Chapter 373: Limitations of the Pendulum
After listening to Yu Cang's brief introduction of the pendulum, everyone present fell into deep thought.
They are digesting the meaning of the pendulum and the significance it will have.
Cheng Mingye thinks especially a lot.
He now realized that this summoning method...the impact and changes it brought about might be much greater than Yu Cang's previous summoning methods.
At the beginning, Yu Cang created fusion and synchronization and opened up additional card decks, and the soul card master's combat system began to change quietly.
However, the changes are not that radical yet. Many soul card masters are very nostalgic and are not particularly willing to rely on extras. When upgrading their decks, they generally only absorb the parts related to star rank without doing anything extra.
But, once the pendulum appears... this situation may change.
The pendulum can directly increase the mental pressure to the maximum by taking the initiative, which brings huge advantages in actual combat. Once the silent round is over, you will directly face the opponent in his prime. How do you fight like this?
It would be fine if it was just this one wave of burst, after all, these summoned beasts have no superiors, but after the pendulum ends, the opponent can still make additional subsequent deployments... This ability to spread the field is much stronger!
I guess in the future, the extra deck will become the standard for all soul card players...
Moreover, the operating mechanism of the Pendulum deck is simply perfect.
Just now, when Cheng Mingye heard the concept of permanent spell cards, he felt that this system was extremely practical and was a blessing for card banners like them and those explorers.
In this world, for ordinary people, Soul Card Master competitions such as the College League are the most eye-catching things, and are also the way for them to understand the profession of Soul Card Master.
But beyond that, the explorers, the military, etc., are the real part that constitutes the profession of Soul Card Master.
While Soul Masters can hold an absolute advantage against similarly ranked Wild Beasts, their fatal weakness is their long idle window. Once the deck's core unit enters its death cooldown, its combat effectiveness is greatly diminished. Maintaining a core unit constantly is unrealistic, and summoning it later in times of danger is often too late.
This is a rather contradictory point. In the past, the only solution was to form a team and take turns to fill the window period, but now... once the pendulum bridge is set up, it can be erupted at any time, which is really convenient.
Not only does the presence of two Li Zhimian take up no mental pressure, it also provides a little ability bonus. When the time comes to enter the battle, first fill up the lower level, and then pull the terminal in seconds... It's so cool.
While he was thinking, Wen Ren Ge raised his hand weakly.
"Um..." He hesitated for a moment, but decided to ask, "Then...what am I doing here today?"
Hey! Didn't we agree to let him do the experiment today?
How come you've already completed the pendulum just as I got here?
So what did he come for?
Let’s not talk about this. You obviously already know how to do it, but you still asked him to maintain the Pendulum Fierce Angel for a whole week... Do you know how he spent this week?
I have received so many cold stares!
"Ahem." Yu Cang coughed lightly. "I was in a special state a few days ago. At that time, I was not sure whether I could really summon it. Of course, I had to leave you a sample as a safety precaution..."
Wenrenge: Stare...
"Alright, alright, stop looking at me like that." Yu Cang waved his hand. "Well... since you're feeling so aggrieved, I can't let you make this trip in vain. I'll trouble you to do the next few experiments."
After saying that, he stuffed both the Pious Cultivator and the Seraph into the Singer. "There must have been some issues with their attributes just now. My head hurts a bit. Come on, come on."
The attributes of these two summoned beasts are naturally light, and the pendulum bridge they built also has a little light attribute.
Although this level of attributes cannot form self-discipline, this pendulum bridge is slightly incompatible with his half-dragon status.
The attribute conflict caused a bit of a headache, but it was still within the tolerable range.
Wen Renge: “……?”
It's bad, it's too early to feel wronged.
"I'll record it." Lin Yunqing stood up silently and turned on various devices.
"Yu Cang," Cheng Mingye said at this time, "As expected of you... This summoning method is incredibly efficient in mobilizing lower-level resources. In my opinion, the impact of the pendulum may be greater than all your previous summoning methods combined."
"Really?" Yu Cang remained noncommittal. "However, you seem to have a misunderstanding."
"Hmm? What?"
Yu Cang couldn't help but smile: "Who said that the pendulum can only summon lower-level people."
Cheng Mingye was stunned: "Could it be possible to summon a terminal? But aren't there only four or five pendulum bridges for the Fierce Angels and the Devout Cultivators... Could it be?"
"That's right, a real pendulum wouldn't just have such a short pendulum bridge!"
"Then..." Cheng Mingye frowned.
If the pendulum can directly transcend the quality and summon a stronger summoned beast, then wouldn’t it be... too powerful.
