Recaps

Lin Feng opened the Wonderful Tales Shop with a stock of cards Lin Qi had made, including rare three-star blue cards, while Lin Qi slept off his exhaustion. The crowd bought and tested the new two-star Mercenary's Greatswords, and the shop’s last one sold at a higher price than the first.

• Lin Qi told Lin Feng to keep eight Exploding Fireball cards and one each of the Boots of Stealth and Magic-Resistance Breastplate, then fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Lin Feng showed the waiting crowd two Mercenary's Greatswords and twenty Scout's Short Blades, prompting a rush of interest.
• Flande bought a green-quality, two-star Mercenary's Greatsword for 2,100 Ka'en and demonstrated its strength by cutting another mercenary's sword in two.
• The injured mercenary bought the remaining Mercenary's Greatsword, and Ruilian charged him 2,300 Ka'en while claiming the first sale had been a special price.

Lin Feng revealed that Wonderful Tales would sell three three-star blue-quality Implement Cards, drawing attention from Stone Iron City’s mercenary groups and authorities. Alicia learned that Lin Qi’s father was the seller and decided not to pursue the matter for now.

• After the two-star Implement Cards sold out, Lin Feng announced that he had three blue-quality Implement Cards and showed one to the crowd.
• Lin Feng’s Four-Star Card Master aura stopped mercenaries from making a move, and he directed buyers to line up for Scout’s Short Blades while postponing the blue cards’ sale until the afternoon.
• Most mercenaries rushed to tell their commanders about the blue cards, and Lin Feng sold out of the Scout’s Short Blades before closing Wonderful Tales to prepare for the auction.
• Xiao Lan told Alicia that Lin Feng was selling three blue-quality Implement Cards, and Alicia was surprised to learn that he was believed to be a card maker.
• Alicia decided not to inform the city lord or investigate, reasoning that the cards were merely Implement Cards and that her father was away.

Fiona learned that Lin Feng had sold three blue-quality cards and suspected he was a card maker, so the Ten Thousand Cards Pavilion ordered more cards from him. After waking from a day-long sleep, Lin Qi recognized the order as a test of Lin Feng’s abilities and planned to use the pavilion’s interest to secure more card-making materials.

• Lyd told Fiona that three blue-quality cards had appeared at the Wonderful Tales Shop and that mercenary corps were gathering for the sale.
• Fiona compared a Mercenary's Saber from the Wonderful Tales Shop with one from her pavilion and concluded that Lin Feng might be a card maker.
• Lin Qi woke after sleeping for a full day and night, then learned from Lin Feng that the cards had sold and the Phantom Longsword had fetched forty thousand Ka'en.
• Lin Feng told Lin Qi that the Ten Thousand Cards Pavilion had ordered three Phantom Longswords for fifty thousand Ka'en each.
• Lin Qi said the pavilion was testing Lin Feng and advised him to prepare materials while the pavilion still wanted to recruit him.

Lin Qi visited the Ten Thousand Cards Pavilion, accepted a Storage Card filled with card-making materials from Fiona, and used it to plan a profitable card business. He bought supplies and learned that the Summoning Cards he had requested would arrive in Stone Iron City within three days.

• Lin Qi entered the Ten Thousand Cards Pavilion with eight two-star Exploding Fireball Magic Cards and congratulated Kane on reaching Two-Star Card Apprentice.
• Fiona gave Lin Qi a Storage Card filled with card-making materials as an apology for not sending supplies to his father, Lin Feng.
• Lin Qi discovered the Storage Card could be kept in his Card Slot Space without taking up a slot, and found it stocked with duplicates of cards he had bought before.
• Lin Qi told Kane to prepare cards and encouraged him to ask headquarters to transfer more Iron Sword Cards to Stone Iron City.
• Lin Qi bought Iron Sword Cards, Sealing Cards, and Parasitic Vine Seed Summoning Cards for fifty thousand Ka'en, and Kane told him his requested Summoning Cards would arrive within three days.

