books44 Chapter 150 Playing Cards and the Mythical Beast Garden (Part 2)
Chapter 150 Playing Cards and the Mythical Beast Garden (Part 2)
Chapter 150 Playing Cards and the Mythical Beast Garden (Part 2)
"Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a deck of system-specific playing cards." Even the still-cold system notification sounded sarcastic to Bai Ke at this moment.
"Heh... I spent such a precious chance to win a prize, and you give me a deck of cards? You're a swindler, you're a complete swindler, I'm going to file a complaint against you!"
Bai Ke roared hysterically, even his usually strong heart, which was used to accepting whatever he drew, couldn't take it anymore.
"Ding! This system solemnly warns the host that disrespect for the system will result in unknown punishment. Please think twice. Also, if the host is not satisfied, this system will take back the playing cards."
The system coldly suppressed Bai Ke's resistance, casually issuing a threat that proved effective.
The system space suddenly fell silent, and Bai Ke stared in disbelief at the penguin icon in front of him.
"You swindler! You're really ruthless... You're trying to rip me off with just a deck of cards, and you're even threatening me! Do you really think I won't fight to the death?"
"System!" Bai Ke shouted through gritted teeth, displaying a somewhat suicidal attitude.
"Ding! The All-Heavens Villain System obeys the host's orders. Is there anything else the host needs to say?"
The system, with a touch of wicked humor, feigned shyness and even changed to a sweet, coquettish voice, clearly having Bai Ke completely under its thumb.
"Bring me that deck of cards!"
Mmm...it smells so good! At this moment, Bai Ke seemed like the protagonist in a rural-urban exchange program, full of dark humor in the context of real-life drama.
"Hmph! Let me tell you, this is definitely something I'm afraid of. Hmph, there must be something strange about these playing cards that even your stingy system can't part with. I want to see what secrets they hold."
Although he was surprised to draw a deck of cards, he figured that anything produced by the system was bound to be of high quality, and Bai Ke wasn't so blind as to miss the words "System Special" in front of the deck.
"Heh, trying to outsmart me? You'll have to cultivate for thousands more years with this broken system..." Bai Ke sneered inwardly.
I initially thought the playing cards were a joke the system was playing on me, but I never expected that this damn system would so readily try to take them back.
This was practically telling Bai Ke that the playing cards were strange, had a problem, and were very valuable. Of course, Bai Ke wasn't stupid, so he directly asked the system for his reward.
"..." The system paused for a moment, then the penguin icon flashed, and a box about half the size of a palm appeared in Bai Ke's hand.
"Hmm? This looks pretty good..." Bai Ke opened the strange box that was neither gold nor jade and examined the "system-made playing cards" in his hand.
Like ordinary playing cards, these specially made playing cards are about half the size of a palm.
However, the material is countless times better than any playing cards Bai Ke had ever played in his previous life. It has a delicate texture and is incredibly smooth to the touch.
Bai Ke tried to take out a card and bend it. The card was very tough and of excellent quality; even with his strength, he couldn't bend it in half.
"Hmm... the quality is alright, it's not a shoddy project, it's acceptable." Bai Ke nodded, then turned the playing cards over.
Unlike the four suits of spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs in the standard deck, this system's specially made playing cards are printed with a flame-like pattern.
Bai Ke rummaged through the pile of playing cards in his hand and found that there were four different designs: a drop of water, a flame, a handful of yellow earth, and a pale blue wind mark.
The traces of wind are usually difficult to discern with the naked eye, but looking at that faint blue mark on the playing card, Bai Ke somehow felt that it was wind.
The invisible and intangible imprint of wind, along with the other three types of fire, water droplets, and yellow earth, made Bai Ke raise an eyebrow. Earth, fire, water, and wind...aren't these the four elements of creation?
Bai Ke had once heard someone explain the origins of the four primordial elements: earth, fire, water, and wind. They were not simply the four elements found in Western mythology.
The wind element variant is the lightning element, and the water element can be upgraded to the ice element, etc. This refers to the four spirits of heaven and earth that were born when Pangu separated heaven and earth.
The Azure Dragon governs water, the White Tiger governs wind, the Vermilion Bird governs fire, and the Black Tortoise governs earth. These four elements together form the four elements of creation.
Their special status was not without reason. According to that person, the wind element was unpredictable and never stopped, which corresponded to the time of the world's operation.
Water element nurtures all things, flowing and invisible, as if it were an omnipresent space; earth element is the land, the source of all things; and fire element represents movement and life.
These four elements together constitute the original colors of this world, and thus became known as the four elements of creation.
The playing cards in Bai Ke's hand, apart from the two jokers who can never be turned face up, consist of A to K, which are categorized into four elements.
"Hehe, how thoughtful... What's the deal with this thing?" Bai Ke muttered to himself as he played with the playing cards he got from the system.
He had previously drawn a playing card to test it out, wrapped it in his soul power and launched it, and it actually sliced through a huge rock by the roadside as easily as cutting tofu.
This is a stone from a fantasy world. Don't assume that just because cultivators can easily smash a boulder with a single palm strike, this stone isn't of very high quality.
It is known that under the nourishment of spiritual energy, ordinary animals can become spirits, and even ordinary stones become unimaginably hard.
The rocks in this mountain and sea realm cannot be easily crushed by a few hundred kilograms of force. Moreover, Bai Ke's playing cards were cut open, so the difference is self-evident.
Bai Ke looked at the 54 playing cards in his hand, cards that could cut through gold and jade, and felt a strange unease. It seemed... these playing cards wouldn't be bad as hidden weapons after all...
He still remembered watching a Chow Yun-fat movie in his past life, and the scene where the beautiful Chingmy Yau in the red dress threw playing cards like darts—it was truly…a feast for the eyes…
Of course, if Bai Ke were to throw the playing cards, it wouldn't be as eye-catching as when the beautiful Qiu Shuzhen did it. Moreover, Bai Ke is not lacking in such hidden weapons, so these playing cards must have other functions as well.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Ke squeezed a drop of blood from his fingertip onto the playing cards. Then, the 54 playing cards automatically gathered together and transformed into a strange black and white yin-yang symbol imprinted on Bai Ke's palm.
"Hmm? How come these Four Spirits Playing Cards have turned into a Tai Chi symbol, and they even change color?" Bai Ke saw the elemental imprints on his playing cards and named them Four Spirits Playing Cards.
However, after the playing cards were bound to the owner, for some reason, they formed a Tai Chi symbol in the palm of the hand, which was quite strange.