165: Chapter 164 Loading and Changes

Chapter 164: Loading and Changes

But soon, Sun Po also sorted out and understood the meaning of the two.

"So this [ chaos green lotus ] is basically the respawn point of the chaotic era, and the one in my hand is equivalent to a disposable resurrection stone, but it has no energy. Now [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] means that my blood can act as a weakened version of a battery to charge this resurrection stone. Moreover, once fully charged, the resurrected [ demon pill ] Nezha will directly become a card made by myself. Come to think of it, that is true; fed by my own blood, it would be even closer to me than my own son."

"But Wuzhiqi means that Sun Po's current blood has a problem. Although it counts as a weakened battery, its power attribute is completely repulsive to the [ demon pill ]. It cannot be charged at all, and it will explode if you try!"

Finally, this debate ended with [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] saying, "This general was inconsiderate."

But Sun Po asked, "[ Wuzhiqi ], are you saying that the Water Element Power in my bloodline is too strong, so it conflicts with [ Nezha ], who is close to the Fire Element?"

Wuzhiqi's voice sounded, "That is pretty much what it means, Master. But this [ lotus root of the chaos green lotus ] and the [ demon pill ] have no direct connection to you. If you wish to try, it is not impossible, but you might lose some effort and energy—"

Sun Po suddenly interrupted, "Then what if I can add the power of the Fire Element into my body to balance the powers of water and fire?"

He looked at the bead representing the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] on his personal panel, which he hadn't opened for a long time.

The bead was dark and profound, with a rhinoceros pattern emerging on its surface, flashing with dark light.

What it represented was precisely the [ Black Rhino Armor ] obtained after Sun Po supplemented the [ Water Element Bloodline ] to his own [ Five Elements Bloodline ] and activated it.

This was an extremely heaven-defying function added when the [ mod loading system ] reached level 3—loading mods for the Card Maker himself.

This [ Five Elements Bloodline ] was a mod created by Sun Po based on the settings in Armor Hero: Legend of Light and Shadow, and the [ Black Rhino Armor ] originated from this.

In the original work, if the concentration of the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] was high enough, one could summon the ultimate armor—the [ emperor armor ]. But Sun Po had only added the [ Water Element Bloodline ]—the bloodline of the Heavenly Monster [ Wangyue Rhino ]—at this time, so he could only summon the [ Black Rhino Armor ] .

Yet even the [ Black Rhino Armor ] transformed Sun Po from a combat scumbag into a strong person capable of contending with orange monsters, and it truly liberated Wuzhiqi's combat power without worrying about accidentally hurting Sun Po.

And the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] that Sun Po loaded back then was the same as in the original work; when the concentration of the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] increased, the power of the summoned armor would further enhance.

Moreover, Sun Po's own mod loading quantity was linked to his Card Maker level. From [ Novice ] to [ Titular ], every time Sun Po raised a level, he could load an extra mod for himself. Since Sun Po was an [ Elementary Card Maker ], he could load a total of two mods for himself, and there was currently one mod slot left. Now it seemed that the choice for this mod slot had already been made.

Back when Sun Po loaded the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] for himself, he had fantasized about loading one mod per level up. When he reached the Master stage, he would be able to completely activate the Five Elements Power and summon the ultimate [ emperor armor ].

The unification of the Five Elements could perhaps be counted as one mod. By then, Sun Po would be equivalent to having four more mod slots, and his upper limit would be further raised.

Now, just when he needed the power of the Fire Element, and Sun Po happened to have a vacant personal mod loading slot, the choice was obvious—create the [ flame dragon armor ], balance the water and fire of the Five Elements, nourish the [ lotus root of the chaos green lotus ], and let the [ demon pill ] successfully transform and be born.

Before Wuzhiqi could speak, [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] already said, "My Lord, if it can be like this, naturally that is best."

"It's just that back then, my foster father [ Fan Zeng ] once said that the profoundness of the human body's Five Elements cannot be achieved overnight, I am afraid—"

This was only natural. When Sun Po loaded the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] mod for himself, [ Overlord Xiang Yu ], who was still the [ Double-Pupil Warrior ] at the time, had not yet awakened his true name and was wandering outside. He had not witnessed the creation process of the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] and the [ Black Rhino Armor ], so naturally he didn't know the profoundness of Sun Po's [ Five Elements Bloodline ], let alone why Sun Po's Water Element Power was so flourishing.

Wuzhiqi sneered, "Big guy, how ignorant you are. Other people might indeed not be able to do it, but the Master can."

Wuzhiqi completely knew all of Sun Po's mod creation processes, so he naturally understood that the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] was inherently incomplete. The strong Water Element Power was only because the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] contained the [ Black Rhino Armor ] made from the rhino horn of the Heavenly Monster [ Wangyue Rhino ]. If one wanted to strengthen the Fire Element and harmonize yin and yang, one only needed to add one more mod.

