It was already two in the morning when he created Zhou Yu, but Xie Mingzhe was not sleepy at all. With the dungeon cards already overflowing, he was able to come up with a brand new skill combination and pass the system's review, which made him more confident in his own ideas.

However, this Zhou Yu card still has a lot of room for improvement. In order to pass the review, he just focused all his mental energy on the card's skill settings and did not pay much attention to the card's basic data.

According to the theory Tang Muzhou had mentioned to him, different types of cards have different data focuses. For one-time functional cards like Daiyu and Baochai, agility must be stacked to the highest level to ensure the speed of shooting. Zhou Yu is not a functional card, but an "AOE range output card". Agility is not the focus for Zhou Yu. The key lies in attack power and critical hit rate. The higher the attack and critical hit rate, the higher the fire damage Zhou Yu can deal.

Xie Mingzhe concentrated on connecting to the card making system, and this time he switched to the highest-grade nebula paper to redraw Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu card was magnified several times in his spiritual world, and every detail was presented in front of him with incomparable clarity. While drawing the character image more delicately, Xie Mingzhe focused on the card data. The numbers in front of him kept changing, and he tried to redistribute them with his mental power...

Five minutes later, the card modification was completed, and both attack and critical strike were significantly improved, but Xie Mingzhe was not sure whether this was perfect.

At this moment, someone tapped his shoulder gently. Xie Mingzhe took off his helmet and turned around. It was Chen Xiao standing behind him. He asked in a slightly hoarse voice: "It's two o'clock in the middle of the night. Why aren't you asleep yet? Have you researched a new card?"

Xie Mingzhe smiled and asked, "Brother Chen, why didn't you sleep?"

Chen Xiao coughed lightly and said, "I can't sleep. Come, let's play games together."

The reason for not being able to sleep was of course that he had received his brother's forgiveness today, and he had used the excuse of "we'll just be family members from now on" to fool around with the confession. To him, this was a good thing worth celebrating with firecrackers. Of course, Chen Xiao didn't dare to celebrate loudly, but he couldn't hide the joy in his heart. He tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. He heard some noises downstairs, so he came down to take a look, and happened to meet Xie Mingzhe who was very excited about making cards.

The two put on their helmets and entered the game. Xie Mingzhe pulled him into his personal space and handed him the newly made Zhou Yu card: "Brother Chen, I have made the new card, but I am not sure now. What data should be considered perfect for this card?"

When Chen Xiao saw the card skill, his eyes suddenly lit up: "This card of yours is definitely a great card for clearing dungeons!"

His affirmation made Xie Mingzhe very happy, and he immediately asked, "Do you still need to change the data?"

Chen Xiao thought about it carefully and made a suggestion: "You can adjust it again. Set the basic critical hit rate to 30%, and add 200 points of health to attack. Try to increase the basic attack to more than 500 points."

Xie Mingzhe immediately connected to the card-making system and readjusted it.

It is much more difficult to adjust the data of dual-skill cards than single-skill cards. If the instant death cards I made before were "three things in one" for the card character, skills, and data, then dual-skill cards are "four things in one". Both skills must be set, the characters must be drawn well, and the various data must be allocated. This is definitely a great test of the card maker's mental strength.

This is why high-level card makers are so popular - there are very few people who can take into account skill creativity, card image drawing, data adjustment, and high mental strength.

Xie Mingzhe failed three times in a row. Each time, the cards he made were either not fast enough or had poor attack.

Chen Xiao encouraged, "Don't worry. It's hard to make dual-skill cards perfect. Take a break and try again."

Xie Mingzhe rubbed his temples, rested for a while and started again.

…

Half an hour later, the newly-made Zhou Yu finally met Chen Xiao's requirements—basic attack exceeded 500, and basic critical rate was 30%!

However, Chen Xiao immediately said: "Next, you adjust the skill range from 20 meters to 23 meters."

Xie Mingzhe did not ask much. He remembered that when he and Senior Brother Qi went to the black market to buy cards during the novice period, they had mentioned the issue of skill range. The official maximum range of group attack skills in this game is 30 meters. The initial card is 23 meters, and it increases by one meter after upgrading to level 10. When it reaches level 70, the maximum range is 30 meters.

While controlling the basic data, the range of both skills must be adjusted at the same time, which is also a big project.

Another half an hour later, Xie Mingzhe finally breathed a sigh of relief and handed the final adjusted cards to Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao nodded in appreciation: "Great, this card now is the starting card with perfect attributes."

Xie Mingzhe said excitedly: "Let's upgrade it to level 70 and see!"

The two were transported from the galaxy navigation map to the Nirvana Guild territory, opened the warehouse as administrators, and took out the fire upgrade materials.

After feeding Zhou Yu a large amount of experience stones and evolution fragments, Xie Mingzhe picked up the level 70 black card Zhou Yu again.

On the back of the pure black metal card, a red flame pattern appeared, which looked particularly exquisite. On the front of the card, Zhou Yu, who was at level 70, had his basic stats dramatically improved.

Zhou Yu (Fire)

Level: 70

Evolution Star Level: ★★★★★★★

Use times: 7/7 times

Basic Attributes: HP 8000, Attack 40000, Defense 8000, Agility 75, Critical Hit Rate 100%

Additional Skill: Chain Link (Use flammable chains to link together enemy targets within 30 meters in front; cooldown time 10 seconds)

Additional Skills: Fire Chibi (Causes 170% group fire damage to enemy targets within a 30-meter range in front. If the attacked target is connected to other targets in any way, the fire damage will continue to be transmitted. The transmitted damage increases with the increase in targets, up to 200%; cooldown time 45 seconds)

The basic group attack exceeds the qualifying line of the seven-star card by 30,000, and the critical hit rate is 100%, which means it will definitely trigger a critical hit. The description range of the two skills becomes 30 meters. More importantly, the skill coefficients have also been greatly improved. The initial card's 100% and 130% have become 170% and 200% group attack damage respectively.

