Chapter 79

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Chapter 79: Two Explosions!

With such high talents and good aptitude, why did this kid

only possess D-level mental power? If Yu Jin Li’s mental power had been at

least B-level, Master Kamon believes that it isn’t impossible for him to become

an A-level card craftsman through hard work.

However, for person with D-level mental power to want to become

an A-level card craftsman, that is simply a fantasy. Master Kamon couldn't help

but sighed deeply in his heart.

After looking at the dead energy card, Kamon didn't tell Yu

Jin Li how to integrate energy, but instead asked: "What are the

characteristics of the two-color flower?”

"The two-color flower has two petals, one black and one

white. The white petal can clear away temptations, while the black petal can

seduce the enemy." Yu Jin Li blurted out subconsciously.

"The characteristics of the clover?" Master Kamon

continued to ask.

Yu Jin Li: "The clover can increase one's own attack

power."

Master Kamon: "Qiqi Flower?"

Yu Jin Li: "Qiqi Flower is...”

After asking more than a dozen questions about the

characteristics of plants and receiving Yu Jin Li’s skillful answers on all of

them, Master Kamon finally showed a satisfied smile.

"It seems that you were reading the book I gave you

yesterday." Master Kamon rarely praised a person.

The surrounding assistants, who were observing closely, were

already so shocked that their expressions were paralyzed, and their activities abruptly

stopped.

Compared to others, this person simply drives people crazy. 1

"Yes, I have finished reading it." Yu Jin Li said

happily. He is a good koi, and he has done all the tasks assigned by the

teacher.

"Even if you have memorized this book, you can't be

complacent. This is only the first part of the lowest-level in card crafting. Only

by through continuous practice in crafting F-level energy card, can you advance

to E-level energy cards.

As of now, you haven't even produced a single F-level energy

card yet. You certainly don't deserve the title of card craftsman." Master

Kamon’s habitual poisonous tongue strikes again.

If the situation was changed to someone else, their

confidence will be greatly shattered by Master Kamon, and they might not even

want to be mentored by him anymore. After all, this kind of harsh thrashing

does not typically happen in a school environment.

However, it’s unknown whether Yu Jin Li was born with a lack

of nerves, or that he simply didn't understand berating comments, or maybe he

just didn't care at all. Instead, he cheerfully replied: "I will work hard

to practice crafting these energy cards.”

At last, Kamon's expression was a little better, and he took

the dead energy card made by Yu Jin Li and said: "Come up with me."

"Yes." Yu Jin Li immediately responded and obediently

followed Master Kamon upstairs. He once again missed the surprised expressions

of the nearby assistants.

"Oh my god, he—he actually went upstairs." Liu Qi,

an assistant, exclaimed incredulously, and couldn't help but pinch the person

next to him.

"Ah, why are you pinching me?" The person who was

pinched asked Liu Qi dissatisfiedly.

"It turns out that this is not a dream. The master

actually took him up to the second floor. How could this kid's luck be so good?

Why is the one being instructed by the master not me? I have been here for half

a year, and I haven't been to the second floor yet.” Liu Qi said enviously, his

tone dripping with vinegar.

"Not to mention the fact that you’ve been here for half

a year, I have been here for an entire year, and have never been up there

once." Another assistant said quietly.

The second floor is where Master Kamon works. Usually, no

one is allowed to enter. Everyone’s scope of activity is limited to the first

floor and outside in the courtyard.

As a result, when they saw the boy being taken upstairs,

although they understand the reasons behind it, their heart is naturally still

filled with envy, jealousy and hatred towards Yu Jin Li.

"Well, Little Chestnut used one night to memorize the entire

[Encyclopedia of Unique Level-One Plants]. Have you all memorized it? He also became

proficient in drawing the heart-shaped grass in one night. Are you all

proficient in drawing?" Ali spoke suddenly.

Hearing these words, everyone closed their mouths and

stopped talking.

