Immortal Card

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Power Progression

The documented increases concern Wang Yan’s cultivation, the artifact’s restoration, and the cards’ performance, rather than an independent cultivation realm attained by the artifact.

Background / History

Card Fairy developed the Immortal Card Artifact to reduce the time cultivators spent learning spells. Her invention combines artifact refining, formations, pill refining, spells, incantations, and talismans. She describes it as unique in the cultivation world and claims that almost every True Immortal in the immortal world covets it 11 50.

According to Card Fairy, the artifact broke apart when she fled into Wang Yan’s world. Its missing components should therefore remain somewhere in that world, although neither she nor Wang Yan initially knows their locations 9 14.

After Wang Ziling destroyed Wang Yan’s dantian and nearly killed him, Card Fairy placed the surviving fire component in his abdomen to save his life. It became inseparable from his flesh and provided an alternative vessel for cultivation 8 9.

The possibility of creating a Resurrection Card changed Wang Yan’s long-term goal: he resolved to restore his parents and another lost loved one. Accomplishing this requires recovering the artifact’s scattered components, as only the complete artifact can refine and use a Resurrection Card 13 14.

Restoration and Card Fairy’s Recovery

The Four-Armed Stonefire Spirit Beast’s Fire Spirit Liquid provides the first major documented repair. Wang Yan notices faster magical-power circulation and additional runes on the artifact, while Card Fairy explains that it can now refine suitable cards internally 110.

During the confrontation with Wang Ziling and the Devil Lord, Card Fairy channels her remaining power through the artifact to save Wang Yan from demonic contamination. She warns that the expenditure will render her unconscious and that repairing the artifact is necessary for her recovery 129.

The Flame Spirit Pearl subsequently repairs another portion of the artifact and helps Card Fairy awaken. By this stage, one-third of the fire-type artifact has been restored, and its card-refining speed and replacement functions have improved 163 166.

Recovery of the Elemental Components

Card Fairy detects a trace of the missing water-type artifact in Kui Water Spirit Milk, prompting Wang Yan to investigate its source. The fragment has inhabited and merged with a Kui Water Lotus, obscuring its aura and accounting for the unusual milk. Card Fairy compares this to the fire-type artifact’s earlier attachment to nebula ore at the bottom of a lake, where it drew on the ore’s spiritual energy to preserve its awareness 190 193.

A later search follows the fluctuating aura of another water-type portion through snowy mountains and bodies of water. When the signal begins moving rapidly, Wang Yan pursues it toward the Wang Household on Azure Spirit Mountain 200.

By his stay at the Ma Family, Wang Yan has obtained an additional water-type piece. Although still too incomplete to form another dantian, it assists his puppet refinement through ice spells and controlled cooling. The water-type artifact later becomes functional enough to support three active cards and, eventually, six 212 249 305.

After reaching the Golden Core Stage, Wang Yan travels the Thirty-Two Kingdoms Continent with two principal objectives: finding the other three of the Five Elements Immortal Card Artifacts and repairing his original dantian. During his prolonged confinement in a Time-Control Formation, the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage restores that dantian, allowing Wang Yan to cultivate through three dantians while continuing to strengthen his artifacts 300 301.

In the Taiwu Mountains’ treasure chamber, Wang Yan senses an earth-type artifact inside a protected chest. He secures it through his treasure-sharing negotiations, but discovers that it is too damaged to open a new dantian or activate earth-type cards. He returns to the ruins to work on its restoration 304 305.

Fulfillment of the Resurrection Project

By the final confrontation in the Void Chaos Space, Wang Yan has become an Immortal Venerable and successfully refined one Resurrection Card. He remains unable to choose whether to revive Yun or his parents first. Having exhausted the available materials in his current Immortal Domain, he discusses searching the Thirty-Second Immortal Domain with Card Fairy. No resurrection is shown in their final exchange 307.

