Chapter Summaries

Xie Mingzhe spent several days farming dungeons and making cards while waiting to see whether his first Daiyu Card would sell at auction. On Wednesday night, he went to the auction hall, where the card’s appearance drew the attention of rival guilds and Tang Muzhou.

• Xie Mingzhe planned more character cards and hoped a successful auction would help him build capital and launch a card specialty store.
• Red Candle and Illusory Moon grew anxious when Yueban’s cards disappeared from the Black Market and their emails to him went unanswered.
• Xie Mingzhe went to the Auction House before his evening dungeon to watch the auction, unaware that Tang Muzhou was observing him.
• The host introduced Yueban’s Level 1 One-Star Card, prompting Judgment and Fenghua to react and Tang Muzhou to recognize the logo.
• The host revealed that the card’s front-side data was about to appear.

Xie Mingzhe’s Lin Daiyu card, which could instantly kill flower-type cards, triggered a fierce auction and drew the attention of major guilds because it could counter Tang Muzhou. The bidding reached 100,000 gold, with guild representatives still waiting for instructions.

• The auction revealed Lin Daiyu’s Daiyu Burying Flowers skill, which dealt devastating damage to flower-type cards and had a 30% chance of instant death.
• Major guild card experts recognized the card’s competitive value and alerted their leaders, while professional players joked about Tang Muzhou being countered.
• The host opened bidding at 3,000 gold, and the price climbed to 5,000 before bids suddenly doubled to 10,000 and then 20,000.
• Guild representatives drove the price higher through a fierce bidding war, pushing it to 100,000 gold.
• Xie Mingzhe waited calmly as the auction paused at 100,000 gold and guild buyers asked their leaders whether to keep bidding.

Xie Mingzhe’s first Lin Daiyu Card sold for a record 660,000 gold coins after major guilds and Tang Muzhou fought over it. After the auction, he received a message from the buyer proposing to purchase Daiyu Cards in bulk, unaware that the buyer was Tang Muzhou.

• Major guilds bid against each other for the Lin Daiyu Card, while Illusory Moon ordered Judgment to stop bidding.
• Tang Muzhou bid 660,000 gold coins, and the card sold to him.
• Xie Mingzhe collected his earnings and decided to keep the game coins as reserve capital for a future shop.
• The Auction House NPC gave Xie Mingzhe a message from the buyer, who offered to meet and buy Daiyu Cards in bulk.
• Xie Mingzhe returned to his personal space and arranged his ten Daiyu Cards, recognizing that the record price was unlikely to happen again.

Xie Mingzhe rejected Judgment Club’s lucrative offer and planned to sell his Daiyu Cards independently, while the auction made his Yueban identity famous across the game. He then met the wealthy buyer who paid 660,000 for his card and wondered whether the buyer was a top player using an alternate account.

• Xie Mingzhe decided to stop auctioning Daiyu Cards and consider opening a shop because the Auction House process was too slow for mass sales.
• Setting Sun and Illusory Moon offered Xie Mingzhe improved pay and benefits to join Judgment, but he declined because he did not want to design cards for a club.
• Illusory Moon suspected Xie Mingzhe wanted to work independently, while Setting Sun realized the auction had made Yueban famous.
• Players and guilds reacted to a trending forum post about Yueban’s Daiyu Card selling for 660,000, though Xie Mingzhe did not know about the attention.
• Xie Mingzhe traveled to the Peacock Star Domain and met the buyer, whose default appearance and numerical name made him suspect the man might be a top player’s alternate account.

Tang Muzhou revealed that he had bought back Xie Mingzhe’s early Lin Daiyu Cards because he wanted to meet and guide him. He invited Xie Mingzhe to his apartment to demonstrate card-design techniques, where Xie Mingzhe discovered Tang Muzhou’s extensive collection of card-making materials and finished cards.

• Xie Mingzhe met Tang Muzhou, who admitted that the bulk Daiyu Card purchase was an excuse to bring him in for a meeting.
• Tang Muzhou showed Xie Mingzhe the nineteen old Lin Daiyu Cards he had bought back from the Black Market and explained that he had been watching Xie’s card-making progress.
• Tang Muzhou praised Xie Mingzhe’s creativity and offered to teach him card-design techniques, explaining how a card’s skill probability increased with level.
• Tang Muzhou invited Xie Mingzhe to his personal apartment to demonstrate real-time combat techniques and the limits of Lin Daiyu’s Instant Death skill.
• Xie Mingzhe visited Tang Muzhou’s study and saw cabinets filled with card-making materials, enhancement cards, and powerful finished cards.

Tang Muzhou helped Xie Mingzhe evolve Lin Daiyu into a Seven-Star Black Card and demonstrated that her powerful instant-kill skill depended on acting before her opponent. After raising Daiyu’s agility, Xie Mingzhe successfully killed Tuberose, but Tang Muzhou introduced a Banyan Tree whose shield appeared just as Daiyu attacked again.

