A Card In Hand

Chapter 58: Gold-grade Native Cards

At nine o’clock in the morning.

Supervisor Lei Bao, accompanied by supervisors Dou Guang and Chang Chi, and a large group of staff from the Trial Temple, appeared.

The newcomers quickly assembled.

All was silent.

They waited for Lei Bao to speak on behalf of the Trial Temple.

As the chief supervisor for this session, Lei Bao typically summarized the trials and then moved on to praise and encouragement, finally announcing the conclusion of this session’s studies.

The newcomers were about to enter the ceremony for ascending to the status of summoners with their native cards—a moment of great historical significance.

Assistant referees who had contracted the Crystal Rainbow Phantom Butterflies were recording everything, especially focusing on super rookies like Li Ao, Shuanghan, Cang Yue, Huo Mei, Ling Long, and Yue Sha.

With the contract ceremony for their native cards, the newcomers became true summoners.

Before this, they were merely preparatory summoners.

The absence of Prince Jinxi notably soured Lei Bao’s mood, though he was powerless to change it.

Prince Jinxi was not absent due to severe injuries but due to a curse outbreak, which made it impossible for him to endure the ceremony.

Since Lei Bao did not wish to speak much, supervisors Dou Guang and Chang Chi followed up by wishing everyone would climb higher in their cultivation and soon step onto the path of legends.

As the Pantheon of Myriad Realms had taken the initiative to provide native cards for the newcomers, Lei Bao might have felt slighted.

Seeing three temple elders approaching with three boxes, he immediately turned and left without a word.

Dou Guang and Chang Chi, neither with the authority nor the status to do as Lei Bao, hurriedly greeted them with smiles.

“Congratulations! Fellow students, we will now distribute the summoners’ native cards to you!” said the leading thin old man, knowing the newcomers were especially anxious. He didn’t go into a long speech but simply instructed everyone to line up.

The newcomers lined up spontaneously.

Li Ao and the top twenty on the challenge list stood at the very front.

Including the confident newcomers like Toad-man Chi Ming, who wished to be on the list, none dared to stand in the same row as them.

Chi Ming and others stood behind Li Ao’s group, and then a few rookies with a combat power over five hundred, seeing the second row wasn’t full, gritted their teeth and joined it.

The subsequent rows were filled with those under five hundred.

For example, Fuxi.

Although he was a senior of Li Ao’s, he consciously stood in the sixth row, not overstepping his bounds.

After distributing thirty gold-grade native cards, there were still some left after Li Ao and the top twenty on the challenge list, and Chi Ming and his group swallowed hard.

“I will keep these remaining native cards for later, waiting for new talents who show enough potential, regardless of their level of combat power. Anyone who shows sufficient potential will not find the Pantheon of Myriad Realms stingy with a gold-grade native card,” the leading old man said, not directly giving out gold-grade native cards to Chi Ming and others but leaving the opportunity for them to strive for.

Chi Ming and the others clenched their fists quietly.

It wasn’t their time yet.

But there was still a chance.

Catching up to the classmates on the challenge list, securing a spot, and then upgrading their native cards… This was their goal for the future!

The difference between a gold-grade native card and a silver-grade native card is fundamental.

The former can display the summoner’s talent, potential, and future development directions more comprehensively. Entering the special space within the native card, the summoner can see a clearer self.

The special space inside native cards of different levels also varies in size.

The space inside a black iron-grade native card is only slightly bigger than a fist.

It stores only the native card itself.

The bronze-grade is one cubic meter.

In addition to storing the native card, it can also store some extraordinary items, such as various battle beast cards.

The silver-grade not only has one hundred and twenty-five cubic meters, which provides a space for the master to enter and rest, but it can also expand up to five battle beast resting spaces to the maximum extent. If the size of the battle beasts permits, it can accommodate up to five battle beasts that do not exceed the level of the native card.

