Chapter 273 I am a scholar!
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Yu Cang sat in his seat, playing with a blank soul card in his hand, while Gu Jieshuang sat at the edge of the table.
"If what I just used in the arena was the embryonic form of sword intent..." Gu Jieshuang fell into deep thought, "then it seems to make sense..."
"Hmm?" Yu Cang turned his head. "What do you mean?"
"Boss, if I remember correctly, the rule for synchronization is that the sum of the star ranks of all the materials must equal the final soul card, right?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"I can sense that Frost Sky Slash's star rank is fourteen. The materials I chose are fifth-rank Sword Intent and tenth-rank Breaking Seal: Frost Sky. The sum of the two is fifteenth rank, so the synchronization failed." Gu Jieshuang's eyes showed a look of reminiscence. "But fortunately, the Sword Intent soul card is very special. Its star rank can change according to my level of understanding. I urgently lowered the Sword Intent's star rank, and that's how it succeeded."
"...very impressive operation." Yu Cang clicked his tongue.
This operation sounds simple, as it utilizes the characteristics of sword intent. However, if you think about it carefully, you will find that it is actually very difficult.
You can work hard to improve your understanding and perception, but it's impossible to lower them instantly.
For example, for a person who has been writing for many years, the memory of writing has been engraved in his subconscious mind. Even if you want to pretend that you can't write, you will be exposed soon.
But sword intent is even more difficult than this. After all, writing may be able to disguise proficiency, but can inner thoughts be disguised?
Even though it only lowered the star rank by one level, it required an extremely deep understanding of the sword intent to achieve it. Moreover, Gu Jieshuang had to use it directly in an emergency situation like a battle, which made it even more difficult.
"But what I want to say is something else," Gu Jieshuang said while thinking. "At first, I thought that synchronization, like fusion, had infinite possibilities... Just like the boss's Sacrifice Dragon, it can fuse everything it devours together to create a new and powerful individual.
"I originally thought that the synchronization should be similar. After all, my two seal-breaking swords were synchronized first and then made into soul cards by the boss... So, even if I used the fifth and tenth level synchronization, even if the summoning failed, it should be due to insufficient strength... But from my perception just now, it seems that this is not the case."
"You mean," Yu Cang understood, "the fifteenth-level soul card you want to summon doesn't exist at all?"
"That's right." Gu Jieshuang nodded. "Even if my summoning fails, I should at least be able to sense some hope. But just now, the power of the fifteenth level was completely gone, and I had no chance of summoning at all... Now that I think about it, this might be the limit of 'coordination'."
As we all know, Synchro Summoning is to first simplify and summarize the core abilities of high-level soul cards into "coordination", and then use coordination and other materials that provide star levels to upgrade the stars.
Therefore, coordination has its limits, and you cannot upgrade stars indefinitely... It seems very reasonable.
Just now, as a coordinated sword spirit soul card, Gu Jieshuang's upper limit is naturally not limited to the fourteenth level, but Gu Jieshuang's knowledge is limited. She has never even seen the Frost Sky Sword Intent after the fourteenth level, so she cannot synchronize.
Unlike fusion, synchronization cannot break the limits of one's own imagination.
"In theory, as long as your understanding of Frost Sky Sword Intent exceeds the fourteenth level, or you have personally experienced Frost Sky Sword Intent beyond the fourteenth level, then Soul Cards above the fifteenth level will be able to be synchronized."
"Yes...but it's still limited by strength."
"I see...your understanding is very useful." Yu Cang nodded and fell into deep thought.
Coordination has its limits. Putting aside the sword intent, this is also a new rule related to synchronization.
Gu Jieshuang chuckled and stuck out her tongue: "I'm glad I can help the boss~"
Yu Cang took out his notebook and wrote these things down.
"Come to think of it." Yu Cang thought for a moment, "Your deck is still a bit too disorganized right now... I didn't notice it at first, but after meeting the opponent, I can see the disadvantages."
Although it is a Sword Intent deck, there are only two Sword Intent Soul cards. This thing... even Yu Cang himself is not sure if he can copy a second one.
Therefore, once the two sword intents enter the death cooldown, the situation will become relatively passive, and one can only use the Frost White Sword to hold on.
"No." Gu Jieshuang said with a smile, "I really like this deck!"
Sword Intent is the power that interests her, and the Soul Cards were made for her personally by her boss (and Senior Ning). What else could she not be satisfied with with such a deck?
Not to mention its inherent strength, even if this deck is just for fun, she would still like to use it.
"...I will find a way to strengthen you as well." Yu Cang said with certainty.
Although both Sword Soul cards are very powerful, there are still few means to deal with the enemy in the entire deck.
Just like just now, if you meet someone like Chang Kong who has strange abilities and doesn't play by the rules, you will be at a disadvantage.
