61: Chapter 60 White Prison—[The Butcher Bai Qi]!

At this time, the students watching the match at Li Tang Wanbang University were also discussing it with extraordinary enthusiasm.

"I saw online that the quality of this year's cohort is very high!"

"Talk is cheap, how high could it possibly be? Back then, weren't all of us heaven-chosen elites who fought our way through?"

"If he can test in and become our junior, I'll admit the quality is high."

"Heh, what was the quality of your cards during the Gaokao?"

"Blue 9-star!"

The questioned student slightly raised his chin, clearly something he took quite a bit of pride in.

But as the giant eyeball, over a meter in diameter in the center of the venue, opened up,

and stereoscopic images with both audio and visuals as realistic as real people appeared in the sky, his companion looked at him teasingly:

"Old timer, open your eyes and look. You are already a remnant of the old era! Hahahaha!"

The student who had just been smug looked at the projection from the eyeball and was dumbfounded:

"Two? Both are purple cards?!"

"This one looks like a rare purple card, and the one opposite,"

"is tm still a [ true name card ]?!"

"Has the world gone mad?"

"What card is that crimson giant snake? Why does it look so much like the Qin Family's [ Zulong ] series?"

"Awesome, awesome! This quality! It was worth skipping class to watch!!"

...

Inside the secret realm, Liu Jianren, who had already been regarded as a genius, also wanted to win back some face at this moment.

He was originally only at the [ green 6-star ] level, but was forcibly boosted to a rare purple card by Sun Po using a proprietary talent, becoming a provincial-level match genius.

His mindset and even operations had always been somewhat unworthy of this strength,

to the extent that the [ Red Flood Dragon ], which had just begun to show spirituality, looked down on him a bit at first and just loafed around and slept every day.

But after dueling Hu Xue in the last provincial-level match, Liu Jianren had already learned his lesson profoundly.

While Sun Po was working hard to make money, Liu Jianren wasn't actually idle either.

Seeing that [ Changyou ] could learn so many skills from book materials, he was also extremely envious.

Therefore, over the past few days, Liu Jianren used all the remaining proceeds from his last trip to the secret realm to scour for book materials.

But his and the [ Red Flood Dragon ]'s comprehension were too low, and they couldn't understand them at all.

Moreover, the book materials circulating on the market were generally gray, white, and green goods, with blue ones being extremely rare.

Most people and their cards might take two or three years to practice a skill from a book material,

and this time was far less cost-effective than going down to secret realms to find star-upgrading resources.

This was also why [ Changyou ]'s pile of skills appeared so heaven-defying.

It's not that you can't learn it, it's that you can't master it.

But while [ Changyou ]'s comprehension was heaven-defying, Liu Jianren also had his own heaven-defying aspect, and that was luck.

This lucky bastard actually managed to find an orange book material in the material market of Gaoping City, which was extremely suitable for him and the [ Red Flood Dragon ].

Even more heaven-defyingly, his tm adaptability to this skill was extremely high, and he actually learned it in a week.

Therefore, at this time, he was long gone from being the "Card Maker of shame" who squirmed blindly in the municipal-level matches.

Looking at the smiling, squinting young man opposite him, Liu Jianren swore inwardly:

"This time! I must amaze everyone!"

...

[ Red Flood Dragon! ! Appear! ! ]

[ Butcher Bai Qi! ! Appear! ! ]

In the audience, apart from the plate-armored Bald Eagle Federation knight and the flush-faced long-faced youth,

Sun Po and several other contestants all felt a jolt in their hearts upon hearing these card names.

Even Li Tiance, who had originally been closing his eyes and feigning sleep, opened his eyes.

Among the provincial-level match contestants present, apart from Sun Po, Liu Jianren, the white-robed squinting youth Bai Yu, and that crimson long-faced youth Guan Zhen, everyone else came from prominent aristocratic families.

Compared to commoners, prominent aristocratic families had more opportunities to explore secret realms, allowing them to come into contact with more knowledge.

Therefore, aristocratic families' understanding of the world's history was far greater than that of commoners.

Like the authorities and the Five Surnames and Seven Clans, they basically knew the roots and foundations of all families under heaven.

Even those smaller families knew at least some historical materials related to the secret realms guarded by their own families.

For instance, Xu Xiu saw through [ Changyou ]'s background right at the beginning, and could even recite the description of [ Changyou ] from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Therefore, except for the Bald Eagle Federation knight who wasn't a person of the Yanhuang Ancient Country and didn't know what the name Bai Qi meant,

basically all the children of major aristocratic families present understood.

This Bai Yu and Liu Jianren had boundless futures.

There was no other reason; the four words [ Butcher Bai Qi ] were enough to make Xianqin Heavy Industry College fight for him at all costs.

