After lunch, Xie Mingzhe logged on again and returned to the ranking hall of Phoenix Star Domain.

His rank was already the second-tier "Apprentice Star Card Master". Players at this rank had decks that were obviously better than those at the Apprentice rank, but they were still far behind the Dongwu deck that Xie Mingzhe had carefully put together.

Xie Mingzhe would always quickly analyze the opponent's card skills within the 20-second countdown before the start of the game to determine the strategy for the game. As long as the opponent did not use group agility to take the initiative, he would directly let Lu Meng take the initiative and defeat the opponent with a wave of continuous control.

The Wu card deck's fast-paced one-wave play is quite effective in the open card mode.

——Congratulations on your 15th consecutive victory, with a total of 12 bonus points!

——Congratulations on your 18th consecutive victory, with 14 bonus points!

--congratulations……

With the system prompts constantly ringing in his ears, Xie Mingzhe became more and more excited. After 23 consecutive wins, he had already reached the third-level "Intern Star Card Master" rank. He was still 100 points away from the fourth-level Star Card Expert. As long as he maintained his winning streak and won seven more games, he could be promoted directly to the Primary Star Card Expert!

After having dinner with his studio partners, Xie Mingzhe took half an hour to give his brain a good rest and went online again at 8 o'clock in the evening.

This period of time is the peak time for players to be online in the game, and the system only took 1 second to match him with an opponent.

Xie Mingzhe's deck is so strong in the open card mode that almost no one can stop his winning streak!

Twenty-five consecutive wins, twenty-seven consecutive wins, twenty-nine consecutive wins!

——Congratulations on your 29th consecutive win and reaching 100 points in your rank. Do you want to participate in the promotion tournament?

Xie Mingzhe took a deep breath and pressed the "Yes" option.

He felt great now, his blood seemed to be burning, but his mind was exceptionally calm. He had a clear understanding of the usage and timing of each card in Wu Guo's deck, so he might as well "strike while the iron is hot" and rush to the Star Card Expert level in one go!

——I have found your opponent.

Xie Mingzhe was teleported to the arena, and he immediately looked at his opponent's message.

The opponent matched by the system was called "Ke Xiaoke", a thin boy wearing a light blue plaid shirt and brown slim trousers. He had short black hair and a childish face, and looked a bit like a college student.

He used an earth-based deck, and it had a very unique feature—all seven cards were joker cards!

This was the second time Xie Mingzhe had seen the Joker deck in the arena, and it was obvious that the player in front of him who had won 29 consecutive games was much stronger than the newbie he had met in the Apprentice rank!

Xie Mingzhe quickly observed his deck. The Red Bride and the White-haired Female Ghost were both ranged group attack cards, relying on their hair as weapons to strangle opponents; the Headless Doll and the Hanged Ghost were single attack cards, and their attacks would also trigger the negative effect of "corpse poison"; the skill design of the Ghoul was even more perverted, it would devour corpses on the field, and the more cards that died, the higher its attack power would be.

In addition to these five attacking joker cards, there are two more. Among them, "Greedy Ghost" is group control, and "Ghost Granny" is the image of a hunchbacked old lady, which provides group treatment + group damage reduction.

The bride in red and the female ghost in white have a joint skill, and the combined power of the two cards can increase the critical hit rate of group attacks.

Xie Mingzhe thought of Gui Sirui from the Hell Club, the player called "Ghost King" by fans. This deck should be the deck of the great Gui Sirui, with five attack cards, which is obviously a critical hit and instant kill route.

At this moment, Ke Xiaoke excitedly sent a string of text messages: "Fat Uncle, Fat Uncle! How could it be you? What a coincidence!"

Xie Mingzhe was stunned: "Do you know me?"

Ke Xiaoke: "Of course! I'm your die-hard fan. I never thought I'd meet you in the arena!"

Xie Mingzhe was a little surprised: "You have a joker card, aren't you a fan of Gui Sirui?"

Ke Xiaoke: "No, no, no, I just like the horror style. I'm not a fan of Guigui. I haven't joined the Ghost Hell Guild. I want to join the Nirvana Guild, but I've applied for three days and it hasn't been approved yet!"

Xie Mingzhe explained: "There are too many applicants in our guild, and the president approves them in chronological order."

Ke Xiaoke: "I want to take a photo with Uncle Fatty!"

Although he said this, the boy's eyes moved quickly, observing the Fatty's deck.

You can't let Fat Uncle win on purpose just because you are a fan. Only by defeating Fat Uncle and pinning him to the ground and beating him up can Fat Uncle remember you more deeply - this is called "being a fan to the point of being a hater yourself".

As soon as the game started, Ke Xiaoke took the lead at an extremely fast speed!

The greedy ghost controlled the group, the red bride and the white female ghost used two cards to attack the group, the silky long hair extended instantly, the dense hair swept over, and suddenly entangled the necks of all the characters!

Xie Mingzhe's scalp went numb after being hit - Damn! The timid ones were scared to death, okay? Why on earth can something like jokers exist in a holographic game!

