This is the Real Duel!

"My first turn!"

Yuan Youxin's mouth curved upwards.

He had already won this duel!

[It's over! Why does this smurf get the first turn again! I thought I'd get to see him get crushed by a newbie.]

In the live stream chat, the audience also started to become pessimistic.

A weakling defeating a strong opponent was the kind of script people loved to see.

Moreover, because Yuan Youxin, despite having professional strength, insisted on staying in amateur competitions to earn prize money, the vast majority of the audience naturally favored Shen Sui while watching the live stream.

Of course, some extreme fans of Xinyuan didn't think so. When they saw Yuan Youxin get the first turn, they had already popped the champagne.

[Hahaha! With Ape God going first, isn't this a guaranteed win? Just blindly bet on Ape God winning.]

Someone who liked to stir up trouble had calculated Yuan Youxin's win rate and found that his win rate when going first was as high as 65.2%. For Soul Card duels, which relied a little on luck, a 65.2% win rate was astonishingly high.

This was related to the composition of Yuan Youxin's deck.

This explosive deck, once it got the first turn, would set up a field in the first turn that the opponent simply couldn't clear.

Furthermore, unlike Xu Tianzhi's censored deck in the Duel Exam, Yuan Youxin's deck had counters, and some followers had resistance. It wasn't something Shen Sui could clear with just one Arson.

"Are you ready to face your defeat, kid!"

Yuan Youxin's mouth curved upwards, revealing a confident smile.

"Because I have no followers on my field! I activate the effect of the Follower Card Green Mountain Disciple·Lin Yi from my hand! I Special Summon him from my hand."

[Here it comes! Ape God's most classic Disciple combo.]

[Fast forward, fast forward! I want to see that kid's despair.]

However, before the light of the Special Summon could even appear, Shen Sui's voice came through.

"At this time." However, at this moment, Shen Sui slowly spoke.

Yuan Youxin was stunned. It was his first turn. Why was it the opponent's timing?

"When the opponent activates an effect that includes Special Summoning or searching, I discard Saintess of Sin·Anna from my hand to the Graveyard to activate." Shen Sui drew Anna from his hand. "Negate that effect and send the card to the Graveyard."

A crisp sound announced the shattering of Green Seal Disciple·Lin Yi.

"Hand trap? I didn't expect you to have such a precious Soul Card in your hand." Yuan Youxin was a little surprised. Hand traps were as rare as Event Cards and Environment Cards in Soul Card duels.

"Just lucky."

Shen Sui lied.

Anna's original effect didn't actually include a hand trap. It was just that Shen Sui felt his current deck lacked necessary hand traps, and he didn't have many followers. Seeing that Anna's star level was high and could accommodate stronger effects, he wrote the hand trap effect onto her.

If he really relied on drawing cards randomly, who knew when he would draw a hand trap.

"But it's useless~! In my first turn, no one can stop me from setting up!" Yuan Youxin snorted coldly and said, "Then let me show you what a real field setup is!"

"Pay 10 Soul Points! Activate from my hand! Spell Card Green Seal Summoning Order! Pay 3000 Life Points! Flip cards from the top of my deck one by one, and Special Summon the flipped Green Seal Follower Cards! Until there are no empty follower zones on my field!"

Along with the activation of Green Seal Summoning Order, a soft chant echoed from Yuan Youxin's deck, followed by a celestial light shining on the field.

Yuan Youxin's deck was flipped card by card. Whenever a follower card was flipped, that follower would be immediately summoned to the field.

"At this time." The moment Yuan Youxin's first follower was successfully Special Summoned, Shen Sui spoke again, "Activate the effect of Saintess of Sin·Anna in the Graveyard. If she is in the Graveyard, when the opponent successfully Special Summons a follower, this effect must be activated. I draw one card from my deck, then take 500 points of damage from an unknown source."

"????" Yuan Youxin was stunned.

Could effects be activated in the middle of effect resolution?

However, the activation of Green Seal Summoning Order could no longer be stopped. Disciples of the Green Seal Sect were Special Summoned to the field one by one, until all five of Yuan Youxin's follower zones were filled.

And Shen Sui also drew five cards from his deck as a result.

At the same time, his Life Points also decreased to 3500 due to Anna's effect. There was nothing he could do. If it weren't for the restriction of taking damage, he wouldn't have been able to fit both hand trap effects onto one card.

"Powerful cards often come with risks," Shen Sui said with some regret, then he grinned and said, "However, at this time, I activate the effect of Saintess of Sin·Anna in the Graveyard. If she is in the Graveyard, when the opponent successfully activates a Spell Card effect, this effect must be activated. Reveal one card from my hand, and reduce that card's star level to 0."

Yuan Youxin's eyelid twitched: Are you kidding me, again?

[Damn! Fake card!]

[MD, this card should be on the forbidden list, right? It's too disgusting!]

[It's just a first-time kill, right? I just won't set up the field.]

[The one above hasn't played cards before, right? Cloud player?]

The chat also started discussing Shen Sui's card.

Shen Sui actually also felt this card was quite fake. When he was writing effects on it, he didn't expect Anna's constitution to be so good, allowing him to write down all the effects he thought of.

So the question was, would this card be forbidden?

First, the Soul Card Association wasn't that idle, constantly staring at Soul Card Masters without ranks and in low ranks, desperately forbidding cards. Their main focus was still on maintaining the balance of strength in A-class and B-class tournaments.

Second, due to the previous abuse of the forbidden card system, the state strictly ordered the Soul Card Association to rectify the forbidden card process. Now, for the same Soul Card Master, the Soul Card Association's forbidden card process would have a six-month cooldown. This meant that within six months after a forbidden card review, no matter how many people reported your cards, they would not be accepted into the forbidden card procedure. (A single forbidden card review does not mean only one card is reviewed. If your deck is highly controversial, the Soul Card Association will gather the cards that might be forbidden for review.)

Unfortunately, this was only treating the symptoms, not the root cause, and the domestic environment remained the same.

Third, hehe, this has to do with a small bug in the Soul Card Association's banned card rules.

Due to the way Soul Cards are obtained, Soul Card Masters get far fewer Follower Cards from the Soul Card world than Spell Cards. In this case, if you ban the already scarce Follower Cards in a Soul Card Master's hand, how are they supposed to duel? You can't expect people to win using only spells, right?

Therefore, the Soul Card Association's banned card rules stipulate that Follower Cards of non-professional players are not allowed to enter the banned card process. If the number of Follower Cards of professional players is not more than one-third of the total number of cards in their deck, their Follower Cards are also not allowed to enter the banned card process.

By the way, to prevent professional players from circumventing the banned card review by adjusting their decks, the number of Follower Cards here is based on the deck they used when they won in professional matches.

You say they lost all their professional matches? If they lost all of them, how could there be any banned cards in their deck?

Shen Sui had specifically studied the banned card rules in order to use banned cards to exploit the Soul Card Association's gold coins.

He even sighed with regret when he saw the rule about the banned card cooldown period.

He dared to use Anna, so he wasn't afraid of Anna being banned.

"Come on, let me see what a real setup looks like," Shen Sui said, looking at Yuan Youxin with a smile.

Provocation!

This guy is provoking me!

Yuan Youxin's eyelids twitched wildly.

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