"Alright, alright, alright."

At night, outside Jiang Yuan's house.

Upon seeing Liu Shengshan, Li Wenchang, and Shi Nanfei—the three recruitment directors from the top academies—also sneakily trying to jump the gun to recruit, Ji Qingming couldn't help but give a thumbs-up and praise sincerely.

The gritted teeth just made his praise seem so genuine.

"Let's not compliment each other, what are you doing here!"

Li Wenchang, who just met the others and felt a bit awkward, straightened up and questioned Ji Qingming directly.

Everyone had the same idea, what's with pretending to be a pure and innocent big bad wolf here!

"Beimang Academy has a Skill Card that uses Demon Race abilities to increase physical constitution!"

"What good does your Demon Race's Skill Card to increase constitution do for myasthenia gravis?" Li Wenchang scoffed, "It's our Daxia Academy's Medicine Card Masters, who can specifically treat myasthenia gravis according to Jiang Yuan's physical condition!"

"If myasthenia gravis could be easily treated, it would have been cured long ago, okay? What my Martial Arts Academy lacks, we do have Healing Cards that can temporarily delay the worsening of myasthenia gravis symptoms!" Shi Nanfei leaned back tactically, speaking with pride.

"The flesh is weak, ascend through machinery!"

Liu Shengshan was all pious, "Could everyone have forgotten about our Zhongyuan Academy's mechanical card genius, Lan Jingtong, who overwhelmed everyone and left them gasping for air a few years ago?"

"Going crazy talking nonsense!"

Ji Qingming rolled his eyes, "A guy who was judged out of the Human Clan."

"That's bullshit!"

Once this subject was broached, Liu Shengshan became instantly agitated, "He just lost his way, that's all!"

"Ah, right, right, right."

"Mhm, well said."

"Correct, absolutely right."

The three of them spoke differently, but the meaning expressed was the same.

Lan Jingtong can be considered a painful thorn in the heart of the entire Zhongyuan Academy.

Liu Shengshan always reacted intensely whenever he was mentioned.

"Forget about it, there's no point in us going on like this, let's let him make his own choice."

"I agree!"

After Liu Shengshan finished speaking, Ji Qingming immediately chimed in agreement.

"Well, okay then, let's make it clear first, no one is allowed to disturb him, let him choose on his own!" Li Wenchang scanned the group with a suspicious gaze, nodding his head in agreement only after that.

"I, Old Shi, am the most honest of all!"

"Alright then, it's settled, whoever doesn't comply is a dog!"

And so, after coming to an agreement, they all left once more.

This time they honored their promise, seemingly not wanting to be dogs.

Meanwhile, inside the house, after agreeing to Nezha's request for revenge, Jiang Yuan began pondering card making.

Now, with no combat power to speak of, Nezha took down so many people in the Pocket World Simulation League, many from the Monster Race, and yet ended up ranking only nineteenth?

And even a girl appeared who could trade blows with Nezha!

One could say that the waters of this world are also quite deep.

He needs to start preparing early.

While Jiang Yuan was lost in thought, his phone suddenly rang.

Four message notification sounds chimed at the same time.

...

...

The next morning, Jiang Yuan came to the mall with Mu Qianshan.

"Have you decided what card you want to make?"

"No rush, let's open some blind boxes first."

Jiang Yuan waved his hand and proceeded to the blind box stall.

Still the same, five white quality and five blue quality blind boxes.

Jiang Yuan didn't hesitate, opening them all directly.

Blue quality Skill Card: [Meteor Flying Rock]

Blue quality Skill Card: [Gathering Star Cannon]

Blue quality Skill Card: [Armor Stripping]

Blue quality Equipment Card: [Black Water Boxing Gloves]

Blue quality Material Card: [Radiant Crystal]

"How about it, do you see anything you want?"

Mu Qianshan looked at the ten cards in front of Jiang Yuan, five white and five blue, and asked curiously.

"There isn't."

Jiang Yuan's eyes sparkled with excitement as he shook his head; he had made a loss once again.

The blue cards broke even; the white cards resulted in a loss.

Overall, he was still at a loss.

"However."

Jiang Yuan stored nine of the cards into his backpack card, leaving just one.

"A little flag?" Mu Qianshan leaned in curiously to take a look and asked in surprise.

"Yes, the next card I'm making is related to this."

Jiang Yuan was excited, despite making a loss on the blind boxes, precisely because of this.

He intended to create an Array Card this time!

The Gathering Star Array!

Similar to trap cards that need to be actively triggered.

However, this Gathering Star Array is different from other Array Cards or trap cards.

It belongs to a type of enhancement card.

What does it enhance?

Naturally, it's the speed of cultivation.

Or more precisely, the speed of gathering Star Power.

As is well known, due to the differing physical constitutions, people absorb Star Power at different rates.

What Jiang Yuan wanted to do was use the Gathering Star Array to quickly gather Star Power for his own cultivation.

The rate of Star Power absorption is related to the density of the Star Power.

He certainly didn't have the luxury to directly absorb the Star Power from Star Spirit Stones.

That would be too expensive.

Since natural Star Power isn't concentrated like Star Spirit Stones and exists in a dispersed state, it has to be absorbed one by one.

But with the Gathering Star Array, it's different.

This array, based on the Spirit Gathering Array, effectively turns Star Power from individual points into a concentrated form like that of Star Spirit Stones.

In doing so, while others absorb bit by bit, he absorbs in clumps.

Wouldn't his speed of cultivation be much faster than others?

Jiang Yuan had been pondering what to use as the main body for the Gathering Star Array.

It was only after a small flag popped out of a white-quality blind box just now that he had his epiphany!

In myth, many arrays use flags as the focal points!

Such as the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, and various Five Elements Arrays associated with heaven and earth, to name a few.

Even the Celestial Star Battle Formation requires making a Star Banner first as the celestial points of the array.

Although Jiang Yuan doesn't yet have the ability to make such powerful arrays,

imitating them and using a flag as the main body is entirely feasible.

However, what kinds of offensive arrays can he currently make?

The ones that left a deep impression in his memory are those like the Heavenly Punishment Sword Formation, the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, the Liangyi Dust Formation, and so on.

He doesn't even dare to think about these arrays right now.

After speaking to Mu Qianshan for a bit, Jiang Yuan started to look for other Material Cards.

However, the Material Card that Jiang Yuan had his eyes on wasn't so easy to find.

It wasn't until almost noon that he finally gathered the few cards needed to make the first Material Card.

"Let's create this card first."

Jiang Yuan was somewhat helpless but ultimately decided to first make the first Material Card for the Gathering Star Array.

In the Card Making Room, it wasn't long before a card appeared in front of Jiang Yuan.

As Jiang Yuan fused the white-quality "Small Flag" with the blue-quality "Seven Star Stone" and a blue-quality "Meteor Flying Rock" into the card.

As the card flickered with blue light, the first Material Card was successfully made.

"How is it?"

"The Seven Star Banner is successfully created, but it's a bit difficult to find the next few cards," Jiang Yuan said to Mu Qianshan with some helplessness.

He had just taken a round through the marketplace and failed to find the suitable Material Cards.

"How about posting a task in the task hall?"

PS: The second and third chapters will still be updated at six o'clock in the evening.