Indeed, Yu Jin Li have worked so hard in just one day, while

those who have been here for up to a year still have things they couldn’t

remember. They are also not very proficient in energy drawing, so they really

have no right to be jealous of others.

They all have equal opportunities, success depends on how each

person seizes it.

At this moment, Yu Jin Li was following behind Master Kamon on

the second floor obediently. His eyes never wander around, which pleases Master

Kamon greatly.

When they arrived at his usual studio, Master Kamon put the dead

F-level energy card made by Yu Jin Li on the table, before taking out a new

blank energy card and handed it to Yu Jin Li, saying, "On this one, draw a

heart-shaped grass.”

Yu Jin Li held a blank energy card, a little hesitant, "Master,

I don’t know how to integrate energy yet."

"You don't need to integrate energy. Just do it the

same as how you made this card before." Master Kamon wanted to see if the

heart-shaped grass on the dead energy card was truly drawn by Yu Jin Li.

If he finds out that someone dared to try to pull the wools

over his eyes, then he will let them understand the fate of those who engage in

crony opportunism and deception.

"Oh." Yu Jin Li didn't think so deeply. Since the teacher

told him to just draw a card without injecting any energy, then he would just

do it.

Yu Jin Li had already memorized the details of the

heart-shaped grass by heart, and quickly finished drawing without any pause. Though

the pattern on the energy card was just as dull and lifeless as before.

Kamon watched Yu Jin Li complete the drawing with his own

eyes. The drawing was done beautifully, and the time spent was short. Kamon’s eyes

flashed with surprise.

"How did you feel when you were drawing?" Master

Kamon asked.

"It feels very smooth." Yu Jin Li said honestly.

He basically didn't feel any obstacles, and drew smoothly.

Master Kamon didn't say anything else, and gave Yu Jin Li another

blank energy card, and said: “This time, just probe your mental power into the

card.”

Upon hearing the words, Yu Jin Li obediently followed suit,

and probed the card using his divine consciousness.

Although it was detected during the mental power test that

he does have mental power, Yu Jin Li still didn’t know what mental power is. So

instead, he replaced it with his familiar spiritual power. Besides, he had used

his spiritual power before and successfully summoned a beast, so it can be

assumed that his divine consciousness may be a substitute for the mental power

of this world.

"Use your mental power to touch the energy inside the

card carefully." Master Kamon meticulously guided Yu Jin Li step by step.

If at first accepting Yu Jin Li was for the sake of the

Jiang family's face, then now he really wants to teach this gifted child, and

does not want his talent to be wasted.

The dimensional space inside the card was full of radiant energy.

Yu Jin Li had seen this before when his divine consciousness first went in, though

it was the first time he was going to touch these radiant energies.

Yu Jin Li cautiously stretched out his spiritual

consciousness and tentatively touched the clusters of energies, but he didn’t

expect a loud "bang", and, in the next second, the blank energy card

exploded.

Yu Jin Li was closest to the energy card and suffered the

most effect, his hair was blown into a mess.

Master Kamon: …….

Master Kamon obviously didn't expect the explosion to come

so suddenly, and there was no defense at all.

"What did you do just now? I only told you touch the

energies, not to arouse them!" Master Kamon roared angrily.

Yu Jin Li felt a little wronged and retorted in a low voice,

"I was just touching them, I didn't arouse them."

He really did just touch them lightly, who knew they would

explode.

"If you didn't provoke them, why would the energy card

explode? Could it be that the energy card wanted to explode and wronged

you?" Master Kamon said bluntly.

If normal mental power just gently touches the energies in

the card, it will not cause the energy to riot. Only when mental power is misguided,

does an accidental explosion becomes extremely easy to happen, so naturally, Master

Kamon would assume it’s an issue of control.

It's a pity that Yu Jin Li didn't understand this, and

Master Kamon couldn't have imagined that the thing Yu Jin Li used was not mental

power but divine consciousness.

Thus, a misunderstanding arose.

Master Kamon tried his best to control his violent temper,

then threw another blank energy card to Yu Jin Li, and said, "If you dare

to be disobedient and provoke the energy this time, don't come to me again."