Lin Qi returned home to find Uncle Ruilian cooking while Lin Feng attempted a breakthrough to Five-Star Card Master. After fusing four Phantom Longsword cards and cultivating, Lin Qi advanced to Two-Star Card Apprentice.

• Uncle Ruilian told Lin Qi that Lin Feng had left to attempt a breakthrough and asked him to look after the shop and cook.
• Lin Qi prepared his cards and fused four three-star Phantom Longsword Implement Cards, pausing to restore his energy between fusions.
• Lin Qi cultivated with his Hero's Remains Natal Card and advanced it to two stars.
• Lin Qi broke through to Two-Star Card Apprentice and realized that repeatedly exhausting and replenishing his Source Power through card fusion had strengthened his reserves.

After advancing the Eerie Vine Demon to three stars, Lin Qi linked it as his second Secondary Card and gained increased vitality and toxin resistance. He tested its abilities and prepared to take the Wind Chime Cat for a walk.

• Lin Qi noticed that advancing the Hero's Remains had improved its abilities and strengthened his body.
• Lin Qi fused Parasitic Vine Seeds into an Entanglement Thorn, then advanced it into the three-star Eerie Vine Demon.
• Lin Qi linked the Eerie Vine Demon to his Card Slot Space and felt its plant-based vitality feedback ease his mental strain.
• Lin Qi planned a battle strategy combining the Hero's Remains, Eerie Vine Demon, and Wind Chime Cat.
• Lin Qi summoned the Eerie Vine Demon through a potted plant, tested its toxin, and realized its feedback had given him some toxin immunity.
• Lin Qi summoned the Wind Chime Cat onto his shoulder and invited it to go for a walk.

Lin Qi went to the abandoned mine to settle his score with Wang Meng, while learning that Lin Feng could not become a Grand Card Master without first advancing his Natal Card to blue quality. He found Wang Meng bloodied and carrying a hidden bundle, and stopped him from stabbing him by summoning Hero's Remains.

• Ruilian told Lin Qi that Lin Feng needed to transform his Natal Card to blue quality before reaching Grand Card Master, and warned Lin Qi to prepare for the junior Card Master academy assessment.
• Lin Qi left for the abandoned mine to confront Wang Meng over the mockery at the Ten Thousand Cards Pavilion.
• Lin Qi used the Wind Chime Cat's Wind's Acuity to locate Wang Meng in an eastern mine tunnel.
• Wang Meng emerged bloodied with a bulging bundle, then charged Lin Qi with a dagger.
• Lin Qi summoned Hero's Remains, which caught Wang Meng's dagger, and mocked him for failing to realize Lin Qi had already unlocked his Card Slot Space.

Lin Qi defeated Wang Meng after discovering that Wang Meng had killed his two companions and tried to kill him to conceal it. He uncovered a crimson crystal inside the supposed rockfire stone and left the mine after killing Wang Meng.

• Wang Meng attacked Lin Qi and the Hero's Remains over the stone he had found in the mine.
• Lin Qi suspected Wang Meng had killed his two lackeys, and Wang Meng admitted they had fallen into the mine shaft before trying to kill Lin Qi.
• Wang Meng's Shadow-Devouring Fang failed to penetrate the Eerie Vine Demon's defenses, and Lin Qi bound him with its vines.
• The Hero's Remains smashed the fiery red stone and revealed a scorching crimson crystal inside.
• Lin Qi stabbed Wang Meng with his dagger, wrapped the crystal in his outer garment, and left the mine.

Lin Qi wondered what the crystal he had found was and returned to the shop, where Ruilian recognized it as Fire Crystal Ore. Ruilian revealed that the ore had once been found in Stone Iron City but had been mined out.

