Gui Sirui is the ace player of "Ghost Hell", one of the six major clubs in the professional league, and is affectionately called "Ghost King" by fans. He is the apprentice of Zheng Feng, the founder of the earth-based style, and debuted in the fifth season, at the same time as Tang Muzhou.
Speaking of the earth element, the first thing that comes to fans' mind is Zheng Feng's earth element "defense counterattack" playstyle. The health of all the cards made by Zheng Feng is never lower than 100,000, and they can survive in the arena for a very long time, especially his wild elephant cards, which have thick skin and extremely high defense. It is simply despairing that a card with 200,000 health cannot be killed even after a long fight.
Zheng Feng is also jokingly called "the man who can play the game the longest" by the commentators.
The entire card-making concept of the Earth deck was influenced by Zheng Feng. Most of the subsequent players, when making Earth cards, would also imitate Zheng Feng, stacking the health of the cards and using the Earth cards as "meat shields" and "tanks" in the deck. Especially in team battles, having Earth cards in the front to absorb damage would give teammates a great sense of security.
Zheng Feng is a particularly bold man, who speaks and acts very straightforwardly. He focuses on making earth cards, which has attracted many fans who like earth cards. He is also very popular in the star card game world. In addition to laying the foundation for the earth card deck, he also brought out a very talented apprentice - the later Ghost King, Gui Sirui.
Xiaogui's deck is very unique. He relies on a hand of dark joker cards to gain a firm foothold in the alliance, such as The Hungry Ghost, Hanged Ghost, Red Bride, White Ghost, Headless Doll, The Devil Calls Death, etc. Every time I watch him play in a game, it's like watching a horror movie.
Although he holds a hand of scary jokers, Gui Sirui does not look scary at all. Instead, he is the most handsome player in the Hell Club. He wears a pair of silver-rimmed glasses and looks gentle and handsome.
Because the ghost cards he made scared children, the alliance warned Gui Sirui and asked him to modify the image of the cards. Gui Sirui obediently modified his cards from scratch, removing all the bloody elements to make the ghosts not too scary.
The official also doesn't want to directly abandon Xiaogui's joker card, so every time it is his turn to play in the game, the official will change the live broadcast angle to a friendly God's perspective, allowing the audience to overlook the entire stadium and not be scared to death by seeing the ghost in person.
Xiaogui is very popular among the younger generation of contestants, and has attracted a large number of audiences who like supernatural and horror genres.
Although he is Zheng Feng's apprentice, the earth-related cards he makes are completely different from his master's. His cards do not focus too much on health and defense, but rely on skills and speed to win. The attack of the "Fierce Ghost" card is ranked first in the entire league, and the pace of the game is extremely fast.
After seeing Nie Shen's curse in the group today, Gui Sirui was a little worried and couldn't help but said to his master: "I always feel that Nie Shen's crow mouth will work. Master, do you think that Yueban will really make a joker card that will kill him instantly?"
Zheng Feng waved his hands with a smile: "What are you afraid of? What Lao Nie said is never true. Besides, the joker is set to be a dead spirit, so how can the dead die instantly?"
Gui Sirui: “…………”
Now that you put it that way, it's like the Crow's Mouth Buff has been added, so it will be accurate even if it isn't!
At this moment, the office door was pushed open and another top poker player of Guiyu, Liu Jingxu, walked in.
Liu Jingxu is now 28 years old and is an old player, but he became famous later than Zheng Feng's apprentice Xiaogui. He is one of the league's slowest players - he debuted in the third season, but did not become famous until the eighth season.
He was best at monster cards, such as fox monsters, flower monsters, cat monsters, etc. At first, his monster cards were always completely defeated by Nie Yuandao's beast cards, because the monsters' frontal combat capabilities could not compete with Nie Shen's tigers, lions, and hungry wolves, and his cats and foxes were almost vulnerable in front of the beasts.
When everyone was pessimistic about his success, Liu Jingxu insisted on being himself, and kept researching and improving his deck. Finally, in the eighth season, he developed a "dual-form" monster card. At present, all his cards have two forms, "monster form" and "human form". For example, the cat monster is an agile cat in monster form, but a beautiful woman with a cat's tail in human form.
The appearance of the dual-form demon card finally allowed Liu Jingxu to make a comeback. After five years in the league, he made it to the finals of the individual competition in the eighth season and won the championship, proving his strength.
Everyone has great respect for this player. After all, it is not easy for him to stick to his own ideals for so many years. He is also one of the most inspirational players in the professional league.
Nie Yuandao once commented on him in an interview: "Liu Jingxu's potential is immeasurable. Although he is not as famous as Lao Zheng and Xiao Gui in Guiyu, no opponent should underestimate him."
