“Ding!”
“Supreme Card Master System binding successful! Presenting the host with one divine-tier cultivation technique. Please accumulate spirit card essence and raise the system level as soon as possible.”
Hearing the indistinct voice in his mind, Lin Ye felt as though several trucks had run over his body. Excruciating pain spread to every nerve ending.
As the Number-One Assassin of Huaxia, shouldn’t he have died inside the game pod after the System malfunctioned? But what was going on now? The shouts around him were so clear. Had he come back to life?
Before Lin Ye could continue thinking, a tidal wave of memories suddenly surged into his mind. After a sharp stab of pain, Lin Ye finally began to regain consciousness.
Divine Card Continent? Might Makes Right? Illegitimate son of the Lin Family? Martial arts trash? Cowardly and useless? Sold to the Card Duel Arena by his own younger brother?
“Hurry, kill him!”
“Mo Yan, kill that piece of trash!”
“Hurry up! What are you standing there for?”
The circular bluestone Card Duel Arena occupied an area nearly the size of five soccer fields. Seated in the surrounding tiered grandstand were tens of thousands of spectators watching the card duel, all staring intently at the scene within the arena and shouting themselves hoarse.
At this moment, a burly middle-aged man stood about five meters in front of Lin Ye.
He was the Mo Yan everyone was talking about. His right hand was raised before him, and a red card about the size of a tarot card floated at an angle above his hand, slowly rotating. A vivid flame was engraved on the spirit card face, while its back was covered in mysterious and complex patterns.
“A piece of trash with only level one spiritual power cultivation Talent, the disgrace of the Lin Family, actually still has the nerve to remain alive in this world. Since you don’t have the courage to kill yourself, I’ll help you today!”
Mo Yan’s gaze toward Lin Ye was filled with mockery and disdain, as though killing Lin Ye were a favor. The pale-red spiritual power within his body rapidly poured into the Spirit Card, and the flame on its face suddenly radiated a faint red glow.
Suddenly, a fist-sized mass of flame shot out from the Spirit Card, its target being Lin Ye, five meters away, whose entire body had already been burned black.
“Yes, just like that!”
“Hiss, hiss. I think I can smell blood.”
“Hahaha, what a pitiful brat!”
“But a combat without any suspense really makes it hard to get interested!”
When they saw Mo Yan finally attack, bloodthirsty excitement flashed across the spectators’ faces. They stared fixedly at the center of the arena, afraid of missing the sight of Lin Ye’s blood spraying everywhere.
Lin Ye suddenly felt the surroundings fall into an instant silence, followed by even more intense uproar.
Just then, he suddenly sensed a dense aura of danger rapidly closing in on his body.
But there was not a trace of strength left in his body. He lay limply on the ground like a puddle of mud.
Relying on an assassin’s instinct, Lin Ye desperately controlled his body and moved it several centimeters to the side.
“Sizzle!”
The scorching flame landed on Lin Ye’s chest, missing his heart by only three centimeters.
“Hiss!”
The smell of burning flesh rushed into Lin Ye’s nostrils, while excruciating pain made him feel as though death could claim him at any moment.
“Did it miss?”
“He’s still breathing?”
“Mo Yan, how can you be so useless? You can even miss a stationary target?”
Looking at Lin Ye lying in the middle of the Card Duel Arena like a puddle of mud, the spectators’ faces filled with deep disappointment.
“Ding!”
“The System is presenting the host with one body treatment. Entering a time-stop state!”
Suddenly, a female System voice, identical to the one from the game Lin Ye had been playing when he died, appeared in his mind.
Immediately afterward, a mass of gentle light radiated from Lin Ye’s mind and rapidly enveloped his entire body.
After only a moment, the gentle white light slowly vanished from the surface of Lin Ye’s body. The wounds on him had miraculously healed completely, and the system notification voice then sounded in his mind.
“Ding!”
“The host’s body has returned to normal. The time-stop state has ended!”
The instant the system notification voice appeared, Lin Ye skillfully rolled to the side. Then he pressed his right hand forcefully against the ground and abruptly rose to his feet.
“Sizzle!”
The flame landed where Lin Ye had just been lying, forcibly burning a fist-sized blackened hole into the blue marble floor.
“He-he’s not dead?”
“That piece of trash can still fight?”
“Ah! Look, everyone! How did the wounds on his body suddenly disappear?”
“Has a miracle occurred?”
Seeing Lin Ye’s reaction, everyone in the audience stand widened their eyes in astonishment, then began discussing it even more heatedly.
“The wounds have recovered, but this body is still far too weak.” Lin Ye looked at his perfectly restored body and carefully sensed it, his brows tightly furrowed.
Although the wounds on this body had fully healed, it was still worlds apart from the body he had possessed in Huaxia.
“You actually dodged it? But do you think this final struggle before death will be of any use?” Seeing Lin Ye evade his attack, the expression of victory on Mo Yan’s face froze. He seemed not to have noticed Lin Ye’s instantly healed wounds, and snarled with a ferocious expression.
As he spoke, the red spirit card in Mo Yan’s hand flashed faintly again. Then another mass of flame shot toward Lin Ye.
“Hmph!” Lin Ye snorted coldly. With a movement of his foot, his body suddenly vanished from the spot.
“How is that possible?”
“Why did he disappear?”
“How did that piece of trash vanish?”
However, in the next moment, everyone’s discussion abruptly stopped. They all widened their eyes and stared fixedly at Lin Ye, who had suddenly appeared in front of Mo Yan.
“Smack!”
With a crisp slap, the heavy force striking Mo Yan’s face sent his body flying.
“Bang!”
Only after flying three meters did Mo Yan’s body crash heavily onto the ground.
“You!” Feeling the burning pain on his face, Mo Yan glared at Lin Ye, who was looking at him with an indifferent expression. For a moment, he was so furious that he did not know what to say.
“I didn’t have the courage to kill myself, so you wanted to help me?” Lin Ye slowly walked toward Mo Yan and asked indifferently.
His voice contained not the slightest emotion, yet to Mo Yan, it was countless times more terrifying than an enraged roar.
“Y-you’re not that piece of trash! Who are you? Tell me, who are you?” Watching Lin Ye walk toward him step by step, Mo Yan was so terrified that he forgot to stand up. He could only ask in fear as Lin Ye slowly approached.
“That beating just now felt good?” The corners of Lin Ye’s mouth curved into a faint smile, but the smile did not reach his eyes.
Hearing Lin Ye’s words, intense unease suddenly surged in Mo Yan’s heart. He shouted himself hoarse, “You’re nothing but a piece of trash abandoned by the Lin Family. Go to hell!”
After shouting, Mo Yan quickly picked up the Flame Spirit Card lying on the ground and prepared to attack Lin Ye again.
“Hmph!” Lin Ye snorted coldly. His foot twisted lightly in a strange posture, and then he kicked with force, viciously striking Mo Yan in the chest.