Mythical Card Supplier: Starting with Nezha, the Third Lotus Prince

After gaining the title of "Successfully defeating the fourth-year students of Zhongyuan Academy and reaching the top," the Imperial Royal Family will inevitably allocate more resources towards Sasaki Kawsaki.

After all, the Sasaki family is one of the top clans in the Da He Clan world.

Compared to the resources he's about to receive, the treasures of Grotto Heaven are just a drop in the ocean.

Especially among the fourth-year students of Zhongyuan Academy, almost all the late-stage Jianglu students are in that Secret Realm; even if Sasaki Kawsaki went, he might not get anything.

Just look at the recent battle between the Xuanxiao Period and the Ju Zi Period.

Their talents from the Da He Clan are ranked around 200 in the Zhongyuan Academy.

This is the strongest talent of his realm in the entire world of the Da He Clan.

The Human Clan's world is truly a place of outstanding individuals and rich resources.

The chubby team leader glanced greedily around, then quickly concealed it.

Sasaki Kawsaki began his challenge.

Jiang Yuan, folding his arms with interest, watched the stage; now unable to use his Star Power, watching the fight was a good way to kill time.

After all, there was still about an hour until his Star Power could be converted.

Sasaki Kawsaki was only about 1.6 meters tall, not as tall as Nezha.

Of course, Purple Card Nezha.

The height of Purple Card Nezha is about 1.7 meters, and that's without using [Power Release].

After using [Power Release], Nezha's height was at least 3 meters.

Even Shi Ji's height was over 1.7 meters.

This guy from the Da He Clan really is.

Jiang Yuan shook his head slightly, perhaps his height was to accommodate his tactics.

Sasaki Kawsaki's profession is an assassin, or as they call it, a ninja.

The battle began with a thrown set of darts, and then a blue light flashed from the card, followed by a puff of purple smoke on the field, which faded along with Sasaki Kawsaki's figure disappearing.

His opponent was a fourth-year student from Zhongyuan Academy, a Skill Card Master.

After resisting the Skill Card Master's [Ring of Fire Resistance] with an unknown method, Sasaki Kawsaki cleanly finished off his opponent.

Jiang Yuan frowned slightly, feeling that the card used just now looked somewhat familiar.

But soon, the second match began, and Jiang Yuan didn't dwell too much on his feelings.

Time passed quickly, and soon fewer challengers were facing Sasaki Kawsaki.

After all, Sasaki Kawsaki had late-stage Jianglu strength and belonged to the Second Sequence Race, but his performance was commendable.

His strength was about equivalent to an average talent of the First Sequence Clan.

Similar to once Mu Qianshan.

There are many talented participants in Zhongyuan Academy, but the problem is, not many are still in the academy.

As the mid-stage Jianglu players were defeated one by one, Sasaki Kawsaki changed from his initial humility and became arrogant.

"Is this all Zhongyuan Academy can muster? I am already ranked over 400 in your academy, and yet there are no more challengers?"

According to the rules, whether it's Zhongyuan Academy or the challenging Da He Clan, as long as one wins the battle, one can become the champion and accept challenges from the other side.

Clearly, now the situation is that those who can defeat Sasaki Kawsaki aren't here, and those who can't certainly wouldn't step forward.

But still, some students responded to Sasaki Kawsaki's provocation.

These were the students who didn't have the strength to participate in the crowds at Grotto Heaven.

Naturally, they were not a match for Sasaki Kawsaki.

Even Zhu Zhenzhong, who had previously lost to Jiang Yuan, stepped up but was also defeated.

Most importantly was Sasaki Kawsaki's taunting.

"Just a fourth-year with a rank above 2000 trying to challenge me? What an overestimation of abilities!"

Watching the disdain on Sasaki Kawsaki's face, Zhu Zhenzhong exploded with anger.

But he had indeed just lost.

Amidst his fury, Zhu Zhenzhong found it odd—that card Sasaki Kawsaki used to dodge his fatal attack, called Substitute Technique, looked so much like [72 Transformations·Fake Shape]?

Zhu Zhenzhong frowned, but as he left the arena he suddenly saw Mu Qianshan.

As for the person next to him, looking down with a hat, he didn't pay much attention.

But soon, Zhu Zhenzhong shook his head, and amidst Sasaki Kawsaki's relentless taunts, he left the stage dejectedly.

