138: Shiji and Nezha's first meeting

“Is it just the two of us, then?”

Early the next morning, Jiang Yuan took Mu Qianshan with him, preparing to head to the Undead Cave Heaven.

After they set off, Mu Qianshan asked Jiang Yuan with some curiosity.

“Of course, it’s just the two of us. Who else do you want to call?”

“Won’t it be too few people if it’s just the two of us?”

Facing the calm Jiang Yuan, Mu Qianshan asked nervously.

This was his first time entering a Cave Heaven, so he was naturally a bit worried.

“Did you forget what my Card is?”

Jiang Yuan turned his head, looking at Mu Qianshan with an expression as if he were looking at an idiot.

“Oh, you have Nezha.”

Mu Qianshan let out a long breath, feeling a bit awkward.

He was too nervous and had forgotten that Jiang Yuan was a Summoning Card Master.

Besides Nezha, Jiang Yuan said he had also created a new Summoning Card.

Well, he would probably see it after entering the Cave Heaven this time.

“Alright, then it’s just the two of us.”

Together, they went to the guardhouse, registered the Cave Heaven they were going to, and then left the school gates.

The entrance to the Cave Heaven was a place similar to a wormhole entrance.

It was not very far from Zhongyuan Academy.

Soon after they left the school gates, they arrived at the entrance of the Cave Heaven.

“Missing an Amplification Card Master! Come in if you’re here! Five-person team, all professions complete!”

“Missing a ranged damage dealer! Skill Card Master or Undead Archer, or even a Gunner Card Master will do!”

“Missing a Shield Card Master, or a powerful close-combat Fighter Card Master is also fine!”

“Looking for a team! Powerful Fighter Card Master, weapon is a saber!”

The entrance to the Cave Heaven was very lively, not only with a market selling various materials.

There were also people looking for teams, much like at the entrance of an old online game dungeon.

“It seems the cards here are even cheaper than in the Wild Market behind the school.”

Jiang Yuan casually picked up an Undead-type Skill Card, asked about its price, and came to a conclusion.

It was probably about five lower-grade star spirit stones cheaper than those behind the school.

“Do you still need to buy Skill Cards?”

Mu Qianshan was a bit curious, as Jiang Yuan had already purchased so many Undead-type Skill Cards yesterday.

“By the way, is the new Summoning Card you made an Undead-type?”

“Hmm, you could say that.”

Jiang Yuan nodded, calmly walked through the various recruiting teams, and then arrived at the entrance of the Cave Heaven.

Mu Qianshan behind him was rejecting the team invitations from the nearby teams.

To use Jiang Yuan’s words:

I am a team all by myself!

Although there was no Shield Card Master, a profession used to block damage, in their team.

However, Nezha’s combat power meant that he didn’t need anyone else to help him block damage in battles of the same level.

And Shi Ji, as a ranged Skill Card Master and Summoner, also made up for the lack of ranged attack firepower.

Coupled with Shi Ji’s own skills, Jiang Yuan didn’t need to worry about being outnumbered.

Theoretically, as long as Shi Ji had enough Star Power, she could summon countless Undead.

After arriving at the entrance of the Cave Heaven, they directly entered it.

This Undead Cave Heaven was a fixed location.

This meant that no matter who entered or when, they would always appear at a fixed spot.

As soon as Jiang Yuan and the others entered, someone immediately approached them.

“Is this your first time in the Undead Cave Heaven, Student?”

A young man who looked about their age approached Jiang Yuan and the others with a smile the moment he saw them enter.

“If it’s your first time, Student, would you like a faction distribution map and a regular map? If you buy both, you’ll get an extra newcomer’s guide for free.”

“Map? Newcomer’s guide? Tell me more.”

Mu Qianshan became interested. If they had a map, wouldn’t it be easier to find that Golden Horn Undead Clan guy?

If he remembered correctly, that powerful Undead Student was a Golden Horn Undead Clan among the Undead, right?

“A map is just a simple map, while a faction distribution map records the locations of various factions.”

“The Undead are different from our Human Race. We call them Undead, but the Undead also have many different sub-races.”

“In this Cave Heaven, besides our Human Race’s few bases, there are also many bases belonging to various different types of Undead.”