In fact, among the five poisonous insects that Chang Kong threw at the beginning, only Shi Yan posed the greatest threat to Gu Jieshuang, and the other poisonous insects did not cause much trouble.
Didn’t you see that even the Nightmare Eater who summoned an epic beast directly at close range couldn’t last long under the snow waterfall?
But Shi Yan is different. His ability to change gravity as soon as he activates it is so weird.
The combat power of Gu Jieshuang's two seal-breaking long swords are both outstanding in the epic level, but there is a problem. Such long swords also need to be controlled by people... Once the gravity changes, Gu Jieshuang can't lift the sword, then no matter how powerful the sword is, it will be useless.
It is conceivable that Gu Jieshuang will definitely encounter more strange abilities in the future, and sometimes even [Kill All] may be cracked.
In addition to the Sword Soul card, the other spell cards in Gu Jieshuang's deck are still the three old ones of Frost White Sword.
It's time to upgrade...at least the methods must be more diverse.
Yu Cang glanced at the entry library.
What other combinations can I combine the [Sword Intent] item with...
He picked up the blank soul card, selected two entries, and was about to implant them when he suddenly paused.
As if he had thought of something, Yu Cang raised his mouth, looked at Gu Jieshuang, and pointed at his lips: "Jieshuang, give me a kiss."
"Eh?" Gu Jieshuang couldn't help but take a breath and slid along the edge of the table away from Yu Cang, "Boss, why are you suddenly like this..."
"I've discovered that kissing can inspire me." Yu Cang said as a matter of course, "Besides, you're my girlfriend now, and that's a boyfriend's right!"
Gu Jieshuang blushed.
Yes.
The relationship is no longer the same.
It was so unreal that she didn't even react.
However, the two times she had taken the initiative to kiss Yu Cang were based on sneak attacks, with the main goal of kissing and running away, without any psychological burden. Now it was the boss who took the initiative, and looking at Yu Cang's eyes, Gu Jieshuang felt as if her body was filled with lead, unable to move at all.
"Well, can we next time..."
"No."
"Then-then close your eyes!"
Yu Cang: ...(stares)
"This, this, this..." Gu Jieshuang was in a state of panic.
No, Gu Jieshuang, what's wrong with you? Cheer up!
You were so domineering just now, and you forced your boss on you. Why are you so troubled by a simple kiss now?
Damn it, show that same momentum you had just now! Look at the look in the boss's eyes, he's clearly looking down on you!
Gu Jieshuang gritted her teeth, and the words were on the tip of her tongue, but she suddenly whispered, "Don't look at me for now... Boss, look, I just took out a blank soul card. Do you have an inspiration? Just draw it first and pretend you didn't notice me. I will definitely..."
"Trouble." Yu Cang stood up quickly and moved closer.
…
bite.
Yu Cang looked at the four big words "Implantation Failed" clearly written on the entry recorder and sighed with some regret.
Sure enough, kissing will increase the shipment rate or something...it's just metaphysics.
The first two times, I was probably lucky.
However, although it cannot increase the shipment rate, my mood has indeed improved, so it is not completely ineffective.
Yu Cang sat on the chair, stroking his chin. Behind him, Gu Jieshuang squatted in the corner, covering her face with her hands. Her face was so red that it seemed like steam was coming out of it, and her eyes became blurry.
Damn it, damn it...
This time, the boss kissed me for a long time and so hard... It must be revenge, it must be revenge!
It was just revenge for his own overbearing behavior! How stingy! So stingy!
Wuuwuwuwu… As expected, I shouldn’t have harbored such hope after “bullying” the boss…
At this time.
——Buzz.
Yu Cang's personal terminal suddenly rang.
He picked it up and took a look, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
It was a message from Mr. Ren, asking him to go to his office.
It seems that the set of soul cards is probably ready.
"Jie Shuang, the principal wants to see me. You take a break first, I'm going out for a while."
"Okay..." Gu Jieshuang was no longer able to do anything.
Yu Cang walked out, and Qi'er suddenly poked out his little head.
As she looked at Gu Jieshuang, her eyes became brighter and brighter.
Suddenly, he shouted, "Sister! Are you going to have a baby?"
Bang!
Yu Cang staggered and almost hit his head on the door frame and died.
"What did you say!" Gu Jieshuang's eyes widened, "Qi'er! Xingchen clearly taught me everything!"
The girl blinked her big eyes.
She had actually almost forgotten what she had been taught.
Just remember... there will be a baby!
Qi'er is going to be an aunt!
She opened her mouth, but before she could utter any vicious words, Yu Cang had already grabbed her by the scruff of the neck.
"Move!"
…
Principal's Office
Boom boom boom
Yu Cang knocked on the door.
“…Please come in.”
A voice came from behind the door, which made Yu Cang stunned.
