Chapter 50 The Mysterious Sword Master, the Madman

“Why is every Card Domain we enter at an inhuman difficulty level!” After scrolling through the last message in the group chat, Gu Ye felt his scalp tingle. He sprawled out on the sofa, limbs splayed.

He stared blankly at the ceiling, his tone full of hopeless complaints.

“Kid, why are you moping around!” Willow Crab, who had gone in to level up, suddenly appeared beside him. Seeing Gu Ye's expression, it curiously climbed onto his shoulder and poked his face.

Gu Ye saw that it had already reached Bronze Rank Nine, a higher rank than he, its host.

“It's nothing major, just that we might all die in the next Card Domain trip.”

“Damn it, if that's not a big deal, then what is?”

As soon as Willow Crab's shout died down, a stream of light flashed by. Even Night Dwelling Phoenix, who had been cultivating, came out. Even if she didn't want to think about Gu Ye, she had to come out to see what was going on when she heard about a matter of life and death.

“Speak!”

Night Dwelling Phoenix looked down at Gu Ye. Her dark green skirt draped down, and her eyebrows carried their usual arrogance, though her tone was more serious than usual.

Gu Ye had no better options now. Although he didn't fear anyone in a one-on-one fight, not even the geniuses from the capital of the Yanxia Federation.

But facing thousands of Card Masters, he was truly helpless. Gu Ye told Night Dwelling Phoenix and Willow Crab about the situation at Tianding Mountain. After listening, Willow Crab felt the place was very familiar, but it couldn't quite recall it for a moment.

Night Dwelling Phoenix thought for a moment and offered a solution.

“Why don't you just give up?” Hearing this, Gu Ye rolled his eyes and said irritably:

“Giving up is equivalent to cutting off my future.”

“What do you mean?” Night Dwelling Phoenix raised an eyebrow.

“No matter the world, resources are the most important thing. If I give up on this College Entrance Examination, I'll miss out on higher education. In the Card Master world, card-making materials are the most important resource, bar none, and the Card Domain in Yunlin City can at most support me up to a Silver-rank Card Master.”

“So, Night Dwelling Phoenix, you don't want me to be unable to breakthrough either, right?” He looked up at Night Dwelling Phoenix, his eyes full of craftiness.

Night Dwelling Phoenix glanced at him sideways, pressed her red lips together, and fell silent.

Gu Ye was right. They shared glory and suffered losses together; Gu Ye's upper limit was the upper limit of her recovering her strength.

At this moment, Willow Crab let out a cry, “I remember! I remember everything!”

Willow Crab turned to stare at Night Dwelling Phoenix and asked, “Do you remember the Ghost Sword Heavenly Venerate?”

Hearing him mention this person, an image of an Obsessed Ghost holding a long sword suddenly appeared in Night Dwelling Phoenix's mind. There were many types of Obsessed Ghosts: those obsessed with love, those obsessed with wine, lust, wealth, or anger. They were collectively called Obsessed Ghosts because they shared a common trait: they were obsessed with one thing, to the point of forgetting that they were ghosts.

The Ghost Sword Heavenly Venerate that Night Dwelling Phoenix had encountered was an Obsessed Ghost. He was obsessed with the Way of the Sword. He spent his whole life pursuing the Way of the Sword, challenging various experts just to seek the strongest sword path, but he ultimately died at the hands of Night Dwelling Phoenix.

“I remember!”

“Then you must know about his 'Boundless Frontier,' and the Tianding Mountain that Gu Ye mentioned is one of his territories.”

“What?”

Night Dwelling Phoenix's pupils constricted, and her sealed memories were instantly awakened.

The expressions of the human and the crab suddenly turned strange.

Seeing their expressions, Gu Ye asked in confusion, “What's wrong?”

“Nothing.” Night Dwelling Phoenix said indifferently, her tone carrying a hint of imperceptible relief. “You don't need to worry about Tianding Mountain anymore.”

Before she finished speaking, her figure turned into a stream of light and returned to the soul card in his sea of consciousness, leaving Gu Ye looking bewildered.

Seeing this, Gu Ye scratched his head and looked at Willow Crab, “What did she mean?”

“Ghost Sword Heavenly Venerate's sword is still with her. The spirit sealing cauldron at Tianding Mountain requires that sword to be activated, so without you, no one can use it.”

“Oh~~” Gu Ye suddenly realized. Then he wouldn't have to worry about someone else controlling the spirit sealing cauldron and using its authority to wipe them out.

People with administrative privileges are the most annoying, unless you're the one with the privileges yourself—so satisfying!

“However, you kid need to hurry up and improve your strength. The reason Tianding Mountain is called 'Ghost Cauldron Mountain' is because it contains all kinds of ghost-type monsters. Even Night Dwelling Phoenix could fall into their traps if she's not careful.”

Hearing this, Gu Ye took it seriously. He thought carefully about his cards; it seemed he didn't have any cards specifically targeting ghost-types, especially those rule-based ghost items.

“I'll go to the official card-making materials website to see if there are any good anti-ghost items.”

The human and the crab walked into the bedroom, turned on the computer, and logged onto the official website.

At this moment, the sound of Willow Crab drooling was heard. It chuckled and asked, “Gu Ye, why don't you teach me how to use the computer? I'll trade you a Card Master skill book for it.”

Gu Ye looked at it in surprise and saw that it was staring fixedly at a pop-up advertisement, which showed a video of a beautiful woman dancing.

He stared at Willow Crab with a half-smile. Willow Crab turned its head, saw his expression, dodged his gaze, and hurriedly explained, “I'm just very interested in your human world; don't think too much about it.”

“I'm not thinking too much! How could I think too much? What kind of crab is Master Liu?”

“Look at the computer, look at the computer.” Willow Crab quickly changed the subject.

Gu Ye searched for terms related to ghost-types, and a bunch of card introductions popped up: “Sticky rice! Peach wood sword!...”

Seeing that there were quite a few item-type cards, he clicked on them, only to find they were marked as out of stock. He clicked on a few more, and they all showed as out of stock.

“This...”

Gu Ye instantly understood. This College Entrance Examination was a major event for the entire Federation, and since Tianding Mountain was entirely filled with ghost-type monsters, these relevant cards had sold out.

“It seems these merchants really don't open shop often, but when they do, they eat for three years.”

“Since I can't buy one, I'll make one myself.” Gu Ye closed the page bitterly and walked out of the bedroom.

Behind him, seeing that he had left, Willow Crab immediately pounced on the computer impatiently. Its claws fumbled randomly on the keyboard, clicking on the dancing beauty advertisement video, its eyes widening larger than copper bells.

Sitting on the sofa, Gu Ye thought about what he could make, and it had to have a special attack effect against ghost-types.

“The Yin Emperor?” Gu Ye quickly shook his head. What was he thinking? With his current strength, could he even summon such a figure?

“Black and White Impermanence? That's probably a bit difficult too! They are netherworld envoys with official positions.”

“Then what should I make?”

Gu Ye took out all his blue card creation materials and examined them one by one. Most of his card-making materials were related to ghosts, which didn't seem suitable either.

“This one?” Gu Ye held the purple card creation material "Good and Evil in One" in his hand, but still shook his head.