“If you purchase both of these, the free newcomer’s guide will introduce various information about this Undead Cave Heaven.”

“I see. How much?”

“Ten lower-grade star spirit stones, no cheating, no bargaining!” The young man said with a smile.

“Alright, then give me one.”

Mu Qianshan said, taking out a star spirit stone to purchase a copy.

“Hehe, Boss is generous. My contact information is on here. Feel free to find me if you need anything.”

After receiving the money, the young man said to Mu Qianshan.

“Oh, I’m Lu Xingyu.”

“Okay.”

After Mu Qianshan nodded, Lu Xingyu didn’t linger much. He waved to the two of them and continued to promote to the people who came in behind them.

“Let’s look for a gathering point of the Golden Horn Undead Clan.”

After Lu Xingyu left, the two of them directly opened one of the booklets and began to search.

“Found it, it’s a bit far from us.”

Mu Qianshan frowned slightly and said.

“Moreover, the individual strength of the Golden Horn Undead Clan is very strong. Are we sure we want to go to their gathering point?”

“Of course.”

Jiang Yuan smiled: “But we can just look for isolated ones.”

“That’s acceptable.”

Mu Qianshan finally relaxed. He really thought Jiang Yuan would directly charge into their gathering place.

“Should we find a place to stay first?”

Their current location was a human gathering place, and also the largest one.

Though called a gathering place, it was actually almost like a small city.

To put it simply, a Cave Heaven was just a buffer mini-world between two worlds.

What they had to do was fight in this mini-world in the middle.

That was all.

After all, this was just a Xing Ji Stage Cave Heaven.

Cave Heavens with power restrictions were basically trial Cave Heavens.

Only those Cave Heavens without power restrictions were the ones to be truly cautious about.

Generally speaking, those types of Cave Heavens usually had armies stationed directly within them.

This was to prevent the Cave Heaven from being breached and foreign races from directly invading their main world.

Just like the Cave Heaven in the East Sea of Zhenhai City.

Initially, no one discovered there was a Cave Heaven in the sea.

As a result, the Cave Heaven was directly occupied, and then they invaded the main world.

In such a situation, to counterattack, they could only first capture the Cave Heaven, and then use the Cave Heaven as a forward base to counterattack.

So, currently, Qin Boyuan and the others had to clear out all the foreign races in the East Sea and then capture the Cave Heaven.

As for what happens after capturing the Cave Heaven, that would be decided later.

In any case, they couldn't let foreign races control the Cave Heaven and continuously pose a threat to their main world.

“Alright, you look for one.”

Jiang Yuan said, picking up the faction distribution map and starting to look at it.

Besides looking for the Golden Horn Undead Clan this time, he also wanted to find two summoned creatures for Shi Ji.

Among the Undead, there were also beast-type existences.

For example, the Bone Dragon race.

He just didn't know if he would encounter the Bone Dragon race this time.

Jiang Yuan looked while pondering who to find as Shi Ji’s summoned creature.

He also had no intention of materializing Nezha and Shi Ji yet.

They were still in the city, so safety was guaranteed.

After all, there were also some new recruits from various groups stationed here for training.

As for what would happen if they broke through to the Xuanxiao Stage in the Cave Heaven?

They would naturally be directly kicked out by the Cave Heaven.

Therefore, many new recruits trained in Xing Ji Stage Cave Heavens.

Soon, Mu Qianshan had already found a place to stay.

The two rested for a bit, formulated a plan, and then prepared to set off.

Their first target was the camp of the Saber Bone Soldiers not far from the human base.

The attack power of the Saber Bone Soldiers was still very strong.

At least at the same level, the attack of the Saber Bone Soldiers could be stronger than the Bone Soldiers summoned by Shi Ji.

Although the matter of a summoned creature summoning another summoned creature was quite strange.

However, Jiang Yuan found it quite reasonable.

After the two left the human gathering place, Jiang Yuan materialized Shi Ji.

Then came the Linglong Pagoda and the Jade Purification Bottle.

Of course, there were two Jade Purification Bottles.

After all, one wasn't enough at the time, so Jiang Yuan used two.

One for Shi Ji, and one for himself.