Is this voice... Old Man Ren's? Why does it sound so weak?
He pushed the door open, but the scene behind the door made him gasp.
"this……"
The scrapped soul cards were scattered all over the floor, the trash can was filled with manuscript papers filled with words, and there were piles of cigarette butts on the table. Ren Zheng was sitting by the windowsill, rubbing his brows constantly.
Compared to the last time I saw him, Ren Zheng looked extremely bad at this moment. His face was untidy, he had dark circles under his eyes, and his hair was messy, as if he hadn't washed it for a long time.
Yu Cang observed carefully for a long time before he was sure that this was Ren Zheng.
"Old man Ren?" Yu Cang's expression was strange. "What are you doing..."
"Ah... you're here, kid." Ren Zheng finally saw who it was. "How dare you ask me who gave me this difficult question? Don't you know it yourself?... Sit down first."
"Sit down?" Yu Cang glanced towards the sofa.
There were all kinds of scrapped soul cards on it. Some of the soul cards had most of the rhythm written on them, while some of the soul cards only had a few strokes written on them. But at this moment, they were all scrapped and there was no possibility of reusing them.
Where can I sit?
Yu Cang sighed, closed the door, walked carefully along the empty space on the ground, came to the sofa, and simply cleared out a place for someone to sit.
Bang!
The weeping girl controlled the little dolls and jumped down from Qi'er's arms. A soul card opened in mid-air, and five little dolls fell to the ground like dumplings.
"Master, let's clean up!" The weeping girl rolled up her non-existent sleeves and rushed to the pile of waste cards with a group of chattering dolls.
Yu Cang nodded in affirmation, then picked up Qi'er and let her sit on his lap, then he looked at Ren Zheng.
"Old Ren, you're truly extravagant," Yu Cang said. "The materials for these blank soul cards are quite expensive, aren't they...hiss, that smell... Thunder Heart Stone powder? How much did you use...damn, the waste cards in this room of yours are almost as much as my annual budget!"
“…I have the channels, it’s not expensive.”
"That's outrageous!" Yu Cang began to feel sorry for Ren Zheng.
To be honest, his Yingcao set has earned him a lot of money now, and he can already say that he has no worries about food and drink, but this room full of useless cards still exceeds his cognitive limit.
"It's okay, some materials can be recycled." Ren Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, "I made these blank soul cards myself, I know the numbers."
"Stop talking nonsense. With the level of scrap, it's good enough if we can recycle 10%..."
"Alright, these are all materials I got myself, why are you feeling bad for me?" Ren Zheng waved his hand. "Just wait and see. When you become a national guardian, you will definitely waste more materials than me."
“…”
"Besides, the reason I used so many materials was to complete the task you assigned me." Ren Zheng knocked on the table. "How nice of you to just leave after saying that. This really puts a lot of trouble on me, an old man."
Yu Cang opened his mouth: "Is it that difficult..."
"It's not that difficult? Go try it yourself." Ren Zheng was almost amused. "You kid, go to Zhenguo first and see... But it's really not that difficult. It's mainly because the workload is huge and you can't make any mistakes. The cost of trial and error is too high, so you can only try little by little."
Ren Zheng coughed lightly. "Oh, right... I seem to have used up all the 'spiritual particles'... That girl named Xingchen looks very angry. Um, is that okay?"
Yu Cang: "..."
Looking at Yu Cang who had fallen silent, Ren Zheng quickly said, "But it's okay. Think positively. The power of these two soul cards is definitely worth the cost!"
“…Let me take a look first.”
"Here." Ren Zheng handed over two blue soul cards. "That link 8 was created according to your idea. In fact, the main workload this time is on it. As for the other link 1... To be honest, I have to sigh again, Xiao Cang, the upper limit of this link summoning you discovered is really too high. You can even do such a miraculous thing!"
Yu Cang took it and looked at it.
…
Soul Card Name: Scholar I
Category: Summon Card
Number of anchor points: 1
Quality: Connection
Attributes: None
Race: Beast/Humanoid
ability:
Humanoid summoned beast*1
[General Knowledge]: This Soul Card can only be activated when a qualified Rhythmic Body accepts the summon, and must be connected to the Soul Energy Well to exist.
…
Seeing this, a smile appeared on Yu Cang's face.
Sure enough, it can be done.
As we all know, the principle of connection summoning is to transform the spatial properties of the present world, and then summon the rhythmic entities in the starry sky vision directly to the present world.
Then... the rhythmic body is naturally within the scope of this summoning!
This "Scholar's Self" is a soul card specifically used to summon the body of rhythm!
Yu Cang looked at Ren Zheng, only to see him nod: "I've tried it. There's no danger in this summoning process. There are just some techniques you need to pay attention to, otherwise it might be a little painful when summoning yourself."