• Lin Qi considered asking Alicia about the crystal but decided to bring it home and ask Lin Feng instead.
• Lin Qi found the shop closed, and Ruilian explained that he was limiting card sales to keep customers eager and give Lin Feng time to rest.
• Lin Qi reflected on his wish to travel the Source Card Continent and worried that the shop could not keep selling cards if he left.
• Ruilian noticed the crystal warming his ale, recognized it as Fire Crystal Ore, and hurried Lin Qi into the shop to examine it in private.
• Ruilian told Lin Qi that Fire Crystal Ore had once been found in Stone Iron City but had been mined out.

Ruilian explained how Fire Crystal Ore had made Stone Iron City and warned Lin Qi that the valuable material could attract danger. Lin Qi decided to find a new advancement path for Lin Feng’s Wind-Breaking Saber and rushed home with materials from the Ten Thousand Cards Pavilion to try his card-fusion method.

• Ruilian told Lin Qi that a merchant had bought Stone Iron City’s Fire Crystal Ore mine and become the city’s first city lord.
• Lin Qi suggested using the Fire Crystal Ore to advance Lin Feng’s Wind-Breaking Saber, and Lin Feng reluctantly agreed to try it.
• Lin Qi recognized that the plant-attribute materials Lin Feng had prepared were wrong for his wind-attribute Implement Card and told him to keep cultivating.
• Lin Qi ran to the Ten Thousand Cards Pavilion and asked Kane for flame lizard leather, refined iron, black ore, a Breeze Card, and assorted Dust Star Cards.
• Lin Qi bought the cards and hurried home to try his new card-fusion method while Lin Feng held onto the Fire Crystal Ore.

Lin Qi used card fusion experiments to discover an advancement path that helped Lin Feng upgrade his Wind-Breaking Saber into a Blazing Wind Saber of blue quality. Lin Feng had not yet become a Grand Card Master, but he revealed he had ten Source Crystals to help him accumulate the necessary Source Power.

• Lin Qi fused scrap cards into new cards, including a Wind-Chasing Blade that supported his theory about combining Implement Card attributes.
• Lin Qi gave Lin Feng an advancement set made from Fire Crystal Ore, Flame Lizard Leather, and refined iron, and Lin Feng began upgrading his Natal Card.
• Lin Feng successfully advanced the Wind-Breaking Saber into a Blazing Wind Saber and demonstrated its power by splitting a boulder with a flaming wind blade.
• Lin Feng told Lin Qi that his Natal Card had reached blue quality, making his eventual breakthrough to Grand Card Master a matter of accumulating Source Power.
• Lin Feng produced ten Source Crystals he had saved for Lin Qi's future marriage, and Lin Qi, exhausted from his experiments, rested in the courtyard.

Lin Qi was accused of killing Wang Meng and two others, and Oliver’s guards confronted him and Lin Feng at their home. Lin Qi suspected Lei De had arranged the accusation and sent Ruilian to Fiona with three cards, leaving himself and his father ready to fight.

• Oliver ordered Lin Qi to stand trial for allegedly killing Wang Meng and two others at the mine, but Lin Qi questioned the report as Lin Feng defended him.
• Lin Feng revealed his Blazing Fire Saber and challenged Oliver after Oliver threatened the family and demanded Lin Feng surrender his cards and advancement materials.
• Lin Qi reasoned that Lei De had framed him to take revenge on Lin Feng and his family.
• Lin Qi gave Ruilian three Phantom Longsword cards to deliver to Fiona at the Ten Thousand Cards Pavilion, then prepared to act with Lin Feng.

Lin Qi helped Lin Feng defeat Oliver by secretly using the Eerie Vine Demon to poison and entangle him, leaving Oliver to fall onto Lin Feng’s saber. Lin Qi then subdued the guards without killing them, planning to use them as witnesses that Oliver had died by accident.

• Lin Qi reasoned that Oliver and Lei De had targeted him over the Fire Crystal Ore and decided they could not be allowed to expose his secret.
• As Lin Feng fought Oliver, Lin Qi sent the Eerie Vine Demon’s vines after Oliver and used Neurotoxin to numb him.
• Lin Feng struck Oliver through the chest with the Blazing Wind Saber, and Lin Qi used the vines to pull Oliver off the blade.
• Lin Qi spread vines around the guards and poisoned them, leaving them unconscious rather than dead.
• Lin Qi told Lin Feng that the guards could testify that Oliver had run into the blade and died by accident.