“Yes.” Yu Jin Li was aggrieved, but he really didn't know.

This time, Yu Jin Li was more careful in inserting his

divine consciousness into the card. He was a little scared when he saw the

radiant energies. He wasn’t so much afraid of the energy explosion, but rather

of the teacher getting angry if the energy explodes.

However, the given by the teacher still has to be completed,

and Yu Jin Li's divine consciousness is more cautious than ever. Unfortunately,

who would have thought that when his divine consciousness touches the energy in

the card, it exploded again.

Yu Jin Li was really going to cry this time. His pitiful

appearance and small blackened face made people feel that he had suffered a

great deal of grievance.

Master Kamon saw the looks in Yu Jin Li’s eyes, and his

angry words, which was about to overflow, got stuck in his throat, unable to go

up or down, almost suffocating him to death.

"Were you wronged? Do you dare to say you’ve been wronged?

Two consecutive explosions in a row, what is wrong with you?" Although

Master Kamon’s tongue was as vicious as always, his tone has improved a lot, though

his heart is still frustrated.

Obviously, the boy is so talented in drawing, how come he

becomes so dumb when it comes to channeling energy?

Although most card craftsmen have a low success rate due to

the difficulty in channeling energy, beginners only learn about the basics of

mental power. It is really rare to have two explosions as a result of just some

basic energy touching.

It must be said that Yu Jin Li can also be regarded as

"extraordinarily gifted" in this aspect.

"Come over here and see how I use my mental

power." Master Kamon finally said helplessly.

Yu Jin Li didn't dare to disagree, and hurriedly walked over

to the teacher's side. He saw a white silky strand come out of Master Kamon's

head and connected itself to the energy card in his hand.

The thread-like strand connects Master Kamon’s mind with the

energy card. This should be the so-called mental power that Kamon kept talking

about, right?

Yu Jin Li was very curious about the mental power of the

people here, and he quietly spread out his divine consciousness, wanting to see

what this mental power is.

If he learns it, then when he touches the energy inside the card,

it probably won’t explode?

Yu Jin Li carefully touches Master Kamon’s mental power with

his divine consciousness. However, at the moment when their powers meet, the mental

power quickly retracted, and Master Kamon's eyes suddenly looked sharply at Yu

Jin Li's direction.

Yu Jin Li was so frightened that he didn't even dare to

breathe, lest Kamon might find out what he had just done.

Master Kamon frowned, his expression was serious. The

feeling of his mental power being touched just now still remains, but there was

only Yu Jin Li in this room, and he can't even control his mental power that well

yet.

This boy can’t be the one that touches his mental power,

right?

In the Federation, mental power is vital to being a card craftsman.

Most people will not use their own mental power to touch the mental power of

others, nor will they let others touch their own. This is because even the slightest

carelessness, especially in cases where the opponent's mental power is higher

than one's own, can results in permanent damage to a person’s mental power.

An incident of attacking with mental power has happened

before. It happened in a dispute between two conflicting card craftsmen, and

ended in a great tragedy. Since then, it is forbidden for anyone to use mental

power to touch the mental power of another person.

Thus, when Kamon felt the touch of Yu Jin Li's divine consciousness,

he immediately retracted to protect himself.

"Your mental power has just awakened. Don't just let it

run rampant. Don't touch other people's mental power, let alone letting other

people's mental power to touch yours, unless you want to completely ruin the

possibility of becoming a card craftsman in the future.” Master Kamon solemnly

warned.

Kamon only thought that Yu Jin Li could not control his

mental power just now, so he accidentally leaked some of his mental power which

brushes against Kamon’s.

"I understand." Yu Jin Li nodded hurriedly.

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TN:

1) 这人比人，绝对是要气死人的节奏 (lit. It’s definitely a rhythm that

drives one crazy). 节奏 (jiezou) means

rhythm, but also refers to the movement of emotion or a scene (tone/mood).