17: Chapter 17 Liu Jianren's Invitation

The next day, Sun Po finally didn't have to go to school.

A whole week of rest allowed Sun Po's tightly wound nerves from this past month to finally relax a little.

Yang Xinyue seemed to have also considered combining work with rest, rarely not waking Sun Po up this morning,

instead leaving a breakfast in the living room and going out herself.

"Beep, beep, beep!!"

Suddenly, a message notification sound rang out.

Sun Po opened his phone,

Liu Jianren: "Brother Po, let's grab a bite at the Full Moon Pavilion tonight. It's on me."

Full Moon Pavilion was the best restaurant locally in Gaoping City. He didn't expect Liu Jianren to actually treat him to a good meal.

Sun Po thought about it. Being constantly tense wasn't good either,

so he agreed.

At night, when the dazzling lights had just begun to shine,

in a private room at the Full Moon Pavilion,

"Come, Brother Po, I toast to you. No need for many words; if you need anything in the future, just give a word, and this brother will definitely go through fire and water to get it done for you."

Liu Jianren raised his cup and, without waiting for Sun Po to speak, drained it in one gulp.

Sun Po's alcohol tolerance was decent, so he just drank a little casually.

After a few cups of alcohol went down, the already talkative Liu Jianren completely opened up his chatterbox.

From Lu Renjia in their class potentially entering some aristocratic family as an honorary guest,

to Shen Jinbin inheriting his family's Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital and likely no longer walking the path of a Card Maker,

along with the origin of the [Red Snake] card in his hands, he spilled everything he could and couldn't share.

Sun Po was basically playing the role of a listener.

Just as he expected, this Liu Jianren was truly no ordinary person.

According to Liu Jianren, he hadn't obtained this [Red Snake] card for long either.

He grew up in a village when he was little and would return to the village every summer vacation.

The population in the village was small, and the defense forces were not weak.

Sometimes there were situations where mystic realms spawned near the village,

but there were no Card Makers in the village, making it impossible to discover them in time.

Not long ago, when he returned to the village, he discovered a newly born mystic realm.

But Liu Jianren knew this wasn't something he could explore,

so he intended to go report it to the authorities to claim the bounty.

Just as he wanted to move away from the fissure at the entrance of the mystic realm,

a large Red Snake suddenly flew out from the mystic fissure and swallowed him in one gulp.

Afterward, Liu Jianren went black before his eyes and lost consciousness.

When he woke up, he was already in a bizarre world.

Before Liu Jianren's eyes was a mighty, surging river with pitch-black water, and countless severed corpses and broken limbs floating on the river's surface.

Faintly, human-like figures lingered along the riverbanks.

He was very terrified upon seeing this scene, but fortunately, the fissure of the mystic realm's exit was not far from him, so he drilled straight out of the mystic realm.

After coming out, he discovered that there was an extra large Red Snake in his spiritual space.

And thus Liu Jianren possessed his very first card — [Red Snake].

After hearing this, Sun Po only felt it was absurd.

This Liu Jianren's luck was far more heaven-defying than he had imagined.

How was this any different from those insanely lucky bastards who fell off cliffs, survived great disasters, entered caves, and learned divine martial arts?

Thinking about how it took him three years to successfully load a mod for the [Spirit Monkey] for the first time, if it were given to an insanely lucky bastard like Liu Jianren,

I'm afraid the [mod loading system] would awaken on the first day, and by the second day, the card-making materials for the Great Sage Equal to Heaven would fly right into his hands.

How truly enviable! Dammit!!

Sun Po felt sour in his heart for a moment and continued to ask:

"Then what plans do you have next?"

Liu Jianren rubbed his hands together:

"This little brother has a proposal~"

"Please speak."

"I see that Brother Po's [Changyou] is a purple card, which has already reached the minimum pioneering requirement registered by the authorities, which is also the conventional combat power of an intermediate Card Maker."

