“Bang!”
Mo Yan’s body was kicked away in an arc, flying five meters before crashing to the ground like discarded garbage. The chest where Lin Ye had kicked him showed an obvious depression.
“Pfft!” A mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs sprayed out. Mo Yan’s eyes widened, filled with intense hatred, but his body collapsed uncontrollably, dying with his eyes open.
Until the moment of his death, he could not understand why he had died at the hands of this good-for-nothing he had never even deigned to look at, much less why the man seemed to have instantly become an entirely different person.
“Ding!”
“The host has successfully killed a two-star martial artist and obtained 200 points of spirit card essence. System Upgrade Progress: 200/5000.”
Looking lightly at Mo Yan’s collapsed body, Lin Ye’s face took on a faint pallor, but there was not the slightest joy of victory on his face.
Killing people had always been routine for him. Although Mo Yan possessed some strength, he was still far too weak in Lin Ye’s eyes.
However, his current body was even weaker. If this had been his former body, why would disciplining Mo Yan have required the assassin’s signature Wind Shadow Step? Killing him would not have required a special footwork technique to borrow momentum, either.
“How could this happen?”
“If I remember correctly, Mo Yan should be a two-star martial artist, right?”
“A good-for-nothing who isn’t even a martial artist instantly killed a two-star martial artist. Am I seeing things?”
After a stretch of deathly silence, the audience stand erupted once again.
Once everything had calmed down, Lin Ye finally had the chance to examine the memories that had just flooded into his mind.
According to the contents of those memories, this was a place called the Divine Card Continent. Its territory was vast, Might Makes Right, spirit beasts ran rampant, and it was a world belonging to martial artists.
The original owner of this body was the eldest young master of Cold Night City in the Yuntian Dynasty on the Divine Card Continent. However, he was merely the illegitimate son of the family head and a foot-washing maid. Because of his dull aptitude, timidity, and cowardice, his status within the family was even lower than that of a servant.
Coincidentally, his name was also Lin Ye.
A few days ago, for some unknown mistake committed by the original owner, his younger brother, who shared the same father but had a different mother, sold him to the Card Duel Arena.
The Card Duel Arena was a place much like an ancient Western colosseum. Here, a bout could end only when one side died.
Lin Ye had already been sold to the Cold Night City Card Duel Arena for half a month. Today was the first time he had been sent out to fight.
As soon as he entered the arena, his opponent, the two-star martial artist Mo Yan, used a Spirit Card to blast him to death in a single move.
Afterward, Lin Ye’s soul entered this body.
Amid the surrounding audience’s discussions, a young girl who had been standing quietly at the edge of the Card Duel Arena slowly walked toward the combat arena.
The girl looked thirteen or fourteen years old. A water-blue dress wrapped around her newly developed figure, accentuating its delicate curves. Her waist-length black hair hung loose, and her slightly childish face was adorned with exquisitely perfect features. Her skin was as smooth as jade, and her lips were like cherry blossoms.
Picking up the Flame Spirit Card that had fallen to the ground, Lin Ye looked at the exquisite little lolita walking toward him, and a bright gleam flashed in their eyes.
Even to someone like him, who had seen countless beauties, the little lolita before him could still be called a peerless beauty capable of overturning cities.
The little lolita walked up to Lin Ye but did not even glance at him. She merely crouched down to inspect Mo Yan’s corpses, then stood up.
She then gave a slight nod to the dozen or so guards at the edge of the Card Duel Arena. Her gaze paused on Lin Ye for an instant before she returned to the spot where she had been standing.
“Looks like this little gal isn’t interested in me!” Looking at the girl’s back, Lin Ye helplessly rubbed his nose, but a flicker of interest appeared in his eyes.
From the original owner’s memories, Lin Ye learned that this little girl was actually the chief referee of the entire Cold Night City Card Duel Arena. She had entered the Card Duel Arena at the age of seven, become a referee at ten, and taken the position of chief referee at twelve. Now fourteen, her strength was unknown, but she was definitely one of the most terrifying existences here.
Although Lin Ye had been an assassin in his previous life, he was not a corpse, after all, and still had two great hobbies: computer games and all kinds of beautiful women.
Moreover, in the Huaxia World, his appearance was comparable to that of a movie emperor. What kind of woman would not come when summoned and leave when dismissed?
Unfortunately, Lin Ye had been too picky in his previous life. He had always been a lecher only in words and had never actually made a move on any woman. Even at death, he was still a virgin.
The ice-cold little lolita he had encountered here seemed somewhat different from those women. Could it be that his current face was no longer as handsome as in his previous life? Why did this little lolita seem to have no interest in even looking at him?
Lin Ye could not help touching his own face. The moment he did, he deeply furrowed his brows. This face was indeed ordinary enough!
Speaking of Lin Ye’s current appearance, although it could not be considered ugly, it was only barely handsome. Compared with his face in his previous life, it was like heaven and earth.
After the girl left, several people came and took Lin Ye to a room behind the Card Duel Arena. Since this was Lin Ye’s final bout of the day, after he was taken away, the audience also began leaving in succession.
Passing through room after room surrounded by black metal pillars like prison cells, Lin Ye was eventually brought to his residence: an ordinary one among more than a thousand cells.
“Lin Ye, this is your opponent tomorrow. However, this opponent cannot be dealt with through brute force alone. Take care of yourself!” After locking the cell door, a guard tossed a scroll through the gaps between the iron pillars and said with some regret.
Watching the guard leave, Lin Ye picked up the scroll that had rolled to his feet.
When the scroll was unfurled, the portrait of a young man in his early twenties appeared before Lin Ye. Beside the portrait was an introduction to the young man:
Chai Jin, male, twenty-one years old, four-star martial artist.
Seeing Chai Jin’s information, Lin Ye looked at his own body. This body was far too weak. The main reason he had been able to kill Mo Yan, a two-star martial artist, today was that he had relied on his previous-life footwork and certain physical techniques.
Training the body was not something that could be accomplished overnight. Dragging this frail body into battle against a four-star martial artist tomorrow, he would likely face certain death!
“Ding!”
“System mission: Kill Chai Jin. Mission rewards: 100 points of spirit card essence. Does the host accept?”
Suddenly, a slightly mechanical female voice from the System appeared in Lin Ye’s mind.
Lin Ye answered directly without even thinking, “Accept!” Tomorrow’s battle with Chai Jin would end with either the opponent’s death or his own. Since this was something he was destined to face anyway, why would he refuse?
“Ding!”
“Mission accepted successfully! Mission content: Kill Chai Jin. Mission rewards: 100 points of spirit card essence.”
“What are you?” The situation in the Card Duel Arena had been too urgent just now, so Lin Ye had only found time to ask this question now.
“This System is called the Supreme Card Master System. The System will help the host become an unparalleled Supreme Card Master.”
“Card master?” Lin Ye’s eyes widened slightly, and an excited gleam flashed in their eyes.