A hundred light bombs flew free in unison. The Young Guard moved as one, and those hundred light bombs looked like a hundred suns!
Boom!
The hundred suns converged within an area five meters across.
The dazzling red mass of light suddenly expanded. The extreme heat warped the air, severely distorting everything in sight. Scorching currents rampaged like a raging flood. Snow vaporized in the blink of an eye, while the towering conifers yellowed, burned, rapidly carbonized, and finally turned to ash that the air currents swept away without a trace.
All the Card Adepts stared blankly, stunned by the scene before them.
"Is this really a three-star card?" one of the female Level Seven Card Adepts murmured. Of the fifteen Level Seven Card Adepts, seven were women, a ratio almost unimaginable elsewhere in the Federation. But this was Tiandongli District, where women had traditionally overshadowed men. The customs Frostmoon Cold Isle had established over the years had given women generally higher standing in Tiandongli District. It also had the most female Card Adepts of all the Five Great Districts.
The woman was named Bei Ling, a Card Adept who had graduated from a small academy. During her school years, she had been its most outstanding student, and her progress remained rapid after graduation. Last year, she had broken through the Level Seven barrier in a single leap, formally joining the ranks of Level Seven experts.
For a small academy like hers, producing a Level Seven Card Adept was no easy feat. The legacy she had studied was thoroughly ordinary, as was her perception training method, to say nothing of her cards. That she had still managed to reach Level Seven spoke volumes about her astonishing talent. She was not particularly beautiful, but she was rather cute, and everyone liked