After Lin Feng killed Oliver, Lin Qi saw cards drop from the body and learned the dangers Card Masters faced, from hunting powerful Card Beasts to underground groups that stole cards. Lin Qi convinced his father that Lei De had repeatedly sabotaged their family, and Lin Feng resolved to settle the feud with him.

• Lin Qi watched Lin Feng collect four two-star green cards and a three-star green Skill Card from Oliver's body.
• Lin Feng explained that Card Apprentices risked death hunting mid-tier and high-tier Card Beasts for advancement materials.
• Lin Feng told Lin Qi about underground organizations that killed Card Masters for cards and warned him never to let enemies escape.
• Lin Qi connected Oliver's attack and earlier hardships to Lei De, arguing that Lei De would target him next if Lin Feng showed mercy.
• Lin Feng decided to find Lei De and settle the feud once and for all.

After Oliver’s death made Lin Feng’s reputation as a card maker spread through Stone Iron City, Fengye of the Wild Wolf Mercenary Corps asked Lin Qi to arrange a custom three-star Healing Card. Lin Qi agreed for a hundred thousand Ka’en and a favor, then planned to profit from the materials list while waiting for Fengye to gather them.

• Rumors about Oliver’s murder spread through Stone Iron City, and more customers flocked to the Wonderful Tales Shop, believing Lin Feng was a card maker with powerful backing.
• Fengye, deputy leader of the Wild Wolf Mercenary Corps, asked Lin Qi to speak with Lin Feng about making a three-star Holy Light Card or another card capable of treating serious injuries.
• Lin Qi said Lin Feng could make a Healing Card, and Fengye offered to gather the materials, pay a hundred thousand Ka’en, and owe Lin Feng a favor.
• After Fengye left, Lin Qi reasoned that the corps’ leader was likely badly injured and decided to pad the materials list to earn extra profit.

Lin Qi secured a large order from Fengye for Healing Cards and asked her to search for skeleton-type Summoning Cards in Xinyao City. After Fengye left, Lin Feng explained why high-quality Healing Cards were so valuable and scarce in their remote region.

• Fengye offered to increase her order to two hundred one-star Healing Cards and agreed to bring Lin Qi the materials in two days.
• Lin Qi promised that Lin Feng would make the cards and asked Fengye to look for skeleton-type Summoning Cards in Xinyao City.
• After Fengye left, Lin Qi calculated that the deal could earn him at least five hundred thousand Ka'en and closed the shop.
• Lin Qi asked Lin Feng why Healing Cards were so valuable, and Lin Feng explained their healing abilities and the lack of high-quality cards in nearby towns.

Lin Qi fused Skeleton Warrior and magic, armor, and weapon cards into the blue three-star Hellfire Skeleton, advancing to a Three-Star Card Master and gaining fire resistance. He prepared to fuse more cards to fill his newly opened Card Slot, aiming to create a three-star Obscuring Dust Spell for escape.

• Lin Qi used his Fusion Card to turn the Skeleton Foot Soldier cards into three two-star Skeleton Warrior Summoning Cards.
• Lin Qi fused the Skeleton Warriors with Exploding Fireball, equipment, and armor cards to create the blue three-star Hellfire Skeleton.
• Lin Qi formed a mental link with the Hellfire Skeleton and received a surge of Source Power that advanced him to a Three-Star Card Master and gave him fire resistance.
• Lin Qi resolved to take revenge on Lei De and the bandits on Stone Iron Mountain, despite the Grand Card Master backing them.
• Lin Qi began mass-producing Obscuring Dust Spell cards to try to fuse them into a three-star escape spell.