"There's no point in talking any more." Yu Cang shook his head. "Let's just let the data speak for itself... It's just right that you two are here, so help me with a few experiments. I've prepared a lot of soul cards today, and I need to test them all."
"Um...Okay."
…
Cheng Mingye and Zhao Yang originally just came to watch, but they didn't expect to be forced to do hard labor.
However, although he had to start working for no reason, even Zhao Yang did not resist this epoch-making project. Instead, he was happy to join in and slowly uncover the secrets of the pendulum.
Cheng Mingye even took out a lot of his inventory and used these high-level soul cards to help fill in the data.
The principle of the pendulum is not complicated. After Cang successfully perfected it and taught it to a few of them, they have also learned the technique of summoning the "inner side" of the soul card.
However, it seems that not all soul cards have the inner side.
As Yu Cang said, the inner side is the instinct of the soul card and is related to its background story. Some soul cards with very simple or even contradictory backgrounds have no possibility of summoning the inner side at all.
Even if Yu Cang came himself, it wouldn't work.
But this is normal.
Moreover, not all soul cards will have positive benefits after summoning the inner side.
After some soul cards are "separated" from the inside and outside, not only will the ability of the inner side be unsatisfactory, but the separated inner side will in turn affect the ability of the soul card itself, directly turning the entire soul card into a blank slate or even producing negative abilities.
Such soul cards are not suitable for transformation into pendulums - although they can be summoned normally by pendulums, if there is a better way, they will not be used.
There is another type of soul card that is not suitable for pendulums - that is a summoned beast with a death effect.
Yu Cang mentioned earlier that once the inner side of a soul card is separated, the soul card will not be able to enter the death cooling state normally. After being destroyed, it will fall into a deep sleep driven by instinct. A soul card in this state can be summoned together with the next pendulum summon.
This process is mandatory, which means that abilities that can only be activated when in a death cooldown state cannot be used at this time.
And—when Yu Cang tried to make the Soul Card in the Extra Deck into a Pendulum, he also discovered a problem.
The extra deck is not like the main deck. The soul cards in it mostly play a "guiding" role. The rhythms in them are very weak, and they often cannot fully exert their capabilities when used alone.
Such soul cards are relatively "incomplete", such as the Vortex Realm Dragon, the Burial Bluestone Flower Ancient Dragon, etc., and basically cannot be directly transformed into a Pendulum.
However, extra soul cards like Ye Lai and Jieying·Dweller, which have real existences, can be used to create pendulums, but when Yu Cang tried to transform them, he always felt a muddy resistance and was unable to summon the inner side.
Even if they actively cooperate at night, it would be difficult to do so.
Maybe... there are some hidden techniques that he hasn't discovered.
The corpse of the Dark Flame Dragon Emperor was successfully summoned from the inner side, but it seems that the soul cards in the extra deck cannot be directly used as pendulums.
Groups of data were recorded, and soon, a long time had passed.
During rest
Yu Cang looked at the data on the computer, his eyes full of thought.
"Nephew, the calculation method of star level here doesn't seem to be that simple."
"Hmm." Yu Cang thought for a moment, "This is normal."
Zhao Yang took over the conversation: "Yu Cang, the inner star level should also be related to the level of the soul card master himself!"
Yu Cang smiled and said, "I really didn't expect this before."
During the experiment, some minor problems occurred.
The inner side of some soul cards, even if they are summoned and placed at both ends of the pendulum bridge, do not have inner star levels.
At first, several people thought it was a problem with the soul card itself, but as more and more related cases came out, they discovered that it was a problem with the soul card master.
The conclusion that follows is also obvious: the Inner Star Level requires the inner surfaces at both ends of the Pendulum Bridge to resonate with each other in order to appear, and in this process, it is not actually the two of them that are resonating.
It's the two of them and the soul card master himself, the three of them are resonating with each other!
This resonance requires everyone to be at a similar level, otherwise it will fail.
Take Yu Cang himself as an example. He can summon rare or even epic inner aspects and reveal the inner star level through mutual resonance, but if he is given an ordinary soul card... it won't work.
There is a difference in levels, and even if an ordinary soul card summons the inner side, it cannot resonate with the inner star level.
And in the legendary world, even the inner face cannot be summoned.
This was the first time they had seen a lack of backward compatibility... Normally, Soul Cards with a lower level than the Soul Card Master should be able to use their full power!
Now, the soul card that is equal to Yu Cang's own level should be a fifth-order soul card. With the fifth order as the center, the three orders above and below are easy to summon, but there will be some problems outside this range.
Within this range, the range of "pendulum bridges" that can be built is even narrower, basically between 4 and 6, not much more.
