96: Card grading

“Poof!”

Unfortunately, Yang Zeyun’s card hadn't even materialized before Nezha's Fire Tipped Spear directly pierced his throat.

“Hmph.”

Nezha snorted, and his next words were cut off as the Martial Arts Arena ended.

“Our champion has emerged!”

Mayor Si Chengwen looked at Jiang Yuan in the arena with some excitement.

Amidst the cheers and applause of the crowd, Jiang Yuan also smiled and waved back at them.

“Now you’re truly famous.”

Mu Qianshan put his arm around Jiang Yuan’s shoulder, looked at the rushing reporters, and said to Jiang Yuan with a smile.

“If you’re my brother, help me block them. Dealing with them is too troublesome.” Jiang Yuan gave a wry smile, then pushed Mu Qianshan forward.

He himself ran towards the stage.

Qin Boyuan had just messaged him, asking him to meet him on stage later.

It was a good way to escape those reporters.

“Uncle Qin, what’s up?”

When Jiang Yuan arrived on stage, he looked at Qin Boyuan and asked curiously.

There were a few other people next to Qin Boyuan, but Jiang Yuan didn't recognize them well.

Only the middle-aged man with a square face in the center looked somewhat familiar.

“This is Mayor Si Chengwen of Zhenhai City, and these four are admissions teachers from the four top universities in Great Xia.” Qin Boyuan casually introduced them to Jiang Yuan.

However, Jiang Yuan didn't dare to be casual and politely greeted everyone.

“We came to find you this time for one question.”

Qin Boyuan glanced at everyone, shook his head, and finally decided to speak himself.

“The weapon card you used for Nezha, could you show it to us?”

As soon as Qin Boyuan finished speaking, Liu Shengshan quickly interjected, “We won’t make you show it to us for free; there’s compensation.”

Liu Shengshan said, then took out three cards.

Jiang Yuan smiled, “Compensation or anything like that isn’t necessary; after all, my weapon card isn’t a secret anymore.”

As Jiang Yuan spoke, he materialized the purple flame serpent spear card.

“Here, this is it.”

Qin Boyuan took the card and glanced at it, and his pupils couldn't help but contract.

It was even more stunning than he had imagined!

“What’s the situation? Let me see?”

Seeing Qin Boyuan's expression, Liu Shengshan and the others also became anxious, quickly taking the card from Qin Boyuan's hand and beginning to examine it.

“This!”

Sure enough, after they finished looking at the card, they also looked at Jiang Yuan with incredulous eyes.

“Did you really create this card?”

Li Wenchang asked, looking Jiang Yuan up and down with some disbelief.

“Of course, this is an equipment card I custom-made for Nezha.” Jiang Yuan nodded, speaking without hesitation.

“Truly, the younger generation is formidable.”

Ji Qingming, who was also half a Card Creator, let out a long breath and sighed with emotion.

To be fair, that guy in his academy, who was known as a genius Card Creator, probably couldn't create such a stunning card at his age.

This purple flame serpent spear could completely reach an S-rank level in card grading.

Starting from blue quality cards, each card, in addition to its quality, also has a grading judgment from the Card Association.

However, this grading is different from quality; quality is inherent once a card is created.

It can be said to be innate.

And grading is acquired.

Because there were significant differences between many cards of the same quality, a grading system gradually emerged later.

From the highest S-rank down to A-rank, B-rank, C-rank, and D-rank, a total of five levels.

Anything below that is considered unranked.

However, these are not part of high school knowledge; explanations of card grading only appear after university.

There is a course in university specifically for identifying cards of various grades.

And Jiang Yuan not knowing this is actually related to his family, which is why he didn't know this point.

Someone like Mu Qianshan, for example, knows about card grading.

Just like his previous equipment card, that was an A-rank blue quality equipment card.

However, after he got the higher-level Zifu Sword card, he no longer needed that one.

He doesn't use a greatsword, after all.

Regarding card quality grading, Jiang Yuan didn't know, and strictly speaking, it was also Mu Qianshan's oversight.

Mu Qianshan forgot that Jiang Yuan's family background meant no one could tell him this.

However, every time Jiang Yuan chose material cards, they were either A-rank or B-rank, so Mu Qianshan thought he knew.

And while Qin Boyuan and the admissions teachers had some understanding of Jiang Yuan's family background.

But now their attention was entirely on this card, and they didn't pay attention to minor details like card grade, so they didn't mention it to Jiang Yuan either.

After Ji Qingming sighed, Liu Shengshan gave both the purple flame serpent spear and the three material cards to Jiang Yuan.

“I can just take this one.”

As soon as Jiang Yuan finished speaking, Liu Shengshan slapped the three material cards into Jiang Yuan's hand.

“Take them. But you have to thank Ji Qingming; these are what he lost to me in a bet.”

Liu Shengshan chuckled, “We just bet on who between you and Yang Zeyun would win the final championship.”

“Hmm, as you can see, I won.”

Jiang Yuan felt like laughing. These four people, adding up to almost two hundred years old, how could they still be so prone to gambling?

“Take them. Anyway, I can’t use these cards.” Liu Shengshan said, a hint of melancholy flashing in his eyes.

But the melancholy quickly disappeared.

“Indeed, and this one, this is what I won from Li Wenchang.”

Looking at Ji Qingming and Li Wenchang's darkened faces, Shi Nanfei's eyes also showed a hint of a smile, and he unhesitatingly increased the intensity of his taunt.

The two men's faces darkened further, and Shi Nanfei, after slapping that purple quality equipment card into Jiang Yuan's hand, turned and left.

Jiang Yuan looked up at Qin Boyuan, somewhat at a loss, as he was the most familiar person there.

“Take them. They really can’t use them anymore.”

Qin Boyuan also sighed, patted Jiang Yuan’s shoulder, and then left.

“Can’t use them anymore, what does that mean?”

Jiang Yuan looked at the several purple quality cards that had suddenly appeared in his hand, a little confused.

“Young man, what you should be thinking about now is how to answer the written exam for tomorrow’s comprehensive assessment.”

Mayor Si Chengwen patted Jiang Yuan’s shoulder, then also left.

“Oh, by the way, the reporters outside should have all left.”

“Okay, thank you.”

Jiang Yuan thanked the people in front of him, waved at them, and then prepared to leave.

Tomorrow was the written exam.

And indeed, as the Mayor said, he needed to focus his mind on this.

Sharpening the spear on the eve of battle, even if not fast, it will still shine!

Jiang Yuan, very disloyally, sent a message to Mu Qianshan and then prepared to go home.

“Which academy are you going to choose?”

Jiang Yuan looked up; Yang Zeyun was standing at the entrance, asking him.