Fortunately, he was not afraid of ghosts and knew that these were just illusions.

Xie Mingzhe immediately calmed down and started to mock Sun Ce.

The red and white ghosts worked together but failed to kill the other squishy cards instantly. All the damage was dealt to Sun Ce. In addition, Sun Ce became invincible, which temporarily stabilized the rhythm.

However, the invincibility state is halved in the arena - you can be invincible for 8 seconds in the dungeon, but in the arena the system will forcibly reduce it to 4 seconds, which is also to prevent the pace of the game from being too slow.

As soon as the invincibility ended, Ke Xiaoke's headless doll and hanged ghost came out at the same time and killed Sun Ce instantly!

Xie Mingzhe did not save Sun Ce, because he had encountered this kind of deck with extremely strong one-shot kill ability, and he did not want to waste too many healing skills on Sun Ce, not to mention that Zhou Yu could still increase the attack if Sun Ce died.

As soon as Sun Ce died, the enemy began to focus their fire on Zhou Yu.

This strategy is a bit similar to the bird deck before Judgment. Xie Mingzhe's response is the same as before. Da Qiao secludes herself and recovers the crippled Zhou Yu.

However, when Ke Xiaoke switched his target, he did not attack Sun Shangxiang, but aimed at Lu Xun!

In fact, this is the correct plan to switch fire - because Sun Shangxiang has a "Return to Hometown" skill that can teleport away from the battle, and Lu Xun has no displacement skills. Lu Xun, who was surrounded by two ghosts, was instantly drained of blood and was difficult to save!

Since he can't be saved, let's make use of Lu Xun's last value.

Xie Mingzhe did not hesitate and directly opened the "fire camp" of Lu Xun!

This skill will not trigger a critical hit when there is no chain, but it can still knock down nearly 30% of the opponent's health.

The opponent's ability to seize opportunities was obviously very strong, worthy of being a player with 29 consecutive wins. In the blink of an eye, Lu Xun was dead. Ke Xiaoke used the ghost grandma's group blood recovery skill to restore the health of the entire team, and all seven ghost cards were full of blood.

The situation is quite unfavorable to Xie Mingzhe.

Sun Ce and Lu Xun died one after another, leaving only Lu Meng, Zhou Yu, Sun Shangxiang, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao. But Xie Mingzhe was not panicked - because the opponent's group attack skills and group blood-adding skills were all cooldown, and he still had a lot of card skills in hand, so he was not without a chance of winning in a 5v7 battle.

Xie Mingzhe quickly adjusted his thinking. He first used Lu Meng to blind the group and control the situation. Then he separated Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao and Sun Shangxiang, who were easily targeted, and evacuated them from the battlefield in three groups. He then summoned Zhou Yu and activated his group attack skill!

Chained iron chains, burning Red Cliff!

After a wave of group attacks, the opponent lost half of his health, and the blindness effect ended.

According to the original plan, he should have used Xiao Qiao's Chang He Yin to silence the group, and then let Sun Shangxiang come out to harvest. However, because Lu Xun was killed instantly at the beginning, he was unable to connect with Zhou Yu's group attack. Zhou Yu's group attack did not completely destroy all the opponents, and Xiangxiang could not kill anyone instantly with one arrow, wasting Xiao Qiao's control.

Xie Mingzhe decided to keep Xiaoqiao's group silence in his hand and release it at the critical moment.

All of Ke Xiaoke's red and white female ghost's group attack skills were cooled down, leaving only single target pursuit skills. Sun Shangxiang ran too far to be caught up, so he had to attack Zhou Yu.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yu was also disabled. Originally, Da Qiao could have healed Zhou Yu, but Xie Mingzhe did not do so - because both of Zhou Yu's skills were on cooldown for 45 seconds, and there was no need to protect Zhou Yu.

Ke Xiaoke discovered that Sun Shangxiang was behind him and shot an arrow!

The critical hit triggered by this arrow directly shot his "Headless Doll" with 40% health to about 5%. Ke Xiaoke didn't care too much. After all, it was 7v5 and he had a great advantage. He quickly used "Headless Doll" and "Hanged Ghost" to continue besieging Zhou Yu and bit Zhou Yu to death.

——7V4, almost sure to win!

Ke Xiaoke was extremely excited and continued to let the two jokers chase and kill Sun Shangxiang!

At this time, Sun Shangxiang activated the skill of "Returning to Hometown" and teleported to Xiao Qiao who was standing very far away.

Ke Xiaoke's pursuit failed, so he had to turn his fire to kill Lu Meng.

Lu Meng is a support card with slightly more HP, so it takes him longer to kill Lu Meng than Zhou Yu and Lu Xun. But at this time, three cards have died on the field, and the Ghoul will "devour the dead", and the more dead cards there are, the higher its attack power will be. After the Ghoul joins the battle, even Lu Meng with more HP will be dead in just 5 seconds.