“Is this the latest Summoning Card you made?”

The moment Shi Ji appeared, Mu Qianshan’s eyes lit up.

Not only was Shi Ji beautiful, but the key was her cool and aloof aura.

This aura was truly too captivating.

“Yes.”

After Jiang Yuan nodded, the Sweet Dew Water also fell on his head.

Immediately after, Nezha was also materialized by Jiang Yuan.

“Mu Qianshan!”

As soon as Nezha appeared, he let out an excited roar.

However, the moment Nezha appeared, Shi Ji didn't know why, but she felt a strange irritation.

Shi Ji was puzzled, and Nezha had also noticed Shi Ji beside him at this moment.

“Is this my new teammate?”

“Yes, her name is Shi Ji, and this is Nezha.”

After Jiang Yuan introduced Shi Ji and Nezha to each other, he used the Sweet Dew Water again.

Three uses of Sweet Dew Water fully manifested Nezha, Fire Tipped Spear, and Wind Fire Wheels.

Nezha was now half-armed.

In comparison, Shi Ji seemed rather shabby.

Nezha looked at Shi Ji with some curiosity, and although Shi Ji felt an inexplicable irritation towards Nezha, she still nodded slightly at him.

She naturally knew that Nezha was her teammate.

And this irritation…

It might be because she didn't really like mischievous children.

After Shi Ji calmed herself down, she saw Jiang Yuan materialize the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast.

“Do you want to ride with me?”

Seeing Mu Qianshan also materialize his airship, Jiang Yuan asked Shi Ji.

After all, only Shi Ji didn't have a mount right now, what if she couldn't keep up?

“No need, I have one too.”

Shi Ji shook her head, and with a wave of her hand, a horse made of bones emerged from the ground.

Bone Horse.

Seeing that Shi Ji could summon a Bone Horse, Jiang Yuan felt a strange sense of disappointment.

Shi Ji brushed her hand over her clothes, and her black tight-fitting long dress transformed into a fashionable outfit.

Card Spirit have the ability to change their clothes.

After all, Card Spirit are materialized with Star Power.

As long as Star Power is used, the clothes on one's body can be changed.

Nezha also had this ability.

However, Nezha generally didn't change much, as his current outfit didn't affect his combat at all.

But Shi Ji's tight-fitting long dress just now would have been inconvenient for riding a horse.

After Shi Ji changed her outfit, she mounted the horse.

Shi Ji in her black combat attire also possessed a unique kind of beauty.

“Then let's go!”

Nezha said, taking the lead and charging forward.

Behind Nezha was Shi Ji riding the Bone Horse, and behind Shi Ji was Jiang Yuan riding the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast.

Bringing up the rear was Mu Qianshan in his airship.

“Do you have any thoughts on the first Undead you want to enslave?” Jiang Yuan asked after catching up with Shi Ji.

“No big thoughts, anything is fine.”

“Alright, then let's see what we encounter.”

Jiang Yuan said, and the four of them charged forward together.

Although they had already left the human gathering area, they were still within the human territory.

The humans they encountered on the road were somewhat surprised to see them boldly rushing towards the Undead territory.

Who in a Xingji Cave wouldn't walk if they could?

In situations with fast mounts, sometimes when encountering powerful enemies, there isn't enough time to react.

Although this was just a Xing Ji Stage Xingji Cave, they didn't have such strong confidence that they could be safe no matter what they encountered.

“They're probably new, should we remind them?”

“Remind them of what? They've already run far away.”

“Alright then, but at their speed, as long as they don't get surrounded, there shouldn't be too big of a problem.”

A slightly older person sighed, looking at the distant figures of Jiang Yuan and the others.

To be honest, Xingji Cave are mostly populated by young people.

It's rare to see older individuals there.

However, there are always exceptions, just like this middle-aged man around thirty years old.

He had suffered root damage from an injury in a battle, which caused his foundation to be damaged.

Thus, he could only remain in the Star Epoch Late Stage.

Unless there was a spiritual object for treatment.

However, spiritual objects capable of treating such problems were generally very precious, and their price was naturally very high.

Despite this, such people were generally very experienced.