"I want to ask Brother Po to come along so we can explore that mystic realm again. While no one has discovered it yet, let's go in and loot a wave, and then report to the authorities after coming out, lying that we just discovered it so we can still collect a bonus."

Upon hearing this, Sun Po didn't agree immediately. Liu Jianren's conditions were extremely tempting,

but he and Liu Jianren weren't very close.

Even though he had helped him in the [Gaokao], it wasn't enough to fully trust him at this moment.

You must know that the number of Card Makers who died in mystic realms every year was countless.

Many large mystic realms were not only guarded by official personnel, but even every aristocratic family had to dispatch people to take turns standing guard.

The peaceful and contented lives of ordinary people today were guarded with the blood of Card Makers in the mystic realms.

Therefore, a mystic realm was definitely not some kind of benevolent place.

But behind huge risks also lay huge profits.

Under the guise of guarding, aristocratic families monopolized the entry and exit qualifications of many mystic realms.

This made the aristocratic families stronger and stronger, and the commoners weaker and weaker.

Fortunately, the authorities also held quite a few mystic realms, which were open to all Card Makers.

However, these mystic realms, without exception, had been combed over and over again by the guarding Card Makers.

Truly precious materials and treasures were basically strictly controlled.

And now, an undeveloped mystic realm was right before his eyes; although the difficulty was unknown, the harvest was equally unknown.

After pondering over and over again, Sun Po hardened his heart.

"With my current strength, what kind of look is it to be timid and hesitant?"

"Moreover, ever since [Changyou] and the [Double-Pupil Warrior] were crafted, they have never entered a mystic realm to fight."

"In the later stages of the [Gaokao], I'm afraid it might be somewhat disadvantageous. This mystic realm must be entered."

Suddenly, another charming yet spirited face popped up in his mind.

"That's right, [Yang Wulang] is so strong, I have to call Sister Xinyue along too."

So, he agreed with Liu Jianren.

Upon hearing that Yang Xinyue would be a strong reinforcement, the other party also gladly consented.

The next day, when the sun was high in the sky,

Yang Xinyue drove Sun Po and Liu Jianren, driving for more than three hours,

and finally reached the mystic realm fissure mentioned by Liu Jianren.

I saw that in a shaded dense forest ahead, a small section of a colorful fissure was indeed exposed.

If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't find it at all.

Yang Xinyue was dressed in camping attire today, consisting of a windbreaker and cargo pants.

She parted the dense forest and looked at the colorful fissure floating in mid-air, about two meters long and half a meter wide, saying:

"It's estimated to be a rank F small mystic realm. The size of this entrance is too small, but it's pioneering work after all. You little Jianren really have such insanely huge luck."

(Mystic realm grades: F - E - D - C - B - A - S, from low to high)

Liu Jianren scratched his head and chuckled somewhat embarrassedly.

This was Sun Po's first time seeing a mystic realm in reality, let alone pioneering a mystic realm.

After all, the control of every mystic realm was extremely strict.

Even to enter a public mystic realm, one had to apply to the relevant departments a month in advance,

and subsequently there were many links such as card qualification verification, Card Maker combat power testing, mental health evaluation, value questionnaires, and so on.

And one had to pay a hefty exploration fee,

while the right to pioneer mystic realms was generally only eligible to be applied for by direct descendants of various major families and elite students from the top five universities.

"You two, strap on your material packs and get ready to enter!"

Hearing this, Sun Po tightened the material pack on his back, which looked like a mountaineering backpack.

The style of this bag was identical to the small crossbody bag carried by the paper cranes delivering goods in the material market,

but it was much larger in size.

Following the example, he thrust his hand directly into the colorful fissure space.

The texture was quite like jelly, icy and cool.

Suddenly, a strong suction force came over him.

Sun Po felt dizzy, as if he had been thrown into a colorful front-load washing machine.

Not knowing how long he had been spinning, Sun Po's eyes finally slowly recovered their focus,

and the scenery before his eyes gradually became clear.