thought for a moment in his heart and said, "Additionally, I have one more matter I want to ask."

"Feel free to ask."

"I wonder if Brother Tiance remembers saying that those who contributed to this incident could be gifted one [secret realm core fragment] each."

Li Tiance calmly said, "Naturally I remember. Early tomorrow morning, the Li family's warehouse will send someone to deliver the items."

Sun Po said, "Such a treasure is of no great use to me, though. I hope to exchange it for something else."

Hearing this, Li Tiance stood up and said, "Brother Sun possesses a gold domain like [Tianhe Budu];

it's normal that you have no use for this [secret realm core fragment]. What would Brother Sun like to exchange it for?"

Sun Po pondered for a moment and said, "Card-making sequences."

Hearing this, Li Tiance's eyes lit up. Even with his composure, he stood up excitedly with a start:

"Really?!"

This card-making sequence was the foundation upon which aristocratic families established themselves—that was correct,

but cards are likewise the foundation upon which Card Makers establish themselves.

If a super genius Card Maker like Sun Po were to proactively propose wanting his family's card-making sequences, that would indicate an intention of allegiance.

After all, the rituals required for the future advancement of this card, the knowledge involved, and the essential materials

are all things that cannot bypass the Li family. That would mean Sun Po and the Li family are basically tied to the same rope.

If he were to marry a woman from the Li family in the future, that would belong to being a nailed-down family.

This is a super genius who suppressed him, Li Tiance, a head in power at the same age. Now that he suddenly has the intention of pledging allegiance, how could this not make him happy?

However, Sun Po's next words poured a basin of cold water over Li Tiance's head:

"Brother Tiance, the Li family ranks among the [Five Surnames and Seven Clans], and research personnel work day and night. There must be quite a few gray-white card sequences without complete advancement chains, right?

I only want card-making sequences of gray-white quality, the more the better."

Li Tiance felt a wave of oddness in his heart, but he still agreed to Sun Po's request.

The next day, the morning sun rose.

Sun Po had already gotten up and arrived at a place he had never been to before—the [Jinyang] Card-Making Material Market.

The card-making material market could be said to be Sun Po's blessed land. His first pot of gold back then was mined in the card-making material market of Gaoping.

Now, revisiting this blessed land, Sun Po naturally has a new card-making target.

He looked at the [zhongdao ghost-slaying sword] stuck upside down on the riverbank in [Tianhe Budu], and thought in his heart:

"It's time to gather the imperial trio!!"