Appearance

• Surviving artifact component: A small, red, triangular, metal-like plate embedded in Wang Yan’s abdomen without any visible gap. Attempting to pry it loose causes pain 2 8.
• Internal structure: Wang Yan senses metal tubes serving as meridians and an extremely complex metallic space in which red spiritual light gathers 11.
• Fireball Spell Card: An exquisitely crafted red card covered in fine runes. Its front bears the character for “fire,” two facing dragons, and a fireball; auspicious cloud patterns cover its back. Despite these designs, the finished card initially emits no detectable spiritual energy 12.
• Water-Fire Blast Card: A red card depicting a taiji-like orb of intertwined red and blue flames, with its name written at the bottom 16.
• Fire Blast Technique Card: A fiery-red card resembling the Fireball Spell Card, but bearing an image of buried flame 86.
• Repaired fire-type artifact: Additional runes appear after it absorbs the Stonefire Spirit Beast’s Fire Spirit Liquid 110.
• Water-type fragment: Initially encountered while inhabiting a Kui Water Lotus; Card Fairy clarifies that the lotus is its host, not the artifact’s actual shape 193.
• Defense Puppet Immortal Card: Bears its name on the surface and is produced when Wang Yan draws the completed metal puppet into his body and expels it in card form 212.
• Divine Artifact Embryo card: Depicts a smooth, armor-like structure resembling connected metal cylinders and spheres 282.
• Concealment Card: Depicts a gray halo and bears the words “Concealment Card.” Activation produces a wash of gray light over Wang Yan 292.
• Heaven-Creating Immortal Card Formation: Countless brilliantly colored cards create a five-colored formation tens of thousands of miles across, projecting divine beasts, mountains, ancient trees, weapons, giant puppets, and boundless flames 307.

Abilities & Functions

Dantian Replacement

The surviving component stores spiritual energy in place of Wang Yan’s destroyed dantian 9.

• The artifact opens two internal channels through which he can direct energy into it 9.
• Its initial fire component accepts only fire-type spiritual energy. Wang Yan’s water-based cultivation attempt fails and causes pain 9 10.
• At low cultivation, withdrawing magical power from the artifact is slow, placing him at a disadvantage when using power directly 15.
• Each elemental artifact requires a corresponding cultivation method. Card Fairy explains that additional immortal roots can be acquired when necessary, allowing eventual use of elements Wang Yan does not naturally possess 190.
• Functional components act like additional dantians, increasing magical-power accumulation and cultivation speed rather than merely dividing his attention between methods 190.
• Incomplete or severely damaged components do not automatically provide this benefit: the water-type component initially cannot serve as a second dantian, and the newly acquired earth-type component cannot open its dantian 212 305.
• The artifact was originally intended to assist cultivation, not necessarily replace the natural dantian. Once the Medicine Sage repairs Wang Yan’s original dantian, he cultivates through three dantians 190 301.

Spell Storage and Rapid Casting

An Immortal Card preserves a spell or divine ability for use through the central artifact 13 14.

• Users can cast a stored spell without learning it themselves; another cultivator can provide the spell during refinement 14.
• Initial activation requires an incantation, hand seals, a little magical power, and attaching the card to the body. The Fireball Spell Card then dissolves into red motes that enter Wang Yan 12 13.
• Once activated, the Fireball Spell Card releases attacks almost instantly, without repeated chanting or hand seals 18 49.
• Card-generated fireballs are faster and more accurate than talisman attacks and consume little of Wang Yan’s own magical power 18 49.
• Spell Collection Cards perform a distinct learning function: they collect another cultivator’s spell, which Wang Yan can refine into a mastered spell. Producing a reusable combat card for that spell requires a further crafting step 81.
• Wang Yan uses this method to learn Earth Blast and Fire Fist, greatly reducing the time otherwise needed to comprehend and practice them 86.

Rechargeable Magical Power

Immortal Cards are reusable, but not inexhaustible. Their attacks draw on stored magical power that must be replenished 13.

• Users recharge a card by channeling magical power into it 13.
• Capacity depends on the refining materials, formations, and the stored spell’s rank and power 13 14.
• At Wang Yan’s early cultivation level, fully recharging the Fireball Spell Card takes more than a day 18.
• Stronger attacks expend more stored power, reducing the number of casts available from the same card 49.
• A released spell can be withdrawn through the card system, recovering approximately 70–80 percent of its magical power 31.
• After his magical power increases and the artifact is repaired with Fire Spirit Liquid, Wang Yan restores the power of his depleted cards in approximately half a day 110.
• Internally refined cards gain greater capacity over time, allowing substantially more attacks than their original reserves would support. This helps Wang Yan sustain repeated Fire Fist attacks in sect competition 152.
• Stored reserves do not eliminate resource management: prolonged bombardments still deplete cards, requiring replacement and exposing the unusual endurance the system provides 160.