For example, the rookie guide that Jiang Yuan received when he bought the map was written by a person around forty years old with Star Epoch Late Stage strength.

Jiang Yuan naturally didn't know about these things, and he encountered many humans along the way.

This area was relatively close to Zhongyuan Academy, making it easy to sell any spoils of war obtained.

“We should be entering the chaotic battle zone ahead.”

Mu Qianshan, holding the map, caught up to Jiang Yuan and opened the airship window, speaking to him.

The Undead Cave Heaven on the map was an irregular, somewhat rectangular shape.

Human territory occupied one-third, Undead territory occupied one-third.

And the middle one-third was the chaotic battle zone.

Generally speaking, Xingji Cave like this, regardless of the race they target, are basically used for training soldiers.

It's useless for Xing Ji Stage people to fight their way in.

The exit of the Xingji Cave in the opposing world is bound to be guarded by a powerful Xingji Cave Guardian.

In this situation, even if you, as a Xing Ji Stage, occupy the entire Xingji Cave, you won't be able to invade the other world.

And occupying the entire Xingji Cave doesn't have much meaning, it's just that heavenly material and earthly treasure can be obtained freely.

But how much heavenly material and earthly treasure can there be?

Therefore, these Xingji Cave with restricted strength basically became training grounds for both sides to train their new recruits and Students.

There always needs to be a promotion channel.

You can't just stay in school forever and then participate in a big war as soon as you leave school.

If your strength keeps up, it's easy for your quality not to keep up.

Combat experience needs to be honed little by little.

Humans naturally understood this.

So even if the Xing Ji Stage Xingji Cave could be fully occupied, they wouldn't fully occupy them.

At most, they would fully occupy them for a period of time when they first opened, just to collect all the heavenly material and earthly treasure.

Of course, the other side thought the same way.

Therefore, battles are only most intense when Xingji Cave with restricted strength first open.

Now, the battles are basically peaceful.

“Undead in the distance!”

Jiang Yuan nodded, and before he could speak, Nezha roared and accelerated, charging forward.

Although the Bone Horse summoned by Shi Ji was also of Star Epoch Late Stage strength.

However, compared to Nezha's Wind Fire Wheels, Jiang Yuan's Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast.

Even compared to Mu Qianshan's airship, it was relatively slow.

So, their speed along the way wasn't very fast, only the speed of the Bone Horse.

Now, suddenly seeing an enemy, Nezha naturally accelerated and charged forward.

On the other side, the five-person Undead squad had already discovered Nezha's presence.

“Prepare to engage the enemy!”

The leader, a young man holding a white crystalline shield, made an instant decision upon seeing Nezha charging over.

After the leading Undead spoke, the other four also prepared themselves.

Two Undead materialized bone-like skull scepters, one Undead materialized a blade, and one Undead materialized a bow and arrows.

A standard five-person squad.

One of the guys holding a white skull scepter pointed his skull scepter at a blue-quality card, and a Skeleton Tiger appeared at the forefront of the team.

At the same time, the other Undead with a black skull scepter also used a skill.

White Skill Card [Shadow Ball]!

The Undead Archer drew his bow and shot an arrow, using a white-quality Skill Card as well.

[Shadow Arrow]!

The Shadow Arrow had no physical form, looking transparent.

[Shadow Ball] and [Shadow Arrow] simultaneously struck towards Nezha.

The Shadow Arrow was faster, and although it was semi-transparent, Nezha still detected it.

He flicked his spear and deflected the Shadow Arrow.

The slower Shadow Ball behind it was also burned to ashes by the Purple Flame released from Nezha's Fire Tipped Spear.

Nezha quickly charged forward, flipping in the air to increase his power before striking downwards fiercely.

The Undead Tiger roared and charged towards Nezha.

However, the next second, the Undead Tiger reverted back into bones.

At the same time, Shi Ji, who was slowly advancing behind, subtly curved her lips.

Using the skill [Undead Enslavement]!

The Undead Tiger, which Nezha had just instantly killed, was directly summoned by Shi Ji.

“How is that possible!”

The Undead Summoner was also startled when he saw his Undead Tiger instantly killed.

The Undead Tiger he summoned was a summon of Star Epoch Late Stage strength, just like him!