He found that Sun Shangxiang shot another arrow from a distance, but it did not kill the bleeding headless doll, but instead shot the ghoul, whose health was about 50%, down to 10%.

Why didn't Sun Shangxiang kill the card with low health, but instead changed her target and disabled another ghost?

Ke Xiaoke was stunned and suddenly felt something was not right.

Where is Sun Shangxiang?! He can't find the location of this card!

Lu Meng was killed and the situation became 7v3.

At this time, in his deck, except for the healing ghost lady whose health is 80%, the other cards, the headless doll 5%, the corpse-eating ghost 10%, and several cards are all around 35%.

The ghost woman's group healing skill has 5 seconds left to cool down!

Seeing Uncle Fat calmly controlling the movement of the cards, Ke Xiaoke suddenly felt anxious. At the moment when the cooldown of the Ghost Granny's group healing skill ended, he immediately used his mind to control the Ghost Granny to release the group healing - as long as this skill was released, the whole group would recover health, and the opponent would definitely lose.

However, Xie Mingzhe had already calculated the time in his head, and released Xiao Qiao's group control 0.5 seconds earlier than his opponent.

——Song of the Long River!

The enemy group within the range is silenced and cannot release any skills. It lasts for 3 seconds!

Ke Xiaoke’s ghost grandma’s group healing skill can’t be read at all!

At the same time, soft piano music rang out - Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, "National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" joint skill, all-round attack power increased by 50%, defense power increased by 50%!

Sun Shangxiang, who was following behind, had her attack power greatly increased, and her skill cooldown ended again. She shot a sharp arrow at the headless doll with only 5% health left!

Instant kill, additional damage!

Just select the Ghoul with 10% health left, kill it instantly, and continue to deal additional damage!

Randomly select the bride in red and kill her instantly! Add damage and continue to kill the female ghost in white instantly!

With the bonus to her attack power, Sun Shangxiang was able to kill everyone in an instant without any reasoning. In just three seconds, she shot down the opponent's six joker cards in one second!

Ke Xiaoke felt unwell.

He stared at the scene in front of him in amazement. The neat woman with a longbow and a ponytail, in an extremely unfavorable situation of 3v7, actually killed six of his jokers in one breath and turned the defeat into victory!

Ke Xiaoke simply couldn't believe it!

He clearly had a huge advantage, so how could he be overturned in an instant by Sun Shangxiang?

The old ghost woman stood there alone, with one healing card and three cards against the opponent, so she had no chance of winning.

Ke Xiaoke finally came to his senses and sent a text message asking: "Did Fat Uncle have already decided to protect Sun Shangxiang to go into the endgame alone? You didn't add blood when I killed Zhou Yu and Lu Meng?"

Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "Yes, Sun Shangxiang is the core of my deck."

Ke Xiaoke: “…”

Xie Mingzhe continued, "You activated your group healing skill too early. The Ghost Granny's group healing skill has a 45-second cooldown, and my Sun Shangxiang's archery skill has a 15-second cooldown, which is just enough to catch you before you can heal and replenish your health. I can shoot twice to destroy all your cards, and the third shot will kill your cards instantly, triggering additional damage."

Ke Xiaoke: “…………”

Not only did he calculate the amount of damage accurately, he also calculated the cooldown time. Before the ghost lady started to attack the group, he used Xiao Qiao to control the situation, preventing the ghost lady from using any skills!

At the beginning, Sun Ce's top damage deceived all the group attack skills, Lu Xun's group attack deceived his group healing skill, Zhou Yu's group attack created a pad, Sun Shangxiang shot arrows twice to lower the blood line, and finally seized the opportunity to reap the aftermath.

——3v7 reversal, Ke Xiaoke has nothing to say except "I am convinced"!

All the healing skills of Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao were useless, just to keep Sun Shangxiang alone in the later stages!

The real core of this deck is actually Sun Shangxiang, and Uncle Pang has indeed proved that Sun Shangxiang is worthy of the responsibility of being the "late-stage core"!

Although Ke Xiaoke lost, he was more excited than Xie Mingzhe who won.

He directly posted a message on the public screen: "Hahaha, you are worthy of being my idol. I am convinced that I lost to my idol! Uncle Fat, can you add me to your guild? I set up a small guild before, but it didn't develop well and I disbanded it. I have management experience and can help you lead the group. I have commanded all the dungeons!"

If what he said was true, such a talent could naturally be recruited into the guild to help. Moreover, his reaction speed in the arena was indeed fast enough. Although his joker deck was imitated from Gui Sirui, he played it in a unique way, with clear goals and decisive actions. He even laughed when he lost. He was a very cute guy.

What's more, he is his own fan? Xie Mingzhe admired this Ke Xiaoke very much, so he said: "Add him as a friend and chat privately."

After leaving the arena, Xie Mingzhe heard a friendly system voice.

——Congratulations on achieving 30 consecutive wins and advancing to the rank of “Elementary Star Card Expert”!

The system sound coming from his ears made Xie Mingzhe couldn't help but smile.

He finally reached Star Card Expert!