With this range, it is impossible to summon more than ten or twenty ordinary summoned beasts in one second, nor is it possible to pull out several epic beasts at once.
"Perhaps this is the rule of the universe." Cheng Mingye sighed, "Soul Cards cannot surpass others by too much, otherwise they will touch taboos!"
"...Maybe not." Yu Cang was still thinking.
As for the Inner Side Summoning of the Extra Deck, only the Nether Flame Dragon Emperor Corpse succeeded... and Yu Cang sensed his Inner Star Level!
Its inner star level is 8 - although Yu Cang did not summon it, he still sensed this number with the help of the Emperor's Heart.
Instincts are biased, and this bias leads to a certain gap between the star level and the actual star level. Just like the 10 and 8 of the Nether Flame Dragon Emperor Corpse.
However, the inner side of the Nether Flame Dragon Emperor's corpse cannot be directly summoned...
"Perhaps," Yu Cang said, "Those who are more different from the Soul Card Masters themselves are not unable to be summoned, but they still require certain conditions."
"...Looks like this is going to be troublesome." Zhao Yang tutted his words, "If the conditions are too complicated, then it would be better to just go for a higher level summon."
He understood what Yu Cang meant. If Yu Cang built a 4-10 pendulum bridge, then he could directly summon a level 10 monster in the main deck that met the summoning conditions. To achieve this, he only needed to simply set up two pendulums... If there were no additional conditions, that would be abnormal.
But now it seems that it is more labor-saving to find a way to summon these monsters from a higher level.
"Tsk, your thinking still hasn't changed." Several pendulum decks from his previous life flashed through Yu Cang's mind, but he didn't say anything, just shook his head.
This kind of thing certainly cannot be accomplished overnight, so we can improve it slowly in the future.
There are many things you can do with a pendulum.
"Okay, it's getting late." Yu Cang said, "Let's stop here for today... Yunqing, I'll leave the data sorting to you. I might be out for a while in the next two days."
Lin Yunqing looked over and asked, "Go out?"
"Of course." Cheng Mingye said, "He wants to learn some 'taboo' knowledge from us."
On the side, Wen Ren Ge blinked, not knowing what this meant, but Lin Yunqing's expression changed slightly, as if he realized something.
"Can I go?"
"No."
“…”
Zhao Yang was stunned.
Wait—what does “a period of time” mean?
Didn't we agree that once you enter the detention center, you can't leave? From what you said, Yu Cang, going to the detention center is just like visiting someone!
Is this... is this reasonable?
"Let's go," Yu Cang said, "You guys have gained a lot of knowledge about pendulums, so don't come to me tomorrow... I have some things to deal with, and I'll leave with you in a few days."
…
Jieying Campus
Yu Cang's rhythmic body appeared on a bench.
There was already someone sitting on the bench, but this person didn't seem surprised by Yu Cang's sudden appearance.
"Are you used to being here these days?" Yu Cang asked.
"Of course!" Aqiu took a deep breath. "Here... knowledge is at my fingertips. I've never felt so free."
"But you don't look happy."
"Hmm..." Aqiu leaned against the bench and looked into the distance, "After all, he hasn't been back for a long time."
This is the first time in Aqiu's life that he doesn't spend the New Year with Duan Feng.
"Do you need me to contact him for you?"
"No, that's meaningless." Aqiu shook his head. "Don't talk about me. What about you, Yu Cang? It's been a long time since the last time Dark Synchrony was perfected. Have you ever summoned your own Dark Synchrony?"
Yu Cang knew that what Aqiu was talking about was naturally not a soul card like the Emperor Heart Dragon, but the real evil deep in the heart like the Demon Sword Han Ji!
In fact, Yu Cang had also tried it, but the Cangyan King Dragon that he used as the drill was at level six. This foundation meant that the soul card that was synchronized with its darkness must also have a higher star level. At least level ten was not enough.
Yu Cang guessed that it might require a twelfth-order existence at the top of the epic realm to successfully complete the dark synchronization.
But currently, Yu Cang's two twelfth-level summoned beasts, Emperor Cang's Eye, cannot appear at the same time as the King's Dragon, and the Dragon of the Last Dawn has the characteristic of not being able to leave the field, so they cannot be used for synchronization.
Therefore, the condition is not satisfied.
"Dark Synchrony." Yu Cang smiled, "The evil deep within me...I'm afraid it's not so easy to summon."
Perhaps now we can vaguely guess what his Dark Synchrony can summon.
Rule is the greatest evil.
As long as the Emperor's heart exists, there will be no other evil worthy of being called darkness.
(End of this chapter)
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