Speaking of this, the corners of Ren Zheng's mouth twitched, and he was obviously still frightened.
"You say." Yu Cang looked attentively.
…
Not long after.
"I set a connection anchor with the Saint of the Breach and summon—my scholar!"
Yu Cang waved his hand, and the Saint of Formation beside him immediately turned into a torrent of information, expanding and collapsing in an instant, and what emerged from the torrent again was a completely new figure.
The figure seemed to be made of solidified light, but if you looked closely, you would find that the texture of the skin was condensed by fine and regular rhythms. These rhythms emitted a faint glow, and when they came together, the figure appeared particularly unreal, like a projection.
Looking at the figure's appearance, it was obviously Yu Cang himself!
The torrent of information gathered together and crashed into the anchor ring. This time, the anchor ring floated behind the head and rotated quietly.
"Is this... the scholar I am?" Yu Cang looked at his rhythmic body, his eyes full of curiosity.
This feeling of looking at yourself is really amazing.
As soon as he had a thought, I, as a scholar, performed various movements naturally, as if I were using my arms and fingers, without any hindrance at all.
"It's amazing... You are worthy of it, Old Man Ren!"
"Haha, this is amazing?" Ren Zheng smiled. "Let's not get into this kind of nonsense between us. Xiao Cang, I'm a scholar, and you can make it yourself. You... must have found it troublesome, so you packaged it together with the Link8 for me."
"What are you talking about?" Yu Cang said with a sigh, "It's just a pity that as a scholar like me, I don't seem to have any direct effect at the moment."
My Scholar Id is like an avatar. Because it's a soul card, its physical strength is definitely stronger than mine, but as for its other abilities...
As described on the card, this soul card has only one ability [General Knowledge], which is also a restriction.
"Boy, you're not satisfied with such a powerful card?" Ren Zheng glared. "What else do you want him to be capable of?"
Don’t underestimate this card because it simply summons its own rhythmic body, but it’s pretty awesome!
You should know that it is very dangerous for you to enter the Star Sky Vision Area and directly observe the surrounding environment.
But if you summon my scholar self to the present world, there will be no such concerns!
This is equivalent to having a complete starry sky vision perspective directly in the real world. Isn’t this powerful enough?
Of course, the scholar's field of vision is limited to the influence of the anchor ring - after all, only the rhythm within the anchor ring is activated and possesses some of the properties of the starry sky vision.
But this is already strong enough... This means that Xingtian Vision has finally found a method of cultivation that is almost 100% safe, and it has officially got the opportunity to promote it on a large scale!
"Haha...that's right." Yu Cang laughed.
"Besides, Xiao Cang, you asked me to make this card, so you naturally know what this card really means."
Using the scholarly self to summon one's rhythmic body is just one way of using it.
Yu Cang's original intention in handing this project over to Ren Zheng was to summon the rhythmic bodies of others!
By combining the Path to the World of Knowledge and the Scholar's Self, you can summon a scholar directly from any place on the blue planet!
what does that mean?
The most obvious point -
Those scholars who are weak and helpless no longer have to go to dangerous places in person.
Needless to say, what this means.
After all, people like Ren Zheng and Yu Cang who practice card making and combat at the same time are still a minority. Most people don't care about learning after practicing soul cards, and they become unfamiliar with combat after learning card making.
There is no way around it. Human energy is limited. How many geniuses can take out so much time to meditate every day while keeping up with all their studies?
This is unrealistic.
Now, card making has been developed for more than a thousand years since its birth. Over the years, the rhythms of those safe and dangerous places have basically been explored. If you want to make innovations, going to those places where few people go is an indispensable part.
And this means danger.
Although card makers will certainly hire various professional adventurers and explorers, it is impossible to cover everything. Even the soul card makers themselves cannot guarantee that they will come back from all dangerous places, let alone a burden like the card maker?
There are so many card makers who die in dangerous places every year that it is difficult to even count them.
With the Scholar's I, things become much simpler - just have the hired adventurer bring the anchor and the Scholar's I, put a humanoid summoned beast that meets the requirements in the deck, and after entering the dangerous area, find the corresponding place and directly pull the Rhythm Body over.
Although the perception range of the Rhythmic Body coming here is only as small as the area affected by the anchor ring, but no matter what, I can still be alive. Even if the scholar me is killed, it will only hurt for a while and it will not cause any major impact.
And without the burden, the adventurer teams' survival rates will also increase accordingly, which is a win-win situation.
In the long run, there is no need to say what this means for Yan State.
And this is just the most basic function of this soul card.
If it were placed on the front lines, if it were placed in the exploration of the Netherworld Heaven Realm and the Nightmare Border...
And the link8 in Ren Zheng’s hand.
Thanks to Weihuohu nv for the reward!
(End of this chapter)
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