Even if his grades were terrible, the doors of Xianqin Heavy Industry would always be open to him.

Needless to say about this fellow Liu Jianren?

In [ Zulong ]'s primary card-making sequence, the purple stage was called [ Black Flood Dragon ],

and the [ Red Flood Dragon ] and [ Black Flood Dragon ] were currently the only two flood dragon-type cards in this world.

As for this relationship, those who understood would understand.

With the authorities around, Liu Jianren, already a provincial-level contestant, wouldn't be caught and used for human experiments.

A more likely approach was for the Qin Family to offer huge benefits and let Liu Jianren join the Qin Family.

Therefore, although these two were still commoners for now,

in the eyes of these aristocratic youths, from the moment they displayed their cards, they had already achieved a class leap.

Liu Jianren and Bai Yu, still in the middle of battle, naturally didn't know about this,

and their duel was still proceeding tensely.

Bai Qi was the image of a tall and mighty general.

He was clad in dark heavy armor all over, holding a bronze broadsword, with a tattered dark red cloak fluttering wildly behind him, and dark red auras floating around his body.

It seemed that just looking at him would make one's eyelids twitch.

But Liu Jianren had also seen some of the world; he still acted according to his own combat strategy:

"[ Red Flood Dragon ]! ! Sacrifice the [ Water and Fire Flood Dragon Pill ]! !"

Sun Po outside the arena was also somewhat shocked:

"Pulling out the ultimate move right off the bat?!"

But after the surprise, Sun Po quickly reacted.

Liu Jianren still had some cleverness to him.

He knew deeply that he was still an apprentice Card Maker at present, and his spiritual reserves were a shortcoming whether in municipal-level or provincial-level matches.

Even though the [ Red Flood Dragon ] wasn't counted as a purple card due to getting stuck on a mod bug,

its original star rating was as high as [ green 6-star ], which was still very strenuous for him as an apprentice Card Maker.

Especially in front of these provincial-level match geniuses, he was an absolute quick man, so he had to make a quick decision.

...

After the [ Red Flood Dragon ] spat out the [ Water and Fire Flood Dragon Pill ], it immediately turned into a battery and started blasting at the opponent:

"[ Water and Fire Blasting Flow ]! !"

It was still the familiar red and blue beam of light.

Sun Po could clearly see that the [ Red Flood Dragon ]'s charging speed was much faster than when it battled Hu Xue; it seemed Liu Jianren hadn't been idle these past seven days.

But the opponents in the provincial-level matches were obviously higher in strength; relying solely on card quality was no longer enough to sweep opponents.

Bai Yu opposite also felt the intense energy fluctuations within the [ Water and Fire Blasting Flow ], knowing that this move was definitely not something that could be taken easily.

But having fought his way to the provincial-level matches with the status of a commoner, he naturally had his own backing.

Although Bai Qi awakening his true name was strong, his proprietary talent was actually the key.

Bai Yu chanted softly:

"[ Soul Essence Myriad Transformation ]! ! Protect! !"

Instantly,

the dark red cloak behind Bai Qi resembled a lit-up bloody long river,

extending, twisting, deforming, dancing,

and the cloak soared high up, faintly revealing countless bloody human faces struggling, weeping, and roaring within it,

looking like the netherworld of hell descending upon the mortal world, or the Asura blood sea manifesting in reality.

Then, those human faces dissipated one after another within the bloody long river transformed by the cloak.

Every time a human face dissipated, the giant cloak became brighter by a fraction.

The powerful might of the [ Water and Fire Blasting Flow ] fell into this bloody long-river-like cloak, acting like mud cows entering the sea, and completely vanished without a trace.

...

The college students outside the secret realm felt somewhat surprised even just looking at the broadcasted screen:

"This Bai Qi is probably already secondary-awakened his true name."

"Are young people nowadays this monstrous? The one in our class with a [ true name card ] already reached secondary awakening in their sophomore year, right?"

"Right! A secondary true name awakening can not only bring new skills and traits, but also further enhance the potential of the [ true name card ]."

"Yeah, star rating quality can be improved with resources, but potential traits are truly things you can't get no matter how much you seek them!"

"Damn it! This kid's future is already dazzling my eyes!!"

But soon, this college student discovered that

the future of Liu Jianren opposite him was equally dazzlingly bright.

...

Liu Jianren inside the secret realm saw that the [ Water and Fire Blasting Flow ] failed to achieve results, grinned, and said:

"As expected of a provincial-level match, but this young master hasn't been slacking off this past week either!!"

Immediately after, he formed a strange hand gesture with his hands and shouted loudly to the [ Red Flood Dragon ]:

"Stinky snake! Show them what we're made of! Get ready!!"

Then, Liu Jianren closed his eyes tightly and chanted softly:

"Sword Pill! ! Form! !

Chixiao! ! Appear! !"