Lin Qi discovered that fusing five Confounding Dust Cards produced only a one-star Mist, but fusing five Mist Cards created a green two-star Hazy Smokescreen. After exhausting his Source Power, he told Lin Feng he had reached Three-Star Card Master and set a seven-day deadline to prepare for confronting Lei De and the bandits on Stone Iron Mountain.

• Lin Qi fused Confounding Dust Cards twice and got one-star Mist cards, then tested mixed junk cards and produced a white two-star Burning Trap.
• Lin Qi reviewed his fusion notes and hypothesized that the Mist cards were too weak to advance directly to green quality.
• Lin Qi fused five Mist cards and created a green two-star Hazy Smokescreen, then used hundreds of junk cards to make more Mist cards until his Source Power ran low.
• Lin Qi asked Lin Feng for a Source Crystal and revealed that he had advanced to Three-Star Card Master, prompting Lin Feng to celebrate and suggest leaving the family’s affairs to him.
• Lin Qi gave Lin Feng seven days to cultivate and promised to obtain ten Source Crystals, then declared he would settle matters with Lei De and wipe out the Stone Iron Mountain bandits.
• Lin Feng abandoned his carefree attitude and vowed to break through to Grand Card Master within seven days and join Lin Qi in attacking Stone Iron Mountain.

Lin Qi used Source Crystals to rapidly replenish and grow his Source Power, then fused ten Hazy Smokescreens into a powerful Mirage card that let him see through illusions. Hoping to find an advancement card for the Wind Chime Cat, he went to visit Bishop Xiaoduo at the Furnace Church and was left waiting at the entrance.

• Lin Qi discovered that he could absorb a Source Crystal in minutes, and he repeatedly fused junk cards and spent the crystal to increase his Source Power.
• Lin Qi fused ten Hazy Smokescreens into the three-star blue Mirage card, whose illusions confused enemies and whose Illusion Breaking ability let him see through disguises.
• Lin Qi decided to seek an advancement card for the Wind Chime Cat at the Furnace Church, recalling that Xiaoduo had cleared him after Oliver's death.
• Lin Qi found Lin Feng cultivating beneath the old locust tree, asked Ruilian to watch the shop, and left with the Wind Chime Cat.
• Lin Qi reached the Furnace Church and asked its two knights to announce his visit to Bishop Xiaoduo; one knight went to inform the bishop.

Lin Qi visited Bishop Xiaoduo, who believed his rapid advancement proved he was blessed by the gods and explained the religions of the Source Card Continent. After Lin Qi summoned his Hellfire Skeleton, Xiaoduo declared him a divine messenger of the God of the Flame Hell.

• Lin Qi entered the church, where Bishop Xiaoduo recognized him as a Three-Star Card Master and called him blessed by the gods.
• Xiaoduo led Lin Qi in worship and claimed that a master card maker had come to Stone Iron City ten years earlier under the God of Source Cards' instructions to guide Lin Qi's family.
• Xiaoduo explained the four nations' churches and why ordinary believers called their deities the God of Source Cards.
• Xiaoduo asked to see Lin Qi's Natal Card, and Lin Qi summoned his Hellfire Skeleton inside the church.
• Xiaoduo touched the Hellfire Skeleton's flames and told Lin Qi that he was a divine messenger of the God of the Flame Hell.

Lin Qi learned that Xiaoduo believed him to be the Messenger of the God of the Flame Hell and gained access to the bishop’s teaching and church library. He left with a valuable awakening Source Crystal and information about the Wind Chime Cat’s evolution paths.

• Xiaoduo declared Lin Qi the Messenger of the God of the Flame Hell because the god’s Power of the Inferno had supposedly transformed his Natal Card into a Hellfire Skeleton, while Lin Qi privately credited his own experiment.
• Lin Qi asked about practical benefits, and Xiaoduo offered to teach him everything he knew, let him browse the church library, and give him lessons every Sunday.
• Lin Qi summoned the Wind Chime Cat, and Xiaoduo explained its two evolution paths: Moonlight Bell Cat and Rending Wind Demon Cat, each requiring rare materials and ten Source Crystals.
• Xiaoduo suggested Lin Qi ask Alicia for evolution materials, but Lin Qi doubted that her earlier supplies would be enough for the result he wanted.
• Xiaoduo gave Lin Qi an awakening Source Crystal, explaining that the Card Master Association supplied one each year and that Stone Iron City’s supply lasted three years.
• Lin Qi accepted the Source Crystal and watched Xiaoduo leave, pleased by his unexpected gains from visiting the church.

