Since this was a match, they naturally couldn't hold it in the pavilion. Fortunately, Taishu Zheng had planned ahead and already prepared a suitable venue.
Before them stood a highly advanced, purpose-built Competition Arena. It was quite large, roughly two hundred meters long and a hundred meters wide. An enormous Energy Shield rose around it, allowing everyone to watch the match clearly without worrying about their safety. Shields designed for arenas like this offered astonishing protection. Unless an expert on Tang Hanpei's level struck with all his strength, or someone used a War Card, ordinary Card Adepts couldn't shake it in the slightest. But operating it was also extremely expensive: it consumed one Six-Star Energy Card every three hours!
These days, even five-star Energy Cards were hard to buy, let alone Six-Star Energy Cards! Only wealthy, powerful families had any chance of acquiring them. Apart from them, the military kept some in stock. Certain large and gigantic pieces of Combat Card Machinery required Six-Star Energy Cards to operate, while the very best even needed Seven-Star Energy Cards.
Still, those were only rumors. No one had ever seen them.
Even with Taishu Zheng's wealth, spending a Six-Star Energy Card tonight would leave him aching over the expense for a long time. The entire Taishu Family possessed only a handful, most of them inherited from their ancestors. During its glorious days, the family had accumulated a stock of Six-Star Energy Cards, but few remained now. Every generation of family heads had done everything possible to stockpile them, yet despite pursuing every available channel, they had acquired very few.
The rising transparent Energy Shield drew wave after wave of astonished murmurs from the guests. They knew quality when they saw it; extravagance on this scale was rare.
"It looks like our eldest brother