Chen Xiao was also very excited when he saw this card, and immediately pulled Xie Mingzhe and said, "Let's go and see it in action."

Since the copy has a limit on the number of people, a minimum of five people are required to open it, so the two of them came to the wilderness of Egret Star.

Chen Xiao knew that there was a monster spawning cave on Bailu Star, full of wood monsters around level 60, very densely populated. He brought Xie Mingzhe to the cave to try out the effect of the conducted damage.

At 3:30 in the morning, there was no one in the lower cave.

Xie Mingzhe saw the densely packed monsters in front of him, and decisively summoned Zhou Yu. He first used an iron chain to link up all the monsters in the front range, and then used his second skill to burn the Red Cliff - the fire first ignited the monsters in the front range, causing 50,000+ damage at one time, and then the fire quickly spread along the chain. With the increase in the number of targets, the flames became more and more intense, and later each jump caused 60,000+ damage!

The raging fire illuminated the dark night sky, and all the monsters in the range were burned to ashes by the spreading fire!

Xie Mingzhe: “…”

Chen Xiao: “…………”

This Zhou Yu card is simply a disaster for the monsters!

Chen Xiao touched his nose and said with a smile: "Xiao Xie, I originally thought that you could only make an ordinary card that can be used to clear dungeons. I didn't expect that your combination of the skill of chain linking fire would be so effective. If you sell this card, the income will definitely be higher than that of your instant death card."

Xie Mingzhe doesn't really care about how much money he makes. What he cares more about is whether this card can be recognized by God Lin.

He was eager to make a deck that could play in the arena, but he was at a loss as to the design of the deck. As long as this card could be recognized by the God of Forest, and the God of Forest was willing to accept him as a disciple, he could speed up the pace of making a battle deck.

Chen Xiao seemed to see what he was thinking and encouraged him, "Don't worry, my brother just wants to test you to see if you can make other cards besides instant death cards. It's already very rare that you can make a brand new copy card, he won't deliberately make it difficult for you."

With Brother Chen's words, Xie Mingzhe felt much more relieved. He thought for a moment and said, "I remember that there is a limit on the number of cards you can bring when playing a dungeon. Zhou Yu's defense is too weak, and he will die easily when besieged by monsters. You can't just bring Zhou Yu cards when playing a dungeon. You must have other cards to protect him."

Chen Xiao said: "Of course. However, we have a lot of protection cards in hand. For example, the Rhino for pulling monsters, the Ice Goddess for crowd control, and the Healing Goddess for treatment. When they wake up, we will try the effect of the actual dungeon combat."

Xie Mingzhe nodded: "Okay!" He glanced at the time. It was already four o'clock. He was very sleepy after spending so much energy on making cards. He put down the cards and said, "Brother Chen, let's go to bed first."

Chen Xiao didn't want to stay up all night either, so the two of them took off their helmets and went back to the second floor to sleep.

Xie Mingzhe used his brain for more than ten hours for the Zhou Yu card. He was exhausted and fell asleep quickly after lying on the bed.

However, he had a very strange dream.

The scene of "Zhou Yu fighting Huang Gai" appeared in the dream, which was also one of the scenes that impressed Xie Mingzhe the most when he watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Old Huang Gai was lying on a wooden bench with his upper body naked, and was beaten to a bloody pulp by Zhou Yu. Many people around him wanted to persuade Zhou Yu, but Zhou Yu ignored them and almost beat Old Huang Gai to a cripple.

In fact, this was a wonderful drama performed by Zhou Yu and Huang Gai in cooperation with each other. The purpose was to deceive the spies sent by Cao Cao and make Huang Gai surrender by tricking them.

This self-torture stratagem was the key to victory in the Battle of Red Cliffs. Huang Gai was beaten in public, pretending to be greatly insulted, and surrendered to Cao Cao. Cao Cao naturally did not believe that the general of Dongwu surrendered, but the spies he sent said that they saw Huang Gai being beaten badly with their own eyes, so Cao Cao believed it.

On the day of the false surrender, Huang Gai led his fleet down with the wind, hid grass and oil in the boats, and set a huge fire that completely ignited Cao's warships!

It is for this reason that there is the Chinese idiom "Zhou Yu fights Huang Gai, one is willing to fight, the other is willing to be beaten".

…

Xie Mingzhe slept until two o'clock in the afternoon of the next day. His brain had gotten enough rest and he was full of energy. His inspiration was like a spring and could not be stopped at all. Last night's dream gave him a lot of inspiration - since he had made the Zhou Yu card, how could he miss the old general Huang Gai?

Zhou Yu's health and defense are very low, and he can be easily killed by monsters.

If Zhou Yu had Huang Gai's protection, he would be relatively safe in the dungeon!

Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe immediately went downstairs and wanted to put on a helmet to enter the game to make a card.

Chi Yingying came over with a smile and handed him a thermal lunch box, saying, "Brother Chen just woke up, did you two stay up all night last night? You slept until two o'clock?" Chi Qing said calmly, "We have already had lunch, and I left two portions for you. Wash your face and eat first."

Chen Xiao just came out after washing his face and said, "It's not really an all-nighter. Xiao Xie made a new card and we worked on it until four in the morning before going to bed."

"New card?" Everyone immediately came over curiously.

"I'll enter the game and show everyone later. Go wash your face first!" Xie Mingzhe quickly ran into the bathroom to wash up.