Mu Qianshan could only sigh helplessly; after all, he was merely at the initial stage of Jianglu, although he had always followed Jiang Yuan. But to compare the initial stage strength to the late stage of Jianglu, it seemed only Jiang Yuan was capable of that.

If only Jiang Yuan were here, he definitely wouldn't allow him to be so arrogant.

But Jiang Yuan must have gone to the Grotto Heaven to fight for the Secret Treasures there.

After all, there have been rumors lately that Jiang Yuan has been short on money.

But that makes sense, being a Card Maker really burns through money.

Especially since the cards Jiang Yuan crafts are new types that have never appeared on the market before.

The research and development of such new type cards consume even more resources.

Zhu Zhenzhong chuckled ruefully to himself and turned his head to look back at the arrogant face of Sasaki Kawasaki, clenching his fists.

He was determined to climb the ranks and enhance his strength!

So that when enemies come knocking at the door, he would have the power to defeat them.

"How much longer do you need? I might not be able to beat him."

On stage, Sasaki Kawasaki continued to taunt, endlessly spouting things like how Zhongyuan Academy had no worthy people, and how this is the level of the Human Clan now.

Occasionally someone retorted, saying all the strong individuals had gone out, only to be rebutted by Kawasaki saying "What a coincidence I came now, if you're weak, you're weak, those excuses won't help."

The crowd below was furious, yet those who went up to challenge him were still defeated by Sasaki Kawasaki.

Sasaki Kawasaki grew even more arrogant, and the plump team leader's face showed a smug smile.

Mu Qianshan could not stand it any longer, so he turned to Jiang Yuan beside him.

He knew his own strength, and it seemed unlikely to defeat the stronger Sasaki Kawasaki at Jianglu's initial stage with his own power.

But as long as Jiang Yuan was by his side, he felt reassured!

"I need about ten more minutes."

After checking his Star Power reshaping progress, Jiang Yuan responded.

Honestly, Jiang Yuan was angry too, but indeed, as Mu Qianshan just mentioned, he still needed some time to reshape his Star Power.

During this period of reshaping Star Power, he was completely devoid of combat power.

Even a normal person could run and jump better than him; after all, during this period he was akin to a patient with muscle weakness.

"Ten minutes, I should be able to hold on."

Mu Qianshan looked around, seeing that no one else was going up to challenge, and then spoke to Jiang Yuan.

"Mhm."

Jiang Yuan pursed his lips, knowing he would have to let Mu Qianshan go up first to buy some time.

After all, he couldn't even summon the Star Power to give Mu Qianshan a card to help.

If only he could open his backpack card, he would have given Mu Qianshan the unused Purple Quality Array Card [Fiery Flame Formation] he crafted before.

With Mu Qianshan's strength and with [Fiery Flame Formation], there was a 60% chance of defeating the opponent.

"Alright, then I'll go up and try to buy you ten minutes."

Mu Qianshan said, and then headed straight to the stage.

"Does Zhongyuan Academy have no one left? How can someone with the initial stage of Jianglu strength dare to challenge me at the late stage?"

"Whether I can defeat you or not, don't we need to fight to find out?"

The technique Sasaki Kawasaki used was also a kind of Ninjutsu.

The technique, one of the Five Carriages, the Fury Carriage, aimed to enrage the opponent and cause them to lose their cool, thus creating an opportunity to defeat them.

However, Mu Qianshan, having followed Jiang Yuan for a long time, automatically entered a calm state upon entering battle, just like Jiang Yuan.

Therefore, the provocations from Sasaki Kawasaki didn't affect Mu Qianshan at all; his only thought was how to defeat the adversary.

It's a pity that Jiang Yuan couldn't summon his Star Power. Otherwise, with some luck from Zhao Gongming, it might be possible for him alone to defeat this guy.

Entering the arena, Mu Qianshan recognized that luck was indeed an issue, especially since his [Purple Mansion Sword] itself required a bit of luck to trigger skills.

If he had luck enhancement, then it wouldn't be impossible to challenge someone two levels higher with the sword in hand!

Mu Qianshan looked at Sasaki Kawasaki with a cold laugh; a Purple Quality Card appeared in the air.

Blinding purple light!

Unsheathed Sword!