Internal Refinement and Storage

Repair with Fire Spirit Liquid allows cards to be drawn into the artifact for continuous refinement with fire spirit qi and its special magical power 110.

• Refinement gradually increases compatible cards’ magical-power capacity, slightly strengthens them, and restores their spiritual qi and magical power 110.
• The fire-type artifact refines only fire-attributed cards. The Ironwood Shield Card and Poison Flying Knife Card cannot benefit from this process at that stage 110.
• Internal storage does not mean every stored card can be used simultaneously, nor does this repair remove the incantations and hand seals required for normal activation 110.
• Further restoration with the Flame Spirit Pearl accelerates card refinement 166.
• Card Fairy also retrieves stored Storage Bags for Wang Yan, while he later asks her to place harvested spirit medicines inside the artifact 163 229.

Simultaneous Card Use

• At minor attainment, Wang Yan can activate only one Immortal Card at a time. Using the Water-Fire Blast Card requires removing the active Fireball Spell Card first 21.
• Switching cards during combat takes time and can leave him unable to use his preferred attack 21.
• Card Fairy explains that greater cultivation will allow him to activate more cards simultaneously 21.

Backup Immortal Card Replacement

Further repair unlocks an ability to replace depleted active cards without new incantations or hand seals 166.

• Replacement cards must be added when preparing the active cards 166.
• The initial arrangement supports four active cards and two replacements, giving Wang Yan access to six prepared cards across a battle rather than six simultaneous cards 166.
• This reduces delays and the risk of exposing the artifact while changing cards 166.
• By major mastery of the Nascent Soul Realm, Wang Yan can prepare five reserve cards 305.

Artifact Fusion and Puppet Control

Magic Artifact Fusion Cards absorb magic artifacts and allow Wang Yan to control them through the card system 59.

• They remove the need for matching elemental magical power, reduce the power required for control, and extend the artifacts’ attack range 59.
• Multiple artifacts can be combined in one card, but their number depends on Wang Yan’s cultivation and the card’s quality 59.
• Spirit Artifacts require the more advanced Spirit Artifact Smelting Card; an ordinary Magic Artifact Fusion Card cannot absorb the Thousand Spirit Arrow 59.
• Even with improved magical power, Wang Yan cannot fuse both sets of Mother-and-Son Flying Rings into a single Magic Artifact Fusion Card; only one set fits 110.
• Puppet Immortal Cards provide additional combatants and can incorporate otherwise unsuitable spoils. Their construction and control require artifact-refining knowledge and sufficiently strong spiritual sense 181.
• Wang Yan’s first defensive puppet incorporates more than a dozen Spirit Artifacts, black mother iron ore, and formation enhancements. Its exceptional weight makes it slow, but its durability is such that even a Golden Core cultivator might not destroy it instantly 212.

Aura Concealment

• The artifact allows Wang Yan to suppress his magical presence unusually well 41.
• At the earlier stage, this concealment cannot deceive a nearby Core Condensation Realm cultivator 41.
• After two successive repairs, Wang Yan can store most of his magical power in the artifact and conceal it with divine sense. Cultivators below the Golden Core Stage cannot readily discern his cultivation by this method 169 170.
• Card Fairy attributes the artifact’s likely concealment from a Nascent Soul cultivator partly to her own nearly imperceptible aura while dormant. She nevertheless warns Wang Yan against attracting powerful cultivators’ attention 163.
• Dedicated cards later supplement concealment: the Invisibility Card hides his presence, while the Disguise Card is designed to conceal his cultivation 238 241.

