"I tuned the Level 6 Swordsoul Strategist - Longyuan on my field with the Level 4 Tuner Token. Synchro Summon! Level 10 Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying!"
"Longyuan's effect: when this card is sent to the Graveyard as Synchro Material, you take 1200 LP damage!"
Sheng Ning LP: 8000 → 6800
As Chengying appeared, Sheng Ning paid no attention to the 1200 LP she had lost. Her eyes remained fixed on Chengying.
A Level 10 Synchro, the boss monster of the Swordsoul Archetype. It only had 3000 ATK, yet it dared to take an Attack Position in front of her 4500-ATK Ancient Gear boss? She refused to believe it had no special effect.
Just as she was wondering about Chengying's effect, Bai Yun'er beside her spoke in stunned disbelief.
"Senior, Longyuan actually has this hidden effect? I never knew."
Bai Yun'er calling Longyuan's effect a hidden effect instantly left Youye speechless.
You played a Synchro-focused deck as though it were for Tribute Summons. Even Longyuan's easiest effect to trigger was being called a hidden effect. That was a little absurd.
Then she said something even more shocking.
"But Senior, bringing out Chengying is useless. You don't have any Bystials in hand, so you can't proactively banish cards yourself to trigger Chengying's banish effect. You can't deal with the opponent's boss this turn. Chengying's replacement destruction effect only protects against effect destruction, not battle destruction."
"Ah, Little Bai, if you use Swordsoul like that, the Swordsoul spirits will really cry."
Hearing that, Youye sighed softly.
Youye could understand not being familiar with the Tenyi Engine. But how unfamiliar did someone have to be with her own deck to not know what her cards did? Did she really spend every day thinking only about how to summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon?
Meanwhile, Sheng Ning silently memorized the information Bai Yun'er had revealed, feeling relieved.
A triggered banish effect that could not be stopped by effect destruction—against her Ancient Gear Archetype, that was easy to deal with!
"Watch closely!"
After reminding Bai Yun'er, Youye continued building his board.
"I activate the Normal Spell, Swordsoul Emergence, from my hand. Through its effect, I can add 1 Swordsoul Archetype monster from my deck to my hand. There is more text on this effect, but I won't mention it, because the monster I added was Swordsoul Strategist - Taia!"
"I Normal Summon Taia and activate its effect. I banish an Archetype Card or Wyrm-Type monster from my Graveyard to Special Summon a Swordsoul Token. I banish Longyuan from my Graveyard and Special Summon a Swordsoul Token."
"Since I banished a card, Chengying's effect activates. I use Non-targeting Banish to banish one card each from your field and Graveyard. I banish the Ancient Gear Golem in your Graveyard and the Ancient Gear Ultimate Golem on your field. Since it was banished, Ultimate Golem's destruction effect cannot activate. Also, because three cards have been banished, Chengying gains 300 ATK and DEF, while the monsters on your field lose 300!"
Sheng Ning: ...
Just moments ago, she had confidently believed she had won. Yet her massive boss monster had vanished from the field?
And Youye clearly still intended to keep building his board. He had merely dealt with her boss along the way—dealt with it so thoroughly that it could not even activate its final effect!
This was the first time she had ever seen something like this since joining the Inspector Bureau!
Bai Yun'er: ???
Swordsoul was this strong? How had she not known? With just this move, she could not say for sure about Earth Rank, but Xuan Rank would be easy, right?
It seemed she would have to have a proper talk with the Swordsoul spirits when she got back. No matter what, she had to lick Chengying into her possession. No, she had to beg for it!
What Blue-Eyes White Dragon? Sorry, Bai Yun'er no longer knew it from this moment onward!
When she got back—no, the moment Senior's duel ended—she would immediately remove Blue-Eyes White Dragon from her deck.
A mere Normal Monster was not worth even a single hair on Chengying, the boss monster of her Swordsoul Archetype!
"I tune the Level 4 Taia with the Level 4 Tuner Swordsoul Token. Synchro Summon! Level 8 Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao!"
"Chixiao's on-summon effect activates. I search or banish one Swordsoul Archetype card. Then, Chain Link 2: Taia's effect when it was sent to the Graveyard as Synchro Material allows me to send a Swordsoul Archetype card or Wyrm-Type monster from my deck to the Graveyard!"
"Following the principle of resolving the later effect first, with Chain Link 2, Taia's effect sends Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda from my deck to the Graveyard. With Chain Link 1, Chixiao's effect adds Swordsoul Sacred Summit from my deck to my hand."
"I could actually take a different route and keep building, but the lethal damage is already enough, so there's no need to waste time building the board further."
Youye glanced over the field and smiled.
"Senior, that's not right! Sister Sheng still has a monster with 1300 ATK on her field. Your total ATK is only 7200, so you can't reduce Sister Sheng's 6800 LP to zero!"
After looking over the field, Bai Yun'er raised her question to Youye.
Sheng Ning was equally puzzled. She had no idea what Youye was planning by saying that.
"It's simple. By my next step, the monster on her field will be gone. At the same time, I'll let the Tenyi Engine have a little more participation."
Youye answered, then continued his plays.
"The effect of Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda in my Graveyard: if I control a face-up monster that is not an Effect Monster, I banish this card from my Graveyard and target the Ancient Gear Wyvern on her field. Return that card to its owner's hand!"
After Youye finished his move, Bai Yun'er's mouth fell open as she stared at the scene before her in disbelief.
A board she could never break through had been dismantled by Youye so effortlessly? And he still had room to spare, with more plays to make?
For the first time in her life, she felt what a gap truly was—a gap in duel understanding!
Sheng Ning said nothing this time. She kept thinking about who Youye really was.
This was too unreasonable! He dismantled her powerful board while answering Bai Yun'er and building his own board, all with incredible fluidity. It was as though the moment he saw what she had built, he had already thought of how to deal with it.
This was the first appearance of the Swordsoul Archetype and the Tenyi Archetype, which was known for being weak. How could they become so powerful when combined? And why did he know how to combine them this way?
It was unreasonable. Far too unreasonable!
"Well? Do you recognize the strength of Tenyi Swordsoul, and my strength now?"
Looking at the two women, both wide-eyed and open-mouthed without the slightest concern for their image, Youye smiled and asked.
Upon hearing Youye's voice, Bai Yun'er did not hesitate in the slightest. She pulled out a pink wallet, took out a card, and said excitedly, "I do! I absolutely do! No wonder Senior said it had a Heavenly Rank floor and that King Rank wasn't a dream. This Tenyi Swordsoul deck is far stronger than any deck I've ever seen!"
"This is an unregistered bank card. There's 1.5 million in it, and the password is 123456. No need to return the extra 500,000. Consider it payment for Senior demonstrating the deck's plays!"
"Good! Come over, and I'll explain the deck build and the cards to you. If there are any plays you don't understand, any cards for improving it, or ways to adjust the build based on your opponent, you can come to me. The price is negotiable. If you have no money, you can also trade cards I need."
Youye happily accepted the bank card and reminded her.
Sheng Ning had just said that Bai Yun'er came from Hangzhou's White Dragon Family. It was the strongest family in Hangzhou, once a top-ten family in the country. They certainly did not lack money or cards. Such a fat sheep—no, such a generous customer—naturally deserved long-term development.
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