Liu Jingxu is a research maniac. When inspiration comes, he can stay in the laboratory for a whole day without eating and still not feel hungry.
He usually "turns a deaf ear to the outside world and focuses on making demon cards", so even though the incident of Yueban Card Shop was a hot topic in the alliance group, he still had a confused expression on his face, as if asking "What happened?"
Gui Sirui saw him and immediately stepped forward to explain, "Brother Xu, there is a card author named Yueban who has made a lot of instant death cards in the past few days. At first, they targeted Tang Shen's flowers, and later targeted Xiaozhu's butterfly cards, Xiaolan's bird cards, and also fish cards with a large proportion of water cards."
Liu Jingxu nodded blankly: "Oh."
Gui Sirui helplessly raised his forehead and said, "You just said 'oh'? Don't you care about such a big news?"
Liu Jingxu smiled and said, "It's not targeting us anyway."
Gui Sirui: “…………”
Don't say that, he really couldn't stop it even if he wanted to...
Liu Jingxu walked up to Zheng Feng with a calm expression and said, "Old Zheng, help me take a look at this card I just made."
The two began to study the cards happily. Gui Sirui was helpless and could only pray silently that the instant death card announced at 11:30 tomorrow would not target them so soon.
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In the game, Xie Mingzhe started making new instant death cards after returning to his personal space.
The joker card is actually very easy to target. He had the idea as early as when Tang Shen proposed the "joker card", but because he had already made Daiyu and Baochai before, in order to unify the style of painting, he immediately made two beauty cards, Xi Shi and Zhaojun.
As soon as you enter the store, you will see four beauty cards neatly displayed in the display cabinet, which is quite pleasing to the eye.
Now, the four beauty cards are enough to be the treasures of the store. He doesn't need to put the next cards in the middle display cabinet, and he doesn't need to worry about the style of the painting. It doesn't matter if the card image is not good-looking.
According to ancient Chinese legends and the description in Journey to the West, after death, people will go to the "ghost world" and become ghosts. The person in charge of the ghost world is "King Yan", and under King Yan there are four judges, namely Wei Zheng of "Reward Department", Zhong Kui of "Punishment Department", Lu Zhidao of "Investigation Department" and Cui Jue of "Underworld Law Department".
Among them, Wei Zheng, the Rewarding Officer, was in charge of giving rewards to "good ghosts" who had done good deeds during their lifetime. People who had done a lot of good deeds would become ghosts and come to the underworld after their death. They could ask him for their rewards, and they could also choose a family with better conditions for their next reincarnation.
The Punishment Master Zhong Kui naturally punishes the evil ghosts who committed many evil deeds in their lifetime. According to the severity of their evil deeds, they will be thrown into one of the eighteen levels of hell to suffer. After their service period is completed, they will be reincarnated. If their evil deeds are serious, they can also stay in hell forever without reincarnation.
The other two judges, Lu Zhidao of the "Chachasi" is responsible for clearing the ghosts' grievances and is considered the "case judge"; Cui Jue of the "Yinlusi" is responsible for adding years to the ghosts' lives. If they do good things, they will live longer, while if they do bad things, they will die young in their next life.
Xie Mingzhe used to be very interested in supernatural novels, so when he was in college, he looked up the entire structure of the underworld. King Yan, the Four Judges, the Black and White Impermanence, Meng Po, etc. can all be made into cards.
However, he still needs to think about cards like King Yan and Meng Po. For now, he only needs to make an instant death card.
The material can be found among the four great judges, and "Punishment Officer" Zhong Kui is the closest, as he can punish evil spirits.
With this in mind, Xie Mingzhe began to conceive how to draw Zhong Kui based on the information in his memory.
In history, there was a picture of "Zhong Kui catching ghosts". Many people would stick it on their doors during the Spring Festival, hoping that Zhong Kui would scare away evil spirits and keep their homes safe.
According to folk legend, he has an ugly appearance with a stern face, curly beard, a leopard head and ringed eyes, but he is upright, not afraid of evil spirits, and is good at exorcising ghosts and evil spirits.
This character is completely different from the style of the four beauties that Xie Mingzhe had previously drawn. It also lets people who follow the card shop know that Yueban is not only good at drawing beauty cards.
After Xie Mingzhe came up with the idea, he connected his mental power to the card-making system and created the Zhong Kui card.
The burly man was wearing a bright red suit, with thick hair on his big head, angry eyes and a fierce face. Even children would be scared of him. But in fact, Zhong Kui had a mean face but a kind heart. He only caught those evil ghosts.
When designing skills, Xie Mingzhe first tried to create a ghost-type instant death skill, but the system reminded him that "the production failed". Is it because the ghost is already dead and cannot continue to die?
