A Card In Hand

Chapter 60: Please Call Me the Lucky Little Prince!

The information on the Gold-grade Native Card had been altered.

Was he still afraid of others seeing it?

Li Ao calmly displayed his Native Card to Cang Yue and the others.

“Tempered Steel? Nothing added? Wait, why is your combat power only 2018?” Cang Yue exclaimed incredulously.

“Big-eyed monster, how much is yours?” Li Ao retorted to Cang Yue.

“I just contracted my Native Card and increased by 300, now my combat power is 1581. You’ve increased three times, how can it be only 2018? You scoundrel must have secretly altered it!”

Cang Yue grabbed Li Ao’s collar, desperate to force the truth out of him.

“Maybe the increases I received were just smaller!”

Li Ao spread his hands, offering an excuse he himself didn’t believe.

“Does this combat power have some special meaning?”

Huo Mei suddenly interjected.

“No meaning at all!”

Li Ao had changed it randomly.

“Then why didn’t you change it to 2000?”

Ling Long thought this number was very suspicious.

“Whole numbers aren’t great, right? It’s rare to see exact numbers in combat power!”

Li Ao felt that making it a round number would be too suspicious and invite doubts of forgery.

“What’s the real combat power?”

Shuanghan just wanted to know where Li Ao’s combat power really stood.

“What about you?”

Li Ao countered.

“I also gained 300 from contracting my Native Card, now it’s 1869. I’ve told you, now it’s your turn!”

Shuanghan didn’t mind revealing his true combat power, since they would have to register it later anyway!

“Mine is really 2018!”

Li Ao stubbornly refused to reveal the truth, thinking to outsmart them?

They were still too naive!

“……”

Shuanghan.

“……”

Cang Yue.

“……”

Lie Feng.

“People this shameless I’ve seen a lot, but someone as shameless as you, Miss has never seen before.”

Huo Mei held her head, exasperated.

“He’s a big liar, I knew it all along! Hoping he’d tell the truth is impossible, but the modification is only temporary, probably it will revert back after some time, especially after the next increase, then we’ll force him to show us and see!”

Ling Long’s speech gained everyone’s agreement.

Such a villain could not be allowed to continue hiding among them, they must expose his true capabilities.

“Isn’t a combat power of 2018 high? I’m higher than all of you, aren’t I?”

Li Ao tried to argue.

“You increased three times.”

Cang Yue reminded him to be honest.

“Li Ao, your initial combat power was 2018, right?”

Tie Zheng finally couldn’t help but confront him.

“Definitely more, originally it might have been three thousand, otherwise he wouldn’t have beaten us so badly while he came out unscathed!”

Man Huang guessed more accurately.

“I think Li Ao’s talent was also changed, Tempered Steel, doesn’t seem like a talent that this big villain would have…”

Qian Nian doubted another aspect.

Tempered Steel without anything added, wasn’t that suspicious?

“This should not have been changed, didn’t he previously use mine and Shuanghan’s Dragon Flame Breath to enhance himself? That was his strategy, deliberately provoking us, making us come down to fight him, and then using that opportunity to improve himself.” Huo Mei didn’t think the Tempered Steel talent was bad, on the contrary, if used well, it was very powerful.

She suspected it wasn’t changed because there was too little time for Li Ao to modify so many things.

Another point was that he might want to use this talent to divert everyone’s attention.

To make them overlook his modified combat power.

Regarding Huo Mei’s speculation.

Everyone expressed their agreement.

The talent of “Tempered Steel” seemed unremarkable at first glance, and it would have been a waste on a normal newcomer, but on the great demon king Li Ao, this talent was borderline perverse! Despite it not enhancing anything initially, the talent allowed him to improve every time he stood up after being defeated—clearly a talent befitting an undying demon king!

“Hold on, ‘Tempered Steel’ hasn’t changed, but there’s definitely something hidden,” Qiqu reminded everyone to consider Li Ao’s precise observational skills: “He knows all of our trump cards, that has to be a talent!”

“Right!” Lie Feng fully agreed with Qiqu’s speculation.

“What’s the hidden talent you’re concealing?”

Cang Yue grabbed Li Ao by the collar again.

“Really, there’s nothing else… I truly only have one talent, okay!”

Li Ao finally told the truth, but still, no one believed him.

Everyone was convinced that Li Ao had a second talent.

A talent like “Secret Eye.”

It enabled him to see through everyone’s deeply concealed trump cards.

But this second talent was too overpowered, so the cunning Li Ao had hidden it.

“Why does no one believe me when I speak the truth!” Li Ao couldn’t help but look up to the heavens and sigh, lamenting how difficult it was to be a good person nowadays.

“Cut it out!”

Cang Yue immediately scoffed at him, implying that if he was a good person, then there would be no bad people in the world.

“Scorning you, big liar!”

Ling Long made a face at Li Ao.

Everyone scoffed at him.

