Chapter 49 [Tian Ding Mountain]? [Gui Ding Mountain]?

"Kid, from now on, This Great One should just stay inside the card!" Willow Crab sprawled on the sofa, clutching potato chips with its two little claws and stuffing them into its mouth, cheeks bulging like a small ball, its tone full of depression, "Spending a day out with you nearly suffocated me. I had to hide and hold back even when I wanted to talk. It's so uncomfortable!"

Watching its puffed-up appearance, Gu Ye couldn't help but tease: "Didn't I accompany you by chatting through telepathy? What, is that not enough to satisfy you? Are you feeling lonely?"

"What I want is to speak freely."

Hearing this, Gu Ye raised an eyebrow and gave a wicked smile: "How about I go to the seafood market and find you a female crab."

"Get lost! This Great One has the bloodline of an ancient exotic species. Are those trash species worthy of tainting me?" Willow Crab shot him a sideways glance. Gu Ye really didn't act like a human.

"..."

Just as the two were bickering, a majestic voice suddenly rang out in the living room, carrying an irrefutable command in its tone: "Come in!"

Before the voice faded, Willow Crab turned into a stream of light, rushed into Gu Ye's sea of consciousness, and disappeared into the soul card. Gu Ye was stunned for a moment and asked:

"Night Dwelling Phoenix, is this..."

"It can be upgraded now." Hearing this, Gu Ye stopped asking and turned to look at the [Furnace] about to erupt.

An hour later, several streams of light poured out from the furnace opening, green tinged with blue. Gu Ye used spiritual energy to catch all the card-making materials.

The card-making materials still carried the residual heat of the [Furnace]. The [Furnace] had completed its task and quickly disappeared from where it stood.

After looking through the card-making materials, Gu Ye was bewildered. Wrong again?

Among the card-making materials in his hand, there were only two blue card creation materials; the rest were green and white card-making materials.

So, relying on his previous two Refinement experiences, Gu Ye guessed that his previous estimate of the yield rate was wrong. Moreover, this time he didn't use the designated range effect of his [Refinement] talent.

"So the yield rate is not linked to the [Refinement] level!"

"I..." Gu Ye was somewhat incredulous. This meant that the yield rate of [Refinement] was completely random, though it might be related to the level of the card-making materials.

In his three Refinement experiences, the highest grade Gu Ye had ever put in was green card-making materials. He had originally thought about relying on quantity to stack the molecules and increase the probability, but now it seemed useless.

Gu Ye summoned the [Furnace]. On a whim, he asked it: "What exactly is the Refinement probability of card-making materials?"

After asking, Gu Ye realized what he had done.

"What's the point of asking it?"

The [Furnace] surged, and a stream of information flooded into his mind.

[Refinement] (Tier 2 140/1000)

Effects:

[Decompose all cards...]

[The probability of each card-making material decomposing into refined materials is fixed: 98% for the same level, 2% for one level higher, 0.001% for two levels higher, 0.00001% for three levels higher...]

...

Gu Ye didn't need to look at the rest. He knew that with those probabilities, unless he risked his life to boost his luck, he would never have the fortune to see the splendor of colored card-making materials.

"So if I don't ask, you don't write it, right!" Gu Ye was speechless. It seemed he had truly been lucky to Refine purple card-making materials the second time.

Gu Ye helplessly retracted the [Furnace] and refocused his attention on the two blue card creation materials, examining them carefully.

[alternating silkworm pupa]

Quality: [Blue]

Introduction: A herbivorous ghostly creature from the Card Domain. It is not dangerous and will place its shadow in a safe place. When in danger, it will swap positions with the shadow. Note: Not edible.

[Vampire Viscount's Bad Canine Tooth]

Quality: [Blue]

Introduction: Edmund Black, a viscount of the Card Domain's vampire family, had his beloved canine tooth eaten by a borer because he liked tomato juice, so it had to be painfully extracted.

Both were unremarkable, but Gu Ye had an idea regarding the [alternating silkworm pupa].

The two materials looked unremarkable, with nothing particularly eye-catching.

But as Gu Ye looked at the [alternating silkworm pupa], a glint gradually flashed in his eyes. He had long had ideas for the subsequent strengthening of the card [Zhang Fei], modeled after the slaughter - Zhang Fei form in [legends of the three kingdoms]. The ability of this [alternating silkworm pupa] could just happen to add a key step to Zhang Fei's strengthening.

"Buzz buzz~~"

Gu Ye's phone kept vibrating. He reached out, grabbed it, and opened it. The red dot on Feixin was already 99+, looking particularly glaring.

Clicking into Feixin, it was all messages from Class 1. In the few seconds it took for Gu Ye to lift his hand, another 100+ messages had refreshed.

The newest message was from Chu Ling.

"Then with our meager strength, wouldn't entering Tianding Mountain be certain death?"

Gu Ye didn't understand why Chu Ling said that, so he hurriedly scrolled back to the very first message. A few minutes later, Gu Ye understood the whole story.

It turned out that Mu Xuefei, as the class teacher, had posted a file in the group, and after everyone finished reading it, the group exploded.

The examination location for the College Entrance Examination, [Tianding Mountain], also known as [Ghostly Cauldron Mountain], was shaped like a giant inverted cauldron. The mountain peaks stretched for millions of miles, towering into the clouds as if they were about to pierce the sky.

It was filled with ghostly beings, and there were even rule-based ghostly creatures. The reason [Tianding Mountain] was chosen for this College Entrance Examination was not only because it could produce rule-based card-making materials but also because of the strange object at the top of [Tianding Mountain], the [spirit sealing cauldron], which had two functions.

First, whoever could obtain the [spirit sealing cauldron] could, in a single thought, instantly kill all living beings within the Card Domain, except for ghostly creatures.

This meant that the "College Entrance Examination rules" announced by the Federation were complete nonsense. The rules stated that the Examinees from the last three remaining factions could leave successfully, but as long as someone held the [spirit sealing cauldron], it would be easy for the holder to kill all other Examinees, and no one could stop them.

Gu Ye thought to himself: Only by keeping the [spirit sealing cauldron] in his own hands would it be realistic.

The second function of the [spirit sealing cauldron] was that it could seal any ghostly creature and refine it into two kinds of heavenly treasures called [Golden Body Fruit] and [Source Spirit Liquid]. [Golden Body Fruit] could increase a Card Master's physical strength, while [Source Spirit Liquid] could increase a Card Master's level and spiritual energy intensity. Most importantly, its effects were unlimited.

The first function was only effective within the Card Domain, so many people didn't care about it, and the only people who cared were the students participating.

But the second function made everyone jealous. Its effects were unlimited; the [Source Spirit Liquid] refined from a Bronze ghostly monster might even have an effect on Mythical-level Card Masters. It was easy to imagine what kind of great war would be triggered if the [spirit sealing cauldron] were taken to the outside world.

When this Card Domain appeared, many senior-level powerhouses tried to enter, but the [Tianding Mountain] level was too low and could only allow Bronze-level Card Masters to enter.

Therefore, the various forces that discovered [Tianding Mountain] signed a [Heavenly Dao Contract] and dispatched their own personnel to enter and explore.

And these personnel were all the students participating in this year's College Entrance Examination. The Yanxia Federation had 100,000 Examinees participating in the College Entrance Examination. Although many people had already given up on the College Entrance Examination, there were still about 80,000 Examinees. It was easy to imagine what kind of bloody storm would erupt when all the personnel from all forces entered [Tianding Mountain].