Xie Mingzhe thought for a moment. Since the instant death effect could not be achieved, he could have Zhong Kui send the joker card to hell to cancel all skills or pick up the joker card. This would not be much different from "instant death", right? He modified the skill description according to his own understanding and put a big bag in Zhong Kui's hand. Soon, the card was made.
Zhong Kui (Earth)
Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Level:★
Use times: 1/1 times
Basic Attributes: HP 200, Attack 0, Defense 100, Agility 30, Crit 0%
Additional Skills: Catching Ghosts (Zhong Kui, the evildoer of the ghost world, has a 30% chance of catching ghost cards into his bag, rendering them incapable of movement)
He can't cause an instant death effect, but he can catch the ghost in the bag, so that the ghost card can't use any skills!
Qiankun Bag is the weapon Xie Mingzhe gave to Zhong Kui. Ghosts are not physical entities, but souls. It makes sense to put souls into Qiankun Bag. The effect of this card is actually similar to the instant death card. The only difference is the execution method. The instant death card will kill the opponent's card instantly, while Zhong Kui will catch the ghosts into the bag.
Xie Mingzhe looked at the freshly-made cards with excitement.
Another vision came true, which gave him more confidence in himself.
Next up are the monster cards.
Speaking of monsters, we have to mention the work "Journey to the West". There are all kinds of monsters in Journey to the West. They cause all kinds of trouble on the way of Monk Tang to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Many of them transform into human forms to deceive Monk Tang, but none of them can be recognized by Sun Wukong's fiery eyes.
It is very easy for Sun Wukong to die as a demon. His Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils can see through the disguise, and he can kill one with one blow of his Golden Cudgel.
But Xie Mingzhe didn't want to waste the Monkey King card. The official regulations stipulated that instant death cards could only have one skill. Using the Monkey King as an instant death card was a bit of a waste of talent. As for the second brother Zhu Bajie, he had nothing to do with instant death, but Sha Seng...
Xie Mingzhe suddenly thought of Sha Seng’s weapon - the demon-subduing staff!
The Demon-Subduing Staff is also called the "Solo Staff". It comes from the Solo wood of the Moon Palace. It looks like a black rolling pin and is said to weigh more than 5,000 kilograms. When Sha Seng was appointed as the General of the Curtain, the Jade Emperor gave him the "Demon-Subduing Staff" as a weapon. Later, Sha Seng violated the Heavenly Law and was banished to the Flowing Sand River, where he committed many evil deeds and killed many people.
Later, when Tang Monk passed by the Flowing Sand River, he accepted Sha Monk as his apprentice. After being enlightened by Guanyin, Sha Monk realized the Buddhist principles and was given the Buddhist name "Sha Wujing". On the way to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures with his master, he never let go of the magic staff.
This weapon is definitely useful for fighting monsters!
Xie Mingzhe's eyes lit up. He thought, why not make Sha Seng into an instant death card for monsters?
He watched Journey to the West many times in his childhood. In his memory, Sha Seng was a simple and honest bald monk with a thick beard and a necklace made of large black beads around his neck. He simply drew cards according to the image in his memory and quickly completed the conception of the character.
As for the skills, Xie Mingzhe had also thought about it, and set it to be dead immediately after becoming a demon.
Sand Monk (Earth)
Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Level:★
Use times: 1/1 times
Basic Attributes: HP 200, Attack 0, Defense 100, Agility 30, Crit 0%
Additional Skills: Scepter to Subdue Monsters (Swing the scepter in your hand to cause severe damage to monster cards, with a 30% chance of triggering an instant death effect)
After the production was successful, Xie Mingzhe excitedly picked up the two cards and chatted privately with Tang Muzhou: "God Tang, I have made two more instant death cards, do you want to come and see them?"
Tang Muzhou replied almost immediately: "Okay, take me to your personal apartment."
Xie Mingzhe invited him to his apartment and showed Tang Muzhou two newly made cards.
Tang Muzhou: “………………”
Catch ghosts, subdue demons, this time it's the Hell Club's earth-type cards that are in trouble!
Tang Muzhou wanted to laugh, but was too embarrassed to laugh out loud, so he could only suppress his laughter and said to Xie Mingzhe in a serious tone, "I'll give you another suggestion. Since you've targeted the joker and monster cards, why not target the biggest boss in the earth card deck as well?"
Xie Mingzhe asked with interest: "What is the big boss of the earth card?"
Tang Muzhou said: "Lao Zheng's elephant card is particularly difficult to beat. Why don't you think carefully about how to kill his elephant?"
Xie Mingzhe: “…………”
Great players please don't blame him, this is not his fault alone, it is Master Tang who has been providing him with ideas for card making.
Tang Muzhou is the real culprit!