Component Sensing

• Card Fairy detects traces of the water-type artifact in Kui Water Spirit Milk and later senses another portion across a mountainous region 190 200.
• A fragment’s host can obscure its aura, as occurs when the water-type piece merges with the Kui Water Lotus 193.
• Sensing may be intermittent or fade when the target moves beyond range. Wang Yan himself feels a strong artifact reaction during the pursuit toward Azure Spirit Mountain 200.
• By the Taiwu Mountains expedition, Wang Yan can sense the earth-type artifact inside a sealed chest. Card Fairy explains that the artifacts are becoming more attuned to him 304.

Emergency Healing and Empowerment

Card Fairy can expend her own power to activate the artifact in a life-threatening crisis. During Wang Yan’s demonic contamination, red runes spread over his body, expel the invading energy, heal his wounds, and greatly increase his physical and magical strength. The expenditure exhausts Card Fairy and leaves her dependent on further artifact repair to awaken 129.

Lottery Cube Storage

• Card Fairy stores the Lottery Cube inside the artifact and brings it out to reward Wang Yan’s cultivation breakthroughs 15 49.
• Rewards include previously refined Immortal Cards and other treasures: Wang Yan receives a Water-Fire Blast Card on his first draw and a Creation Pill on his next 16 49.
• Later rewards include the Ironwood Shield Card, Cave Abode Secret Realm Card, Divine Artifact Embryo, and Fortune Card 69 166 282 305.
• Wang Yan suspects Card Fairy can influence the rewards, particularly after she admits she had not yet decided what to give him before his peak Core Condensation draw 282.

Other Claimed Functions

Card Fairy says suitable Immortal Cards can lay formations, summon demonic or divine beasts, unleash magical treasures, and set traps. These possibilities depend on refining the appropriate cards; they are not all demonstrated by Wang Yan in his early cultivation 11 13.

By the finale, Wang Yan demonstrates the Heaven-Creating Immortal Card Formation, combining countless cards into a vast manifestation of beasts, landscapes, weapons, puppets, and flames. He also plans to send an Immortal Card Clone to another Immortal Domain 307.

Refinement

• First demonstration: Card Fairy controls Wang Yan’s body and transforms his beast-hide wristguards into a Fireball Spell Card. The process draws on his essence, spirit, and vital energy, leaving him exhausted 12.
• Wang Yan’s training: He studies material refinement, formation characters, talisman drawing, and artifact refining. Drawing paired runes is a prerequisite for refining the Spell Collection Card 18 48.
• Early unfinished project: After four further months of practice, his latest Spell Collection Card attempt still fails and exhausts his remaining fire-type Spirit Stones 50.
• Template-based instruction: Wang Yan adopts copying existing designs as a practical alternative to first mastering every underlying Daoist art independently 51.
• First personal success: He produces approximately a dozen half-finished cards, then completes a Spell Collection Card despite an interruption by Ye Shisan. The final process draws nearly all his magical power into the artifact and leaves him collapsed 59 60.
• Reproducible success: Unable to recall exactly how his first card succeeded, Wang Yan initially fails to repeat it. Continued research eventually yields a second Spell Collection Card, consuming his remaining unfinished cards 81.
• Expanded production: During more than four months at the Firecloud Sect, he produces additional spell cards and two artifact-fusion cards, exhausting his available crafting materials 86.
• Refining manual: Wang Yan asks Card Fairy to organize key techniques and card formulas so that another period of unconsciousness will not leave him unable to research new cards 169.
• Spirit Artifact breakthrough: With Card Fairy’s renewed guidance, he creates a Spirit Artifact Smelting Card and applies it to the Truefire Moon Wheel 167.
• Puppet breakthrough: Water-type cooling techniques and Card Fairy’s expertise help him complete the Defense Puppet Immortal Card 212.
• Support-card production: He successfully makes Invisibility, Acceleration, and Surveillance Cards after more than a year of cultivation and study 238.
• Continuing repair obligations: Card Fairy later reminds him that two damaged Immortal Card Artifacts still require repair and instructs him to sort refining materials himself as part of his training 280.
• Advanced study: Wang Yan studies the Magic Treasure Immortal Card and successfully crafts the Concealment Card after four or five months. Card Fairy considers the latter a diversion from studying the Ancient Treasure Refining Card 287 292.
• Long-term expenditure: His research consumes enough materials that an ordinary cultivator might otherwise have supported cultivation to the Nascent Soul Realm, assuming no bottlenecks. His need for resources therefore continues growing with his expertise 301.
• Treasure-refinement limit: By the earth-type artifact’s acquisition, Wang Yan can refine Spirit Treasure Refinement Cards but has not yet produced a True Immortal Spirit Treasure Refinement Card 305.
• Ultimate success: As an Immortal Venerable, he has refined one Resurrection Card, but gathering materials for additional copies remains a major obstacle 307.