• Tang Muzhou evolved Xie Mingzhe’s Lin Daiyu Card into a Seven-Star Black Card and showed him its stats.
• In a Phoenix Star Domain arena, Xie Mingzhe failed to make Daiyu kill Tuberose because Tuberose’s higher agility let it control her first.
• Tang Muzhou explained that speed determined who could act first, then raised Daiyu’s agility from 85 to 100 using enhancement cards.
• Xie Mingzhe used Daiyu Burying Flowers to instantly kill Tang Muzhou’s Tuberose in their next arena test.
• Tang Muzhou brought out a Banyan Tree, whose spreading branches formed a shield as Xie Mingzhe attacked Tuberose again.

Tang Muzhou explained arena timing, Agility, and deck-building to Xie Mingzhe after demonstrating how his Banyan Tree blocked Daiyu’s instant-death skill. Xie Mingzhe recognized his mentor as Tang Muzhou, and Tang asked how he had discovered his identity.

• Tang Muzhou showed Xie Mingzhe that the Banyan Tree’s protection resolved before Daiyu’s instant-death skill and explained how timing could stop an instant kill.
• Tang Muzhou explained that Agility determined casting speed and advised Xie Mingzhe to study arena rules and build balanced decks.
• Xie Mingzhe reconsidered how different card roles needed different attributes and resolved to keep learning card design and arena combat.
• Tang Muzhou asked whether Xie Mingzhe would become his disciple, and Xie Mingzhe said he had already guessed that Tang Muzhou was behind the numerical-ID account.
• Tang Muzhou asked how Xie Mingzhe had identified him, and Xie Mingzhe cited his plant expertise, arena skill, attention to his cards, and Tuberose Card.

Xie Mingzhe refused Tang Muzhou’s offer to become his disciple because he wanted to remain independent and retain the copyrights to his cards, but agreed to be friends with him. After Tang Muzhou logged off, Xie Mingzhe considered how to build his reputation as a card maker and expand beyond Daiyu.

• Xie Mingzhe told Tang Muzhou that he had also refused Nie Yuandao’s invitation and did not want to join a club or surrender his card copyrights.
• Tang Muzhou accepted Xie Mingzhe’s decision and offered to help him with card design as a friend; before logging off, he reminded Xie Mingzhe to check his inbox.
• A restaurant waiter told Xie Mingzhe that Tang Muzhou had added him to the Thousand Woods Restaurant’s VIP list.
• Xie Mingzhe reflected that the 660,000 sale of Daiyu had drawn attention to him as an Instant-Death Card maker.
• Xie Mingzhe decided to establish himself through Instant-Death Cards, while considering how to create more than just Daiyu since Wu Song’s copyright belonged to Nie Yuandao.

Xie Mingzhe planned a Xue Baochai card after creating Lin Daiyu, while Tang Muzhou and Fenghua Club discussed the Daiyu card and Fat Uncle’s other creations. The chapter ended with Tang Muzhou guessing that Fat Uncle had made an Instant-Death Card aimed at Nie Yuandao.

• Xie Mingzhe considered making a Baochai Chasing Butterflies card to accompany Daiyu Burying Flowers.
• At City of Evernight, Ye Zhu laughed about Tang Muzhou being targeted by a flower-type Instant-Death Card, while Pei Jingshan warned that a card targeting butterflies could threaten him.
• Xie Mingzhe checked his mailbox, found Red Candle’s repeated messages about Daiyu Burying Flowers, and arranged to meet her after his dungeon run.
• Red Candle told Xue Linxiang and Tang Muzhou that Fat Uncle had finally replied and would meet her at eleven-thirty.
• Tang Muzhou told Fenghua Club’s players that Fat Uncle was talented and reasoned that he had made another Instant-Death Card, likely one meant to target Nie Yuandao.

Tang Muzhou decided to cultivate Fat Uncle as a freelance card designer rather than recruit him, hoping he would create and widely sell more Instant-Death cards. Fenghua Club’s players discussed their competition plans, and Xu Changfeng suspected Tang Muzhou would use his free time to guide Fat Uncle.

• Tang Muzhou told Xue Linxiang and Red Candle that Fat Uncle had refused offers from both Judgment and Fenghua Club because he wanted to work independently.
• Tang Muzhou asked Xue Linxiang not to interfere, saying he wanted to personally guide Fat Uncle and help develop his talent.
• The Fenghua Club players discussed the upcoming individual event, and Shen An and Xu Changfeng agreed to compete while Zhen Man focused on the team event.
• Xu Changfeng realized Tang Muzhou had never intended to buy the Daiyu Card copyright and wanted Fat Uncle to create more Instant-Death cards for clubs to use.
• Xu Changfeng asked whether Tang Muzhou planned to use an alt account to guide Fat Uncle, but the chapter ended before Tang Muzhou answered.