Sun Po looked at the other two things at his hand—the dragon-patterned crystal containing strong fortune power given by Liu Bang, and the snake-patterned crystal used for Liu Jianren's resurrection.

He put the snake-patterned crystal aside, picked up the dragon-patterned crystal, and silently looked at the phantom of the red dragon inside the crystal. If he remembered correctly, this dragon-patterned crystal seemed to contain the blood of the first red dragon between heaven and earth. And the red dragon was a Fire Element creature even more powerful than the Heavenly Monster [ Wangyue Rhino ], so using it to activate the [ Fire Element Power ] and summon the [ flame dragon armor ] was definitely without any problem.

Furthermore, after loading the [ flame dragon armor ] mod, it could further strengthen the concentration of the [ Five Elements Bloodline ], making the power of the armor materialized by the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] further enhanced.

It was just that when making the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] and [ Black Rhino Armor ] mods back then, Sun Po had prepared a large number of precious auxiliary materials. Among them, materials with such statuses as [ Brahma's navel stone fragment ] and [ horn of a temporal whelp ] had never been seen by Sun Po again.

Thinking about it now, although these two materials were only orange, their high status could no longer be measured by material quality.

If not for their spirituality being almost completely lost, they wouldn't have ended up in Sun Po's hands.

It was just that when Sun Po was sweeping through the material market today, he hadn't planned to make the [ flame dragon armor ], so he hadn't paid much attention to materials in this regard.

Fortunately, it was not too late now. There was still time before the national tournament unfolded, and he still had about forty million on him, which was enough to purchase some suitable high-quality auxiliary materials. He could just go to the material market tomorrow and specially collect some suitable fire-attribute-related materials.

Thus, his train of thought became completely clear.

Both the [ yangzhi jade pure bottle ] and the [ tightening hoop ] were connected to [ Guanyin Bodhisattva ]. Sun Po planned to handle them together after Huo Wuji returned the [ yangzhi jade pure bottle ].

The [ demon pill ] Nezha was transforming and being born in the [ lotus root of the chaos green lotus ], which required continuous nourishment from the [ Five Elements Bloodline ] after he made the [ flame dragon armor ] before it could succeed.

And making the [ flame dragon armor ] required collecting some auxiliary materials, which at least had to wait until tomorrow.

Sun Po looked at another harvest of the day—the [ horse token of Snow-Treading Wuzhui ].

Right, his spirituality value was sufficient at the moment, and with this horse token, it was just right to add a mount back to [ Overlord Xiang Yu ].

Sun Po hadn't added new mods to cards for a few days. When Sun Po opened the mod creation interface again, that colorful jelly-like lump on the center screen actually seemed to be jumping around happily.

Seeing this, Sun Po couldn't help but ponder, "What on earth is this colorful substance? I have never noticed it before. Why does it seem to have developed spiritual intelligence? Truly strange."

But for such matters, lacking sufficient information meant he was destined to not think of a result. Sun Po didn't ponder for long; he didn't need to self-make a mod this time either.

With the horse token present, Sun Po could directly add [ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ] to [ Overlord Xiang Yu ].

He summoned the [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] card flickering with orange light from the [ Tianhe Budu ].

It was still that robust, cold, and arrogant mighty figure, and a thick heroic aura hit him head-on.

"Read the [ horse token of Snow-Treading Wuzhui ], and load the mod [ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ] for [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]!!"

"Initiate!!"

As Sun Po's voice fell, the pitch-black horse token on the table rapidly sank into the card of [ Overlord Xiang Yu ].

[ Overlord Xiang Yu ] had no reaction, still quietly floating in mid-air, as stable as a mountain, motionless.

Previously, when the [ Spirit Monkey ] loaded [ Changyou ] or the [ Warrior ] loaded the [ Double-Pupil ], the cards all had huge reactions—either the cards vibrated violently, or strange phenomena were produced in the card images.

However, [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]'s card remained motionless, and the robust and cold Xiang Yu on the card surface merely had an extra pitch-black wooden token in his hand.

[ Overlord Xiang Yu ] looked at the familiar pitch-black wooden token in his hand, recalling the companion that accompanied him to charge and kill on the battlefield.

"Snow-Treading Wuzhui" was the name of a horse, as well as a description of its appearance, referring to a steed with four pure white hooves like treading on snow and dark fur like brocade.

Such a horse could naturally be called a fine steed, but it was not unique, and one could even say they were not few in the current world.

But few people knew that this [ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ] of [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] was not an ordinary [ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ].

The ancients often said, "Fine steeds match heroes." This was not entirely an excuse to flatter "heroes" by using "fine steeds," but rather that only "fine steeds" could match "heroes."

