199: Chapter 198 Trials and Guarantees

Chapter 198: Trial and Safety Net

Li Tiance's high level of discussion was mainly due to the overwhelming strength of [ Xuanwu Gate ]'s "One Becomes Eight Hundred."

Although [ Xuanwu Gate ] was at its most powerful during Card Maker battles.

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After all, as long as the enemy Card Maker was within the range of [ Xuanwu Gate ], they could only summon a single card.

Yet Li Tiance could summon a single card and then replicate eight hundred identical copies of it.

Eight hundred against one, where the advantage lay was crystal clear.

If one wanted to crack this cheap field effect of [ Xuanwu Gate ], it was also very simple: just break through the [ Xuanwu Gate ] field head-on.

But having said that, wanting to break through the [ Xuanwu Gate ] field head-on meant having to defeat Li Tiance first.

But you wanted to attack Li Tiance first? Then the eight hundred [ Yuchi Yigde ] or eight hundred [ Qin Qiong ] in front of Li Tiance would have something to say about that.

In short, this was an extremely cheap rule in card battles. Back during the [ Yang Guang Incident ], when some foreign teachers from Li Tang Wanbang University rebelled, Li Tiance had also led the contestants at the time to suppress them, dealing with several orange-tier cards single-handedly.

If it hadn't been for Sun Po's [ Changyou ] breaking through to the golden grade in one go, inheriting the divine throne of [ Wuzhiqi ], and having an overwhelming combat power advantage over [ Yuchi Yigde ] and [ Qin Qiong ], which were only purple cards at the time, coupled with the fact that Sun Po's [ Tianhe Budu ] field card was no less inferior to [ Xuanwu Gate ], Li Tiance might not have given up the captain position so easily.

But even though [ Xuanwu Gate ]'s effect of "enemy Card Maker can only summon one card" was ineffective against monsters, the eight-hundred-fold combat power boost from "One Becomes Eight Hundred" was solid and real.

Coupled with Li Tiance's exclusive talent [ Heavenly Khagan ], as well as the golden bow and white arrows transformed from the two heaven-bestowed orange-grade cards [ Golden Phoenix ] and [ White Phoenix ] in his hands, even though facing these demon-like monsters was a city defense battle, the audience all believed Li Tiance had a considerable chance of winning.

In fact, many viewers believed that if Li Tiance hadn't teamed up with Sun Po, he would have had the full strength to compete with Qin Wudao for first place.

Thus, Sun Po, as Li Tiance's captain, was once again pushed into the limelight, and his attention and discussion levels skyrocketed instantly.

"What on earth is this Sun Po doing? Did he go to the secret realm for a vacation?"

"Li Tiance really should have threatened Sun Po to force a withdrawal just like Qin Wudao when entering the secret realm, so that the point bonus wouldn't be so low."

"This Sun Po is truly a divine being. Logically speaking, coming from a civilian Card Maker background, shouldn't he be burning out in a scene like the Gaokao national-level competition? Why does he look so leisurely?"

"No wonder people online call him Master Sun! Look at you guys, among the Five Surnames and Seven Clans, even someone as strong as Yuan Zongli, if he has bad luck and encounters monsters that restrain him, he still ends up dead and obliterated. Look at my Master Sun—you only said to explore the secret realm for seven days, you didn't say one couldn't cower, and in the end, rankings are based on points. If my Master Sun simply doesn't advance the exploration progress at all and just waits for everyone else to die, how would Your Excellency deal with this?"

"If you ask me, Master Sun may be bad, but he still has self-awareness. At least he now has a ranking in the top twenty nationwide, which is better than those who didn't dare enter the secret realm."

Yet magically, even with Sun Po showing this kind of performance, there were still people speaking up for him.

"You Erfeng fans really shouldn't disbelieve it. If they actually fought, Li Tiance might really have a hard time beating Master Sun."

"Yeah, after all, although Master Sun was slacking off, Master Sun is definitely not bad, and can even be said to have the strongest stats on paper, right?"

"Yeah, his cards' hard power consists of two golds and one orange, and that orange card is even of the super-overpowered kind. To be fair, Master Sun comes from a civilian Card Maker background, and in terms of talent, he can be called the undisputed number one person among all contestants."

"Brothers, Master Sun is the light of us civilian Card Makers!! Wishing Master Sun comes out alive!!"

Of course, there were also trolls and gamblers.

"I feel like Master Sun has a chance to win the championship, but it's also a bit impossible for Master Sun to win the championship."

"I was planning to buy the dip on Master Sun back then. Fortunately, I held back, otherwise I would have wasted a month's living expenses for nothing."

"Young man, the dip isn't that easy to buy; you won't understand how to buy it. You'd better follow me and buy into Qin Wudao; it's much safer."

"I wonder how those few who heavily bought into Master Sun are doing?"

"Buy away! Every time you buy, you won't even make a peep; it's more thrilling than a roller coaster."

Then what about Yang Xinyue, who had heavily bought into Sun Po's chips at this moment?

As the person who understood Sun Po's strength best, Yang Xinyue naturally wouldn't follow the crowd like others.

Seeing the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] that used the [ Qiankun Great Shift ], she naturally knew that they were ordinary summons from Sun Po's [ Tianhe Budu ]. At the same time, she knew there was more than one such ordinary summon, so the fact that [ Wuzhiqi ] was put away back into a card state shortly after coming out was quite thought-provoking.

Having watched [ Changyou ] display transcendent comprehension and awaken step by step into [ Wuzhiqi ], she naturally knew that [ Wuzhiqi ] could not be measured by conventional logic.

Therefore, regarding Sun Po's thoughts, she had also roughly guessed some of it: "Could this brat be planning to use the hands of his summons to sweep through the entire secret realm, and then keep his strength to break through the secret realm barrier and take away the secret realm core of the extraterritorial secret realm as well? But this is an extraterritorial realm!!"

One could only say, as expected of the "orphan-entrusted minister" of Sun Po's mother, this analysis was already eighty percent close to the truth.

Sun Po indeed wanted to use the [ Tianhe Naval Forces ] customized with [ Qiankun Great Shift ] to sweep through the secret realm for himself and accumulate points.

But keeping his strength wasn't to collect any secret realm cores; he still had two secret realm cores in his hands that he hadn't digested yet, and had no plans to acquire more in the short term.

He wanted more to seek the truth—the truth regarding this bizarre competition and bizarre secret realm.

Yes, Sun Po sensed from the information heard from [ Wuzhiqi ] that this secret realm was extremely abnormal, and later deduced that it might be small worlds represented by different leaves on the World Tree.

Seeing that the background screens of every eliminated contestant were vastly different, completely distinct in style, he became even more certain of this point.

He also deduced that there would be a second stage based on each contestant entering different secret realms separately, and thus wanted to preserve more of his strength and make preparations early.

But all of this was his vague feeling, his guesswork without evidence.

If he really guessed wrong, there were still these [ Armored Rock Boar ] controlled by [ Qiankun Great Shift ] to accumulate points for him. By then, as long as the competition wasn't over, he believed that with his strength, going all out would make collecting points not difficult at all.

To put it bluntly, Sun Po was making preparations along two lines: one was a trial, and the other was a safety net.

Of course, such dual preparations required extremely strong strength; ordinary contestants, even if they thought of this layer, wouldn't dare to make such a risky attempt.

Furthermore, this was just Sun Po's relatively preliminary idea for now; he hadn't even discussed it with [ Wuzhiqi ].

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