Li Ao remained calm.

With a face that seemed to say, ‘What can you all do to me?’ he immediately ignited Cang Yue’s anger, who led the charge in pinning Li Ao to the ground and gave him a thorough beating.

Unable to defeat the demon king Li Ao in the arena, pinning the joker down in life for a beatdown was a satisfying deed for everyone on the challenge list… Of course, the newcomers outside the list didn’t dare, better to be aware of one’s limits! That was a show for the talents, what would a nobody like themselves be thinking joining in?

Unable to thrash Li Ao, the newcomers shifted their target to Fuxi, the big shot, pinning him down instead.

“Wait? What’s happening?”

Fuxi was confused.

“Do we need to pick a special day to beat you up?” a newcomer stronger than Fuxi laughed heartily, “If I can’t beat Li Ao, beating his big shot is just as good.”

“Right, crush him! I’ve disliked this fatso for a long time! Especially in that pumpkin witch outfit, it ruins my impression of the pumpkin witch entirely, it’s an eyesore, must beat him up!”

“You’re just jealous of me!”

Fuxi strongly suspected these guys were envious of his beauty.

After the fun and games.

Three old men methodically registered everyone’s data.

Everyone was sure that Li Ao’s data couldn’t just be brushed aside, but to everyone’s surprise, the three old men ‘believed’ Li Ao and registered all sorts of information on his native card, which left Cang Yue and the others utterly speechless.

In this day and age, good kids had no way to thrive; like Li Ao, such a big liar had it easy. Had they known modifying it could get them through, they would have found a way to modify theirs too…

The assistant referees captured these precious moments on camera.

The atmosphere among the new recruits this year was especially good.

Not like the previous sessions.

Each one full of enemies, always displeased with each other, nowhere near the lively atmosphere where everyone, having been beaten up by Li Ao on the stage, could still laugh and joke together.

Before Li Ao turned Prince Jinxi’s world upside down, the atmosphere of the current session was as tense as in previous ones.

However, Li Ao, like a great demon king emerging out of nowhere, broke the deadlock. He possessed a certain charm that rallied all the newbies of the session around him.

On the surface, he was a demon king who attracted hatred and was targeted by everyone.

In reality, he was the true leader of this session.

Leading the newbies together in an explosion of potential.

Challenging their limits together.

The assistant referees had a premonition that with Li Ao present, this session’s newbies were going to make a big splash… Of course, the talents of this session were indeed numerous, like stars in the sky.

The top twenty on the challenge list were all freakish geniuses, and others like Chi Ming who didn’t make the list also had great potential, even considering the absence of Prince Jinxi!

The registration of the newbies was complete by nearly noon.

Next.

It was the crucial moment to unlock the newbie’s fate treasure box.

There was no need to head to the Grand Dining Hall for food anymore; they casually ate at the Newcomer’s Trial Plaza, as it was stocked with a massive amount of food for the evening’s festive celebration.

“Little Li Ao, you surely don’t know the secret to opening the newbie’s fate treasure box yet, do you?”

Fuxi decided to give his little cousin a serious lesson.

“Big bro, you have a secret?”

Li Ao knew that Fuxi’s reputation was quite dark.

“Please call me Lucky Little Prince!”

Fuxi declared, completely oblivious.

“Really?”

Li Ao’s face was the picture of naive trust.

“Believe it or not, I’m known as a dazzling elf in Silverlight City, a handsome face so bright, a born favorite of the goddess of luck!”

Fuxi boasted shamelessly.

“You truly are my big bro!”

Li Ao’s face showed unabashed admiration, ready to kneel before his big bro.

“Hahaha, my invincible luck even makes those Black Iron Marsh Frogs tremble!”

Fuxi laughed heartily.

“Big bro, please enlighten me!”

Li Ao pleaded with his hands clasped above his head.

“It’s just you, Little Li Ao, I wouldn’t share this secret with outsiders… Listen well, my secret to box opening is this: you must be sincere in your heart, we are always the faithful of the goddess of luck, right? Then you pray, and remember, before praying, it’s very, very important to wear lucky underwear on your head! I’ve tried it, without the lucky underwear, the effect is greatly diminished… Where to get it? Of course, it’s sold as lucky gear in the Destiny Temple of Silverlight City, costing three gold, very expensive but worth it!” Fuxi finally revealed his long-kept secret of opening boxes, which he had guarded for years and would never have disclosed had not Li Ao asked.

“So it’s such a powerful secret…”

Li Ao shook his head in awe.

Fuxi’s face was full of smug satisfaction.

What a thrill!

Guiding Li Ao was such a satisfying feeling!

But after all, who else should he guide if not his own big bro? Such ultimate secrets were never meant for outsiders!

Did Fuxi’s big bro’s opening secret really work?

It was about to be proven.

Because.

The staff of the Trial Temple brought out one after another the newbie’s fate treasure box, shimmering with hidden light…