Chapter 30: The Pocket World Simulation League Begins!

"How's it going?"

"Still no success."

Jiang Yuan shook his head, his face sullen with dejection.

It had been two days since he started making cards for Mu Qianshan.

He had been trying to make the Cut Fairy Flying Knife card for these two days.

But it had been unsuccessful.

Tomorrow is the Pocket World Simulation League exam, but today's last attempt was still a failure.

"Strange?"

Mu Qianshan scratched his head, but he didn't understand much about card making, so he didn't know how to comfort Jiang Yuan.

"It's okay, even without the Cut Fairy Flying Knife, the two new cards I've made are enough to ensure I won't hold you back."

After recovering from the disappointment of card making failure, Jiang Yuan also said to Mu Qianshan with a smile.

"Holding us back? I'll protect you."

"Alright."

Jiang Yuan agreed: "I'm going back first, then. I still need to get together with the others early tomorrow."

"Okay."

After the two parted, Jiang Yuan returned to his little house in the night.

Upon arriving home, while absorbing the power of the stars for cultivation, he pondered over the reasons why the Cut Fairy Flying Knife card-making was unsuccessful.

"Could it be that the Cut Fairy Flying Knife's grade is too high, and that's why the white card can't sustain it?"

Jiang Yuan thought for a while but still couldn't come up with a suitable reason.

In the end, he had no choice but to let it go.

Looking inward at his Spiritual Space, the third star of Xingji is twinkling.

If its weak light were to shine as bright as the first two stars, it would mean he would have officially entered the late stage of Xingji.

However, it seems that entering the late stage of Xingji still required some time.

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"Is it still just the three of us?"

The next morning, Jiang Yuan, Mu Qianshan, and Zhou Dongshan took the school bus prepared for them, heading towards the Joint Examination location.

"I'm someone without much combat power, so of course, no one wants to team up with us."

Jiang Yuan spread his hands, and Zhou Dongshan also smiled wryly.

It wasn't that no one approached them to form a team in the past two days, but they were mostly targeting Mu Qianshan.

There was even someone who joined the team and then wanted to kick Jiang Yuan out.

That directly crossed Mu Qianshan's bottom line, so he unhesitatingly chose to make that person leave.

After that, everyone in the class understood that Mu Qianshan was basically tied to Jiang Yuan.

Although Mu Qianshan ranked in the top five in class strength, bringing along Jiang Yuan, who was dragging them down, made it uncertain whether they could shine.

Hence, once they learned that Jiang Yuan would not leave, no one else approached Mu Qianshan to form a team.

"Our three people are strong enough on our own; we don't need anyone else."

Facing Zhou Dongshan's incomprehension, Mu Qianshan spoke with head held high and confidently.

Now that he received the enhancement from the Purple Mansion Sword made by Jiang Yuan, he had broken through the 23rd level that had long troubled him and was currently challenging the level 25 mini-Boss.

As for Jiang Yuan, after updating his defense, or rather, his life-preserving cards, Nezha had also successfully broken through the level 25 mini-Boss and was now at the 27th level.

Although Zhou Dongshan was not as high as the other two in the Dream Tower, he had successfully broken through level 20 and was now challenging level 21.

All three of them had already broken through the mid-stage realm of Xingji. To be honest, they truly did not need someone else to "gild the lily."

"We're here, let's get off the bus."

Following the teacher's voice, the trio of Jiang Yuan alighted from the bus.

The place they got out of the car was an open space, and at the very end of the open space was a huge gate, just like the entrance to the Dream Tower.

The gate was open, but white energy flows made it impossible to see what was inside.

"I wonder what kind of Alien Race we'll be facing in the Grotto Heaven this time," Mu Qianshan sighed as he looked at the Grotto Heaven gate in front of him.

The Grotto Heaven contains various other races, and the Pocket World Simulation naturally does the same.

To put it simply, Grotto Heaven is essentially a passageway.

It's the connection channel between the Main World where Jiang Yuan is located and the world where the Alien Race resides.

However, the difference is that there is an independent small world at the midpoint of the channel connecting the two worlds.

Grotto Heaven refers to this small world.

It's the battleground, the place for fighting and vying for, between the connected worlds.

The Pocket World Simulation League is about entering this small world and fighting against the simulated Alien Races.

Compared to the real Grotto Heaven, since this place is for assessing cadets, all areas within the Grotto Heaven are monitored.

And most importantly, you can go for the kill directly in here.

Over the recent years, with technological breakthroughs in Pocket World Simulation, newly made cards are endowed with abilities similar to those of the Dream Tower cards.

If you die in the Pocket World Simulation, you won't actually die; instead, you will be directly sent back.

This has led to the Pocket World Simulation League becoming increasingly fierce over the past few years; the former feeling of being restrained no longer exists.

"It is said that the main card of the Pocket World Simulation Card is a Golden Quality card, and even the sub-card we're facing now is a Red Quality sub-card."

While queuing, Mu Qianshan also briefed Jiang Yuan and Zhou Dongshan.

A thought struck Jiang Yuan: "Does this mean that some big shots have arrived?"

"That's for sure. Not only big shots with the Grotto Heaven Simulation Card but also the big shots from Zhenhai City are here."

Mu Qianshan explained, "After all, it's the first battle for the new blood, certainly many people are paying attention."

"What's the use of explaining so much to them, they can't even make contact with it."

Right after Mu Qianshan finished speaking, a familiar voice came from nearby.

Mu Qianshan and the others turned their heads to look, only to see Ji Bin looking at Jiang Yuan and Zhou Dongshan with a mocking face.

"A defeated minion, a guy who only knows how to hide, what do you expect?"

Zhou Dongshan's eyes narrowed, but he was stopped by Jiang Yuan: "Aren't you also one of my defeated minions?"

"A guy who only knows how to dodge, with no offensive capability at all, the enemies in the Grotto Heaven Simulation aren't just Mid-stage Xingji."

Ji Bin wasn't so irritated until Jiang Yuan brought this up.

Having learned of the Skill of the Linglong Tower card held by Jiang Yuan, Ji Bin was barely able to control his fury.

With this card, wouldn't you be invincible among your peers?

If you can't break the Defense, how could you fight?

Even though he realized this, Ji Bin still couldn't swallow his pride, so he couldn't help but mock when he saw Jiang Yuan and the others.

"Ha, what a naive fool."

Yu Xiaoxiao, who was standing behind, couldn't help but laugh when she saw the clash between the two sides.

Eventually, she joined the small team composed of the top five in class combat power.

However, even so, she was still annoyed by Jiang Yuan's public rejection of her.

But in Jiang Yuan's team was Mu Qianshan, the young master of the Mu Family, so they were not so naive to go up and mock.

"If we encounter Jiang Yuan in the Grotto Heaven, let's teach him a lesson, help you vent some anger."

After Yu Xiaoxiao finished speaking, a refined young man with gold-rimmed glasses next to her spoke up.

"Can you break the Linglong Tower?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked curiously.

The gold-rimmed glasses, although ranking fourth in combat power in the class, also possessed Mid-stage Xingji strength.

"Why do I need to break it? There are Late-stage Xingji Alien Races in the Grotto Heaven Simulation," said the gold-rimmed glasses wearer with a smile, speaking leisurely.

"After we finish off Jiang Yuan, maybe Mu Qianshan will even thank us for dealing with that dead weight for him."

Another one of Yu Xiaoxiao's teammates also laughed sinisterly, his eyes stealthily glancing over Yu Xiaoxiao's body.