Playing cards, I am your ancestor!-Chapter 287 Tribulation Passing!_1

"Di Jizhou, long time no see."

The blade hanging above her head could come down at any moment, yet the golden-haired, freckled girl still had the energy to joke with the person opposite her.

There was no point in changing her face anymore. As long as she wasn’t reverting to Wen Jiang, Di Jizhou had always known that the person living here was her, so the one causing trouble could only be Helena.

Di Jizhou’s usually calm pupils finally rippled slightly. "You... you remember my name?"

"I remember." Wen Jiang smiled and admitted, "I’ve never forgotten."

"You..."

A strange light reflected in Di Jizhou’s eyes. He looked at the Xi Zhou-style golden-haired girl whose features were so ordinary. Now, amidst the swirling winds, her hair was in disarray, yet she stood firm. Her smiling face told him she had never forgotten his name. It was a provocation, pure and simple—one that mocked him. But Di Jizhou thought of something else. So many years, so many years...

CRACK—

BOOM!!

The bursting thunder completely interrupted their thoughts. In the sky, the vortex that had been suffocating everyone finally showed a sign of change.

Several bolts of lightning struck down from the cloud, heading straight for Wen Jiang.

Fierce, domineering, carrying an endless, vast oppressiveness, as if determined to doom a person to death. Upon closer inspection, the lightning even contained a faint purple glow.

And Di Jizhou could only watch as the lightning struck towards Helena. In just an instant, the ground where she stood turned into charred earth. The ground split open from the strike, the frightening might making one’s teeth set on edge.

And Helena had vanished.

Was she struck dead by lightning? Di Jizhou couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

CRACK—

The next bolt of lightning came furiously without any pause, striking in another direction. Di Jizhou turned his head and seemed to glimpse the girl swiftly evading the strike.

Di Jizhou frowned. Such incredible speed. What was the deal with this sudden thunderstorm? He didn’t feel the power of a Spirit Card, so it wasn’t someone targeting her.

Moreover, under this storm, even summoning Spirit Cards was tremendously strenuous. When he tried to approach Helena, a very dangerous intuition surfaced, reminding him that he had never lost his wariness over the years. If he truly entered the epicenter, something might happen that even he couldn’t accept. It was a perception of absolute danger. This was something he hadn’t experienced in many years.

In the end, he trusted his instincts and just watched coldly from the safe edge of the storm, looking at Helena, who was in the midst of it. He had no idea what she did to summon such a strange situation.

His gaze occasionally rested on the huge Shennong Card Spirit. That was the Spirit Card Helena had created right under his nose. Truly impressive. He had thought Helena was just hiding some tricks but didn’t expect her to have concealed something so powerful. An SSR Card. She was already an S-Rank Spirit Card Master.

After all this time, he, the astute observer, had been thoroughly outwitted.

He didn’t know that Wen Jiang, whom he saw as an S-Rank Spirit Card Master, was still struggling on the brink of death.

The Shennong Card Spirit acted lethargically. It wasn’t a Defense Card and couldn’t shield Wen Jiang from the Tribulation. Its purpose was to continuously take out herbs from its basket and swiftly replenish Wen Jiang’s rapidly depleting Spiritual Energy.

Wen Jiang nearly coughed up blood. Her estimation wasn’t wrong—the long period of peace had almost worn away her fighting will. Unlike before, when she could go into closed-door cultivation and let years pass without noticing, her days were now filled to the brim, tainted with worldly weariness. The peculiar intensity of this Tribulation made it quite strenuous for her current body to manage. Thankfully, Di Jizhou had some sense and didn’t come in to add to the chaos. Otherwise, it would have been great if the Tribulation had struck him too; at least someone would be sharing the pressure! That was her thought, but she had no intention of letting Di Jizhou, who had caused her so much trouble, off the hook.

Several strikes of lightning descended, seemingly limiting her ability to act at will. Even summoning her Card Spirits to block became somewhat strenuous.

In such moments, every action faced manifold increased pressure; such was the deterrence the Tribulation was meant to impose. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

A mere mortal, daring to defy the heavens and seize the longevity that others dream of, or even pursuing the great Dao, must pay a price!

BOOM—

CRACK!

CRACK!

More than a dozen silvery-white bolts fell from the sky and exploded around Wen Jiang. Even though Wen Jiang dodged quickly, the A-Rank Card Spirits she summoned were obliterated before their spiritual bodies could fully materialize.

The residual force of the Tribulation, the sensation of electric currents grazing Wen Jiang’s entire body, caused her to shiver uncontrollably. It felt as if her heart were being clenched tightly, making it difficult to breathe.

Directly above, the storm clouds continued to brew, giving her a few seconds to catch her breath, her breathing already heavy and ragged.

Having experienced a Tribulation before, she calmed her violently beating heart and pondered which Spirit Cards she could still use. Thankfully, her foresight had led her to store several hundred Spirit Cards in her sea of consciousness.

Zero Egg was also panicked. "Host, are you alright?"

It could feel it—this Tribulation was nothing like the previous one in Imperial City. Ten seconds of relentless strikes! This was clearly aiming to kill! And who knew how long it would last.

Wen Jiang snapped, "Shut up! Don’t distract me now!"

All her energy was needed to cope with the Tribulation; Zero Egg’s chattering would interfere with her judgment.

Instantly, Zero Egg dared not make a peep. Last time, Host could still joke with it, but this time, the situation was clearly different.

In just a few seconds, she had swiftly moved towards Di Jizhou’s direction, and the thunderclouds above her head showed signs of activity again.

Wen Jiang looked up, squinting. This time, she slowed her movements, anticipating the direction from which the Tribulation might descend. The instant the silvery-white light flickered, she took a deep breath, spun around, and forcibly teleported from her original position.

The result—

CRACK!

The lightning mid-descent took an abrupt turn and struck Wen Jiang squarely.

The Shennong Card Spirit, standing hunched, blocked the descending strike for Wen Jiang in that split second.

BOOM—

Electric currents, glowing with a faint purple light, spread all over the Card Spirit’s body. The towering figure of Shennong Shi trembled from the impact, its spiritual body becoming even more transparent.

Wen Jiang’s Spiritual Energy surged to its maximum in an instant, like a sudden flood bursting its banks, fracturing one of her ribs.

At this crucial moment, she held her breath but still couldn’t keep it in.

With a strangled cry, blood spilled from her throat.