Lin Qi traded a Source Crystal and a map of Stone Iron Mountain for Jack’s intelligence about Lei De and the bandits’ plans. He learned they intended to kidnap him to force Lin Feng to surrender rare cards, and prepared to strike back with his powerful Card Beasts.

• Lin Qi caught Jack in an alley and agreed to pay him a Source Crystal for information and a detailed map of Stone Iron Mountain.
• Jack drew the map, including the bandits’ sentry posts, and Lin Qi gave him the Source Crystal.
• Jack revealed that Lei De had become the bandits’ second-in-command after reaching Five-Star Card Master.
• Jack told Lin Qi that Scar and Lei De planned to stage an attack on the city and send men to kidnap Lin Qi, believing Lin Feng had found rare cards in a card secret realm.
• Jack said Scar had been a Five-Star Card Master for years and was in league with the city lord’s manor, which received much of the bandits’ plunder.
• Lin Qi let Jack leave and resolved to punish the bandits, holding the map and the Hellfire Skeleton card.

Lin Qi sold his Magic Cards for a large profit and gave Ruilian Source Crystals to aid his cultivation. At the Lava Church, he met Alicia in the study and began reading the history of the Source Card Continent, while she reconsidered her opinion of him.

• Lin Qi sold twenty Burning Traps and fifty Sound and Light Bombs, earning thirty-eight thousand Ka'en.
• Lin Qi gave Ruilian five Source Crystals and left for the Lava Church, intending to help advance Ruilian's Natal Card.
• Lin Qi recalled that Xiaoduo had come to Stone Iron City for its Fire Crystal Ore and had built the church's statue from the valuable mineral.
• Lin Qi found Alicia reading in the church study, and she directed him to a shelf of Source Card history books.
• Lin Qi became engrossed in a history book, while Alicia watched him and wondered whether he might have a bright future.

Lin Qi learned that Alicia was an Eight-Star Grand Card Master and Xiaoduo was her teacher, then sought Xiaoduo’s help against the impending bandit attack. The chapter ended with Lin Qi eagerly kneeling to worship after discovering how powerful the people around him were.

• Lin Qi read history books until sunset, and Alicia caught him daydreaming about elves before leaving in disgust.
• Xiaoduo told Lin Qi that Alicia was an Eight-Star Grand Card Master who had awakened her Natal Card at eight and become a Five-Star Card Master at ten.
• Lin Qi warned Xiaoduo that Stone Iron Mountain’s bandits would attack Stone Iron City in three days and were really after him.
• Xiaoduo said Alicia was his student and assured Lin Qi that she would deal with the threat.
• Lin Qi knelt to worship the God of the Flame Hell, claiming his back pain had been miraculously healed.

Lin Qi returned from serving the God of the Flame Hell and gave Ruilian valuable materials to advance his bow. In the backyard, he found Fiona attending Lin Feng and decided not to interfere with their apparent courtship.

• Lin Qi limped home after worshipping and cleaning the God of the Flame Hell’s statue, where he had obtained Fire Crystal Ore.
• Lin Qi closed the shop and gave Ruilian Flame Lizard leather, refined iron, and Fire Crystal Ore to improve his Arc Iron Bow.
• Ruilian accepted the materials, moved by Lin Qi’s gratitude and encouragement.
• Lin Qi found Fiona fanning Lin Feng while he cultivated in the backyard and suspected she was trying to seduce him.
• Lin Qi decided to let Lin Feng enjoy Fiona’s attention and quietly went upstairs without interrupting them.