Known Card Types

Relationships

• Card Fairy — Inventor and refining instructor. She considers Wang Yan especially suited to her invention because he combines tactical planning with efficient use of each card’s advantages 9 18 48. Her recovery becomes linked to repairing the artifact after her emergency sacrifice, and she later compiles refining methods and formulas to preserve Wang Yan’s access to her knowledge 129 163 169.
• Wang Yan — Bearer and developing card refiner. He uses traps and precise timing to compensate for weak cultivation, while seeking the complete artifact as a means to resurrect his loved ones 14 18. His research eventually spans support cards, puppets, treasure refinement, and the Heaven-Creating Formation, culminating in one successful Resurrection Card 238 300 305 307.
• Ye Shisan — Wang Yan’s companion whose accidental interruption coincides with the completion of Wang Yan’s first Spell Collection Card. He also helps investigate the lake and caves associated with the water-type component 60 192.
• Purple Mountain Medicine Sage — Restores Wang Yan’s original dantian, allowing it to function alongside the artifact-based cultivation vessels during their confinement in the Time-Control Formation 301.
• Wang Ziling — His destruction of Wang Yan’s dantian leads to the artifact’s implantation. He later confronts Wang Yan’s artifact-assisted emergency empowerment and is ultimately destroyed by the Heaven-Creating Immortal Card Formation 8 9 129 307.

Notable Uses

• Demonic-beast hunting: Rapid fireballs let Wang Yan exploit brief openings created by traps against the White-Headed Wolf and Black-Furred Ape 17 18.
• Fang Bear Beast ambush: Wang Yan fires the Water-Fire Blast Technique into the open mouth of a newly advanced Core Condensation Realm beast. Card Fairy stresses that its existing injuries and depleted strength made the victory possible 22.
• Withdrawal against layered defenses: Wang Yan retracts a Water-Fire Blast attack when an opponent’s Ice Armor and shield make a kill uncertain, conserving magical power before switching to close combat 31.
• First personally crafted card: His first Spell Collection Card emerges after a disrupted final refinement draws almost all his magical power into the artifact 59 60.
• Survival against demonic contamination: Card Fairy activates the artifact at great personal cost to cleanse and heal Wang Yan, enabling him to confront Wang Ziling and the Devil Lord 129.
• Sect competition: Stored card power and internal refinement let Wang Yan sustain repeated Fire Fist, Fireball, and Fire Blast attacks. His apparent endurance attracts speculation from spectators and Golden Core cultivators, prompting him to rely more on conventional weapons to protect his secret 152 160.
• Red Market infiltration: Wang Yan combines Phantom Face with artifact-based suppression of his magical power to enter the market as an apparently ordinary cultivator 169 170.
• Defense puppet testing: Wang Yan converts his completed puppet into an Immortal Card; its initial attack damages his cave wall despite its sluggish movement 212.
• Three-dantian cultivation: During confinement in the Time-Control Formation, restoration of his natural dantian lets Wang Yan cultivate through three vessels while strengthening his artifacts and studying more powerful card designs 301.
• Taiwu Mountains treasure hunt: Wang Yan activates the Fortune Card before obtaining the earth-type artifact and discovering another hidden treasure room. He becomes more willing to keep the card active, while acknowledging that he cannot prove it caused either discovery 305.
• Final defeat of Wang Ziling: In the Void Chaos Space, Wang Yan deploys the Heaven-Creating Immortal Card Formation across tens of thousands of miles, overwhelms Wang Ziling’s Blacklight Cauldron, and destroys him so completely that his soul’s aura disappears 307.
• Resurrection preparations: Wang Yan confirms that he has refined one Resurrection Card but postpones choosing between Yun and his parents while considering where to obtain materials for more 307.

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