Grove said: "Assisted cards are made up of two parts, blood crystal and star pattern. The energy of blood crystal can only be exerted through star pattern. Each type of auxiliary card has its own unique star pattern. Only by knowing the star pattern can auxiliary cards be made."

"Star pattern is the basis of the card maker's livelihood."

According to Grove, star pattern was discovered by Thule Carolingian, the father of auxiliary cards. He combined blood crystal and star pattern to make the prototype of auxiliary cards. Later, he led his disciples to continuously improve auxiliary cards, which formed the appearance of auxiliary cards they see now.

It is with the help of auxiliary cards that card makers have reduced casualties in the fight against evil spirits.

Unfortunately, after Carolingian's death, his disciples divided up all the star patterns, thus forming the current card maker family.

The card maker family firmly controls the star patterns in their own hands. If ordinary people want to learn card making, they can only enter a card maker family as an apprentice, but apprentices can only learn the most basic star patterns and become free labor for the teacher. All the auxiliary cards they make must be handed over to the teacher, and the money from the sale goes mostly into the teacher's pocket, and the apprentices can only get a small part.

If you are lucky and get the teacher's recognition, you can get rid of your apprentice status, learn a unique star pattern, and become an independent card maker.

Although you still have to hand over a large portion of the money, and although the teacher can cancel the contract at any time if he is unhappy, at least you are relatively free and you can earn more money.

Gu Xingmian understands this as evolving from a small employee in a direct-operated store to an agent.

Therefore, the lifelong wish of all apprentices is to become an independent card maker one day.

Grove was originally an apprentice in a certain family, and he was an apprentice for twenty years.

Grove was very talented and learned star patterns very quickly, but his personality was not very pleasing, and he was not liked by the teacher at all.

Grove didn't care. He didn't have any material needs, and his only hobby was to study star patterns.

Even if he could only learn the most basic star patterns, he would hide in the room to study star patterns after finishing his work every day.

Day after day, year after year, he gradually discovered that each star pattern seemed to be unrelated, but in fact there was a certain pattern.

Grove tried to make some improvements to make the auxiliary cards more suitable for card makers. After success, he became more and more obsessed with the study of star patterns.

But the star patterns he could learn were too few, and the lack of sufficient samples caused his research to stagnate.

So Grove took a risk and wanted to steal the teacher's skills, but was caught by the teacher.

According to the rules of the card maker family, this situation would be killed directly. Fortunately, Grove was alert and ran away after discovering something wrong.

After that, his name was put on the bounty list.

In order to escape, Grove abandoned his own name and used various aliases, even changing his appearance after a while.

But even with such caution, he was almost caught several times.

The first time Xiao Qiong saved him, he was almost caught.

Xiao Qiong heard all this from Grove for the first time.

He only knew that Grove had a very powerful enemy, so he had been fleeing everywhere over the years and hardly stayed in one place for a long time. He didn't expect there was such an inside story.

Grove said it without reservation and asked expectantly: "Now, can you tell me where did you get this star pattern from?"

Gu Xingmian also reciprocated and told Grove about the scene when he was attacked by the auxiliary card and saw the attack turned back into an auxiliary card and then restored to a star pattern.

Grove was stunned and stammered, "I was attacked, and then I saw the star pattern?!"

"It's not that simple." Gu Xingmian said seriously, "First, you have to eat a lot of auxiliary cards, and you can only use them once each time. It's still pretty useless."

Umbrella? ! !

Grove couldn't believe his ears. Isn't this a supernatural skill? !

Just eat a little auxiliary card (yes! In Grove's opinion, compared to the star pattern, it's really just a little auxiliary card), and you can see a complete star pattern. This is a skill that many card makers dream of.

If he had this skill, why would he work hard as an apprentice for more than 20 years, and almost lose his life because of stealing the master's skills? !

Gu Xingmian said to Xiao Qiong, "I think, it should be more than just showing me that star patterns are so simple. Is it possible that there are other ways to use them?"

Xiao Qiong said, "We can give it a try after we go back."

Gu Xingmian sighed, "It's a pity that there are only two kinds of star patterns now, and they are both weapon-related. The scope of trying is limited. Maybe I can try spell-related star patterns next time. Maybe after trying a few of them, there will be different discoveries?"

"Okay." Xiao Qiong thought for a while, "Then I'll find some more auxiliary cards for you to try."

Gu Xingmian: "Try to pick water or wood types, not earth types. The earth type doesn't taste very good. I think it may not be compatible with me."

Xiao Qiong: "Okay."

Grove was so envious when he heard the two of them picking star patterns like picking cabbages that he couldn't breathe.

What kind of Versailles is this? !

Can you consider the feelings of the old card maker next to him!

If he had this skill, he would definitely not be picky, and every time before using the skill, he would bathe and burn incense, and worship the gods with the most pious attitude.

Gu Xingmian was thoughtful.

According to Grove, there is a connection between star patterns. As long as this connection is discovered, the composition of star patterns can be fully understood. Perhaps new star patterns can be created, or several star patterns can be combined and put on an auxiliary card.

For some reason, he suddenly thought of the starry sky that he briefly saw when he was unconscious.

Is it possible that the connection that Grove mentioned is related to that starry sky?

Thinking of this, he looked up at Grove, but saw that his face was blue and red, and he was shocked: "Grove, what's wrong with you?"

Grove waved his hands weakly: "Nothing..."

He just had red eye disease.

Just one, no, two star patterns can cure it.

If there are five star patterns, he can also change his bad tongue.

If there are ten star patterns, he can call the other party an ancestor! !

Gu Xingmian: "Grove, I want to give you a copy of all the star patterns I see in the future for research, what do you think?"

Grof: “!!!”

Grof blurted out: “Ancestors!”

Gu Xingmian: “???”