The gold-grade native card has a whopping one thousand cubic meters of space and can provide up to ten battle beast resting spaces.

Starting from the gold-grade,

A ‘Pillar of Life’ that is closely connected to the master of the contract will appear in the special space inside the native card.

The pillar of life will have detailed records of the master’s information, talent potential, battle beast information, and so forth, leaving nothing out.

It can even record the master’s life journey.

Once the master ignites the divine fire and ascends to godhood, the pillar of life will gradually condense into a divine column, expanding the space slowly into a divine kingdom while supporting the entire world of the divine kingdom.

In a word,

When a summoner contracts a gold-grade native card, he officially steps onto an immortal path.

This is why people like Chi Ming envy those in the top twenty of the Challenge List so much!

They dare not think about Li Ao, the great devil, because he is too outrageous, but they are definitely not convinced by the ten people behind on the list; why should they be able to contract a gold-grade native card and not themselves?

Their battle beasts and talents may not always win; their own talents are not inferior.

If they contract a more powerful battle beast and strive to catch up, one day they will surpass them!

“Ladies and gentlemen, you may now contract your native cards,” the leading old man said with a smile, making a gesture.

He knew.

The newcomers must be very anxious.

Thus, he didn’t waste everyone’s time.

“If any students have questions about contracting native cards, do not worry, we will try to provide answers,” the leading old man added, concerned that Li Ao might not understand.

As a millennium-old demon, how could Li Ao not understand?

He understood too well!

The reason he didn’t rush to contract was

Firstly, there was no need to rush to show off; keeping the secret of being a millennium-old demon was the most important.

Secondly, he was a bit worried that his talent had changed due to his rebirth. During the previous battles, he had a vague feeling that his talent had changed due to his rebirth, not becoming weaker, but stronger.

For example, the combined attack of Frost Cold and Huo Mei’s dragon breath and dragon flame.

The tempering of ice and fire.

Li Ao felt his range of improvement during the enhancement was clearly much more than he expected.

Contracting a gold-grade native card that showed too outrageous a talent might not be a good thing; it was better to find a way to disguise it slightly.

The battle in the Unlimited Challenge, aside from thrashing Prince Jinxi.

Provoking all the newcomers was deliberately done by Li Ao.

In this,

There was not only the reason to create a big devil image to make the newcomers worship him, but also to further temper himself through joint attacks by Frost Cold, Qian Nian, Huo Mei, Ling Long, and other super geniuses. The talent ‘Tempered Steel’, if not subjected to rigorous battles, devoid of any challenges, would be directly destroyed. In his previous life, it grew so perversely because it emerged too many times from life and death situations, fully embodying the essence of the divine talent ‘Tempered Steel’…

So, what changes had occurred in his talent since his rebirth?

Li Ao was equally curious in his heart.

Light.

It began to overflow from the hand that Frost Cold held the gold-grade native card, growing more and more intense.

Besides Frost Cold, Qian Nian, Qiqu, and others had similarly different colors and intensities of light fluctuating in their hands.

Li Ao, seeing the three elders from the Pantheon of Myriad Realms staring at him, shrugged his shoulders.

First, contract it and then talk.

If it doesn’t work out, he could always play dumb! If he didn’t show them, could they really force it from him?

As for the registration information?

That thing was still up to him how to fabricate!

I’m a pure little newbie; you seniors must believe my words!

Li Ao smiled.

He gently pinched the gold-grade native card between his fingers, slowly infusing his consciousness into it.

In an instant, the native card emitted a dazzling brilliance, not only illuminating his hand but bathing his entire body in this radiant light.

The three elders watched, exchanged smiles, and nodded involuntarily.

Ah, this young fellow indeed overflowed with talent!

Li Ao was oblivious to the scene outside.

At this moment.

His spirit had already entered the inner space of the native card, where a mysterious and profound pillar of energy stood before him.

Li Ao’s consciousness involuntarily drew closer to it, silently heeding the call of the new master…