Just as [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]'s bloodline was unusual, [ Liu Bang, Son of the Red Emperor ] possessed the secret technique of raising dragons, and most of the fierce generals of the current world like [ Fankuai ] and [ Longju ] each had their own divine anomalies.

And when charging and killing on the battlefield, how could the collision of the Chaotic Demon God's power, dragon might, and stellar power be something that an ordinary so-called "steed" could bear?

[ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ] was the divine horse and strange horse that [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] searched the whole world to find during his lifetime, the only one capable of carrying [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]—who had activated the [ Demon Gods Mighty Power ]—to charge and kill!!

Even [ Liu Bang, Son of the Red Emperor ], who had already mastered a hundred dragons at that time, upon seeing [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]—who carried a bloody giant shadow and held a black radiance that tore through space, riding the [ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ] whose double pupils were like fire and white hooves trod on light like a fierce spirit—hurrying toward him, had to quickly call for helpers.

Although the current [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] had already retrieved the [ Demon Gods Mighty Power ] contained within the [ Double-Pupil ] and the [ Overlord Body ], without the [ Bawang Breaking Space Halberd ] and [ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ], [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]'s combat power could only display six or seven tenths at most.

Now that he could recover [ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ], [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] knew in his heart that his combat power should be able to increase by another two tenths.

He gently rubbed the textures on the horse token, feeling the familiar wood grain concavity and convexity, calling out to his old friend in his heart.

However, after a long time, [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]'s card surface still did not have any changes.

Suddenly, anger ignited in [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]'s double pupils, and his cold and arrogant temperament was instantly replaced by an unparalleled domineering aura.

A bloody phantom flashed past behind [ Overlord Xiang Yu ], and the pattern on the back of the card swayed unstably, vaguely showing a black phantom flying and soaring within it.

Sun Po was shocked in his heart. [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]'s [ Demon Gods Mighty Power ] was truly tyrannical, especially the [ Demon Gods Mighty Power ] left behind by the Chaos Demon God named [ Jie ].

Just the rising of anger induced [ Jie ] and [ Ba ] to riot within the card surface.

Although [ Ba ]'s Demon Gods Mighty Power was strong, its impact on the card didn't seem very strong. However, [ Jie ]'s [ Demon Gods Mighty Power ] specialized in breaking space and seals.

Could it be that card making itself also counted as a kind of sealing art? The condensed cards could also be considered a kind of seal?

So [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] was sealed by himself in this tiny card?

And [ Jie ]'s [ Demon Gods Mighty Power ] had particularly prominent effects against seals, so if [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] was willing, could he even break through the restrictions of this card?

But speaking of power strength, Wuzhiqi's strength was still slightly stronger than [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]'s at this moment. If [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] hadn't possessed such unprecedented and unique aptitude, he couldn't even have withstood a single move from Wuzhiqi.

The gap between golden quality and orange quality was simply too huge.

Then speaking of this, could Wuzhiqi also break through the card restrictions?

The more Sun Po thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong; I'm afraid it wasn't that simple.

[ Overlord Xiang Yu ] and Wuzhiqi were undoubtedly loyal to him, and Sun Po's actions and code of conduct should also be acceptable to both of them, so neither of them should have the idea of breaking through the card.

But if a powerful and justice-minded Card Maker made some heinous and powerful [ true name card ], I'm afraid the compatibility wouldn't be very good.

Then under this circumstance, the entity within the [ true name card ] would have a great possibility of breaking through the card restrictions. Could the Card Maker not restrict them?

Sun Po thought it was impossible. Card making had developed for so long, and it was actually not uncommon for a card's philosophy to disagree with the Card Maker's. At most, the combat power output would be somewhat insufficient. Sun Po had never heard of a situation where a card escaped the card restrictions and backlashed against the Card Maker.

Then what was different about [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]? The dual [ Demon Gods Mighty Power ] of [ Jie ] and [ Ba ]?

Although cards that could cause more damage to space and seals were precious, they certainly weren't limited to [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]. Could other cards of this type also do it?

Suddenly Sun Po had a flash of inspiration. Yes, shouldn't the biggest difference between [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] and other cards be combat power?

[ Orange 9-star ] could almost rival the ancient deity Wuzhiqi of [ Golden 1-star ]. Wasn't this the biggest difference?

After all, the chasm between orange quality and golden quality was something all Card Makers defaulted to as uncrossable, yet [ Overlord Xiang Yu ] had already crossed it under the condition that his combat power had not fully recovered. Wasn't this the biggest difference?

An [ Enlightenment ] suddenly rose in Sun Po's heart:

"So, is it because [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]'s combat power exceeds the card quality by too much, causing him to almost break through the card surface?"

Sun Po looked at [ Overlord Xiang Yu ]—who was full of rising anger on the card surface and drew the [ bawang pidi sword ]—and heard the other's voice ring in Sun Po's heart: "My Lord, [ Snow-Treading Wuzhui ] is in trouble."

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